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April 11, 1910.
Under the head of the "Singed Cat"
the Nebraska City Press discusses
the political situation in an editorial
which sounds considerable democratic.
It says that the democratic party
shows signs of a "joyful awakening,"
which indeed sounds peculiar coming
from a republican paper. He further
says that the insurgent movement
is the backbone of the republican party
and that a storm is surely coming
which may land the democratic pnrty
in the white house in Washington.
If the democratic party does land in
the white house in Washington it
will bo directly responsible to the acts
of such knockers as the Nebraska City
Tress and its kind. As we have said
before and now repeat, there has
never been a time but that the republi
can party has has kickers in its ranks.
The present situation is only a repeti
tion of past history. The tariff has
been responsible many times for the
possession of "cold feet" on the part
of republican newspapers which then
as now played into the hands of the
democratic party. Then as now, it
was a revolt against conditions in
the republican party. Then came free
silver with the conditions a great deal
a9 they aie now. Then imperialism
took the stage of action, and then came
other things, but they were nothing
more or less than the result of people
becoming dissatisfied with their lot
in life and the democratic party,
taking advantage of the opportunity,
attempted to make a mountain out
of a mole hill and in that work was
assisted by republican papers and
others who imagined that the party
which had weathered many strums in
the past and had survived, was not
what it oughc to be. The present
agitation is just a ease of history re
peating itself, and if in so repeating,
it goes farther and the result is defeat
to the party, no one will be more ic
sponsiblc for it than the present in
surgents in congress and their backers,
the insurgent press of the country.
The insurgent press of the country
stands in identically the same position
as the free silver republican conglom
eration was a few years ago. The
outcome of that movement landed
most of them in the democratic paity.
Will history repeat itself in this case.
THE EXCLUDED IMMIGRANT
Have you ever given a thought to
the piteous fate of the excluded im
migrant? Have you ever wondered
what has become of the poor foreigner
who has been keyed up to hopes of
liberty and better days, only to have
the door shut in his face as he reaches
the threshold and to be sent back to
the depths of oispair and misery.
According to the best available
figures the number of exclusions by
immigration authorities during the
last fiscal year ending June 30, 1909,
was about 10,000. The number dur
ing the .preceding year was about
10,000, and during the year before
that it was about 13,000, so that within
three years more than 33,000 immi
grants have been turned back after
reaching our shores and told that
they could not enter what to them was
the promised land. In addition to
this tremendous number of exclu
sions after anival, for the year 1907
(55,000 persons were excluded on the
other Bide of the oean by refusal for
medical reasons by the steamship
companies to deliver to them tickets
for which they had made arrange
ments. If this ratio holds good through
out, hve times as many being inter
cepted at the point of departure arc
turned back at the point of destination,
the total number of exclusions foi the
three years would be pretty nearly
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Some of these exclusions it is im
possible to prevent or avoid, but
many of them, if not most of them
could be forestalled. They are due
first, to ignorance of our immigration
requirements on me pari oi those
who would come to this country, and
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secoiw, vo me inoeiinue ami elastic
terms used in defining the reasons for
exclusion, and the harsh and often
unfeeling construction put on them
in their application to individuu
cas?s. Win-re our immigration law
debar "paupers" and "persons likely
to become public charges" or per
sons assisted with "prepaid tiickets,"
much is left to the judgment and dis
cretion of the immigration inspectors.
While only one or two percent of the
immigrants are excluded, and of these
perhaps only a small proportion with
out justification, still no one can tell
what particular immigrant will be
come the victim of official blundering,
and the order of exclusion when it
falls on the hapless and helpless
leaves him practically without remedy
even if disposed to assert his rights.
