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1 TH.K DEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FKHRUAKV 22. 1MO. Tiir omaha ' Daily Ree l 1 .A ; 1 FOUNDED RT EDWARD ROSEWATEH. VICTOR KOBBWATER, EDITOR. T.nttrr-4 at Omtht postofflc ootid elan matter..- .. TERMS DP m'BHCRIPTION. Fally Re (Including Furwlay), per week.lrte Pally Re (without S'lfhlay). per wcek.in-? Dully Be fwHho.rt PurMav), on jrenr..M'S Daily Bm led Sumlav, on year tOO - DFXIVERtD Rir CARRIER. ' Evening Be fwlfhmjt fltinrtay). per week. c Fvenlng IV (with Pitnday). per wt,.1Hi Sunday Be fi par I!W ftoturtlay Rue, one yr. I AddrM all complain! of irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department. -; cnrricKS. Omaha The Pee ftolieing. outb, Omnlw Twentv-foiirth and K. CoutpJI Fluffs Rcvttt Street Lincoln 1 Little Building. Chk-ago IMS Marquette Building. New York Rnnini 1101-1101 No. M Wert Thirty-third Street. Waahlngtnn T Fourteenth Street. N. W. ' CORRESPONDENCE!. CowminlfHop relating to news and editorial matter should he addreaaed: Omaha Be. 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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before roe this list day of January, ma ROBERT HUN'i'ER Notary Publlo. 8nbaerlbr leavfaar city tern poarllx should have The Bee made (. then. .Andrea will fc chann; mm (tea aa renaeated. Here's wbero the ground hog m a weather prophet goes Into the discard. Incidentally the big blizzard up in the Dakota has not quieted the poli ties of those two stales. ; Even, If you don't feel equal to own ing an auto as yet, foxi can go and look at them at the Auto show. . The Zelaya book en the Nlcaraguan - political and bellicose difficulties ought to be named the "Scrap Book." ' Omaha to Philadelphia: Accept 'sincere sympathy born of sad experl '.eoco with our own street car strike. :. . ; -. .- - . . The Indiana fracas In which two mu sicians fought a duel to the death might well be called a fatal ragtime duet. ' ' According', to Omaha's experience, it Is almost as hard to keep our preach ers as It is to keep our base ball players. The postotf ice reports show that Dan Cupid did not allow'tbe Higher price of valentines to interfere with his trade in mergers.. Edgar Howard's high opinion of William Jennings Bryan, despite his embrasure of county option, evidently does not extend to "Brother Charlie." .Just what the ultimate consumers will naywhen the findings of the com mittee now investigating the . higher cost of living arrive may resemble an eruption of Vesuvius. "The way the pulpit looks from the pew" is to be discussed in all the churches In, an 'eastern city in the near future. 'The preachers of that town have boundless nerve. , So little has been heard of Chancel lor Day recently that one is Inclined to ask what has become of him. Oh, please do not disturb htm. The in quiry U prompted 6nly by curiosity. The concrete battleship at the mouth of Manila harbor would not amount to much in these days, when a twelve Inch shell can go through ten feet of re-enforced concrete with little diffi culty. I r jr; "If there is to be any haulm in West Point it must be legalized," say the au thorities. That Is all right, but If the post mortem proves that it was not legal what good Is It going to do the victim T v Ex-Governor Vardaman says he will not be a closed incident just because the Mississippi legislature has turned him down; from which one is led to believe that he Is to be "continued in our next." r Nebraska seems to have several statesmen who say. "I hope it will never be necessary for roe to become a candidate tor office again," but who show no disposition to run far to avoid the necessity. Remember that the populist state platform of two years ago contained a county option plank and that Oovernor Shallenberger filed as a populist and accepted the populist nomination. Is a platform binding? . Another -victory tor the fair eex The New York custom officials have been instructed to allow all "ladies" entering that port to carry 300 cigar ettes each without duty as being part of a. necessary toilet equipment. "First In peace, first in war,' first In the hearts of his countrymen." In every community in the L'nltod States and In Its possessions the twenty-aec-ond day of February Is celebrated and the praleos of the first general In-chief and the first president of the United States are sung. The birthday of Washington, who stood more than any contemporary- for the cause of liberty without a murmur, (tnd took more nn ust and uncalled for abuse from dis gruntled countrymen than any other, deserves commemoration. . George Washington, the man, as well as the soldier and the president, is a great character In history, ranking high for his patriotism, self-sacrifice and un selfish devotion to liberty. The people of this country are hard workers and hard players. Wheh it is work, there seems to be nothing too hard to be attempted or to be accom plished. Americans play hard ns well as work hard. This has been marked especially In the - observance of our holidays, patriotic and religious. But recently a .tendency ,hB.s been noted to drop much of the frivolity, especially with regard to holidays