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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917.
The Om'aha Bee
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Litt call for June bridei! All aboard!
Eating the itrain on the coal pile looks good,
even in summer. '
Second installment on Liberty bond pay
ments is due. Watch the money roll in.
Put into practice what you learned at the can
ning school and you will have your garden in
your pantry next winter.
Newpapers mailed in London Jane IS retched
Omaha June 28. Evidently the subsea campaign
accelerates full speed ahead.
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Judged by the record so far, It Is clear Dad
Waterman's patriotism outshines that of Auditor
Smith as service outshines shouting. -
Remarkable as it may seem, complaint comes
from Lincoln of a shortage In supply of Fourth
of July orators. What has become of all our
patriotic wind-jammers?
Persons who purchase medicine from door-to-door
peddlers at any time are inviting trouble. If
anything is wrong with you, take no chances on
tinkering with your ailments.
The bench of the District of Columbia may
not be as long aa that of the Eighth Judicial dis
tsict, but it i just as wide, and the title of chief
justice sounds a lot better than just plain "jedge."
Twenty-four women and forty-two children
swell the total of dead, due to the latest German
air raid over London. This brings the total score
for "kultur" up about aa high aa it ought to get.
Coal Operator Moderwell told senate com
mittee that mine owners are selling coal at from
200 to 300 per cent profit. The cut of from $1 to
$5 a ton then hardly ranks as major surgical
operation.
I Omaha is approaching the glorious Fourth
with least hubbub noted in many years. If the
noise repression is only maintained till the day
arrives most folks will try to put up with a little
on Wednesday.
It takes a long time for news to get around
sometimes, but in all probability Omaha commis
sion men will soon learn that potato prices are on
the downgrade. Housewives will impress it on
them if nothing else does.
. i i n
Jury 7 is now set as the time when all draft
cards must be in Washington and August IS as
the time when the National Guard will be called
into service. These dates, if final, will stand as
marks in the progress of the present war.
After filling the murky atmosphere with vocal
Imprecations and threata of impeachment the
common council of Chicago recanted and bowed
down to "Big BilL" The cohesive power of the
Heshpots quickly overcomes grandstand plays.'
Men over 30 who lamented the favoritism of
the government In restricting the registration
age to that figure have ample opportunity to do
their fighting bit Welcome awaits them in the
Guards and the door is also open to the regular
line. .
Mexican leaders are coyly bidding for favors
from Uncle Sam and find it necessary to repu
diate alt pro-German activities in order, to estab
lish their deserts. But it will take more than
that to loosen the purse strings now held against
the ungentle Greaser. His penitence may be Sin
cere, but he has barely commenced on his penance.
, Brazil tinea up with the democracy in the bat
tle against German autocracy. The giant repub
lic of the south has long been regarded in Berlin
as s German colony. Having a large German pop
ulation, extensive trade relationa with the Father
land, fostered by the Imperial government, the
country waa looked upon aa a wedge to aplit
republicanism in the new world. The awakening
in Brazil adds another to 'the world forces tat
tling against imperial lust and greed.
Speeding Up Freight Trains
New York WorU
The Illinois Central during the last month is
said to have broken all railroad records in mov
ing all freight cars on its lines an average of
forty-two miles a day. This is compared with
an average of twenty-five miles for all other roads
and an average considered practicable by the In
terstate Commerce commission of thirty miles for
all roads.
If this is possible for the Illinois Central,
which originates 85 per cent of its traffic, it
should the more be possible for roads whose traf-
, fie is largely passed on to them from other roads.
- The problem of freight congestion is thus made
to assume a more soluble form.. The roads are
not wanting in freight equipment so much as they
are wanting in the efficient use of what equip
ment they have. One freight ear moved forty
two miles a day is the approximate equivalent of
two cars moved hardly twenty-five miles a day.
The one car is as good an earner of gross income
as the two cars and a much better earner of in
come lets expenses. -
Why then does the country's railroad manage
ment devote so much time and energy in agitat
ing public measures that may bring them more
borrowed money for more cars when the cars
they have are underworked by nearly half of what
is shown to be practicable? There is far less
promise of better net earnings in higher freight
' rates than there is in a pooling of effort toward
the maximum use of present facilities which the
government is trying to force upon the roads as
-, best tt can. . . . , .. ..
