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6 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1912. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; nTkp hy mm AltP nosftWATm:' " victor ROSHWATBit. muTott. Bfc.14 uribuiNQ. fa UN am AND ittm. Kntered at Omaha ptotilce as second- turn mutter 1 kkm Tr"5rTtR" : rriifs. 1 Sundav Bee.one year M.W nViVr'KwiihmHmur. on, veal", iw ! Da ij lVj, and unday. nf yr. s.v DI.I..IV HRBD 111 CAIlHIr.K. J vtr'ng and Sunday, per month.. 4t? , i .-I. hni.i 12 ....... i ii r mnn n iir . .riiuin " . i" - al nee. inciuti nc iindav. per mo. t-1 Pa' v Hee. without Sunday. ier mo. jjo i r . . : . jn dplipry to City circulation Uept. (front, for It an undeniable proof Ht2MiTTANCKS i that its owner Iirs not kept up with . arable $tfMCo ' mo,lern Improvements. Smoke burn )n' :-cent stamps received in payment ( jng devices are many, most of them jf email account Perona1 checks, ex-1 cpt on Omaha and eastern exchange, not ' are practical, and they accomplish iepted. OFFICES Omahs-The Bee building South Omaha-2318 X etreet. Cour. 11 llluffa-ll North Main etrr'l Uncoin-:1! l.lttle building. rtitcaEo-IOIl Marquette hulldlnB- Kansas rity-HcUanco bulldlnK. New YorU-SI West Thirty-third. St Ivnits 402 Frisco bulldlnK. Washington T Fourteenth St.. N u. i-OimBSl'ONPBNCB Communications relating to news and dltorlal matter should be addresse-l Omaha Bee, Udltorlal Department NOVEMBER CIUCt'l.ATION 49,805 Htate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Hee Publishing company, being duly sworn, aays that the average dallv ilrculatlon for the month of November. 112. was4J,SfC. DWIGHT W1L.UAMH, Circulation Manager. Suhscrlbd In my presence and sworn to before m this 5th day of December, JMJ. ItO U BUT HONTKIl. (Seal.) Notary rublle. Snbsorlbcrs lenrlnK the city temporartlr ahootil hae The nee mailed to them. Address nllt lie changed often nt re qnrated. Bought yet? No? Get busy. In the meantime, the need for owl cars In Omaha Is gottlng mora urgent each passing day. Feeding anthracite coal to a fur nace Is calculated to make n man prodigal of monoy. Tho Red Cross seal on a letter Is a proof that some one is helping fight tho great whlto plague. The council of governors repudia ted Bioaso, but what will tho voters of South Carolina do? Tho clerk, tlollvery boy, and even tho floor walker, uro also entitled to a merry Christmas. Old Father Winter has not tho heart to froeze his farorlte state, Ne braska, for long at a time. Tho Turk has been caroless 6f nt tho president and secretary human life for so long that he. freely jof war havo Pointed out, our work risks his own In a lost cause. ' llBB onlr l0Bw. for it Is a work of 1 ; dostlny, not of the present only, nnd The Bee has effectively turned tho, nt to bo subjected to tho test ot limelight of publicity on moro than' political expediency. Therefore for one charlatan with n quack nostrum.) tho democrats to sacrifice what this - ... , .' : 1 'government Is doing to what Sccro- rhe average man' could live on lets than he does If ho was utterly Indifferent as to what his neighbor lived on. u appears mat somubody was caught with the goods In that deal to land tho state teachers' convon tlcn away from Omahn. President-elect Wilson's plan dolaylng tho inauguration fete until April displeases the party that haa waited sixteen years on the fete. Miss Kate Barnard advised womenl?" ,F?nc!1 PHtwmn8' "as fa to refuse marriage until their rights. Tho norm tneir rights. Tlio normal womnn regards, that as her greatest tight. The Omaha preacher who Is mov ing downtown to catoh the sinners must have caught his Master's in junction about being fishers of men.. Those British auffragettcs mlghtj profjt from the example of our American suffragists, who aro gradually getting the ballot without brickbats. Governor Bleaso or South Carolina says he will go to the sonato when he completes his second term us gov- ernor. "Well, the senate Is enduring . prayers In many lands for divine ln Arkansas Joff Dqyls. j torventlon to restore peaco to Mexico - - ; should offer a. sublime exhibition of i uc how iuiiuuiiv.au neuuior irom Maryland is a millionaire, it