1 HE OMAHA aimiJAi .pec; DECEMBER T, 191t
MR. COAL CONSUMER!
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Coal as all know, possesses large quanti
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forever. '
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15th and Jackson Sts. Douglas 1221
Applied to Fir Door.
Opposite Hotel Rome
Out of the High Rent-District
3.E. COR. 16th Su JACKSON STS.
Make Her Happy This Christmas With
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aV
A Handsome Library
Table Would Please
Here is a gift 'that ii
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many styles, woods and
finishes to choose from
$14.50, $17.50 Up
HITCHCOCK BOOM
IS LAUNCHED BY
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Prominent" Hamburg Business
' Writes Senator in Praise
, . Of His Friencjly
Relations.
Boy Who Was Killed
When an Automobile
Rah Over His Sled
Any Woman Likes
a Bed Davenport
A Davenport lends add
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extra sleeping quarters
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$78.50, $84.50 U
A Lamp for Her
Dressing Table
Our Lamp Department
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With silk or parchment
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at moderate prices
$4.50, $9.75,
$13.50 Up .
A Safe Place for
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' Our stock has a score
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gift any woman would
find much use for. At
15.75, $19.50 Up
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In the scores of recent
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there are any number of
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A Buttet tor tier
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Think what an attrac
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at
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Lighten Her Cleaning
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A New Rug for
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We are featuring some
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week.
6x9 serviceable Tapes
try Rugs, $19.50.
9x12 Tapestry Rugs are
$34.50.
, 9x12 Axminster Rugs
at $41.50.
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Phonograph
h the Ideal Gift
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it will make hex after-
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Spring Wind Trains
with Track at $1.29,
$2.39 to $11.27. '
Coaster Wagons
at $1.59, $2.27,
$2.69 to $6.44.
Big Autos at
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p to $1669,
Teddy Bears
$1.14. $1.35
$1.89.
, Toy Stoves of
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Rocking Horses
at $5.32, $7.75 to
$13.29.
Flexible Flyer
Sleds at $1.23,
$1.48, $1.62 up.
Pianos are 69c,
$1.45 up to $10.49.
50:
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to
on
Christmas Stock
ings, only 56c. '
Doll Beds at 57c,
$1.19, $1.74, $1.96
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Wash Day
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Building Blocks
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Automatic Sand
Toy Cranes at $1.04
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Toys
Sets
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lofty principles than was Woodrow
Wilson.
" 'Let us have peace,' said Lin
coln, the great American president,
after the civil war.
"'Let us have lunch!' said Wilson,
the little British-American, after he
had wound himself by sophistry and
causitry out of the maze of ques
tion"directed at him by the mem
bers of your committee. Or, to use
his precise words:
"'Will .you gentlemen not come
into lunch with me? It will be very
delightful.'
" Lunch Favorite Topic.
i "During his examination he had
referred twice to this unch, as
though it were something uppermost
in his mind, as though, deep down
in his mind there lurked the idea
that the rigors of the senatorial in
quisition might in some degree be
lessened if the inquisitors were con
scious of' the great honor he had
prepared for them 'luncheon with
Woodrow Wilson at the White
House. The potentate of America
was using his right royal preroga
tive. "It is now more than 20 years ago,
Senator Hitchcock, that a large
party of German landed proprie
tors and gentry was touring through
the United States. In order that
they might have a personal escort
on their special train from Chicago
to San Francisco, the Union Pacific
railroad invited a few German
speaking citizens to be their guests
of honor. I had the pleasure of be
ing among these. Everywhere
these German gentlemen these
Huns, barbarians, boches and canni
bals of, the future, were received
with open arms. Omaha bestowed
upon them the freedom of the city,
and it was you, Senator Hitchcock,
at that time a young and active
congressman, who delivered the
speech which bade them welcome on
the soil of Nebraska. My old diary
is in New York in it is recorded
the exact date upon which you held
this speech. The speech itself was
published in The Omaha Bee and
may therefore be- looked up.
Confidence in Hitchcock.
"It would prove more than inter
estinor. senator, to read over again
what you said then about the friend
ship between Germany and America,
and about the German race as a
whole which had done so much in
building up our state and the whole
west. I felt then that you spoke
from you heart to these Germans
who were making a triumphal tour
through Nebraska amidst waving
flags, rousing music and hearty
cheers. I felt then that you ex
pressed convictions which were hon
est and which were capable of un
dergoing a test. This test they un
derwent during the tidal wave of
press-begotten hatred, which swept
the land and foamed against all
things German.
