Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1916, Page 12

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SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 b“!'):‘hht Williams, ':ilnnl:’tllu mmv:.:: ;fhh:‘ l:he: , being duly sworn, oerage Sircuiation. for the month of September, 1916, was 54,607 daily, and 50,639 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. & luburlb:‘d én. my pmu sworn to before me this 3d day of OQIOBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. O el bl oo oo Subscribers leaving the city temporaril should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. Who is keeping the Real Estate exchange out of war? . , One fact rises clear of the confusion of Tocal « freiglit rates. Omaha shippers are stuck. . mmm—— Still, a g-rnt deal of time, worry and litiga- tion might have been saved had the bank charter applicants taken the hunch and coughed up that $2,000 fee. — A revolution impends in Abyssinia, according to report. Ethiopia’s young empress evidently Jacks an adequate force of mollycoddles to keep “her out of war. Poor Food Commissioner Harman's “pure fopd amendment” to the constitution designed for his ' scli-perpetuation in office, lopes to get by the % vofgrs through neglect or accident. That's the * place on the ballot to vote “No." . © Of course, Henry Ford's “§5-a-day-for-women- employes” announcement, “after an inspiring talk _with the president,” has nothing whatever to do with politics. It is just accidental that he talked with the president on the eve of election. , | — _Everybody understands, of course, that these weekly tours of President Wilson are strictly non-political. Merely a bit of exercise combined with fresh air treatment. Moreover, they afford relief from ‘the gloomy ‘shadows on Shadow * Lawn. A “An Americap admidistration,” for which Charles E. Hlxel stands pledged, embraces in t!Lvml issues of the campagin. It Lo T e ;unnue: il i g reminds us that down in Kansas, and —— ‘Hdgar Howard might have kn?a that he ‘could not run for office on the same ticket with certain democrats running for senator and con- l»llillan. whom he has repeatedly denounced as having forfeited every claim to public confidence, without swallowing his words. Poor Edgar! S—————— " The ability of the the British “t'nkl" to nego® tiate trenches, shell caves and ponds shows ex- traordinary improvement on the original inven- tion and casts doubt on the claim of Amer- ican origin. A genuine Arerican tank would il for rein[orcemenll before * negotiating a treet gutter. ' Pancho Villa serigusly strains the ties of friendship by frequent unseemly calls at the ranch of William Randolph Hearst. The hospi- tality of the American ranchero is generous to the limit, but when a friendly visitor makes away with a dessert of 600 beeves and a supply of corn chills to forbids a front page sensatien, the roots and [ A EEE——————— i Heghos and Lopislation Louls Globe-Democrat: The democrats who demand that Mr. Hughes ‘exhibit samples of hypothetical legislation he : have enacted to solve future problems are careful to avoid his record of le ve ent. He refuses to outline a program unforeseen events might make impossible. declares the ciples he would follow and announces the q,fi t which he would aim. His tion and “his. ability to enact wise and I Jegislation must bé judged by his record. “After the panic of 1907 showed the weaknesses _in the banking system of New York he set about remo them. The result was a set of model ¢ ing laws, fio\fic‘in of the public and of the ers. ‘He drove out scoundrelly “private s He also took the graft out of receiver- by turning the liquidation of suspended ovgr to the banking commi: He urged 's compensation act that became a model for other states. He procured flegislation against child labor. He got-through a law im- ¥ ng the working conditions of women. He strict regulation of employment agencies. He promoted agriculture various ways. He fin system adopted jor'iokinc after the chil- 3 of imm ts whith the federal government b the law for semi- thly railway employes. successfully proposed adequate commissions regulate public utilitie: efore he became nor he drafted effective legislation to pre- it & recurrence of insurance scand. He over- d state finances and Pt up a practical jet system without waiting for a constitu- amendment. The last he was vetoed §$5,000,000 appropriations: he meant it. c?kd. e got throy n pa{menl of vul»}i ver: hen Hughes not only believes in constructive. tie knows an effective law when old law firm had