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COMPARING THE KEYNOTES.—III.
Had Senator Harrison read or remembered the
report of Senator Walsh to the senate (which is yet
unconsidered by that body), he might have modified
some of the statements he made. Particularly, he
might not have boasted of driving Edwin Denby
from the cabinet, for the Walsh report completely
exonerates Secretary Denby. Probably nothing
would have deterred the speaker from uttering this
specially fine flight of word-painting:
"In this campaign let the conscienceless leaders
of this administration deride Investigations. Let
them accuse the congress of deteriorating; let them
continue to shield those who conspired against the
government: but in this dark drama the American
people know and prefer the highly patriotic and
cleansing work of Thomas ,1. Walsh to the foul In
famy and thievery of Albert J. Fall."
To digress for a moment, the president of the
United States is the “conscienceless leader” referred
to by Senator Harrison, for he is the head of the
republican party. People will pass judgment on that,
too, and may also he inclined to draw some com
parisons between the Mississippi senators of the past
and those of today. At Cleveland the point was
made by Mr. Burton that:
There Is no criminal whom any Investi
gation might expose who is more false to decency
and honor than the man who would besmirch the
name of honest citizens or distort the truth for par
tisan advantage or personal exploitation.
The vast majority of public officials, from the high
est In the land to the humblest clerk In any depart
ment. are working honestly and faithfully for the
public good. . . . The guilty Individual, whether
he he high or low, democrat or republican, must
suffer the severest punishment. I’pon this proposi
tion the republican party stands firm as a rock.
Yet let It be known that guilt knows no party.
Those who seek to bring malign influences upon
public servants make no political distinction, either
In the officials whom they approach or the attorneys
whom they hire."
As the Fall case is in the hands of the court, and
as the federal government is trying to have set aside
the Teapot Dome leases, perhaps the people will
await the processes of the law. Especially may this
be done while the two reports made to the senate
from the investigating committee are as yet not
acted upon. The lynching bee, in which so many
democratic senators took part, came to an unfor
tunate end, when Walsh told the world Denby was
blameless.
Senator Harrison’s keynote gets shriller as he
proceeds. Another point will be considered tomor
row.
WHO CONTROLLED AT CLEVELAND?
Not a democratic orator has loosed his tongue
at New York but has assailed the orderly proceed
ings at Cleveland. It was a “boss ridden” convention
that met there. “Hand-picked” delegates under “close
control” met to carry out a cut and dried program.
Nothing was left for the delegates to do after they
assembled, but to ratify what was predetermined.
In a large sense, this is true, and the republicans
glory In its truth. The delegates weds “bossed,” hut
the bosses were the voters back home. They were
under close control, because they had received in
structions at the primary elections, and were true
to their trust. Only six men in the whole group vio
lated instructions, and these were from North Da
kota. The proceedings were without sensational
features, for the nominee had been decided upon in
advance, by the people.
The Cleveland convention was unique in one re
gard. It was the first since the primary system of
selecting delegates came into vogue where the de
cision was made all but unanimous weeks before the
convention met. All the delegates had to do so far
as the candidate fo* president is concerned was to
ratify the action of the voters. Nothing could he
more impressive than this, nothing more eloquent
of the harmony that exists because of the confidence
of the people in the great leader.
In the great “unbossed” gathering at New York
neither harmony nor confidence appeared. "We will
follow the nominee, no matter who he may he,” the
sentiment expressed by "Pat” Harrison, may have
ruled in the minds of the manipulators and wire
pullers, but it will not convince any who is not will
ing to accept that, doctrine. The voters controlled at
Cleveland, the bosses at New York. That is one out
standing difference between the conventions.
SALUTE JANE GERBEN LYONS.
Is the man who made t*n blades of grass grow
where hut one grew before any more of a benefactor
than the cow who makes two pounds of butter where
her mamma made hut one? Who will dispute the
credit due her, for industry and skill in turning suc
culent grass, chop feed and the like into rich milk?
