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Oindba Vha& the'Mist is at its bes t
TRADING WITH THE WORLD.
John N. Norton and “Jake” Thomas for the
democrats and “Mike” Harrington for La Follette
are going up and down Nebraska just now, telling
the farmers they are shut out from the world mar
ket. That the mountain-high tariff wall erected by
the Fordney-McCumber law has shut off access to
the customers who used to part with their coin for
American produce. They are but following the
democratic platform. Therein is contained the
declaration that when the nations of Europe have
been tranquilized and their productivity restored,
then the American farmer will come into his own.
He can trade with England, France, Germany, or
Belgium, and get their manufactured goods in ex
change for his grain, meats, wool and the like.
What will happen to the American market in
the meantime does not appear to worry these mira
cle doers. So long as they can delude the public
with their free trade dogma, it doe? r.ot materially
matter to them if the American mechanic has a job
or not. It is the condition of Europe fhat disturbs
their sleep.
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What constitutes trading with the world? Is
there any other measure or standard than the
amount of stuff we buy and sell in our dealings with
people outside our borders? If that is commerce as
generally understood, then the records of the De
partment of Commerce ought to afford a fair gauge
of what is going on.
The monthly average of imports of the United
States in 1914 was $149,383,000. This was under
the Underwood tariff law, so much mourned by the
free trade democrats. In June, 1924, imports into
the country from all parts of the world amounted to
$274,015,000, or 183 per cent of the 1914 total.
And June was the lowest month of the year, atid the
lowest but one since the Fordney-McCumber act
went into effect. The smallest total of imports since
the present law went into control was in September,
1923, when the amount was $253,045,000, or 170
per cent of the 1914 monthly average.
In exports a similar showing is made. The
monthly average of 1913 is used by the Department
of Commerce, because it was greater than that for
1914. Exports in 1913 from the United States
averaged $207,002,000 a month. In June, 1924, the
total of exports was $306,476,000, or 148 per cent
of the prewar average. And June saw the lowest
•„ ebb of exports since the present tariff law was
adopted save July, 1923, when the total was $302,
186,000, or 146 per cent of the prewar average.
Does not this record effectually answer the as
* sertion that we are neither buying from nor selling
• to the world? Except during the peak years of the
war trade, nothing under democratic rule ever ap
proached the total volume of trade that is now going
on between the United States and the world.
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What about Europe, on which all 'democratic
eyes are bent, and from whose disturbed conditions
they say all our troubles come?
In 1913 the average monthly purchase of the
United States from all Europe was $72,056,000. In
June, 1924, we imported from Europe goods to the
value of $80,189,000, or 111 per cent of the prewar
average. The 1913 monthly average of exports to
Europe was $124,964,000. June, 1924, we sold to
Europe to the amount of $141,949,000, or 114 per
cent of the prewar average. Our trade with Europe,
then, is actually higher than ever it was under demo
cratic control, except during the war period.
What about the farmer’s share? The monthly
average of exports of foodstuffs in 1913 was $41,
144,000; in June, 1924, it was $49,056,000. Can
ada’s export of wheat in May, 1924, was 492 per
cent of its volume mopthiy average in 1913, and in
June it was 287. With all that, the food shipments ,
from the United States States exceeded in volume
any democratic year, except those of the war, which
- can not reasonably be used as a basis for com
parison.
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Under the Fordney-McCumber act all the farmer
raises is protected, ami most of what he has to buy is
on the free list. How can he benefit in any sense
by destroying his home market? lie is selling to
the world market more than he, ever did when the
democrats were in power, and he hns the home mar
ket, the richest in the world, for his own. Will the
Nebraska farmer be any happier when the unemploy
ment of England’s labor is transferred to America,
as it surely will be if the free traders have their
way? Surely, the voters will not again follow the
democratic ignis fntuus into the morass of free trade.
WHO’S BOSS FOR LA FOLLETTF.?
When Robert Murion Ln Kollette announced his
Independent candidacy be deprecated nny movement
to organize a third party. That could wait. Just
now is not the time for any such effort. Wait until
after the votes are counted. Events have thoroughly
Justified his precaution. Instead of an harmonious,
happy band following the leader of a great cause, we
rote the element of individuality coming to the sur
face. Everybody wants to play the bass drum and
make the big noise*
One of Senator La Follettc’s personal selections
waas that of Frank A. Harrison, to be major general
commanding the districts of Iowa, Missouri, Ne
braska, Kansas and Colorado. This is not much of
a job for Frank; so the brethren seem determined to
give him something to do. Out in Colorado the
farmer-labor party heads began to organize for the
purpose of carrying out their own campaign. This
includes collection of the needful funds. Up steps
Generalissimo Harrison and says briefly, “Stop it!”
