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OmahaVheie ihe^fcst is at its Best
GO OUT AND GET THEM ALL.
No shortsighted policy should he allowed to
stand in the way of Omaha's growth. If this com
munity ever takes on the garments of a real city it
must do it as a leader among
the commercial and industrial
communities of the world. To
accomplish that every possible
obstacle of prrsorfal or selfish
interest must be removed. All
hands must pull together for the
good of all.
News dispatches advi=e that
there will shortly he offered to
Omaha a chance to get a branch
of the great mail order house of
Sears, Roebuck A Co. of Chi
cago. This firm is looking for
a location through which its
business may be extended. Kan
sas City is bidding for the site.
If news dispatches are correct, Omaha has a chance
to secure it. Such an institution will he a real
value to the city. If it is the means of bringing
no other benefit, it will have the effect of extend
ing the local retail trade.
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Arguments that a mail nrdpr house 1* a detri
ment, because of its interference with the retail
trade of interior communities rest on too narrow a
foundation. These houses have existed for many
years. They have developed pnormous traffic. Yet
country stores have gone on about the same as ever.
Y\'e must keep in mind the fact that Sears, Roebuck
& Co. will continue to operate whether the new
extensions are made or not. We must keep in mind,
too, that it will continue to trade -in Nebraska,
whether the branch is located in Kansas C ty or
Omaha.
The more retail e-tablishments a market renter
has, the greater the chnnep for profitable trading by
the customer. Om^ha will thrive isist as it offers
inducements to peer'-' to come herp to buy as well
as to sell. It is o of the great primary grain
markets of the world. It is the second livestock
mnrket. It is a manufacturing and jobbing center
of importance. Why not make it also a really great
letail town?
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This is not said in disparagement of the stores
(.'ready here. The city has many splendid em
I oriums, where the richest offerings of the world are
presented to customers. Our retail merchants are
enterprising, and fully abreast the times. They
welcome any who will come. A chance to bring
an institution whose business runs into the mil
lions each year does not come every day. It ought
to be -seized when offered. If Omaha is going to be
really great, the rule should be. Go out and get
them all. The slogan for Omaha in 1926 is, Greater
Nebraska—Straight. Ahead.
MORTGAGE ON THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
One little bit of time-honored romance cannot
be put on in Nebraska. The daughter of the house
hold may be turned obt into the winter night for
marrying an actor, but the prodigal son cannot gal
lop up just in time to prevent the old folks from
being dispossessed through foreclosure of the mort
gage. Because, “there ain’t no such animal.”
More than one-half the farms in Nebraska, F>2
per eent to be exact, were unburdened by mortgage
nt the close of the year. Of the other 48 per cent.,
the incumbrance is so slight as average less than half
the actual value of the property. The debt ranges
fronts 30 to 60 per rent of the total valuation.
Secretary .1. H. Roper of the Federal Farm Loan
association of Dodge county points this picture:
“The combined v-ilne of whest and corn eropa
atone will be upproxln :elj t 'T.'i.nmi.ooo or an aver
age Of $2,000 for evr" i u ni In the stale. Add the
other crops, oat*, tie. barley, sugar heels, hav,
potatoes, fruit and vegetables with their combined
value of about $200,000.0<to. Then add $280,000,000
more for cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and dsirv
products. The totnl value of all the agricultural
products for Nebraska this year, statisticians tHI
us, will be nearly ITSft ooo.ooo or an average of over
$5,7‘lb per farm.”
And the farmer is sitting pretty, all prepared for
another season of productive effort. Nebraska is
prosperous, because its farmers are industrious,
thrifty, farsighted. That is the whole story.
PITTSBURGH-PLUS IN TAXATION.
An experiment that will interest the whole coun
try is being tried out in Pittsburgh. It. practically
amounts to the application of the Henry George the
ory of single tax. Instead of assesaing land and
buildings as a unit, the. values are separated. The
rate of taxation on buildings is only half that rest
ing on the land. No tax is laid on stocks of goods
or personal belongings of any sort. Presumably,
the law has worked satisfactorily, for it is now pro
posed to adopt a rule whereunder the tax laid on
the buildings will he but 1 per cent of that put on
the (and.
Some question is raised a« to the working out of
this plan. In St. Paul, for example, where a care
ful Inquiry has been made by the Pi-patch, it is
found that the rule will generallv tend to increase
the combined valuation of the lurid and building.
