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OIlAMliK IN AIMHtKHH-Whan oniorin a ir.anjwla UMildri.,aliBcribirathoulil taai l U Uiair oll as well aa their now wldrnMi. beginning now to have. The church schools have been closed, at least tem porarily, and puhlic education is at oiuct'i lie provided. If tin republic ; i to eutltire this is essential, fur igin r ance ami supersitilioii are rife nnum the people win an now to rule in Portugal. Another illfct nf the nv-plk-ation of scientific principle in tin revolution i.s the .sum 1 1 l-s of lift-. Tin launching; i'tli; Portuguese re public coat 3(H) live:, about llieune as our latest, forest fire. The .strides mailc by the science uf revolution, as illustrated in Portugal, have no .-mall interest for the rest of the worhl. The swill development of ellicient machinery of revolution, machinery that is to the old a the modern iron clad to the ancient gal ley, is not a Hglit to reaxMire a throne or the (tower liehiiul it. A united teo pic is the greati. M. jwiwer in the world. People nevei before knew half do well how to "unite ami c upier"as now. Lincoln-Journal. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For II. S. SuHtiT KI.MKU.I- hukkktt For ('ttiiirrt-Miiiiu. Third lliclrirt JOHN F. IMiYl) For liiivertior (Ml AI.DUICH For l.ieiitfuutit-(oiruor At. It. HOI'KWKM. For Secretary of Statu ADIMSON WAIT For Auditor SILAS It. ItAllTON For Attorney Ui'uoral UltANT i. AlAKTIX For Laud Commissioner K. H. COWI.ES For Treasurer WALTKK A. (iKOltOK For Suiierintfuilent Instruction j. v. I'KAirruEE For ItailroHil Coiiiinihuioiier HKNKY T. CI.AHKK. JU Foi Statu Senator KDW1N IIOAUK For State Ite'irt-M-utatiift FKANK SCHUA.M For County Attorney C. N. MiKI.FKF.SH For 8uiervitor, llixtrirt No. 3 C. A. I'ETKKSOX HITCHCOCK GETS REPLY. Whether the editor of the World Herald is pleased with the reply to his challenge of Senator Burkett or not does not cut very much figure. The facts in the matter are that the senator gave the editor a few things to think about, but whether that will do him any good is again a question. The senator refused to debate with the World-Herald editor for the reason that the latter's reputation for truth and fairness is not of record. He has repeatedly published false statements of the senator's vote upon several of the tariff items and has continued to do so in the face of the fact that the' have been shown to be untrue and also iu the face of the further fact that the editor of the World-Herald has the Congressional Record iu his possession and knows his published statements to be untrue. On those grounds the sen ator refused to debate with him aud said that he had no assurance that he would be any fairer on the platform than he was in his paper. He further said: "Your long time associate in poli tics, Hon. William J. Bryan, has stated in his speeches that you are unfair in your methods and that you deceive the people, misrepresent the issues and do not treat your readers with ordinary honesty. Surely if he is warranted in complaining of your methods, I may be pardoned in men tioning it." Mr. Bryan having been formerly editor of the World-Herald, candidate for the senate and a close associate, surely ought to be authority on the subject. A THOROUGH JOB: The Portuguese revolution is in the hands of experts. A revolution by mob would have been accompanied by the usual expensive mistake of revolu tionists. The Portuguese leaders are scholars. They have studied the re volution business. They understand the mistakes of the French. They see where revolution failed in Spain, and why it succeeded in Brazil. Before this revolution was sprung they had it figured out to scale with blue prints drawn and buildiug material sawed to size and ready to set in place. Be cause of this expert preparation the Portuguese republic sails offas smooth ly as the mission rocker we buy "knocked down" ready for any child to "set up." The explusion of the monks and nuns, a radical appearing policy, is but a sign of the philosophical work ing out of this revolution. Some of the deepest difllculties of the French republic came of the hostility of the religious orders, which have great in fluence with the people. The Portu guese revolutionists propose to steer clear of that rock by removing it in this hour of their greatest streugth. They propose, moreover, to have no such struggle between church and state for control of education as France has had only lately, and as Spain is THE CASE OF JOHN DIETZ. Kxeept that he has J-heil the blood if his fellow men, not a Miigle state ment sent out concerning the case f John Ywz of Winter, Wis., indicates anything ele than that he was a shnniefully crsecutcd man. One cannot read the details of his cae