-J?!- - -"- -fj i ja- v 'lww",' rwj""vv.-. '-vr f--.-; v--Kji- g "JS yr 'gfr1 Yf- 'W 5 f If Columbus go urual. Golmlna) BTebr. PoatoBoa. Colambas, Nabr.. H ovsuBsaaiKioa: WKDNK8DAY. JUNE 10. 1931 STBOTHER & STOCKWKLIi, Proprietor!'. fJOTCWAUi The date oppoatteyoar same m romr mar, or wnppsr showa to what Ubm roar la said. Tana Jaaw abowa that baas waived mp to Jan. 1,1905, FaatoFab.l,lMBaadaooa. Whaa payaaaat a aMfetaa data, which aaawats aa a raoaipt, wUlbaaaaaaaiaoaordlaclr. DnaOOKnMUANCEB-Baapoaaiblfl aabacrib ara will aoatimaa to raealTa tala Joarnal nntil the pahUafcari art aotiaed by latter to diacontiaue, whan all anaaracw maat be paid. If yoadoBot viahtkaJoaraaleoatiBaed for another year af ter the tiaM paid for baa expired, yoa ahoald prarioaaly motify aa to diaooatiaaa it. CHABGE IN ADDBESB-Whee orderiac a itr-ar ! taa aiVlieee.entierrihnn ehntili hit nnr to ciTataair old aaveUae their sew addreat. Put it back! The Volunteers might chip put it back. in and Will the Volunteers volunteer to put it back. A man is no better than his party, but he can be worse. Colonel Bryan has resolved not to send any more telegrams to Secretary Taft. And now will Berge hire a hall to denounce Governor Sheldon and the representatives of special interests? The Republican National conven tion will meet in Chicago Tuesday, June 16th. It looks like Taft on the first ballot The dispatches state that Colonel Bryan has outlined the Denver plat form. And why not? Isn't Bryan the whole party ? What will the Kentucky Colonels do now? Liquor will not be sold within a block of the building where the Democrats meet in Denver. The Democrats of Arkansas deserve at least one credit mark. They re fused to send Senator Jeff Davis as a delegate to the Denver convention. When it comes to obeying a state campaign publicity law, the Democrats of Nebraska do not hesitate to do a little "bootlegging" on their account own David B. Hill will not make any speeches during the campaign for the "Great Commoner." The New York politician will spend the summer and fall in Europe. Where did the money come from that paid for the Bryan special in this state in 1904? Did any of that $15, 000 sent to Mr. Bryan's managers by the trust magnates go into the special train fund? Mr. Bryan has missed an opportun ity to make another grand stand play. He should not have questioned Jim Dahlman's varacity, but sent a check for that $15,000 as soon as the expos ure was made. Mr. Bryan appears to have every thing settled to his satisfaction except the problem of how to get the Com moner's press into into the White House basement without tearing out some of the stone work. Kansas City Times. If Mr. Bryan and his Nebraska managers are really sincere in their expressed desire to have campaign contributions made public, why didn't they give publicity to the $15,000 con tributed by Wall street magnates to carry the state for the Democrats in 1904? Mr. Bryan says that he will see that the money sent to Nebraska by the trust magnates, to carry the state for Democrats in 1904, is returned, if it can be proven that the transaction actually occurred. As Jim Dahlman has already acknowledged that he handled the funds amounting to $15, 000, the proof demanded ought to be sufficent if the head push of the "Home Folk" has any standing with the Peer less. After one of the most bitter contests ever fought between the Cummins and anti-Cummins factions in the ranks of Iowa Republicans. Senator Allison has been endorsed for re-election to the position he now holds. It is now time for the republicans of Iowa to get together and fight the common enemy. A party divided into hostile factions cannot hope to win at the polls. To be aucceasful there be harmony and a pall altogether. QuMy.tVBW90M4l 9N0MSK v"' CAUGHT! In the presidential campaign of 1904, Mr. Bryan rode through Ne braska on a special train making speeches for Parker and Berge. In nearly every address made he alleged that the trusts had contributed a big corruption fund to defeat the Demo cratic ticket, and he always had some thing to say about his party placing the man above the dollar, and the Republican party placing the dollar above the man, closing with an earnest appeal to his hearers to vote for Par ker and Berge. And now the question is asked by many, was Mr. Bryan aware, at that time, that money furnished by Wall street trust magnates paid for the special on which he rode? It appears that Messrs. Sheehan and Ryan, two Tammany politicians and representatives of special interests, secured an enormous campaign fund to be used in the interests of Parker; and that $15,000 of the money was turned over to T. S. Allen, brother-in- law of Mr. Bryan, and now chairman of the State Democratic Committee. The deal was made through Mr. Allen and Jim Dahlman, the latter now mayor of Omaha. It is not known whether Mr. Bryan was aware, at the time, that trust money had been sent into Nebraska to defeat Roosevelt and assist in carrying the state for Parker and the state