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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

less training as to right and wrong
than is possible under present condi.
lions.
And there's another striking point
made in that Rock county horror. 1t
Is not the education for accommodating
gold, nor for figuring interest on mon
ey invested, nor profits on this or
that, which is needed by the rising
generation so much as the training for
good citlzenship-the ability to dis
tinguish between right and wrong and
the conscience to take the ethical cue.
There ought to be laws regulating
marriage. Before a marriage license
could be granted, there ought to be
proof that the contracting parties were
Of such good health that their families
would not be diseased burdens upon
society; proof that the contracting
parties had enough of an income as
sured to decently support them and
proof that they were well enough ed
ucated to train children for good citi-
zenship.
Back of that Bassett mother-murder
by the elevenyear-old boy who had
been whipped and who had sworn re-
venge, lies a responsibility which the
state failed to fulfill when 1t allowed
man and woman to marry who knew
no more of right and wrong in char
acter-building than to rear up to his
eleventh year a son who did not know
that he was doing a terrible thing
when he shot and killed anybody-and
particularly his own mother.
There is a good deal of commercial
ism in the American nation today.
There is a widespread sentiment that
| too much time is spent in colleges and
that business courses, teaching young
men and women how to figure inter
est and percent, Is more practical than
time spent in history and philosophy.
But after all if the university can train
young men and women for higher
citizenship, higher power of reason
ing between what is right and what is
not, they are accomplishing the great
est aim in life. For with that founda
ton, material things will come easily
afterward.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
TIIE WEATHER.

While the weather is backward, there
is still the consolation that within a
very short week the sun may make
up for lost time, and with a vengeance
A few short days ago we were all com
planning because 1t was too dry, and
drouth was feared in all seriousness.
The past couple of weeks have brought
rain in plenty, but the atmosphere Is
unseasonably chilly. We may live In
hope, for day may change the whole
program.
The weather man up to date de-
clares that there has been more than
the normal amount of heat since Janu'
airy /. Part of the warmth got over
into March, so that April and May and
the early part of June have been chill
ly. AS result vegetable men in the
east and south are Respondent and
there is vegetable famine in New
York. But there Is no need of alarm
since the warm air may be turned on
at any moment and bring things out
of the ground in rapid style.
Dame Nature seems to be pretty
well. able to take care of the crops
ordinarily in this section and as q
general rule conditions are adjusted
so that everything works out perfectly
in the long run. 1t is far too early tc
complain, and besides 1t doesn't do 6
bit of good. The weather is one thing
that might as well be taken philosoph
ically-and the world would enjoy life
considerably more if other things were
taken in the same way.
Meanwhile, though, the weather bul
letins and the crop reports will con
tinue to be important items of news.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

In the Russian conflict, they are APP
parently aching with self assurance
that, IL row could be created, they
might Jump upon the shoulders and
back and toes of Uncle Sam and beat
him all up before he knew It. Also
they appear to be laboring under the
delusion that the American govern
ment, rather than put Its hand into Its
pocket and pay the cost of war, would
get down ON It's knees, take off It's hat,
profusely apologize and beg forgive.
ness for minor that 1t had nothing
to do with.
The latest reports from Japan indi-
cate that the predictions freely made
last fall ut the time of the San Fran
cisco school affair, to the effect that
war with Japan was inevitable within
the next FIVE years, though 1t might be
STAYED off for time, had more truth
than fiction as basis. Certain 1t is
that the Japanese are making assinine
spectacles of themselves in attempt
Ing to pick a quarrel where no cause
for lighting really exists.
Word now comes that there is con.
splracy between japanese on the Pa
cilc coast and the progressive party
or anti-American party in Japan, to
stir up so much feeling over the re-
cent restaurant incident in San Fran
cisco that the American government
will be forced to apologize and pay
indemnity for the "outrages" inflicted
in the Golden Gate city. And one
chesty brown man says that he be-
lieves America will pay the sum and
make the apology because America is
such radically commercial nation
The inference Is that, in order to save
the cost of fight, America would al
low itself to be bluffed into apologiz
ing and paying indemnity, regardless
of the merits of the case. And this
opinion is itself an admission of the
Japanese of the weakness of their case
and of their abundant anxiety for {
war.
A part of the plan is to arouse sucl
sentiment in Japan that the presen
ministry to America, which the prog
ressives" claim Is too friendly will
America and too lenient, will be re
called.
1t may yet become necessary TO
America to take Japan out in the bacl
yard and give the child good spank
ing And Japan doesn't want to ge
the idea for a moment that Americi
Is too commercial to stand up ant
fight for its rights, If the fight be
comes necessary.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