without mourning the decadence of that common law axiom that a man's house is his castle, which he has a right to defend, even to the taking of life. It was the misfortune of John Dielz to become involved in a clash of interests with a great lumber com pany, a millionaire concern that was all powerful in that section. Feeling the need of using some of his land, it simply went ahead and did it, and when it came to the fixing of the com pensation trouble began. In the pre liminary bouts Dietz appears to have got the best of it in the courts, but he never got pay for the use of his land. When he undertook to deprive the company of the further use of it the latter resorted to the injunction pro cess, so potential for the corporation. For six years the trouble ran its course until the man began to think that there was no justice for the indi vidual in conflict with a powerful company. Then he became desjierate. His wife and children became crazed by the same seuse of injustice, and the family was goaded into determined resistance of courts which seemed to bring no justice to them. Hostilities intensified until, an agent of the company having been sent to pick a quarrel with him, and having slapped him in the face, Dietz prompt ly killed him. Quickly following that tragedy came the ambushing of his two sons and his grown daughter, the shooting of the latter in the back by a posse and her altduction to a ioint miles away from the home where her family was beleaguered. How for days the recognized min ions of the law surrounded the Dielz cahiu and poured shot into it, in spite of the fact that the family, including the wife and small children, were domiciled therein, is told in the dis patches, and how it was out' when his son had been probably fatally wound ed, and Dietz himself so injured as to make further resistence useless, he surrendered, sending his little daugh ter out to the blood-lusty posse with a flag of truce. The deep sense of jnjury and injus tice that rankled in the hearts of the members of that family is best told in the dispatch wherein it is related that the wife urged her husband even then not to give up, but to fight it out to the end. Morally there is no justification for the taking of life, although the law does sanction it in the preservation of one's own life, the lives of those dear to him and in the protection of home and property. It is going to require a deeper in sight into the details of the terrible conflict that has waged for years be tween John Dietz and that powerful lumber company than has yet been given in the dispatches from that sec tion to convince the world that the whole affair is not a disgrace to the whole state of Wisconsiu, and that John Dietz aud his family were not more sinned against than sinning. The law recognizes the terrible force of man's passions, aud discriminates in the degrees of homicide in that recog nition. It decrees that he who kills another in the heat of a sudden passion is less culpable than one who kills premeditatedly. Killing in defense of life and property is decreed to be jus tifiable. Who of us can say that, under the circumstances that convert ed John Dietz into a desperate man, he would not have lost reason far enough to take the lives of those who assailed him in his home, shot his daughter in the back under circum stances that seem entirely unjustifiable and converted the processes of courts into licenses to murder? Lincoln Star. raaMBTaa - t "V - . . 'tflS.-,y,-'. BBBBBBBBBBV fl'- . , M t"5k .- BBBBBBBBBBV - tatftVftVftVftVW -3" bbbbbbbbK? .bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV- bbbWo1 i - bbbbbbbbbbbV aBe! VJS&r 'bbbbbbbbbbV ' bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV?-- j21 J"? - " ',. 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The recent exposure made by the Columbus Telegram of G. M. Hitchcock's con nection with the looting of the state treasury fifteen years ago, ought to dispose of him as a possible candidate to succeed Senator Burkett. The state cannot alford to semi to Washington a man of the Lorrimer brand of grafters. Hitchcock's election would be a standing disgrace to Nebraska. His elevation to the senate would mean an endorsement of Bartleyism and place a premium on fraud, deception and rascality. Can Nebraska afford to stand for this? In his twelve years in Washington as a representative of the people, Senator Burkett's record is without a blot or blur. He has been a progressive without lieing a radical; he has stood for the inter ests of his constituents without becoming an intense partisan; he has made good without incurring the ill will of fair minded and unpreju diced men. True, he has not so conducted himself as to please some of the professional politicians