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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916.
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OCTOBER CIRCULATION
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MbUahmv eompany, brink- duly awom. aaya that the
erasras'e eireclatioa for the month f Oatobar, 1114, was
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ehould bar Tha Baa mail ad to tlaam. AeV
' almas will b etuuigacl aa often, as required. '
. Tbc fortunes of war bring the Servian capi
tal again to Servian toil, bat Belgium is (till in
exile from its native land. '
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The moat unendurable concomitant of Jhe
Ugh coat of living is now the threatened higher
collar on the glass of lager.
It ,b too bad George Francis Train is no
longer here to spread the gospel of his peanut
diet as a true cure for high-Uving-cost evils.
: Eastern financiers view the golden flood with
pessimistic glasses. Still they show no desire to
torn the flood westward and banish the gloom.
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The speed and efficiency of Germany in clap
ping in jail the authors and beneficiaries of food
corners goes to show that monarchial govern
ments possess some admirable features. .
Before Omaha tackles the good rssds propo
sition again, the whole subject should have
thorough investigation and study. ' Let as agree
first upon what we want and then go after it ,
. The territory coveted for' Greater Lincoln
consolidation .includes the domicile of a distin
guished democrat for whom "no government
without the consent of the governed" has several
times been the slogan. What will he do if Lin
coln tries forcible annexation?
In this year and the preceding five years
Omaha added nine hotels for transients and one
family hotel to its list, and capitalists see prof
itable future for another. No other development
so clearly proves Omaha's advance aa a mecca
fur visitors on business or pleasure. . : v
. Harken, ye reckless speeders, -to the tragic
fate of the Denver autoist. "I can hit anything on
ine roaa,- ne remaricea cheerily to his com-,
panions. instantly action made good the words.
The car hit a bridge, careened into the ditch aad
landed on the haughty driver. Tears, flowers
and slow music
That federal court of appeals vacancy is not
being pulled down so fast for the Missouri claim
ant as the Missourians expected. There Is at least
one other state in this judicial circuit that has
never had anyone on the federal bench ranking
higher than district judge and which is quite able
to 0 the requisition. .
Organized snffragists and anti-suffragists are
already fatly officered for next year's prelimi
naries for the decisive round in 1918. No doubt
the prospective battle will take high rank it a
political sporting event Still, if mer man is as
wise aa he imagines, he will scoot for tall timber
when the referee calls "time."
'Accepting accounts as fairly accurate, the
world war far ont-Herods Herod in its , slaughter
of innocents. What has happened in Poland,
ravaged by ooDOsinsr armies, has bean dnnliraiarl
in Asiatic Turkey, in the Balkans, in France and
Belgium. The innocent are the chief-victims of
aua weua, mure so in mis man ever Deiore.
' Mecca, the sacred city of Islam, where repose
the bones' and beard of the prophet, is namtd
as the new capital of the kingdom of Arabia.
The designation implies the opening of the city
to others than the devout followers of Mahomet.
Hitherto the Mahommedans have not knowingly
permitted non-believers to enter the city.
The Man Who Made Man
-nUadelphia Led
Nothing to Take Back, j
"In Omaha, as in Lincoln, the newspaper
campaign against Senator Hitchcock waa such
as to disgunt intelligent readers. It was such
as to win for the targets of the unfair news
papers the sympathy of fair-minded men."
World-Herald.
Although The Bee was disposed to draw the
curtain on the campaign, so far as It concerned
the individual candidates, Senstor Hitchcock's
organ does not seem satisfied with the senator's
victory, for which it shuddered up to the close
of the voting in the cold sweat of scare and de
spair, and with the supreme essence of gall it
tries to tell opposing papers how misdirected was
their drive, although knowing full well that the
senator was saved only by his successful feat
of coat-tail hanging upon Wilson.
So far as The Bee is concerned, our campaign
against the return of a democratic senator from
Nebraska was straightforward and strictly con
fined to matters properly at issue. The Bee did
not go back of the official record which Senator
Hitchcock had made in his six years as senator-
he record upon which he was seeking endorse
ment. . We pointed out how, in his tariff votes,
he had sacrificed all the products of Nebraska.
