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And now Banker Latta must tap
another barrel for the big battle in
November.
The check book, not the "people,"
ruled at the Democratic primaries in
this congressional district.
The railroads and the people are
fighting together on one question.
Both are against the cigarette.
Speaking of "plutocrats," there'll
be two of them on the official ballot
this fall Banker Latta and Banker
Shallenberger.
The state campaign is now on, and
hot air about prosecuting the Lumber
Combine from Attorney General
Thompson is in order.
Jim Dahlman has heard from the
sand hills, but the vote wasn't for Jim.
The only man who has a cinch on the
sand hill vote is Judge Kinkaid.
Mississippi contains more colored
than white voters, and yet the white
man rules down there. But a "nigger"
is not "the people" according to the
Bryanites.
If Latta's money can be successfully
used to secure a nomination for con
gress, he will not hesitate to employ
the same means to secure an election
at the polls.
Representatives of the Lumber
Combine and Grain Trust were very
active in Platte county on primary
day, working under orders from head
quarters in Fremont.
The Fremont Fairplay will make
mighty "interestin' readin' " during
the campaign. The Journal has
copies filed away for reference and will
quote from them occasionally during
the next two months.
Mr. Bryan wants Nebraska farmers
to vote for a change a political
.change, which also means a change in
the price of farm products. The
farmers got that kind of a change in
1892 and are not clamoring for
another.
Will some good friend of Attorney
General Thompson take him to one
side and gently inform him that the
Supreme Court of the State refused to
affirm the decision of Referee Post in
the Lumber Combine cases, and then
suggest to him that he get busy.
The other day Mr. Bryan contrib
uted $2,000 to his own campaign fund,
and the next day due publicity was
given to the act; but the name of that
mysterious Swede farmer who, so the
World-Herald says, went to Fairview
and handed Mr. Bryan a wad contain
ing one hundred dollars has not yet
been given publicity.
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist can
didate for President, is making a tour
of the country in a palace car and de
livering political speeches. He says
five million men are out of work and
that millions of others are working on
half time. Candidate Debs' expenses
are paid by men who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow. They
donated $125,000 for that purpose.
Where were the farmers on primary
day who were said, by the progressive
press, to be clamoring for local option?
The returns indicate that the farmers
took little interest in the question, as
a very light vote was polled through
out the state in the agricultural dis
tricts. Most of the agitation about
changing the Slocumb law comes from
politicians who are manufacturing
issues to detract the attention of the
public from other and more important
questions in which the people are
interested.
THE CHECK 6O0K WON,
The check book won ont in the
Democratic primaries in the Third
congressional district. J. P. Latta
received the nomination over Editor
Edgar Howard, who put up a good,
fight and made a splendid showing
against the Tekamah banker. But
the result of the fight is not creditable
to the party. It was' a fight of dollars
against the man, and the dollars won.
The contest has left a bitterness
which will cripple the Democrats in
the fight Charges have been made
by both factions and a hostile feeling
engendered which cannot be kept
down. Some of Mr. Howard's friends
think he has not been treated fairly
that he was entitled to something after
battling for years for the success of his
party; that money was used to defeat
him and to nominate a roan who has
never aided the party only when he
had a selfish object in view.
The friends of Latta are over confi
dent, and assume that their candidate
can be elected without Howard's sup
port. Success appears to have sat
urated their mind with the idea that a
lavish use ef money can overcome all
opposition and line up the Democrats
throughout the district for Check
Book Latta.
In 1862, Geo. W. Julian took his
seat in congress. He represented an
Indiana district. At the same session
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee drew a
seat near the Indianian. Both had
prepared homestead bills for introduc
tion. After a conference, some chan
ges, at the suggestion of Julian, were
made in the bill drawn up by Johnson,
and the measure was introduced and
passed the house and senate and was
signed by Abraham Lincoln. A few
years later Jim Latta came to Ne
braska and filed on a quarter section
under the provisions of the Johnson
Julian law. That quarter section of
land, secured through an act passed by
a Republican congress and signed by
a Republican President, was the foun
dation of Latta's fortune a nest egg
which has grown to two millions of
dollars. Latta has already secured
the nomination for congress by the use
of a liberal expenditure of money, so
it is claimed on good Democratic
authority, and the presumption is that
he, through his chairman, will not be
backward about purchasing enough
votes to land him in the seat now held
by Judge Boyd.
