Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1916, Page 6

P R SR S e P THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. e THE BE§ PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Bl s ey o, b ke 1 s, 1000, and Sun ) vance, $10,00. of address or irregularity in de- Circulation ent. REMITTANCE. draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps t of small accounts. Personal checks, and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Bank of Commerece. Washington—1725 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relaf to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial ent. OCTOBER CIRCULATION ~ 53,818 Daily—Sunday 50,252 Dwight Williams, cirealation manager of The Bee y, being duly sworn, says thst the for the month of October, 1916, was Sabecribers leaving the city tempora sbould bave The Bee mailed to them. dress will be changed as often as required. The fortunes of war bring the Servian capi- tol again to Servian soil, but Belgium is still an exile from its native land. § The most unendurable concomitant of the Bigh cost of living is now the threatened higher collar on the glass of lager. It,is too bad George Francis Train is no longer here to spread the gospel of his peanut diet as a true cure for high-living-cost evils. Eastern financiers view the golden flood with pessimistic glasses. Still they show no dgsire to turn the flood westward and banish the gloom. —— # The speed and efficiency of Germany in clap- ping in jail the authors and beneficiaries of food corners goes to show that monarchial govern- ments possess some admirable features, Before Omlhmd reads propo- sition again, the whole subject should have thorough investigation and study. Let us agree first upon what we want and then go after it. : ———— _ The territory coveted for Greater Lincoln consolidation .includes the domicile of a djstin- i democrat for whom “no government without the consent of the governed” has several times been the slogan. What will he do if Lin- coln tries forcible annexation? In this year and ‘the preceding five years Omaha added nine hotels for transients and one family hotel to its list, and capitalists see 3 prof- itable future for another. No other development s0 clearly proves Omaha's advance as a mecca ;‘l&siv’ialtou on business or pleasure. fad —— Harken, ye reckless speeders, .to the tragic of the Denver autoist. “I can hit ing on road,” he remarked cheerily to his coms nions. Instantly action made good the wonds. e car hit a bridge, careened into the ditch and on the haughty driver, Tears, flowers slow music. ; —_— 'gm federal court of appeals vacancy is not g pulled down so fast for the Missouri claim- . as the Missourians expected. There is at least ther state in this judicial circuit that has had anyone on the federal bench ranking than district judge and which is quite able the requisition. . — , ‘uku’oui anti-suffragists are ) r next year's prelimi- for the mm in 1918, No doubt _prospective battle will take high rank as & sporting event. Still, if mere man is as ‘wise as be imagines, he will scoot for tall timber ‘when the referee calls “time.” Y —— Accepting accounts as fairly accurate, the rorid war far out-Herods Herod in its slaughter f innocents. What bas happened in Poland, vaged by opposing armies, has been duplicated R Asiati Turkey, in the Balkans, in France and i The innocent are the chiof-victims of ‘wars, more 8o in this than ever before, — Mecca, the sacred city of Islam, where repose the bones and beard of the prophet, is named as the new capital of the kingdom of Arabia. The designation implies the opening of the city to others than the devout followers of Mahomet. Hitherto the Mahommedans have not knowingly permitted non-believers to enter the city. | The Man Who Made Mars - ia Ledger. . The plays and novels that deal with the sup- posed mythical or actual inhabitants of Mnru would have had small vogue with the public had not the late Percival Lowell, the astronomer, who comes of as distinguished a family as this intry has éver produced, made the p(mct and ssibilities of life on it a household word. \ one remembers that the old-fashioned de- e astronomy by most astronomers was slightly more attractive than the recondite thematicl astronomy, a closed book to all éx- it the specialists, and also that the fascination astrophysical, by which the remotest bounds the universe are sensed, as it were, and anal- d, is of rec.nt development, the fact that al Lowell interested two ' continents _he divined might be going on in Mars, the ghnel home to us as a sort of sister tribute to his captivating way of stat- in ) ented by the fixed stars themselves, centers of planetary systems of their rather directed t» popular mind away significant solar sys- public mind interested whose glowing ruddy disk was a familiar heavens. An even if his jat life existed on the planet and that its had become the greatest ifriga- s known to science are not accepted, ir up the whole astronomical world. in the seeing” of the clear izona, at Flagstafi, he was in a way, to prove that the “canals" thousands of miles Nothing to Take Back. i “In Omaha, as in Lincoln, the newspaper campaign against Senator Hitchcock was such as to disgust intelligent readers. It was such as to win for the targets of the unfair news- papers the sympathy of fair-minded men."