ticket The general supposition is that Bryan was aware that the money had been received, as it was his own brother-in-law, Allen, who made the trip to new York and got the $15,000 direct from the trust magnates. But in the absence of any direct proof as to Bryan s knowledge of the source from which the money came, he should be given the benefit of the doubt and his word taken as true that he was unaware that Wall street was assisting in fur nishing money to defeat Roosevelt in Nebraska. Whether Mr. Bryan knew of the transaction at the time, he knows it now, and should practice what he has been preaching on the stump, and denounce his own party managers in Nebraska for the very thing he has condemned Republicans for. Both parties have taken money from special interest representatives for campaign purposes. This fact was proven some time ago. And now the Democratic party has been caught again, and another case of hypocricy proven against it No man is better than his party, and as a beneficiary of trust money, the Democrats of Ne braska and their leading representa tive stand convicted at the bar of public opinion of the rankest kind of hypocricy. THINK FOR YOURSELF. The recent action of the Union Pacific Board of Directors in provid ing for an expenditure of $50,000,000 for construction and repair work, fol lowed by the action of the Burlington in placing a mortgage of $175,000,000 on the entire system for money bor rowed to extend new lines, repair work, etc., and the announced inten tion of the Missouri Pacific to expend millions of dollars for like improve ments, will stimulate business in the west. In one day, last week, 7,500 idle men in St. Louis were given em ployment on railway work already commenced. The expenditure of the amounts designated above will be felt in all lines of business. And yet, there are some who are radical enough to insist that the rail ways are enemies of business men and. farmers. For years there has been a constant agitation that the people were being robbed by railway corporations; that the public was taxed to pay divi dends on watered stock. The conten tion was true, in some respects, but no sane man really believes the statement credited to Mr. Ryan, the Wall street millionaire and Democratic politician, that 95 per cent of water has been in jected into the railways of the coun try. Those who profess to believe the statement credited to the Wall street magnate are the politicians who have a personal interest in deceiving the voters. It has become a hobby with some politicians in both the great political parties to roast railway cor porations. It has been a popular kind of spiel to work off and catch votes. Business men are asked to join the cry of "down with the railways !" But the class on which the strongest pres sure has been brought to bear is the farmer, whose prejudices, and not his reason, are being appealed to. Up to a very recent date the rail way employees have remained passive. When the last legislature passed a bill reducing passenger rates in Nebraska one-third, railway employees made no effort to influence legislation in order to defeat the measure. When the stringency in the money market com menced, and thousands of men were laid off on the different railway lines throughout the country, they accepted the situation without a protest But when it became apparent that an addi- tiwud decrease m the revenne of rail-1 way corporations would mean a reduc tion in the wages paid the men who runs the trains, work in the shops and offices and keep the roadbed in repair, they filed a protest, and organized for mutual protection. The railway men are not fighting business mrn; they' are not battling against the interests of the farmers or any other class of men. They are not attempting to dictate legislation, but seek to protect their interests, and incidentally the interests of all classes, against radical measures which tend to iniure all lines of busi ness and bring confusion into the com mercial interests of the country. The work of reforming certain abuses which the railways had inflicted upon the country brought into political activity men who were honest and sin cere in the efforts to bring about re form and regulate corporations. Con gress passed an act creating the Inter state Railway Commission, and at a more recent date a rate bill was passed. These reforms were in line and in har mony with the business interests of the country. Congress never contemplate edVpassing a law that would so reduce the receipts of railway corporations that they would be compelled to cut the wages of employees in order to pay a dividend of seven or eight per cent to stockholders. True, corporations have not always respected the rights of the pecple, but the Journal believes that there is no desire on the part of business men and farmers not to respect the rights of corporations, and one of the rights of railway corporations is the right to receive a fair compensation for work performed, and the people should not take