commemorating national events and to arouse some of the slumbering patriotic fervor In the bosom of every true citizen. There is plenty for us to be proud of and there are to be plenty of great deeds accomplished in the future of which we will also have reason to be proud. Our people need to be taught, however, how to respect, revere and honor those who have done much that the nation may be what It is. One feature. of American life has a detract ing effect. Our political campaigns are so full of crimination and recrimi nation that" too many' people sneer at those who are high In office, thus de tracting from the respect due them, and, wherever possible, detracting from their power. But happily this condition does not exist long, nor Is 'It a deep spirit. In time of war every patriotic American would rise to the defense of his coun try, and we have sufficient grounds to believe that there is plenty of patriot ism in times of peace. But while we brag to others about what America can do, whom we can thrash in Inter national war, if necessary,-and how big the United States really is, It would be a good thing to remember that as we Judge ourselves at heart we are judged by others. .There Is room for an Increased respect for our nation's heroes and their heroic achievements, and a greater regard for the men who are doing things now for the advance ment of the nation and making pos sible greater achievements In the days yet to coma. Millionaire vi. Professor. The recent attack by Richard T. Crane, the millionaire head of a big Chicago firm," upon the'teachlng pro fession as being of no use to the mod ern business world Is still the subject of comment. Mr. Crane had to write 4 book to say that if a $2,000 a year professor is content to teach a young man how to go out and earn a $10,000 salary he is either a hypocrite or is not able to do what he says he can. In every way Mr. Crane attacks the teacher as being a drone and charges that the millions spent annually on universities, colleges, technical and agricultural schools and law and medi cal schools are simply "swallowed up in the most gigantic swindle of the ThOM who know the eccentricities of Mr. Crane will not take his out break too seriously. His, whole argu ment is a tirade against the teaching profession for absorbing so much of the nation's wealth by which to train the youth of the country to do the work of the world, and Mr. Crane has seen to It that his own children have had the best education available. Henry Watterson, in speaking of the strange attitude taken by Millionaire Crane, quotes this bit of homely phil osophy: "Some people have got money and hain't got another thing on God's green earth." As a business man Mr. Crane is a successful pusher, but as a citizen be is apparently a back-tracker. and socially he Is a .grouch. A Neglected Opportunity. While Americans are making much ado about the "open door" of Man churia and the 'f act that our commerce finds a more difficult market In the orient than formerly, we are guilty, as in the old legend, "of forgetting the best." We are looking beyond our own threshold to something, which, after being won, will be comparatively of smaller value as against the coun tries to the south of us lying under the protection of the Monroe doctrine with the accumulated riches of cen turies but partially developed. South Amerlqa, pur southern. Bister in the western hemisphere, is an op portunity for American enterprise and thrift. At present the nations of Eu rope have been getting the benefit of the South American market, which amounts annually to $260,000,000. As for her exports, the United States buys $64,000,000 worth of coffee annually and sells her but $86,000,000 worth of merchandise in return. All the rest of the market has been for the benefit of European trade, and the' great wealth of the continent has been flowing Into the coffers of European merchants. The great South American continent Is Just beginning to develop. North Americans do not realise the progres slveness of. Latin America. .Buenos Ay res has a population of 1,100,000 people and ranks fourth In slse among the cities in the western hemisphere. It Is one of the most enterprising trade centers in the world and teems with commerce. . Rio Janeiro,, though aot no large, hums with business and Valparaiso Is a close rival. All of these cities are alive with business activity and have progressed In arts and education to a wonderful extent. Our commercial 'interests would make a mistake in paying exclusive at tention to keeping the door open across the Pacific and disregarding the whole continent to our southward. cultivate the trade with Asia by all i means, but let us not overlook other nesrer home. the ' Letting in the Lizht. A plan Is on foot to remodel the hall of the house of representatives In the national capital so that It will be opened tip to the sunlight and fresh air. The rooms in which the house and senate have both ' met since the addition of the new wings to the old building have been lighted and venti lated entirely by artificial means, and the only eanllght that seeps in comes through several layers of skylight glass much more ornamental than useful. The