— World-Herald. Although The Bee was disposed to draw the curtain on the campaign, so far as it concerned the individual candidates, Senator Hitchcock's organ does not seem satisfied with the senator’s victory, for which it shuddered up to the close of the voting in the cold sweat of scare and de- spair, and with the supreme essence of gall it tries to tell opposing papers how misdirected was their drive, although knowing full well that the senator was saved only by his successful feat of coat-tail hanging upon Wilson. So far as The Bee is concerned, our campaign against the return of a democratic senator from Nebraska was straightforward and strictly con- fined to matters properly at issue. The Bee did not go back of the official record which Senator Hitcheock had made in his six years as senator— he record upon which he was seeking endorse- ment. We pointed out how, in his tariff votes, he had sacrificed all the products of Nebraska. We repeated the charges publicly preferred against him by President Wilson's secretary of state—charges that branded him a tool of Wall street \and a traitor to the president and his party. We recalled how he sought to “tickle the Germans” by big promise but not perform- afice, and we showed up his alliance with the “wets,” whose help he took, but did not recip- rocate. We also emphasized the numerous losses of federal activities Omaha had sustained since we had to depend upon democratic representatives at Washington. The Bee deliberately refrained, however, from taking up the personal, as dis- tinguished from the official, character of the can- didate or going into certain decidedly unsavory phases of the official record prior to his eleva- tion to the senate. 3 Wherein was this campaign “disgusting to fair-minded men?” What different campaign should have been waged to keep within the lines of fairness? Was this campaign ineffective? We think not. We admit it was ineffective in the Third ward in Omaha, where, with the help of slathers of "we;” money, Hitchcock distanced his competitor nearly three to one; but proof that it was effective here in Douglas county lies in reducing the last Hitchcock majority of over 9,000 to less than one-half of that figure. Proof that it was effective in the state is seen in cutting down the Hitchcock majority of six years ago more than a third and in keeping the senator, with all his “wet” money, bank backing and Ger-' man support, down to little over one-fourth the plurality rolled up by Wilson, While accepting the verdict of the ballot box in the spirit that every patriotic citizen should ac- cept it, The Bee has nothing to take back and no apblogies to offer. Stt— / Woman Leads in' Air Flight. The feat of Miss Anna Law, who has just es- tablished a new world record for long distance continuous flight in an aeroplane, is not the least among woman's achievements in her new rela- tion as man's competitor, Aside from the serious considerations of skill and endurance required to accomplish this arduous undertaking, the flight record is of great importance to aviation. Each new, step adds to the tota] of knowledge on which myst be based the success of the future, and af- fords also an incentive to greater endeavor, which in turn will make more certain the utilization of fiying machines. The present activity in aerial navigation may lead to a restoration of suprem- acy in the air to the United States, where the secret of flight was discovered. In Europe the adiptability of the airship as a weapon of war is being demonstrated, but surely the science 3:1 other uses, and these Americans should discover. Woman now leads in the long distance flight record, but she may be sure that man will pur- sue her in the air as eagerly as he does on earth, . P — Closing Act of the Farce. The “conference” between ‘commissioners of the United States and Mexico over a joint policy to be pursued with reference to the control of our southern border, is about to end. No real progress has been made and the blame for fail- vre is inferentially placed on the Mexicans, who resolutely decline to concede the main point de- manded by President Wilson's representatives. This ending was foreshadowed weeks ago, but was held back, pending the clection, that the peace plea might not be made the less efficient through the effect of the last act of this farce now waiting for the final curtain. Administration adherents admit Carranza’s failure as a pacificator of his people, but weakly say théy do not see the alternative, Those who have