THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917.
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In the meantime, the, weatherman is doing
tolerably well, thank you.
Gently but firmly Mexico is reminded to defer
the prodigal son act until the invitation arrives.
Any port in a storm. The Teutonic ship of
state lightens cargo as a measure of temporary
safety.
Our soldier boys have now reversed the Henry
Ford slogan, and are singing "into the trenches
by Christmas."
In urging peace without indemnity or terri
tory the forward-looking German politician fore
sees the inevitable.
Chairman VVillard reports the 693 railroad sys
tems of the United States completely mobilized.
The work is waiting for them, too. ' - ,
I. W. W. agitators might with profit read of
the proceedings at Rockford, where Judge Land is
sentenced 112 of them to jail in a batch. "'
The kid "emperor" of China will not be lone
some in exile. The old world has a flock of his
kind. More are tagged for the same destination.
A sergeant from the Somme is now at the
Fort Omaha balloon school as an instructor.
Wager he does not complain the air is unsuitable.
Residents of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
will breathe normally, no doubt, and take custo
mary nourishment Herr Zimmermann looks like
a goner, ,
The Russian drive gains steam as it presses
onward, , Lemberg looms just ahead. Beyond
lies Vienna in the thickening shadows of the
Slav peril.
It is quite evident that, southern senators are
willing to regulate the products of the north so
long as cotton remains free from official restraint.
Could loyalty do more?
Poor Herr Zimmermann. He, too, is slated
to go ere his work Is doner The world of diplo
matic gayety is bound to slump when Herr Zim
mermann walks (he plank.
Army authorities complain that they are hav
ing more trouble in finding cooks than iu getting
generals. Which might give rise to debate' as to
the relative value of the two functionaries.
The University of Nebraska is too important
to have its usefulness in any way impaired by dis.
loyalty among its professors. Here may be a
job for the chancellor and the Board of Regents.
If a contractor can afford to' pay $7000 for
the privilege of removing only a portion of the
city's refuse, should not that be a strong argu-'
ment in favor of the city doing the whole job'
itself? V
If Governor Howard succeeds in solving the
open muffler question for Lincoln he is invited
to come to Omaha, where he will be provided with
ample opportunity to exercise his pew-found
power.
Now ' comes' the "Fighting Fourth" Nebraska,
asking that its ranks be filled., This regiment has
been in service for a long time and deserves a
little attention from the boys who want to get
to the front. V
Due notice should be taken of the fact that
soaring corn prices are not due to export demand,
but to a rush by distillers to get ahead of a pos
sible "bone ( dry" food regulation bill. Unex
pected results 'flow from well-meant efforts now
and then, and this is one of them. Farmers' with
corn to sell will not worry if the senate keeps
up the debate' indefinitely. ' ;
Some of the Compensation
-Minneapolis Journal
Josh Billings' once said, "It is the height of
wisdom to get comfort out of calamity."
War is a calamity. t Yet war lias its compen
sations as we'll. And'.wfie'n' war is forced upon
us it is the height of wisdom to look about for
compensation aud to count up the possible ad
vantages to be gained. ,. . ..
The economic value of temperance has been
demonstrated to the world in the present conflict
as never before. The waste of time, labor, money,
foodstuffs and manhood resulting from the use
of strong drink has led most of the nations at
war to face this problem squarely and resolve
that this waste must be stopped. In the case
of Canada, Australia, Britain, France and Russia
the advantages to the nation from the practice of
temperance are already so obvious that it is hardly
possible for the old condition to obtain after the
war.
Then the necessary practice of economics is
bringing health and happiness to a multitude of
homes and is helping in a measure to solveythe
difficult problem of the high cost of living.
The possibilities of the productiveness of the
soil are being demonstrated and hundreds of fami
lies are already producing in their own gardens
necessaries of life for which they were formerly
dependent on the market and this self-reliance is
cxienaea 10 nations as wen.