In half a century the Democratic
party elected only one President, and
he was afterwards alluded to as a
"bunco steerer" by the man who heads
the National Democratic ticket today,
and practically disowned and repudi
ated by his party for the patriotic
stand he took in opposing the free
coinage of silver. If, as the Bryanites
claim, the late Mr. Cleveland was not
a Democrat, then the Republicans
have had an unbroken sway in the
White House since the 4th day of
March, 1861. No one in the Repub
lican party ever doubted the Democ
racy of Grover Cleveland. He was
not a Populist Democrat, a Socialist
Democrat, but a Safe and Sane Dem
ocrat who retained the respect and
confidence of the better element of his
party up to the hour of his death.
Had he lived, his vote would have
been cast for Taft and Sherman. His
letter, wrote a short time before his
death, and recently given publicity,
proves that Grover Cleveland was a
patriot who placed patriotism above
politics and duty above political sub
serviency. The public has heard much in the
past from the lips of Mr. Bryan about
the Republican party placing "the
dollar above the man." Recently,
however, the Democratic candidate
has not made "the dollar above the
man" the paramount note in his chin
music. His wail has been for dollars
to assist in electing himself President,
aud it doesn't make any particular
difference who contributes the coin.
A dirty dollar to Bryan is just the
same as a clean dollar. The money
raised by Roger Sullivan, HinkyDiuk,
Nigger Mike, Boss Murphy, "Fingie"
Connors, Tom Taggartor Jim Dahl
man is just as acceptable and its pur
chasing power as great as the dollar
contributed by a Nebraska farmer.
''Will it be for the beet to pnt the seal
of approval upon the effort of Chairman
S ephens to secure the nomination of a
candidate by the unfair use of large
earns of money?" Edgar Howard.
The unfair use of money in politics
is never "for the best" It is corrup
tion. But the Democrats of the Third
district have put the mark of approval
upon Stephens' course. It was a case
of the dollar against the man, and the
dollar won. However, a rehearing
will be held in November and honest
democrats who believe in "Fairplay"
will have an opportunity to swat Check
Book Jim good and plenty. Will
they do it?
Will Banker Latta insult Edgar
Howard and his friends by retaining
Dan V. Stephens as his chairman?
OPPOSES THE PEERLESS LEADER.
Editor John Sprecher of the Schuyler Free
Lance has Declared for Taft and Sherman.
The editor of the Free Lance is not a
repabliean' and doss not expect to be.
This editor is a populist in belief, and
endorses the principles of thst party
which has nominated Tom Watson again
for president. He is for the platform
that Tom Watson runs on and is an ad
mirer of Watson's, and voted for him
four years ago. Bat this year in Ne
braska a popalist oannot vote for Wat
son owing to the manipulation of the
electors by the machine element of that
party, which is made up of a lot of mas
querading democrats. In Nebraska this
year a popalist cannot vote for Watson
and most be disfranchised or else choose
from the other nominees.
Above all else this year, the Free
Lance editor is opposed to the election
of W. J. Bryan to the presidency be
cause he is simply disgusted with the
standing candidate, who is apparently
for or against any proposition that will
net him votes. In 1896, when Bryan ran
for president the first time, this writer
was enthusiastically for him and was a
"silver" advocate, not that we consid
ered his bimetalism a solution of the
money question, bnt because we were
opposed to the single gold standard and
looked upon "free silver" as a step in the
right direction of an increase of cur
renoy. But it was a part of the "intrin
sic value" sophistry as was the gold
standard idea and a makeshift at best.
In 1900, when still standing by bis
"free silver" ideas, Bryan made the fake
of anti-imperialism and anti-militarism
his chief issues. He based his charges
of imperialism on the Philippine policy
of the government, after he was to a
great extent responsible for it, and his
cry of the dangers of a large standing
army was bnneombe. While not a warm
supporter of his, stlil he was voted for
that year because we were not a McKin
ley advocate.
