THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1919.
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Airi elmilstlnn for tb month subacrUwJ Mil sworn to ay
K. K. Biiui. Circulation atinuer.
Subsrribara laavlnf th city should have Th Be mails
I than. Addru changed often requested.
Why pass the buck to Pershing?
Omaha certainly has contracted the conven
tion habit. Come on!
Property owners will do well to be at the
. city hall on Saturday evening.
It might be well to acquire one city market
before setting up any branches.
Deliberation and counsel now, but action
later it required to meet requirements of the
hour.
Secretary Rdfield plans to fix prices, but
says dealers need not follow them. What is
the use?
One country and one language is good
enough, says Rotary. And the American people
will say "Amen."
Marse Henry Watterson is no longer an
editor, but he still can call the turn on the
democratic party.
The Germans signed the terms in good sea
son to avert trouble. They are not even good
bluffers any more.
Berlin says nothing beyond the fourteen
points will be accepted in the peace treaty.
Wait and we shall see. v
We are glad to have Denver and Kansas
City represented here, that they may find out
what live town is like.
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President Paderewski gave the American
commissioners glad welcome at Warsaw. Even
old Thaddeus would be happy to see them.
When our only living ex-president was talk
ing equally sound sense in 1916 the Omaha
Hyphenated hooted at him as a prophet of
ill-omen.
, How far away is 1912, and what a lot of
things we have left behind including the Balti
more platform, which pledged its candidate to
one term only.
Butte miners are back at work, accepting
the reduced pay as a result of the drop in price
of copper. (This is both practical and philo
sophical patriotism.
The revised detective force seems to be mak
ing a little headway in the matter of overhaul
ing criminal other than bootleggers. And
every little bit helps. '
A lot of suspense among democratic lawyers
will be ended when the president reaches Bos
ton and tells who is to succeed Thomas W.
Gregory in the cabinet.
Let us hope the readjustment congress refers
none of its problems to Paris. Enough has al
ready been consigned to the peace conference
to keep it in session for years.
Audit of,the books of the State Board of
Control will do no harm, and might even be ex
tended to other departments of the state gov
ernment without injury to public service.
Governor Allen's charges in connection with
the Thirty-fifth division at Argonne will go
over to the next congress. About everything
else of real importance is going the same way.
, The governor should secure a complete col
lection of photographs of the old state house, in
side and out, that posterity may note what sort
of thing the rich -and cultured state of Nebraska
endure so long.
Herr Ertberger opines that the German
army was demobilized too rapidly for the good
of .the country. He is wrong; Germany would
have been far better off had the Hun army been
demobilized on- July 30, 1914.
The government has grabbed off the stock
of German owners in one big industrial plant,
which may be a step to acquisition of other
similar property. First thing we know we will
have Uncle Sam owning a lot of things that
may complicate industry.
The New German Rule
Chancellor Ebert, -who is holding the fort for
the junker party until it is safe for them openly
to resume operations and take over once more
the still existing German empire, declared to
the new assembly that "We have done forever
with princes and nobles by the grace of God."
Nevertheless, by the grace of Gott, Count
Johann von Bernstorff is still a ruling influence
at the German foreign office; Count von Rrock
dorff Rantzau, as successor to Dr. Solf, is hav
ing quite a lot to do with German affairs; Prince
Max of Baden has been named for the presi
dency of the new" German republic, and some
of the kaiser's sons and his brother, Prince
Henry, are energetically and more or less open
lv working to get back the kaiser to Germany.
Germany would, if it could, return to the old
, condition tomorrow, and desires nothing so
much as the restoration of the kaiser.