Nation s are learning to produce at Home a
multitude of necessaries for which they formerly
went abroad and this is furnishtnir employment
to many classes of laborers and is helping in a
large measure to solve the difficult labor problem
Then, too, this war has stimulated the growth
of democracy. 1 hose who do the fighting de
mand a voice in solving their own problems and
in making the conditions under which they must
fight. The people and not those claiming to rule
by divine right are hereafter to govern this
world.
Nebraska's Unpatriotic Element.
Much food for serious reflection is afforded
by the pointed statement from the Nebraska
State Council of Defense in regard to affairs
within the state. It has been patent for many
months that a decided opposition to the war ex
isted in Nebraska, though it may not be greatly
different in other states. A year ago this was
made manifest in many ways; it was not then a
matter of national contern. Now that the coun
try has entered the war, whatever remains of
pro-German activity has become anti-American.
This is a condition that cannot be changed by
any amount of sophistry. ,
The United States is at war and lias requisi
tioned the services of all its citizens; whomsoever
is not prepared to respond without' reservation
is to that extent lacking in patriotism and is not
a good citizen. None is asked to choose between
other countries except as they are friends or ene
mies of the United States. The time has come
to end shamming, to fairly meet the fire in the
rear, whether it come from a professor in the uni
versity, a preacher in his pulpit, a citizen who
threatens his banker or his merchant, or the
idler who thoughtlessly gossips his unimpor
tant chatter. Six thousand Nebraska boys are al
ready enlisted in the army of the United States
and other thousands are to be drafted into the
service and they must not march away to war
knowing that enemies of the government are at
home enjoying all they are fighting for and mak
ing their efforts the harder by a cowardly cam
paign to undermine the strength of the United
States.
Russian Drive and Its Effect.
Expert analysts of the war's progress are dis
concerted to some extent by the energy with
which the Russjan army has renewed its activity.
Many of these had considered as only remotely
probable the vigorous participation of the new
republic's soldiers in' the summer campaign, That
the Germans had so looked on the situation is
evidenced by the withdrawal of their forces from
the eastern front. The determined advance of
the Russians in the direction of Lemberg must
now engage the attention of the Central Powers.
If the defense is left to Austria troops must he
withdrawn from the Italian or Rumanian fronts,
each.actively threatened by our allies.
The ferocity of the German attacks on the
Champagne and the drive against the British left
wing along the Yser suggest a definite purpose
there to cover some greater strategy, which must
be developed later, Two reasons for this are in
full view; a land victory is imperatively demanded
to meet the political situation developed at Ber
lin, while, as pointed out by The Bee some weeks
ago, the moves of the British against the German
right in Belgium threaten the U-boat campaign
by exposing Ostend and Zeebrugge to land at
tack. . r ; . v
If the Russians are able to maintain their re
newed offensive at its present pitch their return
to the battle line will greatly embarrass any plan
of the Central Powers on the other fronts. That
this has been foreseen by the German high com
mand and taken into consideration may be ac
cepted as a fact. The outlook just now is that
plenty of the war will be left when the big Ameri
can army gets on the scene some time in 1918.
Food Control and th.e Public.
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the food admin
istration board that has only moral power to sup
port its mandates, has written a very interesting
letter to the president, pointing, out what should
be done to protect the public in the matter of
food. His summing up of the situation is accu
rate and his proposals are extremely practical.
Mr. Hoover realizes the producer must be given
full reward for his energetic efforts to meet a
great emergency and that the,qonsumer must, be
entirely saved from the rapacity of greedy specu
lators. How to accomplish this is not so easy,
but Mr. Hoover's general plan holds promise of
some result if it be reasonably enforced.
The letter to the president, however, deals
with only one phase of the- problem. Next to
production the most vital factor in the work of
feeding the nation is the question of distribution.