Bat Bryan's actions since 1900 and bis
present campaign 'work and talk are
such that we cannot support him and
feel it a duty to oppose his election and
in the most effective manner.
In 1904, in the national democratic
convention, he was not a candidate that
is, he had put his candidacy on ice be
cause he realized that no one could de
feat Roosevelt, so he stayed back and let
Parker get the benefit, so that he could
come forward again in 1908 as a greater
and apparently stronger leader than
ever. All he did in that campaign was
to keep himself in line and regular, the
while he saw to it that Parker and Par-
kerism were killed off. In that conven
tion, as the Nebraska member of the
committee on resolutions, he made the
fight of hi life to have "free silver"
endorsed in the platform, and failing
there he carried the fight to the floor of
the convention and went down to defeat.
But in so doing he alienated a certain
element from Mr. Parker that would
insure his defeat. On the other hand,
had he gained his point it would have
meant defeat. No better proof of his
insincerity in that need be pointed to
than the fact that this year, when he
wrote the democratic platform and could
have anything in it he desired, he fails
to mention silver, although it is as live
an issue as it was in 1904. But in 1904
he was killing Parker and relegating
that element to the rear to be the one
candidate sought by the democratic
hosts in 1906.
This year he has little to say on im
perialism, although the republicans have
not changed their policy, but it is a cold
issue and Bryan avoids all such regard
less of his past expressed ideas. And be
even fails to tell of the dangerous tend
ency to militarism our enormous' stand
ing army is, because that is not a win
ner. His professed belief in governmental
ownership of railroads is dropped be
cause he saw that it would not do and
would lose him votes, so it is dropped, as
is all things that do not bring net re
sults. The tariff is again made one of the
main issues, after being neglected for
several campaigns, but in that be will
not find agreat issue, for the republicans
are declaring for a revision the while
they hold to the principle of protection.
His main effort will be to gain the
vote cf organized labor with his anti-injunction
plank, which simply means that
labor is not protected in any legitimate
rights, bnt is licensed to commit outlawry
DEPOSIT
GUARANTY
URE.
A FAIL-
Mr. Taft landed a death blow upon
Mr. Bryan's pet scheme for the guar
anty of bank deposits when he pointed
out that the plan had been tried and
found wanting in New York from 1829
to 1842.
The conservative financial thought
of the country has held from the first
that the Bryan idea is an infallible in
vitation to reckless banking through
its removal of the proper rewards for
safe and sane methods. To this asser
tion the democratic nominee has never
given a direct answer. Yesterday, in
his Topeka speech, he again failed to
meet the issue by contenting himself!
with the statement that ''all-restrictions
on banking are a tax on the honest
banker."
In New York in 1829 the state
guaranty of deposits simply started an
en of wild banking speculation, the
moral level of which was established
not by the best bankers but by the
worst This is exactly what the op
ponents of the Nebraskan have pre
dicted in the present case, and they
in time of strikes or riots and that the
courts are powerless to protect life and
property at a time when 'protection is
necessary. Labor and capital must tra
travel hand in hand and one can not be
permitted to unjustly treat the other
and be of permanent benefit to itself.
The anti-injunction plank smacks too
much of demagogy for a man to aspire to
the high ofioe of president on.
Bryan bas deserted "free silver", be
dropped "government ownership", he is
weak on "imperialism" and he is not
frantically calling attention of the
American people to the dangers of oar
"enormous" standing army, but what he
is doing aside from bidding for the labor
vote is to go before the people on a lot
of little matters that at best are bnt poli
cies and not principles, such as guarantee
of bank deposits and publicity of cam
paign contributions, and with the war
cry of "Let the people rule," which is the
rankest sort of buncombe and the words
of h grandstand player.
Why, Bryan is even patting the negro
on the back and urging him to form
Bryan clubs to defeat Taft because of an
act of President Roosevelt's that he him
self endorsed the while he has nothing
to offer the colored man and stands by
the disfranchisement of him in the south
ern democratic states. His words and
bis acts on that negro question alone
stamp him as one who is after votes re
gardless of how be secures them, a prac
tice a chronic seeker ever indulges in.
