THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.
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JANUARY CIRCULATION
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Come on with your federal land bank! We're
all ready for it! .
The road to mccess i proverbially rough
oven the road to good roads I
Western wool bringing 30 to 38 cents a pound
clearly maps the modern era of the golden fleece.
So far as Nebraska is concerned the College
of Hard Knocks it a lawful training school of law.
More automobile accidents plainly due to
recklessness! Slow up in our busy city streets
and drive carefully t
Growing scarcity of business for the U-boats
indicates considerable progrt l toward complete
"freedom of the aeas."
Omaha never had a more promising prospect
before it. This is the time when every little boost
will produce big results.
f. Tki. Uhar th Wnm,n Raallv Want? 1
The women of Nebraska can have the vote
henever they can command the requisite major
ity to adopt a suffrage amendment to the con
stitution. The ready-to-hand machinery of the
initiative makes it easy for them to submit the
question at every alternate election and, having
come within 10,000 of winning out last time, the
suffrage advocates are naturally hopeful and confident.
But do the suffrage folks really want the leg
islature to pass the pending limited-suffrage bill
hich they are presumably pressing at Lincoln.'
Or is their onslaught on the lawmakers merely
taking advantage of an opportunity to secure pub
lic attention as a part of a campaign of educa
tion? Without regard to merits of the claim set
up by the women, we may ask: Do they realize
the risk to the suffrage cause involved in the pas
sage of their bill? Have they forgotten that the
initiative and referendum works both ways and
may be resorted to by the antis, as well as by the
suffragists? Suppose this limited suffrage meas
ure, which has already gone through one house,
should also receive the approval of the other
ouse, what is to prevent the antis invoking a
referendum upon it? A referendum requires only
10 per cent petition, as against a 15 per cent
petition for the initiative, and would present lim
ited suffrage to the voters at the same time that
they would be asked to pass on unlimited suf
frage, with consequent confusion, dangerous if
not disastrous to both.
The issue is not yet acutely upon us, but The
Bee ventures to point out the possibilities and the
pitfalls of the situation, looking a little further
ahead than some others are doing. Seeing the
next step, we doubt if the practical suffragists who
are looking for results, rather than temporary
glory, really want to have limited suffrage and
unlimited suffrage submitted for popular ratifica
tion at one and the same time.
An average of one automobile to every twelve
and one-half persons in Nebraska pushes the
state to the forefront of gasoline speeders.
Congress rounds into the home stretch with
measures of surpassing importance pressing for
action. Much new history may be started before
March 4.
To the senator: Accept our thanks for your
effective defense of the newspaper and periodical
publishers from threatened unwarranted postage
And everything in the court house seems to be
"business as usual," even though four out of our
five county commissioners are away from the city
together.
Retiring guardsmen from active duty and
at the same time accelerating the recruiting offices
leaves the public guessing where the administra
tion is at.
Efficiency ideas oft travel far. The famous
Hoosier system of "frying the fat" works equally
well, it seems, in reducing the surplus fat of Ger
man farmers. :
Waiting to hear from you, Mrs. Catt, with a
withdrawal of your charge that the suffrage
amendment, voted on in Nebraska in 1914, was
"counted out."
With the "wet" and "dry", issue eliminated,
those annual April town and village elections,
for which the candidates are beginning to spar for
position, will be to tame as to hardly repay conv
piling the returns.
Lincoln boasts of being the educational center
of Nebraska. Any one who wishes to enlarge his
vocabulary of expletives is therefore invited to
visit the legislative halls in the state house at any
hour when business it in progress.
The report that Villa has gone to Japan or
some other foreign country it too good to be true,
His disappearance would provoke an excess of
joy' at Washington and the City of Mexico and
Fancho it not skilled at a joymaker.
The War department pointedly intimates that
individuals, patriotic societies and organizations
should but more action into their nle-Ho-fa nf
support Resolutions are useless in filling army
and navy ranks. At the department views the
aituation the need of the moment is less talk
and more speed to the recruiting offices. Do
now!
