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COOLIDGE AND THE CAMPAIGN.
While the opposition is running around in cir
cles, trying to discover a starting point, the Coolidge
campaign is moving in a straight line. Before the
primaries were held, or ever a delegate had been
elected to the national convention, the issue was
decided. It was Coolidge.
The people discovered for themselves that at
the White House was a man who wanted to succeed
himself as president, a worthy ambition. But above
that, he wanted to serve the people by complying
in every detail and at every point with his oath of
office. Calvin Coolidge has been called a Puritan,
his “New England conscience” has been cited. His
characteristic impassiveness has been dwelt on many
times. These are all attributes of a man who takes
his work seriously. To be chief magistrate of the
greatest nation on earth and to discharge well the
duties and responsibilities that office imposes, re
quires a man of high courage as well as ideals.
If Coolidge were not a man of high courage he
would not have vetoed three popular measures, each
of which might cost him many votes. He did it be
cause his conscience would not let him approve
either. He put right above expediency; what he
deemed the interest of ail against the interest of the
smaller number.
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His record, however, is more extensive than
those three vetoes. When congress came into ses
sion in December last, the president presented a
comprehensive program for constructive work. This
included as its first item a reduction in taxation.
He urged that laws be passed to give temporary and
permanent relief to agriculture. A revision of the
railroad rate structure was urged. Development of
v the inland waterways, especially the routes from
the lake to tidewater by way of the St. Lawrence
end the Mississippi, was recommended. Member
ship in the World Court. Restriction of immigra
tion. Encouragement of education. Limitation of
expenditure. Strictest economy in administration.
All these were in the list he proposed to congress.
Can the most ardent of the so-called progres
sives find in this anything on which to hang an ob
jection? The president did not ask for public own
er-hip of railroads, the nationalization of eoal mines,
or any other great industry. Because he failed to
do this, he is sneered at as a reactionary by that de
voted group which still practices trying to lift itself
over the fence by bootstraps.
If this program was not followed by congress,
the president is not nt fault. He made spec ial |>i« as,
particularly for some measure of relief for the
farmer, but could get none, because the marplots
were busy framing up for the campaign.
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When he failed to get congress interested in the
matter of giving relief to the farmer, Mr. Coolidge
called together a group of financiers and organized
n $10,000,000 corporation, which functioned for the
benefit of the sections most sorely pressed. He re
ouired the TarilT commission to make an examina
tion into the wheat situation, and on the report
from that body increased the duty and raised the
protection to the American growers.
*' A few days ago, when the budget for the next
'iscal year was put before him, it was the lowest
since 1017. After examining it, the. president called
together the various heads of departments, chiefs
of bureaus and others who spend government money,
and told them that he expected a still further reduc
tion in estimates. At least, $83,000,000 additional
should be cut out. His idea of spending public
money is to adequately care for the service, but to
indulge in no fancy touches.
For these things, and others of like nature, the
people arc for Coolidge. Not because he is a re
publican. Nott because he comes from New Eng
land. Because he is honest, courageous, capable,
full of warm sympathy for his fellow man, not given
to display, a simple man living on a plane with his
kind. And Americans know that is the sort of man
this great big rountry needs for its head. Know
ing this they were for Coolidge long before'the con
vention. They will he for him through and after
the election.
POSTERITY WILL PAY THE PRICE.
Brush and limber fires along the Pacific roast
have afforded the sensational news for several days.
How they started may never be known. Any of a
great number of causes may be assigned. Most
fires in the timber begin in somebody’s rarelessness.
In this instanre the damage was the greater because
the conditions were favorable for (he spread of the
flames. A dry senson had left Ihe underbrush as in
flammable as tinder, and ordinary fire fighting meth
ods were of little avail.
•Spectacular as a forest fire is, terrifying in its
aspect and terrible in its effects. Its cost to the
present generation is insignificant compared to what
posterity will have to pay. Rurning the brush off
the hills in the Santa Barbara region does not seem
so much, for it has been repeated many times. It.
(Iocs, however, prevent the development of a service
able forest growth. Mesquite and chapparal will
soon ■ pring up again, but the cedars, pines and other
u rftil trees are el hack if not wholly destroyed.
