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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1911)
would lower the price of land without lessening its producitvity, make land more readily accessible, thus relieving the congestion in the cities, thereby in creasing opportunities for the wage earn ers, and increasing the demand for farm products. . Simmered down, actual wealth is based on land in some form or other. And the land that really forms the basis of the great fortunes of this country is not used MAUriN 6-22 .. Gal 2 at all and is, practically, not taxed at all, and the whole burden of taxation thrown upon the shoulders of those who do use the land in such a way as to benefit the whole country. Did the steel trust gobble the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. be cause it wanted to use the ore from the 200,000 acres of mineral lands owned by the absorbed company? Far be it from wealth of minerals could not be used, so! It wanted that 200,000 acres so its Now let us be sensible and make the steel trust pay for holding that mineral out of our reach. Let us make the anthracite trust pay for holding its idle coal lands out of use. When we do that we'll not need any tax on personal property, and the increased revenue from sources that now produce none will be so great that there will be a decrease of taxation on lands that are now used for the benefit of the community. But to get started right on this taxa tion problem, get this one fact firmly fixed in mind: It is not the land that we seek to tax ; it is the value of that land for use and occupancy. BUILDING MACHINES AND MEN Without looking at the signature, I could always tell whether the drawing was made by Schmidt, Reid or S polka ve , the three draughtsmen who did the work for my department. There was an indi viduality about each drawing which was peculiar to the man who had worked out the details. The draughtsman was given the largest liberty in the matter of the general form of the machine which ho was designing, and he had a fine oppor tunity of stamping it with his ideal of just what that finished machine should be like. And yet, every machine that was de signed was constructed upon one or more of these six mechanical principles the lever, the wedge, the screw, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wheel and axle, Never yet was there a successful machine. built unless it was built with these mechanical powers as a basis. In making our life's plans we too are given considerable liberty. Where we shall work and what we shall work at are matters which we generally decide for ourselves. There are exceptions, of course, but, as a usual thing, we have the decision in our own hands. And what ever the work may be, it will always bear the impression of our own personalities. The worker in wood, or iron, or stone, the manipulator of leather or of cloth, no matter what may be one's occupation, somewhere on the job, puts something of himself into it. Every workinkman knows how true this is. The tool-marks are al ways there. But while we are given this liberty and this opportunity of working out our idaes and our ideals, true success can be se cured only as our plans are based upon certain well defined principles. Honor and integrity are the foundation stones of real power, and no man may rob us of these. Men may take away our reputa tions, but our characters are ours forever. Reputation is what others give us. Char acter is what we make for ourselves. If what I have said is true of the ma chine ; if one cannot construct even an en gine without the observance of inexorable law, it is reasonable to suppose that a man can be built haphazard, or of scrap-pile material. What a fool the machinist would be if he went to that scrap-heap in the back yard and fished out of it a cracked cog-wheel and put it into an oth erwise perfect machine? But that is pre cisely what many a man is doing in build ing his character. The cracked cog-wheel may soon send the entire machine to the scrap-pile, but there is no scrap-pile for the human soul. It lives on forever. There are no more significant words in Scripture than those spoken by Jesus, as He pictured the Judgment Day, in the twenty-second chapter of the Revelation. "He that is unrighteous, let him do un righteousness still ; and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still; and he that is holy, let him be made holy still. Behold, I come quickly ; and my re ward is with me to render to each man according as his work is." Rev. Charels Stelzle. A DISGUSTING SITUATION Whle Lincoln was "dry" we heard a lot of anti-saloonists denouncing the "wets" who were keeping up a constant "knocking" and agitation. Today, we have the spectacle of a few "drys" doing more to stir up ill-feeling than all the "wets" put together. The majority has spoken in favor of twenty-five saloons at $2,000 a year each. All this remonstrat ing and injection of technicalities is tending towards two things: It means, if persisted in, unlimited saloons at the minimum license hereafter, as soon as the people can get action. It also means a continuation of the wrangling and bickering that will keep Lincoln in the country village class while less favored cities outstrip her in commercial develop ment. The temperance cause is being given a black eye by a lot of cheap skates seeking either notoriety or fees. The Saturday Evening Post has con ferred a lasting benefit upon suffering humanity by effectually puncturing the Bailey myth. 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