is said. So was tho lato democratic senator whom he succeeds, according to tho inventory of his estate. Half a cent a pound Isn't much, hut it shows that butter can come down aa well as go up, Now, let us seo Jf tlio butter barons aro In earnest In their, effort to put the price at 30 cents. To the "boss:" Watch your chim ney, and try to lealize that black araoko means that 90 per cent of the energy qf the fuel la wasted. Then see if you can't make a better ar rangement in the boiler room. A correspondent says why Is it necessary to count the ballots im mediately after an election; why not wait until a more convenient time? For the same reason that Americana are now rjdlug in ulectrlc street la stead ot horse cars, and automobiles Instead of ox carts. Massachusetts' democratic con gressmen have agreed to oppose any tariff reduction affecting shoes. Now let the southerners follow as to cot ton .and cotton goods, the westerners H6 to their wares, and then our brethren's fun will begin at redeem ing thlr tarlff.for-revenue-only pledges. r i In the Matter of Smoke. It will he admitted without argu i nicnt that smoking factory rhlmncys' arc a Men of Industrial activity. It ) aR0 beyond dispute that any sort 8mok,I,B rhimney Is n nulsahce to some degree, as well as an ocono- nilr wnflCr. In these time, when' Mvnci Is bending Its utmost effort ... . to the end of securing greater ef- ... .... . rip rnn In nil Inllnpi. nnilna vnr. hit' - . . . . . . gmoklnp chimney Is n positive af the double purpose of reducing the volume of smoke Bent out from chim neys nnd the amount of fuel ton- niiiueu, eiincr ni wnicn jiurpoflea i should appeal directly to the dullest.! In the absence of a smoke-burning device, the volume of smoke may bo largely abated by nrnner flrlnp ofl .1.. I n.1 -.- .11 i in; i ui Hin t.-, i ncse lauis are ail HOiutnaha to start plain that the one conclusion Is In evitable Illack mnoko pourliiK out of a chimney Is a sign of wasteful carelessness rather than of genuine Industry. Lazy Self-interest. When the United States went Into the Philippines it found, Hays Presi dent Toft, an archipelago containing twenty-four tribes and races, speak ing a variety of Innguages, and a populntidn of which more than 80 per cent were illiterate In nny Ian gunge. Today more than 500,000 native students are in native schools holplng the United States In Its un dertaking or molding the men of the future into a homogeneous people, "fit to determine, when tho time ar rives, their own destiny." Commercially, astounding develop ment has hoeu made In the islands under American rule. Sanitary liv ing haa gained a pornianent foothold and the wholo course of life has been toward enlightenment nnd liberty. The federal government has recog nized, "even In official ways, tho Fili pino ability twherevor shown. For instance, In the classified civil serv ice tho 'proportion of Filipinos has Increused In the last eight years from 51 per cent to 67 per cent, ami today all the municipal employes, more than 90 per cent of the provincial employes and CO per cent of all tho officials and employes of tho central government are native Filipinos. Is the. United States keeping the faith as to the recognition of merit and benevolent assimilation? tnry Stimsou calls "lazy self-lnter-eHt" would, undoubtedly, prove to bo ono of the most egregious blunders over committed by a natlrn. n.. .. . - , , ine rerill Ot AYlatlOn. , Must wo reconstruct all our Ideas as to the rolntlve danger of aerial navigation? It would seem that it embraced a good doal of thn tnr. Oflreatlnt In mlfllHnn I.. Ha ... . v. . , v, ,, . v. no u), ii ii:iii- liar hazard. Not so long ago two aeroplanes collided In luldtvlr with disastrous results, and a few days ther goti:.; , ",,,l,'u ,"'wui ... ' .. , ' "T . . iiii tuo i urnu-uuiKan war. truiy, tno perils of nviatlon are many and com- t tltnv T ns. r f nnn.Ml h . .1 ...1 ...... !'" vi I.UUIIUI ouu iiui rinv winds nro by no means all. It bo comes apparent, therefore, that re sorting to this means of locomotion .1,1. .,i.. i. . , . t uiiiiur iur uivcrniuii, travel or ret'on- nolterlng, does not absolutely avoid the dangers pf earthly