The Lincoln Herald from Lincoln, Nebraska • 1

INCO HERALD Established Thirty-two years. To the Produoer Belongs the Product All That We Produces. VOLUME 33, NUMBER 17. LINCOLN, NEBRSKA, FRIDAY, FEI5RUARV 14, 1019. ONE DOLLAR PEE YEAR THE LN STORY OF A DOG What do you think of a person who will get down to the low depths of becoming a dog thief? Don't you think it is bordering close on to degeneracy? But perhaps you have never had a nice, intelligent, devoted dog to which you had become somewhat attached or wjiich some of your children had become very' much in love with and so you perhaps never gave the matter any thought.

To my mind a horse thief or a chicken thief is a prince, an ideal citizen in comparison to a dog thief. There is economic value to a horse or a chicken, but the dog, while he may be priceless, has no special value, lie is a pet, or. a defender, or a companion and you would almost as soon think of parting with one of the family as to give up your dog. A few days ago some degenerate in human form picked up my white bull dog on the street near the Herald office and took him He must have roped him, or put him in a conveyance and kept him lied or penned or he could not have gotten him away and kept him. The dog was a favorite with my late lamented son.

Leon, and I was S'tc ping him largely because the boy thought so much of him. was intelligent, playful, kind and faithful lie was like his lamented tcr friendly with everybody, Iked everybody and everybody i him, who like dogs al all. We have often refused good prices hint bcev.use he was not for sale. lie was one of the household, since he was stolen I have miiflUd him very much. I miss so much that I offer a reward of $25- $5 for the return of the dog and $20 for lUe arrest and of the thief, Someone has said, "The more I sec of some men the more I like dogs." I can heartily endorse that sentiment.

Doubtless the author of that expression had dog thives in mind when he made it. Anyhow, it will apply very appropriately to that class of animals in human l.rm. "Pudge," that was the dog's name, was snow white, not a spot on him, a bright, intelligent face, stump tail and unusually smart. He was that bright and intelligent that I have often said that about all be lacked of being human Avas the power of speech. "Puge" was well bred and well reared and it is really too bad that such a respectable dog should be condemned to association and companionship of a dog thief.

In the interest of humanity and doganity, I trust all our readers and friends will lend us their assistance in recovering the dog and rescuing him from the degenerate and baneful influence and association of the dog thief. on the subject of does I am rcmidded REAVIS FERN1NST A BIG NAVY. A Washington disptttrh pf theltlh says: Hpeuking in opposition tu a rule making in order legislation authorizing a large naval expansion, Kiwis told tho house today that while ho had always favored a navy, ttii program was not a program that hulked toward a perpetual peace, but one IooUiik to a contest lietweeii Dnglund mid America as to which nhould be the muMt warlike nation of gen, and that l.e wns opposed to it. "It is something Absolutely out of hnr-mony with tho avowed purpose of the United Slates when it entered this contest," said Mr. Itenvis, "and out of harmony with the wishes of the people of America wlt-n the content wifo concluded.

We are asked to this program upon a cuhlegrnn "spoken of in hushed terms, whispered among the few permitted to see it, not cablegram that gives tho facts. Before I would be willing to authorize a program that taxes every individual in America I want to know th facts that justify it, "I wish the president would come home. I have never been very with his league of nations. I do not believe the greatest navy in the world is essential to American life. I do believe wu should have h-ss of dreams and moro of good common horse sense in the administration of the affairs of this country.

We should clone up the war nd I do not believe that before we have done that wa should be consuming our energy and time and rivaling tremendous expenses preparing for a war with nn ally rather than closing up a peneo with an enemy." Mr. Reavis sounds the sentiment of a great majority of the western people who are for disarmament ns fur r.s possible, and eventually complete disarmament; The world has no vhci for great navies hnceforth, much less America. ANNOUNCEMENT. After this issue, commencing Monday the ICth, tho Herald will be operated on iomewhat of a different basis from its present form. The institution will be incorporated in tho sum of $10,000 and Mr Rulph 8.

Smith will be associated in the management and operation of tho bus-ness. Mr. Smith is an old Lincoln boy, reared in this community and hat had 15 years exiwrienco in tho printing game, nearly nil that timo with the State Journal, lie is an industrious, energetic young man and is going to take place with the Herald of our lamented son, Leon, and from our acquaintance with Ralph he will do a good job of it. We recommend Lim to all the friends and patrons of the Herald and trust thuy will receive him with the same cordiality and consideration they always received Leon. Mr.