old legislative chambers, which have since been converted, one into the supreme court room and the other into statuary hall, were free from these ob jections and contained outside win dows which the rays c.f the sun might strike and which might be opened on days not too stormy. Whether the statesmanship displayed in congress during the first half century of the republic was superior to what we now get and whether if so the deterioration may be ascribed to the cold storage air and filtered light on which our law makers subsist would be good subjects for intercollegiate debate. But, Irre spective of that, it will do no harm to let the light of day into the halls of congress and remove all cause for the complaint that a congressman's com mission is the same as a sentence. to a dungeon. In Rather Poor Taite. A brief letter published in the last Issue of the, Commoner over the name of W. J. Bryan contains the followiirf: At Santiago I visited San Juan HilK-that part of "Fame's eternal camping ground" on which so many reputations were won. was a little surprised at the diminutive appearance of a neighboring hill (named Kettle hill because of two Immense sugar kettles that are rusting to death there) which Colonel Roosevelt charged. I was surprised, I say, because It seems Impossi ble that so much charging could have been done on so small an eminence. It Is now owned by Mr. Tlngley, the theosophlst, and will be Included In the campus of the college. Hlstoiio spots on Ssn Juan are marked by monuments and a colored custodian supplies visitors with souvenirs of the bat tle fought there. I brought away an Iron ramrod. It has a history, of course, as all ramrods have, but as no one was In posi tion to narrate that history I ani trying to Invest It with a breathless Interest, as it were, by Imagining that It fell from th rifle of that nameless Spaniard who won renown by falling before the Rough Riders' unerring aim. ; .,. Evidently Mr. Bryan will never for get that he suffered the worst of his three defeats In the year 1900, when Theodore Roosevelt was elected vice president and by virtue of his office succeeded to. the White House on the death of President McKlnley. ' What ever may be the glory of Colonel Roosevelt's achievements at the battle of San Juan, a man with the inglorious military record of Colonel Bryan should be the last one to throw slurs at any other soldier. Colonel Bryan made a beautiful picture, riding on his horse at the Omaha exposition and is said to have been . fairly Industrious later as a drlllmaster after he had familiarized himself with the tactics. But his regiment had scarcely been or dered out of the country before he ten dered his resignation and left the men who had volunteered; to follow him to finish the period of enlistment without him. For a colonel who never even smelled an enemy's powder, much less charged anything but the box office re ceipts, to attempt to belittle the mili tary services of those who were really In the fight is, to say the least, In rather poor taste. The supreme court of South Caro lina has knocked out the law giving fathers absolute control over their children. In the first place the law was absurd, for there Is not one father In ten who has any control whatever over his children and that law would be broken all to pieces. It turns out that of the number of students who "flunk" at the University of Nebraska 80 per cent are boys and 20 per cent are girls. If there are more 'boy students than girl students this ratio may not be quite so bad as it looks, but even at that it Is time for the boys to brace up. One good thing about the direct, pri mary law Is that we can have no dark- horse candidates. Every man who wants a nomination for office will have to come out from under cover and say so over' bis own signature at least thirty days before the primary. It (8 a wonder In the minds of the ordinary citizen whether the attorneys in the Balllnger-Pinchot controversy are trying to get at the facts and the truth in tho case or whether they are trying to see which attorney is the worst muck raker. Th Balllnger inquiry seems to be broad enough' The first witness was from Seat tle and the second from Porto Rico. World-Herald. Tea, but what's the use? The World-Herald brought in a verdict of guilty before the first witness was sworn. If the hall of fame at Washington be abolished the average American will be glad provided It precludes the pos sibility of having to place busts of Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas and j Governor Haskell of Oklahoma there, PERSONAL NOTES. Wltneaa OlavlS' dtawl la Said to be the moat annoying vorallsatlon thnt the Tpn neasee cmst-pxamlnrr went against. It would help some, by way of variety, If the star asters would drclde the site of the Ire crop on the rsnals of Mara. Oondokoro, . where Colonel Kooaevelt la retting, la otherwise chiefly noted as the only place on the map that has four o'a In Its name. A New Tork youngster under St. who npexd thrp wIvps during his brief csreer, showed too much speed at the start. Those who are caught are not eligible for the belt.