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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
NEBRASKA POLITICS.


Albion Argus: 1t looks to us like
humiliating confession that there
is not brains enough in the whole leg.
islature to draft a bank guaranty de-
posit bill. After making the campaign
on that issue largely and then come to
the practical business of framing a
bill there is not man, or committee
of men, in the whole body that can
frame a bill! What is that body Of
hired men down there for? Then they
had to hire lawyer to do the work
they were expected to do. Why didn't
they, if they had to hire some one, get
good practical business man like p,
l.. Hall? Why is lawyer supposed
to know more about such business
than a business man? Only one con,
ISOLATION we get out of it and that +
that one of our good fellows, Hon. l.
l.. Albert, got the $500 job; but this
is small consolation when we think
how the Republicans will hammer our
brains out in the next campaign.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

story of how congress had passed the
bill, after all.
There's one lesson In the incident.
You never can tell what congress is
going to do till it's done.
The first vote was taken on the bill
under general order for the suspen-
sion of the rules and under that
order, according to the standing rules
of the house, a bill must receive a
o.thirds majority to insure its pas
sage The first vote stood 179 to 1923,
the majority thus falling considerably
below the two thirds requirement. I'M
mediately after this result was an
nounced, the house committee on
rules met. This resulted IN Dalzell
bringing in a rule making 1t in order
for the house to again take up the
bill and act upon 1t under conditions
which would require only a majority
vote to pass it. This time by vote
of 173 to III the bill was passed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
WISCONSIN SENATORIAL CASE.

w NloSO4NolN SEINA lohlAb CASE
Wisconsin is just now experiencing
a unique experience with regard to the
ways of reform. That state adopted a
law putting the senatorial nomination
on a primary election basis, just as
has been done in Oregon and just as it
is proposed to do in Nebraska, if bill
now pending becomes a law.
Wisconsin Republicans last Septem-
Der nominated Senator Stephenson.
Thus far the legislature, though large
ly Republican, has refused to make
good its pledge to the public that it
would elect whomsoever the party
should nominate.
Senator Stephensons primary cam
paign, it develops, cost him something
like quarter million of dollars. That
this money was spent lavishly and
that it had its effect in winning for
him the state nomination, goes without
saying.
And right there is a weakness in
the reform that Wisconsin has under
taken. For this case proves, or at
least seems to prove, that under the
statewide primary system for senator
ial nominations, the use of large sums
of money has more to do with the
successful candidate than mere states
manship. This instance would seem
to demonstrate that no poor man need
apply for the United States senatorial
toga.
In duty bound is the legislature TO
elect the choice of the people. That
at least was the theory of the re-
formers before the primary was held.
Senator La Toilette was disappointed
in the nomination of Stephenson. He
had hoped to beat out his contempor-
ary He had not counted upon the
effect of heavy funds in the statewide
primary.
AS soon as Stephenson was nomin.
ated, La Toilette set to work to induce
the Legislature to decline to elect him,
in spite of pre-primary theories.
There seems but one basis for such
action. If it should be proved that
Stephenson used money illegally to
corrupt voters at the primary, the leg.
islature would be morally justified in
refusing to elect him.
Charges that Stephenson used
money lavishly to buy his election are
made. No charge of actual bribery
has been made. 1t is simply alleged
that Stephenson used loads of cash
for the purpose Of carrying on
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
CLIMATE CHANGING?