. Ebert has openly avowed the desire of ac
complishing a union between Germany and Aus
tria, and his statement was loudly cheered in the
assembly. Herein lies one of the great menaces
to peace in the future, and it will be the "duty
of the entente and allied governments to pre
vent anything of this kind. Such a coalition of
German states has only one object, and that is
the realization of the old dream of Mittel
europa. Of course supporters of the project in
Germany will base such a coalition on the right
of self-determination of states proclaimed by
President Wilson. But this pretext should not
be permitted to avail in this particular case. The
demand for such an arrangement has not yet
come from Austria, but even if the German
states of that country approved of it that would
be no reason for compliance. The world has
suffered to much ah-eady from an Austro-Ger-matr
alliance to permit another. New York
ileiild. ' - .
NEBRASKA'S NEW CAPITOL.
The action of the legislature providing for
raising the requisite building fund by a con
tinuing tax calculated to produce upward of
$3,500,000 assures the people of Nebraska a
long-needed new capitol.
Perhaps the time was not before ripe, per
haps the hopes of ambitious interior cities could
not sooner be reconciled to leaving the city of
Lincoln in undisturbed possession of the seat of
state government, perhaps the people of Ne
braska have only now reached consciousness
of the prosperity and affluence that warrants its.
outward evidence, perhaps the urge of pushing
public works to take up the slack of the war
is being felt whatever the reason, that the time
is ripe for the move will be universally con
ceded. But with the actual building of a capitol to
replace the outgrown state house ordered, let
the project be developed on big, broad lines
commensurate with the magnitude and wealth
and aspirations of a great and growing state.
The capitol of Nebraska should be more than
merely a building to house the state offices and
furnish shelter for those engaged in the state's
public activities. It should be a monumental
edifice to which all may point with pride, a
structure that will be imposing and artistic in
conception as well as usefully modern in its
convenience and adaptability. That old state
house has served for 50 years the new one
should look ahead for at least a century if not
for centuries.
Let us have a capitol befitting Nebraska not
lavish or extravagant but substantial and in
good tasje in everything nothing less will
satisfy.
Propaganda, Prejudice or Piffle?
.What is behind the sudden attack on the
officers of the regular army? Why should Gen
eral Pershing and those associated with him be
now subjected to a vicious fire from the rear?
Champions of the National Guard are doing
their cause poor service by assailing the edu
cated and specially trained soldiers of the United
States. People who think at all -will realize the
absurdity of insisting that the man fresh from
civil life is better qualified to deal with military
problems than is one who has spent his life in
studying 'such problems. Yet a terrible storm
of objection is being raised because West
Pointers were preferred to the National Guard
officers for important commands.
Some dreadful blunders were committed by
men in connection with our military activities.
The worst of these have been brought home to
experts from civil life, suddenly thrust into a
new relation and striving to make good. Lack
of proper training, misunderstanding due to in
experience, sometimes temperamental inapti
tude, contributed to the general result, but these
are not. to be alleged against the West Point
men. They are trained for their work, and ad
vancement in the army goes by merit and not
by favor. Officers are not selected by vote of
the privates in the "regular" army. Instances
of lack of tact, or of failure, perhaps, may be
found, but to cojideAn all the men from our
great military academy because a few indi
viduals are blamable, is unfair in the extreme.
General Pershing is to be "investigated."
Why? Will he be made a goat for the clique
that is now trying to shift responsibility for
blunders that have been traced to the War de
partment? The secretary of war is not a West
Pointer, you know.
Is the hullabaloo propaganda for the
pacifists, an appeal to political prejudice, or just
piffle?
New Orleans a Seaport for Omaha.
Presence at the Transmississippi conference
of representatives of New Orleans, charged to
saturation with the new life of their home com
munity, should emphasize to Omaha people the
importance of the port at the mouth of the
Mississippi river.
The factors in the problem of this region are
simple, and their solution easy. The difference
between the world price of farm produce and
the cost of getting to market means the price
paid to the farmers who sell their stuff in
Omaha. Any reduction in the cost of marketing
increases the return to the farmejr.