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Th* editor of that paper shows that, whereas the
present valuation of building* is in round numbers,
$200,000,000, and of land alone $134,000,000, un- j
der the Pittsburgh plan buildings would be reduced
to $100,000,000 and that of land increased to
$234,000,000. In a downtown business ward the
! rule would produce a net increase of $28,000,000,
or 40 per cent in valuation. Such an increase, the
Dispatch editor contends, would put a burden on the
business of the community that could only be met
by a rise in selling price of commodities or a re
duction in wages. Kither would be disastrous. On
the other hand, the plan would produce a slight re
duction in the amount of taxes paid by the home
owners.
A comparison for Omaha would be interesting.
Whatever it might show, it would be a contribution
to the never-ending debate over taxes* The search
for some painless method of taking money away
from those who have it to be used to defray expenses
of the government has not been ended. Maybe the
“Pittsburgh-plus” plan has in it something that de
serves study.
EVERYBODY IN ON THIS.
Several weeks of unfavorable weather have
driven many of the automobile users to riding on the
tram ears. These have been edified, or at least have
had thp opportunity for being edified, hy numerous
posters displayed hy the Omaha Council of Safety.
All of these posters hear impressive warnings, the
text supported by appropriate pictures. Even the
most casual can not fail to get some suggestion from
■.hem.
One that seems most timely of all carries this:
“Play Fair With Traffic. Await your turn.” No
other phase of the complicated traffic problem is
more general than this. Not a jam at a street cross
I irtg but some ambitious driver gets out of line, hop
| ing to and generally succeeding in getting ahead of
| several, even though he delay and inconvenience
1 everybody else. Not a crowd waits for the coming
I street car but notes a struggle on part of somebody
| to get aboard first. At the elevator, someone strug
I g!es to get into the car ahead of everybody in line.
I 'n impetuous person will rush wildly througfi a re
volving door, and then stand on the sidewalk and
look up and down street long enough to waste sev
eral times the amount of time he gained by running
over other people whose right to go through the door
was equal to his and who were there before he was.
Await your turn. It will not take very. long, and
will show a decent regard for the rights of others.
Of course, your time is valuable, hut so is that of
other people. And more time is wasted in traffic
jams because some deluded mortal tries to heat all
the rest to the opening than would have been lost
had the whole procession moved in order. Think of
the other fellow once in a while. No matter how
urgent your mission, it does not warrant the disre
gard of others who may lie bent on business just as
important.
SPORT, OR JUST BUSINESS?
A so-railed national association of prize fight
impresarios tells a gasping world it will not recog
nize any titles awarded hy the New York state box
ing commission. A boxer may he a champion in
New York, but he will just he a name on the pro
gram anywhere else. Not that we care so much as
three whoops at the North Pole, but who is going to
determine the championship?
Once there was a rule by which this mattpr was
easily settled. The holder of the honor fared in the
ring the man who coveted Ate crown. The one who
ramp out was rhampion. Simplicity. No argument
or contention, no lettpr writing, berating of cross
eyed referees, or prejudiced commissioners. Nor
did the rhampion in those good old days live long.
He was not permitted to choose his "set ups.” A
challenger appeared, and the eontpst followed, as
soon as sueh arrangements eould be made as would
permit the meeting without interference from policp
authorities.
Nowadays, more palaver !« required to get a iham
pion into the ring tharWnight end a world war. After
lie gets in, few ran tell just what happened. We get ;
referee's decisions, newspaper decisions, and no de
cisions. About the only thing that has not been tried
is a general referendum. A boxer may he tiffi cham
pion in one part of the land, and a nit in another.
The business men who are handling the money
end of the game are growing more grasping than
shrewd. If they awake to their own interests, they
would try to adjust their affairs so the public would
he ahle to know what it is getting when it buys a
ticket to see a “championship'' melee. Otherwise,
the day is not so far off when organized boxing will
cease to hp regarded as a sport, and he forced to
lake its plare among the business enterprises of the
isnd. Then it will land just about where professional ,
wrestling now lies, flat on its hark.
Producer Brady says the radio now menace* the
theater. All right.. Now let the theater get hack
to its proper sphere, and it need not fear radio or
anything el*e.
Among others who will be missed a* the opening
r.f the session will he Squatter Governor Pearman
and Joe Burns. Used to be that a Nebraska legisla
ture could not run without one of these.
Four more Ohio' men have demonstrated that it
is disastrous to tie a locomotive in a race for a
crossing. But thi« will not keep others from trying.
Attorney General Slone is showing the hoys that
when he asks for a resignation, he means for an
officeholder to get out.
