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    THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1916.
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. AUGUST CIRCULATION
55,755 Drily Sunday 51,048
DwJirM Wtlllaraa. eirralatlow manatar of The Bee
Puellhln eomp-.ny, being duly aworn. aaya that the
arerate elreula'ion for the month of Awuat. lilt. aa
it.Ut daily, 'nd M.4 Sunday. ,
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Bnbaenfced in my preeenee and aworn to before m
tble ad day of September, ml.
ROBERT HUNTER, Notary PnblU.
Subecrlbwrt fcaviaa tk city taaporarily
thouM hay Tk. Bm nulled to tUm. Ai
dreae will b (haBfed u sftM at required.
The muiic of the coll chute mocki the chilli
of 1 frosty morning.
Organization and enthusiasm are increasing
signpoiti on the route to republican victory.
Omaha's daily bank clearingi are crawling up
close to the $5,000,000 mark. Doing tolerably
well! '
All right, Mr. Weather Man, experiment now
ai much at you like to make lure we have the
right brand for Ak-Sar-Ben week.
The porch campaign planned by Preiident
Wilson it definitely fixed a ground floor af
fair. Porch-climbing will -not be tolerated.
Our returned democratic congrenman from
thii diitrict it alio finding the roadi "rather ilip
pery," though he itill hopei to "ilip along."
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The closer the affair it viewed at a tafe dis
tance the clearer il the impreuion that the pres
ent speculative' frenzy of Wall itreet il mainly a
shell game.
The eoroner'a office il hard to kill off only
because It hat come to be a receptacle for tuch
fat pickingi. That's the way the fee businen in
public office alwayi works. ) t
Reckless driving of motor vehicle! works Iti
own punithment. Still it is regrettable that in
sane asylumi fail to get their proper lhare of the
husineu headed for the hospitals.
Stilt, It, il past underitanding how the presi
dent can plan hit perional part of the campaign
without the aid or advice of Art Mullen, Nc
braska'i new "democratic boss."
: If Henry Ford it to back up hit promised vote
for Wilson with hit financial support, that appeal
for contribution! from the "plain people," in
cluding democratic "pie-biters," is entirely un
necessaryahd superfluous.
While the iceman shrinks into the haze of au
tumn, Old King Coats fills the foreground with
becoming majeity and hot stuff. That both can
not work the route at the same time il tome com
pensation for the vagaries of the seasons.
Give Postmaster Fanning credit for one thing
' anyway: In "chipping in" a $300 ante, ai 5 per
cent of hil first year's salary which he it yet to
draw, he is letting an example of appret'rve
liberality which no republican incumbent ever
displayed. ,
"Ajain I lay I was not opposing the presi
dent's bill." Senator Hitchcock. .
Oh,' not He wat juit fighting it in order to
help it pant Preiident Wilion was certainly
obtuse and ungrateful la not publicly thanking
bim for hil great assistance.
Viewed at the right angle the triumphs of
Explorer Shacketton outclass the achievement! of
forme pole chasers. Shackelton not only led his
men to the polar wilds, took an enforced vacation
and then returned and rescued them. The rarity
of the dual task doubly wreathes the story of
polar research.
Favoring winds, a calm sea and nearness to
the coait wrested a human tragedy from the Pa
cific and laved the lives of passengers and crew
of the steamer Congress. Thanksgiving and grat
itude are first in order. After that should come
an inquiry to fix responsibility for converting a
passenger-carrying Heartier into a tinderbox.
Promise and Performance
1 MlaaaasoHa Journal
We denounce the profligate waite of the
' monev wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation through the lavish appropriation of
recent republican congresses, which have kept
taxes high and reduced the purchasing power
of the people's toil. We demand a return to
thit simplicity and economy which befits a
democratic' government, and a reduction in the
number of useless offices, the salaries of which
drain the substance of the people. Democratic
National Platform, 1912.
' Here we have the promise. What has been
the performance?
The Sixty-fourth congress has already spent
or pledged the spending of $2,000,0O0,U00.
It has voted away the people's money at the
rate of $8,000,000 a day for each of the 245 days
of ita recent session, Sunday and holidays included.
It hai created 30,000 new offices, many of
them useless, and most of them trankly spoilt,
placed outside of the merit system.
It hat distributed ''pork" with an unstinting
' hand public building!, river and harbor improve
ment! and the like.
It hai ordered a nitrate plant and an armor
plant, and the purchase of merchant ships to
compete with private ownership.