Water-borne commerce moves at the lowest
possible cost, and from Omaha to New Orleans
is a reliable water route, neglected but service
able and available. Development of this sec
tion will depend on the world demand for food
products, and prosperity on the returns. It is
therefore plain that whatever lowers the cost
of reaching the ultimate. consumer increases the
return to the producer, other things being equal.
If New Orleans provides a seaport for
Omaha, it is reasonable to think that Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and other Atlantic
coast shipping points will be interested to the
extent of concessions not now held out. The
trade of this great agricultural empire is worth
while to any shipping center or transportation
system. Omaha has not only opportunity but
an imperative concern in the future of New
Orleans.
Plight of Government Employes.
One of the overlooked angles of raising
wages in industries that have come under gov
ernment control or supervision relates to the
situation of employes of the government. In
the packing houses, for example, many men
and women are on the pay roll of Uncle Sam.
The bureau of animal industry has its force of
inspectors wherever meat is prepared for sale
on large scale. These inspectors are trained
experts in their work, are employed only after
careful examination as to their fitness, and on
their judgment and skill depends the quality of
the meat that is sent out for public consump
tion. Yet they are paid at a rate that was
fixed long ago, when the purchasing power of
the dollar was far above its present capacity.
As a result in Omaha a capable man' with years
of experience and faithful service to his credit,
finds himself working anywhere from eight to
sixteen hours per day and gettirfg $110 a month,
while the laborers he directs are drawing down
from $125 to $150 for their month's work, and
the skilled workers are paid accordingly higher.
Nothing here is intended to inveigh against the
workman getting his high wage, but some relief
should be given the underpaid men and women
who guard the public interests and draw their
wage from .the public coffers.
Senator Borah tells the president he will not
be bound to silence by means of a luncheon at
Ihe White House.- Other members of the senate
committee on foreign affairs, notably the chair
man, have yet to show such independence.
Hindenburg is now accused of being ex
travagant in his war expenditures. He was a
grand old Hua while he was winning, though.
The Range of Confiscation
Los Angeles Times,
Gaining in volume as it passes from country
to country, a -wave of confiscation is sweeping
the world. The human species has come to re
semble a colony of bees devouring the honey of
their own making, deserting the fields of corn
flower .and clover for plunder and warfare with
in the hive. And those skilled in the art of bee
culture have noted that when bees begin loot
ing their own hive, the colony is decadent and
otten the queen is dead.
Confiscation assumes varvinor forms in dif
ferent countries; it has a new mask for every
spectacle; but the sinister figure of the primi
tive brigand is always hidden beneath. In Rus
sia it is bolshevism the tyranny of the major
ity; in Germany, despotism; in France, syndi-
I. . ' - . T! ' . ' I . . .
causm; in ureal amain, socialism; in Alexico,
outlawry; and in the United States, expropria
tion through excessive taxation. Everywhere
the drones are organizing to depose the workers
and capture the hive. Production is forgotten
in the mad race of the have-nots to possess and
squander the substance of them that have. The
grasshopper approaches the ant, not with a
song and a plaint, but with a club and a threat.
Germany started the movement with an or
ganized effort to confiscate the possessions of
her neighbors through a combination of treach
ery and force. The free peoples of the earth
are weakened from the wounds received in the
terrific combat necessary to break the military
power of the Hun; and while they are still faint
from loss of blood new forces have organized
to finish what Germany began. In Russia con
fiscation is legalized and consecrated; the grass
hoppers have driven out the ants and possessed
their substance; and after wasting the wealth of
their own country they migrate in great hordes
to dispossess the ants in other countries. Their
mercenary leaders tell, them there is enough ac
cumulated wealth in the world to furnish plund
er for the present generation, and that it is folly
for one generation o stint itself for the benefit
of the next. Credible witnesses report that it is
not an unusual occurrence for men and women
to be stopped in the streets of Petrograd and
robbed not only of their valuables, but of their
clothing as well, and the robbers are generally
connected with some government department.
