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5 Omaha may yet become known as "A Missouri
River Port," if the director of railways carries out
his plans.
: One country, one flag, one people and one
'purpose in the war just about tells the story for
' America. '
' T. R." is coming around all right -.and will
soon be out of the hospital again. This will be
sad new in Berlin.
Senator "Jimham" . Lewis is with us in the
war; glad to know this, but a year has brought
considerable change in this statesman's views.
Russia will now take a place alongside Mex
ico on the calendar of unfinished business. The
world will have plenty to do after this war is
ended. ,
A southern training camp is to be abandoned,
because it is knee deep in mud, but how does that
compare with actual , fighting conditions in
Flanders? : ''' "
The weather man' seems to have caught the
spirit at least of the fuel administrator and is
doing quite a little to help in accumulating the
needed surplus.
One New York, firm of food profiteers has
been caught and will pay the penalty by being
deprived of license to do business. So may it
Jiappen to all of them.
si Putting Carranza's message to the kaiser in
4he Congressional Record will serve to preserve
'it, but what about, some of his messages to our
'fown government in days now gone? "
i The republican family fuss at St Louis was
?of considerable concern to the democratic lead
ers, who know that- the reorganiration of the
committee is but the prefaced a battle that will
tend with the bourbons shaken out of power.
.
S: Those postmasters who are mussing up the
alien registration game just now are nearly all
l hand-picked democrats, whose fitness for the
job was certified to by equally zealous and more
r eminent members of the party. The answer to
this ought to be easy. '
' i ' " - MMawaaMaaWH
I Mr. McAdoo will find the Missouri river just
;as well adapted to carrying freight as ever, only
, the steamboats being lacking. He might spend
some of his leisure time looking up various re-
ports made 'on this subject by, army engineers
H during the last 30 years. - ; ' ' . ' , .
i Insurance for the Soldiers. -
I While' the date 'on which the automatic in
surance of all soldiers and sailors -has passed,
the period in which they may make application
J for the protection under the law has been ex
t tended to April 12, or 60 days further. This ap-
plies to the men who were taken on the first
draft and those who had enlisted nrior to Oc-
tober. Those who have entered the service since.
I or who will come in hereafter, have four months'
' time from date of enlistment in which to apply
' for the insurance. While the whole enterprise
. is in the nature of an experiment, it has the sane
) tion of sound judgment, and is supported to a
d considerable extent by actuarial experience. Be
' ing thus dependable, it is offered to the men in
i the service of the government at a, rate below
( what they can obtain reliable protection for in
civil life. Nothing so attractive ever was placed
before soldiers in the way of certainty of com
pensation for possible injury, or relief for de
pendents in event 6f death. The matter should
have the close attention of everyone who is in
terested in the welfare of a soldier, to the end
that he be fully informed of his rights in the mat-
ter and of the advantage of the plan.
Disregard for Law at Home.
Disorder and even some disregard for niceties
of law naturally accompany the process of a
democracy entering on a great war. It is a char
acteristic that may be deplored, but certainly
seems inevitable. When this tendency proceeds
to the extent of outrage and savagery, however,
earnest protest must be made. We can not ex
pect to be taken seriously by our foes unless we
respect ourselves. Denunciation of outrages com
mitted by the armies of the kaiser or the sultan
in the war zone will sound hollow to ears that
hear the story of how a negro was tortured by
a mob in Tennessee and then burned to death at
the stake. The nations to ' whom we have
pledged our support for the holy cause of free
dom and sanctity of law may wonder at the tale
of how an attorney was driven from. a Minnesota
community, his only crime being that he was
come to defend a man accused of spreading se
dition. Unless Americans awaken to a better
appreciation of the responsibility that now rests
upon them, they are likely to be embarrassed
in their mission of establishing law and order
throughout the world. Under our government no
man should ever be deprived of his day in court,
and until this is made absolutely sure we have
not fully attained the measure of self-government
necessary to real advancement.
Camouflage for the Collapse.
If proof were needed to convince any of the
utter futility of the bolshevik pretense at gov
ernment in Russia, it is afforded by the language
of the proclamation announcing the collapse of
the Brest-Litovsk "peace" conference. Here
Trotzky and his associates abandoned any pre
tense at standing out against Germany, and,
without formally accepting any offer of peace,
merely announced withdrawal, a tacit admis
sion that Germany is to have its way.
