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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR THS BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR Bntatwg at Omaha poetofflee aa eond-daumatur TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Br Carrier Br Mail par month. par ear tsfly anil Sunday See IS -J Dally without Sunday a J?? Evening and Sunday .40c Fvening without Sunder S6a 4.JJ fandey Br only lOe.... Dally and Sunday Baa. thraa ara in advance. 110 OS Eand Bailee of china, of addreea or irregularity In da livery ea Omaha Baa, Ciraulatloa Department. " REMITTANCE. rtamH or draft, express or poatal ordar. Onlyt-aent staispr takee) la payment of amall aeeounta. Paraonal ahersa rscept on Omaha and eastern aachanga. not aecepted OFFICES. Omaha Tha Bca Building Booth O. ha-a81 N etraet. Council Bluff. 14 North Main street. . lincl-S2S Utile Building. I Chicago II People's (!ss Building. Naw YorkRoom HOI, ! Fifth avenue. St Louie -SOS Na Bank of Commerce. Washington MS fourteenth atraat, N. . CORRESPONDENCE Addraia communication,, relating to nawa and adltota, matter to Omaha Baa. Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION ' 54,507 Daily Sunday 50,5391 Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of Tha Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn. a that the average circulation for the month of September, fin, waa M.IS7 dallr. and M.Ht Sunday. DW1QHT WIU.IAMB, Circulation Manager. Suhecrlhad In my preeence and eworn ta before rue thla 3d dar of October, ISIS. ROBERT HUNTER, Rotary Publle. Subeerlbara svlaf tha city temporarily .' houlel ham Tha Baa atailad le thaw. Ad draaa will b ehanaed as often aa raquirad Omaha is surely in the metropolitan clasa when $1,000,000 street-widening project can be pro posed without softening the voice to a whisper. What is keeping the aoldier boya on the bor rfar? Whv not let them come home in time to tell their neighbor! the real itor ol Mexico and tell it before the voting? - ' Secretary Baker sdvlses critic to lt on the moon and get a proper view of the adminitration. Such action would eriously curtail Senator Tom Walsh's output of moonshine. The proposed $80,000,000 stock dividend of the Armour should not be confused with or dinary corporation melons. It i high grade tenderloin, 400 per cent thick and oozing1 juice at every pore. .. Of eourse the Nebraska farmer doesn't need protection for hi corn and wheat and hog, but the Georgia farmer need it for hi cotton and hi Angora goat; that' why our democratic senator voted that way, ' ' Modesty born of rare mountain air doubtless restrain Senator-Tom Walsh from claiming the : earth for the democrats. His chances of getting the earth are about a good as realizing on hi . political predictions. . . 1 It i kind in the new Japanese premier to be i so considerate of the United States. The only in- ference ia that Japan is holding itself back, not ' from any fear of us or lack of elf-confidence, but just to be a good fellow... . ' -.-II I ji '- -': J ' With General Goethals at the head of th board to study the eight-hour law, attempts of either tide to work the bluff will not get very far. Unlike the administration, the builder of the Panama canal is not seeking votes. Revocation of auto licenses on conviction of reckless driving obtains in Missouri, New York and New Jersey. The penalty is considered a moderate deterrent, but fall ahort of the sooth ing, meditative influence of a jail aentence. Every true lover of his country will work for and welcome the time when Columbia can "keep her hat on straight." The kicks and cuffs she has endured for three and a half years chal lenge native gallantry and plead for republican Oar amiable democratic "contemporary ought to at least look up market quotations it prints before getting into the comparison of prices. It hasn't even got the 1916 figures correct, let alone those for 1912, while it omit the 1913 and 1914 altogether. ' , The fifth German war loan, just closed, brought subscription totaling $2,541,000,000, a record of financial outpouring unsurpassed by enemy na tion. It is evident from this showing that Ger snay's strong boxes contain more of the sinews of war than her opponents calculated. , According to Ambassador Jusserand the Car ranza government "sequestered" $60,000,000 of French money in two Mexican banks. In plain, everyday United States, sequester a practiced in Mexico (pell robbery. Diplomatic polite ness dots not wholly conceal the truth. - . No forward-looking young man wants to join a political party loaded down with dead weights a is the democratic party chained to the control of the southern Bourbons. The young man who want the country to grow up and want to grow up with the country will march