The National City Bank of New York has gath
ered some interesting information on this point
disclosing a state of facts that reflects no credit
to our national system of management. From one
Florida correspondent the bank quotes tot the
effect that less than 20 per cent of the available
food raised in the gardens there reached the con
sumer. From Texas it has the word that vege
tables in the Lone Star state were worth more
as fertilizer than on the market. While prices
in the north were sky-high these southern grow
ers could not get their products shipped. In Texas
market towns the growers saw long trains loaded
with green stuff grown in California go rumbling
through, while they were unable to obtain cars,
Daniel Willard of the Council of National De
fense advises people to buy in their nearest mar
ket.and thus help the railroads, but bow does he
propose to meet the situation that confronts the
Texas growers?
' The food problem of the United States may
be made less acute, but it will not be solved by
a single act of legislation. The evil is too deeply
rooted and bad practices, entrenched as firmly as
the opposing armies of Europe, may be elimi
nated only after a long campaign of education
and control, rigidly and effectively applied along
lines that converge, at the point sought. Con
gress is looked to now for help and congress must
keep In mind what the difficulties are that must
be met. '
Time continues mocking war prophets and
prophecies. General Kitchener's " prediction of
three years of war nrars its limit without visible
sign of the finish. Albert Ballin, Germany's ship
ping magnate, last March predicted the end by
June 30, but the basis of the calculation failed to
support the conclusion. A host of less distin
guished prophets have also fallen discredited.
When inclined to prophesy, don't!"
A Navy for the Air
A Tested Weapon
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, July 9. The people of the United
States, through their representatives in congress,
are asked to appropriate the neat sum of $639,
000,000 for the building of a fighting force of air
planes. Upon what evidence do the supporters
of this program base their request for this huge
sum? Here is some of the more striking evidence
of the efficiency of the airplane and let it be
stated at once that every dollar invested in an
air fleet will be money well spent, even if the
projected sum is doubled.
Without airplanes au army cannot see. Air
domination means artillery domination and artil
lery domination means land victory. This is a
proven principle of modern war and it is being
proven over again every day on the western
front. Without a certain amount of supremacy
in the air the allies could not push the German
line back. Given complete supremacy in the air,
they can break that line. We can give them com
plete supremacy if we strain our industrial re
sources to the utmost. '
he airplane in its seagoing form, the flying
boat or hydroplane, is the best of all methods to
tight the submarine. I he aviator can see the
submarine from thirty to 100 feet under water.
He can see the wake of a periscope with ease
where a Ship can only see it with difficulty. He
can swoop on the submarine in a few seconds.
He can sink it with bombs or if he has one of
the big new airplanes he can sink it with one
single shot from his three-inch nonreeoil gun. All
these things have been done. From the very be
ginning of the war submarines have been sunk
from airplanes and dirigibles. There are a score
of recorded instances and how many subs the
British have destroyed this way only the admir
alty knows. Only a few days ago a submarine
rose and cleared its deck guns to sink an Italian
freighter in the Mediterranean. A convoying
hydroplane dropped 1,500 feet and began to drop
bombs. The U-boat submerged without cere
mony and may have been sunk. The freighter
was unharmed. This sort of thing is of frequent
occurrence. .
Within the flying radius of the seaplanes they
make the most effective convoys. We can extend
that radius across the ocean by building bigger
and better seaplanes and by establishing ocean
bases or mother ships. The biggest and best
flying boats in use today, the one that England
is using in this work, are "built in America.
Airplanes can sink battleships single-handed by
the use of torpedoes. The form of airplane used
for this purpose, the torpedo-plane, with its ac
companying device for launching a forpedo, is
the invention of an American, Admiral Fiske.
No battleship has yet been sunk by an airplane,
but a German plane, using the Fiske torpedo,'
launching device, has torpedoed and sunk a i.sW
ton British ship, the Gena.
Airplanes can inflict and have inflicted severe
military damage on fortified towns, munition
bases and submarine bases. Air raids by the
English on the German bases of Ostende and
Zeebrugge have inflicted such damage, as was
admitted by the Germans.
