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    THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.
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No red flag flaunts in Nebraska sunshine.
Good morning; have you received your
bomb today? ' .
Organized labor as such has no part in or
ganized murder, here or elsewhere. '.
Sioux City has set about seriously to recall
Its I. W. W. mayor. The job ought to come easy.
Clarence Mackay says: "You need not wait
until July, Mr. Burleson; I'll take mine now."
The Bee's cartoonist assumes responsibility
for the announcement that these are "may"
days in Paris. '
Italy has just borrowed another trifle of
$50,000,000 from the United States, so we may
chain up the dogs of war again.
.,, The May Day, uprising in Paris was post
poned on account of rain. In Omaha it was ad
journed on account of the mayor.
It will take a lot of close figuring to de
termine why Italy was turned down and Japan
favored, but maybe there's a reason.
Belgium files an energetic protest against
the award made by the "big three." Looks like
nobody is satisfied with the outcome over there.
Up to date we have failed to notice any
signs of an uprising of the people to, require
Albert Sidney Burleson to refrain from return
ing the wires to their pwners' control.
Famine stalks in the Punjab, also, and we
must have food to send there. The call to the
farmer gets louder every day. Food not only
won the war, but it will preserve humanity.
Corn started right back up again, just as if
the grain director had not decreed a lower price
level. The gamblers have the call on the gov
ernment every time in this matter.
All those in favor of continuing extravagant,
inefficient and outworn methods of transacting
public business will find a warm welcome at
"Brasher Charley" Bryan's headquarters in Lin
coln." . 1
. Illinois is still pursuing a forty-year effort to
secure .tax reform. This ought to encourage
Nebraska, where the effort has not been so long
continued, but has produced about the same dis
appointing results.
"Sweetness and light" in the form of infernal
machines sent into quiet homes, through the
mail comes from the dark places where anarchy
nests and murder breeds. These must be opened
up, that the pure sunlight of liberty may
cleanse them.
' British censorship on the news cables has
been : removed, and the correspondents over
there will have only themselves to blame here
after if they get scooped. Likewise, the public
will feel better fcr knowing the news is not
tinctured with any' sort of governmental dope.
The Iowa legislature has just made up its
record and finds that a large part of its time
was taken up in listening to a political squabble
growing Oiit of factional differences and which
should never have been permitted to come to
such a court. It is up to the Iowa voters now
to put an end to such proceedings.
Uniform bills of lading should be a great
help to commerce, as they will eliminate much
of the uncertainty now leading to disputes over
terms under which shipments are carried. When
the transportation business is standardized to a
point at which shippers will know exactly what
is required of them, and what they may depend
upon, better relations ought to follow naturally!
Uncle Sam, Monitor
We suspect that at Paris our respected Uncle
Sam is coming to be quite generally regarded
, as art upright and godly man, whom it is a
" pleasure to hate. He is always right unfor-
givably so. His principles are correct and un
popular. His face is set against wrong and all
other forms of enjoyment. He is a good man,
whose back everybody longs to see.
A Puritan father at a May dance was not
V hailed by the company with more outward at
tention and inward resentment. Indeed, the
Puritan figure of St. Gaudens, which a sinful
' generation may contemplate at Springfield,
Mass., probably typifies with considerable ex
; actness that of our model pattern Uncle Sam
as he is regarded at Paris. If the lank hair,
the sober garments, the high hat, Bible and
staff are not visible to the eye, all that they
stand for in morals and discipline is none the
less in evidence. He is Praise God Barebones
back in life. His staff comes cracking down
on the skulls of all small boys found sleeping
in church or eating plum pudding.
Tt seems fairly plain that the gathering at
Paris would have been a much more worldly
. and enjoyable affair if our Uncle Sam had been
detained elsewhere. It seems probable, in, that
event, that the participants would have had a
real fling. Their original intention, if it is
fair to judge, was not to hold a revival. But
Uncle Sam could not well be shut out. He
" held the notes of about everybody present. He
was, therefore, admitted, and no sodner had he
found his place than he began to inquire with
some strictness into the state of everybody's
soul.'
