Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-28

Jefferis and they hunted Bryan to the tall
timber and up the shaggy bark OF the po-
litical tree.
J. G.. Thiesen. a member OF the state les
i~slature, made an exceedingly witty speech
from the standpoint Of a naturalised Rus
sian citizen. Ills best point was an expls-
nation why Governor George l.. sheldon
waited five days. or the limit. before sign
ing the rate bill. He said. When the
bill was presented. and before Il was
signed several railroad presidents in
Nebraska telegraphed the governor not TO
sign the bill, that it would be unconstitu-
tionsl because # destroyed all profits in
traffic" Governor Sheldon told them in
reply that il they could show him by their
records that such was true he would vetoe
the bill. They brought him the records
and he spent the days in examining the
books. and at the end OF the time he said:
Your books in my possession show that
you will still make a profit which is sut-
ficient under the law and 1 have the evil
dence OF your own books to show for Il.
Now 1 can sign the bill and you will not
he able to make a case against It," Had
the governor signed the bill on the spot
the roads would nave Immediately gone
into court, hoping by the Introduction OF
part of the evidence to thwart the law.
And for that, the best governor Nebraska
ever had is being maliciously criticized by
his political enemies, who themselves voted
against the rate bill in the legislature.
Senator Burkett. although it was nearly
10 p. m. when he arrived at the hall, kept
every man in the audience on tiptoe, not
knowing whether a laugh or a good round
cheer would follow his next sentence.
tVVbn Aunfpfufrutio Of pa,h1i1 affaira no
longs. under our government, to the people.
We get at the truth of public needs through
the medium of politics in the best sense
Of the term The questions involved are
so important that it seems to me that
the people ought to take a little timE, as is
truly required to investigate and see what
were the essential issues. Don't be side
tracked by a lot OF casual issues OF events,
1t is far more important in our scheme
Of things that men should have a job and
fair wages than that the law Of injunction
should be wiped out. In China today men
are buying their chance to work. They
bid for one another's JOB in a frightful
competition. No man can hold a job more
than sixty days there before it is bid off
to another man. All the world around,
it is the great issue, a chance to labor, to
earn with the hands and secure as many of
IHe comforts ana opportunities possible Tor
the wife and the children at home. The
lack of a job was what sent the Industrial
army to Washington under Cleveland's adj
ministrstion, praying that the government
engage in some public work such as canals
or roadways to give work to the three mil
lions of the unemployed, and they were
told to keep off the grass"
Tom Hollister told a good one. "A friend
said to me: Why is Bryan like the Mis-
souri?' What's the answer? Bryan and
the river change courses so often, run for
ever and never dry up"
A. w. Jefferis cut his remarks short, as
the hour was very late before he began.
In the brief time, however, he showed that
he had a grasp on the situation and would
be far more effective in congress than a
democrat. senator Burkett in his speech
also made a plea for a republican con-
gresham, for, he said, he did not like TO
be continually going over to the house of
representatives to get something done for
Omaha which Hitchcock could not do. be-
ing out Of sympathy with the majority.