Our own country is passing through an era
of confiscatory taxation; not war taxes their
pinch has not been felt but through state,
county and municipal taxation, much of it in
direct, but none the less onerous. California's
forty fat commissions have not added a single
blade of grass or grain of wheat to the state's
production, but the government they administer
costs $3,000,000 a month. They are so many
drones robbing the hive. During the last year
California has paid $240,000,000 for federal,
state, county and municipal government. That
sum represents 7 per cent of the total assessed
valuation of all real and personal property in
the state; it is about 20 per cent of the total pro
duction of the state for the year. The burden
imposed is intolerable.
Even the prohibitionists have been bitten by
the bug of confiscation. They have conducted
a movement for the confiscation of the vine
yards of California, as well as the plants ' and
properties of the brewers. They have no more
moral right t.o destroy the value of those vine
yards and ruin their owners than to burn every
building in Los Angeles in which a liquor store
was once located. Convinced of the holiness of
their cause, they exercise, like their prototypes
in Russia, the intolerable tyranny of the ma
jority that crushes and robs minorities, confus
ing the might of numbers with the right of justice.
The Times has pointed out repeatedly that
the Prussian junkers have no monopoly of autoc
racy. There are other force's as dangerous to
free peoples as those which were loosed when
the Hun legions invaded Belgium, and the most
dangerous of these is confiscation through proc
ess of law. Whenever a government becomes
powerful enough to oppress and rob those by
whom it is supported, whenever a state or ied
eral pay roll becomes so heavy that it can over
balance the labor and industry of the governed,
then justice ends and confiscation begins. The
example of the British municipalities, at the
mercy of their employes, is one that it is well
for Americans to consider.
Confiscation is the malady of modern gov
ernments. It has ruined Russia, wrecked Mex
ico and sadly crippled industry in Great Britain
and the United States. It is the deadly enemy
of productjon; and if it is permitted to extend
its sway over the governments of free peonies
the civilization of the world will lapse back: to
that of the dark ages. Bolshevism, as such, will
never gain a permanent foothold in this country;
but it must be remembered that bolshevism is
but a single manifestation of the prevalent
malady, the rage for the confiscation of prop
erty by taking it away. striking it away, enact
ing it away or taxing it away from its lawful
owners.
A Bourgeoisie on Strike
Has an antidote for bolshevist methods of
coercion been discovered? The successful out
come of the strike of the official and profes
sional classes of Dusseldorf inspires the hope.
In retaliation against Spartacan terrorism the
conservative element of the German city, the
bankers, lawyers, physicians, school teachers and
public officials, suspended work in a body. As
a result, theaters and restaurants were forced to
close, industrial plants were shut down, and
after a short period of municipal stagnation the
Spartacans came to terms and conceded the de
mands of the strikers.
So far as known, this is the first strike of a
bourgeoisie on record, and the precedent is im
portant. Two, it seems, can play at the game;
the bourgeoisie has equal rights with the bol
sheviki to quit work and disturb the orderly
processes of government and industry. Bankers
and teachers and peaceful citizens generally can
resort to direct action to defend themselves
when the occasion demands.
But the point is that they have begun to ex
ercise the right. Has the world to thank Ger
many for a homoeopathic remedy for political
disorder, the cure of the disease by means of
the elements that cause it? The Dusseldorf
idea, if adopted by official and professional
classes elsewhere who are exposed to bolshevist
attack, may help to counteract the eviL New
York World.
i i onAV
The Day We Celebrate.
VV. F. Wappich, attorney, born 1860.
S. L. Winters, attorney, born 1872.
Joseph Barker, insurance, born 1877.
Myron L. Learned, attorney, born 1866.
Adelina Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) for
many years the world's greatest singer, born in
Madrid 76 years ago.
General Sir Henry Sinclair Home, who com
manded the British army that smashed the Dro-court-Queant
switch line, born 58 years ago.