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Just Between Ourselves.
Omsha is distinctly disappointed at having
the army cantonment for this district located at
Des Moines without even considering tbe im
measurably superior advantages which a' site in
proximity to our city would offer. It is not so
much the preference given to another place that
rankles, but the fact that Omaha was plainly fore
closed at the start and refused a chance by the
authorities to make a showing until after the de
cision for Des Moines was agreed on.
But let us not deceive ourselves as to con'
tributing condition!. Let ut face the obvious
fact that Omaha has fallen down chiefly because
of failure again of our United States senator at
Washington to stand up for his own home town
Our senator has taken the high and lofty atti
tude that these matters of army organization
should be determined not only free from outside
pressure (which is perfectly proper), but also
without even permitting the 'relative merits of
different localities to be presented by those who
really know them and can furnith the vitally nec
essary information. It goes without saying that
this has not been the attitude of the senators
from Iowa, who have been alive to their job
and "Johnny-on-the-spot" every minute of the
time. Though neither of them occupy the stra
tegic position of our senator on the military af
fairs committee, the Iowa senators hsd two Iowa
locations nailed down for favorable report for
cantonment sites while our Nebraska senator was
doing nothing or letting his secretary answer ur
gent telegrams that he was "out of town."
So we have the beautiful spectacle of Omaha,
with all Its double-track main line railroads, with
its inviting military headquarters building waiting
to be used, with its capacious army quartermas
ter's supply warehouses, with its costly army post
property at Fort Crook, with ita rifle range at
Ashland, with its unsurpassed facilities for fur
nishing provisions and other supplies, with its
magnificent hospital and medical equipment,
passed by without a look-in, in favor of a one
track branch-line town. Thus we have repeated
the unpleasant experience that sent two federal
reserve banks to Missouri because our senator
was so "in bad" with the administration that his
boost fpr Omaha would be a knock and which
we almost encountered again with the farm loan
bank when he refused to take any stand at all.
True, our senator is now valiantly lodging pro
tests for us and introducing resolutions calling
for information, but in the meantime the con
tracts have been let for building the barracks at
Des Moines.
Board of Mediation Stays on the Map.
The refusal of Judge Leslie to annul the State
Board of Mediation by sustaining the attorney
general's contention that it is without constitu
tional warrant keeps that body on the map. The
peculiar nature of the board and its limitation as
to function render its existence one of possible
great service to the public. Neither ministerial
nor executive in its nature, but purely inquisito
rial, it can hardly come within the constitutional
limitation on the creation of new or additional
offices, for, as the court says, it is little more
than an investigating committee named by the
governor as chief labor commissioner of the
state. As such it has only right to make inquiry
as to the merits of any case into which it may
be called and through conciliation to assist if pos
sible in the adjustment of disputes threatening to
our industrial welfare. Failure to effect a settle
ment is followed by report to the governor and
the work of the board is ended. The Omaha case
may or may not be an instance where the board
can accomplish something, but to deprive the pub
lic of its services for the future, when it may be
needed, would avail nothing.
Can We Win Through the Air?
Great efforts to Increase the air-fighting equip
ment of the American army are now under way
and favorable action by congress on bills looking
to this end is being anticipated as far as wis
dom will permit. This branch of our fighting
force has been no more neglected than other ele
ments of the army and navy. The nation has dal
lied at its work when it should have been busy,
but this regret must be postponed with others
while we make up for lost time as fast as we can.
Air men must be gathered, trained and equipped
and sent to the front, where they are needed.
Whether we can win through the air is not
fully established, but it is certain we cannot win
unless we do control the air. The importance of
aviation to the army is fully established, but Eu
rope's experience so far has1 shown the decisive
fighting must take place on the ground. The air
scouts locate the armed forces, report on their
movements and assist in the direction of great
operations on either side, and in the campaigns in
the present war have been valuable beyond meas
ure. The birdman has taken over the work of
the horseman, doing the work formerly left to
the cavalry, even to the desultory raiding by
which the enemy's attention is diverted from the
real purpose of the opposing commander. Suc
cess in this has been attained to a remarkable
degree and it is now asserted that even more than
has been realized is possible.