Airplanes have repeatedly attacked and routed
strong bodies of infantry. . In the recent British
.advance in France airplanes flew low over the
German lines and raked them With machine 3un
fire. Aviators attacked troop trains and fired
through the windows. In the Egyptian campaign
occurred one of the most striking instances of
this. Four allied machines discovered a Turk
ish force of 3,000 infantry and 1,800 cavalry exe
cuting a flank movement on the British forces.
The four airplaneseight men attacked the 4,800.
They dropped forty-eight bombs. Of these bombs
forty-seven exploded in the thick of the Turks.
.The flanking force was completely demoralized
and routed. That was on the 26th day of March,
1917.
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Proverb for the Day.
Empty wagons make the most noise.
One! Year Ago Today in the War.
Germans repulsed French south of
the Somme.
German submarine bhelled Seaham
harbor, on English east coast.
British captured German first line
of trenches on front of nearly eight
miles.
In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago Today.
While James Wyman and Michael
Metady were driving in a buggy on
Farnam street the horse became res
tive and dashed off at a rapid rate,
throwing both men td the ground with
great force. 'Wyman received a com
pound fracture of the right leg, a dis
located shoulder and a fractured skull,
while Melady escaped with a broken
rib and a severe cut on the face.
At the regular shoot of the Omaha
Rifle club at Bellevue Dr. Worley, hav-
ing the highest Score, carried off the
medal.
A meeting of the clothing salesmen
of the principal houses was held at
Metz hall, where a permanent organi
zation was effected and the following
officers appointed: W. P. Hudson,
president; C. O. Rulhard, treasurer;
L. IT. Barr, secretary.
Harry Hunter of The Bee is catch
ing salmon down the romantic and
picturesque St. Lawrence.
The following gentlemen have filed
articles of Incorporation of the
"Apollo Literary and Social club:"
Messrs. H. B. Kennedy, E. D. Bibkins,
Fred Jacobs, J. N. Turrants, H. H.
Huff. L. J. Hendershott and C.fB,
Hook.
A. D. Jeutson, the Omaha catcher,
has arrived from Syracuse. He is a
great big, good-natured six-footer, 22
years of age and looks as If he ought
to be a No. 1 shortstop.
, ) With the big machines which are now being
built weights of bombs and weights of armament
hitherto deemed impossible are easily carried. An
American machine with an American pilot has
risen to 7,000 feet with twenty passengers. A sin
gle French squadron early in May dropped 2,500
pounds of bombs in a single night. The same
squadron dropped 7,250 pounds of explosives in
four days. Airplanes can now mount three-inch
guns, which is quite a respectable caliber of ar
tillery for a sea-going ship, and one well-directed
shot from which can sink a submarine. Our own
experts say that one man in a modern airplane
is equal to from 100 to 500 infantrymen.
It should be remembered that we cannot build
an airplane fleet over night. I.t will be many
months, perhaps a year, before we are turning out
3,000 engines a month. The task is a tremendous
one and the United States today is the onlv na
tion in the world that has the resources and the
capacity for wholesale standardized production
that it calls for. But in view of the hard facts
of the case; aside from all rosy hopes and prophe
cies, with all due discount for disappointments, it
seems the thing best worth doing, the most prom
ising solution of the world deadlock. The great
est project the specialists put before the nation
deserves the support and the funds that they ask.
Our Fightng Men
Jamea B. Erwin. i
Colonel James B. Erwin, U. S. A., who at pres
ent is on special inspection duty for the Eastern
department, is one of the well known officers of
the cavalry service. Colonel Erwin "is sixty-one
years old and a native of Georgia. His army
service since his graduation from West Point
thirty-seven years ago included duty in the Gero
nimo campaign, service in the northwest and as
superintendent of Yellowstone National park.
Soon after the beginning-of the war with Spain
he was assigned to the Philippines and remained
there nearly seven years. When the war cloud
appeared, on the Rio Grande he was sent with
General Pershing into Mexico. As commander
of the Seventh cavalry Colonel Erwin was men
tioned for special bravery in connection with the
pursuit of Villa.