"We could not sign a peace," says the procla
mation, "which would bring with it sadness, op
pression and suffering to millions of workmen
and peasants. We will not and must not
continue to be at war with the Germans and Aus
trians workmen and peasants like ourselves."
This sounds wondrously magnanimous, but how
will it affect the workmen and peasants of Po
land, Esthonia, Courland and Lithuania, aban
oned in full flight of their new-found freedom
to German dominion? How about the workmen
and peasants of Belgium, enslaved by their Ger
man oppressors, or of France, fighting to avert
a similar fate? Or the unfortunate Serbs, blood
relatives of the Russian, the Bohemians, who see
another barrier in the way of autonomy, placed
there by Russian defection?
And these German and Austrian "workmen
and peasants," have they shown any sign of re
ciprocating the tender regard so feelingly ex
pressed' by the bolshevik in signing his own
death warrant? At the conference of the Inter
national Secretariat in 1913 the German delegates
point-blank refused to give assent to a proposal
that if war was begun all workmen should refuse
to fight. Socialists and trades unionists alike in
Germany supported the present war and con
tinue so to do.
The most ludicrous as well as the saddest
spectacle of the moment is the bolshevik, appeal
ing in maudlin phrases of brotherhood to the
"class conscious" of the German and Austrian
empires. The lamb is always free to walk abroad
with the lion, and the relations of the pair on
return never is in doubt.
Lloyd George and the President.
News dispatches from London emphasize the
fact that Lloyd George, in his address to the
House of Commons on its reassembling, did not
refer to the speech of President Wilson, made to
congress the day before. The incident is not
especially' significant, unless it may be distorted
into some shade of meaning not easily gained from
close inspection. ' It was suggested on this side
that President Wilson had chosen his moment to
reply to Count Czernin and Chancellor von Hert
ling with a purpose to forestall the opening ad
dresses to Parliament. It is hardly credible that
our president would do this deliberately, for he
would be the first to resent such an act on part
of. another. On the contrary it is more than
likely' Mr. Wilson. gave no thought to the fact
that the British-parliament was to meet on the
day following. his address to congress. How
ever that may be, King George accepted the
statement made by the president of the aims of
the Allies, and Mr. Asquith gave the address his
unqualified endorsement. The premier did refer
to the Czernin and von Hertling communications,
holding them to be one in tone, and failing to
discern in either an approach to peace. He spe
cifically declined to give to the Austrian minister
any credit for a sincere desire to end the war on
other than German terms. To magnify this into
the importance of presaging a break between
Wilson and Lloyd George seems folly. British
and American democracy are fully agreed as to
mutual peril and as to how to meet the danger.
Omaha does not figure very largely in the
army building plans. Do you think there is any
connection between this fact and recent senatorial
activities? ;
The bolshevik who traded a machine gun for
a pack of cards knew what he was best quaified
to deal with.
Enemies Masquerade as Friends
How Germany Made War On Us in Time of Peace
Prof. W. A. Scott, Wisconsin University.
In the short period of three years Ger
many transformed the United States from a
friend and admirer into an enemy at war.
This fateful change was due to a number of
causes. Of these the most wide-reaching
was the war of the German government on
our country during a time when we, in our
blindness, supposed we were at peace.
The war in Europe was not three months
old when there was established in New York
an "advertising agency," under the charge
of a German named Von Igel. This office was
raided one day in April, 1916, by four United
States secret service agents. They forced
their way past the giant who always stood
guard over the inner office, and after a fierce
struggle in which von Igel "fought like a
tiger," arrested him and seized the mass of
papers in his possession.
The reason for Von Igel's tiger-like fight
became clear at a glance. Here in the form
of letters, telegrams, receipts, account books,
etc., was supplied detailed and abso
lutely convincing evidence that the German
government had been engaged for 18 months
in a war against the United States.
Among the papers were those showing
that Von Papen, the military attache of the
German embassy, had paid out money for
placing bombs in American merchant ships,
and that Ambassador von Bernstorff himself
had signed checks to pay certain American
newspaper men to spread the pro-German
gospel, while they posed as disinterested
American citizens.
Other entries showed Germany using our
territory to work up an Irish revolution
against Great Britain, maintaining a spy
system, supporting a bureau for the purpose
of stirring up strikes in munition plants and
elsewhere, and paying stated sums of money
to certain newspaper owners who were glad
to place their newspapers at the service of
the German government for value received.
The Von Igel papers cover only a com
paratively small part of the German war
against the United States in 1914-16.