- Railroads are getting the ultimate con mimrr "acomlng and attolns." The boaat of the meat rate from the Missouri to the lakes Is matched by a boost of local passenger rat In Massachusetts. The Brussels "surgeon who operated on King Leopold a few hours bTore his drath has put In a bill of M,000. The opiratlon lasted only ten minutes and was a success, though the patlwit died. I- Th street railway settlement approved by the voters of Cleveland pro.vldes for a straight I-cent rat for a single ride and i cent extra for a transfer, for a period of eight months. If the earnings on this rat net six per cent on the company's capital, the rate la to slttnd. Otherwise a 4-cciu rate, or seven tickets for a quar ter, will be the maximum rate for twenty five years. "CNCLE JOE'S" PHILOSOPHY. spectacle of Speaker Can son flailing; Throuah the Storm. Washington Post. No matter how the storm may rage about him, no matter how his enemies may de scribe him, and no matter what fate may be In store for him, "Uncle Joe" Cannon is today and will remain until the end of his life one of th most picturesque and In teresting characters in the United Slates. Assailed by many, Including some of his old friends, yet his honesty and fearless ness have never been questioned. AniJ through the stress of the storm his unfail ing humor shines forlh undaunted. As he walked into one of th Pittahtirr hotels before making a speech to th Pitts burg Chamber of Commerce the other night, he removed the Inevitable "big, black cigar, which the reporters tell about, Scrawled "J. Cannon, Illinois," on the reg ister ana turned to answer the volley of questions which came pounding at him from all sides. What about the food Investigation? How about rivers and harbors? What would he do If the Insurgents beat him? "Uncle Joe" calmly hummed a Sunday school hymn. Suppose they were to put him out of busi ness? At that question his Interest quick ened, and he replied, dryly: ' If they put me out of business In the house, and there are somo who think they can, I anf going to fall back on my voice. I used to be something of a singer, you know, and I guess I can draw a fair salary behind the footlights." A fair salary? "Uncle Joe" is too mod est. He would become the highest-priced rtlst on the stake. They would Jam the theaters to see him, Just as now they Jam any hall In any city when he is scheduled as a speaker:' The rest of the country may say what they like about him when he Is not around, but when he goes Into their own camp they receive him with open arms, for his homely philosophy and the courage of convictions win friends even when his hearers 'do not agree with him. Proofs "bt 'Leadership. , Ban' iVa'iclsco Chronicle.,; President f art's Intimation that ; rumors or flurries tn Wail street will not swerve him from his announced policy to Investi gate all trusts is. another of several recent proofs that the president Is a real loader. Some time ago H was becoming custo mary In some quarters to; say that the people had lost confidence in. the president. Tbey have not, and those, who said they had will have to confess that Tan Is a Btronger executive than they thought. Troubles of th Government. . Boston Transcript. One question after another rises In Washington to test administrative acumen. No sooner has. the government decided what I is whisky than it Is confronted with the question "Is a hen a bird?" Upon the solu tion of this question much depends, for birds' eggs are free of duty. An Importer has appealed to the treasury, to say whether "eggs" at B cents .a dosen Is not contradicted by the placing of "birds" eggs- on the free list Am KffecttTe Divorce. ' Denver Republican. . The way In which WgH street struggles through one bear movement after another without la the least affecting the com mercial condition of the country seems to suggest that a secret divorce muBt have been issued somewhere about two years ago. Moving; j His Followers. Sioux City Tribune. The pronouncement for county option shows at least that Mr. Bryan has not lost his power to move the people of Nebraska by his words. Some of them are even moved to anger,1; Boosting; the Vpllft. Philadelphia Ledger. Perhaps the Nebraska convict pardoned on the ground that he has Invented an air ship was credited with having done some thing toward the uplift. Our Birthday Book rabraary 33. 1810. George Washington, first president of the United States, would be celebrating today If he were still on earth. His birthday date Is February 2J, 1733. Anson Phelps Stokes, the big New York erpitalist and philanthropist, waa born In that city February 22. 1838. H. J. Penfold, of the H. J. Penfold Com- psiy, dealing In drugs and surgical sup plies, waa born February 23. at Lock port. New Tork. Mr. Penfold does a big business also In the r an-e of Samson, which covers htm as secretary of the Ak-Sar-Ben trgantxatlon, of which he has been one of the governors from th very first- Among other distinctions he has also enjoyed being president of the Board of Education and held a colonel's commission on Oov ernor Sheldon's military staff. Very Rev. Patrick McCarthy now dear of Bt. Patrick's church, Jackson, Neb., Is 61 years old today. Father McCarthy Is a native of Newark, N. T.. and a graduate of St. 