soberly warned againist the muddling meth- ods of the president from the beginning can des- cry oné possible alternative, made imperative, if we are to be asstired of quiet along the border, and the Mexicans are to have order restored. That course is active, but friendly intervention. If Mr. Wilson will make good on any one of four solemn warnings sent to the Mexicans within the last eighteen months, we may look for peace and safety where now we have an army on watch to protect our peéple from mur- derous bands who have prospered under “watch- ful waiting.” Turkey and the Thanksgiving Basket. In his formal proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in this month as a day for thanks- giving and prayer, the president adjured his fel- low citizens to give of their abundance to vic- tims in the war-stricken lands of the Old World. This advice is seasonable, but in other ways we are reminded that nearer home we have those who will Plno silently prefer a demand on the bounty of prosperous America, The announce- ment from the head of the local charity organi- zation that dinner baskets given out this year will not contain turkey is but another way of saying that, however noisy ogr abundance may be in one way, it is remarkable for its silence in another. It will not be the destitute alone who will go without turkey inthe United States this year, unless some unexpected change comes over the ;piri( that now prevails, The immediate future holds in its dark depths events of world-wide moment.- Reconstructing the map of Europe is one, furling the gory battle flags is another, punctured price bubbles is a third. But these are insignificant beside the ap- proaching crusade for the salvation of the demo- cratic party and substituting the water wagon for the donkey as A party emblem. , As “Marse Henry”’ Sees It m fleo@eek Louisville Courier-Journal. Now that all is over—even the shouting—of a quadrennial convulsion showing curiously the eccentricities of our party politics and the im- perfection of our electoral machinery, let us for a moment survey the field we have just traversed. In the late campaign there was but one para- mount issue: the overthrow of the existing gov- ernment of the country in the face of a world crisis; the substitution of a pilot having the ves- sel well in hand for a pilot untried, if not un- skilled; in short, the swapping of horses in the middle of the stream. Tfimgh this had brought a flash of joy to the -republicans, along with the official spoil, personally interesting only to a few, the joy would have been fitful and illusory. Bil:icr disappointment would have quickly en- sued. The conglomerate eclements behind Mr. Hughes could never have mixed and mingled in the work of forming a successful administra- tion. Mr. Hughes has shown himself in many ways disqualified for successful party leadership. A man of high integrity and fixed beliefs—an old-line New England federalist, crossed on a modern Pennsylvania republican—conscientious, unyielding and tactless—he would inevitably have broken down as president of the United States even as he broke down as governor of the state of New York. J The re-election of Mr. Wilson may bring in dangers of another sort, not yet visible to the naked eye, but it averts many dangers which are both real and visible. We owe our escape, not to the boasted wisdom and culture of the east, but to the robust common sense of the west and south. That means much. It means that Wall street—and by Wall street we designate the ag- gregate wealth of organized capital—does not govern the country and that a popular party may clect a president without the vote of New York. We are thus emancipated from the money mad- ness which possesses the trade centers. For a time, at least, the Money Devil has been made to go way back and sit down. On the other hand vast responsibilities for good or evil are piled upon the democratic party, and these, of course, will be largely, maybe altogether, determined by the'man to whom credit for the achievement must be whol‘% ascribed, ¥ Mr, Vilson, another Carnot, was the organ- izer of victory. He drew the plan of every bat- tle. He was his own strategist, his own tac- tician, his own architect, his own campaign man- ager, the best, and easily the best, of the cam- paign orators. To him with the rewards will come the accountabilities, and, although+as a scholar and man of letters he may think he fully understands himself and comprehends the situa- tion, the muse of history may nevertheless whisper in his ear loud enough to be heard above the din of the cheering: ‘“Have a care, Wood- row, oh, my son, have a care!” Jefferson was right. That is the best gov- ernment which governs least. In framing the federal consfitution the wise and patriotic men, led by Madison, the republican, and Hamilton, the imperia sought to keep between them the Scylla of centralized monarchism and the Charybdis of pure democracy. They