quiry. That Investigation cost Wis
consin many thousands of dollars and
required eleven months-six months
for taking testimony and five months
for Analysing the facts and arriving at
a decision.
II Is just such an investigation as
this that Governor Hughes believes
ought to be made before rates are
tempered with and for that reason he
vetoed the bill. Nothing could be
more opposed to the interests of the
community as a whole" he said, than
I by gripping transportation corpora
lions by arbitrary reductions of earn
ings."
In the end, as has been pointed out
by some, rates everywhere will no
doubt reach an equitable point. If
the railroad commission in Nebraska
found that rates are too low to be COM
pensatory, and that transportation
companies in the state were thus be-
| ing so crippled that expansion and fur
Their development of the state would
be retarded, the commission could, by
its power, raise the rates to the point
found by 1t, after investigation, to be
just. Or the courts, If the railroads
were to prove that the rates were too
low and that the law was therefore
confiscatory and unconstitutional, could
adjust the matter But by the enact
ment Of the law, sixteen states have
placed the burden and expense of
proof upon the companies whose earn.
ings are reduced, instead of upon the
states seeking to make the reductions
That the railroads of the west ap
parently do not consider the two-cent
fares as profitable as the three cent
fares, regardless of the idea that the
reduction would create enough extra
traffic to equalize matters, is evident
from the announcement just made in
Chicago that the western railroads in
five states, Nebraska included, will
carry the new two-cent fare laws into
the courts for final adjustment.
That the theory of Governor Hughes
in requiring the state to first investi
gate and establish its case before ar
bitrarily reducing the earnings of ar
industry whose prosperity is vitality
associated with the prosperity of the
nation is the right one is borne out by
the American principal that no indus
try should be considered guilty o.
charging exorbitant rates until proven
guilty.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
SIDEWALK GRADE LINES.

A suggestion made by G. =. Parish,
ns result of an experience which he
has gone through, ought to he adopted
by the city Whenever the city orders
n property owner to build perma
nent walk. the city ought to furnish
that property owner with an 'oflicial
grade that he should follow in build
ing the walk.
Several years ago Mr.. Parish built
n new cement walk In front OF his
place of business on Norfolk avenue
He asked the then city engineer for
n grade along which he might run the
line of walk. He paid the city engi
neer $3.50 for the grade, and built the
walk according to the lines set by the
city official, despite the fact that he
believed the line was too low.
1t now develops that the walk was
built four inches below the true grade
The city recently ordered that the
walk be raised. In view of the fact
that It was clearly mistake OF rep
resentative of the city, the city should
bear the total expense of raising the
walk
And provision should be made thai
I'm the future whenever property own
err Is ordered to build permanent
walk, the proper grade line should be
furnished by the city free of charge.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

The Clearwater Record takes this
paper to task because The News stat
ed that the government ownership of
railroads would give the party in
power a life lease on Office through
the votes of the more than million
railway employees who would be APP
pointed to their jobs by the party that
was in. The Clearwater paper says
line were mot very bright" and 1t
wonders if this sheet ever heard of
the civil service department of our
government and wonders if The News
knows how far political pulls will help
man to a position in this branch OF
the service.
To all of which 1t may be said that
slight knowledge of the extent tC
which political pulls will go in the
civil service and any other old service
looking to political appointments
prompts the very assertion and firm
opinion to which the Clearwater papel
takes exception. The News doubts /
the Clearwater editor would admit tina
he is unaware of the immense advant
age the party in power has even toda!
because of the federal patronag
dished out through the postoflice de
partment-and the civil service in tina
department is the civil service upol
which judgment in the matter mus
be based.
1t is not at all probable that the mi
lion railway employees on a govern
ment owned system would get out an
do much work against the party tina
appointed them, even though abilit
did have much to do with securin
their jobs. And it is pretty safe I
say that a good sized portion of thos
million votes would be cast for tn
perpetuation in power of the official
who placed those million voters in o
flee to begin with.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
THE JAPANESE CONSPIRACY.