'Vincent's college. He waa pastor of St Phllomena's church for eight years and was one of th best known and popular priests In Omaha. - Daniel M. tllldebrand, who used to be with th Burlington road and Is now at tending to real estate affairs, was born February U, ISM, ar Morgantown, S. C. Colt O. Campbell, of the firm of Campbell A: West, manufacture g agents, brokers and commission merchants, located In th old Unltad States tank building, was born February Z2, 1877. at Papilllon, Neb. ' Mr. Carrpbell was In the drug buslneaa. and later tn the grocery business with MeCord- Biady company, aid Is cow president of juts present flru Farewell Address Chart of th WaMom'a Highway Drawa fey Waablns-toa On Hundred Jftmrkaaa Tears Ago. The famous "Farewell Address of Wash Ington," which Is read In the United Ptate senate on each recurring anniversary, con tains about T.000 words. It was first printed In Claypoole's American Dally Advertiser for September 19, 1796, the copy being given by Washington himself to Mr. Claypoole, accompanied by a note of Instruction to th copyist who recorded the address In the letter book. According to Historian Sparks the original draft bears all the marks of laborious revision. The manuscript, a de scribed by Mr. Claypoole. "consists of thirty-one pages of quarto letter paper, sewed together as a book, and with many alterations, as In some places whole para graphs are erased and others substituted; In others, many lines struck out; In others, sentences snd words erased, and others in terlined In their stead. The tenth, eleventh and sixteenth pages are almost entirely expunged, saving only a few lines, and one-half of the thirty-first page Is also effaced." A fac simile of th first and last pages shows three erasures In the first, a marginal notation In the last and the top line expunged. It is addressed "To the People of the United States Friends and Fellow Cltlsens." A few excerpts follow: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are Indispensable supports. In vain j would that man claim the tribute of patri otism who should labor to subvert thee great piuars or human happiness these firmest props of the duties of men and cltlsens. The mere politician, equally with th pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. ' It Is of Infinite moment that you should properly estimate the Immense value of your national union to your collective and Individual happiness; that you should cher ish cordial, habitual and Immovable attach mento it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of It as the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for Its preservation with Jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can In any event be abandoned; and Indignantly frowning upon the first drawing of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. Cltlsens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to con-1 central your affections. The nam of "American," which belongs to you tn your national capacity, must always exact th Just pride of patriotism, more than any appellations derived from local discrimina tions. With slight shades of difference you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles. You have In a common cause, triumphed together. There Is an opinion In free countries that parties are useful checks upon the adminis tration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within cer tain bounds, probably is true, and In gov ernments of a motiarchlal caat patriotism may look with Indulgence, If not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But In those of popular character In governments purely elective It Is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency It Is certain there will always be enough of this spirit for every salutary purpose. And there be-' lng consistent danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage.lt. , Europe has a set of primary Interests which to us have none or a remote relation. Hencs she must be engaged In frequent con troversies, the causes of which are essen tially foreign to our concerns. Hence, there fore, It must be unwise in-us to Implicate ourselves by artificial ties In the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friend ships or enmities. The great rule of conduct for us In regard to foreign nations Is, In extending our com mercial relations, to have with them as Utt'e political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements. let them be fulfllcd with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Observe good faith and Justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this con duct; and can It be that good policy does not equally enjoin It? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give mankind the mag nanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted Jus tice and benevolence. As an Important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving It Is to use It as sparingly as possible, avoiding expense by cultiva ting peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for dan ger' frequently prevent much greater dis bursements to repel It; avoiding likewise the accumulations of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions In times of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned; not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. It Is Important, likewise, that the habits of thinking In a free country should Inspire caution In those Intrusted with Its adminis tration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding In th exercise of the powers of one de partment to encroach upon another. Th spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate In one and thus create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. Although, In reviewing the Incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of Intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think It prob able that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall carry with me the hope that my country will never oease to view them with Indul gence, and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to Jts servtoa, with an upright seal, the faults of Incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to th mansions of rest. The basis of our political system Is the right of the people to make and altar their constitutions of government But th constitution which at any tlms exists till ohanged by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The Idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every citisen to obey the established government And remember especially that for the ef ficient management Of your common Inter ests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as Is con sistent with th perfect security of lib erty Is indispensable. Liberty Itself will find In such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, Ha aurest guardian. Established In 1357 s Kountie MttloriiUzti In t8H, Chtrttr No. A bank-which gives to every customer a n d to every department that careful and thorough service which is the re sult of over 52 years of growth and experience. Our SArXTT DEPOSIT TAU1TS are fir and burglar proof; boxes of vari ous sixes, from 83.00 par year up. mmtrmi''-rmr w Mi m mam . nnMvni.m Democrats on Bryan's County Option Coup Potpourl of Opinion from Stat Papers That Tsually rollow PrlMa xadr Blindly. "Doe" Tanner Saya Tilt. South Omaha Democrat There will be no county option plank in th democratic state platform in 1810. This conviction can readily be ascertained by the open expressions of the demoorats who constitute the backbone of the party. Still Looking; for Office. Pllger Herald (dem.). Bryan has spoken at last on the liquor question and he comes out aa every other man must do If h expects to be elected to anifflce of national Importance, and that Is for the abolishment of the liquor traffic No Go This Time. Ponder Times (dem.). Mr. Bryan has come out for county op tion, which of course Is hio own-private opinion. The democratic state convention will not follow him Into the prohibition. County option means prohibition you can't make anything else out of it. Purpose Is to Pnniah. Beatrice Sun (dem.). Mr. Bryan's announcement In favor of county option contains a suggestion of his purpose to punish the opponents of his ref erendum bill which was slaughtered In the last legislature. The liquor forces opposed the referendum law because It was consid ered Inimical to their Interests, and this was Mr. Bryan's pet measure. Latest and Best. Winslde Tribune (lom.). Mr. Bryan has declared for county option In Nebraska and says It Is time for all po litical ' parties to declare themselves Inde pendent of the liquor interests. Every sa loon keeper and those whom they control will now curse Bryan, but there Is another das looking higher than whisky selling who rejoice over this,, his latest and best utterance. I ' - He Is Making; n Mistake. Humphrey Democrat. Mr. Bryan certainly has a right to his own opinion in this matter, but If he should try to force county option onto the demo cratic party in this state he will make a mistake, and It would simply lead to the parting of the ways between Mr. Bryan and many true democrats 'who have stood by him through thick and thin ever since he came before the public eye. 1 Second the Motion. Holbrook Observer (dem.). We believe that a large majority of the democratic newspapers in the state as well as a majority of the rank and file of th-s party are In favor of eliminating the llqiior traffic from politically dominating our leg islative bodies, and in these lie the strength of Mr. Bryan, not In a few disgruntled self-constituted party leaders who depend on the liquor Interests, rather than the good will of the people, for their subsis tence. The democratic party In other states has been the first of the two old parties to declare for a better regulation of the liquor Interests, and 1t Is our candid opinion that the aland Mr. Bryan has taken will have a tendency to strengthen rather than weaken th party In Nebraska. Ttrlve Ont All Who Disagree. (Albion Argus (pop.) It la with great pleasure that we read In th papers Bryan's stand on county op tion. He has come out square toed and for all he Is worth. Good for Bryan! As good, clean a man as he Is, It Is natural that he should tak this position. We had no doubt alt th time thst he would apeak when the