WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
Published Weekly at Lincoln, Nebraska, by The
Wageworker Published Company.
"Entered as second-class matter February 3, 1911, at the post
office at Lincoln, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879."
SHORT ARM JOLTS
Now .they arc talking about establishing
the rubber industry in Texas. . Senator Aid
rich doubtless casting an anchor to windward.
Yc have it from eminently respectable
authority that the fruit buds "that have been
killed by untimely cold this spring will not
bear fruit during the coming summer.
It seems that the interstate commerce
commission is not inclined to look with favor
upon the proposition to let the railway man
agers mulct the public to make good mis
takes in railway management.
The French cabinet has resigned in a
body. There is a foreign idea in govern
ment that would look well engrafted upon
our system right about now.
The New York editor who wants Champ
Clark to quit joking must be so serious
minded as to be a nuisance to himself.
Champ Clark deprived of his humorous pay
streak wouldn't be worth panning out. As
it is he is a wonderful force in American
political life.
Astronomers have just found a new star
in the milky way. Ore is liable to-find al
most anything but cream in the milk' these
davs.
The United States senate has again de
feated the proposition to submit a constitu
tional amendment allowing the direct elec
tion of senators. If the people rule why'n
thunder don't they get what they want?
If. the august senate will not allow us to
elect its membership as we sec fit, suppose
we proceed to abolish the honorable body?
If you want to know why direct elec
tion of senators was defeated in the United
States senate, just read the names of sena
tors voting against it and then probe into
their relations with certain big industrial
and financial institutions.
Carter Harrison has once more been
nominated for -mayor, by the democrats oi
Chicago. As mavor, Carter Harrison was
better than most, but better could have been
elected.
Police Judge P:sser goes to the trouble
of showing that Air. Poulson's Lincoln sta
tistics are wrong. Tt is all ritrht to have
judicial decision upon the matter, but every
body knows that the Poulson statistics were
Poulsonized before being given to the public.
The esteemed Journal is now throwing
some fragrant bouquets at William H.
Thompson of Grand Island. This is much
better than throwing forged railroad passes
at him through the same columns.
If Mr. Armstrong's nominal connection
with the gas company is any reason why he
should not be elected mayor, then is not the
-fact that the Journal Company's connection
with the Traction Company sufficient rea
son why the voters should refuse to take its
advice-on municipal affairs?
Two things Nebraska needs, yea, three:
A publicity department, a revision of our
banking laws so as to permit of the organi
zation of big trust companies to finance big
operations, and thorough revision of our
revenue laws.
One need not have a peculiarly well de
veloped sense of humor to see some funny
things in the present municipal campaign.
Advice for local campaign use: "Keep
cool ; keep sweet.". .
There should be no objection to increased
salaries for Lincoln city officials, provided,
always, the officials elected earn the money.
You never think of going to a bank on
Sunday to transact business, and you know
better than to look for a shave in a barber
shop on Sunday. Why, then, demand that
the postoffice be kept open? Give the post
office clerks a chance !
The newspaper that is warning us against
a man once connected with an ice company
and another nominally connected with a gab
company, is controlled, editorially and finan
cially by men having immense holdings in a
street railway company. Funny old world,
this.
The last senate that refused to let the
people rule will die the death at midnight
Saturday night. That's the best thing that
could happen to such a senate.
.More than a thousand bills have been in
troduced into the legislature. While mem
bers are drawing bills they are, at least, not
engaged in doing something worse. Let us
rejoice over the multiplicity of bills.
We greatly fear that some of our insur
gent republican friends are insurging: mere
ly, for billboard purposes.
Some Funny Situations
: There is really no reason why we should
take the municipal campaign too seriously.
There are plenty of humorous situations in
connection therewith to lighten the gloom
and relieve all of us of the idea that our
business and industrial welfare depends
wholly upon the outcome. Time and space
fo"bids an enumeration of the humorous fea
tures in detail, but there is one deserivng
of especial mention.
The newspaper most given to advising
us how to conduct municipal affairs and
selecting for us our city officials, is very
much worked up over the fact that a promi
nent rnd puccsr.ful business man who is
nominally connected with a public service
corporation, s a candidate for mayor. Tt
sees a crave danger menacing the nublie in
this situation. Its concern is really won
derful, almost to the point of being pathetic.
So far nothing humorous develops. Put
pause a moment.
The newspaper thus concerned lest a
man connected with a public service cor
poration be elected mayor, is edited and
controlled by gentlemen who are among the
largest stockholders in another and greater
public service corporation. Material for a
comic opera there.
We must not elect a stockholder in a
public service corporation to municipal of
fice, but we should be quite willing, yea
anx.'ous, to accept advice as to how best con
duct our municipal affairs from other gentle
men who are much larger stockholders in a
larger public service corporation. Just pon
der over that for a minute or two, then take
time for a real hearty laugh.
Chief Malone.
The Daily Journal pays a deserved com
pliment to Chief of Police Malone, without
in the least trying to gloss over some of
his shortcomings. Chief Malone has made
best police chief the city of Lincoln ever
h?.d, despite the fact that he has been handi
capped in many ways, both by local condi
tions and his own temperament. Lincoln's
police force is so small as to be almost ridic
ulous, yet Chief Malone has whipped it into
shape, and today it really bears a striking
resemblance to a police force, despite its
smallness. It is disciplined, it does some
thing more than saunter around limited
beats, and it performs its work methodi
cally. Having been connected with "the
police force for many years, and longest in
the capacity of chief detective, it is onfjr
natural that Chief Malone should have
many, enemies. But the enemies he' lias
merely advertise his efficiency. The doubts
that existed when he Was put in charge of
the force have all been swept away. The
whole city is ' hoping that the chief will
speedily be restored to health and permit
ted to resume active duty.
Submit the Proposition.
It is to be hoped that Councilman Meier's
proposition to-submit the 'question of issuing
$50,000 of park bonds will find favor. Give
us a chance to vote for an issue of park
bonds without loading us up writh a lot of
other propositions of a similar nature. After
we have settled one bond proposition, we
can take up another one for settlement. Lin
coln ought to have a magnificent park sys
tem, and the only way to get it is to vote
bonds. Fifty .thousand dollars is little
enough to start with, but it will be a start.
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