What .the deficit produced by such reckless
spending il to be it a administration secret,
closely guarded till after election. We shall then
be informed of how many bonds must be sold by
' the treasury t balanoe its arroimM - - -
Questionable International Police Proposal
The proposal that an international police force
be used to make safe the Mexican border has en
countered such opposition as may result in the
abandoning of the proposal. General Tasker H.
Bliss advistd the American commissioners of the
objections held by army officers familiar with the
situation, and is reported to have convinced Mr.
Lane and his associates of the futility of the plan.
Itt success depends primarily on the establish
ment and maintenance of responsible government
in Mexico. This is still far from accomplished,
despite the assertions of the Carranzistas. Even
with all armed resistance put down, Car ran ?a has
a man's sized job on hand. Six years of anarchy
has established conditions not to be remedied,
even by the acts of a dictator, without careful and
continued application of remedial regulation.
Civil government has been totally destroyed in
Mexico, the fundamental law of the land has been
obliterated, and whatever semblance of govern
ment exists ii under domination of a self-constituted
junta of irresponsible leaders, whose sole
claim to authority rests on armed strength, the
prettige of which at this moment it enhanced by
the fact that the democratic preiident of t.he
United State! while pretending to be impartial,
hai given hit favor to one tide ai against the
other. Negotiation with theie men can have no
permanent effect, until they are permanently ei
tablished or unless the United States goea fur
ther, and assumes responsibility for them.
The "Gang at the Den."
The closing of the Ak-Sar-Ben initiatory
period justifies The Bee in calling attention to a
body of faithful workers who do not always get
full credit for what they do. It is the "working
crew," so called because of its activitiei during
the season. These men spend many nights each
year, preparing and executing the Ituntt and ex
ercises provided for the amusement and enter
tainment of the great crowds who vitit the Den,
and to give life and map to the coronation ball.
They not only work wthout pay, but each pays
over hit $10 initiation fee the same as all others.
No monarch ever had a more faithful bodyguard
than Ak-Sar-Ben, whose retainers toil without
tint to achieve hit glory, and get their only re
ward in having the "show" pronounced a success.
This il the spirit that has made Ak-Sar-Ben great,
that haa given Omaha iti growth and proiperity
and that will preserve the future of the city. The
"gang at the Den" is not the least among the
many valuable aneti of the community.
Continuanci of the War.
, Regardless of the "whyi" and "wherefores" it
il worth noting that the current diicutsions of
the war almost invariably proceed upon the as
sumption that cessation of hostilities it not to be
looked for toon. '
One turvey of general business conditions by
a usually reliable authority declares that the hesi
tating spirit which wai noticeable a few months
ago hai been changed by the vigoroui renewal
of war order! and other evidence that foreign
demand upon our induitriei is not likely to stop
at an early date. Competent judges are quoted
ai being of the opinion at the beginning of Au
gust that the prospect looked more like two
yean of war than it did a year before or at the
beginning of the outbreak. The participation of
additional countries Roumania and possibly
Greese il taken' to mean that a further Indefi
nite trial of strength and endurance ii practically
certain, although tomething entirely unexpected
may happen at any moment to precipitate a real
peace movement.
The whole situation Ii one of such unstable
balance as to mark present business conditions at
particularly exceptional and temporary.
. Champ Clark'i Confession.
The speaker of the house, unpractlced in du
plicity and with: no capacity for dissembling, is
naturally more frank than his coadjutora and ai
lociatet in the management of the democratic
party. While Chairman Vance McCormick, Sen
ator Walsh, Tom Marshall and the others, are
busy inventing excuses and constructing alibis
for Maine, Speaker Clark il profanely explicit;
"They licked hell out of us," ia Mr. Clark's
characteristic comment on the jolt hit party suf
fered, made at Joplin, where the teeming violence
of hil language becomes merely a Missouri idiom.
Iti terse truth, however, it being borne in on the
heavyweighti of the party, who can not conceal
from themselves the fact, try ai they will to de
ceive themselves and their followers, that Clark
will have an opportunity to repeat hit remark in
November. - 1 ' '
Georgia'a Sham and tht Democratic Party.