constructed a representative system, of limited powers, gird round by definite checks and balances which they believed would protect the people against des- potic enroachment upon the one hand and mob passion upon the other. Measurably this has been the result, But it has been qualified of late by a demand for re- forms which have ‘in some quarters risen to a‘ ' kind of hysteria. As a consequence two dangers have come to pass; a disregard for precedents inevitable to a ‘craving after the experimental; and the complication, not to say the confusion, offorderl( governmental procedure incident to an annual flood of legislation, state and federal, The country is \hnnegwmbcd with commis- sions. Though state rights survived the war of sections the heme rule principle was put to serious strain. Now whatever happens to be wapted anywhere, the word is, “On to Washing- ton.” Woodrow Wilson calls this the new free- dom; Theodore Roosevelt calls it progressiveism; the Duluth Herald calls it social justice; the cheap perodicals call it the uplift. Whatever it is, or aims at,/it is a departure from the simple and benign in government and a menace to the country; an outgrowth not of freedom but of slavery; a survival of the age of theologic controversises of the inquisition and the conventicle; a return to the era of church and state beneath whose tyrannous rule men and women were to believe what the prelates told them and to be made good by law. That Woodrow Wilson, an academic dog- matist, and Theodore Roosevelt, a spectacular politician—both more or‘less bent on power— should agree about such functions of government is nat surprising; but, now that Woodrow Wilson has crossed the Rubicon of a re-election and is about to enter his second and final term as presi- dent, it becomes a matter of moment, and of supreme moment, how far he may be able to out- live the ill-digested notions of the doctrinaire and to surmount the peculiar infirmities of the schoolmaster and to address his experience in | office and undoubted abilities to the working out of a problem, not in huma# “ethics, but in actual, practical government. Unless the people can be brought back to the simple rescripts of Thomas Jefferson as dis- tinguished from the half-baked sentimentalisms of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, the abnormal conditions which made the Reign of Terror possible in France may be brought round in America, the crowded centers hot-beds of insurrectionary spirit; labor, supported*by the rule of numbers, but misadvised of .its rights, wildly loose in the land; capital, driven into a corner, the rule of force no longer able to come to the rescue of property, as helpless as the Regime Ancien. ' Surely such a surmise is not toryism. Nor is it profanation to suggest that Woodrow Wilson cannot improve Thomas Jefferson. Nor yet inim- ical to add that he¢ may with profit mend some of his ways. In saying that he makes common cause with no one the Courier-Journal has not intended to imply that he should wear his heart upon his sleeve, or that he should not in every case be the final judge. By cammon cause it has meant intellectual and patriotic community of interest. Neither has it spoken without advisement. The charge is made at Washington by those com- petent to know who are not hostile that he has cultivated as president an isolation not merely abhorrept to republican ideals, but personally unwise and absurd, and has surrounded himself not with counselors, but with servants, repelling men of his own caliber. Yet it these despites he has made an ex- cellent president. His handling of our European relations has been admirable. His domestic poli- cies have been fruitful. His fiscal reforms have lifted our banking system out of an intolerable rut. If he survives the allurements of a dan- gerous talent for phrase-making when he takes ug® his appointed task again he will remember that the White House is not a classroom, nor the people a huddle of schoolboys—they showed that they are not pretty clearly—he may not in- deed supplant our venerated Jeffersonian democ- racy with a modern, new-fangled Wilsonian democracy, but he will save his Yarty and his country from many pitfalls and perils in the years to come. A . i_ People and Events I —_— King Albert of the Belgians is said to be the only expert mechanic among the monarchs of Europe. / Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British forces in France and Flanders, is one of the best polo players in the army. $ Robert E. Spear, one of America’s most widely known religious workers, has just completed twenty-five years of service as secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. ‘celebrated English tragedian, [ Thought Nugget for the Day. Seek the company of those who stimulate you to continue in your chosen life work and give you added strength. Avoid as you would poison those who leave in you a sense of emptiness and debility. —Efnest von Feuchtersleben. One Year Ago Today in the War. ~8erbian troops began to cross into Montenegro. Rome reported furious Italian as- saults in Gorizia. British advanced along Tigris river to within eighteen miles of Bagdad. Germans occupied Novipazar, Ser- bia, and claimed capture of 80,000 prisoners'in the campaign. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. Andrew Peacock, emplgved in the Union Pacific shops, while ‘on his way to work, slipped and fell at the corner of Sixteenth and Douglas. He was picked up by Policeman Matza and removed' to his home, 2215 Harney. In the jail two large bottles are now kept constantly filled with two differ- ent medicines—one for delirium tre- mens and the other for fits. Frank Mittauer has accepted the challenge of T. F. Blackmore. The terms and time of the race have not yet been settled, but Blackmore's friends are confident he can down the bike champion of Nebraska, while Mittauer’s friends are equally confi- dent. The following pupils took part in a Thanksgiving entertainment given by Miss Ida K. Greenlee's seventh grade at Leavenworth school: Lula Horn- berger, Mabel Eaton, Luther Leisen- ring, Inez Alvison, Stella Harmon, Lida Loring, Louis Treitschke, Charlie Bullock, Julia Davis, Maggle O'Toole and Frank Templeton. The icemen are preparing for a rich harvest this year. Willlam F. Heins, ex-county treas- urer, has returned with his wife and family after a four-months' trip to Europe. The sad news has been receiv.d in this city of the accidental death of Herman Blickensderfer, the youngest son of Chief Engineer Blickensderfer of the Union Pacific. He was killed in Idaho by the accidental discharge of a gun. ! This Day in History, 1694—Voltaire, the greatest literary man of his time, born in Paris. Died there May 80, 1787, 1790-—Bryan Walter Proctor, who won fame as a poet and dramatist un- der the name of Barry Cornwall, born at Leeds, England. Dfed in London October 4, 1874. 1806—Napoleon 1. issued the Ber- lin decree, declaring the British Isles in a state of blockade. 1810-—George Frederick Cooke, a made his first American appearance in New York. 1840—Empress Frederick, daughter of Queen Victoria of England and mother of the present German Em- peror, born. Died at Cronberg August 5, 1901. 1891—Thomas Hill, former presi- dent of Harvard college, died at Walt- ham, Mass. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., January 7, 1818, 1893—The supreme court of the United States decided the Great Lakes to be high seas. 1899—Garret A. Hobart, vice presi- dent of the United States, died at Paterson, N. J. Born at Long Branch; N. J,, June 3, 1844. The Day We Celebrate. Mark Leon, with Leon the hatter, is today celebrating his twenty-ninth birthday, and promises to be ‘one of Omaha's coming business men, John R. Webster, general manager of the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, was born November 21, 1851, at Detroit. He is a lawyer by profession and has lived in Omaha since 1886. His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV, born at Pegli, near Genoa, sixty-two years ago today. Cardinal Mercier, Belgium's heroic prelate, born on the site of the battle of Waterloo sixty-five ygars ago today. anuel Estrada Cabrera, president of the Republic of Guatemala, born fifty-nine years ago today. Mary Johnston, popular novelist, born in Botecourt county, Virginia, forty-six ¢years ago today. 8ir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, popular English novelist, born- in Cornwall fifty-three years ago today. William H. Murray (“Alfalfa Bill"), representative in. congress of the Fourth Oklahoma district, born at Collinsville, Tex., forty-seven years ago today. Rev. Henry M. Couden, chaplain of the United States house of represent- atives, born in Marshall county, In- diana, seventy-fotr years ago today. Frank L. Kramer, world’s champion bicycle racer, born at Evansville, Ind., thirty-seven years ago today. Clark Griffith, manager of the ‘Washington American league base ball team, born at Nevada, Mo, forty- eight years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The federal farm loan board helds a hearing today at Amarillo, Tex. Quincy, Mass., holds its first elec- tion today under the non-partisan plan of city government. o The Farmers' Educational and Co- operative union, the largest and most influential body of farm in the country, begins its natioj conven- tion today at Palatka, Fla. A uniform code of state laws to govern the assessment life insurance business is to be considered at the an- nual convention of the National Asso- ciation of 'Mutual Life Underpwriters, which meets today at Chicago. All modern appliances used in hotels from kitchen to roof garden are to be shown at the big exposi- tion of the National Hotel Men's con- gress, opening today in the Grand Cen- tral Palace, New York City. Storyette of the Day. Macklin was once lecturing on lit- erature