tint cam. Soma were Impatient with him for his delay. Some are now very Impatient with him, now that he has spoken. So It seems It is hard for him to please everybody. If the party can't stand such a plank as county option It Is tlm w know It. If It Is so thoroughly dominated by the saloon element there are a whole lot of us that want to know It now. We want to have a hand along with the Peerless Leader, In driving all the element over Into th republican party where they belong. A Joe-Handled Scheme. Holdrege Progresa (dem.). Mr. Bryan Is moved to take this atti tude by reason of the pernicious activity of the liquor Interests of Nebraska in the, field'of politics, and certainly no one will complain that Mr. Bryan is not giving ex pression to sentiments common to many people over the state irrespective of their views on th liquor queotlon. We doubt however, if his advocacy of a law such as la contemplated by the Nebraska Antl Saloon league will Influence to any large extent the postlon of the democratic party aa a Vhol. The worst feature of the pro posed Nebraaka county option bill is that It provides only for the creation -by public vote of anti-saloon territory; It provides for voting out saloons but not for voting them In. This fundamentally la no fault If th measure were represented to be a prohibition bill, aa it Is. The bill does not provide that a county may by popular vote vote saloons In. -A vote of "no" under the provisions -lot th bill Is simply a vot not to exeat e antl-saloon territory and In effect Is a vote In. favor of the continued opera tion ot the Siocum .law In that territory. Th bill further aim at absolute prohibi tion, not meaning simply th prohibition of th sal of liquor, but also prohibits the shipment of wet goods In to dry territory, making It Impossible for any person to have In his possession 1 private supply of liquor. It take away, absolutely ths right of th individual to us In any manner stimu lants no matter of what character. W believe the democracy of Nebraska might support Mr. Pryan In advocating a las, which only Increased th sis of th vot s-irV-i-5..-- I J Bros 20) ing unit and rave th county the option ot saying whether or not stimulants should be or should not be sold within that terri tory, but the proposed measure is nier" legislation and we believe Its efd-vts would he disastrous. We believe we are sensible to the evils of Intemperance as advocates of the antl-saloon option bill, but a law Is certainly un-American which offers a man his choice of two things and then should he make an "Improper" choice deny him this choice, Mr. Bryan notwithstand ing. . . A Ins, Poor Kdorart V Columbus Telegram (dem ). JL What will be the effect of the Bryan door laration in favor ot county option? I ana In doubt. There are some leaders who say It has shot th party all to pieces for th present, while other leaders, equally able, say that out of this agitation will come excellent results. This latter class holds the view that the agitation will result in a compromise between the radical optlonliits and the radical personal liberty fellows, and that In the end they will ail unite upon m uouuy ui luyjiiiy to tne existing uquor laws, and In favor of their strict enforce ment I hofv this view Is well founded. In a conference which Mr. Bryan, held with some close friends Just prior to his depart ure on his present tour, he was urged to accept such a liquor platform. In lieu of his proposed county prohibition policy. He believed It was his dutyto declare In fa vor of county option. I kreally regret that he has made the question a party Issue. It should not be so, but it. must be so, now .tint he has spoken, and at, the corning democratic state convention we shall a h harp fight to get county prohibition In the platform. That will create a strange situ ation for many men who have faithfully followed the great Nebraska leader. It will Indeed be a strange situation for. me. I have never faltered In allegiance to the magnificent man who Is today the grand est champion of humanity's cause that the world of any age has known. 1 am not faltering now. My love for my' old leader Is as Intense In this hour as In any day. And yet I shall not follow Mr. Bryan Into the ranks of the oourtty opt Ion In ts BREEZY TRIFLES. . He jla da.bbler. In everything) Do you know. Miss Sweet, that I could hypnotize you so that in a quarter of mi, hour you would throw your arms around my neck? Miss Sweet That's nothing. I could hyp notise you with that effect In two minutes. Boston Transcript. , y "What was the bride's father's present to the hsppy couple?" "An order on the butcher for twenty four pounds of sirloin steak." Chicago Record-Herald. Actor (on the road) How about the thun der and storm effects In Act III? Provincial Htaire Manager Oh. that'll be easy. All I'll do is to hide the property man's pint bottle. Puck. , , Mack (an observing stranger)--VVhy Is it that so many of the men In your town seem to bear a grudge against the minister? Bachelor (a knowing resident Why, he's the man who married th-m. Chicago News. "What are you good for, anyhow?" sneered the rhinoceros. 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