few rivals of its relations with international of the greatest experts with future legislation an exhorter. He will see p are So.written _what their authors Hughes’ Pledge to America, Under the shadow of Faneuil Hall, and where Bunker Hill monument points the way to lofty patriotism, Charles Evans Hughes gave out a message to Americans that should be cherished by all. It is a direct challenge to Wilsonism, whose announced policy is not only a repu- diation of the platform of his party, but tanta- mount to poltroonism. The account of that meet- ing, furnished by the Associated Press, says: Mr. Hughes also declared that he would maintain American rights and that he had “absolutely no patience whatever with the idea that an American citizen, following his lawful pursuits, in any part of the world, should be left unprotected by the country from which he came.” ¢ “I am amazed,” Mr. Hughes said, “that it is suggested that a proper attitude is that the policy of protection should not be main- tained because it threatens our peace. “Is it possible that any such notion should obtain in the shadow of Bunker Hill?” he asked. . The audience Yose to its feet and, way- ing thousands of American flags, shouted in answer: “No,” Mr. Hughes emphasized this clear and reson- ant-note of true Americanism by a reply to a heckler, who demanded specific information as to his policy. “We will not meddle ,in affairs that do not concern us; when we say we will gespect the rights of small nations, we will respect them in reality. And it shall be understood in Mexico, in Latin-America, and elsewhere, that American rights with respect to lives and property shall be protected,” is Mr. Hughes' pledge to Americans. Contrast this with Mr. Wilson's declaration that Americans are only'to be protected at home, and those who go abroad for any purpose do it at their own risk. —e Secretary Baker's Astonishing Allegation. The charge made by President Wilson's sec- retary of war that Pancho Villa's present activity is inspired as part of the presidential cdmpaign in the United States is worthy to go alongside Mr. Baker's stupid comparison of Washington’s sol- diers to the Mexican banditti, Secretary Lansing, with a foresight and prudence rare in the coun- cils of the present cabinet, undertakes to minie mize the effect of the language of his blundering colleague, but can not bring himself quitg to the point of administering the rebuke he ‘feels is called for in the situation. 1f Pancho Villa is really taking any part in American pol#tics, he may be looked for on the side of his friends. The only endorsement and recommendation he Has ever received from any government went to him from the office of Mr. ilson's secretary of state in Washington, and nothing has ever been heard of its be% recalled or repudiated. It was from the president’s own “office the order went forth lifting the embargo on arms when rifles and cartridges were scarce in Mexico three years ago, and Pancho Villa was enabled thus.to fufish his followers with tools to murder Americans, which he has subsequently used with deadly effect. The latest favor was to hold up the Pershing expedition, just when it was pressing close to its quarry. Is it possible Villa is 8o lacking in gratitude that he fails to appre- ciate all these accommodations? Secretary Baker evidently has the same opinion of the intelligence of his countrymen that has been exhibited by other democratic leaders; they think they can fool the people with any sort, of story or ridiculous assertion. 2 - Sme——— . Cost of Living Under Wilson. Four years ago the democrats were promising the people the cost of living would be reduced if Wilson were elected and a free trade tariff law enacted. This was brought to pass, and the first effects observed took the form of hundreds of thousands in the bread lines and the reopening of the souphouses that had been closed when Mc- Kinley was inaugurated in 1897. 