The Free Lance editor is opposed to
Bryan and his alleged policies and prac
tices, and will vote for Taft, the republi
cans nominee, not that we are a republi
can, but consider that it is best to
have him win.
Taft is an able man and bas had a
great deal of experience in public life.
He has a judical mind and is the best
fitted man of all the aspirants by far for
the high office of president. His years
of service on the bench of Ohio and in
federal court, his services in Cuba and
the Philippines and Panama and his
work as secretary of war all are the best
of evidences that he is a man of great
executive abliity.
As an admirer of President Roosevelt
and a supporter of his policies, it is pro
per to support a candidate who will car
ry out those polices if elected, and Taft
will do that. It was the Roosevelt in
fluence that nominated Taft and Taft jb
pledged to continue the work of the pre
sent administration and his past work
is good. He is no jingo statesman who
talks one thing today and another to
morrow and changes as the political
winds blow, but is a man of honor and
principle.
The platform adopted by the republi
can national convention was not satis
factory to one who holds the views this
editor does, not that it contained objec
tionable matter, bnt that it failed to
contain planks that were voted down in
that convention. But in Taft's speech
of acceptance he not only endorses all
the platform contains, but goes further
and declares for rejected planks, show
ing that he is better and more advanced
than his party. After reading Taft's
speech of acceptance any hesitancy to
support him was removed.
There was an objection to Sherman,
the nominee for vice president, who has
been a republican congressman for twen
ty years. But his speech of acceptance
has removed that objection. He declar
ed in no uncertain tones for the Roose
velt policies and puts them ahead of all
else. He said:
I ("Not only am I in full and complete ac
cord with my party's platform, but I en
dorse every statement made by Mr. Taft
in his address of acceptance when noti
fied of his nomination as the republican
candidate for president." And continu
ing later be stated that the overshadow
ing issue of the campaign really is, shall
the administration of President Roose
velt be approved. He declared himself
in sympathy and in harmony with his
policies, so one can well support Sher
man. The Free Lance editor proposes to vote
for Taft and Sherman this year and can
do so with a dear conscience for he can
endorse the men and what they stand
for almo3t entirely. On the other hand
he is opposed to Bryan and bis jingoism
and consideres he has developed into a
politician with a bad case of office de
sire. Schuyler Free Lance.
now seem to have preponderance of
evidence on their side.
In the judgment of the people the
few months' experience in guaranty
banking made by the border state of
Oklahoma cannot outweigh the lessons
of the thirteen years' experience with
it in the State of New York. Chicago
Evening Post.
AN APOLOGY DUE FROM BRYAN
The democratic position against the
excessive, unfair and fraudulent use of
money in politics js well defined. Mr.
Bryan has made that position so clear
that any man may understand it.
Chairman Stephens has tried to bar
gain this congressional nomination to
j his personal candidate just as clearly
as Chairman Guffey bargained the
democratic organization in Pennsylva
nia to Standard Oil. If we shall en
dorse the conduct of Chairman Steph
ens in his effort to deliver the nomina
tion to a man of great wealth, then we
must say Mr. Bryan owes an apology
to Guffey, and that we cannot do.
Edgar Howard.
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DOWN IN GEORGIA.
The theory that prohibition would
be enforceable in the south because of
overwhelming preponderance of public
sentiment in favor of it is not borne
out 'by recent advice from Georgia.
The Georgia story as now related is
the same old story told in Iowa back
in the 80s. State wide prohibition
does not prohibit It is effective only
in the districts which were dry under
local option. The larger towns either
ignore the law or tolerate flimsy eva
sions of it. In Savannah, for instance,
all the saloons were formally closed
when the new law took effect. And
they were promptly replaced by an
equal number of unlicensed "joints."
The "joints" are fined each month an
amount equivalent to the license for
merly paid. And the city pockets the
money. The administration say3 the
city needs the money. In smaller
towns, where there is stronger disposi
tion to enforce the law. the saloon has
been replaced by "temperance saloons"
ostensibly purveying only soft drinks.
