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I THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914. 6 I ' ' "' ' ' ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATEK, EDITOR. Tho Deo Publishing Company, Proprietor. PES BPILDINO,,FAnNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. 35nttrcd at Omaha postofflce as second-class matter. TERMS OF 8UnSCnUTION. By carrier By mail per month. per year. lially and Sunday , ...ISc ...J8.W Bully without Sunday....' o 4.00 RvenlnR and Sunday. ...40c 6.M Evening without 8unday 2So 4.00 Sunday Bee only 20c 2.00 Send notice of chAnge of address or complaint! of Irregularity In delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department REMITTANCE. Itemlt by draft, express or postal order. Only two cent stamps received In payment of small ac count Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha Tho Bee nullding. South Omaha 2318 N atreet. Council Blufr- North Main street. Mncoln-M Llttlo Hulldlnr. Chicago 901 Hearst Building. New York Boom 1105. 288 Fifth avenue, fit. I.ouls-603 New Bank of Commerre. Washington Fourteenth St., N. W. COnrtESPONDENCB. Address communications relating to news and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SUNK CIRCUIiATION. 52,662 State or Nebraska, County of Douglas, as. Dwgiit 'Williams; circulation manager of The Bee Publishing comnnny, being duly sworn, says that tha average dally ctreulatl6n for the month of June, 1911, wan M.CCi DWJOIIT -WIM-IAMP, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Tth day of July. 19H. BOBfcnT IIUNTEB, Notary rubllc. Subscribers leaving tlio city temporarily should bavo TUo Ilco mailed to them. Ad dress will lio changed ns oftei ns requested.' No telling what tho X Y Z of tho ADC me diation may be.- Two wcokt moro of vocation will make tho kids hate school exactly two weeks less. It is almost worth an "extra" in Washington nowadays when' a roportcr Is able to count a iiuprtim In tho sonate, PorhapB when tho cold weather sots in the parks will bo opened to public meetings and tho schools closed, lo them. The stiffs aro throwing papor wads at tho king and quoon, but tho youngsters' dla that to tho teachers many years ago. Senator J. Ham Lewis raado tho long speech at tho Tammany Fourth of July celebration. Sure, if ho mado any speech at nil'. With Dr, Jordan, tho advance agent of tho world pcaco movement, at- tho head of tho Na tional Educational association, nil should be scrono and qulot. Talking about "hand-picked" delegates, wnat would you call that bunch commissioned to represent Douglas county. In tho bull moose state convention? Tho federal gQvornmont.'a exports .estimate Nebraska Wheat' crop for this season at' 70, 000,000 plus, that plus sign being the naturai Nebraska trademark, Curtailing tho school year two weeks should help the school revenues catch up with' tho def icit, provided always that tho school expenses arc curtailed pro rata. Two Omaha men are elected to national presidencies of their respective associations In one day. You Just cannot keop a good man from a good city down. Wonder what tho good mothers and grand mpthers of other days who objoctod to tho tame, old-fashioned dancos would say of tho modorn terpslchorcan gyrations. Henry Ford could, if ho would, no doubt, give tho president' some very Interesting psychological facto about the amazing develop ment of tho auto industry, Another solid south stato, Georgia, through its legislature has turnod Its back on Votes fqr women, which holps to explain the attitude of President Wilson, who,' by the way, once prac tlcod law In Oeorgla. "De'tore i resign half the "people of Mexico will dlo with mp, Hueru is said to have said. Which may be written down alongside of Villa's declaration about eating his Christmas dinner last yeur at tho capital. Speaking of tho seven direct legislation measures to be voted on In Nebraska this year, our amiable democratic contemporary says they are "enpugh, heaven knows." But why? Don't we all want tho peoplo to rule? if the Initial live and referendum Is a good thing, how can we have too much of it? Robert U. Inseill held forth at Boyd's with hit lecture ntltle4 "Orthodoxy" He was' rcTteJ Ty prolonged and continued applause, which was fre quently repeated through the lecture. The city council refused to accept the resignation The final same, of the aeries between the Unron Pacific, and the Chicago Resents was Won by the was Salisbury and Dugan. 