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The Omaha Bee I * . i ... .. .... * M O R N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. PubIHher • N. B. UPDIKE President : BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Mensger f “ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, k is exclusively entitled to the use for republicxtion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our apecial dispatches arc also reserved. The Omahs Bee ia a member of the Audit Bureau af j Circulations, the recognised authority on cireulatiou audits, and The Omaha Bea’a circulation ia regularly audited br their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for *T Isntic 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. AI MBUC 1WU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—53 Dovenshire St., Room 8 Seattle—A. L. Niels, 514 Lary Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Franeiseo—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Ave._ MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY * 1 year *5.00. 6 months »3.00, 8 months <1.75, 1 month 75c J DAILY ONLY 1 year *4.60, 5 months *2.75, 3 months *1.50, 1 month 76c T SUNDAY ONLY ; t year *3.00. « months *1.75, 8 months *1.00, 1 month 60c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal sone, or 600 miles from Omaha! Daily and Sunday, *1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month: Sunday only, 60e per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c. 1 week 20e Evening and Sunday.. month 65c. 1 week 16e i Sunday 6nly .. month 20c. 1 week 5c j s> V___—— ill - ■I; r Omalid Vha& the'Mjst is at its Best ■ I? ___ t i “WORLD MARKET” AND THE FARMER. Since this time two years ago, when the Fordney * McCumber tariff law succeeded the Underwood free »trade measure, we have heard an unending chorus l from the opposition of misrepresentation, impudent beyond belief in some regards. At the New York £ convention every speaker dilated upon the iniquities Jof the protective tariff. Candidates Davis and Bryan botl} inveigh against it, and Notifiers Walsh and Har uris&ti have harped on the same string, t Listening to the songs of the serenaders, the voter may get the impression that the farmer is not ! only hanged, draw* and quartered by the tariff, but •that he is also bliiered and boiled. We have tried - on several occasions to make plain that the princi pal effect of the tariff so far as the farmer is con • cerned, is to preserve for him the home market. ♦He sells in America, where the workingmen and 'their families eat white bread three times a day, and meat as often as they like it. Where they use but , ter and milk and cheese and eggs. Mr. Davis and his coadjutors promise to let the farmer into the European market, where the workingman seldom if ■ ever sees white bread, to say nothing of eating it; • where meat is a legend, and butter masquerades in the form of oleomargarine, if at all. • • • That is what the “world market” means. Open the gates of America, throw down the bars of pro tection, and let the wares of Europe come in unre stricted, and see what will happen. The first answer ' to this is that the farmer will be able to buy what ‘he heeds in a “competitive market,” that is a market without any protective tariff mixed in. Very well. What does the farmer buy most of? Farming implements, you say. Such things as plows, har rows, reapers, binders, threshers, wagons, and the •'like. Also, he buys harness, and shoes and other things made of leather. Two years ago Charles W. Bryan, then a candidate for governor, pointed out to a group of farmers that under the Fordney-Mc * Cumber bill they would pay an average of $1.50 * per raif more for their shoes, because of the tariff. A3 a matter of fact, boots and shoes are on the free list. So also are leather, harness and saddlery, ( and pads for horses. Other things the farmer has * to buy most of are also on the free list: "Plows, tooth and disc harrows, headers, har vesters, reapers, agricultural drills and planters. t mowers, horse rakes, c ultivators, threshing ma * chines, cotton gins; machinery for the manufacture I of sugar; wagons and carts; cream separators valued at not more than $50 each wholesale, and all other agricultural Implements are free of duty. "All animals imported for breeding purposes are « on the free list. "Fertilizers are free of duty. Including guano, manures, bones used for fertilizers; potash used for fertilizers, nitrate of potash, sodium nitrate used \ for fertilizers are free of duty. •'Gasoline, benzine, kerosene, and crude, fuel or refined petroleum, are on the free list.” * * * Building material used