When reports emanating from semi
official sources in Washington begin
to be carried over news wires to all
parts of the United States, telling of
the seriousness of the situation be-
tween Japan and America, the people
of this country may assume that the
situation Is easily as critical as 1t is
pictured. The policy of the admin
istration in matters of this sort is to
minimize the seriousness In reports
given to the public, as was shown last
fall at the time of the tilt over San
Francisco's school affair. At that
time the Associated Press kept it's
hands off the story until many weeks
after it had gone out of Washington
from special correspondents. And the
correspondents who did send out re-
ports of serious condition, were Sc
verely rebuked by the president who
claimed that the stories were creating
undue excitement and might be the
means of starting war. When, there
| fore, few months afterward, stories
apparently fully sanctioned by official
dom at Washington are allowed to
come out over Associated Press wires,
it is not unsafe to take the reports at
their word and to measure the serious.
ness of conditions accordingly.
1t is now said that thousands of dol
lars have been raised on the Pacific
coast by Japanese there who are work
ing in connection with the progressive
party in Japan, and that the object of
the large sums being accumulated is
to arouse an anti-American sentiment
in Japan.
Proof is published showing how
anti-American Japanese leaders at
tempted to persuade the Japanese am
bassador in this country to decline tC
enter into the treaty which was made
after the Japanese trouble, and how
these agitators, having failed, have
gone home to Systematically create
hostility to this government.
The fact that the navy department
of this government is sending Goa
, supplies from the east to the Pacific
coast, and the further fact that thi.
7 incident is freely given out in Wash
, ington for publication, indicates tina
I the administration is at least maxim,
preparations for a war with the littl
/ brown men, should worst come t,
J.. worst.
4 And before the trouble is over tn
[ United States may call upon Japan L
v apologize to this nation for allowing
q her subjects TO enter America, ear
o money from Americans and then, wit
O marked ingratitude, use that none
@ for the purpose of creating enmity 4
3 their own country against this nation
f. Prospering so much better here tina
is possible in their own land, the Jap
who have immigrated would like t
force their way into a social positio
d which seems eminently beyond theI
p and, failing to gain the desired enc
G. they want to fight.
IS The revelation of so bold consp
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
GOVERNOR HUGHES VETO.

Governor Hughes of New York has
vetoed the law reducing passenger
rates to two cents a mile. Two-cent
fare laws were passed last winter by
seventeen different states, and Gov
ernor Hughes is the first executive to
veto such a measure. The veto has
been exercised in this instance unques-
tionably at the risk of popularity with
a large element of voters, who want
the two-cent fare law because they be-
lieve it will save them money without
regard to the possible effect that might
be produced upon business conditions
or upon railroad expansion. But that
Governor Hughes is sincere in the eX-
plantations given by him for vetoing
the measure will not be questioned by
anybody who knows the man. Gov
ernor Hughes, even by his veto has
not cost New York state a two-cent
passenger fare, provided such rate
| is found, after due investigation by the
state, to be fair and compensatory.
Governor Hughes action merely plac-
es the burden of investigation upon
the state, while the other sixteen states
have placed the burden of proof upon
the railroads. And Governor Hughes
theory is more nearly in line with
American ideas of justice.
Governor Hughes points out in We
toing the bill that the law was passed
without thorough investigation into
the matter by the state. He believes
that before reducing a railroad rate or
any other public-service rate by law
the fairness of lower rate should be
established by a careful and thorough
investigation, showing whether or not
the proposed reduced rate is compen
satory or not. His theory is that II
the investigation proves the reduction
to be fair one, then the cut should
be made and could be made with as
surance that it would stand; while ar
arbitrary reduction without any rea
knowledge of conditions as basis fol
action, merely throws the matter into
the courts in case the rates cause {
loss for the public servants concerned
= and thus places the burden of proc
that the law is unjust upon the part!
who ought, morally, to be the defen
dant instead of the aggressor.
) In the long run the results will b.
much the same in all of the states
: whether the law be enacted and signet
by the governors or enacted and We
= toed For in most states commission
/, have been created with powers to fl.
] rates and in all states the courts will
act as last resorts.
. In New York there is a railway CON
e mission, created in the public utilize
i bill, with the power of fixing rates
+ If, after due investigation, this con
/ mission finds that railroad passenge
d be made, But such reduction on tn
n part of the commission would not b
b made until these state representative
2 had, at the states expense, dug int
the matter and secured informatio
# which might render their action san
II one.
e In the other sixteen states whic
5. passed two-cent fare laws, only on
l. made anything like a thorough invest
l. cation as a basis for reducing rate
S This was Wisconsin. And as result
/ rates were reduced to two and ha
o cents mile, that being determined
n be fair rate as a result of the il
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
TRAINING DOGS, TRAINING BOYS