methods. Tho Turks, In the meanwhile, have, it seems, taught their enemies to be on their guard no leas in tho air than ou the ground. Exhibition of Faith. ' The papal decree for simultaneous faith In God to a world deafened by tho din of battle, desultory Jn Mox-j ico, but continuous and terrible on1 the Boaphorus. The Impact upon the mundane mind can but be Inspir ing. Why should not tho religious world seize lttt claims now as did the apostles of old Perhaps It Is be cause ot lapses in faith and the fall tiro to pray that people have come to need such exhibitions and examples so much. The Oddly man may find all tho warrant he seeks for relying upon prayer, even as to nations and war. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humblu. themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. The came God who spoke to Solo mon then speaks to Madoro now. And. the Psalmist says: He makcth wars to cease unto the end of the earth; Ho breaketh the-bow, and cutteth the spear In sunder, Uo. burneth the chariot In fire. Sometimes the world is impressed, no doubt, with the little that the "faithful" make of their faith, there fore seems to call for such an exhibi tion aa that that Hhould follow tile Holy Father's decree. Subscriptions for the new hotel are rit sa year old. castlebury surprised coming aloug at a rate that proves ihU eb'ren and grandchildren when l.e the people or Omaha understand theJ!?,T,,f V"r aro, " hJ ,,n wM: ... io i for jtar and Is a Wealthy retired valuu of the enterprise. Iks Day inOmaiia r ... tar... .. . . I wr;j DtC Fill i,i '(' Id Jl ' " TJilrty Venn. .ro Ilia muJi-sM. Ulna Kallkuii. mil uiie , urder rhaperonage of ui urr rnmrtmmnmm " . . . ui (. OlOIiei I. II. jLdd . iiiiuixii iimsn. nit.ihA.ini I eqiislntancts. and spent the time very tlearantl mis eunuay was a beautiful day oer- ' head, hut the talking was had. j John CI. Jacobs has moved Into his tifw and elegant home on Douglas sttcet ; The friends of William Dolan. of the firm of Dolan & Langworthy regret tn hetr that he IS lying danaerouslv 111 , with typhoid fever St. Mary's avenue. nt his residence on oih Oarneau, ii prominent cltlien f, 1wh0 ft" titty years con IlllP t All n rranb. .. . ". ..... "w "ry in mat city, is linn wui fig on .1 ti i-i. .... ' In cracker factory hero. unxing sold out his St. fuls establish ment some months ago. Dr. P. N. Conn nr. .Hi. , 1 1 n i . ...... bcr of tho firm of Billings Conner nan a member of the famous Hillsdale crew. ' which went to England last summer to ,row their British cousins, j Judge K. f. Dundy left for Topeka to exchange places temporary with Judge i-oter. Mis. M. Wynmn ot (Jolden, Colo., for- merly Fannie Whipple, a teacher at Broiviiell hall, Is the gurt of Mr. and Mrs. B B, .Sar.eant. Miss Antoinette Ogden, sister of Hon. Chailes OHden, returned to her home tn the sunny south after an extended visit nere Twenty Vcms Ac At a laigely attended meeilng of Chris tian men and women at the Young Men's Christian association, the uewVlty mis sion was placed upon Its ft with promise of future success, rtov. Di ! Uuiycu presided over tho nieetlne in which some 300 participated: the tlev. B. Fay Mills, who was conducting a I revival here, boosted the enterprise and Tlev. A. W. Clark, In charge of the work. outlined Its plans And possibilities. Tho proposition wAh to secure the old Peo ple's theater on Douglas atreet, remodel it and have the mission there. Plans weie made for the organization and money end of tho enterprise. Discussion among business men was rfo an to a complete reorganlxatlon of the liorad of Trado and the election or men to the directory who would give their tlino tu the work. Thn tcims of these directors were expiring: Buclld Martin, James Stephenson. Hugh O. Clurlt and O. F. Goodman. It was not known iut that they might all be re olected and work for the building up of the board. The little cottage home ot Mr. anu Mrs, Charles Dohorty. 