largely by farmers, is on . the free list to the extent of: Lumber, including * that planed, tongued and grooved; clapboards, lath, shingles, logs, timber, poles, cement, limestone rock, * asphaltum, bitumen and tar, barbed wire and fence * posts. How can a reduction in tariff help the farmer ' much, when most of what he buys is on the free J list? And it is well to pause here—all of what he sells is protected. His wheat, corn, oats, flaxseed, potatoes, apples, nuts, grapes, butter, milk, cheese, | cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, everything he sends to ■ J market is protected. It is time the farmers were getting their eyes ‘ open to the nature of the propaganda that is being J shunted onto them in such copious streams. There I are those who make a profit from free trade in America, but they nearly all live in Europe. Only > a few of them are found in this country. Just why * i.he democrats are so solicitous for the well being of Jthat few is not made clear. It should be clear, though, to all, that if American farmers and manu facturers are to compete with Europeans, the cost level must come down to that prevailing abroad. * This means reduction in raw material Bnd labor. If 2 wages are cut, the American workmen and their > families will no longer live as they do, because even with the lowered prices they will not be able to buy j what the farmer has to sell. That is the triumph at which the democratic liopostles of free trade arc aiming, and which will £ ( ome to pass if John W. Davis or Charles W. Bryan * ever gets a chance to carry out the pledges of their ' platform Hnd the promises they made in their ad 1 dresses of acceptance. Grover Cleveland said: “It , is a condition and not a theory that confronts us.” Will the farmers fall for the free trade bunk, or will they ride along with the policy that secures them the home market, the richest In the world? WAS HER LIFE ALL IN VAIN? Lucy Page Gaston Is dead. She has one claim to memory, that of her unremitting opposition to tha use of tobacco. Particularly did she make war on cigarets. Yet she was forced to admit that her efforts were of no avHlI, the consumption of cigarets mounted by billions. From the dainty smokers who eschewed pipe or cigar, the paper “pill” slowly spread its seductive influence until now it is all-en velopng. Milady in her secluded boudoir, the doc tor in his ascetic study, the mechanic on the job, the mucker in the ditch, all smoke cigarets. Its conquest seems complete. Yet, although defeated in her main attempt, we doubt if Lucy Page Gaston lived in vain. She might have been deemed a pestiferous nuisance by some, a meddling busybody by others, but she had her views and the courage to try to impress them on others. Her crusade meant something to her. De rided and scroffed at, scorned and insulted, she w’cnt her way serenely conscious of the approval of her own conscience. She made war on what she thought was an evil, and the bravest warrior, the most ex alted hero never did more than that. Lucy Page Gaston might have been happier and even more useful, had her energies been directed in another way. She fulfilled her destiny, though, and in a large sense that is the measure of human life after all. Her failure to help others is more due to the methods she pursued than to any lack of interest or effort on her part. She is not the first who failed to move the world because her lever was too short, or her fulcrum not well placed. OMAHA’S HONORED GUESTS. Omaha is particularly pleased to play hostess to the newspaper folk of Nebraska and Iowa. Omaha receives many welcome and distinguished guests dur ing the course of a year. None are more honored or more welcome .than the members of the Nebraska Press Association and their fraters from western Iowa. The middlew'est owes a great debt to the editors of the weekly newspapers. They are the optimists that are ever singing the good songs of hope and cheer. They are the faithful chroniclers of com munity activities, promoting the good things and minimizing the frailties of their people. They have carried the gonfalons for the parade of progress; they have pointed the way and made it plain; they have warned against strange paths, and they have never faltered in their faith. Omaha owes more than it can ever repay to the country press of the two states. It has been the recipient of their continued boosting and the proud beneficiary of their continued friendship. When ever occasion offers Omaha delights to show its ap preciation of its stalwart editorial friends by enter taining them, knowing full well that no entertain ment, lavish as it may be, will be a sufficient