Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-15

trying to push him from his corner to the
center Of the ring"
All this is over what is meant by a tariff
FOR revenue only" 1 predict that Bailey
will be outclsssed, for, on the question OF
any kind of politics FOR revenue only"
the big Nebraskan holds the belt as the un-
disputed champion Of the world. II re-
publican prosperity continues and chautAu-
quas and county fairs remain popular, It
will not be long before Bryan can settle
down in his summer home in Nebraska,
leaving his dates to be filled by others,
while the glad refrain goes up, Every
body works but father"
But. let us not lie awake nights worry
ing about the tariff. For. have we not
the impassloned word Of the Peerless for
1T that III protection has slain its thou
sands, the gold standard has slain its tens
OF thousands"
1t is not only in the tariff matter that
the democrats proved their insincerity and
hatred OF real reform. When the fighting
republicans made their heroic assault
against the tyranny Of Speaker Cannon
and were striking a mighty body blow for
the much needed revision OF the house
rules, democracy. led by Representative
Fitzgerald, whose speeches were so widely
circulated by Bryan's campaign committee,
followed its time-honored custom and
hurled its body across the pathway of
progress and for a time at least nullified
the work of reform which the true blue
republicans Of the west will continue to
struggle for and which they will ultimately
win, not with the help OF democracy but
In spite Of IT.
We are going to win this campaign, win
it on the record Of our last legislature, as
compared with theirs, win 1t on the high
character and record of our candidates.
win 1t because in the last session Of con-
gress we furnished no man Friday" for
either Cannon or Aldrich. Nor did we
have any representative who used his sal
airy to go to Europe when the fight was
thlckest, as did the democratic represen-
tative from the Second district.
we will win, Notwithstanding Governor
Shallenberger's specious statement that
democracy and decency had finally gotten
together, for the people Of this state know
that IL this claim be true, then, as
Brother Sloan so aptly puts It, they're
together in a clinch and not an embrace"
In the next years campaign we will
win, even though the quadrennial prophet
should become the perennial candidate,
and lead in person the ragged hosts OF
demagogy and despair.
0NN w. NAAAA~N "NAA ~ NAAA oaOhAAl
and saying it will be too hard q fight, that
it can't be done.
The spirit we must show is Illustrated
by a little story told by a locomotive en-
gineer. He 80 loved the great engines
hat he endowed them with speech and
human qualities. Once he was given a
long train of freight cars to pull over a
hill, as steep a gradient as the rules of
railroading would permit. In looking
for an engine he first climbed up into
the cab of a beautiful high-geared pas
senger locomotive. Every bit OF brass
was polished and glistening. The en-
gineer said, ''Can you pull this train
over that hill?" The locomotive turned
a few wheels and said TOO heavy. too
heavy, too heavy" He went to q freight
engine, a great moguls And he asked the
same question. The answer was, TOO
heavy, too heavy, too heavy" Just then
a busy, grimy little switch engine came
bouncing along under a terrific head of
steam, every valve splitting, every stroke
counting. with a long train of cars,
shunted some of them onto a sidetrack.
then hurried away, bustling back and
forth, always diligently at work. He
went over and asked the switch engine
his old question. Instead of answering,
the little engine backed down and, slam
ming into the train, coupled on and was
off, saying, "I-think-I-can, ~I-think-I-can,
l him 1 cam, I-thlnk-I-can." Ten min
utes later, when at the very crest of the
hill 1t was laboring hard, but still singing
It's song of pluc, but very slowly now, FL
think-I-can, I~-think-I-oan, ~I-think-I-can,
l~-think-l-can, I-thought-I-could, l.
thought-I-could, I-thought-I-could."
And so say. with that kind of spirit,
no train is too heavy for us TO pull over
the hill of success this fall or next. even
though 1t be loaded to he guards with
Peerless Leaders. silver-tongued promises
and pop orators, haranguing the crowds
with loud and vociferous discussions of
"~feenance" and tariff "for revenue only