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.
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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. -