At any rate, Army Chaplain Major exhibits
the spirit proper in an officer and a gentleman.
He is wilting to battle energetically for the men
under his care. Better understanding of the men
in the ranks and some of their problems might
easily lead to less of mollycoddling. What the
"boys" need is to be treated as rational men, not
as a peculiar group of especially exposed sinners.
The Indian bureau sits dowa sharply on the
good intentions of Jackson Barrett, the Creek In
dian millionaire of Oklahoma. Spurred to act like
the paleface in contributing to the Red Cross
fund, Barret won a call-down from the White
Father and an order tightening his purse. Bureau
cracy rarely misses the leather medal.
Flour, which reached the top-notch price of
$17 a barrel in May, now sells under $12 in the
market Still, the loaf hesitates to take on weight
Ira A. Haynes. ,
Colonel Ira A. Haynes, coast artillery corps,
who has been assigned to the command of the
South Pacific Coast Artillery district, with head
quarters at Fort Milcy, Cal., has served in the
coast artillery since 1911. He was graduated from
the United States Military academy irt 1883 and
was appointed a lieutenant in the field artillery,
in which branch of the service he served until
1910. He was graduated from the Artillery school
in 1888. Recently Colonel Haynes has been on
duty as assistant to General Erasmus M. Weaver,
chief of the coast artillery corps, at the War de
partment in Washington. ,
People and Events
Suit for damages for unlawful detention of a
Danish steamer has been started by the Actiesel
kabct Dampskibsselekabetstorcbelt. If this
doesn't start something among the proofreaders
good intentions go for naught.
Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana
is working overtime to save women in the print
ing office from working overtime. Presi of print
ing requires extra hows at extra pay, but that
does not weigh in the scales of reform. '
Ach, Himmci; and some more. Saloonkeepers
along the waterfront of Hoboken must close up
shop at 10 p. m. and tay closed 'until 7 a. m.
Military and local authorities joined in the order
and for seven hours out of twentv-four Hobo
ken's front is a sober picture of still life.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago has a staunch
follower in Mayor Meraviag of Elizabeth, N. J.
The latter is an Austrian bv descent and passed
up an invitation to participate in an American
flag presentation. At last accounts his name was
on the public pay roll as a testimonial of his ad
miration for the American dollar.
Tills Day in History.
1817 Henry D. Thoreau, famous
author and naturalist, born at Con
cord, Mass.., Died there May 6, 1862.
1842 Ofara Louise Kellogg, at one
time proclaimed th world's greatest
prima donna, born at Sumter, S. C.
Died at New Winsted, Conn., May 13,
1916.
1848 Archduke John of Austria
elected vicar of the German empire.
1856 Crimea was evacuated by the
Allies. .
1867 Announcement of the Impe
rial decision to remove the capital
of Japan from Kioto to Tokio.
1876 King of Greece visited Eng
land and was Invested by Queen Vic
toria with the Order of the Garter.
1892 Cyrus W. Field, projector of
the Atlantic cable, died at Ardsley, N.
Y. Born at Stockbrldge, Mass., No
vember 30, 1819.
1915 German cruiser Konigsberg
destroyed by British monitors and
cruisers.
The Day Wc Celebrate.
Lewis A. Ellis of the Lee-Coit-An-dreesen
company was born in Cincin
nati sixty-seven years ago today. He
Is an Omaha pioneer of 1870 and has
been in the hardware business fifty
three years. .
John F. Stout Is 56 today. He was
torn in Middlesboro, O., and has for
twenty-one years been engaged In law
practice at the Omaha bar.
Frederick W. Krelle Isjust 41. He
Js an Omaha-born boy ' and builds
Omaha houses, being one of our ar
chitects. V. Ray Gould is an Omaha-born
hoy. Just 85 today. He is in the con
tracting business, being secretary and
treasurer of F. P. Gould & Co.
Sir Frederick E. Smith, attorney
general in the British cabinet, born
at Birkenhead, England, forty-five
years ago today.
