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WHEELER’S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
U When Senator Burton K. Wheeler was giving
shelter to Gaston B. Means from the officers of the
federal court, he knew the man he was dealing with. ,
't is impossible that a lawyer like Wheeler could not
letect the character of a man like Means. Yet day
; ifter day Wheeler shielded Means from arrest, even
tfter his bail had been declared forfeit. Means was
: providing W’heeler with ammunition for the mud
, gun he was directing, not against Harry M. Daugh
•rty, then attorney general of the United States, but
against Warren G. Harding, who appointed Daugh
erty, and against Calvin Coolidge.
Columns of sensational testimony, of no value
save as it impressed the unthinking multitude, came
I rom the committee under Wheeler’s skillful direc
:ion. Alternating Means with Roxie Stinson, the
senatorial mud gunner kept a steady stream of in
nuendo,-surmise, suggestion and insinuation, all scan
dalous and indefensible, pouring from his battery.
He varied this by introducing one Remus, a Cincin
lati bootlegger who had been sent to federal prison.
Vndrew Mellon was involved in this. No member
if the Harding official family was to escape. Demo
cratic senators boasted they would drag the scandal
lirough the White House. »
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Many days ago Remus, from the federal prison
it Atlanta, issued a statement, completely repudiat
ng his testimony before the Wheeler committee.
' Now Gaston B. .^eans makes a similar statement for
himself and Roxie Stinson. Means charges that
Wheeler knew the testimony was false. That he
had arranged the stories Means and Stinson were to
testify to. That the whole proceeding was a put up
job, and that Wheeler bribed his witnesses by
hreats and promises.
We have no more faith in Gaston B. Means now
han we had when he was reciting his fantastic tale
-t the behest of Burton K. Wheeler. He was a liar
lien, he is probably a liar now. His statement only
arves to show what a misty foundation the monu
ment of fraud built up by the senatorial lynching
-ommittee rests upon.
Wheeler rejoiced in Means, Stinson and Remus,
when they were attacking Daugherty. What will he
say of them, now they have turned on him? He
will probably answer they have been purchased by
Wall Street. Will that offset their assertion that
‘hey were first bought by Wheeler?
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The whole sickening mess is made the more
lauseating by its present addition. That dignified
senators of the United States could hold the reputa
tions of others, living and dead, so cheaply as to
idmit the testimony of such persons as Means and
Roxie Stinsoti was regrettable. That such testimony
.hould be deliberately concocted is almost beyond
belief. But Burton K. Wheeler's chickens are com
ng home to roost. Even if he is a victim of slan
ler, he will at least know how those he attacked
felt under his assault.
HEADS ABOVE WATER ONCE MORE.
Are business conditions improving in the north
west? Has the crest of the great wave of depres
sion passed? Read these few words from the Min
• leapolis Tribune of Friday, September 19:
"Excellent crops anrl good prices being received
by farmers will result In the reopening of approxi
mately 40 northwest banks, now closed, by January
1, banking authorities announced Friday."
Forty banks will again serve the public. None
of them amounts to as much as a city bank in Its
' trray of figures, but to the community where it is
• ocated it is as vital in its way as the bigurst bank
; hat ever opened its doors. When these forty hanks
•uspended operation it meant that at least forty
mall towns suffered. Money handled over the coun
ters in these banks was cut off from trade. Notes,
•epresenting the loans to customers, were put aside.
")pen accounts suddenly became closed. The man
who had money on deposit found himself with no
balance to check against.
All that has passed. Good crops have had the
expected effect, and the Agricultural Credit Cor
poration is announcing the reopening of closed
down banks one after another. It is not due to any
political party that the farmer has secured such
splendid yields. It is due to Calvin Coolidge, how
ever, that the Agricultural Credit corporation ex
ists to facilitate the rehabilitation of industry. It
was Coolidge who called together a group of finan
ciers, after congress had refused to furnish the re
lief needed. He arranged for tho organization that
is now functioning so well. It was La Follette’a
crowd in the senate and house that aided the demo
-rats to defeat every measure of relief proposed for
the farmers.
Now that the farmers are getting their heads
above water again, it is quite likely they will remem
ber who it was threw them an nnchor when what.
they needed was a life preserver.
W. .T. Prynn announces he Is going to take the
. it.nmp for Davis. Goodne: gracious, don't that man
' a-ant ever to give any other democratic candidate
4 chance to win?
Brother Fharley Is having spasms over the state’s
a^ter power. What he really means is wind power..
THE BURDEN OF PROOF.