Among the soft drinks on the menu is
a "near beer" which looks like the
beer of commerce and tastes like it,
but which is said to have so small a
percentage of alcohol as to permit sale
without a government license. The
"near beer" resorts seem to be doing
about as much business as the former
saloons, and there is more than a sus
picion that considerable real beer is
circulated side by side with the alleg
ed imitation.
While the sale of intoxicants is
going on under cover in some locali
ties, the mail order sales from outside
the state are booming. The express
companies have been forced to add
extra cars for the "jug trade" and to
insist that all jugs be crated, so they
may be stacked in the car to economize
space. The well stocked sideboard lms
become a feature in many families,
where it was previously unknown.
The sale of liquors in social clubs is
permitted by law, and their popularity
as an institution is said to be growing
by leaps and bounds.
Whether the Georgia prohibitionists
will stand by their guns, making a
long and determined fight to secure
strict enforcement remains to be seen.
At the recent democratic primary,
Hoke Smith, the gubernatorial candi
date who was pledged to veto any
modification of the prohibitory law,
was beaten by a man who agreed to
sign any amendment the legislature
might make. Undoubtedly an effort
at amendment will be made, but its
success, after such short period of ex
periment, seems doubtful. Meanwhile
the customary appeal to the courts to
test the constitutionality of various
features of the new law is being made.
Sioux City Journal.
PROSPERITY OF THE FARMERS.
The republican party, ever since it
attained power nearly half a century
ago, has been working in the interest
of the farmers, as well as of all the rest
of the workers. The farms and farm
property of the country,which amount
ed to $7,980,000,000 in 1860, the year
immediately preceding the republi
cans' entrance into office, reached
$25,000,000,000 in 1907. The value
of the farm animals of the country.
which was $1,000,000,000 in the for
mer year, was $4,424,000,000 in the
latter. The cotton production of 1860,
which at the time was considered won
derfully large, was 4,861,000 bales,
but it was 13,000,000 bales in 1907.
And the prices which the planter
obtains for his cotton now are much
greater than they were then. In most
of those items the growth has been far
greater than it has been in population.
Half a century ago. when Aam
mond, Toombs, Clingman and other
southern statesmen were proclaiming
that cotton was king, the average
annual value of the crop was about
$100,000,000. In 1907 it amounted
to $675,000,000. When, in 1860, the
value of the corn crop was about $250,
000,000, who would have dreamed
that it would reach a sum more than
five times as great in forty-seven years?
Yet the farm value of the corn yield J
of 1907 was 1,337,000,000. The
aggregate value of the country's farm
products, which was $1,000,000,000 in
the year of Lincoln's first election,
will reach fully $8,000,000,000 in this
Taft campaign year. More ersons
are engaged in furuiiug than in any
other occupation As compared with
a third or a half of a century ago,
there are Fewer mortgages on Ameri
can farms, and the fanner has more
money in the savings bank and in
railway bonds, he wears better clothes,
eats better food, gives his sons and
daughters better education, is housed
better, has more books aud newspapers
in his home, has luxuries which were
formerly beyond the reach of the
agriculturists of the country, and has
a mastery in fields which, in the old
days, he never dreamed of entering.
For this transformation in the Ameri
can farmer's condition he is largely
indebted to the wise legislation of the
republican party. Charles M. Harvey
in Leslie's Weekly.
Jim Latta walked from Davenport,
Iowa, to Tekamah, Nebraska, forty
two years ago, and this journey is
alluded to as one of the reasons why
the voters of the Third district ought
to elect him to congress. That's noth
ing, mere are several men in tins
district who walked from Atlauta to
the sea forty-tour years ago, but they
are not asking to be sent to congress.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
Tha following proposad amendment to
tha constitution of ma State of Ne
braska, aa hereinafter aat forth in fall,
la submitted to the elactora of the Stats
of Nebraska, to ha voted upon at tha
general alectloa to he hald Tuesday, No
vember 3rd, A. B. 1908:
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Sec
tions two (2). four (A), five (f. six ()
and thirteen (13) of Article six lO oi
the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, relating to Judicial Powers.