Smith has an est imablo family, a cosy litle home and is now in the printing game for all there is to it. I have taken another boy to raise, so to speak. Rulph is well raised, all right, but I hope with my long years of experience in the printing and publishing game to be of some material benefit tohim in his battle fo success. Mr. Smith is trustworthy and reliable and his principal aim in life is to give everybody a square deal, a principle that yields the largest dividends of any human charactristic.

The Herald will be run in the future on its old independent, free lance, square deal policy. It will, devote its best energies to interests of the toilers, the producers of the world's wealth; for the greatest good to the greatest number, as it always has been and will ever have its hammer out for the exploiters of the producers and consumers and will devote its best efforts toward putting special privilege where it belongs in the discard. The Herald is one of the best equipped printing plants in the cit, capable of handling $25,000 or moro of business a year as it now stands and is prepared to do all kinds of commercial and a reasonable amount of book printing. We can supply your wants in the printing lino in anything; For the past nearly three months, since the passing of Leon, I have BRING THE BOYS HOME From every part of our own land and from every part of Canada the cry goes up: '-'Bring the boys home." The war they engaged in is over and done. They must not be used as pawns for the designing money and territory grabbers of Europe.

They have done their work; they have suffered enough; they are all democrats who fought 'to make the end of ar and who believe in self-determination of peoples. They are too good to be compelled to do the dirty work which powerful interests want done in Europe. Bring them home from Siberia. After all our vast pretensions there, our boys are now Forced to maintain a new czar who has overthrown the elected representatives of the people, who is turning over to the firing squad the soldiers and common people who refuse to fight against their own kind in his behalf, who has restored the manufacture of vodka to raise revenue and to besot the people that he may better exploit them. It is as foul a mess as the earth has brewed.

Get our boys out of it. Bring them home from Archangel. There again, after months of "establishing democracy," there is no government but Captain Millo" of the British army. AVithout much hope of relief there our boys ai in danger of blind wrath of an outraged people. Get decent Americans out of it at once.

Bring them home from France. Their wrok there is done. An idle army is a burden to any country, even if it is friendly. Let us not burden France with it. Let us do nothing to disturb the very friendly feeling now existing between us and the French people.

It is not the duty of our boys to prop up governments which otherwise would fall of their ow weight. Bring the boys home home from Siberia, Archangel, France, Germany, England, Ireland. They may be very useful in all these places to designing monarchists and plutocrats, but their place is home. Let us have no more lying excuses. Just bring them home.

o- REGULATION A FAILURE After more than 30 years of falure, failure so prominent as to be grotesque some people who set themselves up as leaders, are stll demanding government regulation of monopolies. A prominent farm weekly, for instance, says editorially: "For economy of operation and for service private ownership publicly supervised and with competition seems much more desirable than any scheme of public ownership." This paper cites the recent experience ith government control of railroads as proof of the economy and service of private ownership. It fails to show where government control has been less efficient than the continuance of the preceding private control-would have been. But granting that point, nothing is proved against government- ownership, for we haven't had it. Our central government for many years has been nothing more than a' general committee of the special interests, thanks to the unworkable policy of regulation.

Those to be regulated seized the political power anJ have been going through the farce "of regulating themselves. And this "committee" of the special interests could not be expected to manage the railroads to the best interests of the public. Real government ownership is possible only when those who believe in it drive out the old politicians as the farmers of North Dakota have. Note also that the farm paper whose opinion is quoted says "with competition." The restoring of competition in a monopoly is impossible. late J.

P. Morgan was right when he told the quack reformers that "it is impossible to unscramble scrambled eggs." The Standard Oil company, for instance, was "broken up" several years ago, but its monopoly is stronger than ever. In the SO's the farmers of the-west started the campaign wrhieh led to regulation, and they were bitterly fought by same people who now demand regulation, which has failed, instead of government ownership. Now these same farmers are foremost in the fight for government ownership of monopoly. They have realized that the way to get rid of the weed pf monopoly is to root it out and not to have the weeds nicely trimmed by weed specialists.