in the republi can procession. ' ; - ',' ' ; . , . a ' ';.' ' ; The Hat Check Holdup New York World The growth of the checkroom tip into a vested interest has been observed and now we are get ting light on the contractual nature of the in terest, the rental charged for the right to mulct restaurant and hotel patron for safeguarding their hats and wraps, the presumptive profits, etc In a suit instituted by a hat and coat room lessee against a restaurant corporation for alleged breach ol contract, it is represented by the plaintiff that he was to pay $2,500 for the first year and $3,000 for the second year for the "privilege" of the coat room and wash room, and on that basis he ue for $10,000 damages. .. These figures give us an insight into the over head charges and the volume of business of this important industry. To reimburse himself for a $2,500 rental a hat-check lessee must collect 25,0:0 10-cent tips from guests, and this before he can make any profit. There are besides the wages of the check-room employe to pay and no doubt in cidental expenses to meet - The fact helps explain the predatory methods of the hat-checker. Regarding every guest's hat as his lawful prey, it is only natural that he should adopt rigorous measures to retain it, and what with grasping landlords oppressing him and parsi monious patrons trying to evade him he has his troubles. Perhaps on the whole there should be sympathy with the hat man. His appeal to the courts in this case to protect his rights from in vasion shows his own appreciation of the im portance of hi lucrative calling. -v- The Real Wage-Increase Law. The Chicago Tribune makes a telling point that the greatest labor law of America is the re publican protective tariff built along lines to insure the American working man a job at the best wages paid to any working man in the world, In 1896 the democrats insisted that the only cure for what then ailed the country under a rariff-for-reventie-only regime was currency in Ration by opeaing the mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The answer of William McKinley was, "Reopen the mills and the mints will take care of themselves." 'It came to pass that William McKinley was wise in his day and what he said proved true as soon as the republican doctrine of protection was again put into operation. ' . - When the Wilson-Underwood democratic tariff law inviting unhindered competition of for eign cheap-labor-made goods was enacted, it first effect was the same a the last preceding democratic free trade tariff. Factories closed by the hundreds and soup houses opened, and with thousands upon thousands of wage earner it was not a question of being employed for an eight-hour day, hut of being employed for any hours whatever. The growing menace of unem ployment was arrested only by the sudden break of the European war transferring the activities of the foreign mechanic from the. workshops to the trenches and making Europe no longer a competitor, but a ready purchaser of all the products we could turn out of possible use in prosecuting the conflict. . In other words, the deadly democratic free trade tariff, since its first few months of havoc to American industries, ha been held almost completely in abeyance. It re mains, however, like a (word of Damocles, sus pended by a single thread, ready to drop and cut down American labor and American industry the moment oceanic trade routes are reopened and shipping transportation freed from War service. The way for our workingmen to promote the eight-hour work day is to get back to the basis if republican protection so there may be weU- paid work for all and enough that no one need work more than eight hours if he does hot want to. ' " J. Neutral and the U-Boats. 'The attitude of the United States in treating submersibles as other vessels is founded on rea son. When the Deutschland came protests were lodged against it presence by representative of the Entente Allies, who demanded that no right of harbor be conceded to submarines, either armed or unarmed. This waa then disallowed, and the formal protest, made the more important because of the call of an armed submarine at an American port, has just been formally replied to, in which the position of the United States Is made plain, To grant what the Entente Allies asked would be to assume an unneutral position. ; The un armed submarine is clearly .entitled to all the privilege of a merchantman, and so long as the armed submersible conforms to the rules of naval warfare, it must be admitted to all the rights of a warship. Whether the U-boat performancea do or do not conform to the rules is a separate ques tion. . , ' The United States (till relies upon the pledges made by the kaiser as to the methods of conduct ing