Ba it Xaaolvad by tha legislature of tha
State of Nebraska:
Section 1. Amendment proposed. That
Section two (2) of Article six (6) of thj
Constitution of the State of Nebraska
be amended to read as follows:
Section 2. (Supreme court; Judgea;
Jurisdiction.) The Supreme Court shall
consist of seven (7) judges; and a ma
jority of all elected and qualified judges
shall be necessary to constitute a
quorum or pronounce a decision. The
Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction in
all cases relating to the revenue, civil
cases hi which the state is a party,
mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus,
and such appellate jurisdiction as may
be provided by law.
Section 2. (Amendment propoaad.) That
Section four (4) of Article six '6) of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska be
amended to read as follows:
Section 4. (Supreme court, Judges,
alectloa, term, residence.) The judges of
the Supreme Court shall be elected by
the electors of the state at large; and
their terms of office, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be six years. And said
Supreme Court judges shall during their
term of office reside at the place where
the court is holden.
Section 3. (Amendment propoaed.) That
Section five (5) of Article six (6) of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska be
amended to read as follows:
Section 5. (Supreme court, Judgea,
election, term: chief juatice.) That at
the general election to be held in the
state of Nebraska in the year 10. a ,
each six years thereafter, there shall bo
elected three (3) judges of the Supreme
Court, who ahall hold their office for the
period of six years; that at the general
election to be held in the state of Ne
braska In the year 1911. and each six
vcars thereafter, there shall be elected
three (3) judges of the Supreme Court,
who shall hold their office for the period
of six years: and at the gener-il elretion
to be held in the state of Nebraska In
the year 1913. and each six year.- tiuiv
after. there shall be elected a -.'liief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, who shall
hold his office for the period of six
years. Provided that the member of th
Supreme Court whose term of office ex
nires in January. 1314. shall be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court during that
time until the expiration of his term of
office. And. provided further, that upon
the adoption of thee amedriKntM b-
electors of the State, the Governor ahall.
Immediately upon issuing his proclama
tion declaring said amendments adopted,
appoint four (4) judges of the Supreme
Court, two (2) of whom shall be ap
Dointed to hold said office until their
euccessors shall be elected at the general
election in 1909. and have qualified; and
the other two (2) shall hold their office
until their succcssora shall be elected at
the general election held in 1911. and
have qualified.
Section 4. (Amendment propoaed.) That
Fection six (6) of Article six (r.) of the
Constitution of tha State of Nebraska, be
amended to read as follows:
Section 6. (Chief Justice.) The Chief
Justice shall serve as such during all the
term for which he was elected, ae snail
preside at all terms of the Supreme
Court, and In his absence the Judges
present shall select one of their number
to preside temporarily.
Section 5. (Amendment proposed.) That
Section thirteen (13) of Article six (6) of
the Constitution of Nebraska be amended
to read as follows:
Section 13. (Judges, salaries.) That
Judges of the Supreme Court 3hall each
receive a salary or ;i.:uv. ami me juages
of the District Court shall each receive
a salary of J, 000 per annum, payable
quarterly.
Approved April 8, 1907.
T. Geo. C. Junkln. Secretary of State,
of the State of Nebraska, do hereby
certify that the foregoing proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska Is a true and correct
copy of the original enrolled and en
grossed bill, as passed by the Thirtieth
session of the legislature of the State of
Nebraska, as appears from said original
bill on file in this office, and that said
proposed amendment Is submitted to the
qualified voters of the state of Nebraska
for their adoption or rejection at the
general election to be held on Tuesday,
the 3d day of November. A. D. 1908.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Great Seal
of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lin
coln, this 15th day of Jury. In the year
of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Eight, and of the Independence of
the United States the One Hundred and
Thlrty-thlri. and of this State the Forty
second. GEO. C. JUNKIN.
ttratary sKata,
LAPSES OF GREAT MINDS.
Details
Frequently Known to
the Man of Genius.
Baffle
To illustrate the kind of lapse of
reasoning iower from which Kre-at
Inventors are known to suffer, like
that under influence of which Sir
Isaac Newton cut one hole in a wall
to let a cat pass through and then a
small hole for the kitten, an old story
in the life of Morse will answer well.