Back comes the chairman of the farmer-labor party,
and says, “Who do you think you are?” Then Rob
ert La Follette, jr., pours a little oil on the in
cipient fire, by suggesting to Mr. Harrison that
“these people are absolutely unreliable.”
Thus harmony grows apace. In Nebraska the
progressive party was throttled and put into its
place, just as the farmer-labor group in Colorado is
being handled. The “independents” are finding out
who’s boss for La Follette. They can hear him
crack the whip.
MAINE REBUKES FACTIONALISTS.
There stands Maine, still firmly in the republican
ranks. What is the lesson? Aside from the old
political adage, “As goes Maine, so goes the Union,”
something may be gained from the voting in the state
where conservatism is a habit with the people.
William R. Fattangall, democrat, made his cam
paign on an issue of his own selection. He chose to
inject a religious and racial question into the cam
paign. Beginning at the New York convention, and
continuing on down to the last day of the canvass,
he sought to secure votes by arousing prejudice. His
appeal for the constitutional rights of freedom in
religion, for the equality of all races under the flag,
was hollow. He knows that those rights are secure.
That nothing he could do in any way would abridge
those rights, nor could any act of his extend them or
make them safer. Therefore, his whole campaign
rested on a poor foundation, for it was false in every
aspect.
The lesson of Ralph 0. Brewster’s election will
not be lost on the thinking voter. Against him the
opposition raised every factional issue conceivable.
Nothing w-as omitted that would stir prejudice or pas
sion, even petty personal matters being paraded for
the purpose of influencing voters. The people of
Maine returned such an answer as should silence the
short-sighted disturbers.
Maine sends this word to the nation: “The rights
of the citizen under the constitution are secure. Jew
or Gentile, bond or free, all are on an equality. One
may worship as his conscience directs him, and may
in all ways enjoy his liberty under the law.” The
effort to array class against class and race against
race is a failure.
“SORROW’S CROWN OF SORROW.”
Not the least regrettable feature of the terrible
tragedy in Chicago has been the loosening of a flood
of unwelcome attention on the unhappy parents of
the boys involved. In the case of the Franks family
this has become so intolerable they have had to sell
their home and get away from the spot where they
were so happy. Not alone because of its associa
tions, but for the reason that thoughtless or design
ing persons have no respect for its desolation and
grief.
Human ghouls have sought to enforce further
payments from the father of the murdered boy.
Others have persisted in breaking into the privacy
of the mother’s mourning, merely to satisfy a morbid
appetite for sensation. So little consideration ^ias
been shown for the Franks family as to cause won
der whether the people of Chicago really are civil
ized. Savages could not conduct themselves with
less-regard for the rights and feelings of others than
these people have shown toward the Franks family.
Selling of the home and removal to a secluded
spot may relieve the father and mother, and maybe
provide security for his sister, so often threatened.
If they can escape from the callousness of their fel
low-creatures, whose idle impudence exceeds any
sense of propriety, they will be fortunate. We wish
for the mother’s sake it might be possible for her to
find solace in her affliction, and to/realize in some
find solace in her affliction, and to'realize in some
way a reconstruction of her broken life. But even
the mended circle will always show the mend, and
Tennyson’s line will be recalled: “Sorrow’s crown
of sorrow in remembering happier thingF.”
Mr. Davis arrives in Nebraska while a bumper
wheat crop is being marketed at a satisfactory price,
a bumper corn crop coming under the wire in n
race with Jack Frost, and a people so well satisfied
with the way things are going that they are not in a
mood to take chances with what might come with a
change of national administration.
The declaration that this is the most lawless
nation in the world is absolutely untrue. Wo have
ten times more laws than any other country on
earth, most of them useless and a majority inocuous.
Perhaps it would be well for the United States
to set up some sort of a protectorate over whatever
peaceful people there may be in Williamson county.
The greatest state fair in Nebraska’s history has
just been closed, Omaha contributing materially to
the success and rejoicing heartily thereat.
Mars is row going away from us, probably dis
gusted at having come so close to some of the can
didates we have in our midst.