submarine warfare and the renewed assur ances of Germany' determination to respect these pledges indicate willingness to bt held responsible for any deviation front them. Harping on a Single Chord. The democrats sound but a single chord ih their present wild scramble for votes, and that chord ia a false one. They have given over en tirely the program adopted at Baltimore and re affirmed at St. Louis, and place their only hope on the assertion that their policies have brought prosperity, and their president has kept the coun try out of war. ' The present era of inflated prices is in no sense due to any act on part of the democratic adminis tration, unless it be that party accept responsi bility for the hot, dry weather of the summer that resulted in a crop- shortage, and for the war in Europe, whence comes the abnormal demand for munitions and army supplies that has tent prices aoaring. In thit connection it will be well to re member that the farmers of the United States reduced their plantage acreage and consequent prospective yield of wheat by 400,000,000 bush els, because of disappointment at prices obtained for the bumper crop of 191$. To what extent did the democratic party influence the farmer in this course? When did the president keep us out of war? Hi only opportunity to go to war was with Mexico, and what hat been our experience there? Doe any one tuppose the Nebraska boys, now in .camp at Llano Grande, feel they have been kept, out of war by Mr. Wilson? The president got so close to war with Germany that William Jennings Bryan resigned the portfolio of secretary of state rather than sign s note prepared by the president, because to aend it meant war. Thit note was afterwards modified. A little later congress threatened to take the control of foreign affairs out of the hand of the president, and only when he pleaded and promised was he spared that humiliation at the hands of his party. Kept us out of war? Twice Mr.' Wilson has almost stum bled into the European war, and twice he has started a little war on Mexico, backing out of one, and now seeking tome means of exit from the other. His war record is the most ridiculous of any president who ever sat in the chair, and is enough to make such democrats as Andrew Jack son and Grover Cleveland turn in their tombs. The democratic campaign has degenerated into one of half-truths and deliberate misrepresenta tion, their sole hope being to fool the voters by a false cry. Can it oe done? r When the foster father of alt the Standard Oil companies, at Uncle Sam's behest, tearfully turned members of the family out of doors, each with the harsh command to seek its own fortune, the paternal stock in trade sagged down to $750 a share. The outcasts in a cold unfeeling world hustled as never before. Everybody worked as well as father. As a result the paternal stock is up to $2,000, and the going ia good. Should Uncle Sam again awing the swatter on the same spot the stock is liable to go out of sight Auto thieving it more Jhan a joyride adventure. It it nation-wide in scope and thows distinct evidence of organization, efficiency and system. As one division of crooks is broken up in one locality another starts a thieving boom elsewhere. The total extent of the operations must be enor mous, judging by newspaper reports of local losses. The magnitude of the system and the diffi culties of tracing the crooks presents a serious problem to the police department of all cities. ' Americans in Foreign Lands -St. Louie Glebe-Dei Mr. Wilson, in his latest swing around the circle, advanced the astonishing opinion that Americans had never taken any interest in for eign trade until his administration began. He seems to forget that the chief argument of democratic speakers and papers for years had been that American exporters were selling goods abroiaf more cheaply than at home. In some cases these were articles for which there was no longer American demand, because they had been displaced by newer inventions, and in other cases they were surplus products. By working plants at full capacity the force of employes was kept intact and the unit of cost was lowered. But, with their usual disregard for the details of business, the democrats made a great clamor about our "tariff barons" robbing Americans for the benefit of foreigners. The policy of republican administrations in fostering commerce was unfortunately styled "dollar diplomacy." The term was distorted into a sinister sense, as though we had abandoned all lofty principles. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan catered to this prejudice in denouncing the six power Chinese loan, misrepresenting its purpose and probable results and seeking to acquire a reputation for virtue out of a piece of subli mated folly. The present administration has displayed great enthusiasm over American investments in South America. It has very truthfully emphasized the necessity for such investments, if Americans ex pect to hold their own with Europeans in Latin American markets. But all the effect of this is destroyed by its attitude to investors in Mexico. They are treated as exploiters and adventurers and they are not protected in the rights guar anteed under treaties with Mexico. Time after time the president himself has sought to defend his fearfully and wonderfully fashioned Mexican policies by gratuitously misrepresenting these investors. v ' It is a significant fact that the conspicuous leaders in efforts to build up foreign trade favor the election of Mr. Hughes. Mr. Wilson may wonder why this is so, -in the face of his captivat ing rhetoric about foreign trade, but the ex porters have studied him and his party. The Fake Promoter Brooklyn Eagla Richard C. Flower, son of a country clerRyr man, graduate of Northwestern university, law yer, preacher, ' healer," promoter of fake medical companies and of other corporations organized only that their stock might be sold, is said to have taken in about $1,000,000 from a gullible pub lic, at the expense of being indicted some 500 times and convicted twice. His sudden death in a Hoboken variety theater on Sunday night was unrecorded for forty-eight hours. He was 73 years old, leaves a widow, and whether he was rich or not remains to be decided. The peculiarity of this career is that it dis closed ability, energy, persistence that applied to straightforward undertakings would almost cer tainly have got prompt recognition. Flower, "Dr. Flower," was one of a type of semi-criminal minds. The term semi-criminal is rightly and deliberately used. Probably he never expected to figure as a criminal. He decided while still young to get as close to the border line of crime as was safe, and never venture beyond. "Grand larceny," to which he pleaded guilty on his last trial before he began his term at Blackwell's island, is often in this state a constructive offense. If you per suade another person to invest money in such a wav vou orofit bv it vou may always be accused of grand larceny, and the burden of proof is on you to show justification. J. hat is what Happened time and again to Flower. He was a magnetic talker. One widow is said to have trusted him with $500,000 at one time to invest He rarely failed to find his "suck ers." But the end of it all was not happiness. The unfortunate thine is that so manv men of Flower's views of life, of Flower's standard of ethics, "get away with if," as the colloquial ex nression goes. That tempts others to try. Law cannot reach and punish all dishonesty. It never has. It never will. ' Why not get rich by the dis honesty that, for the time being, is not punished? that is an unspoken question in many a young man's mind. But the colleges at least should emphasize, indeed they do emphasize, the higher standard. The man who never intentionally does wrong to his neighbor is pretty sure not to go to iail through anv accident of law interpretation. And his career, however humble, will be preferable in every way to that of Dr. Richard C b lower. Serving the World Philadelphia Ledger "All of this, gentlemen, is in the abstract." The president's own comment on his remarks to the Omaha business men concerning the new age" adequately describes them. He touches upon the concrete in nis references to such subjects as export trade and the anti-trust laws, but for the most part he dwells upon his familiar contention that we must "serve the world." So, of course, must any nation if it is to keep its soul alive. But the vague humanitarianism which embraces all mankind and does not lift a finger for the individ ual is not likely in the end to serve anyone. One requisite of service is power, and another is the resnect of those to whom this service ia offered. To be told that "the sign of our destiny has at last become as wide as the horizon" is not illumining. To be assured that "American ideals are for the first time to be exhibited upon a world-wide scale. American purposes are going to be tested by the purposes of mankind and not by the purposes of national ambition," does not reveal the nature of those ideals and purposes. So far as they have been exhibited and tested by the acts of the present administration, they are not such as Amer icans can taKC any great priae in. Nor is it true that America is now tor the hrst time to have an opportunity to play a great part. It is a strange misreading of history to speak of it as hitherto "confined and provincial." There have been timea when our government has evaded responsibilities, when our geographical