Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-13
Nebraska


Holdrege citizen: Didn't we tell your
North Platte has heard the news and this
week had It's honorable senator, Mr.. Hoag-
land, write n letter inviting the board 20
locate the school he fought against so
bitterly in that village.
Nebraska city Press: While we have no
inclination and no right to suggest to the
sweet girl graduates how they should dress
we would make the remark that a row OF
trouser skirts on the platform OF the over
land this year would fill the house II prop
rly advertised beforehand.
ONein Frontier; Lincoln probably will
lose its nickname holy city" At the city
election held there last Tuesday the city
voted wet by over 900 majority. 1t was
about what could have been expected after
having sheltered an extremely wet demo
cratic legislature all last winter.
Beatrice Sun: The disclosure of a short
age in the accounts OF the institute for
feeble minded youth goes to emphasize the
need of better protection Of the funds of
the inmates and OF the institution itself.
The state board would do well to require
that these funds he deposited in bonded
repositories.
Hastings Tribune: Roscoe b. Pound,
formerly a member OF the Nebraska SUI
prems court commission. is the only pro-
lessor in Harvard who Is not a graduate
Of that institution. The fact that Prof.
Pound was graduated from the University
Of Nebraska makes q good point for the
University at Lincoln
Shelton Clipper: Grand Islands new
chief Of police must have been born under
lucky star. He had scarcely been on the
Job a week until he had picked up three
real yeggmen with a reward OF l,OOO and
several other perquisites to follow. That
better than getting twenty-five per from
half dozen proprietors Of gambling joints.
Kearney Hub. Some members Of the
Nebraska legislature should have heard
VIII A. Campbell's explanation of the de-
feat of the S25,OO0 appropriation to adver-
Use Nebraskar-'it was an unselfish propo-
sition"-which Is to say that it did not ap-
peal to any special or particular interest
and did not therefore present an oppor-
| tunity for deals, swaps, dicker1ng and
trades. Mr.. Campbell makes the charge
without suffering and circumstantial owl
dence will convict the legislature on that
! charge
! Falls City Journal: A law against log
| rolling in the legislature would be just as
| effective and perhaps just as sensible as
! the law against hauling voters to the polls
and would be quite as useful on the stat
ute book as the publication Of party cam
paign expenses either before or after cleo
ton. No practical politician has any more
fear or respect for these purity in pilitics
statutes than the ordinary saloon loafer
has tor the anti-treat law. Nobody wants
them enforced or will make move in
that direction.
Blair Pilot: The license policy won out in
Lincoln last Tuesday by about LOO votes
This means that not over twenty-five
saloons may be licensed at 5000 year.
Evidently $4,000 OF hush money looked bet
ter to a majority of the people than a
clean, If not a holy city. Poor Lincoln
1t has given up its ideals and gone back
TO its fleshpots. Possibly to retain the
! capital, but is now less worthy TO do so;
possibly the excise rules were too strict
| for some; possibly It couldn't stand the
gaff the omahogs were giving it. but any
how 1t took a step backward that the
entire state regrets and Lincoln viii regret
some day.
| Beatrice Sun: The state Of Nebraska is
| selling 100000 worth of bonds OF other
states. The fact that we are out of debt
| and are able to loan money to other states
/
Time was when the situation was reversed.
! The state was in debt up to the consutu-
tional limit and considerably more, and
| it seemed as though we would never get
on our feet again People were leaving
Nebraska in large numbers. They were
thoroughly discouraged and had reason to
be Now things are changed. 1t has been
demonstrated that this state is fit habi-
tation for civilized man. and that our pros
perity is Of the kind that wears.
Syracuse Journal: Lincoln went wet at
the Tuesdays election by about sos ma
jority. Armstrong was elected mayor by
about the same vote and the entire repub-
lican ticket was elected. The trouble with
Malone, the democratic candidate for mayor,
was he was just as strongly in favor of
saloons as Armstrong, but he saw that his
only show was to take the other side.
People do not like this sort Of thing In
politics. People out in the state who have
sons and daughters attending any of the
colleges IN or near the capital city Will
feel sorry to learn that the educational
center of our state has taken this back
ward STEP twenty-five saloons will be
licensed this year.