To some of those present it, seemed a little
unfair. Uncle Sam, they admitted, was pure.
. But, then, he could afford to be rhe was rich.
' They were willing to be good, too, but figured
i that it ought to be made worth their while. If
they could have what they wanted they would
try to learn to sing through their noses, too.
Mind! It has been a good thing for every
body but how they wish he would go homel
Nobody wants to sit upright in his Sunday
clothes all the time. Kansas City Star, -
MURDER AS AN ."APPEAL."
May Day was set apart as "international"
labor day; in order that it might be the more
impressively observed here, its advocates
planned an extensive campaign of murder. Not
by directly approaching the victim, for the
"direct actionist" does not believe in either tak
ing a chance as to his own safety or giving the
other fellow a chance for his. Secrecy is the
rule never broken. This time bombs were to be
distributed through the mails, to prominent men
in various parts of the country, the explosions
to add to the hubbub and general acclaim that
was to salute the red flag as it waved in the
sunshine of freedom. The fact that the person
singled out to be murdered might escape and
innocent ones fall before the bombs, merely
adds zest to the venture. It is the .terror the
uplifters seek to spread.
And all this is done in the name of brother
hood of man, of liberty for the masses, and a
better way of living. A "peaceful revolution,"
according to Scott Nearing. A "protest"
against the enforcement of laws made for the
protection of all.
Men and women with warped minds, in
verted morals, mental processes turned askew,
always have and perhaps always will pester the
world. The accumulated wisdom of mankind
has not yet provided an effective way of dealing
with them. But the lunatic who becomes dan
gerous may be confined, and the madmen who
undertake promiscuous assassination will be
brought out of their hiding places and punished.
Men and women of our land -know at what
price their liberty was bought, and what it
has cost to maintain, and they are not to be
frightened by methods that disturbed Russia.
The explosion of a bomb in a home is a dread
ful affair, but it does not shake the foundation
of our free institutions.
China's Case at Paris. '
According to reports of the settlement of
matters in dispute between China and Japan,
neither gets all that was asked for at the Paris
conference. Kiao Cbau and the German conces
sions in Shantung go to Japan, over the protest
of China. This is a material advantage to the
Japanese, who will be permitted to exploit the
rich mineral resources of the peninsula, al
though political sovereignty remains with China.
That the whole question is adjourned and
not finally disposed of is the opinion of those
who are well informed as to Chinese condi
tions, The much advertised awakening of the
Celestials still is in progress, and a firmer and
more popular government is surely" being estab
lished there. When the Chinese are finally
solidified as to their national destiny, we may
look for an effort to recover control of the
material wealth of the country, now held and
enjoyed by outsiders.
Japan needs the coal and iron coming from
Shantung, and will translate into ships, build
ings and other useful forms the minerals that
have so long lain idle. But China, too, is
building up an industry, and the day will come
when the possession of the mines will cause a
serious dispute. Concessions forced by Ger
many from a helpless nation may be an im
mediate advantage to the Japanese, but may
grow into something that will be quite em
barrassing in time.
In arriving at this compromise, the "big
three" has adopted expediency as a guide,, ap
parently, and has laid the foundation for some
extremely important future proceedings by the
League of Nations.'
"Call for Mr. Wilson."
American business men, in convention as
sembled at St. Louis, have issued a call for Mr.
Wilson. Will he please come home from Paris,
call congress into session, and1 get under way
the important work of freeing American com
merce and industry from war restrictions.
It is a most remarkable fact that of all the
great powers involved, the United States is the
only one in which the legislative body is not
busy dealing with post-war problems. Our
president came back from Europe in February
in a bad humor, and left again in March in a
worse temper than he arrived. This may have
permitted the vent of his own feelings,
but the country has suffered by it. The con
gress in which hi3 own party controlled had
months in which to accomplish things plainly
needed, and failed.