Not many months ago you could
hear almost anywhere, in spite of the
weather bureaus insistence. that the
climate of this territory had changed;
the old time billiards were thing of
the past.
But there's been no change. Within
three weeks thre storms of great
severity-two of them record-breakers
have swept down over this section.
Old timers are forced to admit that
they are storms such as used to come
in the early days.
1t has been one of the hardest win.
ters in many years, a winter to dis.
tinctly convince the most skeptical
that it's the same old cline.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Woman's suffrage is a topic of prime
asmuch as the bill has just been adj
vanced to third reading. OF special in
terest at this time, therefore, is the
following editorial from Golfers,
which proves, among other things,
that there are two sides to this as
we'll as to every other question:
AS a matter of course there is diff
ference of opinion about the facts in
the four states where women vote.
There is always a difference of opinion
among intelligent observers on every
conceivable subject. One correspond
ent writes to us from Utah and makes
three points which are at least de-
cidedly worth noting:
|. Election expenses have been in
creased by the fact that women vote.
The increase is very largely in the
cost of hiring carriages to take voters
to the polls and to the registry booths.
Many automobiles have been used in
addition to the carriages. Maneuver-
ing to corner the available supply of
move of county chairmen.' If one sue
ceeds in cornering them, he feels that
he has the election more than half
won. 1t would seem as if this difficulty
might very easily be met by a law
forbidding political parties to haul
voters either on election day or on
registry day.
.. BY the voting of the women the
influence of the church on politics has
been increased.
8. In the old days a county chair
man who could command the services
of spellbnder of national reputation
thought his troubles were to a large
extent solved, provided he could Sc
cure hall sufficiently large. Now
he must take into consideration that,
however fine his showing in rallies, it
is likely that balance of power re-
mains in the homes, and the house-to-
house canvass is the result.
Other men and women in the suf-
frage states would make other obser-
vations, but these, at least, bear marks
of clear thinking.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
Rack TO THE FARM.

II warn my countrymen that the
great recent progress made in city life
is not full measure of our civiliza-
ton: for our civilization rests at bot
tom on the wholesomeness, the attrac-
tiveness, and the completeness, as well
as the prosperity, of life in the country.
The men and women on the farms
stand for what is fundamentally best
and most needed in our American life.
Upon the development of country
life rests ultimately our ability, by
methods of farming requiring the
highest intelligence, to continue to
feed and clothe the hungry nations;
to supply the city with fresh blood,
clean bodies, and clear brains that can
endure the terrific strain of modern
life; we need the development of men
in the open country, who will be in the
future, as in the past, the stay and
strength of the nation in time of war.
and its guiding and controlling spirit
in time of peace"
With these words President Roose-
welt closes the message which he
transmitted to congress recently on
the report of the commission which
he appointed some time ago to investi-
gate the country life of America.
1t is characteristic of our strenuous
president to be alive to every interest
which bears upon the life of the peo-
pie, their prosperity and welfare. 1t
will be his highest enconium that he
kept everlastingly busy in so many
different directions, with the desire to
exploit every avenue of human en-
deavor that might possibly lead to an
uplift and stimulate to higher ideals
worked out in a real and common
sense way, by the great people whom
he serves.
This farm commission was made up
of some of the brainiest and most
earnest men of the country who were
all deeply and especially concerned in
medical missionaries are everywhere
from plague stricken India to frozen
Labrador, doing their best to relieve
human suffering. They do not leave
home and native land to engage in
| this dangerous work from greed but
because of the need of suffering
humanity. The whole nation is not
money mad.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
About Norfolk,

Fremont Tribune: Will F. Muse Of
Mason City, Ia, was in the city Sun.
day, guest of Frank Hammond He
had been to Madison to look after d
farm near there. He was marooned
at Norfolk by the snow for a couple of
days during which time he got up a
copy of newspaper with typewriter
as diversion and for the amusement
of his fellow storm-bound sufferers dt
a hotel to the number of about fifty.
1t was a "corker" and was republished
in full by The Norfolk News.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Australia has been trying for nine
long years to fix upon a suitable CAPT
tai city. Melbourne and Sydney, both
desirable cities in every particular
were not available because of legal
provision that the capital must be To-
Gated in New South Wales. Dalgety,
Tumut and Yass-Canberra were all
suggested and the latter finally de.
cided upon, but think of twentieth
century capital bearing the name Yass-
Canberra. Impossible! So the Aus
tralian commonwealth is trying to
select more euphonius name, one
which the world at large might possi-
oily pronounce and poet laureates
weave into rhyme, Meanwhile, let
Americans give thanks that George
Washington did not bear the name of
Higgins or Biggs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Many and elaborate are the prepara-
tions now I'm progress to fittingly cele.
brate Lincoln's centenary. All over
the United States the public school
children are studying his life, his
work and his character and learning
lessons of patriotism and reverence
from It, If a country Is known by the
way in which It honors it's great men,
surely America should stand well up
in the list
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