Retiring gold from general circulation in Cati
foraia provokes expressions of regret. The pass,
ing of a golden state characteristic touches a
native tender spot, bat the regret is not as deep
as it appears. A multitude of easterners know
from practical experience that Californians snap
up paper money just as eagerly as the yellow
metal.
Shackleton's Antarctic Battle
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The efforts of Sir Ernest Shackleton to res
cue the members of his exneditinn left hehinrl
in the Antarctic and the stoic heroism of the
marooned men after the Aurora broke from its
moorings nearly two years ago have provided
one of the most impressive chapters in the annals
of exploration. Shackleton went 750 milea in an
open boat from Elephant island to South Georgia
to get ncip, ana maae tour attempts betore he suc
ceeded in breaking through the ice barrier tn era.
cue hit men from their imprisonment. In six
months and a half while on the mainland one of
his parties covered 1,560 miles in a sledge journey
through tremendous winds and pitiless blizzards.
One man who had to be lashed to a sledge in a
sleeping bag succumbed, another was left hehinrl
at his own request and subsequently rescued, and
11 it nau not oecn tor ine enorts 01 lour starving,
faithful dogs all would have died.
"What's the use?" asks the clubman, as he
rings for another whisky and soda or snuggles
deeper into his furt. "It wat their own fault, Thv
didn't have to do it." Men who live by creature
comforts alone never will understand why any.
body should forsake ease for hardship or travi
erse a uesoiate area wnen no immediate commer
cial profit appears. Many a oioneer who has un
locked a treasure house to generations after him
has in his time been called a crack-brained fanatic
Whether Antarctica ever becomes useful or not to
an exploitation corporation, the example of quiet
naroinoou, or cnecriui piucx ana steadfast pa
tience it a continuing inspiration to those who rle
apise the soft and easy life of esthete and sybarite,
Putting Pigt in the Parlor,
Referring to the proposed $80,000 hog barn for
the state fair grounds, a Nebraska editor suggests
that Nebraska pigs must be kept in parlors, and
in doing so unconsciously, perhaps, emphasizes a
change in conditions that is little appreciated by
the people. The hog actually has become an
aristocrat and "parlor" exactly conveys the cor
rect notion so far as his surroundings are con
cerned. City folks think of him as a rooting,
grunting, wallowing beast, a consumer of swill
and rejected foods. The truth is just the oppo
site. The hog has been elevated to an eminence
that aatonishet even his owners. He is tenderly
cared for, daintily fed and lovingly watched.
Many a Nebraska farmer would not trade his
hog barn for an equal space in the state house
at Lincoln. Few men and women are better
housed, and many an expectant mother lacks the
jealous watchfulness bestowed upon the mamma
pig. A 2-year-old porker is worth $40 any day
at the Omaha yards, and a good brood sow
will bring into the world from fifteen to twenty
of her young at a time, and do it twice a year.
The once-despised twine is become a jewel, and
nyist have his casket accordingly.
Nebraska a Good Spot to Live In.
Figures just made public by the Nebraska
State Board of Health atrongly support the prop
osition that Nebraska is a good spot to live in;
also, that the people of Nebraska realize the ex
pectation of posterity and are doing their full
share to meet it. For 1916 births in Nebraska
numbered 27,268, of which fifty-two were negro,
three Chinese and eight Indian. Of these births
seta of twins and four sets of triplets are
recorded, showing something of the enthusiasm
with which Nebraska mothers welcome their
opportunity, Also, the "votes for women" agita
tion notwithstanding, 1,118 more boys than girls
were born during the year. Death called 11,091
from the state within the twelve-month period,
ine net gain in population inrougn natural in
create being thus fixed at 16,177.
That marriage is yet a respected institution
among Nebraskans may be gathered from the
fact that 11,550 couples were wed and only 2,093
divorced in the state in 1916. Causes for divorce
show more husbands than wives at fault, 266
suits being won by the man against 1,827 by the
woman. As reason for separation, 916 set up
cruelty, 244 alleged drunkenness, 546 women ac
cused their husbands of failure to support, 328
plaintiffs alleged desertion and fifty-nine accused
the ernng partner of infidelity.