Flames rushing through the splendid pine woods
•
of the Siskiyou range is much like a fire raging along
a busy business thoroughfare in a great city. Mer
chandise is being destroyed that will not be replaced
for many years, and will be needed for man's uses
long before it can be renewed. One company, it is
estimated, has lost $2,000,000. That is only a drop
in the bucket to what the total loss will be at this
time, and the cost to the future outruns computa
tion.
One of the best things done by the last congress
was to pass the McNary-Clarke bill, which extends
the forestry service of the United States and puts it
on the way to real usefulness. But, in the last
minutes of the session, when Key Pittman was mak
ing his selfish stand for Spanish Springs, Nev., the
appropriation to extend the fire protection service
failed. The nation is now paying for it, but the bill
that will be handed to posterity will be something
stupendous. We are wasting now what the world
will need a few years hence.
HAPPY DEMOCRATS.
Is the democratic party in Nebraska really a
political party, or is it a fairnly affair? "Doc" Hall’s
familiar query is getting especial emphasis just
now. It was to the effect: “Does loyality to W. .1.
B. carry with it fealty to the entire royal family?”
A lot of democrats, such as Charles Graff, Ar
thur Mullen, John Hopkins, Ken MacDonald, would
like to know if a demorrat can run for office as such,
or if he must needs also be tinctured with strange
doctrines. In the Bryan annals fusion is tradi
tional—that is, what t^iey call fusion. William Jen
nings Bryan once ran for the high office of president
of the United States, heading two tickets, each with
a tail of its own. To accept political dogmas dia
metrically opposed is rio feat for either of the Broth
ers Bryan.
Knowing this, it is not hard to understand Mr.
Bryan's statement that his successor must be both
a demorrat and a radical progressive. Real demo
crats cling obstinately to the view that a democrat
should head the party’s ticket. “No man can serve
two masters,” and it has been shown that not even
a politician as adept as a Bryan can serve two par
ties.
The muddle at Madison Square Garden was se
rious. It is mild in comparison to the one that
Brother Charlie stirred up when he reached home.
However, the whip is in the governor's hands. He
will crack it over any back that refuses to bow to
his imperious will. Democrats of any stripe or no
stripe will be brought to order by the candidate for
vice president, who demands submission, and a
hybrid for his successor. Thus does the donkey
change into a mule in Nebraska.
CONSIDERING A COAL FAMINE.
This being July, we are listening to the annually
repeated advice of the American Engineering coun
cil, that steps he taken to provide for above-ground
storage of coal. Through such means only, the
council warns, is it possible to surely avoid a fuel
famine. The rountry may not run short of coal
during the winter that is to come, but anything may
rome to pass. Snows have blockaded highways and
railroads, and cut off access to coal mines. Winter
weather is always uncertain, and the need for a
steady supply of fuel is paramount. Therefor*
storage during the summer is an assurance against
winter needs. ,
Especially does this advice apply to industrial
users of fuel, but householders have their share in
the situation, for they, too, are exposed to the hard
ships of a possible fuel shortage. However, as all
through the years of the past, this advice is un
heeded. Yrery little if any headway has been made
toward the provision of ample storage of coal above
ground.
Neither is much being done to conserve the fuel
supply by adopting any of a number of processes
that have been proved practicable. Henry Ford and
some of the cement manufacturers have equipped
their plants in such fashion as to permit the use of
pulverized fuel. Ford extracts by low distillation
most of the volatile properties of the coal he buys.
He gets enough creosote, phenol, gasoline and similar
substances to more than return the cost of the coal
and its treatment, and then by pulverizing the coke
and feeding it to the furnace in a spray, he gels more
heat and a higher percentage of the theoretical en
ergy than is secured any other way.
Some day the American public will learn how to
use and save fuel.
The name of Harrington in connection with the
I.a Follette campaign will recall memories of the
“pop” days to old-timers in Nebraska. It was the
same then as now.
Brother Charlie knows who he wants to run for
governor, and it is easy for an expert to pirk the
right name out of the four he submits as models.
Stale income from school land in Nebraska has
increased 100 per cent in ten years, another sign
of the general breakdown noted by the socialists.
Saskatchewan also turns hark from prohibition.
By the way, that name is almost as good a test as
“Braw brecht munelirht nirht the nicht.”
Representative McLaughlin will find his opinion
| shared bv most of the home folks. Ooolidge not
only can but will carry Nebraska.