What litis become of the excluded
immigrant, is a question for whose
answer we cannot whiolly shake off
responsibility. Imniagine the case
of the foreigner who has uprooted
himself from friends, family and fore
fathers, disposed of his earthly be
longings to get the means to come to
what he has been led to believe is
i he land of milk and honey, and is
then sent back as a person "likely
to become a public charge." If he
might by any possibility have become
self suppotring and make himself
a useful citizen, the prospect is abso
lutely destroyed by the act of depor
tation, and driven from pillar to post
he must become nothing but a human
derelict.
Two hundred thousand excluded
immigrants in three years! Surely
it devolves upon us to devise some more
humane and just machinery for sift
ing out tlie desirables from the undo
sirables and preventing this awful
misery instead of aggravating it.
Ike.
THE FIGHT ON
"Whom the Gods destroy they first
make mad."
The above will just about cover the
condition as it now exists m Nebraska
Lincoln, the state capital has eommitt
ed the unpardonable sin of voting to
stay a dry town for another year
against the wishes of a lot of people
who pretend to believe in persona
iberty, only when it conies their way
The result is that the Omaha World-
Ierald, the mouth piece of the liquor
bunch and Jim Dahlman, the lasso
throwing mayor of Omaha say that
the state capital can no longer remain
in its present location, and that the
university and the capital must not
be in the same town.
Why all this denunciation oi our
capital city? Because the people o:
that city by a majority of nearly a
thousand nave again decided it is
for the best interests of business, the
icst interests of the city, the best
interests of the university and the
schools, the best interest of the homes
and the best interest of all who live
there that the saloon should not do
business there.
Ihose who believe in persona
iberty and now declare vegeanc
on Lincoln because it exercise its
right to express its preference by a
majority vote dry, show how unfair
they are in their action. They deny
to a municipality the same right whic
they declare is the right of every man
that of expressing himself as he be
lieves and enjoying those things
which he wishes to enjoy. They say
that a man should be allowed to drink
or not to drink, which ever he pleases
as long as it does not interfere wit
the rights of any one else. Lincoln
as a municipality has decided that
the drinking of liquor interfered wit
the rights of others and has decided
to continue its dry policy. It lit
decided, after a trial of a year that th
state university with its thousand
of students sent there for education
is better off without the saloon. Th
students themselves who should I
vne juuge oi wnat is nest lor them,
after a trial of the dry policy for one
year, have also decided that the latter
policy is best for them. The profes
sors of the university have seen the
workings of a wet policy, a restricted
policy and a dry policy, and have
unanimously decided that the latter
is for the best interests of the young
men and women sent to them for their
education.
The city of Lincoln has exercised
its pc.sOnal liberty privilege as a city
and has decided what ii best for her.
a a result a lot of people who have
no especial grievance against her ex
cept that of going dry are now taking
advantage of the opportunity to pun
ish her and will enter a campaign
against her, of seeking to take
from her what she now possesses.
The liquor interests in Nebraska
are mad. Its friends are mad, and a
war of extermination will be their
policy from now on. We would like
to ask them if they are prepared to
open up a fight ut this time upon the
apital city for the purpose of taking
from it the seat of government for no
other reason than that it has voted
to continue its dry policy. We would
ike to ask the liquor interests if they
wish to continue the fight which they
began several years ago and which
las been a loosing one for them from
the very day they entered the politi
cal field. It is only necessary to look
back over the political history of
Nebraska and they will see the hand
writing on the wall. It was their ac
tivity in politics which was respon
sible for the passage of tho Slocum lio-
uor law. It was the activity of the
iquor interests in Nebraska politics
which was responsible for so many
towns and cities voting upon the "yes"
and"no" proposition and thus exer
cising the personal liberty proposi
tion as a town or city. It was the ac
tivity of the liquor interests in Ne-
raska that was responsible for the
ight o'clock closing law of the present
day.