and the stage, and in discuss- ing the education of memory boasted that he could repeat any formula after hearing it. Sl Samuel Foote, the sardonic come- dian, who was one of Macklin's audi- tors, wrote out and sent to the plat- form the rigamarole that has ever since been famous: “So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple ple. At the same time a great she bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. “‘What! No soap? . “So he died, and she very impu- dently married the barber; and there were present the Pickaninnies, the Jobililies and the Gayrulles, and the Grand Parjandrum himself, with the little round button at the tip; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of the heels of their boots.” Mackliy failed, and so does every- that tries orally to repeat the confusing arrangement of words.— Detroit Free Press. LeSer, Reducing the Living Cost. Walnut, la.,, Nov. 20.—To the Edi- tor of The Beg: Omaha is to be com- mended upon the fact that it has a reducer for the high cost of living in the person of A. B. Mickle. If I were a resident of Omaha 1 would recom- mend him to Douglas county as an excellent candidate for overseer of the county farm. Just think of all the money he could save the county. Af- ter a short time the county would have no expense at all, except a few undertakers’ bills. Read conversation between Mr. Bumble and Mr. Sower- berry in chapter four of Oliver Twist by Dickens. Why couldn’t Mr. Mickle make the cheese last even 4onger? He could cut up the pound in seven parts and then, divide each seventh part into seven parts again, making forty-nine pieces of cheese. Then eat one piece per night himself, consequently mak- ing a pound last seven weeks instead of one. Substitute fresh water for cheese for the rest of the family, and save on the cheese bill As for the weevils, they are good for chickens, so why not for human be- ings? Therefore a saving is made by buying weevil oatmeal, a combina- tion of meat and cereal. C. C. SCHACK. Why the Scarcity of Mechanical Labor Omaha, Nov. 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: I read a statement from Grant Papsons in reference to the building laborers, in which he would like to know what has become of the experienced laborers that were in town previous to the strike of last spring. I would say for his enlightenment a good many of the experienced labor-| ers are working for building contrac- tors here and elsewherg and are paid the union scale of wages. Take Chi- cago, for instance, a bona fide build- ing laborer receives from 42% cents| per hour to 70 cents per hour, and here in our great and properous city of Omaha the building and street con- tractors pay from 20 to 40 cents per hour. Any man with an ounce of, sense knows he can’t get experienced labor- ers for 20 or 25 cents per hour. Have you ever heard or read of a city the size of Omaha furnishing prisoners to a contractor to do street work which the property owners are paying for. The unfortunate prisoner receives i0 cents per hour and the city 15 cents per hour. Fine doings for the rich contractor who has accumulated his “pile” at the expense of the bona fide laborer and mechanic. Think it over, Mr. Parsons, and you can readily discern the cause of the scarcity of mechanical laborers, and in their stead you have here a bunch of “strike breakers” and spineless hu- man derelicts. STRAIGHTWIRE. Disfranchisement in the South. Omaha, Noy. 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 cannot doubt that all in- telligent readers of your excellent paper have been equally interested with myself in noting the editorial re- marks in reference to the effect of the “solid south’s" -vote in the last presi- deptial election. In spite of oft- repeated | demonstrations of the fact that this government is the merest travesty on genuine democracy, we shall probably have a continuation of this condition for years to come. There are lots of-us left yet who re- tain a vivid recollection of the time something more than a half century ago, when the question, “What shall we do with the negro?” became the most hackneyed phrase that appeared in print, with the gouible éxception of: “All quiet on the Potomac.” In spite of the predetermination and promise 'of Mr. Lincoln to have noth- ing to do with slavery—frankly and fully disavowing any constitutional right or personal inclination to inter- fere with it—he, at the very outset of his administration, inevitably ran afoul of the unsolvable problem of avoiding a mixup with the south’s “peculiar institution.” At last he was almost driven to the issuance,of the emancipation proclamation, and later, but with apparently hardly less reluc- tance, endorsed the movement for or- ganizing, arming and mobilizing the freed men. Still later came the con- stitutional amendments, eventuating in the elective franchise. But the con- federate brigadiers have made good their threat that the ballot