We repeated the charges publicly preferred
against him by President Wilson's secretary of
state charges that branded him s tool of Wall
street and a traitor to the president and his
party. We recalled how he sought to "tickle
the Germans" by big promise but not perform
snce, snd we showed up his alliance with the
'wets," whose help he took, but did not recip
rocate. We also emphasized the numerous losses
of federal activities Omaha had sustained since
we had to depend upon democratic representatives
at Washington. The Bee deliberately refrained,
however, from taking up the personal, as dis
tinguished from the official, character of the can
didate or going into certain decidedly unsavory
phases of the official record prior to his eleva
tion to the senate.
Wherein wis this campaign "disgusting to
fair-minded men?" What different, campaign
Should have been waged to keep within the lines
of fairness? Was this campaign Ineffective? We
think not We admit it was ineffective in the
Third ward in Omaha,, where, with the help of
slathers of "wet" money, Hitchcock distanced
his competitor nearly three to one; but proof
that it waa effective here in Douglas county lies
in reducing the lsst Hitchcock majority of over
9,000 to less than one-half of that figure. Proof
that it was effective in the state is seen in cutting
down the Hitchcock majority of six years ago
more than a third and in keeping the senator,
with all his "wet" money, bank backing and Ger
man support, down to little over one-fourth the
plurality rolled up by Wilson.
While accepting the verdict of the ballot box
In the spirit that every patriotic citizen ahould ac
cept it The Bee. has nothing to take back snd no
apologies to offer.
As "Mane Henry" Sees It
s Woman Leads In' Air Flight
The feat of Miss Anns Law, who has just es
tablished a new world record for long distance
continuous flight in an aeroplane, is not the leait
among woman's achievements in her new rela
tion as man's competitor. Aside from the serious
considerations of skill and endurance required to
accomplish, this arduous undertaking, the flight
record is of great importance to aviation. Each
new step adds to the totsj of knowledge On which
must be based the success of the future, and af
fords also an incentive to greater endeavor, which
in turn will make more certain the utilisation of
flying machines. The present activity in aerial
navigation may lead to S restoration of suprem
acy in the air to the United States, where the
secret of flight was discovered. In Europe the
adaptability of the airship as a weapon of war
it being demonstrated, but surely the science has
other uses, sqd these Americans should discover.
Woman now leads in the long distance flight
record,, but she may be sure that man will pur
sue her in the air as eagerly as he does on earth.
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The plays and novels that deal with the sup-
posru mytnicai or actual innaDitants ot Mars
would have had small voaue with the nublic had
not the late Percival Lowell, the astronomer,
who comes of as distinguished a family as this
country, nas ever produced, made the planet and
the possibilities of life on it a household word
When one remembers that the old-fashioned de
scriptive astronomy by most astronomers was
made slightly more attractive than the recondite
mathcmaticl astronomy, a closed book to all ex
cept the specialists, and also that the fascination
of astrophysical, by which the remotest bounds
01 tne universe are sensed, as it were, and anal
yzed, is of rec.nt -development, the fact that
I'ercival Lowell interested two ! continents m
what he divined might be going on in Mars,
bringing the planet home to us as a sort of sister
state, is a tribute to his captivating way of stat
ing dry telescopic fact and physical theories.
Moreover,, the great discoveries in . solar
physics and in the constitution of the universe,
as represented by the fixed stars themselves,
blazing centers of planetary systems of their
' own, had rather directed thr. popular mind away
from our own relatively insignificant solar tys-
tern. But Lowell kept the public mind interested
in the planet whose glowing ruddy disk was s
feature of the familiar heavens. An even if his
theories .that life existed on the planet and that
the inhabitants had become the greatest irriga
tion experts known to science are not accepted,
fie did stir up the whole astronomical world.
And, again, in the "good seeing" of the clear
skies of Arizona, at flagstaff, he was in a way,
almost able to prove that the "canals'' or huge
irrigation ditches, thousands of miles in length
and miles across, were realties and indicated pos
sibilities that would make the Mrtns tat so
different from, ourselves.
Closing Act of ths Farce.
, Hit "conference" between 'commissioners of
the United States snd Mexico over a joint policy
to be pursued with reference to the control Of
ear southern border, is about to end. No real
progress has been made and the blame for fail
ure Is inferentially placed on the Mexicans, who
resolutely decline to concede the main point de
manded by President Wilson's representatives.
This ending was foreshadowed weeks ago, but
was held back, pending the election, that the
peace plea might not be made the leas efficient
through tjhe effect of the last act of this farce
now waiting for the final curtain.