Jane Gerben Lyons is but a 3-year-old Holstein, a
junior, if you please, owned by the state of Ne
braska. She is modest and unassuming, and prob
ably does not know what ft is all about, hut she Is
Industrious, too.
Jane Gerben Lyons has topped the state record
for milk, butterfat. and butter for one year. Her
twelve-month period ended with May 31, and it in
now given out from the State Agricultural college
at Curtis, where she lives, that in the year she pro
dueed 21.R22.7 pounds of milk, 717.41 pounds of
butterfat, or flflfi.7fl pounds of hutt.er. Almost, her
own weight in butter within a year.
Jane Gerben Lyons is but a type of the sort of
cow that Nebraska farmers have been urged to put
to work. As a food producer she compares some
thing after this fashion: If she had been sold to a
butcher, she would have brought around 10 cents a
pound, or perhaps $100, and would have produced
about 600 pounds of meat. That would have been
the end of tier story. Living, she produced butter
worth nearly $450, to say nothing of nearly 21,000
pounds of skim milk, which has some value, and is
ready to go on producing. Her children, for they
will come, will be giving milk and adding their chil
dren in turn. You can finish this picture yourself.
A good cow is worth her price, for she will re
turn it in food product. The scrub cow merely eats
her head off, That is why we salute Jane Gerben
Lyons, now state champion, and wish for her long
life and an unnumbered progeny.
HOW LONG CAN WE STAND THIS?
"Sioux City, la., June 26.—Thousands’^ acres of
valuable lands in Woodbury and Moncana counties in
Iowa, and in Union, Clay and Yankton counties In
South Dakota are being eaten up by the Missouri
river, which is even more restless during the last
two weeks of rainy weather than for some years.
"The damage done is greater near Yankton,
where several ranches have totally disappeared with
all improvements that could not be moved quickly.
At one place an entirely new channel is being cut,
and an island of several thousand acres is being
formed. ”
Through unnumbered centuries the Missouri
river has been doing this sort of work. Between
Bismarck, N. D., and Omaha the stream gathers up
farms so that from a comparatively clear stream as
it flows under the Northern Pncific bridge it becomes
one that is fittingly described as the “Big Muddy”
when it passes the Union Pacific bridge. The river
in normal times carries past Omaha 750 pounds of
mud to each 1.000 gallons of water. Every pound
of the mud comes from the farm lands of North and
South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. On its way to
the Mississippi, the Missouri exacts further tribute
from the states of Kansas and Missouri.
All this has been known for many years. Methods
for preventing the erosion of the banks are known.
The question to be answered is: How long are the
people going to watch the process going on, and do
nothing to stop it?
Farm land along the Missouri river between its
mouth and the Bad Lands will average in value $100
an acre. A thousand acres washed away means
$100,000 fed into the maw of the stream,
wasted so far as man’s uses are concerned.
While we contemplate with regret the havoc
wrought by the Missouri, we express wonder' that
the Chinese have been so slow in providing for the
control of the Yellow riv(*-, whose destructive floods
wreak such extensive damage from time to time. Is
it not nearly time that we were shifting our vision
from the plains of China to plains nearer home?
We might save some of the farm land that is now
going down stream, and we should do this, because
the time is coming when farm land will be worth
something to the hungry American people.
AT UNCLE SAM’S EXPENSE.
The editor of a Nebraska weekly paper congratu
lates a young man of his acquaintance on being ap
pointed as a cadet at West Point Military academy.
Advantages of such an opportunity are pointed out,
and the good fortune of the youth who enjoys them
is emphasized. All he says is true, for Uncle Ram's
big training school on the banks of the Hudson is
a wonderful maker of men. All can not go there,
however, and the government has provided what
may be regarded as an extension course, a summer
school, in the form of the Citizens Military Training
camp.
Were the greater emphasis laid on the purely
military, these camps would be worth while. Even
the most devoted of pacifists admit the possibility of
war, and training camps that give the young man a
slight insight into what will be expected of him if
he ever should become a soldier is not time wasted.
What is generally overlooked is the important fact
that the sort of military training that is given in
these camps is just the kind of knowledge a young
man needs in every day life.
