Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-11

are expected 10 accomplish the same result, |
though they appear to be different The law
Is good one and should stand.
Columbus Argus: The people OF Platte
county are without doubt opposed to a re-
peal OF the valuded policy law. They are also
opposed to class legislation which will crush
out OF existence mutual insurance companies
and surrender the people entirely into the
hands OF the insurance trust.
Norfolk Journal: There ought to be at
least FIVE new sugar factories contracted for
in Nebraska this year. The very fact that
bounty Is to be given will attract capital to
The silver lining Of the financial cloud hang
ing over the state is already beginning to
appear.
Madison Reporters The republican legls-
lature is defending Hiltons acts, or at least
is trying to draw the fire from him The
legislature also refuses TO impeach Judge
Scott of Omaha because Scott Is opposed by
Rosewatef. The present legislature would
whitewash the devil II 1t thought 1t would
spite Rosewater.
Holdrege Progress: 1t is not probable that
his physician would prescribe nervine or any
other similar tonic for the legislator who
introduced the bill providing that the state
pay the expenses incurred by the defense in
tho Infamous Impeachment trial. His gall
may be slightly enlarged but his nerve is in
first class condition
Blair Courier: The governor has signed
the anti-oleomargarine bill and thus made
law that kills one of Nebraska's leading in
dustrles. While the law in some of its
features Is wise and just, we think that at
least the law should have allowed the manu-
facture Of oleomargarine for export purposes
and thus keep alive a leading industry
Red Cloud Golden Belt The oleo bill
which has PASSED both houses of the legisa-
ture looks to us like an unfair thing. Manu-
facturers Of artificial butter are already COM
PEELED to brand their packages containing
their product, which is right and sufficient
Ii any one desires to eat oleo and desires to
have 1t coored so as to resemble butter he
ought to be granted the privilege. The bill
practically prohibits the manufacture of oleo.
which is superior to much of the butter on
the market
Cedar Rapids Commercials 1t is humiliat-
Ing enough to the self-respected citizen of
Nebraska to have car loads of provisions and
secondhand goods brought to the state
through the charity Of the east, but 1t is more
humiliatng to see this everlasting wrangling
over the distribution. 1t would be better to
abandon the state to the jack rabbit and
coyote than to again advertise ourselves as
commonwealth of clamoring starvelngs,
fighting over the crumbs that fall from the
rich mans table.
Platte Center Signal: The state fair
should be held at Omaha for the next five
years, and then IL it is to be permanently
located 1t would be no more than just to
to express his choice in the way of a vote.
Five years hence Fremont will be as large
in population as Lincoln, and that thriving,
bustling city will rise up and claim recog
milton for some of the permanent state in
stitutions, and she should be awarded the
state fair. Lincoln has already the peni-
tentiary the capitol the asylum for the in
sane and the salt well, and she should be
satisfied
Fremont Herald The proposed measure
to prevent Legislators from removing from the
capitol any property of the state savors some
what Of class legislation, since 1t is plainly
aimed at those members of the legislature
who had confidently looked forward to the
long winter evenings in the years to come
when the statesmans souvenir chair could be
| brought forth for the edification Of acquant
ances or old time friends, whose ordinary
talents had kept them in the ranks of the
common people, while the possessor of this
badge Of greatness had been forging to the
| front. The Herald suggests that the ten
commandments be stamped upon an alumni
mum plate and the plate inlaid in the top of
| the desk Of each member.
| Blair Pilot: The Omaha charter bill has
| come to be among the greatest nuisances in
| the state. Every session Of the legislature 1t
bobs up serenely, and like the rolling snow
| ball, gathers by accretion as the session pro-
crosses, until the intensity of the fight over it
| dominates to great extent every other inter-
| est. The fight begins of course right among
| Omaha people and by the Influence" of their
conflicting interests the other fellows are
enlisted for the war This charter bill at
| every session is not only a nuisance but it
! costs the state at large lots of money. 1t
should be abated, and the best way to reach
1t would be for the legislature to relegate
the whole business back to Omaha, by a
| provision Of law that she can fix her own
charter to suit herself. That will relieve the
state Of the expense of the biennial cat and
| dog scene and give the Omaha fellows a
subject for permanent scrap.
| Wisner Chronicle: The State Board of
| Agriculture, acting under the authority con-
| ferred upon it by the statutes of the state,
| at the regular annual meeting located the
| state fair at Omaha for the ensuing five
| years. portion of the bonus which Omaha
| pledged to secure the location of the fair
| has been paid to the board and is already
| expended. The bill now pending before the
| legislature to locate the state fair per-
| manently at Lincoln is therefore in the ma
| ture Of an ex-post facto law if it shall be
put into effect before the expiration of the
| existing contract with Omaha. To say
| nothing Of justice the proposed legislation
| is a most impolitic measure from a party
| point Of view. If the republican majority
| In the legislature inficts this stab upon
| Omaha and Douglas county it may as well
| be prepared to see its action resented at
| the succeeding elections. Some of the re-
| publican members of the legislature may
| be influenced by the friends of Lincoln to
| seek to punish Omaha for its past indie
| pendence at the ballot box, but it is to be
| hoped that they will learn to be just in
| this business transaction rather than par
| tisan in a political scheme of revenge.
| Fremont Leader: The Omaha Bee has
prepared and published an elaborate article
in regard to the expenditures of the State
| university. Now, the Leader believes in
| all necessary and judicious expenditures for
public school purposes. but 1t does not believe
| in the lavish expenditure Of the money of
| the people. The per capita expenditure per
pupil in the Nebraska university and that of
| Iowa was so marked that the Leader cannot
pass 1t unnoticed. The University of Iowa
has maintained, in addition to it's literary
| and scientific curriculum, college
| Of medicine and college Of law
for nearly twenty years. The University OF
Nebraska. which, since 1871, has spent
81, 1921, has graduated up to the present
time 43S students. The University of Iowa
which, since 1860. has spent sl045.7S3, has
graduated 3,725 students. Since it's founda.
tion Is has cost the University of Nebraska
SO, 900 for each student graduated. Since its
foundation in 1860 it has cost the University
OF Iowa $3.50 for each student graduated. Suct
difference would indicate that there is
looseness somewhere. The difference is too
glarng, and the people naturally wonder
why there is such a difference. Yet, WI
find the faculty and their friends asking fol
more and larger appropriations.
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