JOHNNY DUMPER FINDS
WHAT A REAL BIG CITY IS
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there was too yung ladies In anuthcr
sect watching him and giggling.
The culorcd man that runs the car
furst tuck the cushions and laid them
across where the sects had bin and
then | saw where the bed was going 10
be. Then he unhookt a shelf above L
and let II down and there was anuther
place for II bed just rs big as the
lower one. on the shelf was a lot Of
mattresses and pillows and blankets
and he brot sum clean slips and sheets
and made 1t look just like n reel bed
and then he made the upper one the
same way, and | was numbering whore
Uncle Oscar and me wud haf to so
while the woman and little girls was
going to bed, but he hXt that up all
rite by hanging n cupple of hevy cur
tains which buttoned down tho middle
like Uncle Oscars oVerCotc.
Just then the woman got back with
her hair all down and her dressing
sack and slippers on and she dident
hardly look like the same woman I'll
betcher If sum yung fellers that's so
awfuly stuck on girl cud see her in
dressing.sack with her hair down
SOS YOU cud see where the rat had
bin they wudent feel so stuck.
She ses to the little girl on Uncle
Oscars lap, Come, darling; 90 VANITY
go to beddy on toot-toot?"
The kid put her arms haf way round
Uncle Oscars neck and ses "No-oo
Mama, me aint sleepy, stay 18th Papa"
Uncle Oscar turnd rcddern fox,
and the woman ses, 'Why Tootsey, he
sent your papa!"
"Yeth he ith!" the little girl anserd
and she put her hand on Uncle Oscars
baud he'd and patted it and ses My
Papa"
Sum travelling men down the lie
busted out lafng and Uncle oscar
cudent stand it emmy longer. He tuck
the girls hands loose from him,
handed her to her mama and got up
and went to the smoking-rOom and as
he went down the lie the baby kept
saying Papa, Papa" and everybody
in the car that wasent already to
bed was lafing except Uncle Oscar.
While we was having our beds made
| went out to the smoking room and
herd Uncle Oscar telling a cupple of
uther men about wimmen nowadays
that had babies making everybody
in the car into nuss-maids and that
insted of legislachures passing laws
for wimmen suffrage they ought to
pass a law that if woman takes
baby on a train she's got to take care
of it herself. one Of the men that
lookt like a travelling man sed that if
wimmen were aCkOrded sufferage and
got their rites there wudent be emmy
more babies to take on trains.
! slept upstares cause | thot it wud
be fun and cud get up there eastern
Uncle cud but | thot | never wud go
to sleep Kept thinking of what wud
becum of me if big wind shud strike
us like struck us too weeks ago and
shud turn the car upside down
| hurd sum men talking before we
went to bed about a feller back east
that had invented a dubble-decke'
sleeper that's to be just twice as hie
as these nowadays. Bet you don't
catch Johnny riding in that kind of a
car in this windy country.
We got to Chicago all rite and III
tell you more about it when | find out
more nearer where I'm at.
Yours,
Johnny Bumper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

The centenaries of four great men
Bartholdy, Darwin and Lincoln, the
last two on the same day. Poe's oc-
cured in January, Chopin and Edward
Fitzgerald come in march, Tennyson
in August and Gladstone In December.
Let us hope that the year 1909 will
give to the world as many pre-emi.
nently great and good men as began
their earthly career in 1909.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Once in a while the eccentric MAI
whose peculiar hobbies have been
long ridiCuled has the chance to re.
mind his Prosecutors that He laughs
best who laughs last" Such an in.
stance occurred in Italy in the recent
earthquake, The only habitation left
standing was the home of an eccentric
man who had been preparing for just
such an emergency for years by
strengthening his house with iron
bands to withstand the shock when it
came. Now they look upon him as a
wise man.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Pittsburg's rival-Gary, Indiana
should have been named Economy
says a writer in the Review of Re
views. For economy is its genius and
inspiration. Location, size, arrange
ment, equipment, and every great and
less detail of the whole huge steel
plant serve that one master purpose,
saving. Saving of material, time, and
labor, conserving of energy, elimina-
tion of waste. Smoke means waste
and here they cut the black volume
down to a mere mist which hardly
dulls the blue of the sky. In the
workmen's town every device and con-
venience known to modern invention
has been brought into service to
render these homes comfortable, at
tractive and convenient. Low rates
will be obtained for water, gas and
electric lights and the houses are fur
nished at a low rental or sold on easy
installments.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