Democrats knew in November the next con
gress would have a republican majority, but
instead of driving through their program, as the
president expected, they doddered along, wasting
time and accomplished nothing. Even the big
appropriation bills cn which the continuation
of the government's activities depend, were not
passed.
In sixty days the departments will be with
out money. No one knows this better than the
president. He also knows how much should be
done in order to help business get from a war
to a peace basis. Will he hear and heed the
call sent from St. Louis?
Naval Veterans Passing.
Orders just issued from the Navy depart
ment will touch a tender chord in the breasts
of Americans. Ir is that the old battleships
Iowa, Massachusetts and Indiana be taken out
of commission, their names transferred to new
superdreadnaughts. And thus pass the veterans
of the navy.
America thrilled wtihi conscious, justifiable
pride when those ships went down the ways
and into the water a little more than twenty
years ago. All the' world stood at attention
when the fleet of which these, with the Oregon,
formed the nucleus and backbone, disposed of
Cervera's force at Santiago, as Dewey had done
for Mootejo at Manila Bay. and a new page
was turned, not only in the history of our coun
try, but in the annals of the human race.
Those who visited the Iowa in the months
that followed the fight and saw the deep in
dentations in its forward turret, where shots
from Spanish guns had struck, experienced
something of awe as they realized that the bat
tle was not so one-sided as the result might in
dicate. These were then the proudest posses
sions of our navy, the most magnificent ships
of war afloat Soon naval architecture surpassed
them, and the Nebraska, launched six years after
the battle of Santiago, had sufficient strength
to engage every vessel of both fleets then
involved and defeat them without'eoming under
their range. And now the Nebraska is a second
line vessel, soon to be sent back to the third
line. This is progress in the science of naval
warfare.
' Americans are concerned in keeping their
sea fighters up to the minute, and might profit
if they took equal interest in their land forces.
Italy and the World
From the New York Post
Sismondi in his "Italian Republics," remarks
that in the history of no CQuntryii the power
of a government to shape public opinion more
clearly shown than in that of Italy. We are
plainly seeing the truth of this today. Very
soon after the armistice, the Italian government
began to inspire a demand for the annexation
of Fiume. This early became the order of the
day for the press, the military spokesmen, and
the mass of the people. No one can say that
there was anything unnatural in this. Nor was
it profoundly "imperialistic." Though not en
titled to Fiume by her secret agreement with
England and France, Italy could set up a tol
erable claim at least to a voice in the dispo
sition of a port inhabited by so large an Italian
element of the population. And Italians can
not be blamed overmuch by other nations for
being carried away by "the intoxication of suc
cess," to use a phrase of Sismondi's. It is a
dangerous thing to yield to in the hour of vic
tory, but in this matter Italy is not a sinner
above all who dwell in Europe.
What she is to be blamed for, however, in
her present attitude, is not so much for making
a claim on Fiume, as for apparently refusing to
admit that this claim and all others must be
regarded as only a part of a world-settlement.
An intense national aspiration, not abhorrent
in itself, must not be set up and insisted upon
and made a means of wrecking the work of
peace, in the face of international needs and
a demand made in behalf of the whole world. If
Italy alone were in question, no one would ob
ject to her seeking every advantage reasonably
open to her. But she is only one of many
nations. Her claims have to be weighed along
side others. And it is for her statesmen to
throw their minds into the common conferences
at Paris. What is there being striven for is a
world-agreement, covering as wisely as im
perfect human judgment can the interests of
diverse countries and of nations yet to be born.
Against the honest effort to bring ab&ut this
great and general adjustment, it is neither gra
cious nor tolerable for one government to assert
itself in an irreconcilable spirit and issue an
ultimatum. This is the real ground of com
plaint against the course of the Italian dele
gates at Paris.
