Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-24
TALK OF THE STATE PRESS.

revenue bill is still under discussion, not
withstanding that revenue revision was a
paramount issue in the campaign.
wausa Gazette: While the proposed rev.
enue measure has provoked much discus
sion in the committee OF the whole, but
few changes Of any Importance have been
made In the bill as reported by the special
commlttee-changing the assessment back
from February to April is, perhaps, the
most important one, and is regarded a de-
cisive victory for the farmers.
Friend Telegraph: The legislature has
been grinding away since January on the
problem of how to raise more revenue or
how TO make both ends meet and at the
same time retain all the superluous Of
hcers that legislatures that have passed on
before have created and at the same time
add a few more. Doubtless this can be
done by reaching for the taxpayer a little
harder.
Holdrege Citizen: II is we'll to remem-
Der that mere legal enactment can't do the
work that wholesome public sentiment
should do. Laws are often left unenforced
because popular sentiment is opposed or
Indifferent to their enforcement. The only
e~ffectual way to rid society Of many of the
evils that confront US is to create a healthy
public sentiment to the enormity Of the
evil rather than to leave 1t to legislation.
Grand island Independent: The bill
presented in the legislature by Sena-
tor Harrison putting a maximum on
the per diem and mileage to be paid to
members OF the board of supervisors ought
to pass. The councilman of a city Of this
class receives as a salary 500 a year and
there are always a sufficient number Of
--za - - 5000 A.. "a, n1an Ann
Gilman does at least half as much work as
q supervisor.
Bancroft Blade: The bill recently passed
by the legislature which provides that in
order to be admitted to the bar in Me-
braska the applicant must have attended a
high school at least three years and put
in three years in a law office and then pass
the usual examination seems to be along
the line of class legislation and favoritism,
and the trouble is 1t is protecting a class
Of individuals who are amply able to pro-
tect themselves.
Fremont Herald: The senate has passed
the amendment to the present election law
which provides that only those who are
registered as afiliating with a party can
vote at the primaries Of their party. 1t re-
quires the voters to state in addition that
they generally supported their party ticket
at the preceding election. Brady of Boone
and Coffey Of Boyd, fusionists, alone voted
against It. 1t will next be in order for a
man to produce his photograph and mar
riage certificate before he can go into a
caucus.
Crete Democrat: The Democrat believes
1t is for the best interest as we'll as the
duty Of this state to be in evidence at the
st. Louis exposition. 1t is the best part
of the Louisiana purchase and for 1t not
to be represented would cast a reflection
upon us as a people, lacking in enterprise
and spirit Of emulation. The sum should
not be extravagantly large, nor niggardly
small, but, sufficient to erect suitable
building and pay those in charge. 1t is
said that $4,000 to $4,000 will be ample
for the purpose.
Elm Greek Beacon: 1t doesn't strike us
that the proposed law to assess the road
tax in cash is the best thing in all regards.
A large percentage Of men work their poll
tax on the roads who wouldn't pay the tax,
or at least would be very slow in doing so.
Also, generally a little can be saved by
hiring a,man and a team to work ones poll
tax each year. The present law is all right
II the overseers would do the work in
season when the ground is in workable
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of beginning at 9 or 10 o'clock and quitting
at 4 and soldering then half the time. 1t
would depend on the overseer, in any case,
how much was done for the money.
Alliance Times: The Nebraska legisla-
ture has passed the unique bill of Senator
Brown providing that all owners of land
infested by prairie dogs shall be compelled
to kill all Of said animals by November
/, next, failing in which 1t shall be the
duty of the road overseer to exterminate
them, and for such service he is to receive
So per day and all necessary expenses incl
dent to their destruction, such expense to
be made a charge against the land in
habited by his dogship. Hereafter the
principal requirement in the line of qualih-
cation for the position of overseer of high
ways will be his ability to catch dogs.
Now give us a man to take hence all
snakes.
Arapahoe Mirror: There is a bill pend
ing in the legislature providing for prohibit
tion Of pigeon shooting. Live bird trap
shooting is a cruel. bloody and unchristian
sport" 1t brutalizes those who engage
therein and those who witness it. 1t be-
longs in the same class with cock fighting.
1t is a sport" that no human man should
countenance. The pigeon has compare
| lively little snow Tor It's lie, ana the spec
tacle Of nuttering birds "out of bounds
left to die in agony Is not to be coun-
tenanced by men of heart and brain. The
bill prohibiting live bird shooting should
pass without a dissenting voice and vote,
That sort OF sport belongs to the dark
ages, along with the rack. the thumbscrew
and the stake.
Clay Center Sun: A bill to abolish cap,
ital punishment is before the Legislature
and 1t should pass. When and where did
the Great Power that ushers man into this
world delegate to a jury Of twelve men
TO right to send him out Of it? A man de-
liberately and premeditatedly taking tho
life Of another violates the law. Twelve
men deliberately and premeditatedly taking
the life OF another obeys the law, Why
this difference? But One can give life
and who but that One has a right 10 take
It away? What is the expressed justihca'
ton of judicial murder? To rid society
Of one who may take more lives? Blu
will not Imprisonment do the same? As
Imprisonment will rid society Of the muir,
dersr, death Is unnecessary 10 accomplis!
this object, therefore dthe good Of societ!
ia not the impelling force to judicial muir,
der? The what is? Revenge! Blood fO
blood! A mob thirsts for the blood Of
victim, and society is so constituted, ever
at this age, that it does the same, Ma!