'Then Wilson “brought prosperity” in the shape of the Euro- pean war and its enormous expenditure of money for munitions and supplies in the United States. ‘We are just now experiencing the full flood tiuc of this “prosperity,” and investigation in Chicago shows the cost of keeping a family has increased 54 per centwithin the yearssince the wave Hit us. The demecrats have switched their tune, and are now boasting of the inflation. in prices as a bene- ficial result of their doin®s, but their extuses will not satisfy the man who is forced to pay a dollar for what he bought last year for- 50 cents. \ E— . For the Administrative Places, Three present republican state officers are up for ge-election—State Superintendent of Instruc- tion A, O. Thomas, Land Commissioner Fred Beckman ‘and Railway Comtissioner, Henry T. Clarke—every one of whom is entitled to a vote of indorsement on his record. Two more repub- lican candidates, Addison Wait, for secretary of state, and George' W. Matsh, for state auditor, have served in state executive offices with credit- able records, and two other «candidates, H. P. Shumway, for lieutenant-goverpor, and W. H Reynolds, for state treasurer, have records, members of the state senate, challenging public investigation. The only reptblican candidate yet to be tried in public office is Robert W. Devoe, for attorney general, whose record and reputation as a lawyer meet all the requirements. The election of the republicans nominated for the administra- tive places in the state house ‘will involve no haz- ardous experimentin, ———— No Inter-Regnum In This Country. Moorcroft, Wyo,, October 26.—To the oEdi- tor of The Bee: Please advise, through The Bee, who will b; president of the United States on March 4, and up to the time our new presi- dent will be inaugurated on March 5, 1917, and oblige, / A Subscriber. Never fear, ('herc is no such thing as inter- regnum in this great republic. Each presidential term is for four years and the term of the suc- ceeding president begins where the last onestops off, Sunday or no Sunday intervening. If a president is re-elected, the question answers it- self, although it is conceivable that a president- elect, even though holding the office, might fail to qualify, in which event the succession would go to the other qualified persons as provided, by law. The fact that the fourth of March falls on Sunday, however, in no way changes the con- stitution nor does it lengthen or shorten the term f office of any one holding under the con- stitution. ——— The distinguished salt sea dog from the Car- olinas, Josephus Daniels, lends a touch of gayety to the campaign by electioneering among Ne- braska marines. A discreet naval warrior is Josephus. In forsaking the brine of the Atlantic ®¢ the balmy Indian summer of the plains the secretary of the navy secures a respite from ignoble strife and escapes the jeers which greet him at naval ports, % Letters of a Politician to _His Sono V. . My Dear Jack: . From your letter it looks as if your democratic chums had been driven into their last trench. They are surely running short of ammunition when they have to fall back to that stale “kept- us-out-of-war” stuff. Some folks may stitl be biting on that candy, but if so, it's because they haven't their eye teeth cut. What does the tdlk, “He kept us out of war” mean, anyway? If it means Wilson kept us out of war with Mexico, the inescapable answer is “He didn't” The president sent at least two armed expeditions into Mexico, éach time killing a lot of Mexicans and sacrificing the precious lives of our. own boys, and that without any jus- tifying excuse. How does calling it “watchful waiting” make the bloodshed cost any less or distinguish it from what other people call “war?” What are all our militia regiments down on the border for if we enjoy friendly relations with a peaceful neighbor to our south? I see President Wilson’s war secretary says the bandits and .murderers and ravishers that compose the Carrdnza and Villa armies in Mex- ico-are. of the same sort as fought with Wash- ington inbur revolutionary war. A grosser in- sult wa$ /never heaped upon the patriotic founders of our republic. Did anyone ever charge that Washington’s troops desecrated churches? Or looted towns? Or sullied nuns? Washington didn’t keep us out of war, nor did Lincoln, nor did McKinley; but each and every one of them kept us out of such an ignoble war as Wilson got us into in Mexico. - ’ If “kept-us-out-of-war” means that we have not broken into the FEuropean maelstrom it merely emphasizes the fact that\we have noth- ing at stake in that melee and that none of the belligerents over there want to take on any more enemies to fight at one time. Why we couldn’t gets into the Eurepean war unless we KEPT TH deliberately walked into it. To be sure, Wilson did write a lot of “notes” subscribed with the name of Bryan or other meaningless signatures, and once he went $o far as to send an ulti- matum which the kaiser might hidave read “Back up or fight,” only ‘the kaiser knew Mr. Wilson didn’t mean it and even, then, to placate Amer- ican opinion, said he wouldn’t use his subma- rines in a way so