Newcomb Carlton, recently placed in charge
of all marine cable systems of the United States,
born at Elizabeth, N. J., 50 years ago.
Maj. Gen. William Crozier, U. S. A-, retired,
who served as chief of ordnance during the war,
born at Carrollton, O., 64 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Erastus A. Benson, president of the Nebrask.i
Phonograph company, has gone to New York
to facilitate the distribution of the machines.
Orders are coming in faster than the company
is able to' supply them.
A delegation from Phil Kearney post left for
the G. A. R. encampment of Kearney, Neb.
among them, John Wood, Sergeant Davidson,
P. A. Lyons and Oscar S. Jaynes.
Miss Mabel Eaton has returned from a two
weeks' visit with friends in Magnolia, la.
General Brooke and family left for a visit at
Mrs. Brooke's old home in New Hampshire..
E. B. Holt has been appointed mail clerk on
the B. & M., succeeding Paul M. Campbell.
In the Wake of War
One curious effect of the war In
England -was the remarkable dim
inution of crime. In 1903 one per
son out of every ,175 In Britain was
or had been in prison; in 1913 the
number had fallen to one in every
271, and before the end of the war
It had dropped to one in every' 1,127
persons.
After the nuns were driven out of
shooting range of Albert, last sum
mer, they spread among the credu
lous the story that if the statue of
the Madonna on the church tower
fell France would lose the war. " The
parish priest employed a blacksmith
to brace and rivet the statue, so that
it could not fall while the tower
stood. The story foreshadowed the
fall that came to the authors No
vember 11.
Reports from Coblenz, where
American doughboys keep watch on
the Rhine, forecast an early slump
in the American market for German
army helmets as souvenirs of the
fray. It is said between 60.000 and
70,000 helmets, plain and fancy
models, thrown away by the van
quished army, have been gathered
up and shipped to this country, to be
used as prizes In the Victory loan
campaign. Vale the helmet sou
venir. Under pressure of excess heat un
der the collar a German writer
waxes indignant over the employ
ment of Ggrman prisoners In clean
ing up the rubbish of the invaders in
ravaged France and Belgium. Ger
many's example in that line of work
is not followed strictly. There is no
starvation, no slave-driving, no
lashings, no tortures to the death, as
experienced by allied prisoners in
German hands. The prisoners worth
ing in France and Belgium are well
fed and treated humanely.. Doubt
less the writer fails to grasp the dif
ference. Hence the scream.
In the early years of the war,
when cash was growing scarce in
Germa'nv and auite abundant in
Brazil, German financiers launched
a war loan in the South American
republic and gave Investors to un
derstand that $130,000,000 in gold
had been deposited in German home
banks and branch bank to "guar
antee the loan." Since the war did
not pan out as the kaiser promised
Brazilian investors are anxious to
know what became of the gold. No
one seems to know. Seems to have
disappeared spurlos versenkt
leaving investors to noia me sacK.
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Pttrgy and Billy so with the Giant ot
the Wood on a hunt for gold. Prince
Ronnie Hlue Bell shows them he way
into the hidden caverns of the mountain.
There they find an Indian Idol at which
Billy throws a stone)
CUAITL'R III.
i The Giant in a Tit.
ALL were astonished at what fol
lowed when Billy's Stone hit
the Idol. Kach expected to bo
grabbed quickly by that awful black
arm stretching out toward them In
the dark. Peggy felt something
like- fingers touch her and then pass
on. All the time the alarming, whir
ring roar continued and the air was
St. Louis Globe Democrat: It cost
innnnnnn mnn tn ett rid of three
emperors; and it seems as if it might
have Deen done more cneapiy.
nut-rt!f TTroA Proofl- Tf the fT-rzftr
hasn't died as frequently as some
Athn, men at lonnt ha Vinlria the rec
ord for experiencing a diversity of
deatAs.