Douglas county naturally leads in totals, with
3,670 births and 2754 deaths. Marriage in the
county for the year totaled 2,479, while 739
divorcet were granted. All of which makes a
showing on which Nebraskans may rest some
pride at to their orderly observance of their du
ties as citizens.
t.. ... I A. rronoratirtn have died
from the fact of the earth since I first preached
but I remember it well.
I was in mv senior vear at Hamilton college
and residing in the village of Clinton, N. Y.,
where the college is located, when one day my
pastor called upon me from the village of Dcans
boro, five miles away, where I was reared, and
asked me if I had a sermon. This pastor was
the Rev. Samuel Miller, brother to the Hon. W.
H. H. Miller, who was attorney general in Presi
dent Harrison's cabinet: a scholarly man and well
known throughout central New York, with per
haps as fine natural ability as his more distin
guished brother. He had been pastor of our vil
lage church a good share ot my young lite ana
we were very croud of his ability in the pulpit
and certainly reverenced his character.
I was amazed and confounded to nave mm
ask me if I had a sermon and I am afraid I
answered somewhat impudently. I remember
that I said. "Sermon! What would 1 be doing
with a sermon ?"and his reply: "1 didn't know but
you might have one. I want you to come up to
my church and occupy the pulpit next Sunday. I
am obliged to be away from home and should
very much appreciate the favor. If you have no
sermon 1 will be glad to turnisn one tor you to
read." It was the general practice in our region
to read the sermon in those days. "Why," I
said, "Mr. Miller, I could not do that," and then
followed quite a discussion upon the subject, he
insistent and I argumentative; but I was no match
for him and he soon had me where I thought I
could not refuse. I finally said, Mr. Miller, I
do not know anything about theology and I have
no sermon, but if you will take the responsibility
for what I may say, I will try to prepare a ser
mon and do my best." He left me with a hearty
handshake and good wishes tor my success.
Patching the Old State House.
Hesitant democrats, fearful of facing a real
duty to the state, are talking of expending $30,000
or more in patching up the dilapidated state
house. Money spent in repairing this old build
ing it wasted. To patch it up is only to post
pone the inevitable, already too long put off. Con
struction of a new capitol building is not a mat
ter of sentiment any longer, but of practical busi-
ness. Officers and records of the state deserve
to be decently housed and securely provided for,
and this is impossible in the crumbling pile now
in use. Safety as well as sanity is involved in the
move, and opposition to it comes mainly from
that wing of the reactionary party that refuses
to even look ahead, let alone go ahead. The
democrats is the legislature might enforce econ
omy in tome directions, but to undertake to per,
petuate the worn-out wreck of a building in which
the legislature is sitting this winter is wasteful
The proposed Dodge street grading project
seemi at last, to have reached the point where
its feasibility' depends upon waivers of damages
on behalf of several piecet of property owned by
organizations whose members have no direct per
sonal interest other than the public interest. It
is to be hoped, therefore, that the decision shall
be reached solely by asking, Is it a good thing
for Omaha to have this street opened up an
will the ultimate benefits repay the cost? That
is the real question.
"Telegraph Your Senators I" screams the St,
Louis Republic. The flood control appropriation
bill carrying $45,000,000 is in danger of being
scuttled in the upper house, and the prospect of
southern contractors running short of federal
fodder explains the hurry call for help.
' A live wire fence along the Mexican border
appears the simplest means of inducing hesitation
among bandits on murder bent and retaining the
shocks on the south tide of the line.
Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks
"My First Sermon"
"My good step-mother had often said
to me, 'Eiwm. I know you wi.l be
o minister snrne day.' "
I remember very well the text I chose. It was
Peter iii:15, "Give a reason for the hope that
is in you.
1 wrote mv sermon at odd moments and Sat
urday night went home to my father's house
in Deansboro. Sunday morning before going to
church my stepmother said: "Edwin, I have no
doubt but what you will preach well, but I do
wish you would ask Deacon to make the
long prayer." I told my doubting mother that
since I was going to occupy the pulpit I should
take every branch ot the mornings work myself.
and that if, I made a mess of it, she need not feel
Daaiy, lor i snouia not inyseii.