into serious consideration the statements made by every politician who attempts to gain public favor by declaring himself a reformer. Beware of the man who is constantly posing before the public as "holier than thou art" He's not to be trusted. There has been a very material re duction in freight and passenger rates since the time farmers hauled wheat from Nance, Boone, Madison, Butler and Polk counties and sold it in Co lumbus for 30 cents a bushel. There has been a big reduction in passenger fares since the day 10 cents a mile was charged Nebraska people for riding over the Union Pacific railway in the State. Thirty-six years ago it cost $9 to ride from Columbus to Omaha in an old fashioned passenger coach; today one can ride in a modern chair car in half the time and the fare asked is only $1.62. The farmers of Platte and adjoining counties have enjoyed a greater degree of prosperity in the past few years than at any other period in the past They have more money in the banks received more for their products and get them landed in the metropolitan markets of the country at less cost than at any other time in the history of the state, and any attempt on the part of the place hunters, who are seeking to create dissatisfaction by preaching the gospel of hate and dis content will not be generally success ful. A few, who are ever ready to listen to the song of the agitator, may be deceived, but as a class the Ne braska fanner thinks for himself and votes accordingly. A DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA, By his record-breaking talk in the senate against the adoption of the emergency currency hill, Senator La Follette, is being hailed by democratic organs as a champion of the people, a man with the courage of his convic tion, a fighter against the aggressions of the money power, a republican worthy of democratic admiration. But they do not venture to explain, why, if his cause was just, the democrats in the senate failed to come to his sup port at the critical moment Democratic acclaim of LaFolIette's bravery and courage and independ ence would doubtless appeal more to him if he could forget that at the final test, when he looked around for vol unteers to fill the breach he had made' by his daring charge, he found him self practically alone. No help of any kind was proffered except by "Gum Shoe Bill" Stone of Missouri whose sincerity in the cause was never free from suspicion and by the venerable Goreof Oaklahoma, blind of eye and physically incapable of carrying on the assault. The brainy, resourceful pugnacious Culberson of Texas, leader of the senate minority, had retired to hold communion with the commissary department The fiery Danial of Vir ginia was asleep in his tent The beauteous Bailey was in Texas or on the way. The learned Rayner of Maryland was writing a letter of sympathy to Colonel Stewart of Fort Grant, Ariz. The quarrelsome Money of Mississippi was preparing a treatise defending Southern laws, disfranchis ing the negro. The pitch fork-wielding Tillman was on his way to Europe. Those famous democrats, Bacon, Bank: head, Martin, Paynter and "FiddhV Bob" Taylor had accepted pink tea engagements, leaving the Wisconsin Ajax to lead the forlorn hope alone. ffM NAPOLEON BECAME EMPEROR. A Chapter from Thomas Watson's Life of the Man of Destiny. rfORGEOUS and imposing were the yw ceremonies which ushered in the " new order. Paris, France, Eu rope were dazzled by the lavish expen ditures, the magnificent parade, with which the consul became emperor. He spared no expense, no pains, no personal discomfort, to make the pageant a success. Hiitorians have sneered at the rehearsals by means of which he prepared each actor in the coronation for his part; but the ridi cule would seem to be misplaced. His example has set the fashion, aud not only are private marriages rehearsed in oar day, but royal funerals aud royal coronations perfect their func tions by the same prudent process. That nothing might be wanting to the solemnttv and imDressivencss of the occasion, Napoleon insisted that the pope should come from Rome to Paris and officiate. So recent and so immense had been Napoleon's services to the church that the pontiff could not refuse, more especially as he had other favors to ask. Brilliant as a dream was the corona tion in the great cathedral at Notre Dame. Paris never witnessed a civic and military display more splendid. The church, the state, princes foreign and native, grandees old and new, blazed forth in the utmost that wealth and pride and vanity could display. In a coach heavy with gold Napoleon and Josephine rode, amid soldiers, to the church where the pope had long awaited their coming; and when the great Corsican had been conducted through the proper forms, had prayed had sworn, had been oiled and blessed, he proudly took the crown out of the pope's - hands, crowned himself, and then crowned the kneeling Josephine (December, 1804). His mother was not there; she was in Rome with the revolted Lucien; but when