Long before he invented the tele
graph Morse was known to the of
ficers of the patent office as a persist
ent applicant for patcntB. When hi3
great invention of "distance writing"
was about completed he wanted the
Ualtimore & Ohio railroad to try it.
To get rid of him the president of
the road turned him over to a subord
inate. This official was struek with
the beauty of the invention and be
came so interested in it that he sat
up half the night discussing it with
the inventor. At length Morse con
fessed there was only one thing which
baffled him. "As long as the railroad
runs." he said, "where poles may bo
erected it will be easy sailing, but
when we come to the big bridges what
is to he done then? We can't erect
poles across the stream, and without
them the wire would sag and perhaps
break from its own weight. I confess
I don't know what to do. Can you
suggest a way out of the difficulty?"
"Why don't you fasten the wires to
the bridge?" asked his companion
without a moment's hesitation. For a
moment Morse gazed at him with
open mouth, and then exclaimed:
"Why not. indeed? Why, I never
thought of that It's the very way." '
Breaded Pork Chops.
Make dressing same as for fowl, only
season highly with apples, celery and
onions.- Take baking pan, put any
drippings in bottom; heat; put in
dressing, then lay pork chops on top
of same and bake in oven. When chops
are cooked on one side turn over.
When done remove to a warm platter,
garnish with parsley, add more drii
pings, thicken for gravy, and pour
over all.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
The following propoaed amendment to
the conatitutlon of the State of Xe
braaka. aa hereinafter set forth In full,
la submitted to the electors of the Stat a
of Nebraska, to be voted neon at the
general election t -- ''eld Tuesday.
November 3rd, A. J. 1908X
A JOINT RESORPTION to propose an
Amendment to Section 9. Article S ot
the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska: Be it Xesolved and Enacted By the e&4
lalatare ox tao state or aecraaa:
Section 1. (Amendment.) That at tho
general election for state and legislative
officers to be held on tho Tuesday suc
ceeding the first Monday in November.
1908. the following iovle h j,-. -f.,j
and submitted to the electors of the
state as an amendmcra u . i i.fii .. Ai..
cle 8 of the constitution of the State of
Nebraska:
Section 9. (Educational Funds. Invest
ment.) All funds belonging to the stato
for educational purposes, the interest and
Income whereof only are to be used, shall
be deemed trust funds held by the state,
nnd the state shall supplv all losses
thereof that may in any manner accrue,
so that the same shall remain fn-ever
Inviolate and undiminished: and shall not
be Invested or loaned except m t'uitcd
States or state securities, or resWtenil
county bonds of this state, or registered
School district bonds of this state, and
such other securities as the legislature
may from time to time direct. And such
funds with the Interest and Income there
of are hereby solemnly pledged for th
purposes for which they are granted and
set apart, and shall not be transferred to
anv other fund for other uses.
Section 2. (Ballots; Adoption.) That
at said election in the year V.A, on the
ballot of each elector voti-ig thereat th"-e,
shall be printed or written the words:
"For proposed amendment to the Ccms.iri'
tlon with reference to th- inveT" -
the permanent school fund nnd "against
said proposed amendment to the constitu
tion with reference to the investment of
the permanent school fund." And if a
majority of all voters at said election
ahall be for such amendment, the same
hall be deemed to be adopted. ,
Approved April 5. 1W.
T. Geo. C. Junkln. Seeretarv of State.
of the State of Nebraska, do hereby cer
tify that the foregoing nrorjosed amend
ment to the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska Is a true and correct copv of
the original enrolled and engrossed "bill,
s passed by the Thirtieth session of tho
legislature of the State of Nebraska, as
appears from said original bill on file in
this office, and that said proposed
amendment Is submitted to the qualified
voters of the State of Nebraska for their
adoption or rejection at the general elec
tion to be held on Tuesday, the Sd day
of November. A. T). 190R.
In testimony whereof. T have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Oreat Seal
of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lin
coln, this 15th day of Jul v. In the vear
of our I.ord One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Eight, and of the Independence
of the United States the One Hundred
nd Thirty-third, and of this State the
Forty-second. i
. . GTJO. C. JTJNKTV. I
SI Secretary of State. I
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