, It is, too, in the fact that the United States'
is engaged in grappling, at the side of other
nations, with world-issues, that we find the
answer to certain critics at home. Senator
Lodge, for example, has just renewed his pro
test against our "meddling." What's Fiume to
us or we to Fiume? Let the Italians get it
if they can It's no concern of ours. But we
have made It our concern to help in making an
enduring peace for all the world. We "med
dled" deliberately, and with the applause of
Senator Lodge and all other Americans, when
we went to war with Germany. And long be
fore it looked as if we were going to win that
war, President Wilson, following Lloyd George,
laid down the terms which we should dictate
when victory was achieved. From these terms
there was not a ripple of dissent at the time.
On the contrary, they were acclaimed. Yet
they definitely and directly involved us in the
course which our delegates have been followt
ing in the peace conference. The fourteen
points looked to the creation of a free Poland,
to the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, to
the recovery by Italy of her lost provinces.
There could hardly be a more glaring "med
dling" in European affairs, yet we were pledged
to it in advance. And the surprising thing is that
some of the men who were loudest in praise
of President Wilson's fourteen points, because
they thought that he was looking to a nego
tiated peace, not a victory over Germany, are
now declaring that the peace conference is rush
ing into an "orgy of land-grabbing." But Po
land, Italia Irredenta, the French restorations,
as well as Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia,
were all embraced in the peace terms announced
more than a year before peace was conquered.
Thus the United States is simply trying to
do today what it served notice upon the world,
long in advance, that it would endeavor to do.
The "meddling" dates far back. Having grasped
the nettle, there is nothing to do now but crush
it. And as it was to a world-settlement that
Italy was invited, she cannot at this late day
ignore the terms of the invitation. Her own
desires she cannot make paramount. As Presi
dent Wilson stated, she is already assured of
a national unity and an enlarged territory be
yond her wildest dreams of four or even two
years ago. Doubtless, the peace conference is
ready to make Fiume a free or internationalized
city, of which Italy can have free use along
with the other nations whose sole outlet to the
sea it is. She ought to agree to some such hon
orable compromise. If she does not, her offense
will be that of asserting her own will against
the will of the world.
Still Looking to Congress
Premising that rent-profiteering is just as
serious a question as unemployment and the
high cost of living, the Farmers' National Single
Tax league tells the chairmen of the democratic
and republican national committees that this will
be an issue in the next election and that con
gress must do something about it.
Congress should feel flattered. Congress
must have begun to think it was the last place
for anybody to go to who wanted anything done.
Arid congress, hardly knowing what to do with
any one of a dozen great national problems im
posed by the end of the war and now hanging
in the air, will greedily welcome such a chance
to show what it can do in legislating for every
local abuse that any one is privileged to raise
into a country-wide issue.
And what would these farmers of the Single
Tax league have congress do? Tax land values
according to the well known Henry George for
mula? That has always been with the single
taxers a state and local question. What has
now made it a national question? How is it
likely to fare when it fares not well as a local
is to be observed, however, that these
farmers are thinking only of rent profiteering in
the cities as the evil to be cured by congress in
single tax legislation. What would be the mat
ter with a proposition, first of all, to include the
farms in a little local single tax legislation?
New York World.
5Y
The Day We Celebrate.
Pefer E. Petersen, president of Petersen
& Pegau Baking company, born 1863.
Charles H. Sloan, former Nebraska con
gressman, born in Monticello, la, 56 years ago.
Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright,
born near London, 60 years ago.
Harold F. McCormick, president of the In
ternational Harvester company, born in Chi
cago, 47 years ago.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, Kansas author
and educator, member of republican women's
national executive committee, born at Char
lottesville, Ind., 59 years ago.
Hallie Erminie Rives (Mrs. Post Wheeler),
author of "The Valiants 6f Virginia" and other
well known novels, born in Christian county,
Kentucky, 41 years ago.