7 A Citizens' 'league was organised at the Young Men. Christian association rooms with these oftu tr: President. Dr. P. a LeUenrlng; Dr. P. L. rine tnd John V. Oalln. vice, pre.ldente; Dr. F. Wilson! ireretary. and William Fleming, treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Christiansen entertained their ..uu vn ocvciueenm street. It required five whole register to record tha name of arrivals. Among ;I . "'"oea lony members of . Kayraond & whittomb excursion. The sound of the fire bell at 7 In tha morning, at noott atl1 7 lo.tha evetilnr Is no lonaer hrd Tha Anolent Order of Hibernian band serenaded ueorsc ana ftve Dodson, who have btn away on visit, at weir father residence on North Twentj UUrd street Scope of the Party Platform. The efforts of the Lincoln property owners' and boardlnghouse keepers' committee to Inject their project for buying moro land around the downtown university campus into party politics raises the question to what extent tho Issues In volved In the several Initiative and referendum measures now before the voters are to bo taken up by the coming platform conventions of the different parties. While these direct legisla tion measures aro not all of tho same Interest and Importance, they occupy the samo position in this respect, that it tho platform-makers are to expross themselves on ono, they aro under equal obligation to advise the voters on all. In his Columbus Telegram, Edgar Howard undertakes to assert in answer to a request to use his influence for a vote-for-women plank In tho democratic state platform that "the law forbids a convention taking any action for or against any candldato for office or for or against any proposed initiative legislation." In this Judgo Howard is mistaken, unless we read Into tho letter of the law what we take to bo the spirit of It. The language df the statute is: No action shall bo taken by aald state conven tions either for or against any person who Is, or may be, a candidate for any office that is to be voted on at the next general election. Nothing whatevor is said about direct legis lation measures, and the history of this part of tho primary law must be recalled for light on the subject. At one time the convention was specifically empowered to approve, or disap prove, pending constitutional amendments, such action being effective to put tho party label, "republican" or "democrat," upon the proposi tion, so that all straight party ballots be counted "Yes" or "No," as the case might be. When theso amendments 'were later added to tho primary ballot the approval or disapproval of the party was to be stamped upon them by direct voto at the primary, and when the con vention was moved up in point of time ahead of tho nominations It was llkowiso prohibited from taking action favoring any candidate, or set, of candidates, which would bo tantamount to forestalling selection In the primary. It 1h only by analogy that the platform con ventions would be barred from attempting to commit the respcctlvo parties for or against any measure upon which tho voters as a whole are called to express themselves. Rut In view of tho sharp division within the parties .upon all of these questions, it may well bo argued that tho part of wisdom, whothpr the law forbids or permits, Is to keep these subjects out of the platform rather than to make party lines about them. A Problem in Economic. As indicating the desperato conditions in coal mining regions of Illinois, it is reported that of the 90,000 miners 40,000 aro idle for tho reason thnt "too many mines aro being oponod." Tho Bupply is overrunning tho de mand and tho market glutted. Miners advocate governmental restriction of tho number of mlnos thnt may bo dperated In a district, such as obtains in Germany. Thin Is Indeed a doplorablo situation, but It presonts an amazing problem In economics. Ac cepting ns correct tho facts as reported, what prevents such a condition from lowering tho price of coal to, tho consumer? Or, to put It another way, what mystical power is able to thwart tho law of supply and demand and main tain the prlco of coal with nearly half the miners of a state out of employment? Perhaps tho question can bo answered by some of those expert economists In our Depart ment of Justice at Washington. Wo aro ap proaching tho season when it is customary to announce tho usual Increase In the price of coal, owing to "a shortage in the mine output." Be foro thU conventional announcement ia made, lot us have a fow tries at this oconomic paradox. " The Pork Barrel. Public sentiment will sooner or later close In on so-called pork barrel legislation, tho grab- bag method by which members of congross se cure appropriations for rivers, harbors and pub lic buildings In their district. This system Congressman Frear of Wisconsin has euphoni ously described as "golden gaga distributed through the' land." And when public senti ment does close In on It, It will go. In the meantime, let public sentiment, which Is an other name for "tho people" jn politics, realUe that but (or public Indifference this pernicious