Administration adherents sdmit Carranza's
failure as a pacificator of his people, but weakly
say they do not see the alternative. Those who
have soberly warned against the muddling meth
ods of the president from the beginning can des
cry ont possible alternative, made imperative, if
w are to be assured of quiet along the border,
'and the Mexicans are to have order restored.
That course is active, but friendly intervention.
If Mr. Wilson will make good on any one'
of four solemn warnings sent to the Mexicans
within the lsst eighteen months, we may look
for peace and aafety where now we have an
army on watch to protect our people from mur
derous bands. ,who have prospered under "watch
ful waiting. '.:.. v v ".'
; Turkey and the Thanksgiving Baaket.
In his formal proclamation setting sside the
last Thursday in this month as s day for thanks
giving and prayer, the president adjured his fel
low citizens to give of their abundance to vic
tims in the war-stricken lands of the Old World.
This advice is' seasonable, but in other ways we
are reminded that nearer home we have those
who will also silently prefer a demand on the
bounty ot prosperous America, the announce
ment from the head of the local charity organi
zation that dinner baskets given out this year
will .not contain turkey' is but another way of
saying that, however noisy our abundance may be
in one way, it is remarkable for its silence in
another. It will not be the destitute alone who
will go without turkey in (he United States this
year, unless some unexpected change comes over
the spirit that now prevails.
The immediate future holds in its nark depths
events of world-wide moment.- Reconstructing
the map of Europe ia one, furling the gory battle
flags ia another, punctured price bubbles is a
third. But these are insignificant beside the ap
proaching crusade for the salvation of the demo
cratic party and substituting the water wagon for
the donkey as a party emblem.
-Laalavilla Ceurler -Journal..
Now that all is over -even the shouting of
a quadrennial convulsion showing curiously the
eccentricities of our party politics and the im
perfection of our electoral machinery, let ua for
a moment survey the field we have just traversed.
In the late campaign there was but one para
mount issue: the overthrow of the existing gov
ernment of the country in the face of a world
crisis; the substitution of a pilot having the ves
sel well in nand tor a pilot untried, H not un
skilled: in short, the swapping of horses in the
middle of the stream. Though this had brought
a flash of joy to the -republicans, along with the
official spoil, personally interesting only to a
few, the joy would have been fitful and illusory.
Bitter disappointment would have quickly ensued.
The conglomerate elements behind Mr.
Hughes could never have mixed and minslcd
in the work of forming a successful administra
tion. Mr. Hughes has shown himself in many
ways disqualified for successful party leadership.
A man of high intesritv and fixed beliefs an
old-line New England federalist, crossed on a
modern Pennsylvania republican conscientious,
unyielding and tactless he would inevitably have
broken down as president of the United States
even as he broke down as governor of the state
of .New York. -
The re-election of Mr. Wilson mav brine in
dangers of another sort, not yet visible to the
naked eye, but it averta many dangers which are
both real and visible. We owe our escaoe. not
to the boasted wisdom and culture of the east,
out to tne robust common sense of the west and
south. Thst means much. It means that Wall
street and by Wall street we designate the ag
gregate wealth of organized capital does not
govern the country and that a popular party may
elect a president without the vote of New York.
We are thus emancipated from the money mad
ness which possesses the trade centers. For a
time, at least, the Money Devil has been made
to go way back and sit down. On the other hand
vast responsibilities for good or evil are piled
upon the democratic party, and these, of course,
will be largely, maybe altogether, determined by
theman to whom credit for the achievement must
be wholly ascribed.
Mr. Wilson, another Carnot. was the orsan-
tzer of victory. He drew the plan of every bat
tle. He was his own strategist his own tac
tician, his own architect, his own campaign man
ager, the best, and easily the best, of the cam
paign orators. To him with the rewards will
come the accountabilities, and, although as a
scholar and man of letters he may think he fully
understands himself and comprehends the situa
tion, the muse of history may nevertheless
whisper in his ear lo.ud enough to be heard above
the dm of the cheering: Have a care. Wood
row, oh, my son, have a care I" .
Jefferson was rieht. That is the best gov
ernment which governs least. In framing the
tederai constitution the wise and patriotic men,
led by Madison, the republican, and Hamilton,
the imperialist, sought to keep between them
the Scylla of centralized monarchism and the
Charybdis of pure democracy. They constructed
a representative system, of limited powers, gird
round by definite checks and balances which they
believed would protect the people against des
potic enroachment upon the one hand and mob
passion upon the other.