Von Igel and Von Papen, it appeared
from other sources, superintended personally
the making of bombs on the German steamer
Friedrich der Grosse, interned in New York
harbor, and saw that they were stowed away
safely in the holds of outgoing ships.
Another member of this band of plotters
was Dr. H. F. Albert. He arrived from Ger
many with a letter of credit for $4,000,000 in
his pocket, and the assurance that he might
have $40,000,000 altogether. He was to use
it to manufacture public opinion, to purchase
the votes of congressmen, and to do what
ever else would advance the great cause.
Still another star performer was Robert
Fay. He did his bit, in part, by hiding bombs
in the coal bunkers of ships and tying them
to rudder posts. At his trial models of
bombs of his own invention were exhibited.
By his own confession and that of his partner
the money for this combination of treachery
and murder was supplied by the German
secret police.
In this dirty business the directing spirit
was the ambassador of the German govern
ment, Johann von Bernstorff. An am
bassador is a guest of the nation to which
he is sent and is supposed to behave as such.
But for nearly three years before his recall
he devoted himself to intrigue and the plot
ting of violence and murder. His best re
membered words while among us will al
ways be those of his letter to his government
in which he asked for authority to spend $50,
000,000, "in order, as on former occasions,
to influence congress through the organiza
tion you know of."
Not contented with waging war upon us
directly, Germany tried to stir up bad blood
between us and" our neighbors by treacher
ously violating our hospitality. Her agents
used our territory as ground on which to
make plots with discontended Hindoos
against India. They helped to promote
movements which were intended to tear Ire
land and Canada from the British empire.
From our side of the border they made a
number of direct attacks upon Canada, such
as the dynamiting of the international rail
road bridge at Vanceboro, Me., and the
attempt to destroy the locks of the Welland
canal.
Mexico received much attention from
these gentlemen. Germany handed over
$600,000 to the exiled Hucrta to enable him
to stir up a new revolution in his unfortunate
country, placed one of her warships at his
disposal, and supplied him with arms. The
famous Zimmermann letter, of January, 1917,
will be remembered by everyone.
In this letter the German minister of for
eign affairs proposed that in case of war with
the United States, Mexico and Japan should
join with Germany; and promised Mexico
she should receive as her share of the
plunder New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.
In this long list of outrages nothing has
been said about the submarine warfare
waged against us. It began wtih the sink
ing of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915, when 114
American citizens, men, women and children,
were foully murdered on the high seas. It
continued till the toll of American lives had
reached twice that number.
The German government stops at noth
ing. She has become a danger to the whole
world. The danger from her, when we at
length broke off relations, was not remote
and problematical. It was at hand. She was
actually making war upon us.
"Forward With God!"
Recent Instances of German Brutality in Belgium
Vernon Kellogg in Current Comment.
The Germans would prefer to have the
Belgians work voluntarily for them rather
than try to drive them to this work by de
portation and pressure.
The inducements held out to Belgian
workmen are shown by the folowing quota
tions taken from a poster recently put up
all over Belgium by the German authorities:
"There are sought for, to work in Ger
many, experienced workmen for factories,
furnaces, blast furnaces, steel works, rolling
mills, as well as fitters, blacksmiths, brick
layers, zinc-workers, workpeople of all
grades and all trades.
"Workmen will be paid and treated ac
cording to their capacity, on the same terms
and at the same rates as the German work
men of the same scale, whilst profiting by
the high wages obtaining at the present
time.
"They may freely dispose of the salary
earned, and may send money for the upkeep
of their families, with whom they also cor
respond freely.
"Contracts will be made for an engage
ment of four, six or eight months at will;
the signing of the contract guarantees that
the salary, the duration and conditions of
the contract, of which a copy will be given
to the contracting party, will be strictly ob
served by the employer.
"To provide for immediate needs, a con
siderable money bonus is offered to the fam
ily of the workman, payable immediately on
his departure. Besides this, the families will
receive a monthly benevolence in money dur
ing the absence of the man engaged and this
will serve to alleviate present poverty.
"Besides these important aids granted ab
solutely gratuitously to the families, the
amount of which increases with the number
of the members of the family, each workman
will receive immediately on signing the con
tract a personal premium of 50 franks which
will permit hhn to procure the equipment
necessary for his journey.
"It is understood that the amounts of the
benevolence money will not be deducted
from the wages."