Our army must have more flying machines
and the men to maneuver them. Bills making
provision for this service are now before con
gress, with the full support of (he administra
tion, and our army in Europe will yet have all
the support it needs in the air. to the end that
nothing will be wanting to make our efforts effec
tive in all ways.
One-Idea Reformers Hamper Preparations.
The United States is faced with a serious un
dertaking in its preparations for the war. Neg
ligence and indifference to a dangerous situation,
extending over a long period of years, must now
be remedied by the most vigorous activity the
whole nation ia capable of. This work la now
hampered by the activity of one-idea "reform"
lobby at Washington, whose demand for the
adoption of its peculiar views is a real danger.
Our government, setting out on a new road in its
undertaking to mobilize the nation's resources,
finds its way beset by well-meaning, but ill-advised,
agitators, who demand the most radical
departures from established customs ami insist
on immediate application of most extreme meas
ures. That a serious difference of opinion ex
ists as to the advisability of following the course
they recommend, involving great industrial and
commercial readjustments, apparently is lost on
the extremists, who are pressing their campaign
with such persistence as to disturb not only con
gress, but the whole nation. The effect of this
campaign is to destroy the unity of action abso
lutely essential for good work. Patriotism, if ho
other motive, might be invoked to induce these
propagandista to allow their hobbies to stand on
then- merits,' while laws intended for the good
of the whole nation and dealing with issues of
tremendous import may be acted upon without
the accompaniment of "isms" of any kind.
Syrians to Fight for Syria
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, June 27. An army of Syrians who
live in America, many of whom are American
citizens, fighting for the freedom of Syria and for
Arabian nationalism under the French flag is one
of the strangest and most interesting spectacles
which this war of all nations and races may bring
forth.
Syria is at present a land sorely beset. Since
the war began, the Turks, whom the Syrians hate
with a profound hatred, have been trying in every
possible way to Ottomanize Syria. They have
executed the Syrian leaders and intellectuals, the
priests of the Syrian Christian churches. They
have put off the flow of foodstuffs to Syria and
.n., Ti ir , L:u
especially lo ivCDanon. women anu cuuurcn in
Syria are dying of hunger, although there is
abundance close at nana.
Recently a chance to fight for Syria has been
tentatively offered to Syrians all over the world.
France it the EuroDean nation which has been
most interested in Syria. A very thorough pro
tectorate over that country is one thing it hopes
to win in the war, and one of the very best ways
to make that protectorate effective would be to in
vade Syria now and oust the 1 urks. But f ranee
is low in man power. So it has sent out word
to the Syrians in ail parts of the world that if
thev will enlist in the cause it wilt invade Syria
and drive out the Turks. The concentration move
ment has already begun. Thousands of Syrians
are gathering on the island of Cyprus in the Medi
terranean,, which is controlled by Oreat Britain.
Toward that growing camo of Syrians, bent
on revenge for wrongs that are centuries old and
wrongs that are growing day by day, the thoughts
of all the young Syrians in America are turning.
In one little midwestern city that contains 1,100
Syrians, 650 have declared themselves ready to go,
But now that the conscription bill has passed,
thev are all ootential recruits for the American
army, and could not obtain passports to leave the
country, except by a special dispensation.
There is reason to believe that soecial disoen
sation will be made. Within a week or so a dele
gation of prominent Americans of Syrian descent
are expected to call at Washington and formally
ask of the administration that Syrians of military
age be allowed to leave this country to fight for
liberty and the rights of small nations, in Syria,
under the Freeh flag. The attitude of the govern
ment has already been sought by some Syrians
in Washington and New York, and they assert
that it is favorable. I hey look upon a Syrian
army to invade Syria, under the French flag, as a
fact almost sure of accomplishment. 1
For many years Germany has been striving to
gain the trade of Syria and Mesopotamia by one
of those systematic campaigns of commerce and
banking which the Germans have reduced to a
science. What the Levant meansito Germany is
thus expressed by a prominent German Orientalist:
"The Levant is the only territory in the
world which has not been monopolized by the
areat oowers. If Germany does not miss
its opportunity to seize it before the Cossacks
stretch out their hands in that direction it will
have the best share in the division of the world.
