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Show THE CITIZEN 4 that the more commissions we have regulating business, the more it will cost to do that business. No business can long prosper, the owners of which endeavor to gouge the public. Then, why government control of business? Some say that if there was no railroad commission the roads would charge excessive freight rates and passenger rates. This is but an opinion and can be answered best with the question . excessive before Why were not freight rates and passenger rates government control? All business regulates itself. The man who goes into business He may puts in his own money and he plays the game to win. be fortunate and he may be unfortunate, just as some die young and some die old. No one has yet been able to predict their destiny. Poor today and rich tomorrow, or vice versa. No commission can say what it will cost to do business tomorrow. A commission might just as well try to regulate stocks on the board. If a business man buys cheap, he can sell cheap. A railroad can handle a carload of goods consigned to one firm cheaper than it can handle the same car where it must be cut up in small orders and distributed all along the line. Government ownership and government controlled business has never proven satisfactory and it never will. There is nothing at stake and those in the employ of the government are not worried over the other fellows interests. In Europe government owned railroads and telephones have not advanced and give the poorest kind of service. There is no incentive to do otherwise, and those in charge are arrogant and . consider themselves above the public. Where individuals and corporations mutually conspire to victimize the public, the law should cover that class. But government in business has proven a failure and is of a socialistic nature. After all, supply and demand regulates everything and interference only brings forth new complications and experiences, all of which cost money. SOME CLAIM ALL RIGHTS. The driver who does not have automobile accidents is the one who drives his car under control at all times. We have drivers who make the other fellow responsible for all the traffic regulaThe driver who is tions and who has no thought of a passing everybody on the road with never a look to right or left, and hogs the road as it were, driving like a drunken sailor, is the one that gets into trouble. It is miraculous that there are not. more accidents because of the great number of road hogs we have in the comunity, and the law appears to take little cognizance of them. When states begin to bar reckless drivers from their highways, then we will begin to cut down" the accidents, but under our present haphazard system of handling the road hog there is no incentive for them to correct their present reckless and right-of-wa- y. dont care methods in driving. It has been suggested by many that Chief-of-Poli- ce Burbidge ought to fit up a large automobile protected with projecting heavy railroad irons, and then turn the machine over to Sergeant J. H. Warden, traffic officer, and have him teach, by actual demonstration, a host of these reckless drivers and destroyers of human life that there are some still left in this city. In fact, it is beginning to get so that the careful driver has absolutely no rights on the highways and he is continually wearing out extra right-of-wa- ys auto brakes by stopping to give up his y to the dont are drivers who hogs it all. We have people in this city who have driven cars for twenty years and have never had an accident, but these people are continually surrendering their rights to that fool driver who steps on the gas and with his cutout wide open goes down the street like mad. If he happens to hit no one it is because they have been able to get out of his way. A good judge can reduce automobile accidents 50 per cent in one month. There should be no more reason to allow a automobile driver to usurp our highways than there would be to allow a violent crazy man to walk up and down the struts with right-of-wa- life-taki- ng a butcher knife and a spiked club, beating out the brains he could catch and finishing them with his knife. Let us get rid of the blind driver. o KICK HOLE IN TARIFF. None are so blind as those who will not see. This appl nobody more perfectly than to the Democratic free traders, j a hole in the tariff wall, and let the farmers have a chance at markets of the world, was the slogan of two Democrats whoi tended for the partys favor as candidates for the office of Ui States senator from Nebraska. We have no desire to write a platform for either of What will happen to the farmer, if their plan is adopted, is a: question. Prating about the markets of the world is a fixed with the Democrats, who at no time tell what is actually on. If these gentlemen would take a moment of time to up the figures, they would see that for the month of Fel exports from the United States have exceeded imports by j 000,000. We sold in the markets of the world that much mon our products than we purchased. Day by day, all through the y and year after year, the tale goes on, and yet the free tni harp on the single string markets of the world. The United States dominates the markets of the world, sis by holding fast to the best market in the world, that of ourt country. Kick a big enough hole in the tariff wall, and theii farmers of Nebraska will be drowned under a flood of Canal wheat. Through the same hole will come the products of factories of England, France, Belgium and Germany, to supfj the output of American factories. By this simple process the employment problem of Great Britain will be solved. But it be transferred to America. Kick a hole in the tariff wall, and let- - the foreigners put our factory fires, reduce agriculture to a still lower level, set up the Europen standard of living in our own land. ' is what free trade means, and that is what the Democrats qammering for. Omaha Bee. YMI the be se B r let se Sal iug FOREIGN POLICY. it o Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes devoted a targe por of his keynote speech at the New York Republican state cor re La tion to a review and discussion of our foreign policy. Upon: ente said: he subject id The determinative principles of our foreign policy are vi Ud of independence and Independence that does mean and never has meant isolation. that does 23 mean and never has meant alliances or political entanglements there are those among us who wish to involve this country it icie political controversies of Europe, who desire our part in of great war, in defense of our own security and of the caus; ihoi liberty itself, to be made the occasion of the basis of partieije in the intrigues and rivalries of European politics; if there ip to those among us who think that that sort of participation a in the interest of peace and human torn only means of Pea ends, they are, I am sure, in a hopeless minority If there are those who think that, with our vast res ai coc our increasing relative power, our varied contacts an km intimacies, cultural and commercial, we can withdraw into ours ti and that, deaf alike to the appeals of interest and the c 11s o; dpi inanity, we can lead an isolated national life, they are tfie vfc se of an unfortunate delusion. There is the just middle coins national safety, of national honor, of national interest, f fl Pi duty. It is the course of an appropriate a'ligc our traditions and institutions. US t: co-operati- on. Co-operat- ion is co-operat- ion Cl DQS co-operati- on, Dinosaurs and brontatauras are excavated in Utah and be mounted and placed among the antiques at the Unwersi-UtahDinosaur eggs have been bringing $5,000 in tbe J' but so far no nest of eggs has been discovered in Utah. . |