NorWlly the courae puriued by the democrats
of Georgia has but little general interest and stilt
less effect on the policy of the nation. A situation
hai arisen, though, that gives to Georgia's action
something of national significance at affecting
the democratic party. Hugh' M. Dorsey, who
prosecuted Leo Frank, has just been nominated
by the democrats for governor of the ttate. In
hit primary campaign Mr, Dorsey laid great ttresi
upon the fact that he prosecuted Frank, and that
despite the showing of mob intimidation he re
futed at all 'times to give his consent to a new
trial or to any mitigation of sentence. More than
this, during the closing dayi of hil canvass, Dor
ley bitterly assailed former Governor Slayton be
cause he commuted the sentence of Frank, after
he had been convinced that the trial was not fair
and the conviction coerced, and the Jews because
they had resented the biased acta of the prose
cuting attorney, and became indignant when a
mob was allowed without hindrance to enter the
state prison, take their victim from under the
guards' very eyet, transport him half way across
the ttate and cruelly hang him. -
Dorsey defendi hit own part in thit case and
inferentially the part of the mob. He also de
fends President Wilson, who had declined to in
tervene when asked to request clemency on be
half of Frank. Democrats will have a chance, na
tionally at least, to rebuke thit effort to secure
democratic endorsement for one of the foulest
blots on American civilization. ,
The coronorship issue goes up to the supreme
court for the latt word on the right of the legis
lature to abolish the office. Jobs may be created
by legislative fiat without lerioul quettion, but
the abolition of a job hoary with age and accel
erated ttipend instantly challenge! the regularity
of the legislative act .
If the democratic weather dopesteri are at far
off in their other forecast! as they were in their
prediction! and claims about Maine, it's all over
for Hughei and Fairbanks but . the shouting.
Still, it will not do for republicani to let them
iclvca be lulled to sleep by overconfidence.
Automobiles on Railways
-i-iter ry Dlfeet.-
One may see thousands of motor-cars daily on
American railways, but they arc inert carried
along tamely in freight cars. Why not fit them
with flanged wheels and let them speed away un
der their own power? It is the opinion of a writer
in Engineering and Contracting that much of our
freight could be handled profitably on small lines
in thit way, and he pointed to the use of Mexican
railway lines by American automobile trucks as
an instance of what can be done. If railway man
agers were alert .enough, he says, to realize that
this new instrument of transportation is adapted
to rails as well as to ordinary roads, we should
not see what he terms a "failure" in the econom
ics of traction.
"Why not automobilize our railways?" he
asks. And he goes on to say:
"Twenty years ago when the trolley car began
to cut into the passenger receipts of railways, the
loss Of business was taken as philosophically as
if it were an act of God.' Had steam railway
managers been quick to leize the new invention
of electric transportation, we should today have
few independent interurban trolley lines and more
economic transportation.
' Now we are witnessing a similar failure on
the part of all railway managers electric as well
as iteam to seize the newest instrument of trans
portation. Motor trucks are already 'stealing
much of the short-haul freight traffic. Why not
automobilize the railways?
"Because Carranza would not permit American
troops to use Mexican railway equipment, some
genius in our army temporarily transformed mo
tor trucks into railway rolling stock by fastening
detachable steel flanges to the motor truck wheels.
Thus the trucks were driven over the railways,
where there were railways available. The change
from a rail vehicle to a dirt road vehicle is quickly
made, and thus the problem of automqbiling one
railway system was speedily effected in part.
"Innumerable rail lines carry only a few trains
daily, and the trainloads are not great at best.
There is every reason to believe that much of the
freight traffic over such lines could be more
cheaply handled by motor' trucks adapted to run
on rails as well as on roads.
"The one great economic principle that Ameri
can railway managers have always treated with
scant consideration is this: Every equation of
unit costs should contain every element in the
total cost, and should be solved for a minimum
unit cost. In transportation the total cost is not
the rail ccst alone, but includes delivery to the
rail terminal at one end and conveyance to the
destination at the other end. as well as the hand
ling and fixed charges at all terminals.
"Railway managers have always had their eyes
centered on what they regarded as being their
part of the transportation cost the rail part.
They have very largely ignored the part of the
total cost that is now much greater in the aggre
gate than the cost of rail haulage. Does not a
broader vision dictate a complete change in rail
way policy? May not the pressing and perplex
ing problems of furnishing adequate terminal fa
cilities in lartre citiet be solved by automobilizing
the terminals?
"Why will it not be economic to tranfer nearly
all freight from cars to motor trucks outside the
limits of large cities, run the trucks into the cities
on rails, remove their temporary wheel flanges,
and thut enable them to run over paved streets
to their destination?