offensive to us any more. If anybody kept us out of war at that juncture it was the kaiser, and if keeping us out of war were to win the presidential prize, we should elect William instead of Woodrow, At that Bryan resigned from the cabinet rather than remain in political partnership with so warlike and dangerous a chief. But the United States is not the only neutral country, npr_the only country that has been kept out of the “European war. A lot of countries, much nearer the battle line and therefore much more exposed, have kept out of war. What about Sweden and Norway\and Denmark? What about Switzerland and Spain? What about Holland, poked like a wedge right in between 'em? If lit- tle Queen Wilhelmina kept the Dutch out of war without half trying, why should it be any- thing to brag about because Wilson’s diplomatic blundering and stumbling has fallen short of mixing us into it? Another thing, it takes two to make war. In these days armies do not fight each othey with chautauqua salutes, How could’ we wage war against any European country when we haven't enough military force and equipment to go into Mexico for the avowed purpose of capturing- a bad bandit and.accomplish what we set out to do? If we didn’t want to keep out of war, pray what would we.wage war with? =~ Another thing, it takes two to makeé war. In cept the little one in Mexico) because no country wants to fight with us, respects American rights, nor pays the slightest attention to our demands or protests, unless it feels like it. Be absolutely certain anybody 'would have kept us out of war as well or better than that, and a strong man like Hughes as president will keep us altogether outof war and give us national honor along with honorable peace. Yours for Hughes and peace with honor, FATHER. (Conclusion.) Charles Evans Hughes Says: “I propose that we shall enforce American rights with respect to all the nations of the world, American rights of life, property and commerce. We propose to stand four square among the nations of the earth, We have no secret understanding; We have no intrigues of any kind. We have no unstated purposes. We are just plain America. Nobody can em- barrass me by talking about Americanism. I am not for this nation or that nation. I am for the United States first, last.and all the time without regard to another consideration.” | A Wonderful Country l Minneapolis Journal: Here is a true dialogue between a young American girl, who had bech eleven years in Europe, and her mother, after the two had just come home to America: Mother, you say you eat white bread and butter and everything you want withowt™get- ting tickets from the government? es, dear, You can talk whenever you please and about anything you please? _ Yes, dear. And look, mother, at the brass railings, but- tons and decorations made of copper, brass and other metals, Yes, child. Why, America must be wonderful. Yet there are persons amongst us who sigh for that Europé! There are critics with us who harp upon the advantages of monarchical coun- tries, in which they could not say what they lease, and could not live ‘half as well as they do ere, to say nothing about their being conscripted and set to fight machine guns and shells, America has her faults, and some of them are very grave, to be sure. Nevertheless this land is still “God’s country,” is still the hope of human- ity and the age here with us still remains golden. The great evils of living; and the various mis- chances, no government, no wisdom, no virtue cafl cure. But as muclt as it is permitted to the hu- man being to be happy, America secures—not alone to her few fortunate ones, but to her many; not only to her own native children, but also to all worthy pilgrims who come to her door. A much greater chance to a much greater multi- tude; America has furnished for more than a century, =The fact is indisputable. The Isles of the Blessed are never at home. It is a human illusion that Paradise flourishes in some other place. But practical sense shows that every man, woman and child in America is better off here than anywhere else. Recognition of the truth need not blind us to our imperfections, or hold us back from improvements. But recogni- " tion should deepen our sense of gratitude to the land that cherishes us, that has given us our chance. & ™ And if ever we grow irritated with democracy's indirections and blunderings, let us reflect that elsewhere we should be not merely chafing, but r‘el)ellinx against wrongs, restrictions and hard- ships. This is a dear land and a great one. Can we not feel, all of us, as fortunate children feel toward a fond, indulgent parent? Our interests absolutely are here, Our hearts should \be likewise, i'hmht Nugget for tbe Day. _ In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. ~—Edward Bulwer Lytton. One Year Ago Today in the War. Itallans launched strong attack in the Isonzo region.” Paris reported new gains for the French near A Belgian woman and three men sen- tenced by Germans at Liege to be shot as sples. King George injured by being thrown from a horse during inspec- tion of British troops in France. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The trustees of the newly incorpor- ated village of Bouth Omaha have passed a resolution requiring the sa- loons of the village to pay a license of $1,000 each. per year. Heretofore, the saloons have paid ‘only the govern- ment revenue tax on liquors. Nine pounds of infant humanity came to Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith and ex-Councilman Thrang/ who stahds in the important position of grandpa to the little new arrival, showed his ap- preciation of the event by cracking the necks of several bottles of champagne. 8. 8. Auchmoody, the efficient county clerk, is on duty again a two weeks' illness. He is soméwhat ema- clated, but still smiling. Master Henry Clarke gave a ger- an, under the supervision of Miss Almy, which was led by Joe Barker and Alice Andreesen. Thp other danc- ers were Gretchen Crounse, Lulu Hob- bie, Amy, Barker, Mable Taylor, Flora Webster, Helen Hoagland, May Burns, Shelly Barriger, Mabel Brown, Edith Preston, Katje Preston, Nina Marshall, Fannie Gilbert, Bessie Hurlburt, Ezra Millard, Guy Henry, Will Henry, Paul Hoagland, Sam Burns, Carl and Ralph Connell, Ray Hobbie, Robble Pleak, Georgle Gilbert, Nat Shelton and Moshier Colpetzer. Mr. and Mrs. Rothschild gave a small card party in honor of Miss Mil- lle Cahn. The guests were Dr. and Mrs. Rau, Mr. and Mrs, Martin Cahn, Mr. and Mrs. Hellman, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cahn, Mr. and Mrs. Polack, Mr. ahd Mrs. Katz, Mrs. Polack and the Misses Rothschild. Mrs. Louls Raapke lost a diamond pin which had Been in the family for 800 years. This Day in History. 1646—John Eliot preached his first sermon to the Indians. 1818—Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, second president of the United States, died at Quincy, Mass. Born at Weymouth, Mass.,, November 22, 1744, 1858—The lower floor of. Faneuil Hall, ‘Boston, was first opened as a public market. 1886—Bartholdi's statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, was formally inaugurated. 1893—Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago, was assassinated. 1901—The King Alfred, the largest cruiser in the world to date, was launched in England. 1904—England and Russia agreed to arbitrate the North Sea difficulty. * 190 ty lives were lost in a drawbridge railroad accident near At- lantic City. . 1909—Announcement was made that John D. Rockefeller had given $L.- 000,000 to fight the hookworm disease in the southern states. 1910—The Portuguese government decreed the liberty of the press and the separation of church and state. 1915—Twenty-one girls burned to death in a parochial school fire in Peabody, Mass. The Day We Celebrate. George C. Swingley of the Lawrence Shpt and Lead works today celebrates his thirty-fifth birthday. His birth- place was St. Louis, Mo. Clarence Sobotker today celebrates his fitty-eighth birthday. He is, with his brother, in the Sobotker Cigar com- pany, and was born at Seward, N. Y. Sir Moses Ezekiel, noted American sculptor, long resident in Rome, born at Richmond, Va., seventy-two years ago today. Joseph W.Folk, former governor of Missouri, born at Brownsville, Tenn, forty-seven years ago today. Richard Folsom Cleveland, only son of the ‘late President Grover Cleve- land, born at Princeton, N. J., nine- teen years ago today. Joseph W. Fifer, former governor of Illinois, born at Staunton, Va., seventy- six years ago today. John Mason, one of the veteran ac- tors of the American stage, born at Orange, N. J., fifty-nine years ago to- day. John J. Lavan, shortstop of the St. Louis American league base ball team, born at Grand Rapids, Mich,, twenty- six years ago today. \ Timely Jottings and Reminders. ' Mr. Hughes tours western New York today. Colonel Roosevelt is due to arrive in New York today on his return from his western trip. . Voters of Australia are to take a referendum ballot today on the ques- tion whether compulsory military service shall obtain in