of Lord Byron's eulogy of his dog and the epitaph he had inscribed on the dog tomb stone. Here it is: EXEMPTION BILL KILLED? The poor man was handed package by the judiciary commit to of tho senate, had a hard jtrugglo. Almost single hand ed and alone I have handled the business Friday when the bill providing for raising the homestead exemption from $2,000 to $5,000 was recommended for indefinite of the Herald, labor day and night, have turned" out considerable work, our patrons have been indulgent and kind, for all of which I am very thankful and appreci: ative. In the future we expect to ren postponement. The present homestead exemption con der prompt and efficient service and so-1 sists of 160 acres of land or two citv lots some proud son onii turret urns to earth-, Unknown tft-glorjy-exccpt by The sculptor's art exhautds the pomp of woo And storied urns' record who rest below; -Wlem all is done upon tht tomb is seen, Not what he was, but he should have been; the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, bretlhs for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Ponied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While, man, vain insect 1 hopes to be forgiven And claims himself a sole exclusive htaven.

0 man 1 thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee wvll must quit thee in disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit! By nature vile, ennobltd but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame, Ye! ho jwrchanee behold this simple urn, Pass on it honours none you wish to mourn To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; 1 never knew but one and here he lies. This monument is still a conspicuous ornament the garden of Xcwstcad. The following is the inscription by which the verses tire preceded: "Kftir this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity and the virtues of man without his praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog, who was born in Newfoundland, May 1803 and died at Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808." licit the patronage of all desiring any and appurtenances, not to exceed in value thing in the printing line. Good servieaj $2,000. At the time of its enactment 40 and reasonable prices.

years ago or so the average quarter sec tion of land with fair improvements did exceed that sum. The best lands in the MORE WAR NEWS. There is still something doing in Saun- state could be purchased as low as $5 or $10 an acre and a modest home could l.e ers couuty to keep the people up there erected for $500. Today the same land from rusting out. Any old time the folks of that county cannot find some values at $100 to $150 an acre.

A farm worth $2,000 docs not exist in this state except in the Dlow ouls of the sand hills where no man could make a Ihing for thing interesting in public affairs it is little use for others to try. It will be remembered by Herald readers that they himslf and family. And it is not any recently had some difficulty about settling up affairs with a bridge company better with respoct to town properties, for $2,000 would not much more than purchase the lot and lay the foundation for the house. just before the old board of commissioners gave way to the new board elected last fall. The bridge company claims The purpose of the homestead exemp tion is to give tho head of a family an average price home iu which to live and OVERTURNING THE WAR GOD There never was a time in world history when the people of the several nations were so near each other or so much alike as now.

The steamship, the telegraph, the cable, the wireless, the immense international trade and travel make Germans. Italians, French, English, Americans very-near neighbors. They are near neighbors in thought rnd action too. Their music, science, religion even their general amusements pass from one to the other without difficulty. -'Why then a nationalism which would exclude favorable consideration of any one oi these neighbor nations? We have just had a terrible war, the origins pf which were the intense rivalries of big special privilege groups organized along national lines and using their nitions to further their own designs.

Shall we learn from this bitter xperience the lesson of bringing the peopi of the many nations closer together that they may the better restrain their special privilege plotters? Or shall we let the tools of specif! privilege develop in our midst strong nationalistic prejudices which can be used to force us into more wars? The time to prepare against another war is now and not when special privilege has the powder laid. If we are eternally sick of war, we will keep national prejudices out of our schools, churches, homes; will strike hard at at fawning, flattering militarism and jingoism we will strike at the roots, of special privilege that there may be none to profit from promoting foreign wars. And doing these things we will not only avoid international slaughter -of human beings, but we add greatly to our prosperity and culture. We have, much to learn from foreign peoples, as they have fi'Om us. the county owes thcra over $100,000 for bridge work and supplies.

Citizens of the county are inclined to question the justness of the claim. The commissioners claim they cannot pay it now anyway as they have not sufficient funds. The pushers of the claim had a bill introduced in the legislature on the last day have the same free from execution or forcd sale. The homestead is one of our most sacred institutions. It is the foun-dtion of society and it should be exempt from debt to the value of a reasonable, average home of the present day and not of forty years ago.

It is expected that big business and collection agencies will oppose raising the Byron was sort of a cynic, which Accounts for his severe criticism of mankind. In his time, men may have been entitled to such criticism, but that will not apply today. Mankind in general is good and true; they may have evolved to a higher plane since Byron wrote that epitaph for his dog. A great author once said. "The evil men do lives after them; the good is often interred with their bones." That may have been true in Shakespeare's time, but it does not apply to day.