Four thousand persons actually attended the
Cnolidge New Year’s reception, hut 110,000,000
wished them the best of luck.
Homespun Verse
— By Omuhd't Own P»,l —
Rnherl Worthington l^avie
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TWO QUEF.NS.
T«n Quean* there were In dny* of old -
(in# with brocade **f gems find uold, -
And one a rnmrnon woman who
Ko* ked babies to ‘leap, and I vad bar Ufa
A.« many, many mot hat a do,
Kjip h who I* Just a poor man a wife.
Two Quaan* there vara, a* I have said.
And one of thorn h«a long l>» r n da/id.
Tha other ona will live until
The Inst rose sadly withered Ha*.
While Hpsia repla<as sale and hill.
And esets Using object die*.
She who was Qiia»*n of greater Tales
Than Power and Wealth and tbnnr M 1 I• *
|« Queen of Virtue, and «h* 1 j:n*
Though ih* inrititnei-«hi* spans of liia
Th# royal blood of peasant veins
Makes bar tha Quern* a pnnr man's wir*
Aristocratic das* base passed:
The hand* of toll deserve renown.
A nd In r m'lns »hr e l* met
I ^ ins iv|hI liihiiiAi of the ciown.
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Two Can Plav at That Game
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I SAID-ISN'T IT ABOUT /
TIME. TO TALK OVER J < why NOl CANT CAY THAT
THE. LITTLE MATTER ( lt) ^r%ev 7HE sf*on was |
op your. DEBT . j Particularly wet- on the
_ CONTRARYI WAS THtNlONC* L,
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___ HOW ABOUT LOANING A UTTLfc MOR&j
THINK or THAT* 1 MONEY, SA-t ABOUT TV/O OR /
well now I AM ( THREE HUNDRED MILLION? J
SURPRISED. I ALWAYS 1~^T ? "
THOUGHT WATER- ' /
MELLONS GRE ^ \ \
on pumpkiu vine ^ ) I
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Letters From Our Readers
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cations of 200 words and Irss, will ba given preference.
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Fight for the Amendment.
Omaha.- To the Kditor of The
Omaha Bee: It appears that the
enemies of the child labor amendment
will win by default of It.* friends.
Such apathy upon the part of the
well wisher* shows a decided lack of
understanding of the meaning, or of
the importance, of the amendment,
and the forces contending against B>
ratification.
I happen to have "A Description
of the Rvils of Child Labor," (Con
gressional Record, Volume 41. Part 2
page 1553) before the senate. January
•3. 1907. 'I’his may be considered old,
but the struggle against the <k.<mnablo
system that coins the blood of Infant*
Into profits is far older than that
(>ur Puritan father*, a hundred years
ago. lamented the sight of young pe°
pie, 8 and 9 year- of age, gamboling
nn the green instead of being use
fully employed in the factories. Yes,
the struggle is old and show* that in
America we move slowly, very slow
ly. when profits are endangered.
This senate report showed 1,750,17$
childr en. 10 to 15 >#*.»r* of age, were
employed a* breadwinners in 1900
line out of every four boys, aud one
girl In 10. of all childre* of that age
hi the 1 ’tilled tit a tea. This does Hot
tell the whole story, fur many were
Mot reported in the census, while
those of 5. ft and 7 had their oge mis
represented. Breaker boys at the coal
mines, 12 to 14 ye.iin of age. worked
14 hours a day for ftO rents Some
min** worked nine hours, with 20
minute* off for !un< h. Th* torture
undergone by thee* el^di#*n wn
i sally indc -d Ibahle.