the artist David painted the pic ture of the coronation, Napoleon, with his never failing eve for effect, had Madame Letitia put in. Just as he wished for his mother on this, the great day of his life, he did not forget his father. "Joseph, what would father have said!" One who had lifted himself from a cottage to the White house in these United States drew. all hearts to him self when, after having taken the oath of office, he turned to his old mother and kissed her. Not far distant from the same creditable feeling was Napo leon's regret for his father. Mother Letitia could not be per suaded to leave Rome and the insur gent Lucien; but the old nurse jour neyed from Corsica to see her nursling crowned. Napoleon hugged and kiss ed the old woman, lavished every attention upon her, and kept her in Paris a couple of months. When she returned to Ajaccio, she was laden with gifts. Ner could Brienne be overlooked in Deserted by the men who had cheered him on at the start, LaFollette gave way only when his voice broke at the hopelessness of the uneven conflict It remains for the democrats to ex plain their failure to follow the fight ing LaFollette. They can not base it on moral objection to a filibuster, for had not the democrats been play ing at filibuster for weeks in the house? They can not argue acceptance of the currency bill, for most of them voted against it Appareutly their only ex planation is that they cared nothing about the merits of the measure be yond the possibilities it offered them to manufacture democratic campaign thunder. If the democratic- leaders insist that Senator La Follette was right in his fight against the measure, they convict themselves of cowardice by their recorded failure to rally to his support Omaha Bee. $150 for Best Article. The Republican Congressional Com mittee offers $150 for the best article not exceeding 1,000 words on the subject: -WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL NEXT NOVEMBER." The competition is open to all. In judging the merits of contributions consideration will be given not only to style, arguments and facte presented, bat to the convincing power, and it should be borne in mind that Members of Congress are to be elected as well as President and Vice-President. No manuscripts will be returned, but will be the property of the Committee. The .best article will be widely used both in the newspapers of the country and in pamphlet form. The award will be made and check sent to the successful contestant about August 16th. Manuscripts must be mailed not later than July 15th to LlTKKABY BCBKAU, Republican CongronaioBtl Committee, Metropolitan Bank Building, Washington,!). O. these sunny days of triumph and of happiness. The emperor must return to the school grounds bf his boyhood, view the old familiar scenes, talk of old tiroes with such acquaintances as might still be there. Behold him, then, soon after his coronation, arriv ing at the chateau of Brienne, at 6 in the evening.where Madame de Brienne and Madame Lotnenie await him at the foot of the steps. He spends frhe night in the chateau, whose kind mfctress had so often made him welcome in the forlorn days of his youth. He walks about the place, pointing out every spot familiar to him when at school. He visits the field of La Rothiere, a favorite stroll ing place of his youth. He is so affa ble, so animated, so interested, that his movements seem to say, "See where I started from, and where Ihavearrived." "And what has become of Mother Marguerite, the peasant woman who used to sell milk, eggs and bread to tbe boys? Mother marguerite is still living, still to be found at the thatched cottage in the woods. By all means, the emperor must quit the fine circle at the chateau and visit the old peasant in the hut A man so gifted with eye to effect could never miss a point like that. So the horse is sad dled and brought; the emperor mounts and rides; and at the cottage in the wood His Majesty alights and enters. "Good day, Mother Marguerite!" The aged eyes are dim, and they gleam with no recognition. She knows that the emperor is in the neighborhood; she expects to go to the chateau to see him; she will carry him a basket of eggs to remind him of old times. Suddenly His Majesty puts himself where the dim eyes can see him better, draws nearer to her, and mimicking in voice and manner his schoolboy tone, and nibbing his hands as he used to do: "Come, Mother Marguerite ! Some milk and fresh eggs. We are dying of hunger." A little more jogging of the mem ory, and the ancient dame, knowing now who it is, falls at the emperor's feet. He lifts her, and still insists on the eggs and milk. She serves, he eats, both of them happy, and both of them full of reminiscences of the years long ago. Though he left her a purse of gold, Mother Marguerite probably was prouder of the fact that he came to her house and ate. s One more visit the great emperor will pay Brienne, the year of the last visit being 1814. Foreign invaders will be encamped all round