When one remembers that the Belgian
workmen and their families are now living
only by aid of the relief organization, and
on rations perilously near a starvation basis,
it can be understood what fortitude and pa
triotism it requires to resist this glittering
bait.
However, they know that some of the
glitter may not indicate gold but may hide
steel or scraps of paper. For example, take
the naive statement that "the signing of the
contract guarantees that the salary, the dura
tion and conditions of the contract, of which
a copy will be given to the contracting party
will be strictly observed by the employer."
Copies of German contracts apropos Bel
gian affairs have been given before to the
contracting party, and yet some way this
did not seem to guarantee a strict observance
of them.
In addition to these inducements of
wages and benevolence to the workman and
his family there is always the further induce
ment not voiced, but always to be under
stood that if the workman does not volun
teer to leave his home and country to work
in Germany in factories that are creating
the things that help sow death among his
sons and brothers, his friends and the allies
who are fighting for him, he may be forcibly
deported to Germany and there punished by
beatings and starvation if he still refuses to
work. That, also, is an inducement.
In October (1917) 680 Belgian children
arrived in Evian-les-Bains on a single train;
they were all between the ages of 4 and
12; they were emaciated and sickly; and they,
were alone no mothers, no big sisters, no
fathers. They were sent ut of Belgium by
the Germans to Switzerland and thence to
France to be cared for. Two-thirds of them
had been taken from their parents because'
their fathers would not work for the German
army and were being starved into submission
and the niothers were willing to let their
children go rather than see them starve.
Think of that line of weak little mother
less things, climbing down from the train
and marching along the platform as bravely
as they could, into the hands of kindly, but
unknown foster-mothers and big sisters. Can
you picture any more incredible and poignant
sight in all the war? Well, that is something
of an inducement for the Belgian workman
to take the wages and the benevolence of
fered him by the Germans.
But to the glory of Belgium it can be said
with truth that very few of its working men
have chosen the easy path. As a mass, the
common people of Belgium whose sufferings
have been real and continuous for three ter
rible years and are ever increasing in this
fourth year, have held out against seduction
and coercion, against wiles and clubs and
starvation, and are today if facing death,
facing it standing up.
People and Events
Ty Cobb, the boss hitter, has gone over.
Now play ball!
Engineer Hurlbert of New York insists
that Hell Gate should be 40 feet deep. As
a local exit depth is not as important as
width to facilitate the rush.
All signs point to the coming Fourth of
July as the safest and sanest ever pulled off
in this country. The powder usually blown
up on the Fourth this year goes to pump
liberty and humanity into the deluded slaves
of war lords.
News of the Tuscania's sinking stirred
the joy belt of Wilhelm Sixtus, a Milwaukee
reporter. Throwing a few steins in the right
spot he cut loose a few whoops, and landed
in jail. The celebration cost him $25 and
his job. Dirt cheap.
With hearts pulsing good will and kindly
charity the drys of Chicago are perfecting
plans to provide jobs for barkeepers whom
they expect to put out of business in due
time. Looking ahead for a dry Chicago
gives imagination a run for life.
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One Year Ago In the War.
British captured more German
trenches near Arraa.
American schooner Lyman M. Law
; reported sunk by Austrian nub marine.
German ambassador, von Bern
storff, sailed from New York lor
home by way of Halifax and Eng
land. The Day We Celebrate.
Rudolph Dletz, grocer, born 1884.
George A. Roberts, grain dealer,
born 1834.
Israel Zangwlll, author, playwright,
and Zionist, born in London; Si years
ago.
Charles. Rann Kennedy, successful
present day playwright, born In Eng
land, a years ago.
This Day in History.
1(93 Charter granted to William
and Mary college, Virginia, one of the
oldest educational institutions of
America.
1779 Captain James Cook, the fa
mous navigator, killed by savages in
the Sandwich islands. Born in Eng
land, October 28, 1728.
1882 Federal flotilla under Com
modore Foot attacked Fort Donel
son, Tenn., but was repulsed.
' 1891 General William Tecumseh
Sherman, the civil war commander
for whom the national army canton
ment at CbilMcothe, O., is named,
5 tiled in New York City. Born at Lan
aaatar. O. fahruarr. 8. 1820.. '
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Just SO Years Ago Today
The boss masons of this city have
engaged rooms in the Paxton build
ing, Sixteenth and Farnam streets, and
there held an important meeting upon
the question of wages during the com
ing summer.
The Omaha club has moved into
its new, tasty and palatial quarters In
i V
the top story of the U. S. Bank Bldg.