The textile mills are always th#
worst offenders against th* children
Little tots of ft and 7 are employed
for !» and to hour* a day* -exhausting
their bndb’« stunting their growth
end swelling the percentage of Mil
states. Some textile mills work night
whiff. the report *.» «*, “and the little
children are called on to endure the
strain of all night work, and are
>•# »m ei I r)i es k*|>t awake bv t lie vigilant
vitperintendent with cold waiter <bish
erl into their faces One li*tl* fel
low. ft years #»f age. had worked night i
for a \ ear. In answer tf» a query, th#
child said he could hardly sleep in
ihe daytime. This is jn America, th#
land #.f th* freebonimg profiteers
Who Is responsible for this? \
silk mill owner ways: "I deplore this
business (child labor) as mm h as vow
do, but I am part of a great Indus
trial system, anil so long a* th#* *'*<
tern exists 1 must run itsy mills as
ot her mills ai ♦* run "
Thet e you ha\e 1C The mill owner
Abe Martin |
Th' otp-limr lirillinnt -hunl, ^nn
ri i (in-th'cna I <>' \li ,ini t'hrn-l
mil* nrrkti nr it n| t' throw unity
wiix nyhl in lylr tin yriii »h i h
hrlppd iivr. Bout th’ mm time
n murruifr hiiin t lop!>i<lnl i» tv hint
uua movie tar mft •" another,
p'«!*) 11* ip. m.» '
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cannot or will not abolish child labor,
the individual state would » ripple Its
industries if acting alone. The attempt
to penalize c hild labor with a tax fail
ed because it wa* discriminatory. It
is a national, federal question—social
and economical. The strength of the
children is being sapped, their life
blasted and body broken, and the fu
tore of the race Imperilled mentally
and physically, localise these ah state
governments, afraid of each other,
and who aie dominated oxer by nil
merotis groups of r-hlld labor exploit
era and their stock holders snd re
tainer*. One senator said at this .n
vestigation; "If they were our chll
dren we should forget lunch and not
sit up nights contrlxdng arguments to
show* that the constitution won’t let
us rescue them.-’
.1 > «t two more short Items from this
report; 1 In one mill e|tv in the south
a doctor told a friend that he had per
sonallx’ arhputaled more than I On
liable* fingers mangled in the mill.”
"Fhild labor has Increased bevong
all pioportion to labor of men and
women, and while dividends average
T". per cent, amt sometime* ris* a«
high a* So or to jer cent, Uhls in 1900,
what i* it. now') »he average wage I
Hteadilv dropping. '
Only through the ratification of th-;
child labor amendment can congies*
be enabled to curtail this horribles
tiafflc bv the entac rment of a law
a pplirii hie to the entite nation snd
with no discrimination against any
'•late or group of states regulating
the Ichor of children under lx year.
of age The amendment will merely
v i x e congee** power to do this we
will *tiil hpve tc» carry on the strug
gle for the protection «♦ f th* child
In *plte c»f all roUrept esentatfon*
to the contrary, th* child labor
amendment will not prohibit children
doing chore* around the house or on
the farm, nor nf selling paper* and
doing other aftei school tasks in the
cities
Fight for th* ratifb it Inn of the
amendment. \bo|lsh child labor smi
demand full maintenanc * of all poor
children under IX years of age by the
state and nation.
The only animat that II'-** off !♦«
young is the human Help raise
America to th* plane of rivdization 1
I 'A \ ID COFTTS
206 Fmunse block
In Hegard to Mr. Hanson.
Silver Fr*eU. Neb To the Kditor
of The Omaha Bee; Mr I. b Han
son laps tlie child l*l*or bill. Being
a rich land owner he no doubt made
ell h* s got off of child labor Next
he ;■< not an American, as an Ameii
can would not make alaxea of * li41
dren. Why ai* theie so many i»“"
families In our country today? Be i
c.it.se xx «• have too minv llansoi,*
and his likes, who believe in cheap
child h« I air, while the father* of
these chlhben cannot get work while
his children can. I don’t suppose
Hanson would hire a man unless he
could get him for * * f»h pe» w^ek
Such men n« th * are th* ones the
1Cii Klux Ivlan should take In hand
for thex a»e nnameiic.cn, lack man
hood ami are grafters
JOHN K. HmI.MAN.
\gain Jerry Protests.
Omaha To the Kctltof of tb»
jotnai.i I;•« 1 entreat xcitir indulg
• m i tm a f •'% remarks on the*'-*- hired
propagnndfst* who ate sent to th'
Fnited Htatf* to fcater a spirit "I
lin per-liillat 1- internationalism.
• t pt. Ft «m is Me t Tilla» a »»f flu
Knglish nrmy arrived recently and!
i« one of the most active of British
cgc*nls He was horn m airland and
!s a FathoHc of th* caliber of the
Vnglo Savon Irish group «*f pen and
ink timMoh rs in America who precd
Ilugllsh propaganda -.through a cer
I rain *o' -t ion of the press
\ n gin Sa xonistn Is graduall' pen*
Hating tlie* ranks c'f a barge element
nf tip* Aineihiin iieople of lilsh *x
I II ifihm Kx Idem I- of this fact ts not
I far to see k Th* appoint Inent of
I’rof llcnrx Ion* s Fc*nl Woodrow
I Wilson's sticaa-.* sot at 1*» In* et**n uni
I m i tv, a* hcn.| of th« Kmghts of
! Frdumhu* Hist nr leal eommls-dnn
! --hoxx s that that hodv. width gaxe
i mui h pinttil-r of doing grout thing1'
i'or A uici I* an history h is . a pit ulat rd
to the Anglo*- von onslaught. To l*e
C-Ut* . 4n*ti) fcotlull 1* «i\lpg» 4»rt' * (
never been wholly absent from the
Knights of Columbus.
