WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUP1N, Editor
Published Weekly at Lincoln, Nebraska, by The
Wage worker Published Company.
"Entered as second-class matter February 3, 191 1, at the post
office at Lincoln, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879."
If the constitution is such a sacred docu
ment that the people can not amend it at
their pleasure, then the constitution is a bar
to progress.
There are men in Lincoln who would
rather have the waterpower that Kearney
frittered away and lost than to have a
state house "in their midst."
"A Lincoln busiful now ; a Lincoln beau
tiful will come in time." Will Maupin's
Weekly submits this as a good enough cam
paign, slogan for all factions.
There are some of us in Lincoln who are
much more interested in settling some civic
problems than we are in scrapping over an
issue that has no place in politics.
The constant readers of Will Maupin's
Weekly may not gain a great deal of val
uable information, but they will gain' a
whole lot of pleasure at a small cost.
Tom . Pratt says he will not be a candidate
for city clerk because of ill health. The an
nouncement is calculated to- make several
aspirants feel a lot stronger and healthier.
After 'frittering away about $350,000,000
on useless war preparations, congress fill-.
blistered a couple of days over a mere pit
tance of a 'million in the general appropria
tion bill.
However, we are not .eroing to throw so
many fits about Canadian reciprocity that
we are likely to overlook the failure of the
republican party to keep its pledge to re
vise the tariff downward.
We frankly admit that Will Maupin's
Weekly is not the paper of largest circula
tion published in Lincoln. But we are pre
pared to offer convincing proof that it cir
culates among the best class of people.
If legislatures and congresses were really
responsive to the will of the people, and
really provided us with representative gov
ernment, there would be no particular de
mand for the initiative and referendum.
We gather from some of the legislative
debates on the initiative and referendum
bill that a number of the legislators are in
favor of an initiative and referendum law,,
but opposed to a law that will be operative.
The trouble with Mr. Poulson's figures
is thaf they are not correct. The trouble
with Mr. Poulson is that he is constitution
ally unable to realize that the proper time
for his subsidence passed several months
When ex-Governor Taylor fled from Ken
tucky he sought refuge in Indiana. So do
the prominent citizens of Vermillion
county, Illinois, who are afraid of that
grand jury. Indiana ought to take some
thing for it.
General John C. Hartigan of Fairbury, in
remitting his subscription for the best
weekly .newspaper in Nebraska, says he will
help boost the ."circulation, even to .the ex
tent of writin'g poetry for its columns. We
stop the press to announce that one of the
features of Will Maupin's Weekly for . the
next twelve months will be the absence ot
General Hartigan's poetry from its columns.
Now is the time to subscribe.
As between a man who draws his money
from the bank to invest in gold bricks and
the man who sells Nebraska cornland in or
der to get money invest in land eslewhere,
we grant the prize for good sense to the in
vestor in gold bricks.
same issue which the writer of the com
munication sent back from the postoffice
marked "refused." We opine that the cor
respondent is one having a cheek hard
enough to crack walnuts on.
If any of the daughters of our eastern
millionaires friends want to marry real no
blemen Ave recommend to them the sturdy
young bachelor farmers of Nebraska. The
title of "Nebraska Farmer" has got the
title of "lord" or "duke" skinned both ways
from the middle.
For goodness sake, good people, can we
not forget this liquor . problem long enough
to elect the best possible city administration
an administration that will have some
thing better to do than 'to interest itself in
the whisky business?
A London chemist has devised a method
of extracting the alcohol from beer. Beer
with the alcohol left out pf . it would be
about as appetizing as kissing by telephone,
making love by proxy or dining off the
photograph of a square meal.
Chicago policemen made up . a purse of
$100,000 with which to influence the alder
mn to increase police salaries and the
aldermen took the money and did not in
crease the salaries. A Chicago policeman
who would pay a Chicago alderman in ad
vance ought to be bilked and was.
Advice to farmers in Nebraska: Do not
make the mistake of plowing up your win
ter wheat too early in the season. Some
of the best wheat yields reported to the Bu
reau of Labor last fall were from fields
thought to have been "winter killed" about
March 1.
The organization of a "woman's party" is
reported from South -Dakota, tls success
will be continugent upon having two days
for election, the first to be. devoted to see
ing that the new party's hat is on straight.
There came to hand last week a lengthy
communication from a gentleman who
sought to make reply to an article appear
ing in these columns the week before the
Political orators love to talk about
"wrestling Magna Charta from King John'
but Will Maupin's Weekly will wage a
four-dollar dog against a couple of two-dollar
cats that not one in ten of them can tell
what Magna Charta contains nor -what was
sought to be remedied by its provisions.
Nebraska has sixteen millions acres of
fertile soil, untouched by the plow, awaiting
the hands of husbandmen. Every acre of
it good corn, wheat and alfalfa land, and
every acre of it to be had on reasonable
terms. The reason so many fertile acres
are untilled is that Nebraska has acquainted
so few people with the fact that the acres
are here. .
President Taft says he is going1 to insist
upon fining the magazines until he suc
ceeds or until he retires from office. The
magazines will insist that he go out .of of
fice first, and we'll back the magazines to
win.
WHAT THE OFFICE BOY SA YS
A lot o' men air disgusted wid de idea o'
such a heaven as sum narrowminded people
picsher out.
'kicker" and de "knocker." I'm kickm'
'cause de boss wouldn't raise me woiges de
other day, but I ain't onery enough t' go t'
knockin' his business on account uv it.
I reckin de guy y'ot does de best he kin
is entitled to more, credit dan de man who
-Ices more an' don't do near as much as he
kin. .
De feller dat's alius hollerin' about his
right t' swill booze if he wants t' do it is
usually de same feller w'ot is most in need
o' somethin' t' keep him frum makin' a con-
Pa says dat jus' as soon as some guy is
caught doin' crooked woik an' exposed by
de newspapers he begins hollerin' his head
off about "yellow journalism." An' pa
knows.
demned hosr uv hisself.
It's almighty easy f'r de feller dat ain't
never tempted t' keep frum fallin' frum
grace.
I ai'nt a voter yet, but I've noticed dat a
lot o' men are ag'in de enforcin' o' laws dat
dey are in favor ov havin' on de books.
De guys w'ot never do nothin' f'r nobody
f'r nuthin' generally ain't doin' nuthin' f'r
demselves, either.
De puy w'ot is freest in givin' advice is
genrully do .same guy dat keeps his hands
clear down in de bottoms o' his pockets.
De self-made man usually wastes a lot o
valuable time .worshippin' his maker.
De only way a lot uv us kin practice more
economy is t' take our belts up another
notch instead o' eatin' a meal.
rle lives de best life w'ot lives his life de
best he kin. ,
pere's a Jot o' ditfrunee between de
De main trubble wid some ministers is dat
dey fergit dat dey are jus' men.
Thafs What It Is!
Fairbury is about to enter once more into
its annual cat-fight, when the town will be
torn with dissension over the question of
booze or no booze. This question may be
of vital interest to the ones who sell booze,
to those who can not get along through life
without drinking it, and to those who have
worked themselves up into a sort of frenzy
over its evil effects. But to those woo
would like the city built up, who like to
see all the citizens working together for
the t?est interests, of Fairbury, instead of .
dividing on .this . question, it , is simply a ,
blamed nuisance ad no . .less.r-rFair.bury
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