Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-07
ON NEBRASKA POLITICS


Crete vldstte- Herald. Berges book. "a
Pass Is a Bride" ought 20 be used BY
Thompson. Hitchcock and shallenberger."
AZ text book during the campaign.
Bancroft Blade Crep); The republican
state convention did the proper thing by
turning down Secretary Of state Galusha.
II II had continued a little further and
dropped Eaton and searle IL wuold have
been stiIl better.
Kearney Hube Gep): Let us hope for
the credit of the republican party IN Ne
braskR that the day OF stalking horses has
passed, with the last state convention, to
be seen no more forever. Half a dozen
strong state delegations were tied up in
this manner. with the delegates hand
cuffed and hobbled so far az carrying out
the wishes OF their constituents were
concerned or for that matter Of acting
upon their own inclinations or convictions.
The stalking horse is a mighty poor poll
tical proposition and the man who assumes
the role has no comforting reflection after
he has played 1t to his own discredt.
Blue Valley Blade (rep): The agitation
for two-cent rate on the railroads is all
flapdoodle If you travel very much you
can now buy mileage books for two and
reduction Of about thirty-three and one
third per cent in the freight rates OF this
state. The freight rate touches every
man. woman and child in the country. and
there is no reason why Nebraska should
pay one-thlrd more for freight than her
sister states of Kansas, Iowa AMI Mis-
souri,. Get at the vital point, which
amounts to millions a year and you will
save enough to pay four cents a mile for
all you have to travel.
Albion News: II is only necessary for
the railroads to elect seventeen members
of the state senate to absolutely block any
legislation which does not suit them. This
is all that Is left them to work for this
fall. The people are going TO scrutinize
the candidates for both branches OF the
legislature most carefully this time, and
are going to elect those whom they believe
will best represent the peole's interests.
Even the fact that United States senator
is at stake will not be sufncient to hold
the voters in line for their party nominee
unless he represents the square DEAL prin-
clples Nebraska's internal interests are
paramount to her interests in the national
congress.
Sioux City Tribune dnd.): Nebraska
republicans have voluntarily incorpora ted
into their platform a plank demanding that
railway property within cities and villages
shall be assessed as other property for city
and village purposes This proposition is
one which Mr.. Rosewater. has had before
several legislatures under the name ''termi-
nal taxation" but the railway lobby has
always been too potent. The Idea involved
In this plank is important enough to at
tract the attention Of other state legis-
latures. A railroad has the same mu-
nicipal advantages, the same fire and po-
lice protection, as similar amount OF
other property, and ought TO be obliged to
pay municipal taxes in proportion to its
actual value. Under the present system
OF taxation no benent is derived by the
city from the location OF the terminals.
and in many Instances they escape taxa
ton altogether. The demand OF the Ne
braska plank seems reasonable.
Columbus journal (rep.)i On behalf of
Nebraska farmers we deny that the farm
ers OF Nebraska are against the rail-
roads," as has been charged by some
leaders in both political parties. What
the farmers and shippers of Nebraska want
are reasonab rates and a square deal
all around. They believe that twelve cents
| is too high a rate, for instance from Co
lumbus to Omaha. They believe that a
| carload OF coal from the west should be
sold at least as cheap in Columbus as 1t
Is sold in Omaha after being hauled
| through Columbus and nearly one hun
bred miles farther. They believe that the
shipper who pays hundreds of dollars a
year to the railroads in freight should
ride nearly as cheap as the political fxer
| who never contributes a cent in freight nor
| pays, cent for his transportation. They
realize that their valuable lands would
| be almost valueless without the railroad
to market their produce. They feel that
the man who drives the engine and the
man who turns the brake on the train that
! carries their grain and live stock to mar
ket is really doing one part of the farm
work" They know II anything is done
to injure their railroad farm hands.
that the injury will be felt at once on the
farm. But on the other hand they do
not want the fellows working in the trans
portation department Of their big CO.
operative productive enterprise to try to
run the whole works" or to collect more
than their share Of the profts. All they
want is that the people, the public, who
are bigger than the whole productive sys-
| TEN, should appoint managers who shall
| see that the profits are justly divided
| among the various classes of workers
| And in the long run II will be best TO-
| the railroads themselves to submit to sue
| regulation as viii insure them reason
able profit on their actual investments
wisely and economically managed. The
! attitude of the shipper and the farmer and
the public generally should be and must
be pro-railroad, even when considered from
a selfish standpoint