The proposal of the school board to ask for
$4 ,000,000 is bringing responses from those who
pay the taxes—from those who are parents, and who
pay taxes. The Omaha Bee, in commenting recently
on the recommendation of the Chamber of Com
merce and others that ample fund' for present needs
could be secured in an authorized bond issue of $2.*
600,000, said that the burden of proof, for the larger
sum was upon the school board.
Letters from parents would indicate that the
school board owes a duty to take steps promptly to
prove its case. There is a strong feeling that the
school board has been needlessly extravagant. There
is a feeding, too, that funds voted in past years for
specific purposes should have been used for those
purposes. The final cost of the Technical High
school, which is so much more than estimated, has
resulted in the belief in many quarters that the esti
mates of the school board should have just such a
survey as that made by the Chamber of Commerce
committee.
Here is a case in point, an expression from one
who pays taxes. The complaint comes from a father
whose daughter has been a student at Technical
High, where she enjoyed the elaborate baths pro
vided at public expense. “Mother and I had to save
for six years,” says this father, “before we could
scrape together enough money to build a modest
bathroom in our own house.”
There will never be any movement in Omaha to
deny to the school board the things that are actually
required. It is admitted, too, that the requirements
of modern schools are much above what they have
been in the past. The record of the school board,
however, in recent expenditures puts its present
$4,000,000 proposal on the defensive. Comments
such as the above make it necessary for the school
board to give serious consideration to the proposals
of the Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate
board- Omaha taxpayers do not desire to vote
against school bonds. They may be compelled to do
so unless there is abundant proof of their need.
BON VOYAGE TO BISHOP LOWE.
When Titus Lowe, bishop of the Methodist Epis
copal church, takes off for his area in Singapore, he
will be followed by the warm wishes and earnest
prayers of many Omaha people who are not mem
bers of his denomination. It goes without saying he
will have the prayers of all the Methodists. It was
Bishop Lowe’s good fortune to build for himself
many close friendships outside of his church circle
while he was here as a pastor, and these have not
been terminated by his elevation.
Bishop Lowe is not a stranger in the country to
which he is going. He served there for years as a
missionary w'orker, and experience then gained will
be doubly valuable to him now. It is interesting
that the late Bishop Homer Clyde Stuntz was the
leader of Methodist work in India when Titus Lowe
was a missionary preacher there. This fact made
their association in Omaha the warmer and more in
timate. Those who came close to them enjoyed a
rare privilege when this pair felt like discussing
matters relating to the region.
It was a rather graceful compliment to Bishop
Lowe that he was permitted to preside over the
meeting of the Methodist conference of which he
was so long a distinguished member. Ministers and
elders appreciated the fact, and it is admitted that
the conference felt something of the spirit that was
thus evoked. Be that as it may, The Omaha Bee, in
company with a host of other friends of the bishop
who are not Methodists, wishes him bon voyage on
his departure. We hope he will some day come
back to make his home here, where he did . n. h ; d
work as a pastor.
DEATH AS A KIND FRIEND.
"All people that want to die are not inraru
This is a wonderful old world, and I hate to glv* it
up. I coujd live on forever, and enjoy it, If I had
good health."
Thus wrote R. R. Lee a few minutes before ht
shot himself to death. A busy world will pay but
little heed to his passing, yet it might be well to
ponder his problem. Life was pleasant, he knew,
when it might be so taken. Afflicted and oppressed,
the savor of existence lost in pain and suffering,
death seemed preferable.
Anciently, euthanasia was a common practice.
Friends of a hopelessly afflicted mortal administered
a sure, speedy, painless death that victim might be
spared suffering and saved from suicide. It was be
cause, as Hamlet expresses it, that “the Almighty
hath set His conon against self-slaughter,” or at
least so we are taught, that euthanasia fell into dis
use. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,”
and the eye of man is ever fixed on a happy recov
ery, even when there is the least chance.
Some, however, with clearer vision, perhaps, de
termine forever the solution, and find surcease in
what the Japanese term quaintly enough, “the happy
dispatch.” R. R. Lee must have seen this. “I have
but one choice,” he wrote, and then he left this
message that deserves thought:
"And In going I have but one regret to make,
snd that is that I haven’t been able to do more
good In this old world than I have.
"There Is a great opportunity In life for all to
be happy by seeing how murh we ran do for other*
and a little les* for ourselves. And I hope some day
that everybody will live up to this Golden Rule."
La Follcttc gave great praise to Baron von Steu
ben, and it is well deserved. But because that good
old German soldier did splendid service to the Amer
ican cause in the Revolution, is no reason why La
hollette should he elected president now.