position has been made an excuse for an isolation that was far. from splendid. Our importance as a world power has not always been appreciated. Yet from the first enunciation of the Monroe doctrine Amer ican policies have profoundly affected the course of human events. By diplomacy or by arms we have made ourselves telt in China, Japan, the PhilinDines. Samoa. Cuba. Prophecies of a larser mission followed the war with Spain. No doubt the future may transcend the pasta But it is dif ficult to see in the diplomacy of the administration any strengthening ot American leadership in in ternational affairs. If we are to "serve the world" the world must wish us to serve it The president seems to have aroused more suspicion than con fidence by his altruistic prqfessions. People and Events A New Jersey woman drove her car through a bunch of holdup bandits and raced five miles for help, although ahe was wounded by bandit shots. In former time fainting would have been the proper caper in these circumstances. The new woman is different- i Carter Harrison and wife of Chicaeo are booked for an extensive tour of South America, beginning in December. Quite a boom in tourist business in that direction is evident among globe trotters, who will thus annex a large section of "the good old summer time" under southern skins. Betting odds on the presidential pennant race. reported from different - cities last Saturday, ranged from 2 to 1 on Hughes in New York, 10 to 1 in Pittsburgh, 10 to 7 in Detroit 3 to 1 in Boston. 8 to 5 in Milwaukee. 10 to 7 in Cleveland and 10 to 7 in San Francisco. Very little Wilson money is in sight at the odds offered. Where is the democratic sporting blood? ' , I TODAY! Thought Xuggrt for the Day. Government ia a trust and the of- flcara of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Henry Clay. One Year Ago Today In the War, Qreek government declned to assist Serbia. Russian continued on the offensive at Dvinsk. Austro-German army took the heights south of Belgrade by storm. Edith Cavel, English nurse, ex ecuted by Germans in Belgium on charge of aiding British and Bel gians to escapti. In Omaha- Thirty Years Ago. Rev. M. P. Dowling, president of Creighton college and one of the most able and polished orators in the west will lecture In the opera house on December 8 under the auspices of the Catholic Knights of America, for the benefit of the orphans. The suoject will be "The Dignity of the Christian Family." William Flynn has secured the con tract to dig the excavation for the new hotel building to be erected on Tenth and Farnam and will bcxtn work as soon as the old buildings which are on the lot can be moved off. , The following gentlemen have "been selected as committeemen to manage the Ancient Order of Hibernians' ball, to be held at Cunningham hall: M. Fenton, Thomas Connors, J. J. Con nolly, J. Phelan, John Price, Ed Pow ers, John Kerwin, J. M. White, B. McGinn, M. McBride, William Mc Kenna and M. Leahy. The members of the fire depart ment have received a photograph ol what is known as the Bonner drop net It Is used by New York fire men and consists of a large circular net bound with a stout rope which il acts as a handle and may be grasped by thirty m-on, thus spreading it out. It is Intended to be used in cases o: fire where life can be saved only by jumping and will stand the Impact or a Dody ot Z5u pounds falling sev enty-five feet Ex-Alderman Furay has gone to his stock ranch near Waterloo to at tend a sale of thoroughbreds. Pioneers looking for the old mili tary bridge on Cuming street will be lost now In view of the Improvements that have lately been Inaugurated, the latest One' being the new Saunders brick block, consisting of six elegant stores. , This Day In History. 1782 Henry Dodge, first territorial governor of 'Wisconsin, born at Vin cennes. Ind. Died at Burlington, la., June 19, 1867. 1802 Oeneral Joseph G. swift was the first graduate of the new United States military academy at West Point 1844 Mme. Helena Modjeska, one of the most famous actresses of the American stage, born at Cracow, Poland. Died at Bay City, Cal., April 8, 1809. I860 Peking surrendered to the British and French allies. ' 1870 General Robert E. Lee, the famous military leader of the confed eracy, died at Lexington, Va. Bfirn in Westmoreland county, Virginia, Janu ary 19. 1807. 1876 New constitution of Ne braska ratified by vote of the people. 1891 A monument commemora tive of the sixtieth anniversary of the first operation of a steam railway In New Jersey was dedicated near Bor dentown. 1898 The German emperor and empress departed from Berlin on their visit to Palestine. - 1899 England and the United States agreed on a temporary settle ment of the Alaska boundary dispute. 