Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-18
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.


Lincoln County Merchant: II Is reported
that the walls Of the state capital building
are crumbling. spect It's The pillar the'
was extracted during Job Bartley's al
minIstration as state treasurer that caused
II. Perhaps Joe's got II hid away in 'tha'
cigar box"
Crofton Journal; No. sir! We won't go
to Omaha to the press meet and pay cash
with no chance OF ever getting our money
back We told EN- last winter who would
get the advertising. We never advocated
any such idea as appointing commission
to dictate what kind Of advertising con
tracts we should make and We don't care
a cuss for the commission anyhow.
Stanton Picket: Those members OF the
Omaha Commercial club are cute lot
OF fellows. At a meeting they adopted
resolution against a 2-cent passenger rate
law in Nebraska, contending that II would
work a hardship on the railroads Does
the fact Of most Of these men being exten-
sive shippers have anything to do with the
interest they seem to have in the welfare
of the railroads.
Beatrice sun: About as foolish species
Of amusement as congress can indulge In
Is dividing Nebraska into federal districts
In order to create offices for the superan-
nuated attorneys and busted politicians OF
the state. There is no necessity for the
proposed increase and change. Nebraska
really had more litigation In the federal
court during the earlier settlement OF the
state. than she, has now.
Newman Grove Reporter: Amen TO the
Burlington & Missouris refusal to give
transportation to editors to attend the
state association. II is humiliating that
. -. az I'D
for II. Speed the day when editors will
insist upon being regarded as plain, or
binary business men. not as plain ordi-
nary grafters. The circular letter of the
secretary, too, leaves the impression on
the mind that he regards the whole pass
business as a huge Joke.
North Platte Tribune: The Nebraska
Editorial association meets in omaha the
latter part of this month, and the secre-
tary, very foolishly, asked the railroad to
carry the members free. OF course he was
turned down, just as he deserved. Under
existing conditions there is not one editor
in twenty-five who would accept the
courtesy of a pass from the roads, and
the secretary is receiving pretty warm
roasts from the newspaper men for his
action, which was of his own motion.
North Platte Tribune: On the ground
that 2-cent fare would be unfair to tho
railroads the Omaha Commercial club has
passed resolutions opposing the reduction
The club believes that greater facilities in
the movement of traffic IL more to be de-
sired than a reduction of passenger fare
Another argument advanced by the club
Is that with maximum rate of cents
the roads would abolish special rates. and
as a result cheap rates TO Omaha on ocoa-
sions like the Ak-Sar-Ben would not be
given. 1t will thus be seen that in this
matter Omaha has an ak to grind. but how
about the rest OF the state?
Newman Grove Reporter: Our politicians
are largely responsible for the grotesque
way In which the cause of temperance has
been handled in this country. The leader
ship usually has been turned over to women
and fanatics. Since the days of Lincoln
no statesman has dared touch II with a
ten-foot pole. Which is cause and which
Is effect is Of no particular interest now.
Now this great question demands the best
thought that the best brains we have can
give it. The emperor of Germany, the
prime minister of France, discuss It as they
would any other great question of state;
the American statesman is afraid to
whisper an opinion about II outside of his
bed chamber. The statesman of the future
must show more courage than the states
man of the past,