The Commoner.
OCTOBER 6, 1911
Mr. Bryan's Nebraska Tour
Following is a special dispatch, printed In
the Omaha World-Herald: Lincoln, Neb., Sept.
27. Chairman J. 0. Byrnes of tho democratic
state central committee, this afternoon gave
out the speaking engagements for W. J. Bryan
in Nebraska which have been completed up to
the present time. The tour through tho north
eastern part of the state has not yet been com
pleted and the dates will bo announced later.
The completed list contemplates forty-three
speeches. The tour through the northeastern
part of the state and other dates not announced
will probably bring the total to sixty.
These speeches will be made in the interests
of the democratic state ticket. A considerable
part of the time, however, will probably bo occu
pied by Mr. Bryan in a discussion of national
issues. Tho itinerary follows:. Thursday,
October n, Elmwood 11 a. m., Syracuse 3:30 p.
m., Auburn, 8 p. m.; Friday, October G, Tecum
seh 11 a', m., Pawnee 8.30 p. m., Falls City, 8
p. m.; Saturday, October 7, Fairbury 11 a. m.;
IN THE THIRD NEBRASKA DISTRICT
The democrats of the Third Nebraska district
met at Norfolk, Neb., for tho purpose of nomi
nating a candidate to succeed the late Con
gressman James P. Latta. On the first foririal
ballot Dan V. Stephens of Fremont was nomi
nated. Resolutions were adopted as follows:
"We, the democrats of the Third congres
sional district, in convention assembled:
"Heartily indorse the last democratic rational
and state platforms, and insofar as they touch
questions of import in the pending congres
sional campaign, we adopt them literally and
make them part and parcel of thi3 declaration
of principles:
. "We especially commend the democratic ma
jority in the present house of congress for the
constructive ability displayed in the late special
session, and for the honest effort "to relieve the
country from many of the oppressive and tho
unjust provisions of the republican tariff
schedules, and we regrot that a republican presi
dent saw lit to destroy with his veto so much
legislation in the interest of the whole people.
"We are opposed to tho secret political
caucus. Politics in the interest of the people
does not fear the light nor seek the shades of
secrecy. We pledge the nominee of this con
vention in his capacity as a member of congress
to earnest and faithful effort for the enactment
of legislation in harmony with the best pro
gressive thought of the country, no matter from
what source such proposed legislation may
reach the halls of congress.
"We send a message of greeting and good
cheer to Nebraska's first citizen and democrat,
William J. Bryan, and bid him godspeed in his
noble work of carrying to the uttermost parts
of our nation the true principles of democracy
as they were first proclaimed by Thomas Jeffer
son and later exemplified by Andrew Jackson
and in this day so safely applied by the demo
cratic majority in congress in effort to enact
legislation which will work the greatest good
to the greatest number."
The resolutions committee was as follows:
W. H. Green, Creighton, chairman; G. L.
Loomis, Fremont; H. E. Phelps, Ho wells;
Mayor Bishop, Central City; Edgar Howard,
Columbus; Judge Cowan, Stanton; Mark Mur
ray, Pender; J. W. Rice, Neligh.
The Norfolk News report says:, "As the last
paragraph of the resolutions was read, praising
Bryan, great cheers arose in the convention."
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT DAN V.
STEPHENS
Stanton (Neb.; Register: Dan Stephens is an
Ideal candidate and one who has the ability and
courage to represent this district right.
Creighton (Neb.) Liberal: The nomination
of Dan V. Stephens for congress (in tho Third
Nebraska district) last Tuesday had been fore
shadowed ever since the death of Mr. Latta.
Stephens has a likeable personality and in tho
paBt six yars he has made the personal acquain
tance of a large number of tho voters of this
district. Politically Mr. Stephens has always
been right and it was his wish, expressed be
fore tho resolutions committee, that partisan
ship would not stand in his way in supporting
progressive measures. The La Follette repub
licans of this district will be able to tell where
Mr. Stephens stands on the questions now agt-
Wymoro 3:30 p. m Beatrico 8 p. m.;
Monday, Octobor 9, Seward 11 a. m., Hebron 8
p. m.; Tuesday Octobor 10, Gonova 11 a. m.,
York 3:30 p. m., Aurora 8 p. m.; Wednesday,
October 11, Clay Center 11 a. m., Superior 3:30
p. m., Red Cloud 8 p. m.; Thursday, October 12,
Bloomington 11 a. m., Orleans 3:30 p. m.,
Beaver City, 8 p. m.; Friday, October 13, Cam
bridge 11 a. m., Elwood 3:30 p. nr., Holdrogo
8 p. m.; Saturday, Octobor 14, Mindon 11 a. in.,
Kearney 3:30 p. m., North Platte 8 p. m.; Mon
day, October 16, Lexington 11 a. m., Eddyvillo
3:30 p. m., Broken Bow 8 p. m.; Tuesday,
October 17, Loup City 11 a. m., Ord 3:30 p. m.,
Greeley 8 p. m.; Wednesday, October 18, St.
Paul 11 a. m.; Hastings 3:30 p. m., Grand
Island 8 p. ra.; Thursday, October 19, Central
City 11 a. m., Schuyler 3:30 p. m., Columbus, 8
p. m.; Friday, October 20, Central City 11 a. m.,
Fullerton 3:30 p. m., Osceola 8 p. m.; Saturday,
October 21, David City 11 a. m., Wahoo 3:30
p. m., Fremont 8 p. m.
tating the people. Tho question of majority is
all tho question there is over Mr. Stephens'
election.
Norfolk (Neb.) Press: Every man In the
Third district would vote for Don if they know
him as his friendB know him. He is big, broad,
clean, and not afraid to tell any man the truth.
