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Colorado's legislature has pass
ed an anti-cartoon hill. Doubtless
some of the portraiture has been too
faithful.
A Chicago trial divorce judge
discovers that babies are home sav
ers. They certainly have been
found to be a tie that binds us to
home duties.
Surely these be strenuous days
in Persia, with 800 widows starting
simultaneously husband hunting.
No, thanks! Nebraska's good
enough for us.
Tin-: recent earthquake is said to
have dried up some of the Texas
oil wells. Perhaps the bottom fell
out and the oil just moved to
another location.
Sciknck now scares us with the
discovery that there are 3,000 col
onies of microbes on a single pin
Ioint. Here is a chance for some
one to invent an antiseptic pin wash.
Lobbyists will now have free ac
cess to the floor of the Nebraska
state senate. The bars have been
laid down and lobbyists, as usual,
will have full sway among the mem
bers of that branch.
Senator Root last Monday aim
ed a decisive blow at the railroads.
He introduced a resolution requir
ing railroads to furnish copies of all
their tariffs and rate sheets to the
legislature. The resolution was
adopted.
The state senate has recommend
ed the passage of a bill preventing
the bribing of employes by the
giving of tips. Some of the mem
bers have doubtless had to tip a
waiter in order to get something to
eat at some of the Lincoln hash
foundries.
A bill is before the legislature to
prevent judges of the county, dis
trict or supreme courts running for
office during their terms as judge.
It appears that too many political
lawyers use the power of their posi
tion on the bench to promote their
aspirations in other directions.
The most miserable creature in
the world is the man who is jealous
of the prosperity of his neighbor.
In this broad field of endeavor there
should be room for all. and each
will be rewarded according to his
just deserts. No man gets and en
joys more than is due him. while
most men get all that is coming.
Senator Bailey has been re
elected to represent the state of
Texas in the United States senate,
despite strong opposition. The
charges made against him will,
however, not be dropped. On the
contrary, additional charges have
been preferred, and he has consent
ed to resign his office if, upon pro
per investigation, these are sustain
ed. During the past week two of
the leaders of the opposition have
been burned in effigy in various
parts of the state.
The Nebraska senate is opposed
to the granting of Fourth of July
pardons, the practice of judges of
the courts of record running for
other than judicial office, the ship
ment in original packages unmark
ed of all liquors into dry towns or
districts and to the reversal of court
judgments on technicalities. All
these bills have passed the senate.
and were introduced by our own
Senator Root.
The state of Iowa has long had a
good railroad law but the present
legislature will attempt to enact in
to law a two-cent per mile pessen-
er rate. This should spur up the
Nebraska solons to their duty.
Our people demanded a lower
freight and passenger rate in the
late campaign, and some of us be
lieve that platforms are made not
only to stand upon but to be carried
outlby the successful party which
advocates said platform
Census of Child Labor.
The census bureau is late in pub
lishing its statistics of child labor,
gathered in 1900, but the pleasing
quality of the facts revealed by the
figures compensates foi the delay.
The broad fact revealed bv this
report, and the most pleasing one,
is that Americans, as a rule, keep
their children at school until the age
of 14 or 15.
The million and three-quarters of
children between the ages of 10 and
15 listed as breadwinners are only a
little more than 2 per cent of the
population, and of these, nearly
two-thirds were in agricultural em
ployment, by far the most healthful,
morally and physically, that young
sters could engage in.
Furthermore, it may be presumed
that most of these juvenile farm
workers attended school . during
some portion of each year, since
from Thanksgiving Day until the
spring work begins there is not
much for them to do.
More than half of the entire num
ber were over 14 and about one
third had attained their fifteenth
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year, an age at wuicn it is wen
enough for boys to begin learning
business or a trade unless their par
ents are able to give them a liberal
education.
That nearly three-quarters of
these child laborers were boys, con
firms the general fact that American
parents are careful to safeguard
their girls with the influences of
the school and the home as long as
their means permit.
Take the further facts stated in
the report, that the percentage of
child breadwinners is much higher
among the negroes than among the
whites, and higher among foreign
born than among native-born white
children, and it is apparent that a
very small percentage ot native
white Americans deny their child
ren under 14 or 15 the advantages
of the schools.
With rare exceptions, due to
pinching necessity, those who do so
have no good right to retain the
custody of their children.
Bv the Massachusetts ballot law,
which might be adopted in Nebras
ka, the children of such are disqual
ified from voting, and no parent
has a right to bring up children in
a wav which unfits them for the ex
ercise of all the rights of citizenship.
There is a bill pending in con
gress that we hope to see become a
!.w and we believe there are many
others who have the same opinion
we have. It is a bill that provides
for a pension of $12 per month to
veterans 62 years old, $15 per
month when they are 70 and $20
per month after reaching 75 years.