in his own party, who have been disappointed in not receiving the "pie" demanded in the distribution of patronage, and who now assume that their support is necessary to assure party success. It was not expected that Senator Burkett would please the democratic politicians. Democratic politicians always find fault and denounce the acts of republican congressmen. There never was a time in the history of the party when democrats were not criti cising the acts of republicans no matter how commendable the acts proved to he. The democratic party has always been a party of protest. For fifty years nearly every democratic convention both state and national has commenced with the declaration that "we view with alarm," or "we protest against, etc." The present campaign is no exception to the policy adopted in past campaigns by the democrats. It has adopted the same "protot" idea that was raised agaiust Lincoln, against Grant, against Garfield, against McKinley, against Roosevelt and against Taft The claim that a bad democrat is better than a good republican has never been repudiated or amended by the demo cratic party. It still remains as one of the cardinal principles of the party, aud is lieing "worked" by the party leaders in Nebraska who declare that even if Hitchcock is guilty of shoving his hands into the state treasury up to his elbows, he is entitled to the confidence aud support of his party for the democratic reason that he is a protester against republican rule, and voters are asked not to "view with alarm" the fact that Mr. Hitchcock was unfortunate enr.ugh to get caught in his financial deals with Bartley. Will the democrats of Platte county endorse the stand taken by the leaders and allow the machine to cast their ballots, or will they have' manhood enough to display their inde pendence by going to the polls and assist republicans in defeating the very much discredited Mr. Hitchcock. I PAYING FOR POSITION ALWAYS Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio has been going through enough diffi culties of late to satisfy even the Peer less Nebraskao for a try out of his most feared rival for the leadership. Gov ernor Harmon had first the situation at Newark, O., in which murder and riot grew out of thcattemptson the one hand to enforce, aud on the other to evade, the local option law. He was no sooner out of that trouble than the street car strike, accompanied by riots, broke out in Columbus, the capital. Practically a state of siege has been on there for several weeks. The governor was obliged to call out troops to overawe the lawless and pro tect persons ami property. When Theodore Roosevelt visited Columbus a few days ago, he was escorted through the street by troops. These conditions still continuing, politics began to creep into discussion. There never was a condition in which politicians would not make a play for position. The mayor of Columbus wrote a letter to the governor de manding that he call a special meeting of the legislature to pass a compulsory arbitration acL Governor Harmon replied, calling attention to the heavy expense, adding that he had no reason to suppose that a legislature, which a year ago flouted his recommendations, would now "eat out of his hand." He reminded the mayor, with some slight sarcasm, that the latter might jwssibly have written his letter in order to cover by a fertil ity of suggestion of new laws his own failure to enforce the laws that already exist The governor probably had the mayor there, for it usually is the weak and ineffective executive who flies to the legislature for new laws, when a lack of moral stamina has prevented him from preserving the public order with the legal means already at his baud. (Minneapolis Journal.) RAILROAD PROFIT. The New York Central has adopted adveiti3iug as the quickest meaus to win advocates among the public to its right to increase transportation charges. The method is a good one, provided the facts .Mihniitted are con vincing. But are the facts presented by this great system of that tenor? That is debateable; very much so. According to the New York Central, out of every dollar it takes in there is paid out 40 cents for labor, ."2 cents for supplies and 28 cents to pay taxes, interest and all else. There is then left a net profit of 10 cents out of each dollar for the shareholders. This the New York Central contends is an insufficient profit for a property which pays out so great a part of its income for labor and supplies, and whose pros perity directly affects a very large portion of the people over a large part ot the country. Thoughtful business men, on whose welfare the railroad depends for its prosperity, since they are dependent in great part on quick transportation facilities, as