The Sunday Bee
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OMAHA—A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE.
The tremendous development of the empire
that stretches west of the Missouri river has come
so quickly that those who have lived through it and
been a part of it often fail to realize that we have
only just begun to grow.
It is here at Omaha, the gateway to this em
pire, that the west begins. There is a-thrill, too, in
this, a thrill that comes to us when we read the lines
of that poet of the west who told the spirit of this
land:
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger.—
Out where the smile dwells a little longer—
That's whore the West begins;
Out where the sun la a little brighter.
Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter.
Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter—•
That’s where the West begins.
Those who know Omaha realize that those things
of which the poet wrote find their beginning here.
A wise man once said: “Without a vision the people
perish.” Here in Omaha is the vision and the spirit
that makes great accomplishment possible—that
makes of Omaha a good place to live.
We will quote another wise saying from him
who said that “history is but the length and breadth
of the shadow of a man.”
A city is the length and breadth of the shadow
of its leaders. The leaders in Omaha, with the of
ficers of the Omaha Real Estate Board in the van,
nr* st this time planning to tell the story of Omaha
to the rest of the world in a well thought out ad
vertising campaign. This advertising is to appear
in ths Omaha newspapers.
The Associated Retailers have unanimously joined
in the plan. Other business men’s organizations are
preparing to join, and the story, as it is finally told,
will be the pride of Omaha.
The Omaha Bee extends-its appreciation to the
leaders of this plan of elvie statesmanship. Omaha
has a wonderful story to tell and it will be well told.
In this story will be the proof that Omaha is a good
place to live.
CHILD LABOR WEEK OPENS.
Chjld labor week is now in progress. The pro
gram is intended as the opening of a serious cam
paign to secure the adoption of an amendment to
The Constitution pf the United States that will for
bid child labor. Those who are concerned in the
work believe that the decision of the supreme court,
in June, 1921, disposes of the hope of securing re
lief by legislation, that an amendment is the only
possible course.
Little need to discuss the theme in detail. Sup
port that was given under Taft and under Wilson
to the movement, resulting in the enactment of two
laws which are declared invalid by the courts, was so
general it may be assumed the preponderance of
sentiment in favor of the abolition of child labor is
overwhelming. This does not mean that children
may not be employed at useful tasks within their
capacity, but that they are not ta be exploited in
factory, field, mine or workshop.
Nebraska has a compulsory education law, and
child labor laws, but neither is 100 per cent effec
tive. Many evasions and even open infractions of
both laws are noted from time to time. The reports
made to the superintendent of public instruction
indicates a laxity on part of local officers that is not
encouraging. This is referred to merely to give an
ides of the difficulty in overcoming the inertia that
exists. Society is vitally interested in this, for it
holds the future of the race. The child of today
is the adult of tomorrow.
Ministers in many pulpits throughout the land
will give attention to the subject today, especially
dealing with it as part of the great campaign that
is opening. If they can sense aright the danger of
the present treqd of life and thought, and make
clear to the minds of those who listen to them th*
need of a change, the work will be well begun.
It is not so much the stunted, foreshortened child
hood that should be the subject of debate, but the
narrowed and.restricted life of all, a result of the
materialistic aspect that has coiled around the soul
of man and is setting wealth as the goal rather
than happiness.
Altruism as such is involved, but in a misun
derstood way. When it is kept in mind that in help
ing others one really helps himself. That no man,
or group, or nation can permanently prosper at tha
expanse of another, then it will appear that what
may on the surface seem a sacrifice is iastsad an
invaatment. Any investment that is mads today in
a way that will insure a better tomorrow is a wise
outlay, whether it be in money or in sen-ice,
What better outlay could bo made tbsn (o make
certain that all the boys and girls of America are
Ifiven a chance to develope mentally, physically and
morally through their growing years, so that when
the time comes for them to step into the ranks of
the workers, they will come prepared in strength
and etature, and not stunted in any of those at
tributes that arq essential to the doing well of any
part of the world’s work? Wipe out child labor,
with its attendant evils, and make sure of tomorrow.