about the playgrounds of his boyhood. Prussian Blucher will be taking his ease aud his dinner at the chateau. Prussian Blucber will give him battle at Brienne, and will rout him at La Rothiere. And to his companions the falling emperor will again point out the places of interest in the old school ground, but not in the happy vein of 1804. Canal Committee's Xeport. Two months ago a committee was ap pointed at a meeting of the citizens of Omaha to investigate the power canal project, and at a recent meeting made the following report: To the City Council: March 24, 1908, your honorable body adopted resolution No. 1100, of which the following is a copy: "Resolved, That John L. Kennedy, William Hayden, J. E.Baum, O. M. Wil helm, W. T. Page. E A. Cudahy, E. E. Bruce, Robert Cowell, Victor Rosewater, W. R. Watson, O. H. Pickens and Mel Uhl be requested to act as a committee of citizens and taxpayers to investigate and report to the city council as to the advisability of submitting to a vote at an eiection the question of voting bonds for the construction by the city of an electric light and power plant. A report is de sired on these questions: "First Is there a practical water power available near Omaha? "Second Have sufficient surveys and estimates been made of such a power to indicate its cost? "Third If you recommend tbe propo sition, how many bonds should be asked for?" In pursuance of the resolution, tbe committee held four open meetings at the Commercial club rooms, to which engineers and others interested in the various water projects were invited. Tbe Real Estate exchange, through its presi dent and other members, showed a com mendable interest in the proceedings. D. C. Patterson, P. A. Nash, City Engin eer Andrew Rosewater, L. D. Richards. F. Jaeggi, H. E. Babcock, W. Scott King, R. B.- Howell and City Electrician W. Michaelsen presented their views and furnished much statistical information, including the reports of eminent engin eers on the several projects. The committee has carefully consider ed all tbe facts, figures, reports and mat ters presented, and has come to tbe fol lowing conclusions: First There is in our opinion a prac tical water power available near Omaha. To reach this result we include the waters of the Loup river either before or after they empty into the Platte. Seeond Surveys and estimates have f i afl F " f ?aJa- i& m - - - II been made of tbe cost of making said power available for use at Ornah'i, which to some extent at least, have been revis ed and brought up to date. These sur veys and estimates relate chiefly io the Columbus and Fremont projects. It is estimated that it would take $4, 000,000 for the initial development of the Columbus project to bring the power to Omaha. The promoters of that project purpose successive developments, which would largely iucrease the cost, should tbe demand for power warrant such further developments. The source of water flnpply for the Columbus project is outside of the seventy-five mile limit, and therefore not within tbe jurisdiction of the city. The promoters of that en terprise do not wish to transfer their in terest to the city, nor do they seek municipal aid. They do solicit the sup port and co-operation of private citizens The Columbus project, for the reason stated, is not a municipal proposition. It is estimated that the Fremont pro ject would cost $0,500,000 at least to bring the power of the city. It would take Sl,500,000 more to bring it in and distribute it throughout the city; thus making the estimated cost of the Fre mont project $5,000,000. The Florence piojectis entitled to consideration, but. no close estimate of the cost of that has been made. Estimates for the appro priation of the necessary land, the con struction of the necessary reservoirs and canals, the purchasing of the machinery and the transmission of the power by wire, must necessarily change from time to time, by reason of the cbauge in the value of the land taken and in the cost of the materials used. Third Before a proposition to vote bonds should be submitted to the citi zens of Omaha, competent engineers should decide definitely upon the par ticular project, and bring their estimates up to date as to the actual cost of con struction, based upon present prices. The figures presented to the committee indicate that, from tbe water power available, electricity could be furnished, for light and power purposes, much more than sufficient to meet all present requirements of Omaha, South Omaha nil fVmnnil Rlnffa it an sroraaA mt' much lower than the rates which now obtain in these cities. In the judgment of the committees, action on the proposi tion to vote bonds, for tbe purposes stated in your resolution, should be de ferred until after the ownership of the water works has been settled, and tbe bonds voted to pay for tbe same, if it should be determined that the city of Omaha has purchased the plant. Re spectfully submitted. No Cause for Alarm. 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