system would .never have boon possible, It may answer tho purpose of personal oppo sition or honest antagonism to the pork barrel to charge it all up to representatives and sen ators anxious to ' maintain their seats in con gross, but a broader view is necessary to compre hend the real situation. It puts a very plausible face on the fight a certain national weekly Is making on a certain western senator to point out how this senator has obtained money for 175,000 buildings In hamlets of 381 popula tion, but to rest there neither wins the case nor convicts the accused on the evidence. This sen ator Is typical of others In both houses of con gress, who feel the pressuro from the people at home for an appropriation. What If he opposed It or refused to promote It? Undoubtedly he would make way for another senator or repre sentative, ' Taking the case ag It Is, regarding both the congressman and his constituents as fallible hu man beings, who is chiefly at fault after all for this pork barrel system, which, as Collier's perhaps rightly says, "Is to blame for most of the evils in connection with government pro jects?" The. system is deep-laid, of long stand ing and will require a mighty effort to over come it. For one thing, it will require un selfishness and forbearance .on the part of the people as well as their representatives In con gress. , Brief ooatiisntlODS on timely tepioe LnTltd. The Bm as ram m oe rcsponsfbUlty for opinions of correspond ants. AU letters rab- i Jset ta coadsnsatloa fcy alto.' Meaning nf Present Dny Populism. LINCOLN, Neb., July 8. To the Edi tor pf Tho Bee! With some degree of philosophic surprise I read the report from jour filncoln correspondent that I was registered as a republican elector In precinct C of the Sixth ward, this city, where I reside. The surprise was. occa sioned by the fact, well known to myself and a few zithers, that for the last six teen years I have uniformly registered as a "people's Independent" ejector In Lin coln and have voted only at the primary election In the people's Independent pri mary during that time. An examination of the original registration books In my home precinct made this day discloses that on the last registration day, April 1, 1912, one of the registration clerks en tered my party affiliation as "peopls'a Independent," the other one (through error) as "republican," and the Index made from thes two contradictory docu ments classified me as "republican." No blame therefore attaches to your correspondent for his statement and the matter Is perhaps of no great Importance to anyone except myself. I may be per mitted, however, to give a few reasons why some of us who took: port In the formation of the populist party in this state and In those wonderful campaigns which J denominate "The social and po litical revolution In Nebraska," covering the period of 1830 to 1S?7, still-refuse to be classified In either the republican or democratic category and are still In heart populists. The last actual test of the populist voters In this state was at the general election November S, 1910, when Menzo W. Terry of Beatrice received 9.CC.7 .votes for attorney general against 101,973 for C. H. Whitney, democrat, and 112,618 for Grant G. Martin, republican. At tho pri maries on August 16, 1510, A. C. Bhallen berger received S,HS votes In the people's Independent primary for governor. At the primary on April 19, 191?, R. L. Met calfe received COG votes and J. H. Hot head 892 votes. In the people's Independ ent primary. About one-third of the democratic vote at the general election was cast In the primary nnd upon this ratio there were 3,000 to 4,000 people's In dependent voters at least In Nebraska In April, 131?. Nothing more Illustrates tho vitality of plrt of the populist party than that, after all theso years of effort to trade And swap the people's Independent vote, disrupt Ha organization And turn It over to democratic or republican machines, there Is this showing of votes whenever opportunity has been gWen. So much for the figures. There are In Nebraska nt the present time betweeh 10,000 and 23,000 voters, perhaps more, for merly affiliated with the populist patty who,' like myself, have no permanent at tachment for either the democratic or republican organization. These voters constitute the core of the' great body of independent voters In this ttate, voting rnlxcd 'tickets, both state and local, with the serene enjoyment of men trying to do a good Job for their country. The xlst enco of these men in Nebraska politics la today the best guarantee of good govern menHn this stale. The election returns for the last ten years demonstrate the existence of these thousands of voters who split their ticket ss coolly as they split a watermelon. An old friend of mine, familiar with the conditions tn Custer county, told me a short time ago there were over 1,000 voters In that county who "voted as they d pleased," ex plaining thereby Jn frontier phrase tho high degree of political Independence en Joyed by them. At present, party lines are nearly rubbed out. Most of tho political War fare these days Is InsMe the demooratlo and republican organizations. Every student of social and political changes knows that reorganization and realign ment of party lines Is one of the sure events of the future. 