Looks like the Wheeler investigating committee
will have to call for a new deal all around.
Homespun Verse
-—By Omaha’* Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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DKlJoHTI S BE LANE
Pellghtue Pe Ban*
Never worked In the rain.
Nor bought when 'twaa hnndy to borrow.
Congenial and gay
tie traveled hi* wav.
And flouted "Beware of Tomorrow."
'Twa* aenaele**, he *ald,
To keep looking ahead —
To bother with alnlater,worry.
And needle** to give
The few year* we live
For going through life in a hurry.
<>o glow, he advised,
Nor grieved, nor surprised,
Nor unto vast promise tie ettnglng;
I.lv# life a* 'twa* made.
And alt In the ahnde.
And atnlle—and forever go Ringing
liellghlit* DeBane
U a«lee|i hla refrain
Huggeata the egtent of hi* glory—
A atone, where he llaa
tiooklng Into the aklrV
Uata unto the wind tell hi* *lory
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Letters From Our Readers \
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‘•Battling Bob" and “Incle Ike." 1
Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Oma
ha .Bee: When the writer was a very
young boy he lived In a little back
woods town In Wisconsin where big
wealthy business men were just ordi
nary lumberjacks and we knew no
class differences. About the biggest
man in my opinion at that time was
an old lumberman named Isaac Steph
ens >n. We had made Ills pile in luin
her, honest or otherwise I do not
know, but I do know that he was the
Idol of that part of the country,
fnclc Ike, as he was called by every
one, had ono ambition in life and that
was to serve his people in the United
States senate, but being nothing but
an honest. Ignorant old codger and no
politician, he didn't stand much
• liance. Among his friends he had a
very shrewd young lawyer named
l..t Follette, who also had political
ambitions but no money and no fol
lowing, and because of his reputation
for craft and scheming was generally
uisliked, but politics are funny. Be
tween Uncle Ike's money and I>a Fol
lette's brains they cooked up a
scheme to buy all the newspapers in
Wisconsin outright and make Bob
senator, l,a Follette tn turn was to
use his influence after he became
senator to get Uncle Ike the aame
kind of job. All went fine. Uncle Ike
spent something like a million and a
half and put Bob across, but after
La Follette got where ho wanted to
get then Uncle Ike didn't fit Into the
picture, so he was polltelv left out in
the woods where he felt more at
home. This made Uncle Ike so mad
that he just naturally busted loose
and spent another $1160.000 and gut
himself elec ted in spite of La Follette.
And then the fun began.
l.a Follette didn't want Stephenson
busting up his well laid schemes and
Stephenson was Just ns determined to
throw n monkey wrench Into them.
Well, anyhow Bob was the foxiest of
ilie two, so he hail Uncle Ike thrown
nut of the senate fer spending more
money than the law- allowed to get
himself elected. Get that?
That's the r_M|y that's runnlnt for
president today. Kook up the records
and proto mo wrong If you can.
TOOTS.
One for Mr. Stnljcy.
Wnii«.i. N"el> To the Kflltor of The
Omaha Bee: It la amusing to read
Mr. K. G. Stnllev's letter In The Bee
Indicting the Nebraska conference for
progressive political action. Referlng
to the republican and the democratic
parties Mr. Stolley bluntly cnlls them
the "rotten" parties. Now, a political
party In made up of IndHIdual per
sons and nothing else. Therefore the
character of the party Is simply the
sum total of tho character of the in
dividual* constituting the party.
[ ■ Martin
Another peculiar thing about a
nrnsimist in that he suspect* ever'
buddy but hi* liver. Somehow,
we'd hate t’ be a waiter an’ know
when a cuitomer order* chicken pie
he won't git no chicken.
(t ip> I iftht, 1914 )
Hence, according to Mr. Stolley. the
thirty odd million voters of the re
publican and tho democratic pai tics,
or a majority of them are "rotten,"
or corrupt, which means the same
thing. But the majority rules in this
country, so the few honest and re
spectable fellows, who are neither re
publicans nor democrats, will have to
grin and bear it. But I do feel sorry
for Mr. Stolley, closely surrounded
as he is on ail sides by a mass of
corrupt people. For when the ballots
are counted in November it will be
found that the great bulk of the citi
zens of the fair city of Grand Island
is made up of republicans and demo
crats.