1906 The shah of Persia opened the first Parliament of Persia. The Day We Celebrate. Judge W. H. Munger of the federal bench for the district of Nebraska waa born October 12, 184S, at Bergen. N. Y. He practced law at Fremont. Neb., and helped make our present state constitution. He received his judicial appointment from President Cleveland In 1898. Otto Charvat, editor of the Doba Publishing company, Is 33. He was born In Bohemia, coming to this coun try in 1905 from Prague, where he had previously been in newspaper work. Edward F. Dunne, renominated for governor by the democrats of Il linois, born at Waterville, Conn., sixty three years ago today. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb, president of the army war college, who retires from the army today, born In Detroit, sixty-four years ago today, i John B. Lennon, treasurer of tho American Federation of Labor, born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, sixty seven years ago today. Maurice Donnay, celebrated French dramatic author, born in Paris, fifty seven years ago today. Chester I. Long, former United States senator from Kansas, born In Perry county, Pennsylvania, fifty-six years ago today. George W. Cable, noted author of southern stories, born in New Or leans, seventy-two years ago today. Henry W. Ballantlne, new law dean of the University of Illinois, born at Oberlin, 0 thirty-six years ago today. Armando Marsans, outnelder of the ; St. Louis American league base ball team, born in Havana, Cuba, twenty seven years ago today. . I Timely Jottings and Reminders. ' j Columbus day. ' ; William J. Uryan is to begin a four-day speecmriaking tour of Colo rado with an address at Pueblo to- ! night ' I Charles E. Hughes Begins an in vasion of Kentucky, concluding his day's itinerary tonight with a speech at Louisville. A notable educational conference is to be held today at Rutgers college, E receding the beginning of a cele ration of -the college's 150th anni versary. ... The Inauguration of Dr. Hlpollto Irlgoyen as president of Argentina will take place today at Buenos Ayres. Romulo S. Naon, ambassador to tha United States from Argentina, is to deliver the Columbus day oration today at exercises to be held in Faneull hall, Boston. Ground is to be broken at Gulfport Miss., today for the Mississippi cen tennial exposition, to be held there next year. Prof. U A. Weigle of Tale uni versity la to deliver the historical adddess at today's semi-centennial celebration at Carleton college, North Held, Minn. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb, president of the army war college, is to be placed on the retired list today for age. General Macomb is a native of Detroit and has had a distinguished career of more than forty years in the army Nothing in Democracy for Progressives, Omaha, Oct 11. To the Editor of The Bee: A concerted effort Is being made to convince former progressives that they will come nearer realizing their hopes with the democratic than with their old comrades In the repub lican party. To this end, we are be ing reminded that some of the things the democrats have done were advo cated first by progressives. I shouldn't wonder If this Is true. I am inclined to think that nearly all, if not all they have done that is good had a progressive origin. Is that a reason for joining the party? Let us see. A genuine progressive thinks na tionally; he realizes that the state has an Important plaoe In our government and he has no idea of interfering with any of the legitimate functions of the state, but when he thinks of this coun try as opposed to or in conjunction with any other country, he doesn't think of Ohio, or Nebraska, or New York, or California; he has in mind a country, not a loosely Joined con federation or states How is It with the democratic party? Isn't it true that in doing the things the progres sives stand for they, the democrats, have had to violate the very funda mental principle upon which their party is rounded? isn't this funda mental Inability to grasp the Idea of a nation at the root of their bungling patchwork preparedness scheme? Doesn t it rise up and confront every man or national vision m the party ; Why should a progressive put him self in a position where every time he does anything sensible he will have to apologise for It because it doesn't square with his professed beliefs? The two parties, progressives and democratic, are as wide apart as it U possible to get in theory of govern ment, whatever they may be in prac tice. Notwithstanding Mark Hanna and his famous saying, the democratic party has always been the stand-pa party, in theory. It has been the party or stiff adherence to a literal inter pretation of the constitution the parts that insists upon deciding every ques tion