The question for the liquor people
of Nebraska to decide right now is,
o they want to continue the fight to
the bitter end. If so the people of
Nebraska are ready for the frav.
he people of Nebraska will hail
with delight any contest which will
ring nearer the time when the propo
sition to do away with the saloons
ntircly can be voted upon. If the sa-
oon interests ot Nebraska want to
ring a battle of the ballots which
will end disastrously for them, they
cannot hasten the day any quicker
than to seek to take from Lincoln the
capital, for no other reason than that it
ms gone into a ' dry condition by
such a majority that it will remain
so for all time.
We do not seek a fight which will
certainly be a bitter one. We under
stand well the enemy we will have to
meet. We understand well what kind
of a fight which will be put up. We
understand all of these, and dislike
to be compelled to enter any contro
versy such as a fight of this kind al
ways brings on. But it is one which
present indications show will
have to come sooner or later, and when
it comes, it will be fought to the bitter
end and will result, not only in the ex
termination of the saloon from Ne
braska, but its influence will be felt
all over the land and will bring more
quickly the fight into the National
halls of congress. Any fight of this
kind always has resulted in lost ground
for the liquor men. It will continue
to be a loosing fight for them just as
long as they persist in forcing it upon
the public.
If James Dahlman and the Omaha
World-Herald desire to force into the
coming history of Nebraska an issue
which they are now advocating, they
canot force the issue too soon or base
their campaign upon a platform which
will bring to them greatest disaster
than the capital removal scheme.
"Whom the Gods destroy, they first
make mad. "
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feet on a chair like a circus horse.
Hoy had some interesting postal
cards made of him and the horse which
are displayed in one of the stationery
stores of the city. He certainly seems
to be there when it comes to handling
horses.
Died In the Country.
James Holtsclaw, a farm hand about
forty years of age, died yesterday at
the Schlater farm north of town.
He was a single man who had worked
at different times for various farmers
in this locality.' Three or four weeks
ago he was taken with a fever but he
seemed to partially recover and a
few days ago he was in the city on
business. Returning to the Schlater
place in the afternoon, his condition
seemed much worse and a doctor was
summoned who pronounced his ease
typhoid fever. The man lingered but
a few hours after the arrival of the
physician, passing away about noon
yesterday.
The funeral will be held from the
Christian church this afternoon at two
o'clock and interment will be made
in Oak Hill cemetery.
Miss Lillian Thompson is rapidly
improving from her recent sickness
n,til U twivi' nlilit in Willi; iirmiml ? Iw
house. She will be able to be out in a
few days it is thought.
Do Vou Know
ffiihat the 0ews-iHerald iPublishing Go.
has the best equipped facilities for
printing letter heads, note he a ds, en
celopes, statements, pamphlets, briefs,
legal blanks, sale bills, (Etc. of any place
in this Section of the state, and do it in
theneatest and most approved style? '
Broncho Nearly Cleans Police.
The night policemen had a big
time last night when they attempted
to take an innocent looking gray
broncho to a livery barn to keep it
from standing on the street all night.
It was hitched to a light buck board
and seemed to be well on its way to
slumberland when the two night of
ficers spied it and proceeded to make
preparations for taking it to Man
speakers Equine Hotel. The fittle
man of the force clambered into the
wagon and the heavy weight untied
the beast and headed up the street.
About this time the excitement began,
and the animal was in eighteen places
at once. The heavy weight made for
a nearby telephone pole and the
man wi.h the libbons got out of that
neighborhood in the quickest possible
manner. With much persuasion they
got the beast back to the post where
they found it and securely moored it
for the night. At about noon today
the horse was still on the street and
it is doubtful whether it was removed
from the post since last evening.
Making Good as Horse Trainer
Dick Roy, a professional horse
trainer, who hails from the wild and
wooly west, is doing quite a business
in his line of work these days, having
as many as three horses to take care
of in one day. He seems to have some
personal power that has an influence
on the animals. The other day he
was called on to see what he could
do with one of Sam Smith's horses
that was so mean it would allow no
one to enter it's stall. In a few hours
time the man had the horses entirely
under control and when he found Mr.
Smith a little while later he made the
broncho stand in the yard with his ,
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