We note evidences that the democratic managers
have seen to it that political "con” remains on the
free list.
The trouble about recognizing Mexico is to tell
which administration is coming ami which is going.
The Battle of Lexington was also a Defense Day.
Homespun Verse
— By Otnnha’s Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
BACK TO TIIK FARM.
Rack to the farm we gladly went
When Time had proven well
That life's resourceful days were spent
Where April's leaves foretell
The prophesy of fruitfulness—
Where Juno's fair roses give
A sanctllude which Is'not less
Than that for which we live.
Rack to the farmstead tn the vale
Where morning doves nre gay.
And cows go slowly dawn trail
To pastures far away;
Where wagons rumble o'er tbe loam.
And rugged farmers hie
At sunset to the <|Ulst home
Beneath the trees and sky.
Bark to the fnrm where swallows sing,
And blackbirds swarm the skies—
Where autumn's fruit Is ripening,
Ami all thlnga harmonise;
Where grace Is life s Entirety,
And soulfulneas Its sheen
Where kingliness 1s grown to be
Prophetically Its queen
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There Is Something Wrong About the Ideals We
Try to Teach Our Children—
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MY .SON, DE HONEST, INDUSTRIOUS
AND FRUGAL AND YOU WILL BE '
Rich and successful »■— all our
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I'se of the Flag.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha 15ee: Will you kindly remind
the public through your paper of the
regulations governing the use of the
flag. There Is no law on the subject,
but on Flag day, June 14. 1923, rejv
lcsentatlves of over 6S organizations
met In Washington for a conference
called by and conducted under the
ttusplTS of the national Americanism
commission of the American Legion,
to draft an authentic "code of flag
etiquet.” (I am quoting from the
bulletin Issued by the American Le
gion as a result of that conference):
"While the rules adopted have no
i fflclal government sanction, neverthe
less they represent the authoritative
opinion of the principal patriotic
bodies of the United States and of
army and navy experts, and nre helm?
followed by all of the organizations
which took part In that gathering.
Including 45 other organizations
which have since adopted the code,
representing over 20,000,000 of peo
ple."
When the flag of the United States
is displayed In a manner other than
that hy being flown from a staff. It
should be displaced flat, whether In
doois or out. When displayed either
horizontally or vertically against a
wall, th« union (1. e., the oblong of
stars) should be uppermost and to
the flag’s own right, I. e , to the ob
server’s left. When festoons, rosettes
or draplnga of blue, white and red
are desired, minting should be used,
but never the flag."
Saturday evening at the Auditor
ium two of these regulations were
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A be Martin
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Th’ Chicago alienists have jest
about ruined our faith in human
ity. Th* pullin’ thing about Henry
Ford, at least t’ our way o’ think
in', is why he keeps on workin.
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NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for July, 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily ..,_74,010
Sunday.74,792 1
not Includs returns. left*
overs, ■ainplee or papsi* spoiled In
printing and includes nn spsrial
sales or frse circulation of any kind.
V. A BRIDGE, Cir. M*r.
Suhscrlhsd and sworn to hsfors ms
this Bth day of August, 1924
W. H ttUIVKY.
(Aoai) Notary Pukll*
broken. The flag was caught up to
make a festoon, and alao the flag was
used in pairs', back to back, so that
one union was at the flag's right and
the other at the flag's left.
It Is only by calling attention t«
the Infraction of these regulations
that the public learns the correct
code. E. B. B.
Davis Missed Some Voters.
Council Bluffs. la —To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: There were a
tew prominent local democrats in
Council Bluffs Saturday morning at
the Illinois Central depot who could
have been bought for 10 cents when
the Do via special passed at * 30 with
out stopping after it had been an
nounced in newspapers that a stop
would lie made. Police were out in
force to protect the man who did
not have gumption or pep enough to
step on to the platform of his car
say "Howdy folks." We know that
Council Bluffs is only a small town
and, no doubt, Mr. Dnvls never even
heard of such a place, but If that Is
a sample of the wav tiint Davis and
his managers are going around over
the country failing to meet people
and disappointing crowds, he won't
get very far when the vote* are
counted.
It Is to be hoped that some one on
WHAT BECAME OF THE
LIGHTNING ROD?
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Its work is still
being done
more thoroughly
and more economically
—by the insurance
policy.