Elhu Grant who has been appointed
professor of Biblical literature in Ha
verford college, born at Stevetisville,
Pa., forty-four years ago today.
. George Eastman, inventor and man
ufacturer of the kodak camera, born
at Watervllle, N. Y., sixty-three years
ago today.
Jeter C. Pritchard, former senator
from North Carolina, now a Judge of
the United States circuit court, born
at Jonesboro, Tenn., sixty years ago
today. -
Sir William Osier, formerly of Johns
Hopkins university, now professor of
medicine in Oxford university, born
at Bond Head, Canada, sixty-eight
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today Is the 100th anniversary of
the birth of the late. Alvin Saunders,
appointed by President Lincoln to be
governor of the territory of Nebraska,
He was afterward United States sena
tor. Today is the centennial anniversary
of the birth of Henry D. Thoreau, the
famous author and nature lover.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois is to be the orator at a great
patriotic demonstration to be held on
Boston Common today as a feature
of the Elks' reunion.
All land owners in Mexico have
been summoned to meet in confer
ence in the capital today to consider
means to avert the threatened short
age in the country's food supply.
Business women of the United States
are to "mobilize" In Chicago today to
work out plans whereby every busi
ness woman in this country may be
at the nation's disposal on a moment's
notice.
Storyette of the Day.
Sometimes, to be sure, the opening
is so unfortunate as to incur instant
resentment and positively invite re
fusal. .Take the rase of the diminu
tive man of kindly appearance who
was Accosted by a seedy purist with
the words:
"Sir, 1 am looking for a little suc
cor." . '
"Well," snorted the wearer of the
size 13V4 collar, "do I look like one?"
Atlanta Journal.
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RED CROSS.
(Thomai L. Maaeoi, Editor of "Life.")
Out where the line ot bkttle cleave ' ,
Tha horizon of woe,
And atghtlesa wartiora clutch the leaves.
The Red Croaa nuraea go.
la where tha cots ot agony 'V ,
Mark deal h'a unmeasured tide
Bear up the battle'a harveatry
Tha Red Croaa nurses glide. '
Look ! Where the hell of ateel has torn
Its way through slumbering earth,
Tlfe orphaned urchins kneel, forlorn,
And wonder at their birth
Until, above them, calm and wise,
With smile and guiding .hand,
God looking through their gentle eyes,
The Red Cross nurses stand.
Here. In our sheltered homes we sit.
Remote from war's red sweep.
Doing half-heartedly our bit.
Sleeping our painless sleep.
See! Where the Red Cross flag'a unrolled
With red. and white, and blue;
Let na pour out our treasured gold
T guide the Red Croat true.
Interpreting Words of Bible.
Omaha, July 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: U B. H. in the iBsue of:
July 9 passes Christian Science
through heathen philosophy, panthe-i
ism and finally eliminates it by assert
ing that it makes God to be a liar.
Judging from the context the critic
is desirous of following the teachings
of the Bible and therefore it is proper
for us to invite him to a further in
vestigation of the subject from the
Bible record.
It really is a matter of small mo
ment at this stage about the name
"Christian" or "Science." Let us find
out first what it is and whether it is
worthy of consideration and afier we
have turned in our report on these
questions the name will take care of
itself.
Bible students of the type before us
invariably criticize the teachings of
Christian Science that are bodily taken
from the writings of St. Paul. Their
investigation leads them to the con
clusion that they are new, heathen and
lies. They cannot be all three. No
claim is made thatf they are new.
Merely calling them heathen carries
no weight and so we fall back on Paul
to prove that the specific charges now
made cast no cloud on the veracity of
God the Father.