Measurably this has been the result, But it
has been qualified of late by a demand for re-.
forms which have in some quarters risen to a
kind of hysteria. As a consequence two dangers
have come to pass; a disregard for precedents
inevitable to a craving after the experimental;
and the complication, not to say the ' confusion,
of -orderly governmental procedure incident to
an annual nooa oi legislation, state ana federal.
The country is honeycombed with commis
sions. Though state rights survived the war of
sections the heme rule principle was put to
serious strain. Now whatever happens to be
wanted anywhere, the word is. "On to Washing
ton." Woodrow Wilson calls this the new free
dom: Theodore Roosevelt calls it progressiveism;
the Duluth Herald calls it Social justice; the cheap
perodicals call it the uplift -
Whatever it is, or aims at, I it is a departure
from the simple and benign in government and
a menace to the country; an outgrowth not of
freedom but of slavery; a survival of the age of
theologic controversises of the inquisition and
the conventicle; a return to the era of church
and state beneath whose tyrannous rule men snd
women were to believe what the prelates told
them and to be made good by law.
That Woodrow Wilson, an academic dog
matist, and Theodore Roosevelt a spectacular
politician both more or less bent on power
should agree about such functions of government
is not surprising; but, now that Woodrow Wilson
has crossed the Rubicon of a re-election and is
about to enter his second and final term as presi
dent, it becomes a matte-' of moment, t and of
supreme moment, how far he may be able to out
live the ill-digested notions of the doctrinaire
and to surmount the peculiar infirmities of the
schoolmaster and to address his experience in
office and undoubted abilities to the working out
of a problem, not in huma ethics, but in actual,
practical government.
Unless the people can be brought back to
the simple rescripts of Thomas Jefferson as dis
tinguished from the half-baked sentimentalisms
of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt,
the abnormal conditions which made the Reign
of Terror possible in France may be brought
round in America, the crowded centers hot-beds
of insurrectionary spirit; labor, supportedvby the
rule of numbers, but misadvised of . its rights,
wildly loose in the land; capital, driven into a
corner, the rule of force no longer able to come
to the rescue of property, as helpless as the
Regime Ancien. .
Surely such a surmise is not toryism. Nor is
it profanation to suggest that Woodrow Wilson
cannot improve Thomas Jefferson, Nor yet inim
ical to add that he' may with profit mend some
of his ways. v
In saying that he makes common cause with
no one the Courier-Journal ha not intended to
imply that he should wear his heart upon his
sleeve, or that he should not in every case be
the final judge. By common cause it has meant
intellectual and patriotic community of interest.
Neither has it spoken without advisement. The
charge is made at Washington by those com
petent to know who are not hostile that he has
cultivated as president an isolation not merely
abhorrent to republican ideals, but personally
unwise and absurd, and has surrounded himself
not with counselors, but with servants, repelling
men of his own caliber.
Yet in these despites he has made an ex
cellent president ; His handling of our European
relations has been admirable. His domestic poli
cies have been fruitful. His fiscal reforms have
lifted our banking system out of an intolerable
rut. If he survives the allurements of a dan
gerous talent for phrase-making when he takes
up his appointed task again he will remember
that the White House is not a classroom, nor
the people a huddle of schoolboys they showed
that they are not pretty clearly he may not in
deed supplant our venerated Jeffersonian democ
racy With a modern, new-tangled Wilsonian
rlemnrracv. but he will save his nartv and hia
country from many pitfalls and perils in the years
to come. - '
lOHAVI
Thought Nugget for (he Pay.
Seek the company of those who
stimulate you to continue in your
chosen lite work and give you added
strencth. Avoid as you would poison
thorn who leave in you a sense ot
emptiness and debility.
Ernest von Feuchtersleben.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
-Serbian troops began to cross Into
Montenegro.
Roma reported furious Italian as
saults In Oorizlav.
British advanced along Tlsris river
to within eighteen miles of Bagdad.
Germans occupied Novtpazar, Ser
bia, and claimed capture of 80,000
prisoners'in the campaign.
In Omaha Thirty Tears Ago Today.
Andrew Peacock, employed in the
Union Pacific shops, while on hla way
to work, slipped and fell at the corner
of Hixteenth and Douglas. He was
picked up by Policeman Matza and
removed' to his home, 2215 Harney.'
In the Jail two large bottles are now
kept constantly filled with two differ-
' -5 f?-- fljfe3tls t,
People and Events
King Albert of the Belgians is said to be the
only expert mechanic among the monarcha of
Europe. , f"
Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British
forces in France and Flanders, is one of the best
polo players in the army.