they revolve in their own minds in statistics presented to them by the New York Central, are not likely to consider its 10 per cent margin of profit as small. It is not small. Hosts of business men are satisfied with a less profit above all their ex penses. In fact there are many busi nesses for which contracts are taken on a margin of 10 per cent, from which margin all expenses must be deducted. These enterprises seem to be prosper ous. The New York Central's argu ment is weak, and will not strengthen its case before the Interstate Commer ce Commission. New York Financial World. TRIED AND FOUND WANTING. Iu the national campaign of 1908, when Mr. Latta was elected as a mem ber of congress, a studied effort was made to impress upon the voters the necessity of sending to congress a ilhii who would specially represent the farmers and common (icople of this great agricultural di-triet. The claim was made that there were no farmers in congress and that they should have a representative there to look special ly after their interests. A strenuous effort was indulged into convince the voters that Candidate Latta was a farmer, pure and simple, and in full sympathy with their wauls aud those of the whole m topic. Letters written upon letter heads upon which In was depicted at work as a farmer and stock miser, thereby drawing a strong inference that farming was his sole oc cupation, were tent broadcast over the district. He could stand this dur ing the campaign, but soon after elec tion, when he fimi reached Washing ton, his farmer title was suddenly cast to the four winds. On hU first ap caraucc. in the House of Representa tives the card ho presented bore the inscription, "James P. Lata, Presi dent First National Bank, Tvkamnb, Nebr." Did he m s ii lorirt-t In; made In campaign as a fitrmci? Was he ashamed of the occupation, or did he think Ins title as bank presi dent more houorable? In his remarks upon the Postal Savings Bank Law, priuted in the Congressional Record of June 20th, 1!U0, he makes the statement, "I am a practical banker of more than thirty-three years' ex- perience," but not a word in those re marks to his farm life nor to the bene fit to be derived by the common peo ple from the passage of the Postal Sav ings Bank Law. His persistent oppo sition to the passage of that law earned him the title "Banker" in lieu of that of farmer and stock raiser. His opposition to the Postal Savings Bauk Law ought to be sufficient rea son for any fair minded person retiring him from congress. During the last session measures of vast importance came before congress for its consideration. We ask a care ful consideration of Banker Latta's record upon some of the most iinjiort ant of these measures. The Postal Savings Bank Law, which became a law June 2"th, 1!10. The national democratic platform UMn which Mr. Latta was elected, as well as the republican platform of the same year, pledged their jiarties to the passage of this law. When the test came requiring Banker Latta to choose lietween the common people and the special interests he promptly arrayed himself on the side of the banks and worked and voted against the passage of the bill (Cong. Record, June Uth, page I'Xtl.) Mr. Hitch cock and Mr. McGuire, Imth demo crats, members from Nebraska voted for the passage of the hill. Did the fact that Mr. Latta was a hanker and personally interested in deposits have any influence upon his vote upon this important bill? The Railroad Bill, creating a court of commerce and eulargiug the powers of the interstate commerce commission, which became a law June 18th, 1010, is a measure of far reaching import ance to every person interested in freight rates and one in which every farmer and shipper was directly con cerned. Yet Bauker Latta saw his way clear to align himself with the railroads and voted against this bill (Cong. Record, June 10th, page 0255). He failed to vote on the resolution ordering an investigation of the Sugar Trust. (Cong. Record, April 14th, page 48G0). He moved and voted to strike out of the Agricultural Appropriation Bill the item of $18,250.00 for the propa gation and experimental growiug of trees on the sandy land in Nebraska. This was the only item iu the bill for his State aud was saved only by the efforts of the other memliers of Con gress from Nebraska. (Cong. Record, Feb. 1st, page lSOl). He voted to kill the resolution of Mr. Henry (a democrat), charging Speaker Cannon with violating the rules of the House. (Cong. Record, April ISth, page f-038). He failed to secure a single item of appropriation for his district. December 14th he was granted leave of absence for ten days on account of important business. (Cong. Record, December 14th). February 8th he was granted leave of absence