TONY’S MIND STANDS HICH.
Little Tony came along In the line headed fur
the serving counter at the cafeteria of the Technical
High school. Naturally the visitor’s sye noted him,
for Tony is somewhat less than the "half-portion"
so often served. He stands just about knea high to
the husky lad who preceded him, and tha same to
the girl who came after, but he Is proving that
Height has nothing to do with tt>e case.
Principal Porter, answering the expected ques
tions before they wers asked, said that Ton* stands
well in his class work, that hs had a most excellent
mark la hi* reesnt mentality test, and that hs is tab>
Ing ths cjtjegs preparatory course, looking ahead to
the day when he will be fitted for some other vocation
than s.lling The Omaha Bee to his customers. For
Tony is a newsboy as well as a student, and as good
at the one as at the other.
Here is a fine example in proof of Pope’s asser
tion that “The mind’s the measure of the man.”
Tony is greatly handicaped physically, but he has
risen superior to his crippled and undeveloped
envelope of flesh and bone, and aspires to some
thing higher. One of these days he will be a leader
among the people. It is not possible for a man to
grow out of a boy like him and be. of little account
in the world.
Tony will not be the first to so conquer mis
fortune, and not the last, either. His very greatest
spur is the trick that nature played him. The old
dame compensated him by providing a mind that is
as capable of great things as his body is condemned
to the small. So in Tony we may note the budding
of that which in. time will blossom into strong and
useful manhood, measured by capacity for service
and not by physical bulk. And such men have
brought the world far along on its way to ultimate
perfection.
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be
called the children of tiod.”
Standing upon the mount made famous and
sacred by reason of being selected as the site from
which to deliver the famous sermon that con
templates the entire scope of civilization, the Car
penter of Nazareth uttered that one of the Beati
tudes, perhaps the greatest of them all. And ever
since he looked out upon the upturned faces of that
multitude of the common people, the common people
of all countries have been seeking peace, have
yearned to be real peacemakers because they have
yearned to be called the children of God.
But all the while the common people were grop
ing their blind way, seeking the light that would
save, they have been betrayed and deceived by
princes and potentates, by diplomats and devotees
of things as they arc, and in these latter days by
men who call themselves statesmen, hut too often
are mere partisans.
Six years have not yet elapsed since the whole
civilized world was in arms and the blood of millions
being shed. The maimed, the halt and the blind,
grim flotsam and jetsam of the storms of hatreds and
passions of warring nations still cumber the shores
of time. Widows’ tears have not yet ceased to flow,
and the plaintive cries of orp,haned children con
tinue to greet the dawn and bid farewell to each suc
ceeding twilight.
With countless millions hoping and praying for
some eneans or method of preventing future wars,
for some process whereby men may settle their dif
ferences as they should be settled by those made in
the likeness of their Creator instead of settling them
asthe beastsof the jungle settle theirdifferences,there
are men so blinded by partisanship, so biased by
prejudice, that they sneer and cavil at any plan pro
posed that aims at the desired and much needed
result.
Politicians may be worried by ins and outs of the
organization that resulted in the submission of the
Bok peace plan, but the great common people, the
people who sacrifice the blood and foot the bills are
only worried about the delay in solving the greatest
problem of all time—how to secure and maintain
universal peace. The common people do not care a
rap who submits a plan for world peace; they care
even less about the organization of individuals. They
want some peace plan, and they want it discussed in
terms of human blood and sacrifice, in terms of use
less destruction of property and resort to barbarism.
They do not want it discussed in terms of partisan
ship or prejudice. Sonless mothers, husbandlcss
wives and fatherless children cry out to high heaven
against making of earnest efforts at world peace the
footballs of conscienceless politicians. From the
depths of anguished hearts they cry to high heaven
for emancipation from customs and traditions that
threaten at any hour to call men of all nations again
to fratricidal strife.
And blessed are those who are striving with hon
est hearts and clean motives to further the cause of
universal peace. Men who sneer and cavil, men- who
yield to partisanship and prejudice, men who palter
and delay lest they endanger their own political fu
tures, will in time find their names pronounced
anathema by the future historians of the race.
