SOME REAL SPORTING DOPESTUFF
Our "Field Day" stunt is going to be
all to the merry. We were assured of this
from the moment we turned our Mr. Des
pain loose on the job of pulling' it off. lie
has arranged for something different in
the line of field day sports, and the pro
gram will be one calculated to appeal to
every fan and fairness within a radius of
'steen or sleven miles. The sight of our
Antelopes dusting off the sodded dia
mond with the forms of nine brawny ath
letes selected from the other seven teams
in the Western hoop will be worth trav
eling a long spell of distance to see.
Candor compels the statement that our
Antelopes have of late been disporting
themselves in a way not calculated to in
spire the writer to dissertations upon the
national pastime. Either they have mis
laid their horseshoes or some of the other
teams have jinxed 'em. We are hoping
for better things right along, but there is
a limit to our optimism. We would like
to see a spell of light, even for a few minutes.
Now they are telling us that Omaha is
sore on Pa Iiourke, and that Pa will have
to go or else take a dose of the treatment
accorded to Iliggins by Des Moines. The
fact of the matter is Iiourke has given
Omaha better baseball than Omaha's sup
port warrants. Omaha fans ore a lot of
"yellows." Give them a winning team
and they'll root to beat the band. But let
a series of defeats come along and they
quit cold. The idea of helping to build
up a winning team by generous support
financially and hearty support as "root
ers" never percolated through the heads
of the Omaha fans. Everything consid
ered, Omaha is the poorest baseball town
in the western loop. Every time an Om
aha sporting writer talks about Omaha
getting into a higher class league we just
lean .back in our easy chair and laugh.
The State League season closed last
Wednesday with Superior flaunting the
pennant. Fremont was second, two games
behind the Cement City. The other six
teams were bunched, the lowest at .429
and the highest at .482. Kearney and
York tied for seventh, while Hastings and
Seward tied for third. It was a successful
season, financiallv and otherwise.
Harry Smith is going to be a big help
to the 'Lopes for the rest of the season.
The plain truth is that our pitching staff
has been off for quite a spell. Smithj' will
brace it up a lot.
The Mink League season will close Sat
urday. Falls City- will probably be the
winner of the pennant, with Humbolt sec
ond. Ilumbolt stepped in and took the
Maryville, Mo., team and franchise when
the Missouri town showed its yellow.
Then little Humboldt proceeded to
"show" the Missourians how to support
and manage a baseball team. The Mink
League season has been reasonabty successful.
Coyle, the leading swatter of the Super
ior team, has been signed by Omaha and
will be given a thorough try-out.
Is the wrestling game going the way of
the prize fights? The Gotch-Hack fiasco
looks like it. If there has been a square
fight among the big ones in recent years
no one has noticed it. Now it begins to
appear that the wrestling game is to be
spoiled by the same influences that have
made the prize ring the synoiiymn of all
that is crooked.
The "Russian Lion" has enough yellow
in his system to paint every passenger
coach on the Northwestern system
where all the coaches are yellow.
GOVERNOR ALDRICIFS ADDRESS
At the Labor Day celebration in Lin
coln Governor Aldrich was one of the
speakers. His address was in part as fol
lows :
"I am not here to make a set speech or
an extended address. It was impossible
for me to be here this afternoon and to
participate in your ceremonies because I
had a previous engagement elsewhere. I
would very much have enjoyed hearing
the masterful address of the bishop of
Lincoln. I would have been delighted to
have participated with you in these fes
' tivities, but suffice it to say that I am
glad of the opportunity of being here this
evening and to extend to you my felicita
tions and to say that I heartily approve
of labor. organizations and trades unions
in general. These trades unions and these
labor unions are a part and a parcel of
that great system that is today predomi
nant everywhere and by that I mean or
ganization. "To organize and to systematize and to
classify is the watchword of the age. Any
business or combine that does not organ
ize from a business basis is doomed to
failure. Any set of men or any great
class of society that has a great interest
that is peculiar to itself cannot make
headway and advancement and develop
along the lines of success unless it is or
ganized. . ,
"The moderti tendencies of society are
toward development of the individual. It
is to his welfare that many efforts are di
rected and this is wise and as it should
be, because it is the individual that com
prises one of the component parts of this
great governmental system that we call a
government of the xeople.
"The individual in America has a re
sponsibility direct aud absolute, and the
way in vhich he assumes this responsi
bility and the character of the service
that he gives to it, will mark the success
or failure of our scheme of government.
"This is so because the individual of
our nation is the architect of government,
is the builder of the state and of the laws
and of the customs under which he lives.
It is these laws, and these customs, that
reflect on the character of the builder.
Therefore, the necessity of having the
right kind of a character, and having the
right kind of an individual and architect
of government, who is patriotic, who is
conscientious and who is moral.
"These labor unions are an indespen
sible factor and potent agency in the in
dustrial development of our state and of
our nation. Labor, as it is well known,
is the concommittant force of capital.
Capital and labor are a union of forces
that must work in harmony in the indus
trial activities of our country. When
capital and labor are at swords points or
are divided and fighting against each
other then both labor and capital are
doomed to failure.
"Iiut'in this connection let me say that
labor is one party and capital is another
in this industrial world, but immediately
outside of this lies the great mass, the
people who do not make a living by wage
and who are not capitalists. They are
the great common people of this nation.
But in times of strife and disorder and
disruption, they and they alone suffer the
greatest burdens of the strifes
"Therefore, it is plain that the people
are interested in labor problems. The
public is interested because labor and
capital go hand in hand and work in har
mony together. Because, when for in
stance, great sjtrikes are precipitated by
reason of conflicts of labor and capital
and railroads and traffic are tied up then
it is that the public, the great third party,
of which I have spoken, suffer the great
est inconveniece. Then it follows that the
public participate in and take an inter
est in these" great conflicts. And I am
of the opinion that situation should be so
placed in this country that strikes and
tie-ups are impossible. There should be
legislation provided for or the situation
should be, that when these conditions be
tween labor and capital in public service
corporations are had, that disputes
should be settled and conditions adjusted
and labor and capital be made to go on
with their business without any cessation
of it. Whether this should be by. arbi
tration, I am not here to say, but I say
here that it should so be that the laborer
and his employer should be made to go
on with their business 'without any inter
ruption and when the conditions were set
tled by some sort of a tribunal, then, it
should be accepted by all parties con
cerned. "Large employers of men, whether in
the name of a railroad, packinghouse, or
any other large employer, have no right
to precipitate a conflict because, in their