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Nebraska Telephone No. 85
NOVEMBER 15, 1009
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THE PRESIDENT'S JOURNEY.
About 9 o'clock tonight a large man
"with tired bones and bruin and a look
f relief in pliire of the habitual genial
mile will pass gratefully into the white
house. It may be doubted whether Mr.
Taft was better pleased to enter those
doors on March 4, lust, than he will be
to return to them tonight. In the past
eight weeks he has traveled almost
continuously, made innumerable
speeches, shaken myriads of hands,
and tasted banquets nd nauseam. To
what purpose this stupendous under
taking? Time will supply the definite answer.
We know that President Monroe in
augurated the "era of good feeling."
with such a tour. By a visit during
his second term Andrew Jackson so far
disarmed New England prejudices that
Harvard ventured to make him a doc
tor of laws. Presidents Harrison and
Cleveland added their influence by
traveling among the people. Less for
tunate results have followed in other
cases. Two presidents, Garfield and
McKinley, lost their lives, Garfield at
the beginning and McKinley near the
end of a journey. And it was on a
f swing around the circle" that Andrew
Johnson made some of the statements
Used against him later in his impeach
ment trial. Mr. Taft, to the relief of
all good citizens, will have made his
trip in personal safety unless today
should bring disaster. The question
remaining is, has he, like Monroe,
Jackson and Roosevelt, strengthened
his posit ion ;or has he, like Johnson,
said things that will rise to block his
way later on?
Among those with whom lie came
in direct contact during the journey
Mr. Taft has evidently strengthened
himself. lie is personally a lovable
fellow, of that there is no doubt. It
was not to be expected that he could
Bet the country afire as Roosevelt did.
His judicial temperament forbade that.
The personal gain of the trip must
therefore be rather indirect Those
who came under the spell of his pres
ence may pass on their enthusiasm to
their less favored neighbors. It is
an unfortunate fact that, through no
fault of the president, in some cases
local arrangements were so made as
to bar from contact with him the sort
of men that most truly represent and
most largely influence the public.
Where this happened it tended to shut
the president off from a clear idea of
the people and to give the people a
wrong idea of the president.
By his absolute refusal to tunc his
speeches to local sentiment or general
opinion the president shut himself off
from immediate popular response on
their account. If Senator Aldrich gives
us a benifieent currency reform the
president's good word for him, a cold
shower at the time, will be justified If
his administration saves the poewr
sites and the coal lands, his defense of
Ballinger cannot be used against him.
If public opinion acquiesces, finally, in
the tariff law, his defense of it in the
"Winona speech as the best obtainable
will be proved wise. It will take nt
least another year, a session of con
gress and a congressional election, for
the fruit to make known definitely the
Bort of peed the president has planted
these two months. State Journal.
THE CAMPAIGN CF EDU
CATION. Those who have heard Senator Aid
rich, or who have read his faithfully re
ported speeches on the subject of cur
rency reform, cannot fail to have been
impressed with the straightforward
ess manifested in discus sing that iutri-
atopr i'lem. His frankness and lucid
ity is calculated to disarm any suspi
cion or prejudice that a hostile press
has sought to arouse, and it is a credit
to the fairness of the American people
that in every city where he has thus
far spoken he has generated the same
spirit of candor and consdieration that
he himself has shown. Bringing before
the public a presentation of the monc
tary conditions and systems abroad, he
affords his hearers a new breadth of
view. When it comes to a specific for
curing the financial ills known to exist
in our own country, he disclaims, for
himself and his colleagues, who have
been studying the matter, having
agreed upon any definite plan, but
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naving suggestions from various
sections of the country.
The visit of Senator Aldrich must
make people realize that the commis
sion, which he represents, is engaged
chiefly for the present in a campaign
of education. In addition to the utter
ances of their spokesman, the commis
sion is planning the widespread circu
lation of a great variety of literature
designed to flood the whole subject
with the light of our own and Euro
pean experience. In exchange for the
information which it has garnered for
the American nation, thejeommi ssion
asks that competent judgment be
forthcoming here to aid in determining
ultimately what is best to be done.
With a receptive eagerness of mind on
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an sides, some improvement in our
currency system, not a panacea for fi
naneial ills, ought to bo forthcoming.