Somewhere there is the germ that will, if
watered and nourished, blossom into peace. Men
and women who love their families, their countries
and their God, seek that germ, and are willing to
water it with their tears and cultivate it with bleed
ing hands on bended knees if necessary.
And such as these have been pronounced the
Children of God by the Master Teacher who stood
upon the mountain side and taught the multitude of
common people who listened to His inspired voice.
Why not turn over all th# nonwinning paper*
In th* Bok contest to Senator Reed, and let him
spend the re*t of his life quietly examining the bunch
in the hope of finding a plan that will suit him?
The retired pay of the king of Greer# is $28,000
a year. We know quite a number of men who would
retire from almost anything for that annual stipend.
• ' ' "
Governor Pinchot announce* that he is not a
presidential candidate. Several other governors are
in exactly the same position, but they don’t know it.
Really, it would seem that all this "after you, my
dear Alphonse” atuff in democratic circles is be
coming very much bedtimey story gush.
Marconi’s statement that it will soon be possible
to telephone anywhere in the world without wires
Is subject to th# ‘‘atmosphere busy” wheeze.
When Britons do not like their administration
they change it over night. Over here w# stand
around and cuss for a couple of years.
A Kansas exchange says It is remarkable how
men will lie about their furnaces and their dogs.
But why omit the golf Ananias?
The Tag arrested with nothing in his pockets
but a vanity case, will have 30 days for uninterrupt
ed primping and lipsticking.
And another difference between Kdward Bok
und Senator Reed is that Mr. Bok is always a
courteous gentleman.
The 22,000 unsuccessful contestants in th* Rok
peace prize contest are also quite sure that Mr. Bok
needs investigating.
Obregon’s troops In Texas enjoyed a far differ
ent reception than that accorded to Santa Ana’s
many years ago. *
A lot of congressmen have misunderstood us, »o
they are eaylng it for hours instead of saying it with
flowers.
*‘A friend In need is a friend indeed,” now ns al
ways, but in Ms Fall's case the "in deed” was very
visible.
However, oil from Teapot Dome has not had the
effect of stilling the troubled senatorial waters.
Prairiegraphs
THE MAN 1 WANT TO KNOW.
There's one fine man I'd like to meet
Before I'm called to my long rest;
One man I want to see and greet
And tell him that I love him best.
I cannot find out where lie lives,
Nor have I heard his given nanis.
His street address he never gives,
And always signs his name the ram*
He works for good and makes no fuss,
This fine man called •'Anonymous.”
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He's always quick to help the poor.
To feed the hungry, 'tend the sick;
And when he sees affliction sore
He’s there to do his share, and
quick. ^
Tou’II find him nam*d on ev'rv list
Of donors for the common good;
That name, you'll note, is never
misled
In drives for greater brotherhood.
I want to meet this kindly’cuss
i Who signs his name "Anonymous."
While others seek the limelight's glow
Or make a bid for world's accRlirn,
This man I wifht to meet and know
Keeps hid and tries to dodge all
fame.
But when there's need of kindly aid |
To quickly banish want and v'oe.
The roll will find his name displayed— |
The same old name we all well
know.
I’ve sinvply got to meet the cuss
I've long known as "Anonymous.”
It may not be that we shall meet
This side of Ueath's cold sullen
flow;
I may not have a chance to greet
This kindly man—but this I know—
That if I make the grade and find
That home 'midst angels bright and
fair,
I'll meet this man so good and fine
And get his full name over there,
t hope they'll make a pair of us—
Me and old "Anonymous."
After something like 40 years of
running ’round in circles every two
| years, rending my nether garments
and yowling like a hyena, and all for
tlie sole purpose of boosting some fel
low in a political office, I have re
formed. It has taken me Just about
four decades to learn that I was wast
ing my time by boosting for some
fellow who had no higher motive than
to get a soft Job and no greater am
bition than a salary drawn from the
public treasury. And all that time I
was living in hope that suoncr or
later one of them would show at least
feeble symptoms of gratitude.