on account of important business. (Cong. Record, page 2141). He missed and failed to respond to twenty-four out of a total of ninety seven roll calls during the session. Norfolk Daily News. gapayajBwaaa "- " nin -ill- i'i - jfcanaaaaaaMaaBaaaBW- Alone on the Farm With the children all away in the Ciiy. Mother, now alone out in the country, koeps in touch with her loved ones over the Long Distance Lines of the Bell System. Ten million miles of wire and twenty-five thou sand miles of underground conduit connect the city and the country for twenty-five millions of people. The people of forty thousand cities and towns are kept in touch with -ach other and with the country by means of five million telephones. m Nebraska Telephone Co. D. J. ECHOLS, Local Manager A Mala'a NMt Among common animals few have been less studied In their life history than the mole. Mr. Lionel E. Adams says that under the "fortresR" which the mole constructs above the surface of the grouud will a I way h be found a series of tunuels running out beneath the adjacent field. A curious feature almost Invariably found Is a perpen dicular run penetrating about a foot below the bottom of the nest and then turning upward to meet another run. A mole Is never found In bis nest, al though it may yet be warm from bis body when opened. 2uided by smell and hearing, a mole frequently locates the nest of a partridge or pheasant above bis ran and, penetrating it from below, eats the eggs. The adult mole Is practically blind, but there are em bryonic Indications that the power of sight In the race has deteriorated. A Japan Peculiarity. "When a Japanese servant is rebuk ed or scolded." says a traveler, "he must smile like a Cheshire cat. The etiquette In smiles Is very misleading at first. I often used to think that Taki. my riksha boy.' meant to be im pertinent when be Insisted on smiling when I was angry at him. But when be told me of the death of bis little child with a burst of laughter I knew that this was only one of the curious details of etiquette In this topsy turvy land." WhU Uoj3 or Asia. The whole triln of wild dogs, which In closely iil'Avd forms are to be found in the wildest jungles and woods of Asia, from the Himalayas to Ceylon and from 'hiua to the Taurus unless the "gold.'ii wolves' of the Kouian em pire are inv extinct in the forests of Asia Minor show an individual and coriMirate courage which entitles them to a high place among the most dar ing of wild creatures. The "red dogs," to give them their most characteristic name, are neither large In size nor do they assemble In large packs. Those which have been from time to time measured and described seem to aver age some three feet in length from the nose to the root of the tail. The pack seldom numbers more than nine or ten. yet there Is sullieicnt evidence that they are willing ami able to destroy any creature that Inhabits the Jungle, except the adult elephant and perhaps the rhinoceros, creatures whose great size and leathery bide make tbeni al most Invulnerable to such enemies as dogs. Londou Spectator. Th Modern lda. Roman (Julde (impressively) The ruins of the Coliseum! Seattle Man (astonished) Well, what do you think of that! Why. 1 saw photographs of that heap twenty years ago. Itouinn Guide (loftily)-Quite likely, sir. Seat tle Man Rut why in thunder aren't those ruins cleared away and a mod ern Coliseum erected? New Orleans Picayune. THE RICH IRRIGATED LANDS In the BIG HORN BASIN, ThftSflOMIONE PROJECT, The HUNTLEY PROJECT, ARE ON THE BURLINGTON Personally conducted excursions first and third Tuesdays. SOIL. The soil is rich, very deep, and is alluvial in character, of grayish brown loam that yields tremendous returns. Thia soil is not limited to any one orop hut is showing remarkable results on widely diversified produce. Every thing prospers here, wheat, oats, hurley, alfalfa, sngar beets, potatoes, garden vegetables, apples, and all email fruits, as well as live stock, poultry and bees CLIMATE. The climate is especially attractive here and settlers are fast 'coming into thia desirable country. GOVERNMENT AUCTION SALE. -Ask about the Government Auc tion Hale of Crow Indian Lands. One-fifth cath. No residence required. FREE LITERATURE. If you want to share in the magnificent opportu nities that this country offers, you should lose n time in sending for free liter ature prepared by the Burlington Railioad. Write today. D. CLEM DEAVER. GtntlMl ftf tilt Land Stakars htfarmaftlM Bureau 1004 Farnam StrMt. Omaha. NOr. Qratitud. Kind Lady My poor man, what would you do with the money If I gave yon a penny? Tired Hobo Madam. I'd buy a picture postcard an write yer a note o thanks. Cleveland Lead er. 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