"I have -not been able to follow
your speeches and your actions dur
ing the war as closely as I should
have liked. But I believe that you
remained aloof fronMhe gutter pa
triotism that ran amuck through
out the land. I believe you main
tained the dignity that is inherent
ill your character -and should be in
herent in your office. However, this
may have been polluted by many,
perhaps by most of your colleagues "
Only clean souls and earthquake
and poison-proof minds were able
to stand that avalanche of beastli
ness that swept the land under the'
bidding of the Satanic press. Only
men who were free from the beset
ting American sin of moral coward
ice, men who dare to be in the right
with two or three, were able to keep
their hands and their consciences
clean and remain true to their prin
ciples. Pleads for Help.
"Our land has drifted rapid
ly downward in a moral sense,
ever since the sophistry of Wood
row Wilson and the powers be
hind him poisoned the souls of
our people. We have been paid
for our degradation by a false
prosperity which is built up on the
losses and misery of others, which
will prove a curse to us and to our
children. We have permitted our
selves to be made womanish and
hysterical' and to be swayed like
lose rags by inferior minds whose !
profitable business it was to breed j
hate. We have permitted the whole '
vast machinery of our land to be or- j
ganized in the service of a ruthless
imperialistic, capitalistic war against !
a people from whom we had never j
suffered harm and to whom, on the
contrary, we were more endebted j
for bencfitsTeceived, than to any j
other. We have broken with the
principles upon which the safety and
integrity of the republic were reared, j
and permitted the cunning and j
unscrupulous diplomacy of the i
greatest robber-state in the world j
to use us for its own ends, and '
to recover its power over our minds
and., our institutions.
"All this has come to pass because
honor and manhood stood cowed
and impotent and allowed the forces
of evil to triumph over freedom,
over thought and speech, and the
innate independence of the Ameri
can people. BraVe and great-hearted
men still worked among us and
among these I Relieve you are en
titled to be numbered. It is only
such men who can save the country
by regenerating it, by restoring to
it peace and contentment and real
liberty the precious thing which
Wilson destroyed. It is only such
men, who instead, of seeking to suck
the last drop of blood out of un
fortunate Europe as it is "now the
plan of our financial vampires to
do, will extend to this bleeding con
tinent the hand or fellowship, of
help and sympathy. For Europe is
today suffering not only from the
war but from the diseases with
which Wilsonism inoculated it.
Afraid of Sentiment. "
"The long gray columns of fine
print in the 'Times' report of the
senatorial investigation Will make
appalling reading for the historian,
the just historian of the war. Here
the wh.olt story lie revealed, how
or
William Kucera.
J. H. Wise, 3101 South Twenty
first street, and M. H. Hogan,
Twenty-fifth and L streets, who
were arrested rnday afternoon tor
drunkeness and investigation fol
lowing the death of William Ku
cera, 13 years old3108 NorthvFifty
seventh street, who was run over
by an automobile in which the rn'n
were riding, were released on bond.
Wise was charged with drunkenness
and reckless driving.
An inquest over the boy's body
will be held at 9 Monday morning
at tne unaenawng pariors oi jjuny
& Johnston, Sixteenth and Leaven
worth streets.
The lad's death was the first fatal
accident of the season from coasting.
the fate of nations, the neace treaty,
the celebrated, now notorious, 14
points, the league of nations, the
Shantung question, American troops
m Europe were manipulated, jug
gled, distorted, ' misinterpreted,
ienored. falsified, suppressed or sim
ply murdered. There is a kind of
cold, dry ma.tter-of-factness in this
array of questions and answers the
soulless, inhuman quality of the
lawyer type of mind. There is care
ful qualification and evasion, unre
deemed by any real, however much
formal frankness. It is clear that
the senators are still more or less
awed by Wilson and, the nimbus he
had brought with him from Europe,
iir- spite of his hideous, defeat and
disgrace, and that they are anxious
not to probe too deeply into the mo
tives. His experience with European
affairs gives him a decided' advan
tage over his questioners. Their
questions are often naive, often
avoid the real issue and are fearful
of exposing the guilt or treason of
the chief executive.