He is a natural leader and a clean fighter. There
is no skull duggory, no knife-In-the-back busi
ness about him. Tho Press is proud to call
him friend and that too considering that Dan
and the writer have not always been of tho
samo mind.
Wayne (Neb.) Democrat: Dan Stephens will
be in position to do more for Nebraska and
this district than any member of tho majority
party in the house could do, so to us It ap
pears that it would, bo wise to make the election
of Dan Stephens unanimous.
Practical Tariff Talks
In considering the pleas made by President
Taft on behalf of his veto of tho democratic
wool tariff bill and in defense of his tariff board
method of determining a proper basis for future
tariff legislation, the fact should not bo over
looked that under tho law creating that board
it Is provided that whatever data, facts or con
clusions tho board reaches in its investigation
of any schedule, are to be communicated, not
to congress, for whoso special benefit it is to
be gathered, but to the president himself. That
board is not to communicate the results of its
investigations to tho body charged with the
duty of making tariff bills, but is to remain
under the control of the president, to make
public or to bo withheld as ho pleases. The
opportunity is presented, under this procedure,
of allowing congress to know only what the
president desires it to know. How great a
confidence is it possible to place in data gathered
and communicated under such restrictions?
The president complains of the wool bill
which he vetoed that it was not based on any
accurate Information of which ho had been
made aware. Whoso fault waa this? When
the democratic house ways and means committee
was molding this bill It made a request of tho
tariff board that it communicate to tho com
mittee whatever information it possessed that
would be of value In tho task then under way.
It was known and la true that at tho tlmo the
board had practically completed Its investiga
tion of tho cost of woolgrowlng in Ohio and
other sections of tho United States, sections
which, for obvious reasons, must represent the
maximum of woolgrowlng cost. This informa
tion was denied the committee, upon the Instruc
tion of tho president. Both the board and Mr.
Taft took the position apparently that they were
the judges of what part of tho data would bo
of service in revising tho tariff, and it comes
with poor grace from the president to accuse
tho committee of proceeding without accurate
information of tho woolgrowlng Industry when
he withheld or caused to be withheld informa
tion that ho assures tho people Is most accurate?
dcslro to secure Information upon which a
propor tariff bill, from tho protectionist stand
point, might bo molded, caimcd Information to
bo gathered. In 1891 Prcaldont Harrison caused
tho commissioner of labor to send a corps of
exports into tho factories of ISuropo and America
in quest of accurato information aa to labor
cost. Mr. Harrison was a bollcvor In tho pro
tectionist doctrino that the rate of duly ought to
roprosent tho dlfforonco In labor coHt here and
abroad, and not knowing what that labor cost,
either hero or abroad, was why he causod Inquiry
to bo made. In May, 1892, Labor Commlsaloner
Wright submitted a report covering this matter
with respect to several Induutrlcs, tho cotton
and wool among thorn. With respect to cotton
it was found that tho labor cost In tho United
States, in selected factories, wob 27.44 per
cent of the total cost, whilo in England it was
20.33 per cent.
Comprehensive roports were also nubmittod
with respect to tho woolen manufacturers.
Thirty establishments In tho United States woro
studied, and the labor cost was figured to bo
$982,981 of tho total cost of $1,705,112, or
20.80 per cont. This roport embraced tran
scripts of tho testimony brought out by hear
ings of tho British tariff commission in which
It was shown that tho labor coat represented
from 14 to 24 per cont of tho total cost of pro
duction. These reports woro submitted to con
gress, and are among its archives today. Twlco
after tho republican paTty, which pretends to bo
devoted to this prlnclplo of protection on bo
half of tho laboring man In 1897 and In 1909
passed tariff laws In which the cotton cloth
schedules carried from 33 to 51 per cent, pro
tcctlon and woolen cloths averaging over 100
per cent. Having tho power to fix duties In
accordance with tho protective Idea it protends
allegiance to and having before It Information
the Wright report Is by no means all that Is
op file It re-enacted tho eamo high prohlbltlvo
duties that havo generally existed for fifty
years. It could not and did not plead Ignorance,
tho showing of fact made by Dolllver and La
Follette going unreplled to and uncontradicted
and also disregarded. If on tho protenso of
revising the tariff again as soon as tho presi
dent's board reports as to facts upon which to
mako a scientific revision, can tho republican
party bo trusted to do what It has, under similar
circumstances, refused and neglectod hereto
fore to do? C. Q. D.
JUDGES ARE MEN
That courts aro not entirely above criticism
was tho opinion of the late Senator Georgo F.
Hoar of Massachuseots, who, whilo a member
of tho house of representatives in 1876, said:
"My own public lifo has been a very brief and
insignificant one, extending very little beyond
tho duration of a single term of senatorial office.
But in that brief period I have seen five judgos
of a high court of the United States driven from
office by threats of Impeachment for corrup- ,
tlon or maladministration. I havo seen in tho
stat of the union foremost in power and wealth
four judges of her courts impeached for corruption."
SENATOR MYERS OF MONTANA
Hamilton, Mont, Sept. 23, 1911. C. W.
Bryan, publisher Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Neb:
In a few days I leave for Washington city to
give my attention to departmental matters. I
will ask you to kindly change tho address of
Tho Commoner back to Washington, D. C.
I am glad to report that I find democratic
prospects in Montana fine and most encourag
ing. With a good nominee for president, who
is in good touch with tho masses of tho people
and responsive to their needs and demands, I
feel sure that democracy will next year carry
Montana. Yours truly, H. L. MYERS.
This is not the first tlmo that a president of
tho United States, In an apparently honest
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