'These are some of thj reasons why many thousands of pop ulists in Nebraska have chosen the role of Independent voters nnd would Just ns soon be called by tho old populist name while the readjustment Is going on. A. E. SHELDON. An exchange soliloquizes with more or less speculation on the "Decline of the prize ring," from the days of the invlnclblo John L. Sullivan to. the present. But returning for the moment to (he notorious Fourth of July event at Reno and coming down to that affair In Paris the other day ought to settle all doubts as to one good reason for the lagging popular Interest in the once so-called "manly sport." Forty yeare ago, July , the great Eads bridge at St. Louts Was opened and dedicated, and It now seoms possible that within forty years more the free bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis will be completed and ready for traffic Editorial Snapshots Washington Herald: And now a corre spondent complains that women have gon to wearing men's socks. Well, that Is all right, as far as we can see. Chicago News. That old saying about going farther and faring worse deters nobody from seeking a vacation In a dis tant place. Washington Star: Enthualaatlo com ments by English editorialists on the re peal of tolls exemption are unquestion ably sincere, but they are not precisely tactful. Boston Transcript: Those smart politi cal economists at Washington didn't suppose, did they, that Uncle Sam could dance a foreign tariff tune without pay ing the fiddler? Washington Star: No matter what party is In power. Uncle Joe Cannon Is found enjoying himself and philosophi cally allowing the will of the majority lo taXe Us course. Pittsburgh Press: The hvaterlcal -r. forts of the "Washington administration to get more revenue can bo easily ex plained. It U spending moro money than any other adimntstratlon In tha history of the country, and ought to bo getting anxious about It . . Chasing Demon Rum Baltimore American: John Barleycorn cannot even enjoy the common comfort of telling his troubles to the marines. New York World: An advertising sign 315 feet long anil thirty feet high across the Ohio river from "dry" Wheeling, W. Va., tells where the thirsty may get mall order relief. It la thus that prohibition prohibits. New York Bunt Nobody will thtnk that the New Jersey taw which compels courts to send drunken operators of automobiles to jail Is unfair .or excessive. A drunken automoblllst has about as many rights as a mad dog. Minneapolis Journal. The Mississippi supreme court has decided that one gallon at a time Is the' limit or Interstate ship ments, but even one gallon Is quite a load for anybody but a railroad or a express company. The Associated Press General Manager Melville E. Stone Explains in His Letter to Collier's. Hist of the Criticisms. "I have read with Intereat the editorial upon the Associated Press which appeared in .-our Issue of June 6. While I recognise an evident purpose to be Just, It seems clear to me that your suggestion that 'the Information sent over the Associated Press wlrej Is likely to have a slight official bias.' lacks force. The dispatches of the association are very widely pub lished. If there Is the sort of bias you Intimate, t should be easy to furnish some Illustration. Sucn evidence would certainly be convincing. In truth there Is no bias for the idea, as can be demonstrated, 1 mi confident, in any specific case that may be pre sented. "Jn respect of your other contention, 'that the Aa soclated Press ought to be required to give Its aervlce, under proper restrictions and conditions, to any news paper which asks for It,' there Are several things to say. First, your attempt to find analogy between this business and that of a railroad must tall utterly. The railroad Is, In the very nature of the case, a common carrier. Not only does It fall under the proper legal rule which applied to the coach, the cab and the ferry, long before the railroad existed, .but it enjoys certain peculiar privileges, such aa th6 right of emi nent domain, etc., which gives the public a distinct claim upon It. On the other hand, the 'Associated Press enjoys no exceptional right of any sort. It Is simply a voluntary union of a number of gentlemen tor the employment of a certain staff of news report era to serve them Jointly. For Jta work It derives no advantage from the government, from any state or municipality, from any corporation, or from Any person.