in the boomerang to hie friends, at least s0 far as the south is concerned. It is well remembered that when | it was first decided to enlist calored { men as soldiers in the national army | during the eivil war. a number of prominent confederates declared their satisfaction in view of it, for, as they said, ,this would afford them= an easy sourge for replenishing their supplies of arms and ammunition. | But authentic history affords ample warrant for the assertion that they have met with much better luck in dealing with the black man in respect to his ballot than with his gun. Let us at least indulge the hope thal something may be done, and soon that ghall put an end to the miserable burlesque on fair and honest govern- ment such as has always obtained here. CYRUS D. BELL. dran | Warming up Mickle, Council Bluffs, Ia., Nov. 20.—To the Editor. of The Bee: In his letter A. B. Mickle (more suitably named A. Big Miser) shows how low so-called man can sink beneath the standard of true manhood, by boasting of “lay- ing up money"” on $60 a month wages, by denying his “slave” he calls “wife' not only the privilege of handling at least her half of the money, but of eveni being allowed to buy or choose the food she is compelled to cook for the family. He is “boss” he says, and after winning her through pretended “love” now proves himself beneath the low of wild beasts of the forest, who without vowing before God and man to “love, honor, protect and provide for’”’ their mates, do all in their power, even at the cost of life, to provide for their comfort and protection, while he denies them not only comforts but re- fuses to furnish meat, sugar, potatoes, butter or eggs, or anything else his shriveled nature deems unnecessary in order to ‘“exist” and considers it a manly and wise deal to buy oatmeal full of weevils at 1 cent a pound, in- stead of good oat meal at 5 cents, | comforting himself with the thought that cooking kills the weevils or worms, boasting of thus managing to feed (or starve) a family of seven on $1.96 a week at present high prices. She whom God says to “give homor unto as unto the weaker vessel” and “love as his own body” is fit to bear his children (and on such rations) as well as train and care for them and consume her strength and very life in faithfully filling a wife's place (all unappreciated) and make a home for him and her and board him, but un- worthy of choosing or buying even staple, palatable 'eatables, handling any part of the $60 a month she does more to earn than he. True men of this “land of the free and the home of the brave” are dis- graced by such creatures bearing the same name. There are multitudes in this great country where all uho!rld have equal rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’), who love and provide for her they chose as an equal, and such heathenism as A. B. Mickle manifests, has its proper place on some cannibal island, not.among an enlightened, civilized people, or amid those in whose breasts manly hearts beat. From one ‘“opposed to cruelty to animals.” M. W.—A READER. High Cost Through Over-Eating. Omaha, Nov. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: I saw an article in The Bee, “High Cost of Living,” by Dr. Robin- son. Regarding the cost of living at 650 cents a day, will say I have had a little experience myself and will give you my expenses for a day. For my Sunday morning breakfast I take one teacupful of pancake flour { which makes-four pancgkes about the size of a saucer. That costs 4 cents, | including gas and butter. Three slices eggs at 6 2-3 cents makes 16 2-3 of bacon at 2 cents a slice and two cents. No coffee, no sugar, nothing but hot water. How's that for high cost of living? Will say that when we marched to the sea with Sherman and arfived at Savannah we had nothing to eat. My company camped on a rice plantation and my squad gave an old negro $5 to sh€ll enough rice to do until we got rations from Uncle Sam. We lived on boiled rice for twelve days and we did not lose any fiesh. 75-YEAR-OLD CIVIL WAR VETERAN. 3 [ SUNNY GEMS. last night, my dear. | Wite (cooly)—Belated minus the Judge. ble Simmons—Blowpop thinks his boy is the smartest in the world. Kimmons—Well, why shouldn’t he? . His boy seems to be of the same opinton— i Judge. hand of the negro should prove a s — . ) There is a Real Difference Cream of tartar, derived from grapes, is used in Royal Baking Powder because it is the best and most healthful ingredient known for the purpose, Phosphate and alum, which are de- rived from mineral sources, are used in some baking powders, instead of cream of tartar, because they are cheaper. If you have been induced to use baking powders made from alum or phosphate, \ use Royal Baking' Powder instead. You will be pleased with the results and the difference in the quality of the food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 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