Robert E. Spear, one of America's most widely
known relisious workers, has iust comoleted
twenty-five yeara of service aa secretary of the
rresoyteriaa Board ot foreign Missions.
ent medicines one tor delirium tre
mens and the other for fits.
Frank Mittauer has accepted the
challenge of T. F. Blackmore. The
terms and time of the race have not
yet been settled, but Blackmore's
friends are confident he can down the
bike champion of Nebraska, while
Mittauer's friends are equally confi
dent. '
The following pupils took part In a
Thanksgiving entertainment given by
Miss Ida K. Greenlee's seventh sratrt
at Leavenworth school: Lula Horn
berger, Mabel Eaton, Luther Leisen
rlng, Inez Alvison, Stella Harmon,
Llda Lorlng, Louis Treltschke, Charlie
Bullock, Julia Davis, Maggie O'Toole
and Frank Templeton.
The icemen are preparing for a rich
harvest this year.
William F. Heine, ex-county treas
urer, has returned with his wife and
family after a four-months' trip to
Europe.
The sad news has been received In
this city of the accidental death of
Herman Bllckensderfer, the youngest
son of Chief Engineer Bllckensderfer
of the Union Pacific. He was killed
in Idaho by the accidental discharge
of a gun. i
This Day In History,
1SV4 voiiaire, me greatest literary
man ot his time, born in Paris. Died
there May 80, 1787.
1780 Bryan Walter Proctor, who
won fame as a poet and dramatist un
der the name of Barry Cornwall, born
at Leeds, England. Died tn London
October 4, 1874.
1806 Napoleon I. Issued the Ber
lin decree, declaring the British Isles
In a state of blockade.
1810 George Frederick Cooke, a
celebrated English tragedian, made
his first American appearance in New
York.
1840 Empress Frederick, daughter
of Queen Victoria of England and.
mother of the present German Em
peror, born. Died at Cronberg August
5, 1901.
1891 Thomas Hill, former presi
dent of Harvard college, died at Walt
ham, Mass. Born at New Brunswick,
N. J., January 7, 1818.
189S The supreme court of the
United States decided the Great Lakes
to be high seas
1899 Garret A. Hobart vice presi
dent of the United States, died at
Paterson, N. J. Born at Long Brandt;
N. J., June 3, 1844.
The Day We Celebrate.
Mark Leon, with Leon the hatter,
Is today celebrating hla twenty-ninth
birthday, and promises to be 'one of
Omaha's coming business men.
John R. Webster, general manager
of the Omaha Bridge and Terminal
company, was born November 21,'
1861, at Detroit. He ie a lawyer by
profession and has lived in Omaha
since 188.
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV,
born at Pegll, near Genoa, sixty-two
years ago today.
Cardinal Mercter, Belgium's heroic
prelate, bom on the site of the battle
of Waterloo sixty-five yars ago today.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera, president
or the Republic of Guatemala, born
fifty-nine years ago today.
Mary Johnston, popular novelist,
born in Botecourt county, Virginia,
forty-six wears ago today.
Sir Arthur T. Qulller-Couch. popular
English novelist born- in Cornwall
fifty-three years ago today. -
William H. Murray ("Alfalfa Bill"),
representative' ln congress of the
Fourth Oklahoma district born at
Collinsvllle, Tex., forty-seven years ago
today.
Rev. Henry M. Couden, chaplain of
the -United Slates house of represent
atives, born in Marshall county, In
diana, seventy-fionr years ago today.
Frank L. Kramer, world's champion
bicycle racer, born at Evansvllle, Ind.,
thirty-seven years ago today.
Clark Griffith, manager of the
Washington American league base ball
.team, born at Nevada, Mo,, forty
eight years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The federal farm loan board holds
a hearing today at Amarllo, Tex.
Qulncy, Mass., holds its first elec
tion today under the non-partisan plan
of city government.
The Farmers' Educational and Co
operative union, the largest and most
influential body of farmers in the
country, begins its national conven
tion today at Palatka, Fla.
A uniform code of stats laws to
Sovern the assessment life Insurance
uslness is to be considered at the an
nual convention of the National Asso
ciation of 1 Mutual Life Underwriters,
which meets today at Chicago.