"Railway managers, wake upl Come out of
your narrow path, and beyond its extremities,
into all the highways of transportation. Vie-v
transportation in its entirety as your real field of
action, and you will add more to human wealth
than you have already added which is a vast
deal." ,
The Popular Science Monthly has the follow
ing to say on the same subject: V
"The flainges are made of steel, which is cast
in one piece and machined; after which it ii sawed
apart at the bolt-lugs. The inside is finished to
the same contour as the rubber tire and is made
to fit so tightly that it grips the rubber tire with
great .force.
"A set of the flanges can be put on in fifteen
minutes, two men being employed on each wheel.
The truck is jacked up and the flanges are pound
ed on with a maul. Then the Loltt are pulled up
very tight. Removing the flange requiret no
greater length of time, but in an emergency the
trucks can be driven on the roadi without remov
ing the tteel ringi" '
Hughes Had It to Do
31. Louie Globe-DoaHKrat.
"I say this," said Mr. Hughes, in his address
at Rockland, Me., Saturday, "that if the executive
had stood firmly for the principle of arbitration,
prompt, firm and fair) had stood firmly for in
vestigation before action prompt, thorough and
fair investigation and turned the whole weight
of public opinion in favor of these principles,
there would have been no strike." We believe
this to be true. But the executive would not have
had to turn the weight of public opinion in favor
of theie principles. Public opinion was already
faced in that direction. There has been little or
no criticism of President Wilson for intervening
in this matter. His action wai outside the law,
but the people felt that it was justified by the ex
traordinary circumstances of the situation. It
wai not the intervention that was wrong, but
the utter unfairness of his stand in behalf of one
side of the controversy. He did not attempt to
apply the weight of public opinion in favor of
investigation and arbitration. So far as known
he made no serious effort to wield the full power
of his- own personal influence in that direction.
The strong expressions of public opinion that
came to him from every quarter calling for ar
bitration were ignored. Without any authority
or right to act as judge, without any knowledge
of the merits of the controversy or of the possible
consequences of his decision, he, accepted the
claims of one side and assumed 'the power to
dictate terms to the other. Failing in that he
called upon congress to enforce his terms, and
congress did this thing.
Never in this country haa there been such a
usurpation of authority as this, never before has
a president of the United Statei so perverted jus
tice, never before has an American congress grov
eled in fear of any force. And yet an eminent
apologist says "the president and congress real
ized the grave situation and met the emergency
as brave men." Brave men I Was it courage
when President Wilson set aside every principle
of justice and rendered a decision without a trial
in favor of the side having the largest numbers?
Was it courage when congress broke all the
precedents of more than a century, and rushed
through revolutionary legislation in feverish haste,
without deliberation, without knowledge, not be
cause it was right and just congress did not
know, congress does not yet know, that it is right
or just but because of peril? Admitting the
calamitous possibilities of such a strike as wat
threatened it would have been a small thing, even
at its worst, compared with the peril of a gov
ernment made subject to any force big enough
to shake a fist in its face. But, they repeat and
repeat, there was no alternative. "We had to do
it. There was an alternative a firm, fair, cour
ageous stand for investigation and arbitration.
Such a stand would have been backed to the
limit by the people of the United States, and no
internal power, however great, can battle long
against a government so supported. There would
have been no strike.
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Not in the C.-rds.
Fremont Tribune: Mayor Bryan of Iincoln
has been compelled to send a letter to the World
Herald to inform it that his brother has not said
he would support "the entire democratic ticket"
in Nebraska. Those who heard Mr. Bryan blis
ter Senator Hitchcock in his Fremont tneech be
fore the primaries, will find it difficult to under
stand how he can ever be brought to approve the
course of a man whom he ao utterly condemned.
, oanawai meam J "
Thought Nuirurl for the Day-
Is not old wine wholesomest, old
pippins toothsome!, old wood burns
brightest, old linen wash whitent?
Old aoldiert, sweetheart, are surest,
and old lovers are soundest John
Webster In Westward Ho.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
British submarine E-7 lost in Dar
danelles. Germans attempted to cut off Rus
sian retreat from Vilna.
Petrograd reported further Rus
sian successes in Volhynia and Ga
licla. Intense artillery combats occurred
on every section of the western front.
In Omaha Thirty. Yean Ago.
G. W. Linlnger has added the fa
mous picture, "Heart of the Cordil
leras," to his collection. The picture
was purchased from a gentleman in
Cheyenne.