1 came very nearly disgracing myselt in a
way that I had not anticipated. The old-fashioned
church had the pulpit in the front of the
building. People entered with their backs to the
pulpit and faced about when they sat down. From
the pulpit 1 looked down upon the congregation
composed of people whom I had known from
childhood. In that old community almost all the
families were united by marriage. Although the
minister was not a relative of mine, one of his
brothers married my father's sister, so that we
were brought together m the closest of family
ties. As the congregation filed in and took their
seats, I saw many looks directed towards me.
It is not an easy thing to preach your first
sermon at home. People think of you as a boy.
Occasionally I preach in the old church now in
my visits east and some of those people stilt call
me "Eddie." Among those who filed in to the
morning worship was a young man, a cousin of
mine, a chum and the partner of many escapades.
He entered demurely, took a seat reverently, and
glancing up discovered me in the pulpit. I shall
never forget the sly way in which he looked to
the right and left out of the corner of his eyes
to see if he was observed, and then drew down
the corner of his eyelid iri a most facetious man
ner possible in an indisputable wink. There were
volumes of pent up history involved in that wink.
It was as much as to say, Old boy, you remem
ber the larks we have had, but I will never tell."
f .think I came nearer leaving the ministry in
the next half minute than I ever have' since, for
the effort to control myself and not laugh was
almost beyond my ability.
Well, 1 preached the sermon. It was uoon the
evidences for the being and character of God,
the reason why we should expect Him to give us
a Bible and the reasonableness that He should
send Jesus, His divine son, to be our saviour.
When the services were over there were very
many kind things said by the individuals of the
congregation as they passed out. From that time
they have always accented me as their
preacher, and I am the only preacher that has
ever gone forth from that church since it was
organized. I know a number of young fellows
who would have been vastly better qualified than
1 tor the othce.
TODAVI
Health Hint for the Day.
Overeating of meat 1 Injurious,
ainoe meat contains substances which
tend to raise the blood pressure.
As I think back over the years I see that the
wise old pastor made this opportunity and in
sisted upon my filling his pulpit so strenuously,
to get me started in the way in which he thought
I should go. At that time I had not thought of
being a minister. My good stepmother had often
said to me, "Edwin, I know that you will be a
minister some dav," and my old grandmother.
who had charge of me before my stepmother's
regime, also told me the same thing. But I
laughed them to scorn. In my college course I
had been specializing in law studies. Why should
I not? It was the country of Roscoe Conkling,
Horatio Seymour, Frances Kernan, Elihu Root
and the Hon James S. Sherman, afterward vice
president of the United States, was just finish
ing ms iaw cuursc in ine same college wnen I
entered. Most of the distinguished men that I
knew or knew about were lawyers. I had settled
trie problem tor myselt and at that very time was
reading in special work under the Hon. Francis
M. Burdick, afterwards with Columbia Law
school.
This first preaching was the beginning of turn
ing my tnougnts aetinitely towards the ministry.
As the days went on the conviction grew that the
ministry should be my field of labor. Here I am
today with most of my career; certainly, accom
plished. Paator Ktrst Preabyterisn Church. J
Nit "M Tint tSwTiwn," by Bct. Harry B. Foster.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
German seaplanes raided the east
and southeast coasts of England.
French automobile pun crew de
stroyed German Zeppelin near
Revigny.
French steamship Memphis report
ed sunk by Austrian submarine off
Durazzo.
British position 350 meters long on
Yaer canal, north of Ypres, stormed
by Germans.
People and Events
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The Knights of Labor gave a hall
at the Exposition building, the music
being furnished by the Musical union
band under the supervision of Harry
Irvine. The master of ceremonies,
E. A. Taylor, was assisted by A. V.
Trott. The reception committee con
sisted of P. Andres, C. Cheney, J. Mc
Donald, J. Kopp, J. Wolshensky, C.