Somehow, the demand for an undiluted democrat
does not seem to have penetrated the fastnesses of
the state capitol.
Brisbane say* l.a Follette knows he is nominated.
Might as well have added he knows who did it.
Sinrlair Oil company passes dividend, but that
Hoes not interest any of its late attorney*.
Expansion of Homestie trade is another big hur
dle for the Calamity Brothers to go over.
Jupiter Pluvius: “Enough's a plenty! Lay off!"
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! Homespun Verse
—By OmaHa't Own Po«t—
Robert Worthington Davir
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GETTING A GRIP.
llow often nr# we chided for our made dealt# to gain
Knoiigh to keep the vulture forever from our door,
And we aie persevering in aunahlne and In tain
To a five otiraelvea the ronaequenoea of alwaya being
poor.
There cornea the faith adherei hie word* ate aundry
now
What good l« gold for greater thlnga and privilege#
it 11‘ here;
With hn fid upon the rlghteoua hook he antirtlflea hia
\ ow;
Ilia eloquent e la genuine, hie motive aeetna alnrera.
IMaln a|>okeM f*4!Un we like to meet when they the truth
port ray,
A tul when thev do not aeek to prove w hat Ingle needs
defy.
Hold 11 e\ r vx III enrich too mm li the common ones, nor
pla y
Too gtent a fi«« lot in t hg li\ra of Tom and I Me k and I
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The Party Which Tries to Eliminate Bossism Will Have to Drive
Out the Whole Human Race
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Letters From Our Readers
All letters must be *l|nrd. but name w ill be withheld niton request. Conimnnl
j rations of *«0 word* and less will be liven nreferein e.
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Referred In the Governor.
Omaha —To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Brother Charley evi
dently has mode a big hit In Chicago,
if one Is to believe this editorial from
the Chicago Journal of Commerce for
July 16. I believe it should be passed
on to the Nebraskan* who have
watched Brother Charley a career of
demagogic equivocation. C H.G.
The editorial follows:
"Governor Bryan's Simple I.ittle
Remedy."
‘Governor Bryan is a forthright
man. favoring simple remedies for
complex diseases. lie dei laws him
self In favor of governmental opera
tion of railroads, other puhltr utili
ties, an'i coal mines unless service
costs to the public are reduced by 25
or 30 per rent.
"Mr. Bryan has no way of knowing
whether the rate* charged by these
Industries are Justified He merely
notices that people would like to pay
less for their fare* and for their
freight and for the coal they bin.
If that's what the people want, let
them have It. l.et there be a cut of
25 or 30 per cent in tlie servi. « costs i
of public utilities and coal mines. I.ei
it be done!
"But unfortunately tbe operating
ends »,f railroads and • »*vi 1 mines do
not precipitately plunge 2 5 or 30 |icr
lent at the imperious command of
'Governor Bryan, any more than the
sc.i waves rilled liack in humble ohedi
•nee to the order of King Canute.
"If Governor Bryan believes I he
railroads should cut their cost*, what
does he believe their earnings should
be? Hast year, when they were com
paratlvely fortunate, the Class 1 rail
roads. Including practically all the
railroad mileage of th# country, earn
*d sn average of 6 10 per cent, which
Is appreciably less than th# 6 76 per
Herman ran’t read ’em. Not cvrn
a family o' two kin grit anyhrre
without a hos.«, t' say nothin’ of a
national convention.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for June, 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .74,616
Sunday .76,224
I Doaa not Include return*, left
| nvrri, samples or paper a spoiled In
printing anil In* lode* nn ape* tal
• alee or fraa « In illation of any kind
V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr
5nli*irihed and iwmn to before me
I thia Hth day of July, 1024
W II QUIVEY.
(5aal) Notary Public
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.ent which the commission says the
railroads are entitled to.
“If Governor Krvan believe* 5.10
per rent is an excessive return, to he
eagerly sought by investors, why are
^ he railroads utterly unable to sr*il
any stork?
“And how much of a return nre
coal mining companies entitled to?
More coal is being sold at a loss to
day than at. a profit. In this case
Governor Bryan is not seeking a de
crease fti earnings; he is seeking an
increase In deficit. Pet the coal oper
ators cut their prices 25 or 30 per
rent.