The stone walk around the Paxton
corner has been completed, much to
the satisfaction of all pedesf ins.
new stone walk is also being placed
in front of C. 8. Goodrich & Co., on
Farnam.
An orchestra has been formed by
the First Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school for accompaniment to the
singing.
An appreciative audience laughed
and howled through three hours of
solid enjoyment of the Two Johns
Comedy company. '
The Arlon club gave a program of
twelve numbers, the committee on
arangementB being Con Wiedman, Ar
thur Smith and Henry U Boese.
The marriage of Allan Koch, of
Tootle, Maul & Co., to Miss Orlanna
A. Wetmore occurred at Elgin, 111.
Mrs. SuBan E., wife of L. M.
Thomas, died at her home on North
Fourteenth street after three months'
Illness with consumption.
The Wabash train brought In a lit
tle 9-year-old girl, but as there was
no one at the depot to meet her,
Depot Policeman Green had her taken
to the rooms of the Women's Aid as
sociation to be cared for until her
friends could be notified of her ar
rival. Today In History.
1816 William C. Macready made
his first appearance In London, acting
at Covent Garden in "The Distressed
Mother."
1838 James J. Hill, whose rail
roads were an Important factor in the
development of the northwest, born
near Guelph, Ont. Died In St. Paul,
May 29, 1916.
1848, France abolished slavery
throughout her possessions.
1858 First overland mail foV Cali
fornia left St. Louis.
1859 David C. Broderlck, United
States senator from California, mor
tally wounded In a duel with Judge
Terry.
1878 Serbian army proclaimed
Prince Milan king of Serbia.
1877 Levi Coffin, noted abolition
ist and one of the organizers of the
"underground railway," died at Avon
dale, O, Born in North Carolina,
October 28, 1798.
1891 The great tunnel under the
St. Clair river between the United
States and Canada was opened. ;
1893 The Cherokee strip was
opened for public settlement.
1901 The body of the late Presi
dent McKInley was removed from
Buffalo to Washington, where It lay
In state on the following day.
1915 Treaty signed between the
United States and Hayti to provide
American supervision of Haytian
finances and constabulary.
The Day We Celebrate.
William H. Lawton, life Insurance
man, Is 87 today. He was born In
New York City and has been in
Omaha since 1861.
Nelson T. Thorson, president of the
Omaha Posten, was born September
16, 1889, at Horby-Skone, Sweden,
coming to this country as a boy.
Michael Lee, chief Inspector of the
metropolitan water district is 67 to
day. He is a native of Ireland and
came to Omaha in the '70s.
Rt Hon. Andrew Bonar Law. sec
retary of the colonies in the British
ministry, born in New Brunswick fifty-eight
years ago today.
Hamlin Garland, noted novelist and
dramatic author, born at West Sa
lem, Wis., fifty-six years ago today.
Perclval Hall, president of Gal
laudet college, born at Georgetown,
D. C., forty-four years ago today.
A. E. Thomas, well known short
story writer and playwright, born at
Chester, Mass., forty-four years ago
today.
Alfred Craven, chief engineer in the
bulicllng of the new dual subway sys
tem in New York, born at Bound
Brook, N. J., seventy years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
On this date in 1873 the last of the
German troops uuitted French terri
tory. Numerous cities of Oklahoma today
will ceiebrate the twenty-third anni
versary of the opening of the Chero
kee strip.
Mexico will keep a national holi
day today In celebration of the 106th
anniversary of the country's Inde
pendence of Spain.
Under the new federal law the open
season for shooting water fowl begins
In many of the states today.
The eleventh biennial convention of
the General Society of the War of
1812 is to meet in Boston today, the
sessions to be held on the historic
old frigate Constitution.
Delegates from varloua parts of the
United States and from other coun
tries are expected to gather in Chi
cago today for the opening of the
International convention of the New
Thought league.
The central board of officers of the
American Intercollegiate foot ball
rules committee is to meet In New
York tonight to make Its official In
terpretation of the rules to govern
the sport during the season about to
begin.
Delegates from all sections of the
country are to assemble In Washing
ton today to attend the national con
ference of Catholic charities, which
It to be formally opened with a re
ception at the Catholic university
Sunday afternoon.
The annual conference of the In
ternational Bible Students' associa
tion Is to open in Milwaukee today
and will continue Its sessions until
September J 6.
Slorjctte of the Day.