The Slmmonds Manufacturing com
pany filed articles of incorporation
with the county clerk. The incor
porators are: Charles P. Slmmonds,
Charles R. Turney, Byron G. Bur
bank. George W. Parr. Charles F.
Whitney, William France and' John
Schnaub.
A movement is on foot to organize
a district assembly of the Knights -of
Labor, with headquarters at Chicago,
to be composed entirely of packing
house employes from that city, Oma
ha, St. Louis, Sioux City and Kansas
City.
At St Phllomena'B cathedral,
Daniel Ryan and Mlas Katie Hogan,
both of this city, were united in mar
riage by Father McCarthy. .
Around the Cities
Berlin, Ohio, like Berlin, Ontario,
has disappeared from the local map.
The Ohio burg has been rechristened
North Canton.
Another New Tork jobber who
imagined himself bigger than the gov
ernment, profiteered on sugar con
trary to the rules and was shut up
for four months.
City and federal cops raided the In
dustrial Workers of the World hall
In St. Louis and bagged 30 trouble
breeders. Bales of red Ink literature
formed a side line of the big haul.
St. Joseph nurses a sore spot and
declines to cheer up. The State Pub
lic Service commission sustained the
right of the street railway company
to discontinue 4-cent fares. Saints
call it a "raw deal" all for a cent
The Eastern hotel, dean of New
York hostelries, situated in . the
Bowery district, is about to give way
to a modern 10-story hotel. T" i East
ern Is as old as the oldest inhabitant,
and sheltered Jenny Lind on her tri
umphal visits to the metropolis.
Kansas City, which is in Missouri,
admits with practical unanimity that
a moral clean-up of the city is an
urgent necessity. Federal authorities
demand it as a measure of safety for
visiting soldiers; the city council ad
mits it and civil bodies press for ac
tion. But the political powers, while
outwardly willing, hesitate to start in
lest a moral wave or an efficient
morals squad might wreck sources of
rotten money. If proper exceptions
are made the politicians will boost the
reform or as much of it an hita the
other fellow. -
Nebraska Pointers
Hastings Tribune: What we can't
understand is, why leather should be
so high and hides so cheap. Can you
explain?
Albion Argus leans to the view that
the town gas plant is a hoodoo, but
is not quite ready to pronounce the
funeral eulogy. Trouble grows out of
the bulge in outgo and the meatless
aspect pf income.
Kearney Hub suspected all along
that considerable bootlegging went on
in town, but it remained for a police
raid to produce visible evidence.
Wherefore it waxes indignant and
calls upon the authorities to "hew to
the line." bust the bottles and cage
the bottlers. -
York Democrat harbors the notion
that patriotic hot air without prac
tical works fools mighty few people.
"The man above enlistment age,"
says the Democrat, "who is always be
moaning the fact that he is too old
to serve as a soldier, would make a
bigger hit by keeping his mouth
shut."- Windjamming is waste work
counts.
Seward County Tribune success
fully put over a sort of family draft
to make up for printers gone to the
war. "This," remarks the chief push,
"makes it necessary for us to fill the
position of office boy, printer and
devil but with the assistance of a
charming young lady reporter, wife,
mother and dad to help out on the
side we are getting by nicely."
Dubious Relief.
"I hear Briggs has gone to jail be
cause he didn't make out his income
tax report right"
, "How relieved he must bel" Life.
Peppery Points
Washington Post: If any man pulls
down the cold wave flag, pension him
on the spot.
Minneapolis Journal: It is hard to
believe in that "Great German Of
fensive on the West Front." It is
too well advertised.
New York World: If General
Ilindenburg thinks he will be in Paris
by April 1, as he says, somebody has
been April-fooling him in advance.
Wall Street Journal: What's in a
name? Corn raising propaganda in
Mississippi is led by Prof. Cobb. Corn
Cobb is good enough for all of us.
Washington Post: The decision to
impose the income tax on congress
men's salaries is the first portentous
movement against nonessential indus
tries. Minneapolis Tribune: Mr. McAdoo
has decided that the baby carriage
manufactories are essential industries.
Certainly. What would an army. be
without infantry?
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Con
gress might simplify matters by de
claring that the interstate railway
rate shall never exceed the sum of
the intrastate rates,
Baltimore American: America on a
bread ration would have been thought
abusurd when the war began, but the
fact only emphasizes the necessity of
winning the war before more sacri
fices are required. $
Brooklyn Eagle: When one man
can skin $9,000 a year raising musk
rats on an abandoned swamp of 1,300
or vhv ahonld nv man wear him
self out reading an equal number ot I
acres of law books? ..