He is given physical training of a beneficial sort.
Some accurate information of a kind relating to
physical science and sanitation is impressed upon
him. He gets practical illustrations of the benefit of
team work in the accomplishment of any great un
dertaking. Together with this goes similar illustra
tions of the value of individual initiative. Above all,
he learns to obey and carry out instructions, to dis
cipline himself, and so become fitted to discipline
others.
When this training is carried back into every
day life, business is better for it. An army is a
business institution, after all, and its success de
pends on how well it is managed. The training that
is given at the C. M. T. C. schools is the sort that is
much needed in any sort of enterprise. It is a definite
form of insurance for the future welfare of the na
tion, and it is all at Uncle Sam’s expense.
The Associated Press announces that General
Dawes will open his campaign at his old home, Lin
coln, “about September 1.” The idea of the general
waiting that long to begin is to laugh.
As we gather it from the Minneapolis platform,
any successful big business must be turned over to
those who have never succeeded at anything nut
making failures. _
The New York convention may he deadlocked on
candidates and platform, but assuredly it is not lock
jawed as to candidates and resolutions committee.
It seems that while at Cleveland Henry Cabot
Lodge came to the parting of the ways, as well as
to the parting of the whiskers.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha'* Own Poat—
Robert ft'orthinffton Davie
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MY SON-IN-LAW.
My aon ln law's a gentle euss -
He takes a great, delight In us,
He likes our home; In fact. It Is
A frequent stopping place of^hls
H* takes a fancy to the trees.
He's really good to tell u» how
Tie treasures them when—If you pleat.'—
I ask that he go out and plow.
flood natured boy. and patient too—
He sits snd smiles the whole day through.
Nor lonely does he ever get.
Nor weary of his sitting 5't.
Life Is a dream. It has been said—
To him It Is beyond s douht.
As long ss he Is clothed snd fed.
And given things to dream ahou..
My son In law snd I are chums—
I bless him every time he crimes;
T watch him resting through the day,
Convinced he's honest, anyway;
I need not fear that he will go
With haste Into some cost 1 v scheme,
And l have come to think, you know,
Tig £*, not life, that 1» a dream.
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Letters From
Our Readers
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will be withheld upon request. Tom
muiifestion* of 200 word* and leet
will he given preference.
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About (he Primary U»'.
Grand Island, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: Supporters of the
primary law try to bolster up their
cause by pointing to the assertion
that Senator Smith Brookhart tiled
am expense account of less than *30.
and Senator Norris one claiming that
he did not spend a penny. A half
truth told for the purpose of deceiv
ing Is worse than a downright lie.
It is very likely that Senator Norris
did not personally pay out a cent for
primary expenses. But the fact still
remains that thousands of dollars
were spent In letter postage, travel ex
penses and newspaper advertising to
further his candidacy. The same is
true of Senator Brookhart's cam
paign, although the Iowa man prob
ably had less money spent In his
cause than Norris had.
The primary law does not achieve
the ends sought by those who de
manded its enactment and who now
declare it to be something too holy
for profane hands to touch. What it
really does do is to enable a lot of
cheap skates to clutter up the ballots
and put a terrific expense upon the
taxpayers. These political cheap
skates often succeed in securing
nominations because the voters, after
marking the names of a few favorites,
finish up in marking other names in
haphazard fashion. The result too
often is that men who never could
get to first base under the convention
system score under the primary. The
primary breeds perjury, for, I ven
ture to say, that not one candidate
in 10 ever makes an honest statement.
I happen to know personally of sev
eral instances where thousands were
spent and hundreds certified to.
The primary puts a handicap on the
poor but competent aspirant for pub
lie office, and gives the rich and often
Incompetent candidate a flying start.
The primary destroys organization
and makes government a hodgepodge
of personally conflicting opinions.
Destroying party organization and
minimizing party loyalty is about as
sensible as recruiting an army of
general*, each one determined to
fight the battles his own way or not
at all. It has resulted in blocs, chaos
and disaster.