In the majority of cases this means
an increase of allowance, many in
this vicinity coming under the $15
limit and several being eligible to a
pension of $20. The bill origina
ted in the house, passed that body
and the senate and has now been
referred back for final passage so
that it is very likely that it will be
come a lav. It is estimated that
the new law will increase the pen
sion budget about six million dol
lars a year. The veterans, how
ever, are dying at the rate of five
thousand a month so that the in
crease expense to the government
will only be temporary. A grate
ful people are willing to make the
final days of the boys in blue as
pleasant as possible.
Unless the measure is killed
when finally presented for passage
in the general appropriation bill,
members of the president's cabinet,
senators and congressmen will have
their salaries increased, beginning
March 4. Senators and congress
men will be advanced .from $5,000
to $7,500, while the vice president,
speaker of the house and cabinet
members willget $12,000. Strange
as it may appear, there was some
opposition by the members of con
gress to the bill to increase their
stipends. One of the points ad
vanced is that many eomgressmen
had not received a salarj- equal to
the present one before they became
"servants of the people." Again,
it is said that the cost of living is
no greater for them than for the
voters they represent.
The legislaturehas adopted rules
for the government of lobbyists
and the lobbyists adopted rules for
the government of the legislature
some time ago.
If an item of news in which you
are interested does not appear in
these columns, don't blame us.
We simply didn't know it and you
didn't let us know about it. The
Journal columns are always open to
real news items, whether you are a
friend to the paper or not.
Several more bills have been in
troduced in the Nebraska legisla
ture for the relief of the people
from railroad oppression. It is the
easiest thing in the world to intro
duce bills under the present arrange
ment. The enactment of laws that
the courts will sustain is another
proposition.
Several radical anti-liquor bills
will he passed during the session,
Senator Root has a measure to in
validate the license of a saloon
keeper when he is convicted of any
offense in the district court. He
has outlined a measure to make the
the saloon question one to be decid
ed by a majority vote every five
years.
If the courts do not vindicate the
right of the state of California to
control its own public schools, in
its own way, the litigation which
President Roosevelt has instituted
to test that right is likely to outlast
Teddy's presidential term . As long
as California refuses them, no treaty
can make the Japs stick in the
schools which California founded
and supports by state taxation.
A learned society woman re
cently spent an entire day discuss
ing the question whether it was
an apple or lemon that Eve offered
Adam. We don't know if much
light was shed on the subject, but
we may be sure that whether it was
apple, lemon, or some other fruit,
the blame will still be laid upon
Eve. If anything goes wrong it is
always the woman that is in fault.
They do things down in Mis
souri and don't always have to be
shown . Saturday the house passed
a bill, which if it becomes law, will
tax undivided profits of institu
tions, such as building and loan,
banking, insurance and kindred
corporations. These corporations
have been exempted from paying
taxes on undivided profits in the
past but it is now proposed to assess
them on all excesses above 50 per
cent.
Bury the little hammer, put your
shoulder to the wheel, and help
boost the old town. By all means
keep the hammer buried even if it
aches to place your shoulder in a
position where you might be of
some good to your community. If
you are not satisfied with the town
there are plently of trains running
here daily on which you can move
out at any time you have the money
to pay the freight. The other ham
mer men have been looking for you
and will give you a hearty welcome
in moving to their present abode,
which may be in the bottomless pit
of hades the final landing place of
all chronic knockers.
The Iowa legislature is working
for the passage of a reciprocal de
murrage bill which provides that,
inasmuch as the law permits a rail
road company to collect demurrage
where a car of goods is delivered to
the one to whom it is shipped and
it is not unloaded promptly, that
the shipper who makes a demand
for a car in which to ship, or where
goods shipped are delayed and do
not reach their destination prompt
ly, that demurrage for delay in fur
nishing car or delay in transit shall
be paid by the railroad to the ship
per. A law of that kind would
mean sauce for the goose as well as
the gander. A bill similar to that
of Iowa has been introduced in the
Nebraska legislature and the Journ
al hopes to see it become a law. A
law of this kind, if enforced, would
do much towards adjusting the
grievances of a suffering public.
As it is now, if a freight shipment
is not unloaded from the cars as
soon as the car is side-tracked the
consignee is compelled to pay de
murrage. But if the shipper starts
his freight by train or goes as a
passenger he must take the railroad
service as he finds it, and be thank
ful if he or his freight ever reach
their destination.
The railroad companies of Ne
braska should have care as to their
conduct at this time. There exists
great discontent among the people.
It is no doubt the opportunity of
the demagogue and the agitator,
but it is also an era of earnest in
sistance by honest people upon a
redress of old abuses. Many meas
ures will continue to be introduced
in the general assembly whose pro
moters are perhaps insincere, and
measures may be introduced which
are honest in purpose and yet may
be injurious and unjust in opera
tion. These considerations, how
ever, do not argue that nothing at
all should be done. Upon two
things public opinion is fixed the
lobby and the free pass. The rail
road companies have been the chief
representatives of the one and the
sole manipulqtors of the other.
They are both evil and only evil.'