I've quit worrying about the safety
of the republic. No longer do I be
lieve that the country will go to the
demnltion bow-wows unless my candi
dates are elected and the principles I
advocate prevail.
Quit ^worrying about the corr/mon
people, too. They are always getting
just what entitlements are due them.
Perhaps not what they really ought
to have, but all they have Justly com
ing to them. Yes, I am fully aware
that many abuses rfre heaped upon
them, hut how long would they have
to carry the load If they could agree
on what abuses to pet rid of first, and
then agree upon a thcthod of getting
rid of them?
Tom Johnson of Ohio, w ho w as real
ly a reformer, once said that every
time hethad the people of Ohio about
ready trl do some real reform work,
the Interests he was attacking would
start a prohibition fight, and by the
time the people had settled down his
reform was all off. and had to be
started again.
While yet a young man I and my
companions used to take note of every
long haired man or short-haired wo
man who came to town; of any stran
ger whose attire was eccentric or who
had a different air. And we’d always
ask. "Wonder what his graft Is."
Nowdays, whenever I spot one of
these ultra-reformers, one of these
fellows who are honing so greatly to
serve the dear pee pul, I simply ask
myself, "Wonder what Iris graft Is?"
Pessimistic? N'ot at all. Juat
sophisticated. I am done with re
formers until we catch up with some
of the reforms we already have. I
am forever off all proposed panaceas
for political ills. It isn't panaceas we
need; it's rommon sense. But our
greatest need Is to buckle down to
honest toil, down to digging and delv
ing. spinning and weaving, building
nnd making, and quit trying to ex
tract sunshine and prosperity from
political cucumbers.
My good friend, Frank Harrison, Is
hark from California, and of course
Frank has something else up his
sleeve other than hi* arm. Don't
I.now what It is. but time will tell.
Maybe he is back to give the HI
Johnson boom s boost, and maybe
not But I'll siy this much for Frank,
he can buy 15 worth of postal cards,
run them through his battered old
typewrite* and raise more political
hades than any ten men can raise
with a big slush fund and an army of
stenographers.
NEBRASKA LIMERICK.
There was a young fellow In Wayne
W ho suffered from girl on-the-hraylie.
But the young lady's dad
Kicked the young man so bad
He hasn't railed on her again*.
It Isn't the action* of tha young
folks of today that worry parent*.
The worry comes when parent* try to
keep up with their children.
In view of nil the circumstances,
and taking the situation Into dua con
sideration. 1 have an Idea that the
Statue of Liberty Is glad she has her
back turned to this country.
Gwendoline: What would I do If I
had my life to live over? Dear girlie,
you have asked the Impossible ques
tlon. I slmplv couldn't live my life
over. I simply eouldn't stand It. But
I'd start eut a hit more discreetly,
save several things I recklessly
wasted when It was so easy to get,
one of them being money, and now be
In a position to tnvit* Intimate and
reliably close mouthed friends to di
vide with me—not meaning money.
I wouldn't g|v* a rap to live my
life over again, Gwendoline, but T'rl
give a lot to know how to avoid snn.e
things that are very llk« Iv to happen
any day, or every day. If I lived my
life over again I might nils* some of
the things that are now wonderfully
pleasant memories, and that would
a poll everything.
The man who ran look back over
Ills past Ilf" and find moie tiling* to
enjoy than to regret, may count him
self as having achieved »omethlng of
sucres*. And my regrets, dear Gwen
dollne, are so few- compared with the
pleasant recollection* that I never
take them Into account. What's the
use?
Ths only kind of propaganda I
favor la ths propaganda that will win
my pet reuse for me. I mil In favor
of prohibiting everything I ilo not
car* for. Bather than change my
mode of living I shell Insist on sverv
body living as I live. There are two
sides to eiery question In which I am
Interested- my side and the wiong
side. Yet I have no desire to boss the
political party to which I belong, nor
have t nny preferred candidate for
president. If I had. h* wouldn't be.
misspelling Ills nans’
WILL M MAUITN,
C-T\ 1
My Prairie Land
Come out with me where my prairie land lies.