One reform Is to take place in In
auguration ceremonies when Mr.. Taft
takes the oath of office, March ith,
which will be approved by all. III
stead of having every band in the in.
augural procession play that time
worn and unpopular tune, Hail to the
Chief" as they pass the presidents
stand, only the first band will play it
while other bands, as they pass, will
choose more popular music.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
gigantic campaign in his own behalf

gigantic campaign in his own behalf.
This week the Wisconsin legislature
is investigating the charges An in.
teresting sermon upon the morality of
lavishly spending money in an effort
to win a senatorial nomination may
be expected.
Stephenson is wealthy lumber
man. The outcome of the case will be
watched with interest
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
HOUSE TURNED A soMERsAULT

HOUSE TURNED A SOMERSAULT.
For once the editorial department
and the news department of this illu-
minating journal failed to connect. 1t
was all because congress turned a
double somersault within the space of
couple of short hours. All that was
said in yesterdays noon edition about
the lower house of congress, for re-
jecting the bill to remove constitu-
tional bar from the eligibility of Sen.
ator Knox to serve as secretary Of
state, is hereby withdrawn. The
house is forgiven
Monday afternoon the Associated
Press dispatches brought information
that the lower house had rejected the
bill to remove the ineligibility from
Knox for the cabinet job On the
strength of that dispatch this depart
ment got busy to say what it thought
about the house for such trick. The
result was linotyped and printed in
Tuesdays noon edition.
No accounting, however, had been
taken for the fickleness of congress.
Later in the day the house had
scrambled together enough votes to
remove the bar Wherein it did what
it should have done.
That explains why this column
seemed to be out on a jag Tuesday
noon when the front page told the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Chicago, Ill.,, Feb. l2.-To the Editor
of The News My, isn't this Il big
wurld! A feller that's never bin
away from home gets to thinking he's
quite bit and that If his home town
was to blow up It wud cut big chunk
out of the popplashun of the erth.
ulster think Norfolk was nawful
big town until saw omaha Then |
got to thinking Omaha was about the
only town on the map for size and
there's lots of uther people in Omaha
thinks so too, but shaw! you cud put
all Omaha down sum place in Chicago
and a feller from Omaha that thinks
its quite a place wud haf to hunt haf
a day to find It..
And Uncle Oscar ses New York is
more'n twict as big as Chicago and
that Lundun is so much bigger yet
that you cud add Chicago to it and you
wudent notis the dffrence except the
smell.
But my goodness, don't want to
live in ennything biggern Chicago. 1t
makes a feller wunder whatud be the
difference If he wasent living. Looks
like there'd be just as menny people
left in the wurld Don't look like they
needed me here emmy more'n Lake
Mishegan needs anuther pale of water.
Sometimes | wish | was back in Ne
braska where a feller amounts to a
little sumthing. Why | saw a man
sensible on the pavement day before
yesterday and nobody seemd to know
who he was and the pOleesman calld
a ambulance and he was loded in and
hurried off to sumwhere and a minnit
after you Cud be walking along there
and you wudcnt a knOwed cnnything
had ever happened. You can walk
along the street and meet just thous-
ands of people and never see a one
that looks ennything like ennybody
you ever saw before.
I've bin all turnd round i'm my he'd
sins | left Omaha and don't know as
i can rite you much of a letter. Why
the sun even riZes in the Northwest
here. And Lake Mishegan looks like
a great big hill of water that was
liable to fall on you most emmy minnit.
They say it sent one thousandth rs
big as the oshun. My, the oshun must
look like a whopper.
Uncle Oscar and | tuck the Lost
Angelus Limmited to come to Chi
cago on. Its the finest train | ever
went ennywhere on, its all Pullmans
and diners and has a observatory on
the end. That's the furst time | ever
road in a Pullman sleeper. When we
got on | wandered how we were going
to go to bed in it. asst Uncle Oscar
and he sed wait and see" There's
an elecktick push button in the side
of the sect like they have on the
street cars in Omaha for you to punch
when you wont to get off, but | don't
to get off sleeper except when the
trains alreddy stopt.
They was woman and her too
little girls sat on the seets across the
lie from us and she was the furst one
that got the culored man that makes
IIc DtuS " Ildht lltlI >. w ME ne
was doing it she asst Uncle Oscar if
she cud leeve her little girls with us
while she went and got her dressing
sack and Uncle Oscar ses, "Of coarse
Madam The littlest girl climed on
his lap and called him Papa and want
ed to look at his watch. Uncle Oscar
isent much ulster babies and it. both
cred him a lot, speshally when he new
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