412 North Four teenth streot, was filled with happiness, when in wulked their long-lost and sup nosedly dead son, John Doherty. who had been gone for six months. The youth of u suinmeis ono day suddently con celvod tho notion he would like to live the life of a tourist and Instead of proceed ing to school, left for the wide, wide world. Having covered it to his heart's content In the brclf span of six months, ha roturned. foot-sore, lamn and weary tind a wee bit hungry, to the parental roof, where he was received as befits a prodigal son. Ten Wats .ro "General" Gooige Washington Bailey, better known ns "Tee-lfee," the lecturer Whtl hail ri .i a 1 1 m rl ..... ... t . . .. ...... nw., , mu"h iuu itiuu iur iwenty-rlve years dlscourslna on China. !tled suddenly at noon In his room at the Prexel hotel. He had come In from the niack Hills for lecture engagements and wftx slightly III. He had predicted his death that day and Just Ixifore It oc curred sent for O. W. Bralnerd, general missionary of the atata for the Baptists. Thn general wax t'l. Ilia death was attributed to heart dlsciue, though It was said he hud unintentionally taken too much chloral that niothlng. Ills wife re sided at Watervllle, Minn. The Methodists announced the Incor poration of a church at Benson, with new John Crews, paster; William If. Tlndall, JCdward O, Hills, Harvey J. Grave, laymen of the parish, togethur with ntiv. J. W, Jennings, presiding elder of the district, and "ev. D. K. Tlndall as Incorporator. While here thy met Colonel Clrns tiilan fxn,,nn,lon ' ln'l,5,' f lh' vote Ingood governmont. to pasi Fr.nnlo Butterfleld and Miss Wralv-ortli 1 the sou,ht'rn w,h" there has;tlcallly disfranchising a ve all old acqusiiitancfs . .. t bee" "omr ,0"' northern states, as ' tlon of the negro vote. Th! Charlea p. Southard left for Chicago In , response to a message saying his brother,! MmytU to thr Socialists. Albert B. Southard, who was struck by. a I OMAHA. Dec. 9.-To the Editor Of The street car, wa not expected to live. 'Bee: My friends, the socialists, have A dlspatoh from Htoux City ald that taken umbrage at certain statements DoiiSlos P, Whll'ton was taken suddenly I made by nio concerning their cult In & ill with A linenHlt'llI ui III UAn.mlM I rifl..n.mlnnl. a.li1ra (1tlv'rei1 n few hotel, but did nit state whether his con-i I dltlou was dangerous. rnatpontng the parade feature of the presidential Inauguration from March 4 to Aprti 4 depends largely on tha Washing- weather bureau guaranteeing ton against a tlareback Miss Madeline Kdlsou, daughter of Thomas A. Kdlson, Is to become the bride of John Byre Sloane, son of a neighbor ing fam(l In South Orange, X. J., a pupil of Papa Edison, and an Inventor ot much promise. After repeated efforts to, get a body hold; Old Father Time at last succeeded In gathering In Justine Maa'son. the fa mous glontesa of Montreal. Aa Justlno weighed 780 pounds It Is easy to under stand why tho man with the scythe had something of a Job to gat away with It. ,J6hri Campbell, a locomotive engine man of the Pennsylvania lines west of f Pittsburgh ami whn fni u nnmk.. t years pat has run a yard engine at Pittsburgh, retired frcm his poaltlon on September 6. after being In the service f the company continuously for forty tight years, and he retires with a clear lerord. The sate of the famous Hoe Library Jut completed In New York netted II, Sfct.nOOO. Much regret la felt over the dls perston of a collection ot books of ur. passing value and quality, representing tfio labor of a lifetime, Matty rare vol. units wera purchased by foreign collect or, but the bulk of th collection went tp American libraries. William Caatlobury. W year old, of Uaitlesvllle. Ok)., and almost blind, will 1 spend hU declining years rocking a biby to sleep, a daughter having been born to his wife. Mr. Castlebury, who Is Just faniK, , People Talked About 1 1 WHERE THE LOST VOTES ARE Moit of the Stay-at-Homes in Southern States. Phl.adeiphla Record (dem ). Much of the apparent mystery In the .. . .i .. . "iminunor in me reei nt presidential vote, which shows practically no gain , , oer the figures of 1W6. though In the 1 Intervening sixteen voter. of thri? nen eara the main ' state and several ! I hundred thousand women have been . auuen to me electorate, a sanoears wnen ' ' - IJ-; n inv lUJfl III HUI IIIC1 II niH IW, liUIl li Wit' (ICftjlV ,u,r' iisin "u compared with 1S. It Is below Mason solidly republican, and Its disappearance . utiri lllrAii' line .ha .h m&rrtt tm (A'ha. IW, hut tfL'!fnn nf a nartv flir be found of what has proved a pustln the G O. P., principal!) made up of to many the upparent failure of the white men Interested In securing federal rotlng strength of tin country to keep jobs. With the vanishing of a powerful pace with the tremendous increae in opposition, which existed In a numbei population In the last twenty years. 