William S. Goodwin, representative in con
gress of the Seventh Arkansas district, born at
Warren, Ark., 53 years ago.
People You Ask About
Information About Folks in
the Public Eye Will Be Given
in This Column in Answer
to Readers' Questions. Your
Name Will Not Be Printed.
Let The Bee Tell You.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The council committee on property and
buildings, Messrs. C. L. Chaffee, D. H. Wheeler
and Jacob Counsman, met today to examine
plans for the new city hall.
The young ladies and gentlemen of Kountze
Place met at Miss Gussie McAusland's and or
ganized the Kountze Place Lawn Tennis and
Archery club. George F. Day was made pres
ident and E. A. Hamilton, secretary and treas
urer. Omaha won her third straight base ball game
from Milwaukee.
The Omaha Carriage and Sleigh company
suffered a $15,000 loss by fire.
Carter Glass.
What training has Carter Glass
had to fit him for the office of secre
tary of the treasury? N. H.
A scrutiny of the Congressional
record of Mr. Glass will reveal his
interest and experience In financial
affairs. In the first place, he has al
ways been a careful student, of
finance. For IS consecutive years
prior to his cabinet appointment he
was a member of congress. His
service as member and chairman of
the house committee on banking and
currency enabled him to make con
tinued and close study of financial
problems. He is given much credit
for the federal reserve act.
Carter "Glass is a Virginian, born
January 4, 1858. He has come all
the way from printer's "devil" to
the president's cabinet. For eight
years he worked as a printer and is
at present owner of two daily papers
in Lynchburg, Va. He served as a
member of the Virginia state senate
from 1S99 to 1903. President Wil
son had great confidence in Glass
when appointing him to fill Mr. Mc
Adoo's place on the cabinet. And
Glass has great confidence 'in the
American people. Those wjho heard
him speak In Omaha a week ago
know that he has no doubt of the
success of the Victory loan. He is
quoted as having said:
i "I decline to believe that the fath
ers and mothers who gave four mil
lion sons to die, if need be, that lib
erty must survive, will now haggle
over the material cost of saving the
very soul of civilization from the
perdition of Germany."
Abram I. Elkus.
Abram I. Elkus, who is to open
the annual meeting of .the American
Acado ny of Political and Social
Science in Philadelphia today with
an address on "The Ottoman Turk
and the Future of Turkey and Asia
Minor," was the United States am
bassador at Constantinople when
diplomatic relations were severed by
the war. Mr. Elkus is a native of
New York Cify and Is of German
Jewish stock. He went to the pub
lic "schools, then to the College of
the City of New York, and afterward
to the Columbia University Law
Sc:.3ol. Admitted to the bar when
he was 21 years old, he steadily rose
in his profession as an all-around
lawyer. His influence as a counsel
lor and advocate has been cast in
favor of higher mercantile standards
and! for standardization of commer
cial methods. He is a trustee of the
Baron de Hirsch fund, and in 1911
he was made regent of the Univer
sity of the State of New York.
Big Name for Little Girl.
Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wil
helmina is the full name of the lit
tle Dutch princess whose 10th birth
day, April 30, was made the occasion
for fetes in every city and vil
lage rf Holland. In Holland the 10th
birthday is always made a special
fete, and quite naturally the fetes
are elaborate when the birthday is
that of the heir to the throne. Prin
cess Juliana is the only child of
Queen Wilhelmina and her consort,
Prince Henry. She is being care
fully trained for her future position
by her mother, a woman as wise as
she is able. Likewise the little prin
cess Is being educated so as to feel
herself a true Dutch woman, and
willingly puts on the quaint old
fashioned dress of the provincial
farmers' wives, with their golden
frontlets and lace caps, so wonder
ful to see in the market towns of
Holland.
His Grace of Connaught.