Where nature’s soft kiss tints the glorious skie3.
Where the great glowing ribbon of prairie land-calls
And the harsh tread of mankind so softly falls.
Oh, my soul wells with courage in my prairie lands.
For they breathe a message that my soul understands.
From man’s bursting bosom here is born charity,
Their handclasp is warm and their song is carefree.
Where all nature’s calling and the swift gale blows,
And the bright, hardy verdure in its rhythm glows.
The scent of the grasses my keen nostrils trace,
While the wild rose rivals in its perfumed grace.
The night chants a prayer and the day soul sings,
And man’s awakened vision flies on spirit wings.
For symphonic voices are blending soft and low,
And in the heart of man, their harmonies grow’. -
The muses awaken with the dawn so fair.
And morn clothes their sonnets in white robes of prayer.
For Love, Truth and God in’my prairie lands abide,
May heaven’s benediction here ever preside.
—Carolyn Belle Adams.
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rOut of Today’s
Sermons
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The chief point* »f today’* rcr
iiii/n at St. 1‘aul Lutheran church
by K. T. Otto, pastor, follow;
Our text, Luke 4:33-44, tells us of
"many sick" coming or being brought
to Jesus at Capernaum. Capernaum,
full of sick, is a symbol of this world’*
misery. "All "the city was gathered
together at the door;" Mark 1:33. The
world, full of sick; and you can get
almost any one to listen when you
speak of disease and its cure, for all
fear sickness. Christ healed bodily
sickness, but He did not stop there.
Therefore may you all look to Him
whom our text points out. namely,
"Christ, the Divine Physician. "4
In the first place. He makes a cor
rect diagnosis. He knows absolutely
the nature and cause of every dis
ease. Our text distinguishes between
those who were ili and those who had
evil spirit*. In the evening Jesus
cured "divers diseases," acute and
chronic; in each case He recognized
the nature of the malady.
He also knows the underlying rea
son for illness. A human physician
arrives at the original cause, for in
stance: exposure, dissipation, predis
position Inherited from parent or
grandparent. Hut Christ, the Divine
Physician, goes to the very toot, and
that is sin. That is why He speak*
of the "new birth" in His talk with
NiciKlomus: John 3. In His prognosis
Jesus infallibly knows the course and
termination of all diseases and of sin
unchecked: Sin, guilt, shame, trouble,
sickness, death, damnation.
In the second place, this Divine
Physician applies the proper remedy.
Jesus healed by liis Word. Usually
God works through means, prescrip-*
tion, treatment, operation. "They that
are whole need not a physician, but
they that are ab-k;" Luke 6:31. How
ever. the means cure only by virtue
of God’s almighty Word operating
through them. A soul, of course, can
be cured only by the Word. Christ
healed these people In body and soul,
applying the proper remedy—His
Word. After preaching the law,
which show* us our sin and God’s
wrath, He applied the gospel, which
shows us our Savior and God's grace,
forgiveness and peace, e* He did to
Zacchaeus, to the Samaritan woman,
to Nicodemus. and that morning'In
the synagogue "Himself took our In
firmities an,t bare our diseases;"
Matthew *.17. Tills Is the heart of
the Christian religion; by His atoning,
sacrificial, substitutionary life and
death It* gave Himself, the divine,
sinless Physician, for the life of the
world.
And, thirdly. He effects a radical
cure, as our text shows. He still
cures our bodily diseases, if it tends
to promote our eternal salvation;
otherwise we do not want It, and He.
as a wise and benevolent Physician,
will not grant It. "If thou wiit, thou
ranst, »tc.” He cleanses tts from all
sin. I,ej u* accept this cleansing In
true and grateful faith unto life ever
iaating.
Rev. F. F.. Iliclff of the f«*|p
lar Presbyterian rhurrli will
preach at II o'clock today on
"The Divine Bounty," saying in
part:
God doea not give His Holy Spirit
by measure, but by the willingness of
men to receive Him. He la more anx
ious to give than to receive. This Is
amply Illustrated by the poverty of
so many professedly Christian Uvea.
