GRAND YOUNG NEBRASKA
Tally one more for Nebraska! It lias
scored another first in the great game of
production. Here are some of the
"firsts" that Nebraska has scored here
tof ore :
It is first in corn production in that it
produces more corn to the acre than any
other state. And it is the fourth largest
corn producing state, and the youngest of
the four.
It is first in wheat production in that
it produces more wheat to the acre than
any other state. And it is the fourth
largest wheat producing state, and the
youngest of the four.
It is the first irt oats production in that
it produces more oats to the acre than
any other state. And it is the third
largest oats producing state, and the
youngest of the four.
It packs more hogs, cattle and sheep
per capita than any other state. It is
the third largest packing state, and the
youngest of the three.
It is first in the production of butter
per capita. And it is the fourth largest
butter producing state, and the youngest
of the four. It has the largest cream
ery company in the world and the larg
est butter market in the world.
Now all this would seem to be about
glory enough for one state. I Jut it is
not glory enough for Nebraska. She
just had to step in and carry off another
"first."
The census of 1910 shows that Ne
braska is first in the point of percentage
of increase on returns for capital in
vested. For example. While a dollar in Mis
souri was making a return of 30 cents
with the dollar, and a dollar in Kansas
dollar, a dollar invested in Nebraska wTas
was making a return of 50 cents with the
making a return of $2.35 with the dollar.
Can you beat it?
It all goes to show that there is no
better field for investment right now,
or any other time, than Nebraska. And
the field is not restricted. Invest in
sdo.ro saSSjq air) di?oj pur? spuu urjur
known to agricultural life. Invest in
manufacturing enterprises and reap bet
ter returns than can be shown by any
other state.
"Uarbara Fretchie" is familiar to
every man, woman and child who has at
tended the public schools of America
since 1865. Do you remember it?
"Up from the meadows rich Avith corn;
Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand,
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
'Round about her orchards sweep,
Apple and peach tree fruited deep.
Fair as the Garden of the Lord "
What would John Greenleaf Whitticr
have said had he been privileged to see
Nebraska in her glory, as she will be in
another month, with her millions of
acres of waving corn, her millions of
acres of billowing wheat and oats and
rye, her lucious fields of alfafa, her or
chards bending beneath the weight of a
coming harvest of fruit, and her millions
of lowing kine and prancing horses and
thriving porkers?
Does the poet want inspiration for v.
description of the Garden of Eden as it
appeared to Father Adam and Mother
Eve? Let him come to Nebraska early
in June. What painter ever lived who
could reproduce the colors of Nebraska's
fields, the tints of Nebraska's summer
skies, or the gorgeous gleams of her sum
mer sunsets?
First in her returns for the toil of the
husbandman.
First in her returns for the enterprise
and industry of her manufacturers.
First in her returns of health and hap
piness to her citizens.
First in education.
First in everything that is calculated
to make life worth living.
That is glorious young Nebraska!
And it is now the duty of her loyal sons
and daughters to make the facts about
Nebraska known to all the world.
THE ECCENTRICITIES OF THE LEGAL TEETER-BOARD
When Big Business is accused of
bribing law makers, the legal teeter
board goes up, peradventure, at one end.
The writ of habeas corpus to test the
lawfulness of imprisonment, is then a
sacred writ of right so sacred that it
may be got even in anticipation of ar
rest. Supplemented with appeals and
other dilatory proceedings, the "lo'ig
arm" and "strong arm" of the Law is
thereby paralyzed until Big Business
"makes its get-away." But when Labor
is accused by Big Business of perpetrat
ing dynamite outrages, the legal teeter
board may go up at the other end. T..e
writ of habeas corpus thereupon be
comes in Law an antique formality, more
honored in the breach than in the observ
ance. Accused persons can then be kid
naped for trial to some distant place
where juries may be the more easily
packed by Big Business hangers-on.
When Big Business is suspected of
having incriminatory documents con
cealed in safes, up may go the legal teeter-teeter
board at the first end again, ai;d
those safes of Big Business are castles of
adamant which the Law must respect as
submissively as if its "long arm" and
arm" were neither long nor
But when Labor is suspected by
Big Business of having incriminatory
documents concealed in safes, up may go
the legal teeter-board at the other end
once more, and the safes of suspected La-
"strong
strong.
bor are as pasteboard boxes which any
hireling of Big Business may open with
impunity. He may do this even undir
the blinking eye of the Law, and possibly
with friendly though illegitimate
caresses from its fabled long arm and
strong.
Is it strange, then, that Labor is losing
respect for Law? Is the Socialist outc j
for Labor-class law and administrators
of lawr such a very far crv,Avhen Big Busi
ness classes are so manifestly in control
as the legal teeter-board indicates? Wi i
that Socialist cry go unheard much long
er" by the great body of Laboi if the legal
teeter-board keeps on teetering as it
teeters nowadays? Wouldn't it indeed be
better for all avIio live in the sweat of
their own faces, for the Law's teeter
board to have a Labor teeter instead of a
Big Business teeter if it must have an
teeter at all?
"Ah," says the Fool; "you forget that
the dynamite outrage of which Labor i
accused killed 21 persons, but the Big
Business bribery killed nobody." O, thou
Fool! Is that any reason why the guar
antee of the Lawr for the protection of in
nocence should be sacred in favor of Big
Business and unconsidered trifles when
Labor invokes them : If it is, then nmT .
you this: for every homicide that can be
justly, charged to Labor outrages with
dynamite, the blood of thousands is ju t
ly chargeable to legislative bribery by Big
Business. If John J. McNamara the
Labor official, and Edward Tilden the
Big Business exploiter, were equally
guilty of that Avherewith they are respv
tively accused and the guilt of neither
has yet been proved. Tilden would be tir
more dangerous criminal of the two. To
have taken 21 human lives in the blow
ing up of a building for vengeance, is in
deed an awful crime; but systematically
to stunt childhood, to distort woman
hood, to brutalize manhood, to spread
desolation and untimely death broadca ,
and to that end to deliberately poison the
streams of republican government by leg
islative bribery, and all "for money the "e
is in it," is a crime unconscionable and
humanely almost unpardonable. Louis
F. Post in Chicago Public.
KISMET.
We have laughed because the coal man
Has been sad and ill at ease,
For the winter has been pleasant
And Ave didn't need to freeze.
But, alas, this thought steals o'er me
When the south Avinds breathes of spice,
That the ice man will sure soak us
In the summer for our ice.
SPRING.
Glad spring is here! My heart is light,
My spirit gay and glad,
Methinks I'll sit me -down and write
A sarsaparilla ad.