May Day is dear to the British
royal family as being the birthday
of the gallant Duke of Connaught,
who has just entered upon his 70th
year. His royal highness first saw
the light on the natal day of the
Duke of Wellington. This is why
he was named Arthur and had as
godfather one of the greatest com
manders of all times. The duke, as
only surviving son of Queen Vic
toria and uncle of the present sov
ereign, occupies a very peculiar po
sition in the royal family. His pop
ularity extends to all classes. In
America he is well known by reason
of his long and distinguished service
as governor general of Canada. The
duke is an enthusiastic soldier and
has held some of the highest com
mands in the British army. He has
made a life-long study of the theory
of war, and probably the greatest
sacrifice ever made by him was when
he consented to forego a share In
the South African campaign In
deference to Queen Victoria's wish.
MERRY MOMENTS.
William E. Weber of the First National
bank, say a woman came up to his win
dow the other day with a cashier' check
tor S60.
"What denomination?" asked Mr. Web
er In his pleasantest manner.
"Lutheran," replied the woman. "What
are you?" Portland Express.
"D'yer know what I'd do with the
kaiser? I'd seal him up in a barrel and
feed hlra through th bung for four
years."
"And after four years?"
"I'd bung up the bung:." Passing Show.
"What did you name your baby girl?"
"I wanted to call her Pearl but my
wife wanted to name her Ruby."
"Couldn't both be gratified, eh?"
"Yes, we fixed it. We named her
Jewel." Louisville Courier Journal.
Customer Have you got my shoes done?
Cobbler No.
Customer But you said you would
have them ready today.
Cobbler No, I didn't; I only told you
to call today. Sydney Bulletin.
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ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
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(Billy. Peggy and Pat, fishing In a con
tent with Kingfisher, Blue Heron and
Lonesome Bear, are dragged Into th river,
and when they get out find their catch of
fish gone,.)
CHAPTER V.
The Shower of Fish.
ATTELLY-r ATTELLY-R AT
TELY! Time was up, and I
the most fish!" called King
fisher from a perch In a tree. In
his claws was clasped a bass. Billy
pulled out his watch.
"I have 10 minutes more!" he
shouted. Then he leaped for the
stone pile. "You get out of here un
til then!" But Kingfisher didn't wait
for Billy to reach the stones. He
flew away as fast .as he could.
"I'll be back In 10 minutes to
claim my bet," he rattled.
"So will I," creaked Blue Heron
from the reeds.
"Me, too," roared Lonesome Bear
from some place out of sight.
"You can't beat them now!" whis
pered Peggy, as Billy picked up his
"Rattellyt Rattelly! I Have the Most
Fish," Cried Kingfisher.
line to free the turtle that was still
on the hook.
"But I can try," answered Billy.
"If this is a charmed turtle, maybe
it will help us." He winked at Pat
as he put the turtle in an empty
bait can.
All three now fished for all they
were worth, but luck seemed to have
deserted them. Thore wasn't even
a nibble at their hooks.
The minutes ticked off fast on Bil
ly's watch, one, two, three, four, five,
six, PegKy grew anxious. Billy grew
nervous, Pat grew desperate.
"We've got to win! This means
food for Pat's mother and sisters!"
muttered Billy. Seven minutes tick
ed by, then eight.
"It's no use! We have lost!"
sighed Peggy.
"Do you think the turtle really Is
charmed?" suggested Pat.
"We will see." replied Billy, tak
ing the cover off the bait can. "Lit
tle Turtle, Little Turtle, bring us
fish and you shall go free."
Smack! A fish slopped Billy In the
face and dropped to the ground.
Slam! Another fish caught Peggy
across the ear. Slop! A dripping
perch hit Pat on the nose.
It was as if the fish had leaped out
of the water at them.
"Geewhillickers! Where did the
fish come from?" yelled Billy.
"The enchanted turtle brought
them," declared Pat in an awed
voice, his eyes nearly bulging from
his head.
' "Thfn let him brlnir more!" in
sisted Billy. "Little Turtle, Little
Turtle, bring us all the fish we can
carry!"