No power resides In them. No great
task la acconvpllshed, no worthy work
It done.
Men are open Inellned to blame the
failures of their churches to the lack
of tine equipment. This is not true,
since God depends on His Sporlt'a In
fluence to work a transformation In
the lives of men rather than the ex
ternal and material evidences of Chris
tianity. Great cathedrals sometimes
stands empty and powerless to attract
men to the Christ because Hit Holy
Spirit Is not present there.
The gift of His Spirit Is not mesa
ured l.y the educational qualifications
of those who declare Ills counsels
and preach His gospel Rise why
are some men with the finest educa- |
tlonal qualifications helpless In win
ning men to Christ’ If It were true
that God could use only highly train
ed men. then would the apostles have
been useless, for they were "unlearn
e(| and Ignorant" men. The giving of
His Spirit In their lives was not nr
cording to the measure of their learn
Ing.
The reason why God hss not given
His Spirit to this site ss In other
ages, assuming this to be True, Is bo
cause we have filled fhe measure of
our lives with other things Ws hs\e
ori'Wiled out ttie spirit until He ran
Unit no room for *n abiding place
The measure of ntir receipts of power
and gi.oe through ttio coming of His
Spirit Is fhe measure of our own rn
pni tv. the .pleasure sometimes of
our littleness, not of our bigness The
reason wo do not receive large nieas
nirs of lbs Spirit Is because us have
not used what ha* 'eeen bestowed
" ben i e po pie who m-w profess to
follow Christ really enrve to tbs piece
wlete they 1 filers |p His pow rr to
save ftotp sin and pines less emphasis
on externa) matters, submitting them
selves to Jtts gracious ministrations
re rive tils Spirit In accord with Hi*
Willingness to give, then shall the
world be speedily turned to righteous
ness and alt nations shall prals* Hi*
Holy Name
Our Itrlclit I’lxeluincea.
Not ell who dig up are arrheeo]
octets There's dad Fan Fianclsrc
Chronicle
An open mind Is ell right, If vour
mouth Isn't that way,—charlotte oh
•sever.
M»nv a man clvrs the devil his do*
who Isn't so charitable with hl«
na.ghleir* - Illinois State Journal
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Center Shots
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The beautiful thing about the
bicycle of the dear, dead past, was
that it* rider nearly always suffered
more than the pedestrian run Into.—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
"Knock Wood” seem* to be llie na
tlonnl motto of the Filipino*. It in
spires them, and it doesn't hurt the
general at all. Why tile an objec
tion?— Brooklyn Bugle.
Five thousand merchant ships
passed through the Panama canal
last year. This must he an inter
esting hit of new* to survivors of the
hand of obstructionists who once told
the world the canal would tie a
fa iIure.—Boston Transcript.
Senator Brookhart has not exactly
endeared himself to the republicans of
Iowa by voting for a democrat to
tike the place of Senator Cummins as
chairman of the great Interstate com
merce committee.— Des Moines Regis
ter.
The American Museum of Natural
History offers a dinosaur egg at the
bargain price of fa.fMHi. Wouldn't It
lie tough to huy one and find that It
addled!—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
That snowstorm which kept Hiram
Johnson from voting in tlie Newbgrry
investigation is not likely to turn a
landslide for the California candidate.
—Louisville Courier Journal.
We’ll bet more than one man wore
patched pants, that he might contri
lmte to a fund for King Tut's magni
ficent tomb.—Toledo Blade.
Balancing the German budget will
establish a stabilizing gyroscope in
the world's wabbly financial ship.—"
Chicago News.
A warning to social climliers these
days would lie. never get too friendly
with a governor. You can't tell when
he will want you to bo his baif.—
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
V_—
I nile Against Law.
From th« Ktnaai City Jourral.
The proportions of the ‘'nation
wide” organization of law, labor and
capital in favor of the modification of
the Volstead law may be discounted
by experience. Such revolts against
the registered will of the people, writ
ten into the organic taw of the land,
usually shrink very materially when
the test comes.