He was a rackety young man and
kept very late ruurs. but had new
jiiined the fusiliers and was ordered
to the front, and on bidding farewell
to his beloved he said to her:
"Darling, when 1 am far away wilt
thou gate at yen star every night and
think of me?" - .
"I will, indeed, dearest," she replied.
"If 1 needed anything to rem.nd me
of you I should choose that very star."
"Why?" he .asked. v
' "Because It Is out so late at night
and looks so pale in the morniirg."
London Mall. ' '
Thai Oiu Horse Kuiiway Franchise.
Omaha, Sept. 15. To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: In your Issue of
September 14. with respect to railway
franchises, you quote Mr. Wr. J. Con
nen as saving, in an address before
the Southwest Improvement club:
"In the early days of street rail
way litigation, I represented the old
Cable company, known as the 'two
streaks of rust.' and with John D.
Howe, made a suci'eusful fight against
the present company and Its claim to
the exclusive use of the streets of
Umaha."
if Mr. Connell made this statement
he is In error as to the facts.
The Omaha Horse Railway company
was incorporated by act of the tern
torial legislature by special charter,
in February, 1867, which gave the
company the exclusive right to oper
ate "Horse Railways" within the city
of Omaha and Ave miles adjoining,
for a period of fifty years, there being
no constitutional exclusive inn.b.
tions. The Cable Tramway company was
organized under a state general act
of 1875. I was requested by the or
ganizers for my written opinion as to
their right to build and operate a
cable line, If approved by the people,
as against the contention of the horse
railway for exclusive franchise. I ad
vised they had. In due time there
after construction commenced on
Tenth street.
On August 7, 1886, the Horse Hall
way company filed in the federal court
in Omaha a bill in equity seeking to
restrain the Cable company from
building. Its main contention was
that it had the exclusive right In
Omaha and five miles adjoining, for
the construction and operation of
street railways.
On the issue made, my contention
for the Cable company was that even
If the exclusive feature of the horse
railway was valid, that It was valid
only as to "horse railways." That
the grant being exclusive. Its language
must be strictly construed and that
any other operating power than horse
power was not within the grant, and
further, that It was not Intended by
the grant to foreclose the public in ad
vance from all benefits of inventions
and discoveries In the matter of street
railway travel and give them to this
grantee; that at the time of the grant
a cable power for -street railways was
virtualy unknown and could not then
have been in the minds of the people
in making the grant
The case finaly came to trial on Its
merits, and in an opinion delivered
by Circuit Judge Brewer, March 15,
1887, every contention I made was
sustained In full and decree was ren
dered accordingly, and the cable road
was built
It will thus be seen that the law
was then settled and so remained set
tled, that the only rights acquired by
the Omaha Horse Railway company
by Its special charter was to operate
horse railways, whether exclusive or
not That question was not necessary
to a decision in our case, as we had
no intention of operating Horse rail
ways. The case Is entitled Omaha
Horse Ry. Co. vs. Cable Tramway Co.,
of Omaha, and reported in 80 Fed.
Rep., 324.
The Omaha Horse Railway company
considered the question of great im
portance as is evidenced by the array
of eminent counsel employed: George
Pritchett, J. M. Woolworth, Thurston
A Hall and that greatest of corporation
lawyers, Judge John H. Dillon of New
York. I alone, represented the de
fendant, the Cable company. Neither
Mr. Connell nor Mr. Howe were con
nected with the case in any manner.
Mr. Connell undoubtedly had in
mind a case brought by the Omaha
Horse Railway company against the
Omaha Motor Railway company, in
which he and Mr. Howe represented
the Motor company. This case, how
ever, involved no question of executive
franchise; that had been decided long
before t! e Motor company was sued,
and besides, the Motor case never
came to trial, but was dismissed.
, JOHN C. COWIN.
speak of Easter week. Who dare
its fate deplore.
But lo and behold, "Achushla, gra
ma chree," it Is lamentable to relate
that up to date less than $600 has
been contributed to the noble cause
by the Omaha patriots.
By way of example to see ir I can
arouse the stagnant blood In the veins
of my numerous Hibernian fellow cit
izens and their descendants to do the r
duty, I herewith donate 15 to this
worthy cause, through The Bee; this
being my second contribution to aid
the Dublin sufferers. Notwithstand
ing that the late Insurrection In Ire
land was called a "Sinn Fein rebel
lion," nevertheless history ought to be
kept straight, for it was not anything
of the kind. The whole thing was
conceived, planned and well on Its
way before the Sinn Feiners had any
thing to do with It.