"The president as Veil as the sen
ators are plainly afraid of display
ing the slightest sentiment or opin
ion which would lay them open to
the charge of pro-Germanism. They
are consequently in the position of
men who arS' attempting to save a
patient whose head has been cut
off by binding up a sore on his lit
tle finger. They blind themselves
to the moral atrocities contained in
this abomination called a peace
treaty, and criticize some qf its
technicalities. Not a word is said
of the horrors contained in this
peace of murder, enslavement, out
rage and robbery, not a word of the
famous 14 points which the 'Giant
Fraud' had held out to a trusting
and expectant humanity. The solici
tude for the interests of the United
States is justified, since Wilson had
not scrupled to sacrifice even these
in order to aid England. But it is
nct justified without at the same
time protesting against 'lte terrible
sabotage of the ideal and principles
for( which the people of the United
States were told to sacrifice their
lives and fortunes. 'The denial of
the right of self-determination, the
boycotting and robbery of the Ger
man democracy,' the annexation of
German soil and millions of German
citizens byzforeign nations, the in
human and savage clauses which
only a devilish and murderous hate
could have devised against a people"
which fpught flie greatest fight in
all human history, all these things
were there to make the blood of a
true and noble-minded American
boil. A Calhoun would have de-
nounced them in floods of fiery elo
quence, a Webster would, have
thundered against them and torn
the veils of sophistry, woven about
them by the 'guilty man' to a thou
sand shreds. But the great driv
ing force of moral courage was in
abeyance there, and so there was
no (race of divine moral indignation,
no glint of'the sword of justice.
"The whole long and tedious re
port is dead and barren a crackling
of thorns under a pot. It breathes
legal and political cool-bloodedness,
absolute callous indifference to the
tragedy enacted" at Paris and Ver
sailles and a blind, almost stupid in
capacity to realize -the depths of
moral degradation, to which the cun
ning occupant oPthe White House
had sunk himself and the pledged
honor of his people.'
Like an Autopsy,
"I do not wish to be unjust. I do
not knov what emotions may have
surged through the breasts of the
senatorial committee on foreign re
lations when the man who had been
elected to keep hi, country out of
war shamelessly showed his real
face, his real hand, his eal heart
'for 'war with Germany would have
come, no matter what Germany did
to keep out of war with America!'
This monstrous statement appar
ently did not cause a ruffle of sur
prise. No gasp of horror, no ex
clamation of amitement or iirdigna
tion is recorded in the report to save
the honor of American statesman
ship. There is only a silence that
seems to be approval and wliich
was evidently accepted as such by
the crafty demagogue.
"But it is not my purpose to an
alyze this cold and inhuman political
or rather legal document. 1 his
meeting seemed to me to be like an
autopsy held by so many coroners
and undertakers upon the corpse of
peace, or honor, like some great buz
zard or vulture was the giant and
grinning creature who was once
more attempting to deceive the rep
resentatives of his people, as he had
deceived the people themselves and
the whole world.
Lunch Upon Dead.
"And when the tawdry farce was
over and the smooth or twisted ques
tions had received equally smooth or
twisted replies, we come to the
grand peroration uttered by the
'high-priest of humanity':
" 'Will you gentlemen come into
lunch with me?'
"I think, Senator Hitchcock, you
must have "lunched upon the dead
that day.
"FERDINAND HANSEN.
"Hauiburg, September 24, 1919."
Editor of Bee to Capital
On Postage Rates Business
..Victor Rosewater, editor of The
Bee, last night, went to Washington,
D. C, where he will attend to
business matters inconnection with
newspaper postage 'rates. Mr. Rose
water is chairman of the American
Newspaper Publishers' association
committee having charge of postal
rates.
While in Washington, by invi
tation of Chairman Hays, he will
attend a meeting of the National
Republican committee with all other
former chairmen of the committee.
Hoover, Barnes and Crane
Purchase Washington Paper
New York, Dec. 1 6. Julius H.
Barnes, federal wheat director, an
nounces the purchase of the Wash
ington Herald by Herbert Hoover,
Charles R. Crane of Chicago Kand
himself. The paper will be under
the management of Walter S. Rog
ers and Herman Sutter.
"My motive in backing this ven
ture,' said Mr. Barnes, "is the in
herit desire of every freeborn Amer
ican to.be connected with the press.
In this case I dd not crpect actively
to interest myself in the paper."
Police Arrest Man With
450 Gallons Wine irv Cellar
Four hundred and fifty gallons tf
wine, were , discovered in the base
ment of 1422 North Sixteenth street
yesterday by detectives, who ar
rested Rosario Segreto, living" at
ihat place.
Scgrcto was taken to Central po
lice station where he was booked
tor unlawful possession of intoxi
catiug liquors. He was released on
a cash bond of $105.,
. All of the liquor was left in the
cellar by the detectives, except sam
ples from each barrel. - which tliey
iook to tuc pouce siauon lor evidence.
Mexican Minister Scores:
'Scandalous American Press'
Laredo, Tex., Dec. 6. LouiijCn
brcra, Mexican minister of finance,
is quoied by the Mexico City news
paper El Universal fn Thursday's is-'
rue as saying the Jenkins case "has
teen given an importance not mer
ited, due to the scandalous aud venal
American press, which is absolutely
without any exception a gang of anv
bitious people at the service of evil
politics."
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