M. O'Donovan, W. Glesetman, W. W.
Craven, H. T. Irvine, J. L. Black and
Dr. W. R. Lavender.
A B. & M. and a IT. P. train met on
a crossing at the foot of California
street, slightly Injuring Fireman
Christy of the B. & M., damaging both
engines and knocking several freight
en frnm the track.
A Are caused by a defective flue
started at 3 in the morning in A.
Cahn's brick building, 1611 Dodge.
Mrs. Kennedy, who runs the place a
a boarding house, and some of her
boarders were forced to flee in their
"robes of night" to the Planters house.
It is reported that the base ball
grounds will probably be located on
Twentieth and Lake and the Btreet car
company will build a lino to that
place.
Mr. Krusel, who is one of Roycea
hackers In his match with Motn,
offers to wager $250 that Royce will
win the match.
The first annual hop or ine live
stock commission men of the union
stock yards was held at the Exchange
hotel and, in order to accommuuaiu
Omahaas, a dummy was run irom
Omaha at 8 o'clock, returning at about
1:30 in the morning.
This Day In History.
1772 Commodore Isaac Chauncey,
distinguished American naval officer,
born at Black Kock. uonn. uiea m
Washington, D. C, January 27, 1840.
1792 Postotnce system oi me
United States established by act ot
congress.
1807 Thirty spectators crusneo to
death at the execution of two mur
derers at the Old Bailey, in London.
l SI 5 The frigate Constitution de
feated the British brigs Cyane and Le
vant in great naval battle off Cape
St. Vincent.
1820 Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, Arc
tic explorer, born in Philadelphia.
Died at Havana in isoi.
1852 First through train rrom ine
st. over the Michigan Southern rail
road, entered Chicago.
1864 The federals were aeieaiea
at Olustee, FUv
1878 Cardinal Pecct elected pope
with name of Leo XIII.
1896 The Cuban revolution Began
by simultaneous risings in different
parts of the island.
1908 uenerai Bioessei, xne xiiunsian
commander at Port Arthur, found
guilty and condemned to death; sen
tence commuted to ten years' Imprisonment.
1915 Panama-Pacific international
exposition opened. -
The Day We Celebrate.
William A. Plxley, general auditor
of the Nebraska Telephone company,
as well as allied companies, is today
celebrating his forty-third birthday.
As a boy Pixley belonged to The Bee
family, with which start ne nas Deen
going steadily upward. He was once
a star bicycle riaer ana is a. reauy
sportsman with rod and gun.
J. W. Elwood was born reDruary
20, 1876, In Iowa. He stuffs animals
and birds for a living, being president
of the Northwest School of Taxidermy.
Louise Victoria, princess royai, nic
est daughter of the late King Edward
and sister of King George V, born
flftv years ago today.
- Lieutenant General Sir H. Seymour
RaWlinson, one the British command
ers in the great battle of the Somme,
born nftv-two years ago today.
Sir Thomas Price, to whom credit
is largely due for the development of
the railway system in soutn Ainca,
born in Wales sixty-nine years ago
today.
Brigadier General Ernest A. Gar
llmrton. the retiring inspector general
of tho United States army, born at
Newberry Court House, S. C, sixty
four years ago today.
Mary Garden, world-famous opera
tic soprano, born in Aberdeen, Scot
land, forty years ago today.
Herbert S. Hadley, former governor
of Missouri, born at Olathe, Kan.
forty-live years ago today.
Although just over 70 Tom Edison persists
in working about sixteen hours a day in one shift.
Moreover, ne says ne likes tne jod.
For the first time in the history of Great
Britain the majority of the members of the cab
inet. including the prime minister, are non-con!
formists. Lloyd George is a Baptist, Bonar Law
a Presbyterian, and Arthur Henderson a Wes
leyan Methodist.
Brigadier General Ernest A. Garlington, the re
tiring inspector general ot the United btates army,
is the envied possessor of a congressional medal
of honor, bestowed on him for distinguished gal
lantry against the Sioux Indians at the battle of
Wounded Knee.
