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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1911)
WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY THE WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUP1N, Editor Published Weekly at Lincoln, Nebraska, by The Wageworker 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." ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR Mr. lloosevelt may not be a candidate, but Teddy will not dodge.' Champ Clark of Missouri gives evi dence of not wasting valuable speaker ing time in presidenting chases. This is the time when almost any man may have his name mentioned in connec tion with a presidential nomination. We gather from the decision in the Standard Oil case that the oil trust may do fractionally what it must not do as a whole. Judge Wright of the District of Co lumbia seems to belong to the "stiff necked generation" mentioned in Holy Writ. The supreme court of the United States seems to have fallen into the per nicious habit of enacting laws from the bench. "Nothing to say," declare the officials of the oil trust. It isn't what they say that hurts; it's what they do when they take a notion. Nebraska's 1911 corn crop is not yet assured, but the alfalfa crop looks good enough already to relieve us of any fears about a failure of the corn. Let us all hope that President Leon hardt's gavel and Councilman Pratt's voice will not collide at some congested street intersection and obstruct traffic. We'll be a convert to the "noiseless Fourth" reformation just as soon as we are shown a boysless Fourth. We are just boy enough yet to love to take a hand in shattering the atmosphere on In dependence day, and we do not expect to live long enough to outgrow it. "The supreme court's decision pleases everybody," declares an esteemed con temporary. Including the Standard Oil magnates, who are the most pleased of all. Nebraska will again have wheat to sell this year. And the tariff on wheat will not add a penny a million bushels to the price received by the farmer who raises it. Today the state of Nebraska Avill judi cially murder a man because he com mitted murder. Some of these-days Ne braska will progress beyond the stage of legal murder.. The Lincoln excise board has put a quietus on the expectations of those gen tlemen who imagined, that a "wet" vic tory was going to mean for them unre stricted license. As .we use electricity at our house we have no hesitancy in saying that the oil trust is just mean enough and still pow erful enough to get back at the public by raising the price. Presumably the Board of Public Lands and Buildings will bear in mind that the new agricultural school is in tended to develop agriculture, not to boom any one town. . The bugologist who prophesied a re turn of the grasshoppers this year has gone into retreat along with the freezo logist who declared .that the fruit crop was fatally forstbitten. . To Democratic Congressmen : Don't try to pull the wool over our eyes. We voted for a radical reduction of the tariff, and we want the reductions made where they will confer the greatest bene fits upon the largest number. T'ell with the revenue we wrant free wool. Uncle Sam can stand it to run short on revenue for a while till things right themselves. A few million of us have been running short on revenue for years, and we still survive. OMITTED BY OVERSIGHT Last week's issue of Will Maupin's Weekly was the first in many months which did not contain the advertisement of the American Savings Bank. The omission was due entirely to the artist who officiated in the- make-up of the paper. The advertisement was written, set up, proof read and put upon the im posing stone ready to the make-up's hand. He forgot it in the rushing of the closing forms. In this wise Will Maupin's Week ly of last week failed to contain the ad vertisement of one of the soundest sav ings institutions in the west, an institu tion that has behind it a record of ten. years of successful business. During that ten years, and a bit more, it has loaned thousands of dollars that have been largely expended in building homes in Lincoln. It has paid out thousands of dollars in interest to its depositors, thus cultivating the saving habit and contrib uting to the weltare of its hundreds of customers. And in that decade the American Savings Bank has not lost a dollar by reason of bad loans, nor has it been forced to foreclose a single mortgage in order to protect itself and its deposi tors. This is a remarkable record. In a couple or three weeks this institution will move into its new quarters on South Eleventh street. The new home wull be handsomely fitted up and show by its appearance that the institution is pros perous. NEBRAKA PRESS ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the Nebraska Press Association will be held in Omaha on June 5, 6 and 7. Omaha is getting ready to show the editors and their wives the time of their lives. There will be plenty of the intellectual, a plenty of discussion of ways and means, but there will be no lack of social pleasures. In times gone by the editor of this paper has had some part in entertaining the asso ciation in Omaha, and he knows that Omaha can and will more than "make good." This year's association meeting is going to break all records socially, numerically, financially and intellectual ly. The Nebraska editor Who can get away long enough to attend the conven tion, and then fails to do so, is false to himself and to his state. If alive and able to travel, the editor of Will Mau pin's Weekly will be at the convention, even if he has to lock up shop and skip an issue. And the missus is going along. Come on, boys ! - You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make soinetliV.g. Too many men are bulls in the bnsi . ness and; bears at home. : , .' - V One of the truly harrowing political spectacles of today is that of Governor Marshall trying to revive a presidential boomlet pricked by himself. When a few violators of the Sherman anti-trust law are thrown into jail we will begin to believe that the laws are made alike for rich and poor. That peculiarly pleasing music you . bear during the livelong day is only the rythmic sound of Nebraska alfalfa grow ing at a record-breaking pace. Anyhow, Mayor Armstrong's attempt, at stopping the treating evil will afford a lot of fellows an excuse for not taking their turn at paying the barkeeper. Governor Wilson declares that he has not even given a thought to the presi dency. Tut, tut, governor! The only man devoid of ambition died something like two thousand years ago. Justice Harlan appears to be about the only federal judge in sight who holds to the old-fashioned doctrine that courts are formed for the purpose of interpret ing law, not for the purpose of enacting law. The Nebraskan avIio goes to Europe to see pretty country at this time of the year ought to have his head bored for the simples. There is no prettier coun try in the world than Nebraska in the spring and summer.