No legitimate interest of the state
needs a lobby to protect it, and the
railroad iaterests cannot afford
longer to employ the free pass as a
means of controlling legislative ac
tion. A novel tariff bill was intro
duced last week by Congressman De
Armond, of Missouri. It proposes
that all goods made in this country
and protected by a tariff of 30 per
cent or more shall bear printed la
bels stating the extent to which
they are protected by tariff. It
further provides that it shall be un
lawful except for the one who has
purchased such goods for actual
use to remove the label and that to
do so will be punishable by a fine
not exceeding $5,000. DeArmond
says that this plan would educate
the people as to the precise effect of
the present tariff and that they are
entitled to such knowledge, as they
pay the taxes. He insists that in
no other way could the people be so
impressively advised concerning the
hardships and inequalities of the
present tariff.
Congressman Adam Bede met
Champ Clark of Missouri in the
capitol corridors the other day.
Bede extended a careful military sa
lute. "What on earth are you do
ing that for?' askedClark. "Well,
things have come to pass in Wash
ington where distinctions have to
be made. A salute shows that a
man is in favor of a military gov
ernment, while, if he is for consti
tutional government, he just shakes
hands." "Shake," said Clark.
"I'd like to," said Bede, "but I
can't. I'm a Roosevelt Republi
can." Notwithstanding the hue and
cry that has gone up against lobby
ing at Lincoln we notice that al
most every state institution has one
or more persons at the capital lob
bying for increased appropriations.
The heads of these institutions to
gether with the junketing commit
tee certainly know what they need
without paying an agent to go to
the capital to lobby. A lobbyist is
a lobbyist, no matter what his line
may be. Apply the anti-lobby rule
to everybody if you would be en
tirely fair.
The legislature proposes to pass
a law requiring any man in business
who desires to sell his stock to give
notice to all his creditors five days
before the sale is consummated.
This is about the foolest bill yet in
troduced, and there have been a
great many fool bills read before
the present illustrious body. The
legislature expects to make every
body but its own members honest
by legislative enactment.
And now Harriman, who poured
out money to elect Roosevelt presi
dent, declares it would have been
better for the country to have elect
ed Bryan for the reason that he is
saner and more conservative than
the hot-headed, impulsive, re
sentful occupant of the white house.
Thousands of prominent republi
cans hold similar views but are
afraid to express them.
The Nebraska legislature may be
composed of reformers, but the peo
ple have not seen anything emanat
ing from either branch, as yet, that
would entitle them to the appella
tion of "reformers."
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A Farce of Peanut Politics.
Foraker's backdown gives Roose
velt a temporary victory over his
enemies in the senate, and makes
a farce of the proposed senate in
quiry into the Brownsville mutiny
and riot.
The only new light which the
senate could throw upon the affair
would be an explosition of the Pres
ident's powers under the law as
commander in chief of the army.
But inquiry of this sort is waived
by the compromise which Foraker
and Aldrich have agreed to in order
to cover up, for a time, the break
which already exists between the
president and the majority of his
party in the senate.
With the high question of the
president's lawful power to disband
any portion of the army in time of
peace shoved into the background,
the senate's thrashing over of the
facts in the Brownsville affair will
degenerate simply into a pandering
to the negro vote.
If the Foraker-Aldrich senators
were aiming at anything more than
the propitiation of this vote they
could score heavily on the presi
dent for turning the battalion out
of the army before making adequate
effort to detect the rioters and mur
derers in order that they might be
brought to justice.
But they are proceeding upon the
theory that the negro soldiers are
martyrs, and even questioning the
plain fact that some of them com
mitted murder in the streets of
Brownsville on the night of August
13. They do not want to convict
the guilty men. They desire only
to convict Mr. Roosevelt of having
done them an injustice.
The only question left in the
matter is whether Roosevelt or his
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enemies shall control the negro del
egations in the next republican na
tional convention. Demagogy ami
peanut .politics were never morecon
spicuously displayed in the senate
of the United States.
In the enactment of a child labor
law the legislature should exercise
a little care or it would promote an
abuse greater than the evil legisla
ted against. There is nothing more
degrading than idleness. The child
had better be encouraged to habits
of industry in tender years than to
be raised in idleness. W'e see the
evil effects of idleness on every
street corner. Ivvery evening we
see young hoodlums smoking cigar
ettes on the corner when they should
be at home. A law making work
as well as education compulsory
would not be a bad thing. In this
section of the country there is much
more danger from the habit of idle
ness than from overwork. Drastic
measures are necessary to protect
children from the sweat shops of the
east, but there are very few who are
hurt by overwork here in in Ne
braska, especially in the smaller
towns and rural sections.
Carmack, of Tennessee, making
what is probably his last speech in
the United State senate, comes
straight to the point. "The soul
of wit" must have been delighted
by the brief manner in which he
diagnosed one of Roosevelt's faults:
"He has loved the negro not wisely,
but to well."
Tillman's attempt to make a
tninistrel show out of the senate has
made the people smile an inscrutable
smile, and not entirely because the
interlocutor has been deserted by
his troupe.
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