The primary system of Nebraska
has been remedied by the passage of
the Kuhl rotation bill. The bill, which
was drawn by the Cedar county mem
ber provides for rotation by election
districts, 1t is aimed to obviate the
advantage or disadvantage derived by
candidates by alphabetical accidents
in the initial letter of their names,
one of the glaring defects shown in
the operation of the primary last Sep
tember.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

1t has been suggested that perhaps
too much money-more than could be
wisely used-was being poured into
Italy for the help of the refugees.
There is little danger of too much be.
ing sent to render these homeless, desti-
tute, unfortunate self supporting.
There are 100000 congregated in
Calabria, Naples and in Sicily and it
is costing 100000 a day just to feed
them. There is no immediate prospect
of reducing the number of dependents.
The problem which Italy is facing is
one of great magnitude. 1t will requil,
not only large sums of money, but
great tact and patience for its solution
The tact and patience outsiders can
not furnish but the money can and
should be contributed
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Yielding to the pressure brought to
bear by President Roosevelt and Gov
ernor Gillett, the California assembly
retired from its previous position on the
anti-Japanese matters by reconsider
ing the former vote on the segregation
of Japanese students in the public
schools and finally rejected the meas.
ure by vote of II to 81. An effort
by the supporters of the bill further
to reconsider was lost by a tie vote
and the assembly is now clear of any
anti-Japanese measure objected to by
the national administration.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Nine out of ten men who carry
around a subscription paper, can give
no good excuse for bothering people.
Nine out of ten dollars raised by sub.
scription papers are wasted. Nothing
that is supported by whining, is nee
essary. AS soon as an institution be-
gins to beg in order to exist, it ought
to be put out of existence. The peO-
pie are bothered too much unneces-
sarily' SI2Wl
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

An Atchison man VINO mas been
looking for a job many years. without
success, being chased out of his old
loafing place, took up" at another
place, whereupon the proprietor gave
him both barrels, and he is now look
ing for another. (Chart.-It is pretty
bad to get shot with one barrel of
shot gun; it is worse to get both
barrels)
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

to try on cloaks for customers. The
customers are usually thin, or fat and
dumpy, but when cloak looks good
on the cloak model they take It.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION.

The Nebraska legislature is consid-
ering a law to make it crime for a
newspaper to misrspresent its cir
culation. The News believes that such
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

There should be and Old Mems as
sociation. The old men who would
enjoy getting together, and talking
about old tines, have as few oppor-
tnnitles for such occasions as if they
were babies. They are usually left to
mind the house" at night while the
rest of the family go gadding.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

You often hear that this is free
country and that man is at liberty
to express his opinion II is not true.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

so far as is known, there is never
an epidemic that carries off wolves,
foxes, English sparrows, or other
pests
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

Valentine Republican: High Pipe,
Hollow Horn Bear and Eagle Horse,
the Indian delegation that went to
Washington, d. c., some time ago to
see the great father" returned Fri
day night of last week. They con
tinued from here on their way to Rose
bud agency.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-19

a man who dips into politics oc-
casiOnally may be compared to a man
sionally; he is liable to run into a pro-
fessional, and be worsted. The safe
rule is to keep out of politics and
poker.