that comes up by measuring it with a yard stick 150 years old, that is always and continually looking over Its shoulder toward the rear. Where is there room in a party like thai for a genuine progressive? Personally, the question does . not botner me at all. If I agreed with Wi. son on every internal, social and dom estic question, I'd still be against hi: re-election. There's Just one questior before the American people today am that Is, shall we approve the shame less abandonment of American right! in Mexico and on the high seas, oi shall we place the government in tht hands of men who know, something about government wno will have policy, not a weather vane, and whi will get us back where we can sin America again and hear the Star Spangled Banner played without look ing round to see if someone is grin ning., H. W. MORROW. An Unfair Political Situation. Omaha. Oct, 11. To the Editor of The Bee: In attending the meetlm addressed by Vice President Marshall I happened to meet a traveling man from Rochester, N. Y., who has been all over the country from. New York to California, and he said there i; every indication that we will have a new president on and after the fourth of next March. He said the only place where there Is any enthusiasm for Wilson Is right in Omaha, while there is a tremendous sentiment for Hughes In Mew York and other eastern states. He said he had been in Canada this fall and that the people up there mak lots of fun of this country on account of the weak national administration of Wilson. While I am at it I will say that 1 am a Arm believer in giving every man a right to vote that, is entitled to vote. It is unfair that the democratic party can set down at once 133 elec toral votes that are as , certain .for them as that the election will be held. It does not make any difference who the nominee may be for president he can count on the votes of twelve southern states as absolutely certain. In these twelve states republi cans are not only allowed to vote, but are even kept from nominat ing tickets, and numerous congress men in giving their biographies in the Congressional Directory state that they were elected wltn no opposition votes. Some of them only receive 2.000 and 8,000 votes In districts where there are 26,000 and 80,000 voters, il all were allowed to vote. They have mostly quit telling In the Congres sional Directory of the exact votee they receive. It must be that they do not want comparisons made with the districts of the northern states where all can vote who are entitled to the ballot If the southern states will not allow all men to vote as the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States allows them tho right to do, then they should not be allowed to vote for president Either that amend ment should be enforced or repealed. It is intolerable and unjust that one party should have the advantage that the democratic party has In every presidential election and I do not see how any fair man, be he democrat or republican, can support a party that allows a condition to exist where sev eral millions of voters are not allowol to vote as the constitution gives them the right to do. The mission of the republican partj will n-sver be completed until everj legal voter can vote as freely and un trammeled in Mississippi, Louisiana Alabama, Georgia, 8outh Carolina anu Florida, as In Iowa and Nebraska. No republican should be fooled int.: voting for Wilson, for they will In simply helping that much more ! giving the southern states supreme control of our national affairs. The liberty sovlng people who aroe, in their might gnd saved this nation fruin destrmtion by the same south ern states should now arouse them selves and saVe the nation from pay ing thi- disloyal people for the de struction of their roperty in the vet r of the rebellion. FRANK A. AGNEW. Why Huoiies Gets 'His Vote. Stamford, Neb., Oct 11. To tlv Editor of The Bee: Here is your bull moose friend once more still follow ing Teddy and voting the G. O. V. straight I see the Inscription on tin Wilson buttons is, "Peace with hon- rr,k. am mv Hpntiments. also. That's the best reason I have for vot- . L- 1 1 tlnlrat vVlibl full ins: tne repuuiicnii' vvnai ia uuo bu' ..