. . NEBRASKA STATU-
I CONCERNING MEN AND MATTERS
' The Epworth Leaguers congratulated
Governor Aldrich upon his heroism in
vetoing the Sunday base ball bill. It did
take nerve, but the Epworthians did not
look at it from the right viewpoint. The
governor did not veto the bill because he
opposed Sunday base ball, but because it
was not drawn to suit him. In fact he
offered to sign a Sunday base ball bill
that gave county commissioners jurisdic
tion outside of incorporated towns and
villages.
A few short months ago Nelson W
Aldrich held the senate of the United
States in the hollow of his hand. The
other day the pet scheme which Aldrich
had nursed for years, was knocked galley
west. It would seem that the senate is at
last getting somewhere near the people.
The commission soon to be appointed
by Governor Aldrich to study the matter
of workmen's compensation will have an
important duty to perform, and it should
be selected with great care. Not only
should the best representatives of the
classes interested be selected, but they
should be selected with a view to har
monious working together. It would be
easy to select representatives of labor
and capital who would be antagonistic
from the very start. Doubtless Governor
Aldrich will make the best possible selec
tions, but he would do well to act slowly
and after conferring with the parties at
interest.
It seems a bit strange that a progres
sive like LaFollette should be contending
for a retention of the most iniquitous
features of the Aldrich tariff law, the
woolen schedule. There is not one re
deeming feature about "Schedule K." It
is vicious in every line and paragraph,
and benefits no one save a few tariff
barons. It is of no practical benefit to
wool growers, robs the consumers and
enriches men already rich beyond the
dreams of avarice.
Dan V. Stephens says one of the chief
rewards coming to him because of his en
terprise and success as a farmer is that
men may no longer call him a "one-boss
politician." Mr. Stephens never was a
"one-hoss politician." He has been deep
ly interested in politics, but has played
the game squarely and with a master
hand. As an organizer he has few equals.
But we contend that it is as a farmer
that he ranks highest. But, as before re
marked, if Mr. Stephens still has a de
sire to represent the Third district in
congress, we are for him, although we
can not understand why a man with such
a farming record should desire to do any
thing else.
The last legislature appropriated $100,
000 for a state medical college at Omaha,
the same to be a part of the university
and under the control of the regents.
There is grave doubts about the appro
priation being constitutional, the char
ter of the university providing that all
of its departments shall be within five
miles of the capitol building. To test the
matter the regents have drawn a voucher
for $10 for cutting weeds upon the pro
posed sight in Omaha, and presented it to
the auditor against the appropriation.
The whole matter is thus brought up to
the auditor and attorney general.
As usual the professional reformers
reformers who shoot off their mouths a
lot did not come to the front on primary
day. Judge I. L. Albert of Columbus
should have received ten times more
votes than he did receive. His fight for
the passage of the "anti-white slave bill"
in the last legislature should have made
him the prime favorite among people who
claim to favor decency. Instead, they neg
lected to vote, and the vile interests hurt
by the Albert's law knifed him to the
limit. " It seems ever thus. The reform
ers do all the bloviating and the "in
terests" do all the voting ; the reformers
pray a lot and work not at all, the "in
terests" don't pray a bit but work like
thunder. And result the "interests"
usually win.
Do the republicans of Nebraska, who re
cently endorsed the Taft administration,
also endorse the Taft doctrine that the
right of the majority to rule without limit
is restricted by the constitution? Do they
endorse his declaration that judges elect
ed by the people are not subject to tho
people? The people of Arizona made fo;
themselves a constitution under which
they would be pleased to live. It did not
interfere in any way with the rights and
privileges of the citizens of Ohio. Nono
who objected to that constitution was
compelled to live under it. It dealt only
with Arizona and Arizonans. Yet the
president of the United States denies to
the Arizonans the right to make a con
stitution that suits them and which in no
wise interferes with the citizens of other
states. As between an executive who
will not allow citizens of a prospective
state to make a constitution to suit them,
and federal judges who can and do set
aside laws that the people want, we seem
to have drifted an almighty long ways
from our original republican moorings.
Those Douglas democrats seem to have
it in for Shallenberger, and for anybody
connected with his administration.
Hence Furse, who should have had no op
position, was slaughtered. The situation
bought about last fall in democratic cir
cles is going to have a bad influence for
years to come. There are a lot of demo
crats outside of Douglas just aching for a
chance to get a whack at something Doug
las democrats want.
Of course the president will veto the
wool bill. . Failure to do so would put
him out of the running, although we
credit him with vetoing it because he is.
wedded to the doctrine of high protec
tion. But, just the same, the day is not
far distant when the infamous woolen
schedule will be shot all to pieces.
Mrs. Louis Wissenberger of Granite
City, 111., keeps boarders. She also had
a 17-year old daughter. The daughter
loved a boarder named "Jack," but the
mother wanted her to marry another
boarder, one who had a wife but was suing
for a divorce. The girl refused, and
when told to either give up "Jack" or
never darken the doors of home again, she
took carbolic acid and died. The girl was,
of course, very foolish for committing
suicide. What she should have done was
to marry "Jack" when she got good and
ready. We say this advisedly because any
mother who would demand that her 17-year-old
daughter agree to marry a man
already wed and seeking a divorce cer
tainly would guess a man wrong. There
fore we hold that "Jack"' was a good
fellow. It may sound a bit barbarous, but
Will Maupin's Weekly holds to the opin
ion that there are cases wherein it is not
a crime to kill someone who particularly
needs killing. In this instance the wrong
female swallowed the poison.
Do not become discouraged because a
lot of Board of Trade men, of Omaha
scouted around a bit and then returned
with gloomy tales about the corn crop.
There will be lots of corn in Nebraska.
Not a bumper crop, to be sure, but lots
of corn just the same. And things will
be all right, you bet. And suppose we did
have a practical failure of the corn crop,
what of it? It wouldn't be such an awful
calamity not what such a failure would
have been twenty years ago. We are not
increasing our corn acreage. On the con
trary it is decreasing. Why? Because
we are discovering other and more profit
able crops. We are diversifying our farm
ing. If the corn crop is short now and
then we merely pass it off as an incident,
for have we not wheat, and oats, and rye,
and alfalfa, and dairying, and potatoes,
and speltz, and beets and clover, and poul
try and eggs and a lot of other things?
The man who gets frightened over a fail
ure of the corn crop ought to take some
thing for his nerve.
