state, county and congressional candi
dates, and then conies the national elec
tion. It is quite enough to wear the
voters out, and when the voters weary of
so many primaries and elections we Avill
return to the old convention system, with
all of'its corruption and trading. An elec
tion every two years is quite a plenty.
"Stung again'' is the verdict of the re
cent (Jotch-IIackensehniidt hippodrome.
Either the "Russian lion'' is a rank quit
ter with a yellow streak so broad as to
dim the glory of field of ripe sunflowers,
or else his manager deliberately stole the
dollars from 28,000 people by letting a
cripple wrestle in order to get the gate
money. The Labor Day bout at Chicago
was a farce. Of course no one suspects
(Joteh of being party to any fraud or de
ception, but somebody is guilty. And
whoever it is, that party has brought the
wrestling game into disrepute almost
equal to that of the prize ring. Is base
ball the only square sport we have?
There may be ten, fifteen, twenty or
more thousand stockholders in a railroa 1,
yet when it conies to dealing with labor
one man is given power to transact the
business. There are ten, fifteen, twenty or
more thousand employes working for the
railroad in the allied branches of the
work. But when these employes give to
one man the power to transact their bus
iness there is an immediate outcry against
"labor domination" and the "walking
delegate" is bitterly denounced. The only
difference between Mr. Julius Krutchs:
iiitt9 vice president of the Union Pacific,
and the man selected as the head of the
employe's federation is in the size of the
salaries Mr. Krutchsnitt drawing dol
lars where the other man draws dimes.
XEnitASKA'S DUTY TO HERSELF
If we could convince the legislature of
Nebraska that it owes to its own self,
and to its posterity some intelligent ad
vertising of its advantages and its fertil
ity, and its wealth producing capacities,
its great desirability as a place of resi
dence, its educational, religious, social
and political allurements and the fine
field it offers for investment, Nebraska
would not be humiliated by seeing such
states as Kansas and Oklahoma leading
it in the race for wealth and population.
The effect of intelligent advertising and
the provision of suitable public funds for
that purpose has been proven beyond
question in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Now the states of the south, which have
great areas of rich lands unimproved, are
taking up the public advertising system.
The Pacific coast states have long been
attached to it, and it explains their won
derful growth. The3r haven't thed of it
jet. Nebraska ought to quit dallying with
experts who tell us what we have long
known, and get busy with the money
for money talks better than ex
perts. Omaha Examiner.
THE NEGRO'S DUTY.
"The first great duty of the negro is to
teach his children the great responsibili
ties of life. Our children must learn that
they are on earth to do something, that
they have a mission to perform, that they
must be active, industrious, intelligent
citizens. Teach them that work is hon
orable and idleness is crime; that all
kinds of work is elevating, honorable,
and that the man who does not work nat
urally drifts into crime."
These are the Avords of a negro who has
achieved national fame for his ability, his
honesty and his industry. They were
spoken by ex-United States Senator
lilanche K.' Iimee, a former slave, now
grand master of the colored Knights of
Pythias.. They are words that should be
engraved upon the heart of every negro
citizen. Those who talk "social equal
ity" to the negro are not his friends. So
long as the -negro confines his activities
to securing "social equality" by appeals
to the law, just so long will he be despised.
When the negro, by his ability, his hon
esty and his industry, makes for himself a
home, and for his family a safe abiding
place, then will he receive such recogni
tion as he merits. lie is entitled to no
more than his white neighbor, he is en
titled to no less. And if lie wins .recog
nition it will be by his own efforts, not by
the assistance of politicians who would
use him.
The industrious negro, working to
make an honest living, to educate his chil
dren and fit them for the battle of life, to
build a home and to command respect be
cause of his industry and honesty that
negro is never worrying his head over the
problem of "social equality."
- It is high time that the negro citizen
of this country turn their backs on the
politicians. High time they ceased be
ing the playthings of politicians. High
time they realized that all they can ever
hope to be as a race is just what they
make of themselves.
POLITICAL POPPYCOCK.
The little matter of reducing the tariff
on raw wool from 44 to 29 per cent, and
the tariff on manufactured of, wool from
90 to 49 per cent that was a job entire
ly too big to be undertaken without
months of careful research on the part
of a lot of "congressional lame ducks"
constituting a tariff board.
lint when it came to abrogating the
tariff duties on our principal agricul
tural products the combined value ;"f
which is a thousand times more than our
wool clip, and interesting a thousand
where wool raising interests one when
it came to that President Taft can'fix it
in a minute. He merely writes -a mes
sage to congress and zip, the thing is
done. -
Isn't that sort of political popycock
calculated to make you weary.
The republican national platform ad
vocated a tariff that would make up the
difference in wages at home and abroad.
The president fears that a 49 per cent
duty on manufactures of' wool .is not
enough, and insists that we have an in
vestigation by a lot of "lame ducks" who
know no more about it than he does.
We greatly fear that William Howard
Taft has an idea that the great body of
American citizenship is made up of men
who are but a step removed from idiocy.
NEBRASKA LEADS.
Recently Collier's wound up an edi
torial on "The New South" with the
statement that "immigration to the
south is bound to increase with the com
ing of farmers from the central west who
are just learning that they can sell their
present farms for a hundred dollars an
acre and buy southern land just as good
for twenty dollars an acre.
To this W. C. Jarnogin, managing edi
tor of the Des Moines, la., Capital, re
plies : "As a loyal son of the central west
I must beg to differ with you. Iowa will
produce more wealth, year in and year
out per acre, in proportion to the money
invested, than any other state in the
Union. I do not except the high priced
fruit land of the extreme west, which
produces about two crops out of five.
Iowa never has a crop failure."
Mr. Jarnogin's retort is well meant,
and so far as it refers to the supremacy
of Iowa's high priced lands over the low
priced lands of the south it is correct.
Rut he is mistaken about wealth produc
tion per acre in proportion to money in-
Tn lin ToivnT-fl 'Volipafil'!) W nil
T V 1 IVU. .11 AXl 1 . V III. u i 1 . M i , tJ
the records, stands at the head. So also
does it stand at the head in the matter
of material wealth production, per capita.
Rut the southern states are doing some
thing that Nebraska should have been do
ing for the past ten or fifteen years ad
vertising their resources ana possibili
ties. There is not a single southern state
that can offer so much to the tiller of the
soil as Nebraska. Not one of them pos
sesses the facilities afforded by Nebras
ka school, religious, social, transporta
tion. Not one of them offers equal en
vironment. Rut what they have the
southern states are advertising, hence the
splendid development now in progress
south of what we once called "Mason &
Dixon's line." If Nebraska were to fol
low the example set by other and less fav
ored states, and advertise her advantages
as they have advertised theirs, the won
derful development of the past" twenty
years would be as nothing compared to
the development that would take place
during the next twenty years.
While Harmon boosters and Wilson
boosters are vociferating, one Chainp
Clark is quietly cutting and storing large
quantities of political hay. -