return for favovp received. The Omaha Bee, too, gracefully acknowledges the many evidences of friendsip showered upon it by the newspaper folk of the two states. It is proud of that friendship and anxious to merit its continuance. It hopes that the brethren and sisters will enjoy themselves to the limit while Omaha’s guests. And it assures them, singly and collectively, that Omaha belongs to them quite as much as it belongs to Oraa hans. Omaha’s interests are the interests of the middlewest, just as the interests of the middlewest are the interests of Omaha. Neither may prosper at the expense of the other; neither may ever pros per without benefiting the other. The present summer session is the playtime of the profession of the two states. Business cares are thrown to the wind for a couple of days, and good fellowship and jollity reign supreme. And here’s hoping that the summer session of 1924 breaks all records for pure enjoyment. AN UPRISING THAT FOOZLED. The 19th of August, ’24, may become as famous as the 18th of April, ’75, but the proba bilities are against it. It was on that auspicious date that a mass convention was held at Grand Is land. The occasion was for the naming of Robert Marion La Follette as a candidate for president, and the election of electors to represent his cause in Nebraska. Nebraska is one of the states La Follette is going to carry, according to the plans of the La Follette boomers. Therefore, says Hon. Mike Harrington, it is necessary to have electors. Not only electors, but good electors. The very best that may be had. For one elector may be worth $100,000. Mike is looking pretty well ahead. He is old enough to remember the Oregon case in 1870, with “Seven Mule” Barnum. Therefore, he has an idea of the possible value of electors. Anyhow, the 19th of August was the day. It was to witness the big rally of the masses to the gonfalon. When the hour came Frank Harrison the gonfalon waver, said, “The meeting will please be in order.” The meeting was in order, and a count of noses ■ de. The masses had risen to the number The law specifies 500. Accordingly, the count was 390 short of a quorum. Mr. Tfarrison is both patient and astute. “We will adjourn until evening,” he said. “You can not expect a farmer to abandon his farm, nor a railroad man to give up his job in the round house or the switchyard, just to look after a lit tle matter of political reforming, like electing a president. Not when the same can bo done by lamplight just as well as by daylight.” So the convention adjourned, and when evening came, and the gonfalon was again waved, behold, 350 noses were counted. These added to the 210 tallied in the ’afternoon provided 5C0, or 00 more than necessary. So, the uprising was com plete, and the "mass” convention did its work. Mike Harrington's advice brought out an elec toral ticket headed by J. L. Beebe of Omaha. W. J. Taylor of Merna was again thrown over the transom. Taylor is naturally upset. In his fight against Mr. Harrison from California— and having in mind his flight through the transom, he has adopted a slogan that reverses that of the Salva tion army. He says: “A man may be out but he is never down.” r — ----S Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie ___/ PROGRESSION. After all. though our beat dreams fall. And our hopes In the ehadowa fade— There's much to he gathered along the* trail. And our effort* nrr well repaid. There’s much that I* given for little of naught A« we struggle from day to day. And Its worth to our ni'nd* would be rienrly brought Ware It suddenly taken away. 'Tla the longing tense for the things denied That tirlnga us to mourn our lot, And we full to mark with an owner’* pride The numerous gift* we've got. Hut the richer we are the poorer we arein, And our wants increase a* wo rise: Our dream comes true, mil another dream To the height of expectancy flies. _ ■ - ■ ■ ■ '■ ■ I I ■■ 1 ■ " \ ■■ The President Is Spending a “Quiet and Restful” Vacation on His Father’s Farm in Vermont. * _ — . j — ■ ■ . " “ TO 1 *%2?t** '- ■ Letters From Our Readers All letter* must b# *l*n«d. but name will be withheld upon request. Comm uni < atiot'* of 200 word* and lee* will be irleen preferenr*. L_-___/ i Bo Away With Bootleggers. Scottsbluff, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I happen to be one of the "good" folks referred'to by Mr. John Langley In your paper under date of August ll.andldo most sin cerely believe in prohibition. It Is effective and all true Americana try to make it more so. as it Is the Con stitution of the United States, and It is them to stay. It is Just auafe good (?) citizens as Mr. I.angley who are