All modern appliances used In
hotels from kitchen to roof garden
are to be shown at the big exposi
tion of the National Hotel Men's con
gress, opening today in the Grand Cen
tral Palace, New York Cltyv ,
Storyette of the Day.
Macklln was once lecturing on lit
erature and the stage, and in discuss
ing the education of memory boasted
that he could repeat any formula
after hearing It '
. Samuel Foote, the sardonic come
dian, who was one of Macklln's audl--l
torn, wrote out and sent to ths plat
form the rlgamarole that has ever
since been famous:
"So she went Into the garden to
cut a cabbage leaf- to make an apple
pie. At the same time a great she
bear, coming up the street pops its
head Into the shop. '
"'What! No soap?'
"So he died, and she very impu
dently married the barber; and there
were present the Pickaninnies, the
Jobililies and the Gayrulies, and the
Grand Pan'andrum himself, with the
little round button at the tip: and
they all fell to playing the game of
catvh-as-catch-can till the gunpowder
ran out of the heels of their boots."
. Mackllu failed, and so does every
body that tries orally to repeat tha
confusing arrangement of words.
Detroit Free Press. . -
Reducing the Living Cost.
Walnut la, Nov. 20. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Omaha Is to be com
mended upon the fact that It has a
reducer for the high cost of living in
the person of A. B. Mlckle. If I were
a resident of Omaha I would recom
mend him to Douglas county as an
excellent candidate for overseer of the
county farm. Just think of all the
money he could save the county. Af
ter a short time the county would
have no expense at all, except a few
undertakers' bills. Read conversation
between Mr. Bumble and Mr. Sower
berry In chapter four of Oliver Twist
by Dickens.
Why couldn't Mr. Mlckle make the
cheese last even longer? He could
cut up the pound in seven parts snd
theii, divide each seventh part- into
seven parts again, making forty-nine
pieces of cheese. Then eat one piece
per night himself, consequently mak
ing a pound last seven weeks instead
of one. Substitute fresh water for
cheese for the rest of the family, and
save on the cheese bill.
As for the weevils, they are good for
chickens, so why not for human be
ings? Therefore a saving la made by
buying weevil oatmeal, a combina
tion of meat and cereal.
-. C. C. SCHACK.
Why the Scarcity of Mechanical
Labor
Omaha, Nov. 20. To the Editor of
The Bee: -1 read a statement from
Grant Parsons in reference to the
building laborers, In which he would
like to know what has become of the
experienced laborers that were in town
previous to the strike of last spring.
I would say for his enlightenment a
good many of the experienced labor
ers are working for building contrac
tors here and elsewhere and are paid
tha union scale of wages. Take Chi
cago, .for instance, a bona fide build
ing laborer receives from 42 Si cents
per hour to 70 cents per hour, and
here ia our great and properous city
of Omaha the building and street con
tractors pay from 20 to 40 cents per
hour. - 1
Any man with an ounce of, sense
knows he can't get experienced labor
ers for 20 or 2S cents per hour. Have
you ever heard or read of a city the
size or umana iurnisning prisoners to
a contractor to do street work which
the property owners are paying for.
The unfortunate prisoner receives 10
cents per hour and the city IS cents
per hour. Fine doings lor tne ricn
contractor who has accumulated his
"pile" at the expense of the bona Ode
laborer ana mecnanic.
Think if over, Mr. Parsons, and you
can readily discern the cause ot the
scarcity of mechanical laborers, and
in tneir stead you nave here a nuncn
of "strike breakers" and spineless hu
man derelicts. STRAIGHTWIRE.
Diirfranchisement in the South.
Omaha, Nov. 20. To the Editor of
The Bee: I cannot doubt that all in
telligent readers of your excellent
paper have been equally interested
with myself in noting the editorial re
marks in reference to the effect of the
"solid south's"-vote In the last presi
dential election. In spite of oft
repeated I demonstrations of the fact
that this government is the merest
travesty on genuine democracy, we
shall probably have a continuation of
this condition ror years to come.
There are lots of us left yet who re
tain a vivid recollection of the time
something more than a halt century
ago, when the question, "What shall
we do with the negro?" became" the
most hackneyed phrase that appeared
in print with the possible exception
of: "All quiet pn the Potomac." In
spite of the. predetermination and
promise of Mr. Lincoln to have noth
ing to do witn slavery rranxiy and
fully disavowing any constitutional
light or personal Inclination to inter
fere with It he, at the very outset
of his administration, inevitably ran
afoul of the unsolvable problem of
avoiding a mixup with the south's
'"peculiar1 institution." At last he was
almost driven to the Issuance. of the
emancipation proclamation, and later,
but with apparently hardly less reluc
tance, endorsed the movement for or
ganizing, arming and mobilizing the
freed men. Still later came the con
stitutional amendments, eventuating
in the elective franchise. But the con
federate brigadlerB have made good
their threat that the ballot in the
hand of the negro should prove
boomerang to his friends, at least
so far as the south Is concerned.