-. . way? A representative government . A union 1 An aa ........... benefit and protection. If I become a member of your association you guarantee me what? Life, liberty and the peaceful possession of property or the pursuit of happiness. And what pledge do you make me that you will accord me this? You pledge your life, your fortunes and sacred honor. Well, that sounds good if you mean t Then, If I make a Journey into a foreign country, not at war with us, and I am taken by armed ruffiana md stripped and shot you will look fter my carcass and see that others don't meet a similar fate and that my family Isn't subjected to insult. You bet you say, and I believe you will, but can you always do this and be too proud to fight? I am voting for Hughes with the expectation that those countries that have misused members of this asso ciation will pay for every member who has lost his life at their hands md for every dollar's worth of prop erty destroyed,- W. S. HEDGES. C0LUMBUS. Joaquin Miller. Behind him lay the gray Aaoree, Behind the Oateo of Hercules; Before him not the ghoet of ehores, Before him only ahoreleee aeaa. The good mate eald: "Now muet we pray. For lo! the very etars are gone. Brave admiral, enoak. what ehall I eeyr "Why, aay, "sail on! aall on! aall on! "My men grow mutlroue day by day: My men grow ghaatly wan and weak. The itout mate thought of home; a apray Of aalt wave washed hie awarthy cheek. "What hall I aay, brave admiral, aay. If wg eight naught but aeaa at dawn? "Why. you shall aay at break of day, 'gall onl aall on! aall on! aall on!' They aalled and railed, aa winds might blow, Until at laat the blanched mate said: "Why. now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For Ood from these dread seas Is gone. Now speak, brave admiral, speak and aay" -He aald: "Sail on! sail onl sail on!" They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: " I "This mad sea shows his teeth tonight, He curls his Up, he lies In wait, With lifted teeth, as If to bltel Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope Is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! aall on! sail on! and on!" Then pale, and worn, he kept his deck, ' And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" Sage Tea Dandy1 to Darken Hair Look years younger! Use the old-time Sage Tea and suipnur ana nobody will know. You can turn erav. faded hair beau tifully dark and lustrous almost ovet night if you'll get a 50-cent bottle of ' Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound" at any drug store. Millions of bottles of this famous Sage Tea Recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, are sold annually, says a well-known druggist here, be cause it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that no one can tell it has been applied. Those whose hair are turning gray or becomingi faded have a surprise awaiting them, because after one or two applications the gray hair van ishes and your locks become luxur iantly dark and beautiful. This is the age of youth. Gray haired, unattractive folks aren't want ed around, so get busy with Wyeth's Sao-e and Sulphur Compound tonight and you'll be delighted with your dark, handsome hair and your youth- ul appearance within a few days. I nis preparation o iv,,,-,. ,vu.j.iv and is not intended for the cure, miti gation or prevention of disease. Adv. A Missouri Lady Tells What S.S.S. Did for Her Catarrh Mrs. Henry Waye, R. F. D. No. 1, Wentzville, Mo is now entirely cured of Catarrh through the use of S. S. S. On April 9th, 1916, she" wrote: "I am glad to say I have never needed to take any more medicine, as I have never had any return of the Catarrh. Thanks to S. S. S. I highly recommend it." Mrs. Waye was a sufferer from Catarrh until she began taking S. S. S. and was not only cured of Catarrh, but her blood was so strengthened and her system so built up that she has not had to take medicine of any kind since. If you suffer from Catarrh or other blood disorder you would do well to consider this lady's case before adopting any other treatment. S. S. S. will do for you what it did for her. This is the most treacherous season of the year with sudden and frequent changes in the weather bringing on epidemics of Grippe, Colds and Catarrh. Unless the system is well cared for and the blood kept pure, serious results may come. The mucous membranes in the nose and throat discharging and showing surface signs of Catarrh are warnings all are familiar v with and should promptly heed. "Safety first" Take S. S. S. now and quickly feel the improvement in your condition. Bear in mind that S. S. S. has been the National Blood purifier for fifty years, and there are many imitators, so be sure when you ask a druggist for S. S. S. that you get S. S. S. When a dealer, tries to shift something "just as good" on you he is after more profit and not considering your welfare. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable and no other medicine will get the same results. Write for special booklet on Catarrh it's free. Our Med ical Staff a department maintained for users of S. S. S. will gladly advise you about proper treatment of any blood disease. Write them for advice. No charge. Address Swift Specific Co., Dept 4, Swift Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. , ,