friends of the bootleggers, that aid such lawbreakers and delay the cause. If men who are so sure of those things you mention would l>e real men and report such criminals to our officers you would hasten the glad day when the breaking "f our laws in that one thing would he a thing of the past. But It is a sad fact that many if our citizens are making, selling and buying the booze. But, Mr. Langley, it is our business when one of our neighbors kills an other and hreuks one county’s laws, and it Is just as much our business when that same neighbor breaks on# of our most sacred laws nnd makes or sells any brand of poison anil calls it liquor. In direct defiance of the ISth amendment. You declare If you crave boose you should he permitted to have It. Then, If you desire to commit a murder, as those young men of Chicago did, you should, ac cording to your belief, be permitted to do so. No, no. One lnw should he kept as carefully ns another We are not merely bumping our heads against a stone wall, but ars stand ing firmly by the good old United States Constitution. Including the 18th amendment, and It will stand by u«, as long as the Stars and Stripes float Ther never wus n family or a brass band that could git along among 'emsclves. Mrs. Lib Moots, who is bedfast], heard Candidate Newt Plum's radio speech attackin' th' democrats last night. (Copyright. 1»?4 > NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for 3uly, 1924. of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.. . 74,010 Sunday.74,792 Dm* not Incit'd* returns, left over*. temples or pupa is spoiled In printing aod Includes no special sales or frae circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. I .Subscribed and sworn lo before me this Sth day of August, IM24 W II QUVVEY, (Seal) Notai^ Public I I I over us. and God's stain shine above us. Your descendants and mine will rise up and call us blessed In glad ness for the 18th amendment long after you and I and the bootlegger and boozer are gone and forgotten. MRS. W. T. C. Stands l'p for Juiesburg. Juiesburg. Colo.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The article by Mr. Maupln Is correct about this country, but we are oliged to take Issue with him on the matter of leaving the In-, ferenee that this town gets Its princi-] pal business In the way of wheat re ceipts from Nebraska territory. The fact of the business is that we are near the Nebraska border line, but less than 10 per cent of the wheat re ceipts at this station comes from Ne braska, and the balance from terri tory Immediately south of Juiesburg, In Sedgwick county, Colorado. The article la a boost, of course, and It Is appreciated on behalf of this western country, but why leave the Inference that Colorado town would have no receipts of wheat were It not for the business derived from Nebraska territory? Sedgwick county, Colorado, of which Juiesburg Is the county seat, will market about 1.500.000 bushels of wheat this year. The eugar beet harvest will net the farmers of Sedg wick county, Colorado, right around 11.000.000, while oats, harley. spelts, etc., will make up for a very large re turn to the farmers. Very truly vours, Jt'LESBI'RO MILLING COMPANY, By J. C. Wagner. Hut the Star Is Thinking of Gillette, Who Is a Republican. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The Lincoln Star la throwing a fit becauae the eafety razor people are doing a prosperous business. The Star claim* they are unduly protected end would tike to pare down the tariff and open the gates to cheap foreign razor*. Thl* In face of the fact that the leading aafety razor concern# manufactures a razor that may be bought anywhere for 49 rente CRASH Another family deprived of an income for a more or lets indefinite period! For $15.00 a year we’ll pay you $100.00 a month as long as you are totally disabled! Come to KOCH "I'axs the Claim h irst" and their soap at 10 cent* It 1* true they have higher priced goods, but the difference l* one of a little more gold plating and a fancier case: the blades are identically the same In all and, as the blade does the shaving, the poor man may enjoy his shave as well as the rich man. Time was, and not so very long ago, when every razor in use In this coun try was made In Europe and they were not cheap because the United States could not compete with the foreign goods, and they therefore held up their price, as they had nothing to fear from us. Today, under a wise protective policy, the United Slates makes the best ramr and the lest razor blades I SUNNY SIDE UP cJaJce Comfort, nor focoet Many things are past all human understanding, and among them are various ways of our