There are no lands which offer greater
advantages for colonization than Mesopotamia
and Syria."
This learned German soes on to say that al
though there are great opportunities for develop
ment in this country there ia no wilderness to
overcome, no pioneering to be done. The ground,
in his own words, has but to be scratched and
planted. He perceives, although he does not say
it in so many words, that ror this reason it is
the German opportunity pre-eminent. For the
Germans are not a pioneering nation like the
Anglo-Saxons. They are not explorers. Their
specialty ia commercial and industrial exploitation.
Frances oolitical claims to the country are
hardly more valid than those of Germany, but
it has the vital, though unwritten, claim which
comes from centuries of welcome influence. In
a treaty dated 1535 between the French monarch
and the sultan of Turkey, called the capitula
tions, f ranee was given the right to protect
Christians in Syria. Ever since then it has main
tained schools there and built up a French cul
ture. The educated Syrian speaks French and
is, socially and intellectually a Frenchman so far
as an Oriental can be. - -
As to the Svrian himself, he aspires to some
sort of freedom for his country. Many Syrians
are partisans of the Arabian nationalist move
ment, which has resulted in widespread revolt
against the 1 urks. frobably most ot tnem nope
lor some kind of autonomy for their country.
Realizing that in a world of land-hungry powers
this autonomy can only be had under some sort
of a protectorate, they are willing to accept a
trench protectorate, because the rrench have
treated them well. The greatest object is to
drive out the Turks.
The American Syrians who go to fight for
Syria will be fighting for liberty and for the rights
of smalt nations and they will be fighting for a
land which they love, lhey have lett that coun
try for one of lamer oooortunitv. but their im
aginations dwell upon it lovingly. They delight
to tell you ot its wonderful climate, ot its rich
fields and orchards and the lonely vastness of
the desert A people having the serenity and pa
tience ot. the Urient in their blood, their faces
darken and they talk hoarsely when telling how
the Turks have starved and wronged their be
loved land. Something of their feeling, set forth
with the Oriental wealth of imagery, ii in this
poem, which was written by a Syrian poet who
ives in America Amin Mishrik and translated
by Mary C Holmes. The poet apostrophizes his
native land:
"I shall return soon to defend thee with mv
right arm, my oppressed beloved one. I shall
come in vengeance upon the spoilers of the daugh
ters ot princes, 1 hy torn robe is ever before my
eyes. Thy blood-stained feet are as thorns in my
breast. I shall come to crush the ene
mies who degrade the daughters of the mighties.
in my breast nate groweth. in my veins ever
lasting rage boileth. I am a hell of retaliation
into whose billows of flame) thy enemies shall be
cast.
"We shall soon meet. O beloved O nlace of
my dreams and pivot of my thoughts O my be
loved Syria."
rnaYanartr A la
Proverb For the Day.
Domestic Infelicity Is a thorn In the
flesh.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Italians started vlsorous oftentiv
on the Isonzo.
Roger Casement condemned
death for high treaaon.
Russians In great battle near Ko-
lomea took over 10,000 Austrian
prisoners.
Russian Duma passed bill perma
nently prohibiting sale of liquor other
man ngnt wines.
In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago.
Lem Graham, one of the best known
scenic artiste in the country, has ar
rived In this city. He ia now figuring
on the scenic work which is to be
placed in the exposition bulldlnr.
Jt has been announced that Frank
C. Wasserman has drawn 130.000 In
a lottery. Mrs. Waaserman drew the
ticket on the anniversary of the day
People and Events
The consoling power of smoke is not confined
to the smoker. Among the big contributions to
the Red Cross fund is one of $50,000 by the Lig
gett Si Myers Tobacco company for the home
office and its various branches.