0f thefe elites In 18Stf, the demociatic Through the ab'ence of any effective vote has gradually decreased until now opposition in the southern states the the number of such voters who go to vote there has fallen away to a degree the polls Is scarcely moie than enough that Is both surprlilng and lamentable. ' 0 make sure the carrying of the state This Is inciKt strikingly brought out in it Is surprising, for Instance, to dls the table below, where the presldental 'cftvsr that in Texas, uhlcli Is one of the vote of some of the southern states Is fve largest states In the union, and i given for 1S9S and 1312. In order to) where In IMG the democrats polled over whnw what the normal vote of these 370.OO) votes, their sttcngth this yeai states khould be the returns for those dropped off to 221,433. If one may Judge ' year m'e given of several northern m!;(rom Missouri's vote Texas, a larger I wes,''rn uts havlnr the same, ornate, should have polled this month! neall ,lie ,ame' "mnher of ,e(:loral , nearly TM.000 votes. Instead of that a! ami mciriuir ucibuik lur. j.iiihu. Influence In the choice of a president. 1 The sipte, of mlnoi1 presidential nandl- date?, such as Debs and Chftfln. are ex- clud.d In computing the total T t 1 EI c'toral ' i 1 j , ,st"' '(V'orih? North Carolina ' I Presidential Vote. Votea. lnc wnere me, very large part 01 me loss 18S6 1P1S 1912. of votea has occurred. The remedy for .. ..IKY644 113.MI 12'i 1- .u ... ,n. 1 154 3il 1'4) "2 ui.ufciii riuij, anu iiiui. iafc ,11.1, .....329.710 KO.Ml liithe southern states themselves. lie Bee's LeHi ;"HeorMitnlluit" Itounbilcitii Party SILVER C'UEKK, Neb.. Dec. ". To the Kdltor of The Bee 1 notice the expres- but was adopted for campaign and prep aid! of John O. Ylescr, A. C. Kpperson ' nanda. purposes. Here is a wample of and others, relative to the reorganlza- 1 tno reasoning of thoso who favored It. Hon of tho republican party. Mr. Yelser proposes to reorganize by calling Colonel lloosovelt to lead the party. As a re publican, Colonel ltooAovclt's popularity )nd Influence were very great, and his friends and admnlrers were legion, I among them, but his actions, from the time he responded to the call of the "seven little governors" (who by the way have all been effectually and perma nently disposed of), have reduced his popularity and Influence to uu unknown quantity. It certainly is not and can never again reach the zenith from which It has fallen. Thut President Taft was fairly, hon estly and honorably nominated at Chi cago every unprejudiced, falrmiiided man will admit and If Colonel noosevelt had continued his allegiance to the party and Its nominee, exerting his ability and Influence to correct, within the party, any errors that might and must appear at times In all parties, which at best, are controlled only by final minds, the party would have gone on Its wise and pro Iiresslve course In the future as It ha done fpr the past fifty years, bringing peace, prosperity and happiness to the millions of people, who reside In this favored land. But instead of submitting to the time . . . ' honored custom and precedents of the delegated power of tho republican party In convention assembled, he conceitedly believed that IiIh popularity was so great that he had only to unnounce himself a candidate before the people- and they, re publicans and democrats alike, would fall over themselves to do him honor and HWeep away nil opposition. The republican party Is already organ ized. It has never lost Its organisation, It will continue to do business at the old stand and be the party of progress, th party of tho people, the party nt great principles and high Ideals, and those gentlemen, who