It is well remembered that when
it was first decided to enlist colored
men as soldiers In the national army
during the civil war. a number of
prominent confederates declared their
satisfaction In view of It for. as they
said, ,thls would afford them an
easy sou roe for replenishing their
supplies of arms and ammunition.
But authentic history affords ample
warrant for the assertion that they
have met with much better luck in
dealing with the black man In respect
to his ballot than with his gun.
Let us at least indulge the hope thai
something may be done, and soon,
that shall put an end to the miserable
burlesque on fair and honest govern
ment such as has always obtained
here. CYRUS D. BELL.
Warming up Mlckle.
Council Bluffs. Ia, Nov. 20. To tht
Editor of The Bee: In his letter A.
B. Mlckle (more suitably named A.
Big Miser) shows how low so-called
man can sink beneath the standard of
true manhood, by boasting of "lay
ing up money" on 160 a month wages,
by denying his "slave" he calls "wife"
not only the privilege of handling at
least her half of the money, but of
evert being allowed to buy or choose
the food she is compelled to cook for
the family. He is "boss" he says, and
after winning her through pretended
'"love" now proves himself beneath ths
low of wild beasts of the forest who'
without vowing before God and man
to "love, honor, protect and provide
for" their mates, do all In their power,
even at the cost of lifer, to provide for
their comfort and protection, while he
denies them not only comforts but re
fuses to furnish meat sugar, potatoes,
butter or eggs, or anything else his
shriveled nature deems unnecessary
in order to "exist," and considers it
a manly and wise deal to buy oatmeal
full of weevils at 1 cent a pound, in- .
stead of good oat meal at 5 cents,
comforting himBelf with the thought
that cooking kills the weevils or
worms, boasting of thus managing to
feed (or starve) a family of seven on
11.96 a week at present high prices.
She whom God says to "give honor
unto' as unto the weaker vessel" and
"love as his own body" is fit to bear
his children (and on such rations)
as well as train and care for them and
consume her strength and very life
in faithfully filling a wife's place (all
unappreciated) and make a home for
him and her and board him, but un
worthy of choosing or buying even
staple, palatable ' eatables, handling
any part of the $60 a month she does
more to earn than he.
True men of this "land of the free
and the home of the brave" are dis
graced by such creatures bearing the
same name. There are multitudes In
this great country where all ahojild
have equal rights to "life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness"), who love
and provide for her they chose as an
equal, and such heathenism as A. B.
Mickle manifests, has Its proper place
on some cannibal island, not. among
an enlightened, civilized people, or
amid those In whose breasts manly
hearts beat From one "opposed to
cruelty to animals."
i M. W. A READER.
High Cost Through Over-Eating.
Omaha, Nov. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: I saw an article in The Bee,
"High Cost of Living," by Dr. Robin
son. Regarding the cost of living at
60 cents a day, will say I have had a
little experience myself and will give
you my expenses for a day. ' .
For my Sunday morning breakfast
I take one teacupful of pancake flour
which makes four pancakes about the
size ot a saucer. That costs 4 cents,
including gas and butter. Three slices
eggs at 6 2-8 cents makes 16 J-8
of bacon at 2 cents a slice and two
cents. No coffee, no sugar, nothing
but hot. water. How's that for high
cost of living?
Will say that when we marched to
the sea with Sherman and arrived at
Savannah ws had nothing to eat My
company camped on a rice plantation '
and. my squad gave an old negro $5
to shell enough rice to do until we
got rations from Uncle Sam. We lived
on boiled rice for twelve days and we
did not lose any flesh.
75-YEAR-OLD CIVIL WAR
VETERAN.
SUNNY GEMS.
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He (Ingratiatingly!'
laat night, my dear.
Wife (cooly) Belated
Judge.
Slmmona Blowpep thiaka hla hoy la the
smartest tn the world.
Klmmona Well, . why shouldn't he?. JQa
boy aeema to he of the same opinion-
Judge.
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