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Vitalizing the Race.
Omaha, Feb. 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: Advanced ideas about pre
vention and cure, through natural liv
ing and more or less new methods or
healing without the employment of
poisonous drugs, are beginning to be
applied even by orthodox medical
practitioners. Though our mode of
existence to a certain extent must nec
essarily be artificial, a strict adher
ence to the natural law whenever pos
sible will counteract the trend to
wards degeneration on this account
Being freegivorous, see "The New
Science of Healing," by Louis
Kuhur, not omnivorous as the bears,
vegetarian diet comes natural to us
and, besides cutting expenses as meat
production is costly, combined with
dairy foods it has proved its
superiority in many ways, not
the least by increasing cell-resist
ance against disease and also dur
ing recuperation. By avoiding the
poisons in meat, coffee, tea, etc., also
by eliminating free sugar, strong
spices, alcoholic, nerve-irritants and
narcotics, we aid in fighting sickness.
And, other health conditions consid
ered, cultivating an appetite for
natural instead of concentrated foods,
for fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole
grain meal .and others rich in vi
taines, while leaving alone "de
natured" white bread, polished rice,
etc., we do our bit to strengthen the
rice. H. MELL.
2017 Leavenworth street.
Roosevelt Was Right.
Omaha, Feb. 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: So many undeserved harsh
things have been said about Theodore
Roosevelt in the last few years by
thoughtless persons, illy informed as
to his achievements and likewise Ig
norant of the great questions concern
ing this nation's welfare which he has
from time to time elaborated upon,
that it may not be amiss to allude to
a few of them. In the first place, al
low me to state that I have been fa
miliar with Roosevelt's service In be
half of orderly government and pro
gressive civil affairs for 38 years. I
lived in New York whilst he was po
lice commissioner and observed how
quickly he cleaned up the department
and eliminated the political thieves
and grafters. There has never been
a man i npublic life who by his deeds
proved himself to be a greater foe of
graft and grafters in public office.
Whilst he occupied the presidential
chair he was instrumental in sending
more aristocratic scoundrels to the
penitentiary than a dozen of his pred
ecessors. He exposed more official
crookedness and his revelations, or
threats of disclosures, were instru
mental in the voluntary retirement of
more than one congressman.
How the political crooks and shys
ters all over the country hated and
feared Roosevelt. During his last
term he succeeded in putting through
a reactionary congress 38 great re
form measures. The reclamation laws
he forced through congress, because
he knew the west and its needs, will
eventually provide bountiful homes
for millions. His proclamation with
drawing all water power sites, oil
fields and coal fields from public entry
has preserved for the benefit of pos
terity billions of dollars' worth of
property. It saved Alaska and its un
told wealth to the people, it saved
those great deposits of asphalt worth
a hundred million dollars, in the
Uinta reservation, Utah, and millions
of acres of mineral-bearing soil In
the Imperial valley, California, to the
people.
I want to say to you that hundreds
of ranchers throughout the northwest
have Theodore Roosevelt to thank for
the protection he gave them from
some grasping, soulless corporation.
The American people erect an idol and
will point out and glorify all the great
achievements of their idol. Then in
a little while after, in a spasm of
frenzy, will take a maul and "bust"
it. Heretofore ex-presidents have been
presumed to lapse into obscurity and
to lose their identity as national char
acters and Roosevelt's failure to carry
out that tradition resulted in a good
many political sore heads. Since he
entered actively as a contributor to
various magaslnes, I have preserved
all of his articles treating upon na
tional, international affairs and world
affairs and we know that if the con
gressional tyros and half baked states
men had heeded his warning, reiter
ated weekly and monthly, this nation
wouldn't be in the uncomfortable
plight it is today. The people listened
to false prophets and they'll be paying
for their folly for the next 50 years.
Oh, yes, they finally came to his
way of doing things, but two of the
most valuable years in the life of this
or any nation were frittered away in
senseless pleading. There are a lot
of simple minded people misled and
others swayed by prejudice, always
ready to lambast Roosevelt but they'll
wake up some day, it may be 10 or
20 years hence, unless meanwhile
they have forgotten he was once pres
ident, and confess Roosevelt was right.