The fact is, the revolt was a labor
revolt. It grew out of the great Dub
lin strike of 1913, and of the way that
strike was suppressed by policemen
with clubs and policemen in Jaunting
cars firing rifles Into the crowd. Some
observers wrote then that every shot
planted the sure seed of future
trouble.
The object of the Sinn Fein society
was to keep alive the Irish language,
push along Irish literature and build
Irish Industry. Notwithstanding that
the Sinn Feiners aided the labor
unions' army to capture Dublin and
successfully held the capital of Ire
land for a week, and It was retaken
enly after the English artillery had
blown the center of Dublin Into the
air, doing in Ireland what they have
been denouncing the Germans for hav
ing done in Jtheims and Louvaln.
JERRY HOWARD.
Morehead's, Not Aldrleh's Pardon.
Lincoln, 8ept 15. To the Editor
of The Bee: In the various articles
which have had publication in the
state papers- in regard to the assault
of W. A. Prince by one Harm Shank
at Silver Creek, Neb., mention has
been made to the fact that Shank was
pardoned by Governor Aldrich. I was
the county attorney of Polk county,
who prosecuted Shank, being assisted
by W. A. Prince. Shank was not par
doned by Governor Aldrich, but was
pardoned by John H. Morehead, the
present governor of Nebraska.
H. C. BEEBE. -
GRINS AND GROANS.
"He fell In love with a Rirl whow face
he iaw on a magazine cover."
"Sounds romantic. Did he follow up the
romance and marry her?"
"Didn't have time, There'a another mag
azine out tliU month." Boeton Transcript.
Mrt. Yeast I see by the paper that the
ancient Romans used Invisible Ink."
Mr. Yeanl That's why Caesar thought
Mrs. Caesar's letters were out of sight, I
expect," Yonkers Statesman.
Mm Jlggs So your daughter married a
surgeon V
Mrs. NofnTPSs Yes, I'm so glad. At last
I can afford to have appendicitis. Detroit
Free Press.
Jerry Sends His Donation.
Omaha, Sept 16. To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: In your Wednesday's
Issue appeared an article headed "An
other Tag Day Scheduled," wherein
the writer, Je&se T.vBrillhart, secre
tary of the socialist party, states that
the Omaha socialists will have a tag
day on Wednesday, September 20 for
the benefit of the widows and orphans
of the Irish Martyrs, recently massa
cred by the British government. Be
sides the benevolence of this patriotic
body of the labor class in their desire
to assist the widows and orphans, the
selection of the day to make sale of
the tags being the anniversary of the
execution of Martyr Robert Emmet
should be a two-fold inspiration to
every friend of freedom to help the
worthy cause along. Who fears to
)EAR MR.fcABlBNJE,
THE OWE MIWT W HUSMt
refused to oer VP m see
- IF XV0tE WAS A BURSAR H
THE: HOUSE -SHOW I WOftt
HIM?
NO -MWBE ff WASMt HI&
WW
Every now and then Flubdub would five
Wombat a terrific nudge In the ribs.
"This play has the punch, all right,'
would nay,
"Maybe so," finally retorted the victim,
"but I don't want it In my ribs." Iouisvlll
Courier-Journal.
The pretty restaurant cashier had applied
for a holiday
"I must recuperate," ah said. "My beauty
Is beginning to fade."
"That so?" said the proprietor. "What
makes you think so 7"
'The men are beginning to count their
change."
Sheot her holdlday. Philadelphia Ledger.
1 "MY AUNT JOSIE."
H. R. Curry, In Pittsburgh Post.
When things don't go to suit me, as some
times they're apt to do;
And I've just about tried everything I't
ever heard or knew;
And I feel so blamed discouraged that I'm
jus l about to quit.
I think of "my Aunt Josle," and I soon got
back to grit. .
How B.e still goes on forever la her happy
io. t of way.
Never fretting 'bout the weather, or what
people do or say; ;
Just smilln' and a laughln' as she makes
the best of It,
If the numn handle Is broken, or (he Vain.
spout lealu a.blL
You'd a thought that when last summer the
weather acted ao,
And the flood took all her chickens m she
stood and watched them go.
That ehe'd lose her usual courage' and be
moaning at her fate;
But not my Aunt Josle; not her, at any rat.
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