municipally owned utilities K'rlnstance, we can drop into the bank where we add to ths expense for red ink and pay out- telephone and electric light bills, but when we want to pay our gas bill we have to chass over to Howard street to pay It. Just why the gaa bill may . not be paid In the same manner as the telephone and light bills are paid has never been satisfactorily explained to us. And while the Iowa editors axe singing their "Tall Corn” song, the Nebraska editor* will be telling about where It really grows. With spring chickens by the million ready for the frying pan. with millions of acres of corn just in the roasting ear stage, with homegrown watermelons and canteloupes galore, with orchards yielding the most succulent of pleflller, with strawberries growing right next to the Icehouse where the creagi from Holsteins and Jerseys sits around in crocks and waits, with tomatoes glowing red on the vines, with bean vines prolific and new cabbage galore—say, what preacher could in terest you in a talk about heaven while this state of afTalr* prevails In good old Nebraska? One of the most Interesting things we get with our new radio set i* the opportunity to "tune out” bedtime stories and political speeches. The Lincoln Journal say* La Follette has never been pic tured wielding an ax or a rake, or a shovel, or wearing over alls. Certainly not. Bob works with pneumatic tools. Hi* air propelled hammer is a wonder. The radio announcers at the Bryan notification were In formed that "ten million radio fans were listening In..” If this was true, then ten million radio fans will he interested in learning that a very large share of the hand-clapping they heard was performed hy mechanical appliances made to simu late and stimulate applause. 4 As an auxiliary to the Nebraska Writers' Guild sponsored by President Marie Weekes of the Nebraska Pres* Association, we suggested a Writers’ Gulled. W* know of several who are e’lgible to membership by reason of having relied upon political * j promisee. The 17year-old hoy who committed suicide because he couldn't dress up In fine clothes and take a l«year-old girl to a party, la lucky. He might have lived long enough to marry and really have to work for a living. We have heen mingling with farmers to a considerable extent of late, and It is our careful judgment after considerable inquiry that the farmer Isn’t looking for somebody to help him. What he wants Is to have a lot of people get off'n his back and give him a chance to do something for himself. There is one thing political equality has not accomplished It has not enabled the average woman to receipt for a telegram \ without trembling so badly her signature is undecipherable I Make this the year of the big vote. The voter who fall* 1 to vote Is the one responsible for mlsgovemment. ■ WILL M. MAUPIN. ,____-_ 1 Vi— -■■ ■■■" in the world, without making any ad vance in price to the consumer. Suppose the razor people are mak ing money, what of it? That is what thev are in the business for. The Star might as well howl be cause the Chicago papers have a larger circulation than the Star has. We have blundered along for 15v years on high, medium and low tar iffs. and have seen good and hard times under each of them, hut the fact stands glaringly out that the country is more prosperous under a hith tariff than it ever was under a low one. If the Star don't believe this, how would it be if all the people of Lin coln did their shopping, marketing and buying In Omaha? Yet the democrats ask the United - State* to buy ln Europe, Just as though prices would not be raleed on us as soon aa our own factories closed down. L, A. ELLIS, J01 North Twenty-fourth Street. • - Well Know by November S. It remain# to be seen how many votes uan be attracted In a presiden tial campaign by an American hymn of hate.—Chicago New#. When in Omaha d Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Bathe—Rate# $2 to S3 “Keep on Building” Two buildings are now com pleted, two are under con struction and plans for sev eral more are now being made in the big $3,500,000 building program being car ried on by our company The payroll for construc tion work alone on these buildings is $1,200 a day, or $31,000 a month. Regardless of the money market or business condi tions our company must continue its building. We must not only meet present needs but must plan for future hoped-for develop ment and progress of the community. We must keep continual pace ahead of the city's growth. Our building program is an indication that Omaha is growing steadily! ‘'Omaha Is a Great Place in Which to Live/ Nebraska □ Power 8. » mmmm • mmmmmmmm •mmmmm mmmmmm •mmmmmmm