J. II. LOWREY.
LAUGHING LINES,
Wife You remember that aecond last
cook we had; she got drunk, and tha judga
has given her SO days.
Hub Thirty days, eh? She won't stay
half the time. Boston Transcript.
Boosts the Flnto Bean.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 11 To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Let me say a word
for the pinto bean. I never ate a
pinto bean in my life until two weeks
ago. I had a distinct impression be
fore I ate them that they were good
stuff for Mexicans, but like the wild
buffalo pea (astragalus caryocarpus)
and the prairie dog, that they had a
strong taste reminding the eater of
the nights he had slept out on the
plains after a sand storm.
Two weeks ago the family bought
a small stock of pinto beans. Since
then we have had them in the form
of bean soup, baked beans, warmed
over beans and "bean spread" on
slices of war bread. There isn't a
better food ever came down the Lin
coln highway or the O. L. D. trail.
They are in every way superior to the
ordinary white bean, in delicacy of
flavor, in nutritious quality and in
power to satisfy a hungry man. I
shall eat them hereafter all the time
in preference to other beans, and if
I can persuade 1,000,000 of my fel
low citizens to try pinto beans, they
will ask no other hereafter.
I have an Interest in advertising the
virtues of the pinto bean. Last year
I planted a few acres of breaking on
dry land in Scottsbluff county to
pinto and white navy beans in equal
proportions. The frost October 9, got
most of the white navy beans. The
pinto bean came through like an
American flying from the summit of
Chimney Rock. Hundreds of other
Nebraska citizens had a similar expe
rience last year with the white navy
bean ; and the pinto bean upon our
western plains. Like the yucca and
the cactus the pinto bean seems
adapted for a successful crop in the
high plains region. All that it needs
now is to overcome the slight preju
dice in the public mind favoring the
white skin instead of a .tinted one
for the family bean pot.
ADDISON E. SHELDON.
He Is Marie's second venture a sue-
"she Why. yes in a way. She praisea
her first husband now. and her second hus
band thinks she'd praise him 1C she ahould
marry again. Judge.
One boiling August day an aged "cullud
gemman," who was pushing a barrow of
bricks, paused to dash the sweat from his
dusky brow; then, shaking his fist at the
sun, he apostrophized it thus:
"To' de Lawd's sake, war wui yuh last
Janooary ?" Everybody's Magazine.
"Think of the great age we live Inl
Think of the marvels of rapid transit."
"That's what I am thinking of. And
I am thinking also of the days when a
canal boat would bring down all the coal
you wanted In less than a week." Wash
ington Star.
"Doesn't so much wine weaken your pow
ers of Invention?" asked tha Interviewer
of tha writer of sensational stories.
"On the contrary, It stimulates them,"
he answered. "I have to work like mis
chief to keep up the supply." Boston
Transcript.
Minnie Don't you get tired of hearing
me sing the same old songs every night?
Beau Oh, no; you see when one gets
used to anything, It's much easier to bear.
Judge.
Mrs. Casey Shure, Ot thought it was a
painless dlntlst ye wint to.
Cassey He molght hov been painless
whin Ol wint, but he worn't whin Ol
lift him. Boston Transcript.
TO OLD GLORY.
Here's to the flag of the American nation,
The greatest and grandest In all creation;
The flag which England and France long
For a mighty power they know It to be.
Here'a to the flag of this country of ours.
A land rich In fruits and beautiful flowers:
A land whose people are all for the right.
Where steady and bright burns freedom's
great light.
Here's to the flag of the land of our birth.
Here's to the flag, the best one" on earth.
Old glory that waves In its triumph on
high.
The flag for which men are willing to die.
Here's to the flag we ail love to see.
The only one for you and for me:
The beautiful flag of the red, white and
blue.
We would not exchange for anything new.
Here'a to the flag the emblem of love.
For one's country and his God above;
The emblem of purity and all that Is good,
For which the old flag has valiantly stood.
Here's to the flag, the emblem of truth,
Which It would teach to every youth;
The emblem of freedom to all mankind.
Who under Its folds a haven would find.
Here's to the stars that In Old Glory shine,
They're like the stars in the heavens divine,
Because where they gleam o'er trench or
town.
No power on earth can pull them down.
Here's to the Star Spangled Banner so gay.
The flag we love and honor today:
Long shall It wave o't'r the land of the free.
Let us stand by the flag that forever
shall be.
Sutton, Neb. MERTON V. CONN.
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