The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, February 01, 1919, Image 1
:; M .i . i". iJtrtL jL - .A, m& . ' JBrtWi', r ' t- The Commoner ' ' ,; WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR tt- i i VOL. 19, NO. 2 Lincoln, Nebraska, February, 1919 Whole Number 718 Ratification Tho greatest moral reform of the generation' has been accomplished. Prohibition ia here and under conditions as favorable as could havebeen asked. Tho victory is more complete than the most sanguine expected. Forty-four' states have ratified when' only, thirty-six wore needed,, and tho few remaining ones will ratify when the people have another, opportunity to express them selves. The "wets said they -f oared lest the little states might force prohibition on the bjg- states, but the big states did not wait to bo forded they joined in' the movement and. helped to ratify. - . And it was not sectional. It began in the south and west, but it awopt northward and eastward until it won the support of ey.ry state WHAT'S HIS PLATFORM? Occasional mention is made of possible candidates? for the Presidency . and it is time, for In a little more than a year the- parties must choose, but none of tho men mentioned have announced a, platform. "What's his platform?" is the important question. The people cannot weigh can didates until-they know what they stand for. " 2)0 v A HIGHER REWARD The Buffalo Courier ventures the following; tlt must be concoded that Mr.. Bryan's pro- that touched the Canadian border ,nd lacks bat -tybttioncanjpaign has given him the ojily real two of including in its list that bolder on thV Atlantic the cities joined, the country Neither waMft 7iciffpje' iWwf W&V H Which Mr! Brynh hi htf'i part VS. . , . Mr. Bryan's Record Tho Boston Herald finds room in a recent r issuo for tho following editorial unda tho cap tion, " William J. Bryan Wins": "Ono of tho least Intelligent loaders of Amor-, Aj lean opinion has long boon Mr. William Jonningfl Bryarr, the. Boy Orator of tho Platte. Candor compels the acknowledgment, howevnr, tiiat mhny of the issues with which he identified him self long ago, havo found uccoptanco as national policies. Lot us sco: - "When free Bilver flagbod as a battlo cry, Mr. Bryan came out with tho demand that th popular election of United States senators should bo made a democratic Issue, and acceptance ht , it a test of party standing. Before that, while most democrats had favored tho change, no party linos were drawn oygi it. Ho drew them. Some, of the eastern' newspapers declared that h could nover carry his party over to such a proposal. But ho or gattibpdy oae haa carried not J 4JSjff m democratic party " was finlvt oflt -ancient enemy, the republican pallia the friendly con test for leadership in.tliraform-he two fought side by" alde.aM u$n qua-lly; In .thA glory. It was ardemoorailft conre that gave us a dry District, of Columbia, gtttynlijrton of the national amendment and war pf o&ibitioa, and a democratic president wAojni signature fixed Jmly let as the date for tlt doming ol th ifcVrta for ever in the United State, bit a republican con gress and a republican prefrtdefct wM liave done the same. Tfalii glory sMigh few -feW ', , The ppwor that fr mo long he paralysed ek ciency, pauperise communities, pe4tfoi society and polluted rUti le oWthrowri. Tb bdow ia lifted froVtlie:bt.sit ttc world niolc cj mo ueaa Kiat, uougni tnewyounf emm s Several others ara referred to fa another column oif this issue, Second, tho presidency is not the only, or cyan tho highest, reward that no can' win in politica. A great many peoplo render valuable public eryi:o without receiving any official reward whatever, snd only a very few caniiope to reach tho. WMte House. It is, much mbre important that the citizen shall do some thing for hi