- Its service Is a purely personal one, and never, except under the long since Abolished slave laws, has Any government sought to compel personal service, save' In cases of voluntarily assumed contracts, or ol adjudgments for crime. The output of the Associated Press Is not the news; It Is Its own story of the news. There can bo no monopoly In news. At the point of origin, Havana, the destruction of the Maine was known by every man, woman And child. Any one could have written a story of It. The Associated Press men did' It was their own story. Who will say that they, or those who employed them, were not entitled to Its exclusive use? And is this not equally true, whether the employer be one man; or ten men, or nine hundred men acting in co-operation? Orticln and Growth of tbe Association. "The existing Associated Press began business on September 9, 1900, with 612 members publishing dally newspapers In 295 cities and towns. In the thirteen years and nine months which have elapsed stneo that date, 627 new members, publishing dally newspaper In 434 cities and towns, have been admitted. As you will observe, this means an average of about one new member elected each week. Meanwhile members have resigned, newspapers have failed on ceased publica tion, so that the 627 elected do not represent an. in crease of that number on tho membership roll. TThe present membership Is S01. No Such Thing: am Exclnslrc Itlfebts. "As to the exclusive right, my answer Is that there Is no exclusive right. There Is what is called a 'right of protest,' which la simply the right of a member to say thAt the board of directors cannot elect a new member In his field, but must leavA the question ot election to the membership at large. And even this 'right of protest' is held by less than one-fourth ot the members. No such right, has been granted to any member In over thirteen years, and since it requires a vote of seven-eighths 'of- the total membership ot the association to grant It, none la likely to be granted withtri your lifetime or mine, to say the ioast. "Anyone may withdraw from the AssoclAted Press. WhAt holds It together? Tho confidence of the mem bers and of the public In Its Integrity. The .only property It has Is Its good will. Is tnts a thing In which an applicant may claim a legal right to ehoreT "In the case of tbe New York Bun, it should be J said that tho proprietors" of that paper have never sought admission to membership in the association. On February 19, 1S9T, when the paper was under the control of Charles A. Dana. and William M. Laffan, there appeared lri Italics at the top ot ts editorial columns an announ6ement thAt the paper would not Join the AssoclAted Press, but would collect the pews', for Itself. This policy was pursued until the death ot both ot the, men named. And thereafter the present manager declined to make application for member ship, but Instead presented a petition to the attorney general of the United States aaklng that he Institute proceedings against the Associated Press as an un lawful organization. This was pot an appeal fqr aid; It was an effort to destroy a competitor. For it must be borne In mind 'that the New Tork Bun has a news collecting and distributing agency of Its own, and has had such an agency for over twenty years. Character of Ntt Transmitted. "Does the Associated Press receive or distribute to Its members all of the news of tho dAyT By no means. Nor is It Intended thAt it shall. There are nowsfields which, however Important, It Is forbidden to enter. These aro the fields which by the proprieties are left for explorAtlon to the enterprise of. the Indi vidual newspapers. What may It do and what may if not dot It may and should report the consequential events fairly, or as pearly as Is possible for human beings to do so. It may not go further. And Herein lies In Urge measure the misunderstanding of he well-intentioned public. "As an Illustration: If a 'pogrom occurs In A Rus sian town, the Associated Press should tell dispassion ately, the story of the event. But It Is not pcTmittea to even say whether the thing Is right or wrong. It President Wilson goes to the capltol and urges a re peal ot the statute exempting American coastwise vessels from the payment of the Panama canal tolls, and If Senator O'Qorman or Republican House Leader Mann, or Democratic House Leader Underwood takes Issue with President Wilson, the Associated Press calmly reports both sides and must give no hint that either side' Is right or wrong. Co-operative ews Gatnerlns Safest. "Let us