If there Is any substantial ground,
however, for the loud claims made by
the sponsors for this organization,
the alliance is peculiarly Illogical.
Labor, of all industries in the coun
try, has been benefited by prohibition,
because labor was, in the naturp of
things, the most signal victim of the
liquor traffic. None can honestly deny
that those who could least afford if
spent most for booze and are spend
ing it now for illegal drink.
Lawyers should, of all citizens,
stand for the enforcement of law, es
pecially one which makes for sober
ness, peace and prosperity. The law
cannot be allied with booze to its own
credit in any sense of the word.
Capital Is most Incongruously as
soclated with any movement which
seeks to modify a law which has al
ready turned billions of dollars in the
aggregate from wastefulness and dis
sipation into productive enterprises,
fostered by increased earnings and
correspondingly increased savings.
Capital never made a clean and bon
est dollar out of the liquor traffic—
and clean and honest dollars are the
only real profit which capital can
profitably earn.
The legacy From Knute Nelson.
From Ih* Minneapolis Tribune.
Appraisers have estimated (he value
of the late Senator Knute Nelson's
estate nt approximately 1120,800.
This is a modest sum for a man
in this prosperous country to ac
cumulate In the SO years of his life,
or since lie was admitted to the bar
56 yrai-s ago and Is-gan an active,
busy career.
Knute Nelson served his home
county, his state as legislator anil
governor, and his country as represen
tative and senator in congress. "
If he had been like some men we
have had in public offb-e in the last
half century, the private fortune he
amassed might have been $1 000.000
or more, instead of the $100.000 left
by him to his heirs.
It happens, however, that Knute
Nelson lived a simple life; that he did
not judge the worth of men by the
sire of their possessions; that he kept
his mind on something else than
money, that something being faithful
service to those who had a right to
expect it of him.
The true requital of a public official
who keeps the trusts the people re
pose in him is not to te> found in
the number of dollars he is paid, but
in the satisfaction that comes of the,
consciousness that he has done his
best and done it with all honesty of
purpose.
Happily, the people of Minnesota
had learned to place the right value
on the character and career of Knute
Nelson long before he died. In doing
so they yielded him an homage he
deserved, hut even better was it that
they reflected credit on themselves.
It is a real inheritance for a state :
to have and to hold the benison of!
such a life as Knute Nelson's. Cone *
pared with it. the sum which tha plate j
may take from his estate in in
heritance taxes will be a" nothing.
The money will soon huve been spent,
ami none of us will be sensible of
what It helps to buy in public service,
hut the benlson will remain and it
will yield precious, though intangible,
dividends for-generations to come.
Are There No Had Men?
From the Wyoming Tribune,
A prominent business man who has
been appointed to the Ht. Louis polirs
board by the governor of Missouri
takes office with the public statement
that "there is no su< h thing as a bad
man ” Kvorybody, he infers, is good.
There is a soft spot in everybody's
heart; touch that spot, and lo! presto,
the man lb good.
Good and evil are at war in each of
us, and this war between good and
evil never ceases. By conquering
themselves some persons become
habitually good; yet th» too, hava
numerous fault*. others become
habitually evil.
But it is theory, the most boyish
theory, to maintain that "there is no
such a thing as a bad man.” or that
there is a soft spot in everybody s
heart. Many criminals are confirmed
In wrongdoing as a consequence of
disease or environment; they ar* de
ficient. defective or weak. Many
criminals are deliberate offender*
against society, and habit In crime
has hardened their hearts and
paralyzed their conscience.
The criminal, little and big, is like
everybody el*e in one respept. lie is
selfish. The sympathetic or moral
appeal reaches his heart or spiritual- 7
ity through his selfishness He re
forms when convinced that it pays
him.- to do so.
It is impossible to show too much
charity to the individual. Neverthe
less, it is Inconsistent with every-day
experience and observation to believe
that everybody is good. We see many
bad men posing as good men and en
joying their ill-gained prosperity, men
too clever to be caught, or too power
ful to punish.
When in Omaha
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