"The carnal mind is enmity against
God, for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither, indeed, can be." Bear
in mind that St. Paul wrote this, not
Mrs. Eddy. Substitute if you wish
"mortal" for "carnal," for they are
synonyms, and you have the problem
presented in the words of Jesus, "I
am not come to destroy, but to ful
fill." Certainly Jesus did not come to
fulfill anything opposed to the "Iaf
of God." Remember that he did not
come to "destroy" anything. He speaks
of evil, Satan, as "a liar and the father
of it." Is a lie real? Is two and two
are five real? Nothing is real that
is not subject to the law of God, Prin
ciple. Mrs. Eddy says, "If what opposes
God is real there must be two powers
and God is not supreme and infinite."
(Science and Health, P. 357.) We
make too hard work trying to under
stand Christian Science. AVe have let
the theologians tamper with the gos
pels and the epistles to such an ex
tent that when Mrs. Eddy presents
them in their original simplicity we
do not recognize them and think it
must be some outlandish heathendom
that we know nothing about
The Bible is its own best interpreter,
but we have lost sight of this fact
in the maze of commentaries, and
Mrs. Eddy is simply endeavoring to
lead us back to the primal truth con
tained in its pages. When the way
seems clouded she points to the
"works" as well as the "words" of Je
sus and in them finds both the inspi
ration and the guidance for the dem
onstrations in Christian Science, which
after all furnish the final proof of its
being of God.
CARL E. HERRING.
up a case and carry it to the supreme
court of the United States. That court
once said "the negro has no rights
which while men are bound to re
spect;" but I doubt If it would dare tc
close the distillery and give the whol' ,
Job of debauchery to the breweries.
If I were a member of the hous
I would indignantly reject the senat
a i . a. I kitl Cat .
amendments ana iei me euuie um
o,kar than nprnelrnlfi such an Out
rage on soldiers and certain indus
tries. Let us not "ao evii, mat. isirai
may come." The president's excus
is "he does not want the bill delayed."
If he had pushed this bill as he did
the census bill it would have been
anantaA IaH7 a this time. That CX"
cuse will not be accepted by the best
people or tnis country, wueu mo
bin, anA oohincf nf firat Britain
asked the archbishop of Canterbury
a - 1 ..I J
to abstain rrom wine, ne saia no tuum
nnl An njlthntlt it. TTe WR8 Quite Will
ing, however, that the soldiers should
be deprived of it, ana tne worm scouu
his name today. This action on the
part of our great .president will dim
the luster of an otherwise illustrious
administration. These vicious amend
ments are directly opposed to the pur
pose of the bill and will greatly
weaken, if not defeat it. If brewers
can waste barley, naoonshiners can
waste corn. "Thow that sayeth thou
shalt not steal, dost thou steal?"
I call upon the house to "stand pat"
and defeat this outrage upon the con
stitution of the United States. We
need the law bad enough, but not bad
enough to commit such an outrage.
D. C. JOHN.
Class Legislation.
Omaha, July 9. To the Editor of
The Bee: I object to Mr. Wilson's
attitude on the conservation bill, now
pending in congress. It is class legis
lation of the rankest kind. By a pre
vious act soldiers have been deprived
ot all intoxicating drinks. Now, Mr.
Wilson and the senate "say that civil
ians may have all the beer and wine
they want Mr. Wilson says it is as
necessary for civilians to be efficient
as soldiers in this war, and if so they
should be under the same efficiency
discipline. ; .
If I were an officer in the army and
loved a "nip" once In a while I should
say to Mr. Wilson, "I shall suffer no
such discrimination. If total absti
nence is necessary for soldiers, it is
just as necessary for civilians. I ob
ject to your making me fish and my
civilian brother flesh. Accept my
resignation; I will not be made a slave
to set the world free; if any preference
is shown it ought to be shown the
soldier, who risks his life for his coun
try,, which the civilian does not."
If I were a distiller I should pro
test against the favoritism shown the
brewer and winemaker. Ten men are
rendered inefficient on beer to one
on spirits. Beer wastes barley Just as
whisky wastes corn. Precisely the
same reason exists for prohibiting beer
as for prohibiting whisky. You can
not without offensive partiality forbid
one and not the other.
If I were a distiller I should make
f
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