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TIII3 COMMONlf.it, LINCOLN, NEIL
Secretary McAdoo says that one billion a year
will pay the interest- on ilie national debt, even
if it is increased from sixteen and one-half bil
lions to nearly twenty-five before we return to
normal conditions. One billion does not look aa
big as it did a few years ago before wo became
accustomed to war estimates, but it is. still quite
a sum. And, yet, it is less than one-half the
amount spent annually on intoxicating liquor
in-this country five years ago. Prohibition has
come at an opportune time; we can use one-half
of the nation's drink bill to pay the interest and
with tho other half retire the bonds in twenty
five yoar3. If tho bonded indebtedness does not
reach twenty-five million "the task will be still
easier.
In like manner Groat Britain, France, Italy,
and oven Germany, can reduce the burden of
. their war debts, and at the same time increase
tho physical strength, the mentaUenergy and the
moral welfare of their people. Surely the time
is ripe for world prohibition. W. J. BRYAN.
Columbus, Ohio, boasts of a man who bleeps
but aixtoon hours out of tho 1G8 in a week. He
ought to bo ablo to qualify as tho best man
avallablo for keoplhg watch on tho next repub
lican congross.
It usod to bo that the chief difficulty for the
courts Irt passing upbn a divorce case was who
was to gdt tho "children and who should support
them, but now It is a contost-'over which shall
got the automobile.
Tho doubt expressed by the allies is not be
causo of any unbelief in tho claim that it Is a
"made . in .Germany" revolution? but whether it
was manufactured In the ka!sorhof or at general
grand headquarters.,,
Tho junk bus'noss ought to bo pretty good
around tho capitals of ' Gormany and Austria,
where so many crownB havo been tossed aside,
and whore the thrown room is filled consider
ably fuller than tho throne room.
It's rather difficult for a person to change his
habits after they once get fixed, but we shall
try our best to live up to the Increased ration
of sugar that the government has graciously
pormlttod us to havo in tho future.
There io now talk of arresting Hindenburg
and bringing him to trial before some allied
court, s this a subtle effort on tho part of his
friends to enable him to keep some of those
numerous Paris dinner dates of his? "
Old customs are not so harl to break as it
might seem on first thought. Not one. of- the
, dethroned kings in Europe seems to havo been
served with the customary two weeks' notice
that his services wore no longer desired.
It usod to bo that the man who received a
salary had tho idea that he was just a little bit
larger toad in the puddlo .than the man who
gqt wages, but this opinion does not seem to
bo hold by the bankers of tho present era. -
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Wall street, says a Washington dispatch, is
looking for a lively and long discussion in con
gress this winter over the question of continued
government operation or ownership of railroads,
but does not think much will come of It. Wall
street is getting forgetful. It is true that the
republicans won control of congress at the recent
elections, but they won't take charge until the
winter is over.
The baseball leagues are again poking their
heads out of the greensward, and we are in
formed that we will again have a chance to wit
ness real baseball games next year. We opine
it wilT be rather tame, however, to any of the
boys who have been across the pond where they
had a chance to look at the biggest world's
series ever pulled off.
Our offhand opinion is that those eminent
gentlemen who are contending that the Burest
guarantee of a permanent peace lies in a scheme
of preparedness for war that embraces universal
military training and compulsory military service
will not call Germany and France to the stand
as the first witnesses in support of their case.
Massachusetts has adopted the initiative and
referendum a device for lodging in the hands
of the people the right to Initiate or disapprove
of legislation. One who remembers with what
hoots of derison the east greeted this western
reform a few years ago when it made Us first
bow will not require any further evidence to
show that the world does move. eviuence t0
t;, J;lere iB ?eally no need for ay committee of
the senate to go to France an Amf u .
available for giving djC?n The maMngofthe
treaty of peace. Judging from, the writings we
are convinced that the only men who lelZl
they are fully qualified for this role arP 2
osteemed editors of the metropXn'dailSs
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OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS
OJut where the handclasp's a little stronger
Out where the smile dwells a Ijttle longer' -That's
were the west begins,
wwl n& tUe sun shlnes - Wttlo brighter
Where the snows that fall arG a trifle whipr -Where
the boLds of homo t2ZKLr
That's were the west begins T '
Out where the skies are a trifle bluer .
TliHRend8lliPnties aro little truer, ,
, That's were -the west begins
Out where a fresher breeze is blowing v
Where there's laughter in every samlet flow,
Where there's more of reanimr'anrt ipao n
That's where the west begins. eSS f S0lng'
Out where the world istill in the making
Where fewer hearts wiffi dnqnnii! 2r5 ei
That's were the west begta! ""
tUs?ghTngm0r f SingiUg and
Whre 'buying'11101'0 f Eivin and lew of
Where a man makes friends withmu tfr.it . ,
That's were, the west bogtaS . ' " tryIne
By Arthur Chapman.
1010
NATION GQES BONE DRY ON JULY 1
A Waslnncfrm. D. ft rifmnfii, .it. ..
says: The United States will be bono drv . '
Juno 30 next until tho termination of donJSf
izatlon of America's fighting forces la proclafi
by the Pres!dent of the United States ed
This tremendous victory for prohibition of ti,A
liquor traffic Was accomplished late yestorZ
when President -Wilson signed tho food mS
tio.i stimulation bill containing the Jones natZ
wide prohibition rider. uon
The effect of tho law is as follows
After May 1, 1919, until the conclusion of tho
present war and thereafter until the termination
of demobilization, the date of which Bhall be
determined and proclaimed by the President of
the United States, no grain, cereals, fruits or
other products Bhall be used in the manufacture
or production of beer, wine, or other intoxicating
malt or vinous liquor for beverage purposes.
After June 30, 1919,- until the conclusion of
the present war and thereafter until the termina.
tion of demobilzatlon, the date of which shall
be determined and proclaimed by the President
of the United States, no beer, wine, or other in
toxicating malt or vinous liquor shall be sold
for beverage purposes except for export.
The provision further directs:
The commissioner of internal revenue is here
by authorized and directed to prescribe rules
and regulations, subject to the approval of the
secretary of, the treasury, in regard to the manu
facture and sale of distilled spirits and removal
of distilledspirits held In bond as of Juno 30,
1919, until this act snail cease to operate, for
other than beverage purposes; also in regard to
the manufacture, sale, and. distribution of wine
for sacramental, medicinal or other than bever
age uses.
After the approval of this act no ' distilled,
malt, vinous or other intoxicating liquors shall
be imported, into the -United States during the
continuance of the present war and period of
demobilization except wines, which may be im
ported until May 1, 1919, provided that this pro
vision against importation shall not apply to
shipments enroute to the United States at tho
, time of the passage of thisact,
Reluctant as. we may be to admit the fact the
result of the election in November indicates very
clearjy that the republicans don't know how to
, take a joke. We refer to the jest that America
went into the war to "make the world safe for
the democratic patty."
Colonel Roosevelt,- taking him by and largo,
is a man .of considerable influence, and he cer
tainly ca,n combine words and -phrases, but no
newspaper seemed to have been able to have
landed him a position as correspondent with tho
Wilson peace party.
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