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the train had brains enough to waken
Mr Davis In tim» to get off at the
l.’nlon station In Omaha a few min
utes later. We understand that Rres
tdent Cooiidge gets up every morning
at il o'clock, and it does seem that
Mr. Davis might have exerted him
self enough to l>e up two and one
half hours later. Hut then the chances
are h>- will be just about that far be
hind Cooiidge on ejection day.
I remember the Roosevelt presi
denttal campaign, and T. R. did not
miss any whistling posts and the lit
tle crowds of people got a ware and
pleasant smile even if the train did
not stop. There are a few votes, in
cludin': my own that Davis won't
get f the stunt he ptliled In Council
Muffs A DEMOCRAT.
Met His Match.
"My husband has become a nervous
wreck since the women hive begun
coming to I,;s shop to have their hair
bobbed," remarked the barber's wife.
"Overworked. eh?" asked the
neighbor who was calling.
"No, lie doesn t mind the work, but
he hasn't been able to get In a word
edgewise for months now.”—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Hon.
John W. Davis
Compliments
The "Hawkeye Limited”
To OMAHA
On his first western campaign tour Mr. Davis selected
Illinois Centrals popular western train.
. The “Hawkeye Limited” has long been a favorite with dis
criminating travelers East and we consider its selection by
Mr. Davis and his party n recognition of the high standard
of Illinois Central sendee.
The "Hawkeye Limited” leaves Omaha 5:26 p. m.; arrives
Chicago 8:30 a. m.
For fares, resen’ations and information address—
City Ticket Office, 311 So. 16th St.. Phone ATlantic 9888
• C. Haydock, Division Passenger Agent, Illinois Central Railroad
313 City National Bank Bldg.. 16th and Harney Sia.
Phone JAckson 0264. Omaha. NeU
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<-)ak* Comfort, nor for or t _
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Somehow or other we are always more Interested In the
growth and development of Nebraska as a whole, and of given
ireas thereof, than we are In politics. That's why we would f
isk you to disregard politics for a minute or two w-htle we tell
you' that during the month of March, 1924, one-sixth of the'
corn received on the Kansas City market was shipped from
Chase county, Nebraska.
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Also that at the same time there were more hogs and cattle
in the feed lots of Chase county, per capita, than In any other
county in the United States.
We are of the opinion that the bank deposits of Chase
county are greater per capita than any other county in the
state.
We are mentioning these things because they are worth
miking about, and ore such a welcome relief from the doleful
whining that has been dinned in our ears for a long while
Something tells us that in spite of the little scheme w-e
sought to put over on the Big Chief we are not going to be
ible to visit the rodeo and fair at Burwell, Garfield county,
cjapite the fact that it is a big rodeo and doubtless will be a
wonderful fair, we w-ere more interested In getting up there in
uder to meet with divers and sundry friends of other days.
We trust that our friends out there will continue their efforts
I at mental suggestion, thus combining with our own, hopeful
that the proper thought will be implanted in the mind of the
genial gentleman who has most to do with our comings and
goings.
Would that we could get together all the old-timers who la
I heir early youth tootled in the old village bands, and partici
pate in the parade on Defense day. Doubtless we would strike
many “blue notes” as we endeavored to tootle “Montrose
Quickstep” or "Over the Waves,” but we would at least add
much to the interest of that great occasion.
If we belonged to a hand In this immediate neck of the
woods we would insist upon our band getting into that parade.
There will be a place for any and all.
An Invitation to attend the Fall Festival and Richardson *
-ounty livestock and poultry fair this week, is accompanied
oy an announcement to the effect that It is “Open to the
world, of which Humboldt, Richardson county, Nebraska, is
:he center.” We know that statement to be absolutely true.
Its truth has been demonstrated to our satisfaction on more
than one occasion. We are not an authority on poultry, bat
we have the word of T. H. Glllan and Will Norton that Hum
boldt chickens are the prettiest in America.
Shortly we will be regaled with tall stories about corn
shucking. We will be Interested only In authenticated records
made this fall, not In the stories told of far gone days by such
eminent corn huskers as Judge Ben Baker, Fred Wright, Will
Gurley and Walter Head. Our early youth was spent In set
ting type by hand. The longest strings set by us was when
one foot rested on a brass rail. We are not Interested in corn
shucking records made under similar circumstances.
By the way, has a monument been erected to the inventor
of the husking peg? WILL M. MAUPIN.
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