I wonder what has become of the
hill of t*ongressman t». H Tinkham
of Massachusetts providing for com
ptilsor y registration of foreigners com*!
ing here with the Intention of writ
ing article*, gathering material for
articles, lecturing, interview ing public j
official*, influencing public opinion,
etc.
These propagandist*, whether at
Washington, L>. t\. or elsewhere, are
on a par with the lobbyists at l-ln
coin. Neb. Congress should pa*» a
hill requiring them to reglnter.
JKRRY HOWARD.
1 .ove for i Hildren.
Omah To rise Kditor of The
Omaha Bee I note ‘he little stir over
I >r. Pinto* suggestion ‘hat couple*
should l*e divorced if not bearing * hi!
uren in the limit *of two yea1 a.
I am not with him on that subject
at aUr apd * laim the reverse would
he more In the keeping of mv idea*
except where both parents are in lov*
with said chiM birth, and love the
day of it* arrival. 8u*h birth* and
enh * ich birth* should be iegai ded
as an uplift to the parents and to the
nation at large. For a mother to give
birth to a ch Id that she ha* tried to
abort. or for a mother to give birth
to a • hi Id that the fathet did not
sanction is the cause of d*g*nera< v
and monstrous citizenship caused by
l he birthmark the mother gave to
the child when stilt in the womb.
That i* the reason our jail* and
pen.tenttarie** hic filled with so main
people who don't • hip at all just *>
the; *ei their dai!> 1 it ion* at meal
l line
A mother should have the tight to
elnot a child that she doe* not want
or where the love of both parents fui
the birth is not In accord for the good
of Amerna, and for the got*} of the
child mote than any other reason on
enrt h
Mr. Pin*- ** Idea along the lire of j
holding that children help to Keep the I
patents together no doubt i* correct, j
hut not on a child that is not wanted'
bv the parent*
C. T.. NKTHAWAY.
Ktpettahre.
‘ .lark, before ue were married you
always took n»e home from the the
afer in a taxi
True enough, my dear, bit rov\
we ran do our hugging <»* norue."—
Rnpton Tranaorfpt.
\I.UHIhMHM
Gargle Throat
I With Aspirin i|
\ Clip This if Subject to Sore >i
; Throat or Tonsilitis j!
Prepare a harmless and effective
garni# l»y dissolving two 1U»>#r Tab
let* of Aspirin in four tablenpnonful*
of water, fiatgl# throat t borough 1>
Hepeat in two hours if neo**saty.
He sot# you us# only tb# genu n#
Ha\#r Tablets of Aspirin, marked
with the lisvcr t’ross. whh h «an be
had in tin boxes **f twrhf tablets for
few rents
' LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Tress
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The information that rold hath*:
prolong life fails to Intereet the edi j
tor #*f f he Stilton Regi^'er He » • n
plains that long life onl> means more |
rold lwths.
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Kletc h Merw In of the t\»n t’lty
Times-Tribune rla ms that a rook in j
that town • an fry anything hut a;
•oiijp bone and make a frt; t naiad onU
of anything but carrots. But ran the,
.cfor**e«»d rook boll < al>l>age without
the neighbors knowing it?
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t'.i’ey Nevin has just completed a
quarter of a century »« editor and
pi lu sher «»f the lusutel Adv»»* • e,
with profit to himaelf and even
#i*eulei profit to his home town.
. . .
The H* ot a Registet man a «• gh *•«
that i he da \ is lapidK *pp'oaoiling j
when he will l^giu breaking bis good}
i '•solutions
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for tho SIX MONTHS
F.ndmc Sopl. .10. 1924
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oval •. aanipla* ot papal* apniird •»'
pilntinp and inrlitdaa no ap*» ia'
• ala* o« fiPt ciimlation of any kind
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thi« 4lh day af Oi luKa 1074
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At I.incoln—Mingling with the men.It*' s elect of th- I**-'"1 ‘‘
tlire one gels a good cross section of Nebraska. • X >**
political not bolls merrily while the legislators ate ga boring,
hot this time one hears little of |»<ltl.-s and a lot about pro
n«rHy. W« haven't heard a single wall or woe « nee -.•
down hero lo look around and lisle., On the ouitiarx w,- hear
nothing hut good nows- evorvbody happy md hopeful. And,
do you know that hol|is a lot'.'