Florida reiterates that February cold snaps
killed 50 per cent of the fruit crop and 75 per
cent of the vegetable crop. However, the state
is cluttered with northern tourists and if winter
sticks to its proper territory the crop loss will
not be seriously lelt.
Former Senator and Congressman-elect Wil
liam E. Mason of Illinois overflows with good
humor as he nears the public payroll. His ora
torical outgivings on public affairs are tagged
as hiltymasonisms and are esteemed rare contri
butions to the gayety of the state.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Shrove Tuesday will be celebrated
today with the customary Mardl Gras
carnivals at New Orleans, Pensacola,
Blloxi and other cities of the south.
Michigan republicans meet in con
vention at Detroit today to select can
didates for the minor state offices to
be rilled at the soring election.
The fifth annual convention of the
Laymen's Missionary Movement of the
Presbyterian cnurcn in tne united
states, which assembles today at Lex
lngton, Ky., Is expected to be one of
the greatest religious gatherings of
the year in the south.
To give the business and profess
sional men of the metropolis an op
portunity to express their patriotic
earnestness and willingness to support
the president In any International
crisis, the Merchants' Association of
New York is to hold a luncheon meet
ing at the Hotel Astor today. The
meeting is to be addressed by Mayor
Mitchel, Martin W. Littleton and
United States Senator-Elect William
M. Calder.
lias the City Any Just Claim?
Omaha, Feb. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: Attorney Lambert's indus
try and vigilance in resurrecting the
relations of the old street car com
pany to the city of Omaha are worthy
of commendation. Every public offi
cer should use his best talent and
energy in serving the people. But It
seems to me that the city commission
ers to whom he has submitted his
"discovery" should hesitate before
bringing suit against the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway for an
alleged claim which. It is said, Omaha
has against the primitive street car
company.
The present company has been
evolved from four previous organiza
tions, not one of which ever earned a
dollar for Its shareholders. They were
created as much from patriotic mo
tives and local pride aa any Intention
to enrich themselves. The present
company has been successful. It has
kept up with city Improvements gen
erally. In fact It and our admirable
telephone system have kept ahead of
the city and are now giving us serv
ices equal to, or better, than the best
found in any city of the Mississippi
or Missouri valleys.
Old settlers like myself remember
the discouraging and precarious Con
dition of the "Omaha Horse Railway
company," created under the act of
the territorial legislature of 1867. "Ex
clusive right to the use of the streets
of Omaha was granted the company
for a term of fifty years and at the
end of thrt period the entire property
of the company was to revert to the
city." Probably the idea in the minds
of the contracting parties was that the
concern would cease to exist long be
fore the expiration of the term and
that the reversion would carry noth
ing with It, except the franchise. Ihis
was actually demonstrated when, in
1878, eleven years afterwards, W. W.
Marsh bought the entire system, bag
and baggage, at public auction, for
525,000.
: will not attempt to occupy valu
able space in The Bee by arguing that
the city has no claim upon the present
organization. That, I am afraid, will
be threshed out in the courts, unless
public sentiment, which Bhould always
be fair and just, demands that there
shall be no snit.
There are those who delight in per
secuting public service corporations.
These same people many of them 6o
not pay taxes are only too glad to
take legal action against a corpora
tion for damages of 320,000 or more
under the most trivial grievances.
The rights of the people are sacred
and must be maintained, but the peo
ple, on the other hand, should not en
courage a "holdup" nor claim anything
which does not justly belong to them.
JOHN RUSH.
Peace In Place of Lawlessness.
Omaha, Feb. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: We advocate peace if pos
sible war if necessary. But mani
festly if we fulfill the destiny which
the world events have made the more
clear for us, peace is our mission
and in a sense that the world has
never seriously considered heretofore.