sea what any other method of dealing wltn the news ot the day must mean. It a news agency Is to present somebody's view of tha right or wrong of the world's happenings, whose view Is it to toe? And what assurance aro we to 1av that thia some body's view s the right view? And If it Is the wrong view, what "lhf? "It was out ot all this that there grew a co operative Associated Press, The business of ne gathering In a dominant way was in the hands ot three men. They were responsible to no one. Thy could send out to the newspapers anything they chose and no one could call them to account. A larga number of newspaper proprietors revolted. They flt that, far beyond their own Interests, there was a great public question Involved. They set about ths development of a plan which should insure an honest, truthful and impartial reporting of events. After de. liberation, they concluded that the safest way was to organize a co-operative Association of newspaper proprietors, representing diverse Interests and thus put the Institution under pledge to report tha truth, And, to guarantee impartiality, tha news servico was to be subjected to tho scrutiny And tho censorship of the varied views of its membership," , WITH THE WITS. The Mluer's Bath. Mrs. Pose Pastor Phelps Stokeo said at a recent sociological convention in New York: "The economies that soma of 'the rich would f orco upon the poor! Why, they'd .have tho poor as Im possibly economical as tho miner's, wife in Trinidad. "This woman said to a missionary: " Talk about economy! Well, sir, every night when my Bill comes home I shove him In tha bath tub, clothes, and alt, and after he gets out I sieve tha water and make briquets ot It forTb fire. " He Is your uncle good at golf? She Mercy, no! lie's very profane. Boston Olobc "Don't It aggravate you that I ask you for twenty-tlve, Louis?" . "No, that does not aggravate me: It Is the giving ot It to you." Paris Pages Fallen. Hubsand Come along! Keeping me standing here like a fooll Wife Do be reasonable, dear. Can I really help the way you stand? London Mall. He lien, as a class, deserve better wives than J.hey get. SJie They would have them. too. If their wives only haU better husbands. Judge. Pat I think most people have dual personalities Mike I did oncel But some thofe stholo wan pair from th' clothes .llnei-Chtcago News. Imp Where will your majesty summer? Satun t think I'll stay In town; I no tice a lot of people are coming from the country. New York Sun. "Wneredo you get the green wigs which recently became In fashion?" "Oh, madam, they came from the Cafe New York, where the young poets have their hair cut." Budapest Borsszem Janko. "I thlnki WIlliamTT'll ask those new people next door to take dinner with us tonight." "What for?" "Well, the butcher, by mistake, left their meat order here, and it seems only falr."-LIfe. JIIss Bute Jack Tlmmld haw asked me It ho ' might call tonight I think he wants to tell me he loves me. Her Friend Oh, that goes without saying. Miss Bute Yes, and I'm afraid he will, too. Boston Transcript. "What do you thin of this Idea of taxing Jewelry?" "It may do some good. I knowia man who wears a wrist wstch. I hope; the government will walk tight up and taka It away from him." Washington Star. THE ROAD OF LIFE. There are beautiful things on the road of life. Awaiting otlr seeing eyes. The tiniest plant that nature bestows, The fleeciest cloud on the skies; . An Innocent child and a gray old age And the long glad days between. But when the end, of the road Is reached, Can we ay that we have seen? There are wonderful- paths on the road of Ufct. , Awaiting our restless feet. They lead o'er mountain and valley And plain: They lead through the busy street. And all of them hold such marvelous things: A path for us each alone. I And when the end of the road is reached, Can we say we have found our own? There are beautiful sounds by the road of life. Awaiting our listening ear. , , The ripple of brook and the ocean s roar; A laugh and a word of cheer: " A whisper of love, a message of hope. Or a simple song of a bird. But when the end of the road Is reached, CAn we say that we have heard? There are noble deeds on the road of life. Awaiting our helpful hand. . ,A hopeless brother, a WAyward son! A sister too weak to stand! A discouraged man or a weeping child Are near as. our course we run. Andwhen the end of the road is reached, Can we say the deeds are done? r There are sorrows and tears on the road of life', ' Awaiting the Voice of love. The moan of the sick; the cry ot tho lone Aro with us wherever wo rove. And should some sorrow remain un" soothed, And .some tears be undrled; All will be well when the end. Is reached, If we can say. 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