the common- wealth for the needs of the war. A great bazaar in ald of the Italian Red Cross fund is to be opened this afternoon at the'Grand Central Palace, in New York City, by Comte Machi de Cellere, the Italian ambassador at ‘Washington. Conditions which are believed to be retarding agricultural development in the United States are to be discussed by the executive coMfmittee of the Na- tional Assoclation of Commissioners of Agriculture at a special meeting to be held in Washington today. A MASTERFUL GODDESS. Ella A, Fanning, in New York Times. See, when a blue haze hides October hills, How prodigal she i# in fields and lanes Strewing wild asters with a lavish hand, And goldenrod, while pensive Autumn reigns, Vermillion velvet heads the sumao rears, shrub, garbed in spun Now elderberry eclusters nod a ‘The pungent scent of wild the alr. The nuts, impatient in their prisoning burrs, ay, pes fills Walt but a touch of frost new fates to | dare, The scarlet barberries in myriads glow; Above stone walls the apple boughs bend low. The song of birds is mute, but insects hum, And there is gladness in the meilow light. The shocks ef 'grain, the gardens’ bounte. ous vleld, The twining clematis, all feathery white, The woodbine and the brier in tints so gAY, Where thistiedown floats alrily away. Fair Goddess Flora, w In her autumn larges While I, here, in the clty's b Her bounty of the woodland pathways ose, The commonest blossomi that, unnoted, ai light my day—I'd weep above, 4 Veteran Soldier Speaks Out. Omaha, Oct. 27.—To the Editor of The Bee: I desire to claim a small portion of your space to say that while the World-Herald quotes from the New York World nearly every day on the issues of the present campaign, endorsing the New York World's atti- tude in every particular, that the New York World during the civil war, from ‘61 to '65, was strenuously opposing the policies of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American, tactful, masterful, charitable, the prosecution of the war ut down armed rebellion against the government of the United States, and by its editorials- was fomenting in the gl!y of New York and other places résistance to the draft in order to fill up the depleted ranks of our armies in the fleld. One division of the army of the Po- tomac was sent to New York City in 1863 to suppress a most formidable riot while a draft was in progress in that city and the writer's regiment, to- gether with one other regiment, was sent to the anthracite coal regions in Pennsylvania to put down a stubborn resistance to the draft in progress in that region. It is surprisingly strange in these days to read of the claims set up by the democratic party that it is the cus- todian of Abraham Lincoln and his policies, when, as a matter of fact, the democratic party of the south, aided largely by a fraction of the democratic party of the north, were moving “heaven and earth” to comsummate the downfall of the republic and to place every obstacle and hindrance in the way of Lincoln and the republican party to save thé union. Now the democratic party of the south is in control of the legislative branch of the government, aided largely and pow- erfully by the executive branch, whose chief is of southern birth and whose sympathies are more pronounced for the southern portion of the country than they are for the northern part. I will further state that during those dark days for the republic, the New York World, the Philadelphia Age and other pronounced copperhead sheets, exhausted their vocabulary in hurling the vilest kinds of epithets on Lincoln and “his hirelings,” as they delighted to call the soldiers of the northern army. This may, by some, be called “waving the bloody shirt,” but what extenuating circumstances can those who did their utmdst to destroy this government offer now that they leg- islate almost wholly for the benefit of the south as against northern inter-| ests, which, In my view, is southern | sectionalism personified, and, as I cast | my first presidential vote for Abra-| ham Lincoln, I could not refrain from saying this much in the interest of the republican party. J. B. BRUNER. Public Library Wants Periodicals. | Omaha, Oct. 27.—To the Editor of | The Omaha Bee: The Omaha public library needs more coples of the At-| lantic Monthly. If you have copies of this periodical which you do not wish to keep for your own use, the library would be very glad to haye them to supply the demands_of its patrons. We will call for the magazines, if you will telephone to us and let us know when it will be convenient. Tele- phone Douglas 1803. EDITH TOBITT, Librarian. Pay Check Issned No\'emer 7. Omaha; Neb,, Oct. 27.