The reverse is true the good men do lives after the evil interred with their bones, i Possibly Byron had dog thieves in mind when he wrote that scathing criticism of man. Arid horse thieves, chicken thieves, bootleggers, rapists and other minor offenders. Anyhow, the dog thief stands out as a shining example of degeneracy. The business men and commercial club of this city are trying to figure out a way to straighten out fche "unemployment situation that now seems to be threatening the city. They want to start a building for introducing bills, the purpose of which bill is to validate those claims, give the commissioners power to make a special levy to pay them and make it mandatory on the commissioners to do so.

The pushers, of the job could not get either of the Saunders county representatives to introduce the bill, but they got exemjtion but the common peoplo will not. it introduced all right, and now the wide awake citizens of Wahoo and vicinity have their war paint on again and are out with tomahawks and snickersnee for that bill and its backers. If the bill ever comes up for hearing we may look for the They will take the broad view that the homestead, if it is to be exempted nt all should be exempted in spirit with the modern standard of living. The senate committee made a serious blunder in reporting that bill for indefinite postponement. The laboring man, the little home owner is the one above all others that needs protection in the struggle for existence that now faces the great majority of people and this legislature will make a mistake if it turns the cold shoulder.

The bill referred is strong of merit and should not be unceremoniously knocked in the head. Here is a good chance for this legislature to demonstrate whether it is for the great common people or whether it is for the sharks and profiteers. and public improvement program to furnish work for the idle. It is a good move and the Herald hopes they will be able to mature plans that will solve the problem. Give the idle work and give the city and county improvements that are much needed and that will come in play for future conveniences fcnd enjoyment.

If they could only induce population of Saunders county to be The farmers and workers of Ontario, Canada, have slapped the ace of official tyranny in a way deserving of imitation. Arthur Skid more, a labor leader, was arrested for the "crime" of having a copy of a suppressed paper in his pocket and sentenced to two months and $500 fine. The answer of the voters was to nominate him for the pub-lie utilities commission. Thoroughly scared, the reactionaries released him and cancelled the fine. The autocrats can't stand the guff when they see the people mean business.

down here enmasse to camp on the trail The number of the bill 433 and we would advise our Saunders county readers to the government to furnish some cheap money to do the public improv ing with it would be that much the better as then there would be no cut this article out and paste it in their hat so that they will not overlook a good bet. leaving a big bonded debt for posterity to wrestle with. The interest burden of thisyorld is something enormous and if we do not find a way to lighten "it or break it down, one of these days, and that not far away, it is going to break us down. We all are hoping the movement to end unemployment will succeed, one way or another as the no work question is becoming very serious all over the nation, and people long idle become a dangerous people in time, to say nothing of That thought, "We must do something for labor or the bolshevikl will be upon us," which runs through- all the rene tionary speeches these days days implies A few labor leaders of the Gompers brand are setting their faces Hgainst independent politics for labor on the ground that labor can get more by the old policy of working with the gang politicians. We Vight note for their benefit that after years of such tactics they have a postmaster general who will not recognize a union, a system of court justice which will allow frame-ups against union men and which will not punish criminal acts against them such as the Bisbee deportations, rnd barely a dozen men in congress who will stand for their interests in big issues.

If this is all they can get with the boasted trailing of tne old parties, labor hasn't anything to lose and much to gain by direct opposition to the special interests. Half of the dozen rpal congressmen mentioned, we might add- were sent to the capitol by the farmers and workers organizations of the northwest. that we hnve been giving labor the worst The snow storm of Thursday is the biggest Nebraska has seen in years. All trains were tied up for hours and traffic in general stood still for 24 hours. 'Cattle suffered greatly on the ranges and considerable loss is feared.

the suffering that idleness entails. of it in the past and that labor is waking up to its wrongs. Now they are anxious to dole out some sop. It is evident that A civilization is possible in which the poorest could have all the comforts and conveniences now enjoyed by the rich in which prisons and almshouses would be needless and charitable societies unthought the only thing that will move the "high minded, people-serving" statesmen is a ot. cMich a civilization waits only for the social intelligence that will ndapt means to ends.

-Henry George. 8end us in for a year's sub to the raid, the people's paper. poke in the face. 0 4.