Washington Post: Anyhow, the
little nations can't complain that
they are deprived of their share of
the alphabet, says Delegate Zbinzis
Jewski to Delegate Krpoliatinkapopo-
lOUSi .
New York World: Vice President
Marshall's creed for loyal Americans
is admirable but unnecessary. An
America citizen Is simply an Ameri
can. ?Ie doesn't need to say it. It
is obvious.
Brooklyn Eagle: Bryan was once
thought the, Moses of democracy,
but till he smote the rock and the
water of prohibitionism gushed forth'
the world took him for nothing but
a mosiac of conflicting colors.
Minneapolis Tribune: Have you
noticed your dollar getting bigger?
Baltimore American: Democratic
extravaganee'and wastefulness must
bo superseded at Washington by
republican economy and thrift.
New York World: Mr. ' Bryan's
demand that the Southern demo
crats support the equal suffrage
amendment may serve to warn them
that they now have no party princi
ple to fall back on. When they ac
cepted national pruniumun mrjr j
left themselves without any excuse ,
for opposing woman sunrage.
He walked right up to the idol and
stared It in the face.
stirred as if fanned by the idol's
monster hand seeking them.
Then, as suddenly as it began, the
noise ceased, the air grew quiet and
the feeling that something was hov
ering over them passed away.
Billy jumped to his feet and flash
ed hfs light about. There was no
sign of that threatening hand. Bold
ly he turned the ray squarely on the
idol. There it stood, still and silent,
but some strange change had come
over it. No longer did It wear its
moving robe of brown; no longer
did the hundred eyes flash from it.
"I'm not afraid of wood and
stone," again exclaimed Billy, and to
prove what he said he defiantly
walked right up to the Idol and
stared it in the face. Then he gave
it a kick.
There sounded an odd squeak and
something black whirred from the
head of the idol over the heads of
Peggy, the Giant and Trlnce Bonnie
Blue Bell. .
"Ha, ha. ha V laughed Billy, and
they wondered If he had been scared
crazy. "Ha, ha, ha! That's a Joke
on us, getting scared by a lot of
bats." j
"Bats!" exclaimed the Giant,
slangily. "Are you batty?"
"Ha. ha, ha! An Idol of stone
and wood can't hurt anyone, even
when it is the roosting place of an
arniv of bats."
"Huh!" grunted the Giant, a little
ashamed of having been so badly
frightened. "I never met an idol
before and didn't know how it would
act."
"Why, it's only an ugly figure
made out of stone. Just like little
children make a man out of snow,"
remarked l'eggy, examining the im
age carefully.
"That's all," declared Billy. "I
wouldn't be afraid of hundreds and
hundreds of them, because they
couldn't possibly hurt you."
"Bats, only bats roosting on a
carved stone, that's been the mys
tery of this Indian temple all these
years," tinkled Prince Bonnie Blue
Bell. "May all the dangers we have
yet to prove as harmless."
"Where's that gold? I want to
get there quick," said the Giant.
"It is down the other passage,"
answered Prince Bonnie Blue Bell.
Down narrow passages and
through broad halls he guided them,
with Billy's flashlight showing the
way.
Finally they came to a chamber
with a very high roof.
"The Hall of Gold! Turn your
light upward," cried Prince Bonnie
Blue Bell. As Billy Belgium .obey
ed, and the ray struck the ceiling,
the Giant gave a glad shout.
"Gold! Gold! The whole roof is of
gold!"
Stretching out his arms toward the
precious yellow metal, the Giant ran
forward. Prince Blue Bell gave a
shriek of warning, but it came- too
late. With a cry of alarm the Giant
suddenly disappeared from view.
Billy's flash, turned quickly from the'
roof, showed that the Hall of Gold
had no floor. Where the floor
should be was a yawning, black pit.
From far down in this pit came a
loud splash and then silence.
(In the next chapter will be told how
the Oiant of the Woods eacapea from an
underground lake.)