Smack! Slam! Slop! Fish came
from all directions, In a finny bom
bardment bass, blue gills, sunfish,
perch, suckers, bullheads and a doz
en others.
"Ho, ho, ho! Here are enough fish
to win my bets and keep Pat's
family supplied for a month," shout
ed Billy gleefully. But he was to
have another surprise. A big sucker,
dropping from the air, banged him
on the head. A falling perch bound
ed from Peggy's curls. A bluegill
grazed Pat's ear.
"It's raining fish!" yelled Billy.
Grabbing Perry he pulled her to
the shelter of a tree. Pat Jumped
to join them, but a bullhead, land
ing on his head, knocked him flat.
In an instant he was being covered
by a hall of flopping, wriggling fish,
falling apparently from a clear sky.
(Tomorrow will b told how Billy win
hi bat.)
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America First.
Kansas City, April 29. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: This government is
founded on the Independence of the
United States of America, for good
and necessary reasons, and must
never become one of a league of In
terdependent states of the world. It
will take the world as long to get to
gether to first conditions aa it has
taken it to get away from them, for
the nations can become no better
than their individuals and in the in
dividual and his education and de
sire to be a good and useful ctizen
is the hope of this country and the
world and the permanent prevention
of war, not in the contract of na
tions alone.
Hence, America for Americans, in
its pure sense, for those who seek
Americanism and American citizen
ship, and not for those who seek to
feed upon it morally, commercially
and spiritually. We must think, act,
pray for the United States of Amer
ica first, and for the world In a co
operative and friendly competitive
way concomittantly; we must never
become dependent for help or re
source on any other nation, except in
temporary necessity or emergency.
"Foreign ways are not our ways, our
ways are not foreign ways," hence
we must become an ever-ready na
tion. America's future? Not as the
savior of the world, but the savior
of itself, and through itself as as
sistant in the great world to the ex
tent it permits America to assist for
common good, without in the slight
est degree modifying or changing
any foundation principles upon
which the past and present America
has been built. We are a free and
independent nation, and must re
main so.
JOSEPH MEINRATH.
Rights of the Colored Man.
Greeley, Neb., April 26. To the
Editor of The Bee: In Thursday's
Bee Mr. Agnew discusses southern
politics and wants to know why 500,
000 citizens of Virginia are dis
franchised, 300,000 of whom are
white, and the other 200,000 pre
sumably black. This state of affairs
looks bad to a Nebraskan, but bad
as it undoubtedly is, it does not dis
criminate against the black man as
such, because the disfranchised
whites are in a majority.
But if Mr. Agnew will look over
Friday's Bee he will see therein a
decision by an Omaha judge that
was clearly a discrimination against
the man of color.
The learned judge ruled that It
was not unlawful for a druggist to
refuse to sell ice cream to a black
man, while it might be unlawful
for the keeper of a restaurant to
do so.
To the lay mind this looks rather
queer, as undoubtedly the intention
of the lawmaker was to get that Ice
cream for the negro, whether sold
in a drug shop, a barber shop or a
butcher shop service was what he
was after. The letter of the law
may have been observed in this
case, but most assuredly the spirit
of the law got a severe Jolt.
It may be well for Mr. Agnew to
see that our own house is in order
before criticizing the housekeeping
of Virginia. It is very doubtful
if he put one over on Mr. Glass.
If the colored man's citizenship Is
not as good as the white man's, let
us amend the law and play fair with
our colored brother. We shout very
loudly for democracy; would It not
be a good idea to practice it once in
a while ? MICHAEL O'CONNOR.
Truth Will Arise.
Bruning, Neb., April 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: In The Bee of
April 28 you have an article headed
"Democratic Party as a Political
Monarchy," expressed by Senator
Sherman of Illinois. If such re
marks had been made three months
ago by any person, such a person
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him and would have been called
unamerican. But I can personally
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