so pieclpltalely left It to follow uninterpreted visions. In the hope that they might fall Into a bed of pie ot some kind, but who only fell Into a deep dark pit, can now scramble out, don the proper uniform, re turn to the ranks of the republican party, which still lives, and fight In the future to rebuild what. their past folly haa tem poral ily disabled. They are not the ones to reorganize It. W. C. ROBINSON. evenings ago before the Alumni Assoelu- tlon of t'relghton University, and. In con 1 sequence, they have posted my name on ' their billboard, have written about me In j the publln prtss, and have Invited in to debate socialism with a gentleman se ' lected by them. I declined the invitation because I had neither the time nor the ; Inclination to engage In either platform 0r newspaper controversy-regarding both j aa fruitless. Nevertheless. 1 am unwilling jt should npnear, as might be Inferred from communications to the press by these gentlemen, that I have withdrawn or modified in the least anything mured by me before the alumni. Therefore, with your permission. I will state In th briefest possible form some of the grounds of my opposition to aoclallsm. First Its tendency. If .not Its necessary effect. Is antl-rellgtous. Cart Marx., who may be aatd to be the founder of the philosophy of socialism, wrote that re ligion is "A fantastic degradation of hUmau nature the oilum. of th people." Bugles. In his "Origin of the Family," pages 91-P), says: "Three great obstacles block the path of rcrorm-prlvate prop erty, religion and the present form of marriage." Bax, the renowned Kugllsh socialist and author, In his book, "Outlook from a New Standpoint." pages IH-1&. contends: 'There are few points on which the ad vanced radicals and socialists are more completely In accord than their' thort. leal hostility to the modern legal mono gamlo marriage. To llv In a state of unlegalized marriage defileth not a man nor r woman etlher." Congressman Bergtr said. August IX UU: "It Is characteristic of the Roman churth that It keeps the masses In Ig norance and bigotry and thus In sub mission to the ruling chtss," Mores Barltz, official organiser of the soctal'st party and recently operating In Canada, declared In a letter P the To ronto Globe. August 10, that "The social. 1st cannot believe -In any supernatural God If they do they are not socialist. The church will find In u tblr unrelent'ng foes. If more of this kind Ik- needed, con- .... ShT.W fO.OTT 3B.U7 3S5.04: . . . .;,; 66S,9)T '.76.84.1 135.MZ .H5.6K. 41Z.&34 4W.!10 C$1.44" 12 ! 1. t Virginia ... Minnesota . tff Jerrey ova lit IS M,,80url It Is hardly necessary to explain that In many of the southern states It has . . .... ... . .. -t ncen touna essential, in inn wuinit pass laws prac. ery large por- TUt almnil inne over 275,000 were cait. Here alone . 1 a i0M of nearij. goo.coo votes. Virginia" vote makes an equally poor showing I wtien compared with states of about the j Hanie h., Minnesota and Iowa. The fig- W wl" be found Interesting as show- j suit "Appeal to Reason. " "The Menace," etc. The Call." j ' 1 am aware that In the socialist na- tlonal convention In Chicago declared the , , paity "Is not concerned with matters of religion," but the declaration was carried by a majority of only one. and after a ' debate which tends strongly to show that 1 the declaration do?a not represent the t''u sentiment of those who prevailed, taken from the official record: , "The fact, ' said Mr. HMIqult of thr . Chicago Dally Socialist, "that Comrade Ivwln haa " come to the position I of Mil agnostic and that 'J9 per cent of us i have lander! In the same spot, does not make socialism asnOHtlc." Perhaps not, but It comes dangerously j near It. ! f do not say that a man cannot be a I socialist without accepting those and like principles, but 1 do nay that It is most mi- I fortunate for the men who desire to pre serve In all Its vigor their religious belief and remain a socialist, that a great pan of the literature and a large number o' the leaders of socialism are saturated j with tho poison of Iriellglon. Whcie j there Is so much pollution there must oe ' many deaths. , Second It