The primary has not bettered the
average of our public officials. On
the contrary, I believe it can be
demonstrated by a study of political
history that better officials were se
cured under the old convention days,
even the days when pass holders pre
dominated. The primary law has
foisted upon us a lot of hare-brained
reformers who have regulated and re
stricted big business, of which they
knew nothing, until today we are pay
ing from 75 to 100 per cent more for
the service rendered by our public
utilities than we paid before the re
formers got Into the saddle.
If the primary Is such a wonderful
godsend to the people, why is it that
less than 50 per cent take advantage
of It? Since we have had this won
derful primary law In Nebraska,
what beneficial legislation has re
sulted as compared to the beneficial
legislation secured from legislatures
elected under the old convention ey»
tern'’
I Our recent state primary coat the
taxpayers an average of 35 rents for
each vote cast. X submit In all can
dor that the results did not Justify
the cost. Our primary law is rum
bersome, unintelligible and a stum
bling block In the way of political
progress.
ARTHUR EVANS WILCOX.
Where It Started.
Omaha -To the Editor rf The
Omaha Bee: I happened to know
where the few- words originated that
are hound to make Mr. Dawes famoue
I could see no reason why I should
give It away, but I notice the last few
days there is quite a clamor from
certain urces to get Mr. Dawes to
repudiate the story the reporters got
out on him.
My conscience will not let me keep
mum any longer, so out she comes
and let the sparks fly where they
may.
When Nebraska's beloved son was
In the making at Lincoln, eating
those 15 rent breakfasts, consisting
of three flapjacks and black molasses,
the chief waiter was a regular, beau
tiful little Nebraska lass, and the
way she chinned those would bs law
yers and generals was a caution Her
only handicap was her name. Helen
Maria Snooks. Of course she hated
It, and all the mors reason the boys
all took It up to te^se and they run
her ragRed with "Helen Marla ' this
and that. Charley la prohably honest
and thinks he got the saying down
In the wicked south, but it may be
he wants to pass the honors around
Now. after this version of it any lady
on the stump or minister In the pul
pit car us*1 Helen Marla gentlemanly
and ladylike O. H. HENRY.
A Hint fo the Hens.
Abhie. the little girl of the family,
wa" seated at the hreakfast table one
morning. As usual eggs were served
Either she was not hungry or she
had grown tired of the bill of fare, for
very earnestly and soberly she re
marked:
"I do wish hens would lay some
thing besides eggs'’—Progressive
Grocer.
A Desirable Maid.
Mrs Tattle—I'm rather hard to
please. Have you had much experi
ence as a maid?
Applicant—I worked for Mrs Nag
gers for six months before she snd
her husband separated.
Mrs. Tattle- I'll engage you. Now
tell ms all shout It — Pearson's
Weekly.
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Abe Martin
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We sllus laugh at compliments
till we get one. When a feller gets
down to his last quarter he gener
ally puts on his heat togs.
(Copyright. l*5(.)
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
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Restore the Party System.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
What Frank W. Mondell, permanent
chairman of the Cleveland convention,
pleaded for In his brief Rpeech was
majorities In the new congress that
shall he "republican in both name
and principle,” majorities that will
hold up the hands of the administra
tlon, and thus carry Into effect the
mandates of the people, If next No
vember they approve the candidacy
of Calvin Coolidge.
What Mr. Mondell did not say, but
might well have said, was that the
crumbling of the republican support
in the present congress, which so
greatly helped to thwart both the
policies of the president and their ap.
proval by the people, was due more
largely to the disintegrating effects
of the direct primary than to any
other thing.
Party responsibility is the crying
need of the hour. Groups and blocs
and factions are fostered by the rank
individualism of the present system
of selfnomination. Congress and
senators are mostly too busy with their
personal aggrandizement to give much
attention to party pledges or party
success or party responsibilities. They
have In many Instances degenerated
into mere political hucksters, trading
and bargaining in the halls of state.
The temper of the Cleveland con
vention Is one of great Impatience
with the shortcomings of congress.