If they r.m't do that and still earn
a profit, let the government takeover
the mines and operate them. The in
tellectual giants who compose our
bureaucracy to show the slow poking
coal operators how to run their bus!
ness.
“Governor Bryan's arbitrary rem
edy Is admirable in its simplicity; and
it is also admirable in its simple
mindedness. if you happen to admire
that sort of thing “
Walter See* It Ml
Hou-ton, Tex Senator Hubert M.
L.t KuIleUe, Washington. I> i In
going more carefully into the demo*
era lie national convention proceed
Inge I feel positively certain now of
the trend of the d*.«dl«». k and the ob
ject of it. You will readily see the
significance of the present situation,
and 1 now feel more certain that you
made a mistake m making a positive
announcement a few weeks ago that
you Intended to make the run for the
presidency. The announcement gave
♦he Well street financiers a positive
basis to work upon, and your an
nouncement has changed the entire
movements and strategy of the finan
ciere and political manipulators.
The financiers have evidently laid
down the program to al»andon Pre*i
dent Coolldge to fate, w :th the full in
t ent ion of electing Mr. Paris and
time* financiers must certainly be
lleve they have the presidency in
their grip
W'hMe the thousand* of politicians
have had it figured that the eh utlon
°f s president would not he nffe■»
hr the general election of lfiL'4, but
would be i ant Into the house of rep
i esentativ *«. the financiers have evi
dently undertaken to preclude cast
ing the e!c- ;iun into the house of rep
reeentative*. and to* democratic dead
lock nf two weeks in the national
convention was for no other purpose
than to elect a president ;n the gen
eral election and avoid the election
.n the house of representatives
Naturalb the men at the demo
cratic national convention, who did
the thinking, began in about this
way: What are the states which may
be positively figured for a reactionary
candidate of the type of Mr. Da via?
Let us follow the figures of the flnan
lers when they figured it out. The
states vshich will positively go to Mr.
Davis:
Vot» • Votes
Alabama . . 1 - . It
Arkansas.* f,nui«lan* . . .. It,’
Florida ♦ M m .It*
North •'arol.n* 1? West Virginia 4
South Carolina 9 -
T*in. .:o Total _ 12*
Virginia .12
There is no reasonable assumption
that Mr. Davis will not carry those
state? as they are. with the excep
tion of West Virginia, no-nothing
democratic.
Then the financiers figure with fhe
power of Governor Smith in New
York, with the associated bootleg
gets, that state mav he forced over
to the democrats by a majority of
l ,ibout 2**0,ooo \ t*s in the election
I This will give •* total *»f 167 to Dftvia,
which is just vote* short of the
i ■ ■♦■s.N.iry majoi :t> »»f _'6t> iu the elec
tor.d i ullege
N’nH. what have i he financiers to
‘work o*i to get the '*'.* voles to make
e; tain of the election of Davis in
the electoral college? They have
Torn Taggart in Indiana .. !i vote*
Hit>nn«fi in lil.uui*. :- vt*t*a
* 'fit n Obto. -4
I'klihoma.. 1 ** '•»**
KenlUfky .. ’I voim
T«nn^»#ps .. I". ' e! es
M ■••ouri . 1« vetes
Tot ft! .114 set*ft
Tha pros-am !a to abandon Fresi
dent Ooolidce completely and make
ir’« de.perate ttuht in New York
which they fifure tj> carry eaailv
They will pile the money Into those,
state. at the last moment, to avoid!
the election in the house They ex-1
port to put Coolid*e In the poaition
nf Taft in 1912.
WALTER JOHNSON.
\ Sad I aa*
I haie gfit to hate a ;ob. am man
22 tear* old, Intelllpont but married.
. ( la sal (led advertisement in San An
ton In Expresa.
BAPTIST MINISTER GIVES
TANLAC FULL CREDIT
Nn greater praise can he accorded
a medicine than the voluntary ten.
■tony © t i mitt lit or of thi g tgx
i hi|h - ■ Ring put* a
grave reaponalhlllty on hia eve >
word, and he will not jeopardise hlr
reputation hy commending a thing
without flrat assuring himself it is*
nli right.