Mayor Thompson of Chicano hat a real nnin.
published weekly. Every time the mayor presses
the button the organ pipes the right note. It's
principal music is of the muffled anvil type and
is directed against all political enemies of Big
Bill. As a knocker of war policies it has no
equal in the Chicago English prints, but man
ages to escape a charge of sedition.
Major General Wood awav down in Smith
Carolina is not letting pro-German plotters get
by him, A warning comes from his dcnarfmmt
against schemers who are attempting to send to
France with the armv fire bombs nut un in the
form of canned meat, which may work disaster on
ship board or in supplies warehouses. General
Wood gives detailed explanations of the fire cans
so that inspectors may spot them at a glance.
"Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien, a noted filibus
ter of Cuba'a warring days, is no more. A' few
months ago he celebrated his eightieth birthday
at his home in New York City. A crackerjack
seaman, a lover of adventure and a booster of
liberty, he defied Spanis1. vigilance for twenty
years and carried Innumerable cargoes of ammu
nition to rebel Cubans. Since liberty came to the
island O'Brien Was remembered substantially,
drawing an annual pension of $6,000 from the
Cuban treasury. The young republic was not ungrateful.'
on which the won 1150 in a lottery a
year before. The money was tent by
express, forming a large bundle, and
the cost of tending it waa 1180.
Max Meyer, John A. McShane, J,
W. Miner, J. A. Wakefield and several
other members of tne board or airec.
tort of the exposition association met
at Max Meyer't store, to devise a
means of remodeling tne expoemon
building for theatrical and show pur
poses.
The Board of Public Workt have
declared certain lots In E. V. Smith's
and Horbach'a first and second addl
tlons, nuisances and ordered the filling
of the same. Theie lots in tne main
abut upon the old creek a ahort dist
ance northwest of the bridge on Eight
eenth street The bridge will be torn
down as soon as the lota are fluea,
The Chicago, Bt. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha road is soliciting bids for
the erection of its proposed new
freight depot, corner Fourteenth ana
Webster streets.
Prof. Charles Pontes, the chemlet
appointed by the Union Pacific and
Burlington & Missouri roads tu ex
amine intb the merits or Mclaugh
lin's tireless car heater, the Invention
of an Omaha scientist has made a
most flattering report
A commission consisting: of Lewis
Clements of California, Thomas Corrl
gan of Kansas City and Leavltt Burn
ham of Omaha, have been appointed
to inquire into the damaged, u any,
austalned bv the Omaha Horse Rail
way eomoany. by reason of the Cable
Tramway company building their lines
upon the cross streets occupied py me
horse railway company.
This Day In History.
4775 Committee of safety ap
pointed, with Benjamin Franklin as
president.
1777 British under General Howe
evacuated New Jersey, crossing to
Staten Island.
1815 united States signed a treaty
of peace with Algiers.
1849 Rome capitulated to the
French army under Marshal Qudinot.
1858 Great Britain officially pro
claimed the end of the Burmese war.
1887 Rear Admiral George F,
Pearton. U. S. N.. a naval officer of re
markable ability and patriotism, died
at Portsmouth, N. H. Born at isxeter,
N. H.. In 1799.
1893 President Cleveland called an
extra session of congress to consider
the financial crisis.
1908 More than 200 lives lost In an
explosion In a coal mine near Hanna,
Wvo.
19U President Wilson delivered a
speech in New York, stating his atti
tude with regard to war with Mexico.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. J. J. Foster, the dentist, waa
born June 30, 1872, at Monmouth, III.
He graduated from the Ohio college
and practiced at Pawnee City, later at
Washington, la., ana in ijonaon, Eng
land, before locating in Omaha.
Frank H. Myen, president ot Ben
son-Myers company, Is Just 68 years
old todav. He waa born In Wisconsin,
starting out In business in Beatrice and
coming to Omaha in mill as memoer
of his present nrm.
James V. Chttek. deputy county
clerk, ia lust 47 years old today. He Is
native NenrasKa, originating at
Tecumseh.
William Crltea Ramsey, a member
of the Omaha bar since 1910, was born
June 80, 1884 In Plattsmouth. He Is at
present a deputy county attorney.
Dr. William H. Berry la 55 years to
day. He ia a well known representa
tive of the medical profession, and was
born in Burlington, Ia.
