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then there is no Use "wasting time, ink and effort in making any change. There can be no compromise on this score. Half-way steps will not do, gentlemen. The dream of a few idealists that Lincoln may, and should, invent some new system of municipal government that will send their names and the name of this city ringing down through all the ages is irridescent. The commission plan of government has been tested and found effective. Effective government is what Lincoln wants not experimental government. Not only must the mayor he responsible to the people for his official acts, but the heads of all city departments must be responsible to the people. The people have a right to demand this, and they will. If after all their time and effort the wise men having the neAV charter in hand can bring forth nothing better than the proposed plan, then in the name of commonsense let us hold on to what Ave have regardless of its known evils, rather than fly to something else of whose evils we know nothing. -A, mayor with power to make all appointments. Rubbish ! A continuance of the cumbersome council system ! And that is called progress ! The gentlemen responsible for this proposition ought to take a few days off and acquaint themselves with public opinion in Lincoln. Either that joint charter commission is neglecting its duties or there is a "hen on." If it is a ease of "hen on" the voters will addle the eggs before hatching time, and don't you forget it. The people, will not stand for any scheme that doesn't give them a chance to vote on it. Mayor Love favors changing the charter and then buying the Gas Co. plant. Mayor Love will discover that a maioritv of tax payers are already convinced that their load is heavy enough. The tax burden will have to be more equitably distributed before there is willingness to increase the revenues by increasing the tax levy. G Gables The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium LINCOLN, NEBRASKA For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. FOMEMT ' Fmralslied Rooms Rooms and Board The above signs neatly printed on heavy cardboard, for sale at THE WAGEWORKER 1705 "0" STREET SAN FRANCISCO IS THE LOGICAL PLAGE Omaha Man Tells Why Exposition Should Go to California. San Francisco has some very good friends in the middle-west and in the Mississippi valley section, friends who are not at all backward in ex pressing their preference for this city as the site for the proposed ex position in celebration of the complex tion of the Panama canal. This fact was strikingly illustrated recently through the effort of the spe cial representative of the New Or leans exposition boosters, in Omaha, to secure an endorsement for the southern city from the Commercial club, Omaha's leading organization of business men. In trying to secure this endorse ment, J. B. Haynes, New Orleans' special representative, addressed a circular letter to the members of the club and rece.1 " reply which must have had the of a cold douche on his hopes. Haynes letter and the reply, which is signed by R. Miller, one of the most influential members of the club, are here given : i WORLD S PANAMA EXPOSITION CO., NEW ORLEANS LOGICAL POINT. Offices in the Brandeis Theater Bldg. Telephone: Douglas 827. Omaha, "Neb., Sept. 13, 1910. My Dear Sir I understand the Com mercial club has asked Its members to express in the form of a post-card vote a preference as between New Orleans and San, FYancisco the two cities which are competing- for congressional action designating a city in. which to celebrate the completion of the Panama canal in 1915. Before casting your vote, please read the enclosed circular containing points bearing directly an the subject. Tn forming a conclusion in the case, do not forget the shabby treatment accord ed to the big Nebraska delegation which, at large expense, took a special to Cali fornia to induce the legislature at Sac ramento to provide for ah exhibit at tha exposition in Omaha In 1898. That leg islature passed such a bill, but beforo the Omaha delegation had traveled many miles on the return trip the bill was re pealed, and California did not partici pate In the Omaha exposition. More over, within the last few months the San Francisco Chronicle printed an 'edi torial asserting the failure of the Omaha exposition.- That city- is positively un friendly to Omaha for some reason or other. The World's Panama Exposition com pany of New Orleans is bidding for Omaha's support. It has done what no other exposition company ever did by establishing a branch office in Omaha, which is a compliment to this city, to say the least, and is enough to entitle the New Orleans project to the thought ful consideratidn of every citizen Of Omaha. I would appreciate a reply. Yours truly, (Signed) J. B. HAYNES, Special Representative. Private Office Rome Miller Interests, Omaha, Sept. 16, 1910. Mr. J. B. Haynes, Special Representative, World's Exposition, City: My Dear Mr. Haynes I have your cir cular letter of Sept. 13, relative to the World's Exposition and note carefully a'-l that is contained therein. I take is sue with you in reference to San Fran cisco. r Co so fully appreciating the fact that you are a special representative of New Orleans, and it is your duty to plug for thit city, but when it gets down to brass tacks, in my Judgment there is no comparison between the two cities as rivals for the Panama exposition. 1 have vloited both cities many times. New Orleans is not in the same class as San Francisco, in climate, beauty of surroundings or in general interest to the average traveler. t think it is unfair to damn San Fran cisco on account of something that the fihrojilejjjnas printed Q tngp into anj- cient history and" quarrel over" ariacrof the California legislature. I have in "mind what San Francisco has gone through in the last few years, and the undaunted spirit of its people, and what the people of the west owe td that spirit, and which they can only pay by encouraging them in their future un dertakings. Yours truly, (Signed) R. MILLER. EXPOSITION FIGHT INTERESTS COUNTRY San Francisco Outclasses New Orleans In Every Respect. The great fight that is being waged between San Francisco and New Or leans for the honor of celebrating the completion of the Panama canal is attracting the attention of the entire country. The fight is no longer a contest between the two cities, but be tween California and Louisiana, the legislatures of which have each au-. thorized a state tax to raise funds in aid of the proposed international exposition. In financial standing California is so far ahead of Louisiana that its superior -ability to finance the fair must be conceded, and if the question of selecting a site for the exposition were to be decided on a basis of the relative wealth of the contestants, congress would have no option, but would be forced to award the coveted honor to San Francisco. To the unprejudiced observer it is difficult to see wherein New Orleans has any legitimate claim to recogni tion as the logical point for the ex position, aside from the mere fact that it is located nearer to the center of population. In beauty of surround ings, climatic advantages, ability to handle the hundreds of thousands of prospective visitors, general progres sive spirit of its people and record of achievement, San Francisco stands head and shoulders above Its rival. According to the report of the na tional monetary commission on April 28, 1909, the population of California was 1,732,000, and that of Louisiana 1,642,000, while in the amount of sav ings deposits California ranked fourth among the states of the Union and Louisiana twenty-fourth, the ex act figures being as follows: California $281,228,437 26 Louisiana 21,366,283 90 Calif ornio had 52B.488 depositors, aver aging $535.00; Louisiana 163,814. averag ing $264.00. The total resources as represented in bank deposits were: California, $842, 969,880.00; average per capita $486.70. Louisiara, $158,642,502.00; average per capita, $96.61. The following figures are taken from the report of the reports of the California comptroller of currency: San Francisco Total savings deposits, $153,792,186.05; total individual- deposits, $243,927,437.47; average, $740.00. New Orleans Total savings deposits, $16,856,783.49; total individual deposits, $42,979,077.18; average $300.00. Increase in resources of National banks, year 1909-1910: San Francisco, $103,620,828.96; New Orleans, $2,370,226.74. In the face of such a showing New Orleans and Louisiana do not appear to be in the same class with San Francisco and California, financially. And California is as much superior to Louisiana in every other respect as she is financially, Just as - San Francisco is-1 Immeasurably superior to New Orleans in all that goes to make a great and beautiful city. San Francisco is the ideal site for the Panama-Pacific Internatioual ex position in 1915. Let congress "make no mistake. -