lfLy JOURNAL OF CHEERFUL COMMENT
Volume 8
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 14, 1911
Number 1 7
SOME CURT CURRENT COMMENTS
Wool is of common use. Rich and poor
alike must have it. Silk and rubber are
used more by the well-to-do than by the
wage earners. Raw silk and raw rubber
are admitted duty free. Wool in all its
forms is taxed. If it is necessary to raise
$15,000,000 revenue from something, why
raise it by taxing an article that the poor
must have and letting in free the raw silk
and the raw rubber that the rich and well-to-do
use? Take the tariff tax off of wool
and put it on raw silk and rubber.
ly said in the senate : "You are turning
the grindstone to sharpen the scythe that
will put the hide of protection on the
fence all over the country." We'll not
question the instrument of skinning just
so the "protection hide" is removed, but
we confess to some curiosity as to why
they use scythes in Wyoming for skin
ning purposes.
the chief executive did not crowd up to
the pine board bar with the rest of 'em. .
Ollie James will have no opposition in
the democratic senatorial primaries of
Kentucky. This is well. Ollie James is
a democratic democrat, just as LaFollette
is a democratic republican. There are no
trust strings on Ollie James ; neither is he
a creature of "big business" or special
privilege. He is a stalwatr, upstanding,
four-square man of the people. If the
people of Kentucky want to be represent
ed in the United States senate, now is
their opportunity.
Let's see, Hale of Maine saw the hand
writing on the wall and declined to stand
for re-election to the senate on account
of his "health." Aldrich of Rhode Island,
after getting well started, backed out of
the senatorial race on account of his
"health." Senator Paynter of Ken
tucky, whose democracy is exactly like
the republicanism of Aldrich,. announced
that he would be a candiate for re-election.
But he will not be. He followed the
lead of Bailey, and he voted to retain the
unspeakable Lorimer. Then he heard
from home and withdrew from the race.
Through Senator Smith, chairman of
the senate committee on territories, Presi
dent Taft has announced that he will
veto the Arizona constitution or refuse
to approve it, which is the same thing
if the judiciary recall is not eliminated.
Of course the recall will be eliminated for
the reason that Arizonans want state
hood now. But if they do not, immediate
ly after achieving statehood, put the re
call back in and then wriggle their
fingers from the tips of their' noses in the
direction of the president, and all other
opponents of the recall, then we will be
lieve that Arizonans, instead of being
men of nerve, are a lot of tallow-spined
quitters.
Ethel Barrymore Colt has sued for a
divorce on the grounds of cruelty, as well
as upon statutory grounds. Ethel mar
ried a man five years her junior who hap
pened to be heir to the Colt millions
also heir to a consuming thirst, a craze
for the prize ring and a "bug" on chorus
girls: ' She says lier husband once struck
her while intoxicated while he was in
toxicated, we mean. Instead of suing for
a divorce on that account, Ethel,' who is
no sylph, should have taken Russ across
her knee and spanked him to a finish.
Senator Clark of Wyoming reminds us
of Sir Boyle Roche. It was Sir Boyle who
said in parliament, "I smell a rat. I see
him floating in the air! But we will yet
nip it in the bud!" Senator Clark recent-
The finding of the referee in the ouster
suit against Chief of Poilce Donahue of
Omaha occasions no surprise, unless it be
that it does not find Donahue guilty of
enough. Either Donahue knew that both
state law and city ordinance were being
violated every hour of the day and night,
within a stone's throw of the police sta
tion, or Donahue is too fearfully ignorant
to be connected with any department of
the city government. Knave, crook, ig
noramus or incompentent? Does it not
strike you that Donahue must come un
der one or the other?
A few weeks ago a Lincoln man tanked
up on booze and went home and beat. his
wife. He was arrested and sent-to jail,
for thirty days. In the meanwhile the.
bruised wife will have to earn the living
for herself and three small children. The
punishment falls on the wife and chil
dren; the drunken and brutal husband
enjoys a thirty days' vacation. We want
it distinctly understood by everybody
that Will Maupin's Weekly, favors the
establishment of the whipping post for
wife beaters.
There are six justices of the Nebraska
supreme court. All six of them live with
in 125 miles of the Missouri river. Three
of them live within 60 miles of the Mis
souri river. The western two-thirds of
the state is not represented on the su
preme bench. The voters should ' bear
these facts in mind on primary day. -
We are informed that at Ak:Sar-Ben's
den in Omaha the other night Governor
Aldrich drank milk. Our informant used
a tone of voice indicating surprise '. that
Otto Koutouc of Humboldt has filed as
a democratic candidate for regent. Mr.
Koutouc is a graduate of the University,
of Nebraskais a successful business man,,
and as a member of the legislature for
two terms demonstrated his ability as an