Tania-’ has been endorsed by mim
hers of prominent ministers. Thev
have put 'tanlie to the t**r of jtor
sonal service and their words can v
conviction because they an” what
they know to ha the truth
fine of the late** to apeak out In
behalf of Tanlac »* Rev. H. II Hell
« retired Kapilst minister. ?07 Him
Nt San Antonio. I‘e\as. who • ’h
Refore taking Tnnlar I Imd auf
fared from stomach and nerve
troubles for over ;to years and there
were times when my condition was
stub that it reunited almost super
human effort for nie to prepare mv
sermons and go through v Ith mv
Sunday services. Indeed, niv work
seernad like some great obstacle
serosa by path wav a louden too big
to carry in my weak physical condi
Mon.
"Hut in six weeks’ time Tania*
transformed mv entlie outlook, giving
me what seemed like a new set of
nervea and a brand new digestive s\ *
tern. My appetite became tavenoue
mv nerves steady, my lhrr action
regular and I could sleep sound for
the first time In rears. Whenever l
have the slightest svmptoms of
trouble now I slvvava resort to Tan
Ur, am taking so,tie at pre*ei t. and
it n*\»»r falls to Miuxith thing* out
for m# l on in nl> hate th%* l>r*i
Mason* for frHlnjt grataful to Tan
lar,"
Tanlno !* for wal«» by all rood drtt*
Ktata An*|*t no nuhfttHut*. Ov*r 4ft
million bottU'a aoh*
Tanlar \>g*tat»la I’M* for onatlna
fion mud# and t *« ommerttfal by th*»
manttf.o t ut-ci* of I an la* AlvortUr
Mlt tit.
SUNNY sib:
c)ake Comfort nor foryet
[ <Jhat sunr.nnMr/mi/rc/utvet^' j
One of the treasured books In a library of which w« are
pardonably proud is entitled "Bryan: A < 'oncise But Complete
Story of Ills Life and Services " Violating Ironclad instruc
'ions to sterr dear of politics in this department, w* make
hold to quote a f»w pas t-es front this treasured tome:
, 1 1
' For here, on the farther sitle of the brown and swift Mis
souri, there dwells a man of virile and nigged qualities, |
typically American and trtrly western, the story of whose life n
is a wondrous inspiration to every citizen of the republic and
a monument to the uplifting force of right living and high
ideals."
At this point we interrupt to explain that the treasured
tome was written and published while Brother William was
still a citizen of Nebraska. With thi* explanation we proceed.
Writing of a certain speech by Bryan the author of this
'reasured tome said: "Such was I he concentrated and awful jj
intensity of the man that It thrilled nte to the core, and under
that burning gaze nnrF vibrant, moving voire, in such an tin 1
usual entourage, I trembled with an emotion 1 could not
name." That's telling them, we calls it,
"Other men are admired or feared, or ran spend money,
or swing a machine; but Bryan is personally trusted as po
other man Is, and he deserves to be, writes the author of
the T. T. J ,
Our final and closing quotation from this T. T. of our* Is
as follows, and to it vve desire to call especial attention because
of the hearing upon the offer which Immediately follows:
"In the preparation of his deliverances Mr. Bryan reads
widely and extensively, exhausting all the available sources of
Information. By carefully and thoroughly acquainting him
self with every possible phase of his subject, by viewing It In
all its lights, he prepares himself not only to prove the coi •
iprtness of his own position, but to meet every -injection that
may he offered against him." All of which, we contend, is pil
ing it on pretty thick.
Our idea of Great Kntertalnment will always be the an
nnal visits to the Old Home Towns of the singers, musicians . '
and spellbinders who came to extol the merits of Gizzard Oil. the
Pullyup Indian Ragswa . or Hoc Do peni s Triple Extract of Jimp-* 1
son Weed for What Ails You and Horsepistol's Bitters for That j
Tired Feeling. We shall always tnaintain that no attraction*
of equal merit have appeared upon the s. ene since the discon
tinuance of those looked for annua! v isit* during our adolescent
days.
The intimation that Judge McGee ha* put teeth in the
prohibition law strike* us as being wholly inadequate In de
scrlptlon. Tusks would seem to fill the bill much better.
While we do not pose a* a pop! leal prophet or the sen
thereof, and denying any anti all at*e-- ; s a* prop!:e- -. we ven
ture the predietion that Governor Bryan will not consent to
the selection of » candidate who has at any time or at any
place ventured to disagree with h:m r n any is«ue of the go
ernor's own raising.
WILL M. MALTIN’.
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