Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.


Beatrice Express: The enterprise Of one
state bank in western Nebraska in ad-
vertising for business on the ground that
it is fortified by the new guaranty law
has aroused the state bank board to issue
notice that such a course is premature,
because the new plan has not gone into
effect. The board proposes that the law
shall not be used to boost business while
it Is in the courts and before 1t has be-
come operative.
Bloomfield Advocate: We are OF the
opinion that the whole primary law is the
biggest kind of a farce. II has now been
working In this state two years or more
and we do not know of a single Improve.
ment it has made in politics. 1t was gotten
up as a catch to secure votes and It has
demoralized the organizations Of the old
parties without improving the class Of can
didates that has beeen nominated. 1t ought
to be repealed.
Hastings Republican; Omaha has sent a
large and representative delegation of bust
ness men to the Missouri river navi-
cation congress at Yankton. The
meeting is for the purpose of working up
interest In establishing river traffic all
In6 way ITOm ldlhlOn W hduSdS lily anu
st. Louis. If Omaha is wise it's capitalists
will get busy and establish a good boat
line and make that city a great place for
river traffic. It would be worth millions
to the shipping and commercial interests Of
Nebraska's greater metropolis.
Grand Island Independent: The Column
bus Telegram, warnhest of the warm demo-
cratic papers Of the state, published the
obituary of Popular Government the other
day. Popular Government lay stabbed
to the heart in the judicial cemetery Of
Lincoln-as a result OF the injunction hold
ing up the state guaranty law! And the
next day the Columbus boys and their
fathers had a very gay old time, shooting
off firecrackers, and shouting out praises
for freedom to beat the band. Or, per-
haps, the celebration at Columbus this year
was a wake Of the olden times?
Seward Blade: Trenmore Cone, chief
clerk of the house of representatives, must
be making a good thing out of furnishing
certified copies of the public record when
ever anyone wants to know what the house
did last winter, for which he rakes in a
good fee. He still holds the original copy
of the house jouranl instead of turning 1t
over to the secretary of state, as Secretary
Smith did with the original copy of the
senate journal. Trenmore occupies office
rooms in the state capitol, where he car
ries on his grating business without pay
ing rent. Why don't the board OF public
land and buildings make him pay his rent
or Gust him?
Albion News: 1t is legitimate and proper
to discuss or even ~criticise our system Of
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hibition Of demagogism to lambast any
man or party who applies to the courts in
manner provided by law for decisions
relative to the constitutionality of any law.
Whether federal courts should interfere
with state laws is a question by itself, and
no man or party is a proper subject of
criticism who proceeds in accordance with
established law, to secure rights or ad-
vantages vouchsafed him by said law. To
submit to the edicts of our established
courts is our only safeguard against an
archy. This is not saying many Of the
procedures of our courts do not need
changing. Hit the right head when you
start out Uranium cracking.
Grand Island Independent: h demo-
Gratis seem to be living in the hope that
tie Republicans u AllC NdNV Nhi INV oN
the DISTINGUISHING principle of county OPP
ton. One hears little of the alert demo-
Gratis proposing such endorsement. The
reason is plain. A mere standing. on the
record of having passed the s O'Clock law
permits the party to TAX no very definite
position on the liquor question, while the
republicans will nave alienated every lib
eral vote and will not have gained a sin
gle radical prohibitionist. And there are
evidences that many of the republicans
are anxious to fall into the scheme instead