The assertion Is also made that "all
labor organizations as well as Farm
ers' unions in this state are suppoVt
Ing the candidacy of Ijh. Follette and
Wheeler." Is that so? So far I have
met only one labor union man and no
Farmers' union man who has declar
ed himself for I.a FVollette. Possibly
the heads of those organizations are
trying the whip cracking game Mr.
•Stolley refers to.
Mr. Stolley waxes eloquent toward
the close and calls upon all progres
sives to stand shoulder to shoulder
to "save this nation of ours from
ruin and destruction." Save It from
whom—the republican and demo
cratic parties? Is It not reasonable to
believe that the country will be safer
under them, that stand firmly for
keeping our three departments of
government Intact, each one a check
upon the others, the way the writers
of the constitution established them,
than under one who Insists on tying
the hands of one department Hnd
placing the fate of liberty and Justice
wholly at the mercy of a whimsical
congress and ditto legislatures, as
l«t Follette would have It’ That was
the way Itussla was "saved" by
Benlne and Trotzky. self-appointed
dictators, as Mr. I.a Follette 1« a self,
appointed dictator of the Ba Follette
party.
I presume Mr. Stolley is a signer
of the Sorenson petition for the
amendment to the Nebraska constitu
tion lo take the party circle and the
party names off the ballots, whereby
both the republican and the demo
Give ue ■ men who cen smile when
he is down end out
“Welcome
Stranger”
From Asron Hoffman’s Stage
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cratic parties would be killed In this
state. OLD TIMED.
Crawled Out Siiccessfilflyi
Daughter had just returned from
finishing school. “That air—her
father began as they sat down In the
dining room. “Father, dear," the
girl interrupted, 'you should say
'that something.' or, preferably, just
'that.' It's vulgar to say 'that air.’’'
"Well, this ear—," the father be
gan again.
''No,' said the daughter. 'You
must avoid such expressions as this
'ere.' "
'Look here, my girl," said the
father, “I'm going to say exactly what
I mean. That air is bad for this ear
of mine and I'm going to shut the
window.”—Montreal Oazette.
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The more we travel about Nebraska the more we mourn
that our towns and cities, our counties and our streams, wer»
not given sonorous and historic Indian names. There is a lilt
and an appeal to such names as Niobrara and Keya Paha
that doe* not attach to the name* of mere politicians. Minne
ehaduza would be a mere creek Instead of a picturesque little
stream if It were nanted something modern. \\> even prefer
Stinking Water to Republican as a name for a river. 8oot»s
Bluff is not a good name for a mountain, but whatever the
old Indians call it would be characteristic and really de
scriptive. Thurston may'be a good name for a county, but one
it tiie old Indian names would have been more appropriate.
Nebraska ml-sed a whole lot witen it failed to perpetuate
early traditions by clinging to the Indian names, as New
Mexico and California did by holding fast to the old Spanish
names. And, speaking of cognomens, being somewhat old
fashioned, we prefer the old feminine names like Mary and
Sarah, and Susan, and Margaret, to Ymogyne and Vyvyan,
and Ysobel, and Maymye of these modern days. Our own
name, which it not william, arid never was, is of no moment.
The old parson who inscribed it on the record page of the
family Bible was weak in orthography insofar as proper
names was concerned, and he spelled It In so fearful and won
derful a manner that when we arrived at the age of under
standing we amputated the last syllable of it.
Given names of men do not always fit. Percy Brownell
Sales was the fightingest young scamp in our old school crowd,
while Morgan Mosby Welty was the quietest. The last we
heard of Percy he was a switchman in the Kansas City yards
and Mose was for many years a successful minister of the
gospel.
A fashion expert Informs us tl. t the wise woman will
dress to suit her eyes. Not on your life she won't. She will
keep right on dressing to suit the eyes of sombody else, and
eontinu" to score a pronounced success, just as she has from
the day Eve coyly donned a fig leaf and paraded for Adam s
benefit.
Say, but It makes a fellow feel old when he is accosted
by a matronly looking woman with the remark, "I'm sure you
do not remember me," and recognize her as one you danced
on your knee when she was a wee little mite of a girl. That's 1
just w hat happened to us the other day. We'll name no names \
but admit that after the short meeting was over we felt the l
need of a cane as we walked away.
Our old friend. Charley Clancy, was lulled to talk on the
constitution in a neighboring community, and half the people
who attended brought their family doctor book to check up
ind see if Charley knew what he was talking about.
The devil chortles with glee every time he sees a man who
never t otes ostentatiously doffing his hat when the flag goes by.
A lot of men who declare their willingness to die for their
countrv are too blamed careless to spend ten minutes voting
for It. WILL M. MALTIN'.
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