If all men were ready to wear the
"symbolism of peace" in their hearts
as well as upon their lapels humanity
would be Infinitely exalted above its
present state, and if we put a stop
to the lawlessness of the south which
has been running rampant "for years
in this age of progressive" thought
if we keep our house clean we can
tfuly wave "the American flag" and
sing the "Star Spangled Banner" with
a clean conscience. J. W. SHIELDS.
era and laborers who earn $25 per
week or thereabout (more or less)
what nhnut them? I suDDOSe they
should work in some institution for
from 312 to $15 per week.
I have a solution if "dry" men arc
so sincere that the state stay dry- Why
not have a bill passed In the senate
giving employment to these men dis
missed as special constables to e
force the law, so as to have a bone
dry state? I am sure this state would
be a desert, for there is not a man
who would not catch all the citizens
and bootleggers who have liquor In
their possession or on iheir premises.
Some "drys" would say, "The wets will
not fulfill their duty." I say bond them
or give them five years if they do not
The taxes will be raised on account
of prohibition, so why not raise It a
little higher and give these men em
ployment and have a dry state which
was voted for. CHAS. MERTZ.
1718 Dorcas street.
Still Dodging the Issue.
Omaha. Feb. 19.-To the Editor of
The Bee: If J. F. Weybright writes
a million letters in defense of the
frauds and force used In carrying elec
tions in every southern state, yet it
does not change the fact that Charles
E. Hughes carried the old loy.l north
by more than 400,000 plurality, while
the southern states were counted for
Wilson by more than 900,000 majority,
and that huge majority was obtained
only by force and fraud. A man who
approves of the way elections are car
ried in all of the southern states is
not a patriotic American citizen.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Is Money the Root of All Evil?
St Mary, Neb., Feb. 19. To the
Editor of The Bee: I note in The
Bee a letter from Dr. J. F. Stevens, In
which he attacks the social evil by
quoting elaborately from tht world's
noted infidel, Robert G. Ingersoll, and
enumerates a whole string of remedies
that have been applied and adds: "It
seems they have done their very best
to make mankind better and happier,
and yet have not succeeded." Full
well does the doctor know (If he Is
worthy of his noble profession) that
a disease cannot be cured unless you
remove the cause; neither can we rem
edy an evil without removing the
cause and of all the remedies enu
merated not a one had a tendency
to remove the cause. He then asks:
"Why have the reformers failed? I
will tell you why. Ignorance, poverty
and vice are populating the world,
etc."
There is a remedy: Repeal the
vicious laws that permit the few to
exploit the many and enact laws of
justice that will permit the laboring
classes to retain the full product of
their labor, and poverty will vanish
as smoke before the wind.
All wealth Is created by labor. The
rich do not labor or create any wealth.
Then how did they get It?
H. SCHUMANN.
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.
Miaa Edna Howard, preaident of the Den
ver branch of the Aaeodation of Collegiate
Alumnae, is an expert foldemith.
Aa wife of the new prime mlnlater, Mra.
Lloyd Georg-e takea precedence over ail other
ladies in England, with the exception of roy
alty and the wrrta of the lord chancellor
and the archbUhopa of Canterbury and York.
Need
Displaced Brewery Workers
Jobs.
Omaha, Feb. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: The great Issue in Nebras
ka is: "What will we with the
thousands of men thrown out of work
after May 1?" Some people will say:
Let them make shoes, be candy or
soda makers, etc. This is all well
enough for some (if they could do
the work). As for salesmen Home
would say let them be 'blowcrs" ?n a
glass factory, etc., but that Isn't giv
ing them employment at the living
wage they received before.
A few will be able to receive em
ployment as good as they have had,
but what of the others compounders,
brewmasters, spirits runners, etc?
Can they receive a living wage after
spending the best part of their lives
at their trade? Also there are drlv-
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Storyelte of the Day.
"Young man," said the country
counselor to the reporter of a south
ern puptr, "you have done me irre
parable nan;.."
"What have I done?" asked the be
wildered reporter.
"I got in largely on a temperance
platform, aa you may recollect"
"Yes, sir,"
"And you speak of me In this
morning's paper as 'drinking my coffee
with gusto." It will take me more than
a lifetime to get it out of the heads
of my constituents that gusto Isn't
some kind of alcoholic beverage."
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