The Bee does not look for immediate
or even early legislation of comprehen
sive character on the currency. The
commission has been as deliberate, and
will doubtless continue to be, as delib
erate as the diversity of thought on the
subject requires. Its European con
ferences extended over a period dating
as far bach as August, 1908, and the in
vestigation of the adaptability of Euro
pean safeguards to this country has
only begun. The commission is non-
political, as is indicated by the presence
in its membership of such oppositcs as
Hale of Maine and Bailey of Texas, or
as Overstreet of Indiana and Teller of
Colorado. The secretary of the treas
ury has already given assurance that
he will not go into the subject in his
forthcoming annual report, which is
additional intimation that nothing is
to be attempted until the campaign of
CUUCat.on hriMM flhnnt. unmet niiir
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neared consencus of opinion among the
financial doctors who are waiting on
the patient. Omaha lice.
We don't particularly care whether
our senators from Nebraska are friend
ly with Aldrich or not. We are not
bothering our heud very much or
howling very hard as to whether our
congressmen support Cannon or not.
But the thing we do want is for the
men who arc sent down to Washington
to get to work and accomplish things
They are not sent down there to buck
the line when they know that the only
thing they will get out of it is the
plaudits of the multitude for having
the nerve to buck up against a stone
wall. The thing they are sent down
there for is to get results. They are ex
pected to get into the game and carry
the ball over the goal and not to buck
up against the line when there is no
show of getting through. We want a
gain and we want it somehow. If it
can be made around the end, or bv a
forward pass, then lets have the gain'
The ball can never be successfully car
ried by going up against a part if the
lme that is impregnable. The ques
tion for our representatives to solve is
how to accomplish results for their
district and state. If to do this it is
necessary to bland in with Cannon or
with Aldrich, then let them stand in
with Cannon and with Aldrich. In
doing this it is not necessary for them
to blindly follow the lead of these men
but they can accomplish many things,
which their constituents want by ap
pearing to some extent friendly to the
powers that be. The people of the
west are up against a large majority
against their interests. It is foolish
ness for a couple of dozen congressmen
to buck up against ten dozen and ex
pect that they are going to win out.
They cannot do it, and until sucn
time as sentiment in congress changes
there is no other way to do but to a
certain extent stand in with the organ
ization and thereby get some conces
sions. They cannot be gotten anyother
way, and certainly not by opposing
the men who have the concessions to
make. This may be an unpopular
stand to take, but the history of poli
tice has proven it to be the only way
time and again.
WELL. I GUESS.
Arc you a progressive republi
can or are you a stand patter,
with a bob tailed flush, an impcr
turbale countenance, and a heart
full of hope. State Capital.
The opinion of the editor of the
State Capital as to what constitutes a
republican may or may not be of very
much consequence. The editor of this
paper is a progressive republican, but
probably not the kind which Mr. Har
rison considers "progressive." We are
not so "progressive"that we want to
deliver the country over to the dem
ocrats, nor are we so "progressive"
that we kick at everything that does
not come up to our own peculiar ideas
of thinking. If having confidence in
President Taft and the republican
party and its ability to run the gov
ernment and meet the issues success
fully which have to be met is being a
"stand patter," then we plead guilty
to being a "stand patter." If having
a "heart full of hope" is one of the re
quirements of a stand patter
then we have just that kind of a
heart. The editor of this paper has a
clear conscience, a good stomach, faith
in the republican party and a "heart
full of hope," consequently we wake up
in the morning feeling good and have
no occasion to cuss the government,
find fault with the president, i or crit
ieise people who know more than we
do.
It is simply amusing to pick up some
of our republican non-partisan i
changes and see how they try to get
cheerful news out of the result of the
late election. One fellow figures that
the result was a swipe at the stand
patters, another sees in it the downfall
of the republican party if they don't
vote for more democrats, another tries
to make it out that 11,000 republi
cans voted the democratic ticket this
year as a rebuke to the republican
leaders, and so on and so on and so on.
Well, the fellow who sees in the result
of the election a Bwipc at the stand
patters has got another sec coming,
The fellow who would rather vote for
the democratic candidates than vote
for his own can probably find greater
satisfaction in doing so. The fellow
that thinks li.lXJU voters this year
switched just to get even, still has a
think coming. But the fact stands un
contradictablc that these same non
partisan editors wero just simply
worked by the democratic party and
there is not any use to beat about the
bush to discover something else. You
might just as well own up to it and re
solve not to get taken in so easily
again.
