Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-24
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.

Rushvile Recorder: 1t will be interesting
to watch how the legislators will handle
the party pledges at Lincoln in January.
There is one thing certain and that is n
any monkey business is attempted, the
people will know how to act. We believe
the voters OF Nebraska have come TO that
pass where they insist upon being repre-
sented and not flap-doodled every time
their interests come up. They are deter
mined to run their own affairs, and the
railroads must be prepared to give and ac-
cept a square deal. Nebraskans will no
longer submit to being political slaves.
Rushville Recorder: While great deal
is being urged in the matter of passing a
direct primary law some Of the papers
are beginning to point out that what is
needed is attendance at the primaries when
they are called instead OF leaving it to
the towns to put up all the politics. This
should not be. but there is only one way
to settle that question and that is for
those who have the privilege of voting to
get out and do 1t. If they do not think
enough of the privilege of voting to use
1t, they should be dlsfranchised under the
law. Nothing kills like indifference. It is
the cause of very large percentage of
public grievances in every state of the
union.
Tekamah Journal: A few democratic
news aprs in the west, nota' ly among n
being the World-Herald are edttori-
ally so puerie as to beittle the work Of
Secretary Shaw, because he was country
banker from Iowa, The World Herald
gets It's strength a metropolitan news
paper from the money these country bank
ers'' handle. These country bankers are all
of them influential men who take deep in
L., H., = ,4~Nr 1,n
city banks depend upon the country fellows
as their main source of deposits. what
would Omaha's banks amount to II it were
not for their country connections. They
would fare poorly If their country friends
did not turn cash and securities their way.
The World-Herald can be in better business
than in belttling the intelligence Of the
Country bankers"
Lincoln News: Senator Willard, who
never had any real acquaintance with the
people Of Nebraska beyond the city limits
OF Omaha, still fails to realize that he is
down and out. In an interview given on
his return home from Washington for the
holidays he modestly asserts that he can
accomplish more than any other man whom
the state might send to the senate. Senator
Willard declares that his membership on the
public buildings committee and the fact tina
ne is chairman OF the Panama canal COM
mittee give him pull" in securing ap-
propriations for Omaha. Nobody will dis
pute this, nor will it be questioned that his
whole activity as senator has been along
that one line; but Nebraska has other inter-
ests than this, and after March next they
will be looked after in the senate by Il. ].
Burkett and Norris Brown.
Howells Journal: II at some future time
the voters of Nebraska rise up in righteous
Indignation and pass some drastic legisa-
ton which shall place heavy hand upon
the railroads of the state the managers
OF those great corporations will have only
themselves to blame. They are certainly
trouble. Take the action OF the b. & NJ.
and tho Union Pacific railroads in fighting
the payment OF their just taxes, that I'm
itself should be enough to arouse public
sentiment and set the people up in arms
against a rank injustice. This editor be-
lieves in treating the railroads right, but
he thinks that the roads should in turn
give the people a square deal-something
they are not now doing We repeat, they
heads and some day the storm will break
and they will wish that they had exer-
cised better judgment and a little more
common sense in dealing with the people Of
Nebraska.
Tilden Citizen: The usual quantity OF
gratultous advice is being given to the leg
islators who early in the coming year