Rear Admiral William B. Caperton,
TJ. 8. N., commanding the Pacific fleet,
born at 8prlng Hill Tenn., sixty-two
years ago today.
Brigadier General Alfred Mordecai,
U. 8. A., retired, born in Philadelphia,
seventy-seven yeara ago today.
Lord Esher, tor many years a
prominent figure in English public
life, born In London, sixty-five years
ago today. '
Right Rev. Charles Sumner Burch,
suffragan bishop of the Episcopal di
ocese of New York, born at Plnckney,
Mich., sixty-two years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The government ends its fiscal year
today.
Cardinal Gibbona today completes
fifty-six years aa a priest and thirty
one years as a cardinal.
South Dakota climbs on the water
wagon at midnight tonight, by virtue
of the prohibition amendment adopted
at the last general election.
The time limit fixed by the govern
ment for raising the regular military
forces to the full quota provided by
the law will expire today.
Dr. George E. Vincent retires from
the presidency of the University of
Minnesota today, to take up his duties
as head of the Rockefeller foundation.
Prof. Roscoe Pound of the Harvard
law school la to deliver the annual ad
Cress before the New Hampshire State
Bar aatcoatlon, meeting in annual ses
sion today at Laconia.
The Young Women's conference,
one of the summer religious assemb
lies founded by the late Dwlght L.
Moody, will open today at East North
field, Mass., and continue Its sessions
until July k
Storyotte of the Day.
We had a friend who had been
pretty proaperous, but who came upon
evil days. We met him one day and
he aald that he was pretty close to
being busted, but he was atlll hoping.
Then he honked hla horn, mournfully,
and drove away, and we didn't see
him again till the other day when we
bumped into him on the street
"Hello, old scout!" we aald. "How
are things breaking now?"
"Fine!" he answered. "I'm on my
feet again."
"Bully!" we exclaimed. ."How did
you do lit"
"Sold my car."
The joke waa so obvious that wa
didn't see it till attar he had, sons
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Hlckle Marks Why to Save.
Omaha, June 29. To the Editor of
The Bee: A man where I work was
telling me about a piece In Collier's
Weekly thlt week crltlcHing the last
letter that I wrote to The Bee. So I
went up to the public llbrabry and
read It
I don't know what the editor means
by saying Mrs Mlckle's hands are
till unreddened with mv blood. Mrs.
Mlckle would not commit murder
even If she doea act up sometimes I
aoon show who's boas In mv house.
I can tell that Collier's editor some
other ways to cut down the cost of llv
Ing. I got a large piece of ground
next to my house thia aoring and now
It Is ail in garden truck. My four
children do the work Instead of loaf
ing around and getting into mischief.
Each one haa a certain amount to
take care of and they are working
there from morning to night Even
the youngest, 10 years old, does hie
bit My wife and two oldest chil
dren spaded It up. I laid it out and
showed them how to do it My oldest
daughter has left home and work
In a factory and, In spite of all I could
do. she boards at a boarding house
when ahe ought to be boarding at
home and paying her board money
nere.
Every evening I look over the gar
den and point out where It can be
improved. Though I am tired after
my day's work, I consider it my duty
to do this. I sit and smoke where I
can watch them at work and offer
auggeations.
I have already sold (18.45 worth of
truck. My children sell It from door
to door within six blocks of home. The
nearby neighbors won't buy from us
because they are too mean ana ae al
ways talking about the way we live.
They are busybodlea who don't even
own their own homes and I could buy
and sell any of them.
Our own table ia bountifully sup
plied with the vegetables that aren't
good enough to sell.
I keep the children Interested by ot
ferlng a prize. I am going to take the
one who sells the most garden truck
In the month of June to aj moving
picture show. Also the same prize
will be offered In July and August.
This gives them real Interest in the
work.
If some of these other people that
are always grumbling about the high
cost of living would use a little com
mon aense and get to work they
would own their homes and have
money in the bank like I have. The
only trouble is they haven't got
enough sense to do it I know be
cause I've got a lot of these old
croakers living right around me. Al
ways sticking their noses Into my
business and telling how I ought to
run my family. A. B. MICKLE.