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: The president, in his speech at the sefi-centennial meeting in Omaha, reférred to his policies as “The great melting pot of nations.” His sentences i were beautifully phrased. I coul}\ not refrain from making -some. degree of comparison between words and acts, and the fol- lowing incident came to my mind: A dapper young man applied o the superintendent of a large farm for em- ployment, said he was fresh from agri- cultural college, and he had no doubt the could be of great assistance to him in conducting the farm. The superin- tendent said everything was running quite well, but 'he would give him a trial. “BYy the way,” said the super- intendent,” do you smoke cigarets?" “Yes;” said the young man. "I much prefer them fo an old pipe.” “Do you wear suspenders?” said the super- intendent. “No, I have learned to get along nicely without them.” *I will give you a trial.” At the end of the we€k the superintendent gave him his pay check—in full, which was equiva- lent to a dismissal. The youngrman said: "“This is a great surprise, I have been on the job every hour, haven't I1?"” “Yes,” sald the superin- tendent, “but you have spent one-half of your time rolling cigarets and the other half pulling up your panta- loons.” Four years ago the American peoplé accepted the services of the polished phrase-maker, Prof. Wilson, to run this government. Pay day is near at hand. The people are saying to him, you have spent one-half of your time writing pretty notes and sending them over to BEurope and they are paying no attention to them. The other half you have spent pulling up your pantaloons to hide the nakedness of your wob- bling policies. The pay check will be issued in full on November 7, 19186, WAGE-WORKER. A Congressional Bunco Game. St. Mary, Neb, Oct. 26, 1916.—To the Editor of The Bee: P. T. Bar- num once said, “The American peo- ple love to be humbugged.” When we consider the practices of congress- men we must frankly acknowledge that P. T. Barnum was not far wrong. {Congressmen. are supposed to repre- sent the people and influence legisla- tion by making speeches for or against measures that may be introduced. But do they do that? No. Some never express their -opinion (if they are fortunate enough to have one) on any measures introduced, all they appar- ently care for is to draw their salary. If this were all 1t would not be so bad, for how can a man say anything if he doesn't know anything? But they all seem to have a desire to be reselected, and something must be done. It is a prevailing practice after a bill has been voted on and passed the house that the members of congress are allowed five days to write a speech and have it dated back to the date the bill was up for discussion, and have it entered in the Congressional Record and make it appear as though the speech was actually made on the floor of congress. Next it is printed In pamphlet form, and then mailed / to his constituents, and the dummy ‘con- gressman, who can neither make a speech or write one, gets an eloquent speech, written by a friend, and all is done at government expense. The people pay for it all. The deluded voters of his district read the eloquent fake speech and they throw up their hats and vell themselves hoarse in his praise, and when he returns home they pat him on the back and at the next election return him to congress, supposing .they have a grand repre- sentative. Thus, when he returns to congress he agaln sits ,like a frog on a frozen clod and never croaks, only to practice the same deception again. There may be some to whom this may ap- pear so ridiculous they think I am ~ “talking through my hat.” ~ For the benefit of those I will say, when I was first informed of.such humbug being practiced I had my doubts as to the truth of the Statement, so I wrote a personal letter to a congressman, a personal friend, requesting him to tell me the facts, and he verified the above. He writes in part: “This prac- tice prevails+and is one of the abuses of congress.” We call this a government of, for and by the people, but if it were put to a vote, whether or not to continue the practice, what per cent of the peo- ple would vote in favor of its contin- uation? Probably the reason none of the orators_ever mertion it in a speech Is because one is as deep in the mud as the other is in the mire. 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