country than that his country shall dd''qmettilng fer kira.' The public man is kaown. ia hisy, not by tkeoes he Held, but by tho qoatrlbtttfo Ke madHhe nation's welfare;, it It is hegrresy-n&t whaj kt gotsihat; neVsrt hi Lreatnew and" Ws claim .torerer- 1M11M IHi-lC. f r : . life jr .: v .. vmATOtipj OOIJ DBFJKAED i'1 "Woman suffrage' failed 'by dno-vofre on last Monday, and goes over to the" next congress. The democrats turn over to the publicans tho honor of submitting tjio nintintli- amendment, An examination of the rote, "win show a divided1, responsibility for .the failure .of ttoc iuffwffr resolution in thejpreent cpngrss, While twc4- tUlrdS Of thft HmitTnni amtnKe vntnrl fh& could not have defeated it .Jilon: ttiev Millie aid of eleven , nofj:her-$ ropublicfans ' anO'four'V northern democrats ' two ot ' & dfliprts, , ; " Hitchcock and Pomerene, voting against the in-. V ! vtl0M 0j thir Jlturt. a did "two ro Publicans, WaflBworth nd B.orahtW latter a progressive. Ardne mor vptuldUir.Te car- , thnt I SVOral s,ifll? th5 rest of neir IlYes ,ex?lainntf yy.' not furnBll wu vole. But thi th laot .defeat for the WBolttUonrlt wil 'p M . mn . the next ZF", Qon?&n$ tfmanVaiJnsclenco will te w th Jna'rtjMgmitltQ hatfcen victory for WWT rlghteoui eas, ' Wr j, BRYAN. DESCOCRACr . jpemocracy is growing throughput the woi'ld, and "as it better understood tlie-dtjzea opposes g'ofernment liy any one class and turns with in creasin'g Confidence to a "government of the .people, by the people and Xor tho peoplo"- government, administered upon tho principle, "Equal rights to all nnd special privileges - to none CONTENTS RATIIICATION 1 A TTTGHER REWARD DELAYED, NOT DEFEATED MR BRYiVN'S RECORD THE PROFITEER GROUNDLESS OBJECTION INDEPENDENCE FOR ARMENIA NEBRASKA 3G SHAME ON NEW YORY DEMOCRACY - GUARANTEES OF PEACE DRY NATION OFFICIALLYPROCIvAIMED LUNCHEON TO MR. BRYAN HITCHCOCK REFUSES SUFFRAGE VOTE r.iW juice, or pri otherf non-!!ofccMie Mita- lent, has now fesepme th iiocwwary national beverage, und ve must repar to adjust our laws and euntoms, and evon our municipal taxa tion to a grip inlet basix. "Bryn further urged t)ie fedo al income tax, making wen iarly bittftr drive agairt Mr Jutice Shir, whfte changed vote had thrpwij -out th legiirtation along, this Jkc of the'Wton bi:. in the Clevaland administration. "What olie 'ha Bryan atood for?" I , .The first sntenco U not flattering, but the" Herald is doing so much better than It used to that 0M iriclintfd to be charitable. It it cannot refrajii from being complimentary wlieft It thinka Qt THREE reforms, whst eulogies may one ex jwet when it review the entire record. The readers of The Commoner will p-ardoo It - '.?TjJK for reiernng to some of, tne ajdjc questloms in in ) gotiiement or wnicn mr. isryan nag UKen a somewhat prominent part. 1st. The election of United States Kenators by direct' vote. Ho tfegan advocating It in 1800 (bo fore ho entered upon the discussion of the money question) and in 1913 twenty-threo years afterward signed the proclamation that mad it- a part of the conBtitutipn., 2nd. Ho helped to write tU income fax law of 1804 and when, a year afterward, it was de clared unconstitutional, he led the fight Zo& th constitutional amendment which was adoptod in' 1013 (and how could we have raised money to carry on the war without an inc.ome tax?1; 3rd. He rendered guch aid as he could in th fight for prohibition and it ig the greategt reform with which ho has had the hotor to bo con-" nected. Here are three far-reaching constitutional amendments which h.e has actively supported. 4th. He helped to create & cabinet pogitiou for a secretary of labor, to abolish government1 by injunction, to prohibit child-labor and io' secure an eight-hour day, 5th. 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