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SHNNY GEMS.
"I don't like the way this road Is run;'
said the IrrltRble paeeerger.
"What right have you to kick, com
pared to me?" said the conductor. "You
only have to make this trip once In a
while." Washington Star.
"Well, Pat." said the visitor, "we must
all die once." "
"That's phwal bothers me." replied the
very sick man. "If Ol could die half a
doien times Oi wouldn't mind it.'' Bos
ton Transcript.
He Will you promise to marry me?
She No, but I'd like to have an option
on you until the end of the season!
Judge,
They were two days out and the young
bride was dreadfully seasick.
"Henry, dear," she moaned, "If I should
die and they bury me here you'll come
sometimes and plant flowers on my grave,
won't you." Detroit Free Press.
TO HIS GIRL.
I had a letter fro a girl today I've never
met "
Her heart la far away where poppies
blow
'Twas from a girl whose wedding gown
was made
And awaiting for the day when she
should go
Down Ho the altar side by side with him
my pal r
Who sleeps In Francs beneath the win
ter'! snow. ,
Although I've never seen her, this she
knows
That we were friends her finance and
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And In words so simple, yet so firm.
She seeks to find If I will not reply
And say tf I can understand how God
could rule
That men like him should be the ones
to die. .
And so I hops she'll read this little
line.
And with her all the legion hearts that
grieve.
For he and they who rest beside him
paid
The last full price before they took
their leave.
Admitting them and ua to Heaven at
last
The door alar wa soon shall enter and
retrieve.
Qulnn U Martin In N, T. Herald.
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Jerry Sounds the Tocsin.
House of Representatives, Feb.
18. To the Kdltor of the Bee:
Your editorial In Sunday's issue
headed, "Let the Fnlks at Home
Be Heard," was logical and per
tinent. AVhen you say, "But
only special interests can afford to
send men to Lincoln to speak for
them the great body of the people
have neither time nor means to do
so." Yesterday s transactions proved
the truthfulness of your statement,
when a delegation from the city
hall lent the dignity of its presence
at the state house for the purpose of
advocating the passage of a camou
flage measure that the great major
ity of Omaha people never heard of.
The most amusing, if not disgust
ing part of the story, the city offi
cials invited the senators and rep
resentatives to attend a meeting at
the city hall next Saturday evening.
I advocated a meeting-of the sena
tors and representatives at the city
hall last December through the
press, and I appeared before the city
commissioners, telling them how es
sential it was to give thie people an
opportunity to say what laws they
wanted.
These distinguished statesmen,
who temporarily occupy offices in
the city hall, ignored my sugges
tions. Probably they had an idea
that the machine ring would accom
plish all they wanted. Citizens of
Omaha arise. It behooves you to be
on the alert; you have no idea of
what is transpiring here at Lincoln.
JERRY HOWARD.
lTse of Cigarets.
Lincoln, Feb. 15. To the Editor
of The Bee: sl returned last month
from France after serving 10 months
overseas with the United States mil
itary forces. We went through some
pretty hard fighting and suffered
considerable hardships. The cause
for which we fought was a great
cause, and many large problems will
arise as-a result of our victory. It
will require the best thought of the
world to bring about a permanent
peace among the peoples Involved
in this war, and I am astonished,
upon my return home, to learn that
there are some people living in Ne
braska who are opposed to the sale
of cigarets and who now Beem to be
bending their efforts to prohibit the
use of cigarets by the people. We
used cigarets as soldiers and we
found them to be very beneficial,
and it seems to me that the people
who remained at home could devote
their time to much more useful
work by providing comfort for the
returning soldiers. We do not ask
very niunh from the folks who re
mained at home, but we do insist
that they do not take from us the
little pleasure that we obtain from
the use of cigarets.
I hope that the people will cease
their petty fight on tobacco and all
get together to promote the happi
ness and peace of the world.
LEROY STRONG.
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