Don't get too much in a hurry.
Don't go off half cocked because
things don't go your way. Did you
ever in all your history know a prob
lem which ever came up in these Unit
ed States which the republican party
was not able to solve, and solve it
right? The nation has been up against
problems in the past which were of
just as vital importance as now, and in
some instances more so, yet the rcpub-
ican party bns been able to meet them
and bring success out of the chaos.
You can't solve great problems in a
mrry. It pays to make haste slowly.
Acts, not talk, is what counts in this
great government of ours. If talk
would solve problems, the democratic
party would be able to quickly settle
all difficulties. A man stands on his
record. Why should not a political
party be judged the same way.
WHICH WOULD YOU
RATHER BE!
If the editor makes a mistake, peo
ple say he ought to be hung; but if a
doctor makes any mistakes, he buries
them and folks dassent say nothing,
because doctors can read and write
latin.
When the editor makes a mistake,
there is a lawsuit and swearing and a
big fuss; but if the doctor makes one
there is a funeral, cut fllwers and per
fect silence.
A doctor can use a word a mile long
without him or anybody else knowing
what it means; but if the editor uses
one he has to spell it.
If the doctor goes to see another
man's wife he charges for the visit; but
if the editor goes he gets a charge of
buckshot.
Any college can make a doctor; an
editor has to be born. Rapid Iiicr
RuH'lcr.
The Pender Republic takes occasion
to feel badly because some fellows say
that Victor Rosewater is the leader of
the republican party in Nebraska, and
says further "the idea of such a little
whippersnapper of a fellow bossing
him around and dictating to him
makes one feel like washing his hands
of the whole shooting match." The
great big overgrown editor of the Re
public should remember that some
times these little fellows have more
brains in their heads than some of the
great six footers. The fellow that has
brains enough to be a leader of a great
party in any state, is certainly worthy
of considerable commendation, es
pecially in a "non-partisan" year
when his party comes out on top with
the opposition in control of the politi
cal machinery of the state and running
it to its full political capacity.
The editor of the Minden Courier
answers an argument of this paper by
asking a fool question and then saying
that the people of Cass county must be
silly. We would advise the editor of
the Courier to present facts and not
foolishness when he attempts to enter
an argument. It is evidence on the
face of it that by dodging the question
he knows he cannot meet it.
J. W. CABSLL
Watchmaker and Jeweler.
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Baby Rings LOc to $1.25.
Large selection of Ladies' Set Rings $1.00 to $10.00.
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J. W. CRA.BILL
The "Glory" editor is in great evi
dence just at the present time. If the
democrats had carried the state they
would have taken all the glory to
themselves claiming that their "non
partisan" ideas did the business. Now
that the democrats did not win out
they are claiming glory for coming so
close to it. It is the action of the
"Glory" editors in every county in the
state where republicans were defeated
for office that was responsible for
that defeat and the putting into posi
tions democratic officials who will do
their best to elect a democratic gov
ernor, a democratic legislature, a dem
ocratic congressman and a democratic
United States senator next fall. We
had rather be in the Fiji Islands with a
tin can tied to our coat tails than to be
a "Glory" editor in Nebraska at the
present time.
Governor Shallenberger seems to be
an undesirable article. First the Ak-sar-ben
bunch slighted him and now
the Bryan-Dahlman-IIoward con
glomeration have left him out of their
deliberations. The result of going back
on his friends. It don't pay.
If there is anything that has a ten
tency to make the average citizen
weary it is to see some fellows posing
as republican editors when in fact they
are nothing but counterfeits. They
recognizes the fact that in order to have
any standing with the people they
have got to counterfeit the real thing.
But as usual they are a great deal like
the latest counterfeit five dollar bill,
just two pieces stuck together with
nothing between.
Enemies of President Taft, posing
as republicans.but in reality assistant
democrats, are knocking on the pres
ident and trying to create a sentiment
in favor of Roosevelt for president in
1912. Let 'em knock. In all proba
bility when Teddy returns from the
jungles he will himself promptly noti
fy them that their efforts are not ap
preciated. The Knockers Brigade may
have to disband when Teddy comes
marching home again.
io wonder our democratic ex
changes are kicking on the tariff,
Champaign has gone up to $4 J 50 a
bottle.
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