Jlogvv snows are re ported from a’l s- tions of tic sine.
and lota of snow moans a btg wheat ... *"<>"•'" It
also moans a good corn crop *'• far a- I condition- .* -
concerned. Stork feeders from the w*-P rn pit of th- s .
a,e more hopeful than they have been fn, the last -ox 'eats,
and Ihe sheep men ate especially jubilant. I .e six > p ttu-tt
hsVf mad** a ‘’killing ’ ihia >*«•.
One good feature, apparent from the - it. is that I
will lie very little ''ripper' legislation proposed during ' *
session Nobody seems to have i knife on' for the.
potation*, and the old pastime of Introducing hold up or
"come-on" bills went out of fashion several year* ago *ha'
tts"d to lie a fine g- me. and profilabie. Some fellow would
Slip around and induce some n-w and Inexperienced m-m r
In Introduce a bill. Innocent enough on its surface, but one
that really meant trouble and expense to the railroads. - r th
telephones or Ihe light and |s»w er men. Then the f-How w u’d
slip around and Intimate that for a cinsi'-ratlon he co.'d
have the lull suppressed in committee. or - i!t until it was :<
potted out and then prom, *- to lit'* it k ll-d it tb-i
enough in it to pay hint tor the trouble.
That sort of tiling became a great 'll" hut one dav
«Jeo,-ge XX. Ibddre' e rebelled XX i.eii I'fi .I--' W-Itii 1 s
of lie! ii to !■ i11 certain vicious Id’ls timed
Jloldrege said:
"Not this t ine \V* have made up our miroi- that i w .11
lie 1-heaiter fit obey the law than to Itax- it killed ' And 'hat
position proved so wise that the ’ come on" 1.1 b «»'•*« U'l '
Iv died out. Now the railroad repr r--;, ■: ve* engage U'-ar
tei-« register as lobyists. and depend upon argument and fact*
to protect their interests. Kx erx thing i« done in the open
The same policy is pursued by other corporate Interests The
railroads practically retired from politics . « it used to o*
played when the railroad pass wjrit out of existence.
The creation of tiie state board" of control took a iot "f ***f
, put of politic* Itecsnse it took about 1. -an small po ilice!
jiloni" out of the game. Formerly the governor apisbrted all
the h»ad« of stale Institution* aid it wa» a .tea- -or:.* a •
annoying task No-.x the male hoard of ' - p ha« . - *
charge t.f a'l the state Institutions tnd there er* minify f* «
changes made, and none unless for real u-- - In ■■■-“ of
vacancies created by death or resign at on The best feature
of that law is that it means that the si institutions are run
fo- the benefit of the slate's wards not for the piebit*r«.
Those timber braces In the east end of the old s»ate house
will l»e allowed to remain until the #•< her* s*- t" xxork. I':'
ting them in was a monumental bluff, pulled h - ''
w ho xx ere pronioting the n*w capital. Th*x were a pox* --ft:
argument, too. In favor of an appropriation for a n*xv state
house When the nid building looked a« if 1* x- « going to fail
down on the dex-oterl heads of the ! • *\ . , * s. it was easx
to line 'em up for a new 1- tiding. The •■'d ouilding xx*» , d
have ootlasterl the timber hr • * **.
obi timers \x Hi t *-mernber that the dome t -t-e s* --* -e
used to be gilded with gold paint. It -hr * - I in g -s'
• shape. When the populists r *d con't - ex- Wnuldii t
stand fm sny go'd foolishness i- d ti.... -il
polish. That wa« when l'n’cle Ja'e W. V laud c**-. . -
pastured sheep on the stateho-ise grounds and Secretary t.f
State "Hill Porter butche* *d hr*gs in h e l,-,-- yard in defiat, *
of city ordinance Them xxa- th' go d ol - *
xx il.f. M. MAI'PIN.
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Why Buy a Home
in the Winter?
For the Same Reason That
the Wise Fellow Buys His
Coal in the Summer I
The supply is greater than the demand. Someone,
of necessity must sell, there is a scarcity of buyers. I
Therefore someone gets a Real Bargain. !
Read the real estate for sale ads every day until you s
choose your home.
The
OMAHA BEE
Classified Advertising Dept. *
AT. 1000