Is impracticable. The ultl- j mate object of aoclallsm. according to its , Indianapolis platform. Is the co-operative i commonwealth. This means that land, 1 factoiles, railroads, bakeries; In a word ' everything capable of producing wealth, Is to become the property of the state that every man who owns property cap able of producing wealth shall surrender It to the state on the promise that he will be taken car of by the state. "Tha day will ntver come, In my Judgment, when men will do that. Ti I it.. But assume for the moment that It has oome. and that the co-operative common wealth is under way, will It not nood men to direct it, lawa to govern it, Courts to Interpret the laws, and executives to enforce them, and will there not be tho aanie Incompetency, Injustice and graft, the same ambitions, as now? Yes, un less men bfcome angels at the same time they become socialists. Thlrd-lt is unpatriotic, because It teaches that our present Instltutlone-our oourts, our tegUIatura, our oxeoutivrr. aie unjust and unworthy of support and ! should be overturned and socialism sub- 1 stltuted. This tends to destroy respeut j fpr law, produces uniest and leads to ; publlo dlsordtr. 1 Fourth It Is unfair to the laboring men generally. In that it holds out to them hopes impossible of realisation, while It takes their attention and their energies away from meafis and measures which if pursued by them under our present system Intelligently and vigor ously would brine about the correction of numerous evils, if they find the constitu tion, national or state. In their way. as no doubt they would, chance it. The task would be far easier than establish ing socialism. Whatever there is of good in the socialist program, and there Is considerable, wn be taken care of under the existing system, free from the con taminations with which socialism sur rounds it. The laboring man has much cause for complaint; he Is the victim of many injustices. ro man sympathises more than 1 with any wise and well directed effort for his relltr, but I oppose socialism because It has nothing In it I that will lighten the burden of those who are 'leavlly laden, because It Is a false prophet and tends chiefly to evil. C. J. SMYTH STATE PRESS ON POLITICS. Kearney Hub: John O. Telsr of loma ha. orlrlnal Rull Vnm.r In K,hr.,v. 'asks the colonel to get back Into the republican ranks. Nearly all of the herd I want to get back. I Tork Times: "Brother Charley ' Is ambitious It seems to sit In the cabinet of tho new president. It would be handy to hav him near to tell what William J. wants done. Central City Nonpareil: A headline in The Bee asks. "What Will Woodrow Wilson do With Mr. Bryan?" That que, tlon is not half so pertinent as this on: What Witt Mr. w. J. Bryan Do With Mr. Wilson? Hastings Tribune: Now that John O. Telser, th originator of the bull moose movement In Nebraska, haa advised Colonel Roosevtlt to get back Into the republican party It Is high time that the hatchet be hurled. Albion News: Nebraska haa doubled the pay of our members of the legislature, We shall expect the efficiency of the service tendered to Increase in the same proportion. Tn dollars pr day should Insure the conscientious and undivided ef forts of our legislators during the time the legislature Is tn stsslon. Falls City Journal: Falls City Is now on the map, Many office seeker ire i consulting 1 1 mo tables and counting cit . railroad fare to get a chance at Go- ' urnor-elett Morehead. He doea not ay- i pear to be as Interested In their H'i ;as they would like him to be A one- tenn governor can do about as he please 'and take a much tim aa he wishes In J dealing out the official pie, Tes.. '" JOLLY JABS. Urubblns You're losing your hnlr I mighty fast, old man. What Ik the cau.o . of It too much tonsorlal friction? riounder No matrimonial! Judge. "w,ft...there ever 811 Informer In your ( family?" n. .hi. ill-.0" mean b' "uc" R "lue'tion a" .lh"!'..? r.7 .... . ... ... .. ........ 1 i noucru inai your oao is inciiiicu to 1m a snueaJer "-HfllHmnn Atnerlenti. "Dad, there's a strange man at the front door who says lie must see you." 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