The party spirit seems to have been
rehorn Ht Cleveland, it Is plain that
the republican party is not dead, nor
even moribund, but that somehow it
must come again Into control of Its
own destinies.
The way lies through the election
of Calvin Coolidge, and, as Mr. Mon
dell pointed out, of majorities In con
gress which will he republican not
only In name, but In principle, and
the members of which will forget self
and abjure blocs and groups.
The platform adopted drives home
the same point, when it calls for the
election to congress of republicans
who believe in the principles of the
party, acknowledge party responsi
bility and can be relied on to keep
faith with the people by carrying out
the republican program.
Through the party system has the
development of the republic gone
steadily forward. / Jf It were aban
doned now, there would be political
chaos Instead.
Growing Canal Truffle.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Eleven years ago, In the year before
the great war broke out, the Panama
canal carried cargoes valued at about
$460,000,000. Last year It handled
goods worth more than a billion and
a half. And in the process of build
ing up that great traffic it has both
deprived the rails of business and
built up new trade between the cities
of the Atlantic and those of the Pa
cific.
When we consider that the canal
has cut the distance from Phiiadel
phia to the west coast of South Amer
ica by almost two-thirds, and reduced
the distance to Melbourne, to New
Zealand and to Yokohama by about
3,000 miles, it is not hard to under
stand why we have developed an in
crease of 233 per cent trade with these
countries, as against only 70 per cent
increase with other parts of the
world.
Philadelphia and other Atlantic
ports have direct shipment to San
Pedro harbor at Iaas Angeles, to San
Francisco and other west coast ports
And Philadelphia owes to the big
ditch through the Isthmus her share
of the Increased business which it is
bringing to this country.
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Tress.
Editor Carlson of the Aurora Re
publican sorrowfully admits that he
has discovered that some fellows who
shout the loudest for home loyalty and
home trade don't believe in practicing
what they preach.
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Dew Shelley says the magazine that
recently printed the pictures of three
women and called them “the three
handsomest women in the world.'' is
edited by a man who Is full of prunes,
or words to that effect. Dew, who Is
a connoisseur when It comes to fe
male loveliness, says Falrbury can
show more female loveliness than
that magazine editor every heard
about.
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“Old-fashioned boiled potples, apple
dumplings, soda biscuits and Shanghai
butter are out of style because they
don't come in cans," blurbs Editor
Botkin of the Gothenburg Indepen
dent.
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Editor Tom Curran of the York
News-Times says It Is nice for col
leges to teach everything, but grad
uates shouldn't think they know
everything.
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Until Adam Breeds remarked that
"It Is easy to talk a good sermon to
death," few Nebraskans knew that
the Hastings Tribunes editor had
ever been in church.
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"Some people's only idea of thrif*
is daylight saving," chuckles Gus
Buechler of the Grand Island Inde
pendent.
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Humphrey's ball team recently took
the Columbus ball team to * trim
ming. which impelled Editor Zavadil
of the Democrat to remark, "We took
the 'us' out of Columbus."
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Bob Rice of the Central City Re
publican is all swelled up over the
way his town is preparing to cele
brate the glorious Fourth.
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Editor Davis of the *SUver Crsek
Sand sagely advises his readers to
turn a deaf ear to every knocker but
one, opportunity.
Strawberry Shortcake 1
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Of all the fruits we like the ho*t.
As fruits In taste must vary,
We like far better thRn the rest—
The juicy red strawberry.
We Ilk# It any wav 'tie served,
In shortcake or In dishes
When winter comes the ones
served
Still satisfy our wishes.
All shortcakes seem to please our
eyes.
Though none have quite the kick
That mother's had, and. I surmise
They are not quite as thick.
Her shortcake was s work of art
She served it piping hot.
I always got a larger part.
And It Just touched the spot.
When now I eat of berry cake,
I think of mother dear,
And vision, those she used to make
And wijft away a tear.
—J Norry Harris, Malvern, la.
The American people are capable of
self government If they had the time.
—New York Telegram.
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