A Rejoinder.
Omaha, June 29. To the Editor ot
The Bee: Permit me to "come back"
In the same fraternal epirlt at Brother
Haynet. I am glad he knew of whom
Iwaa speaking In referring to a "pub
licity expert" I have not the slight
est fear of anything which Brother
Haynes may introduce respecting the
principles of tingle tax, nor of the
presumed attacka upon Its operation
In western Canada. Though every,
body knows, who knowt anything
about it that the application of single
tax in western Canada Is but a partial
makeshift for It, still I am willing to
meet every truthful statement that
may be made against Its limited appli
cation there. I am devoted to no er
ror. I am willing to discard single
tax or any other principle I hold,
the moment conclusive proot is tur
nlshed that It is erroneous. No man
can afford to be wrong.
As to any reference to western Can
ada, however, It must be remembered
that in those cities and provincee
they have absolute hom,e rule In tax
matters. If the people there really
believed what these foes of equitable
taxation attempt to show they would
overthrow the aystem at once, 'inat
they do not overthrow it is sufficient
proof of the falsity of the statements
made by Brother Haynes and the in
terests he serves.
There la another element that
must be considered by any one wish
ing to be fair. In making compari-
aons of ngurea between Canadian
orovlnOes and American, let us re
member that Canada, as a part of the
British empire, has been at war ror
three years while the United States
has not.
The average person may not stop
to think that there is a relation be
tween taxation and tuberculosis. Let
me show it. Haskln's letter in The
Bee of this Issue shows the deplor
able state that France Is In with re
spect to this disease. He shows that
even before the war, France suffered
to an unusual degree from the plague.
He shows that the Americans over
there undertook to show that fresh
air was essential to its successful con- v
trol. He adds that the French ars
learning this fact, ann that "wlndowa
are being sawed in hundreds ot pea-, ,
ant homes which boasted none before
the war." What has that to do with
taxation? Head Hugo masterpiece, -"Les
Mlserables," and you will ees
this relation. He shows that France
taxed the windows In the homes of
the peasants and even the city popu
lations. The people, to escape the
tax, closed up their windows and new
houses were built with as few as pos
sible. Anyone can therefore see the
relation between this disease and tax
ation. It nas only peeji ui ivn.'
that France haa seen the wisdom or
repealing these stupid laws. .
Let us hope that it will not be .
ona oeiore mo aiwuw, v r
the wisdom of repealing equally
stupid laws. Then we shall see even
Brother Haynes become the pub
licity agent of the new crusade. For
even he shall see, that if taxes upon
windows close them up, and thereby
a nation becomes diseased from lack
of fresh air, so must a tax upon en
terprise discourage It, a tax upon
clothes make a people naked, a tax
upon food make them hungry, a tax
upon morals and education make
them vicious and ignorant. '
. No argument and no citations or
doctored facta will ever succeed in
convincing any fair-minded man that
it Is right for government to take
from the people what their own labor
has produced while at the same tima
leaving In private pockets those rev
enues which society Itself produces
the values of land. Nor will any non
est man attempt to show that today, i
In the government's extremity, it Is
right to tax the food and clothing
of the people, while leaving 120,000,
000.000 In land values free from all
taxation In support of the federal
government. , L. J. QUINBY.
THE YELLOW PERIL.
A saucy little chap,
In flaming yellow cap,
Cornea uninvited to our very doors te
bide;
And he will not so away, .
No matter what we flay.
Nor In how tern and angry tones of
voice we 'chide.
Thla all-unwelcome guest '
Thli little yellow peet.
Behavee In an unseemly manner to .relate;
Ha brlnis hla friendi and cousins.
In fllntlee and by doiena,
Until In countless thousands they eneamp
on our estate.
uur velvet lawns are couea,
The very landecape apotted,
Until our sleep la haunted by dancing yel- , .
low fiends!
There's Just one way to beat him.
We must dig him up and eat him.
And all his countless cousins, In dandelion
greens!
ADEI.LA LOVaUOT CURRIER. .
St. Edward, Neb.
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