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“While there is Life there's Hope.” AUGUST 11, 191 VOL. LVL. Poblished by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY JA. MivcHMLL, Prete 17 West Thirty-first Street, New Ys T is not quite clear at this writing whether was beaten in the Ne- braska Democratic Convention bb because he insisted on county option, or because he was Mr. Bryan. Not that it mat- ters greatly what the reason was. If he had not been Mr. Bryan he would not have clung so convulsively to county option. It is manifestly his destiny to cling inextricably to some- thing that a serious fraction of his fellow Democrats do not want, and will not vote for on any terms what- ever. So long as the fraction opposed to him was not too big he could hold the leadership of the Democratic part though he could not do anything with it. But on this county option issue which he has insisted in forcing on Democrats not only in his own State but clsewhere, a majority of his party seems to be against him. Not that county option is so bad. It is not nearly so objectionable as State Prohibition, which a majority of the Texas Democrats voted the other day to put into their Constitution. As we see it, the worst of the prohibi- tion devices is State Prohibition by constitutional amendment. Next worst comes State Prohibition by legislative Bryan enactment. Considerably better is county option, and best of all is local option, where each township decides whether or not it will permit liquor selling. The plank Mr. Bryan wanted the Nebraskans to adopt read We favor county option as the method of dealing with the liquor question By a vote of 647 to 195. they re No. 1480 AL MILLER. Sec’y and Treas, “AlLTERM ES fused to adopt it, and in doing so they evicted Mr. Bryan from the leadership of his party in his own State. The Nebraska Republicans like his plank. It is conceivable that the Nebraska Democrats would like it better if Mr. Bryan liked it less. Perhaps it looked to them like a good plank for Mr. Bryan to walk. At any rate, they saw to it that he walked it. Is our old friend out of the game now, do you suppose? His great mis- sion has been to keep the Democratic party out of office until it was time for it to come to office again. He has been a grand Moses, marvelously suited to lead his party around and around in the wilderness, but, of course, when the clock strikes for the Democrats to proceed into the Promised Land, it will have to be under new leadership. R. HARDING seems to have been nominated for Governor of Ohio with the idea that he is a good enough man to run against Judson Harmon. To lead the divided Repub- licans of Ohio against Governor Har- mon is not an undertaking in which large accumulations of political capital would naturally seek investment. Mr. Harding seems not to be a very big political-capitalist. It will do him good to run against Judge Harmon, for he will get advertisement out of it, but it would hardly have done Mr. Long- worth, or even James Garfield, any good. The advertisement would not have helped them. Ohio Republicans seem not to be ready yet for a thor- ough clean up and realignment, and any of them who are now in posses- sion offices which give them satis- factory opportunities for public serv- ice doubtless do well to hang on to what they have got, and let persons who have less to lose experiment with the sentiments of the voters, R. VICTOR MORAWETZ has come back from Europe to say that the depressed state of the security market is due partly to the unsettled state of the laws that concern rail- roads and corporations, but more to the scarcity of free capital, resulting from enormous expenditures of la years in all sorts of construction. He says we really must save up some new capital and keep at it until there is a decent market for bonds and until prices for commodities and labor are lower. That saving in big lumps will be done t the big men—the Rockefellers, Laird of Skibo, the Astors and t like. pull in a little, and presumably "Mr. Morawetz will stoop to s omies himself. But the rest of us must save also. Mr. Morawetz sug. gests that if we all save three dollars a year apiece that will make three hundred millions. Three dollars docs not look like very much, but it must be remembered that saves three dollars in a year must live through that year within his income, and, of course, that is a big job, Re- call, also, that if we all exceed our annual incomes by three dollars it will mean that the country will owe three hundred millions more at the end of the year. So grave in the aggreg: become our small excesses. sounds very sensible. Perhaps even Mr. Morgan ,wi every one who = rejoice to read that Mr, Edison hopes to be able presently to help us in our economies. He talks about his new electric motor that will go as far as any industrious citizen has time to go, and come back and go to the stable with forty miles of energy still coiled up in its stomach. And Mr. Edison aspires, too, to help us with the expense of rubber tires. He has thought of something that he hopes will take the place of rubber and be far less expensive. And other ingenious person, an English we believe, is reported to have thoug out a readjustment of springs wh will save us from the need to use rub ber tires at all. Think on, Mr. T inventors. We these little helps to daily life that you suggest if our incomes are to the year three dollars ahead of and other expenses, comicbooks.com