TRAINING DOGS, TRAINING BOYS
Successful dog trainers, after whip
ping their animals in order to correct
their bad habits, make it a point to
always pet the whipped CANNES into
good humor before parting. 1t is con-
to go away in an ugly mood. The
frightful tragedy near Bassett, in
which an eleven-year-old boy shot and
killed his mother in a deliberate and
cold blooded manner because she had
punished him the day before, furnishes
ample proof that boys ought to be
treated with the same consideration as
dogs, in the bringing up.
Corporal punishment is passing
away to a great extent. When it is
INDUCED in, its aim is supposed to be
reform. Parents who punish their
children because of anger are unfit
to have children at all. And most pa
rents who are capable of bringing up
little folks in the proper way, find that
calm and intelligent reasoning will
produce better results in building
character than the lash. Those who
do apply the rod lose all desired re-
suits when they allow the punished
child to go away in an ugly and hate,
full temper. For in such an instance
only revenge turks in the youthful
mind and the punishment has only
made things worse instead of better
A child of eleven years, unless he
has been carefully taught it, could
have little realization of the serious
ness of getting even, though he com
, mitted a murder to get his revenge
, Back of a crime of this sort committed
!, by one so young, there must have beer
a lack of the citizenship training which
all parents ought to be capable of Civ
, ing.
/ Race suicide has been painted o
. late as threatening the race. Al
! classes and conditions of man hav,
5 been invoked to rear large families
} The Bassett tragedy brings home EN-
l phatically the fact that good citizen
! ship in the children now on earth Il
, a much more desirable end than mul
tiplied families to be brought up int,
: manhood and womanhood with evel
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
TAET,s WESTERN TRIP.

| ItOplt llNlHB dlohb 'nt mum INV.
OF the Northwestern railroad between
Fort Meade, s. d., and Omaha-in'
Guiding Norfolk and all other points
on this route-as well as those on the
Great Northern between Plainview and
O'Neill, will probably get glimpse
of the big secretary when he passes
through this territory within the next
few days While the trip of the sec
rotary of war is one of inspection at
several military reservations in the
west, dispatch from Washington says
that he will not overlook any opportu-
nifty to segregate votes for william
Henry Taft as president Of the United
States.
The dispatch says that the secretary
invaded the territory of Senator La
Toilette to make a strong bid for the
Wisconsin republican delegation in the
national convention in 1908. He ex-
poets that his two Wisconsin speeches
and his appearance in that state will
help his presidential boom. The re-
port continues:
New York Is now to be spied out In
the interest of Secretary Taft's presi.
dental boom. A careful canvass of
the situation will be made and an ap-
proXimate conclusion reached as to
whether the state delegation can be
taken away from Gov. Hughes If he
should become a formidable "favorite
SON."
president Roosevelt and Mr.. Vorys
had long conference at which the
discussed. Mr.. Vorys made a most
satisfactory report on the situation in
Ohio 1t is believed the president gave
him much valuable advice as to the
best means of establishing foothold
in New York.
Being resentful of Gov. Hughes
his pet politics were endangered the
president Is in a position to render the
Taft managers service of the utmost
importance.
THE candidacy of Senator Knox, Il
is learned, gives the Taft boosters
more concern than any other boom
While the friends Of Secretary Tai
expect to maintain the friendliest re
lation with the Knox movement, the!
believe that in the final struggle thu
fight will be between Knox and Taft
Before his return to Washington
Mr.. Taft will make number of pc
litical speeches.
"The secretary of war will not MAXI
l regular stumping tour, as he believes
: the nomination for the presidenc,
should come unsolicited to the MAJ
who receives it, but he declares tina
3 because he is a candidate, he is no
+ required to maintain absolute silenc
on political questions. He says tn
S people are entitled to know his views
u During his trip it is likely that he wi
make some declarations outlining hi
u tariff views He is of the opinion tina
s the issue during the next campaig
8 will be tariff revision. He will stan
II squarely on this platform, althoug
e he appreciates that he will lose vote
E by taking that position"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

racy against this government on the
part OF Pacific coast laps has turned
the tables and America today should
be the aggressor In seeking satisfac.
ton from Japan.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
JAPs NEED SPANKING.

The Japanese, clubs in hand and
chips on shoulder, continue to creep
nearer to Uncle Sam. Small but ac-
tive, pulled up over recent victories
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

Senator Randall introduces just
enough good Irish wit into a speech
to make him most fascinating public
talker.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

T. e. Anderson, Madison county rep
resentative, doesn't have much to say
but what he does say counts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

When you come right down to it,
man want than that which was paid to
Bob Reynolds by Roger Stitt? Roger
Stitt was eight years old last week and
he had two guests at his birthday par
ty-Clarence Fuesler, aged 5, and r.
H. Reynolds, aged 81. Both Roger and
Clarence think that Bob" Reynolds
is the greatest man on earth - and
what more satisfaction could any man
want out of life?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

A young couple in Norfolk found
tomato plant growing in the back yard.
1t had apparently grown from seed
that must have dropped in the ground
last fall With great pains they trans
planted the tender vegetable, loosened
the earth around 1t and waited for the
time when red and juicy tomatoes
might be plucked from its productive
green foliage. But fate was unllind.
A weeks rain converted the tomato
plant into the rankest weed to be
found in that section of town.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

People who eat olives ought to be
willing to put the seeds on their own
plates.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

A young boy appeared on the streets
of Norfolk during the day in straw
hat. But the wind took it off for him
before night