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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1911)
CONCERNING MEN AND MATTERS 1 Frankly we do not umlerstanel the methods political now Wing pursued by Col. Michael Harringtem. A few months ag he was opposing llryan tooth and toe nail. Now he is urging Rryan for the senate. A short time ago he bitterly ar raigned Clarence E. llarman, who is now democratic candidate1 for railway com missioner. Harman was nominated and Michael is rtill hollering. He says he will not support or vote for Harman. Isn't this awful? Harrington a ''bolter!' It seems that only a few weeks ago we heard a .voice suspiciously like Michael's de nouncing Rryan for not standing "hitched" when beaten in the primaries. Mike Harrington has been something of a stormy petrel in Nebraska politics for a long time. For a number of years we never could fell whether he was a topulist or a democrat. When necessary he could go into a democratic convention and . 1h a democrat among democrats. Then he would hie, over to the populist convention and out -pop the most radical populist of the lot. A few months ago he was vociferating vigorously in denuncia tion of "bolters." Now he is bolting. We confess to great admiration for Michael. His ability is unquestioned, and his po litical agility fearsome to liehold. liesides he is a most entertaining gentleman, with a fund of anecdote and information. We anticipate a great deal of pleasure during the next twelve or fifteen months in watching his moves upon the political chesslKKird. Representative Norirs of the Fifth dis trict iv fuses Xo commit himself on some things. When we asked him to explain how a man could advocate putting what the farmer has to sell on the free list, and retain on the tariff taxed list all that the farmer must buy, he replied: "I do not know, never having undergone any such mental gymnastics."' The indications are that when William Howard Taft strikes Nebraska next Sunday he will find the political atmosphere frigid. However, the president of the United States will find all Nebraskans ready and willing to pax all due honors to the chief executive of the nation. Rut is President Taft trying to play even with the "insurgents" by snubbing Lincoln, the Nebraska headquarters of in surgency? He "gives Lincoln a ineasely little two hours of his time, half of which is to he spent in eating dinner. He spends a day in Omaha, and twice as much time in Hastings as in Lincoln. Hastings, by the way, is in Representative Norris' dis trict. Has the president an ulterior mo tive in spending so nuielj time in t!e dis trict represented by the acknowledged leader of the house insurgents and one of the really progressive representatives of the west? We greatly fear the president is being made the victim of some al mighty poor political advice. The "Roy Scout''. movement may be all right, but we aiay be permitted to doubt it. Rut there is no question about the "lightness" of the farm movement now on among the boys of the country. While some of his boy friends were "scouting" and learning a lot of military tommyrot. N. II. Rrewer, a lad of Connecticut, was winning big money prize for raising 133 bushels of corn to the acre on worn-out Connecticut land. And P. P. Davis, a Massachusetts boy, was raising 103 bushels of corn to the acre and winning a handsome prize while some of his boy friends were dressed up like frontiers men and doing a lot of saluting and trail ing and campfiring ami all that sort of thing. At the same time a Ninth Caro lina 1kv was beating the world's record for corn growing by gathering over liOO bushels an acre while some of his boy comrades were doing the "scout" stunt and acquiring the habit of lazying around in the woods instead of learning profit able production. As letwecn the hoy who studies up on agriculture and the boy who learns to build a campfire and get up a camp supper, we'll take the corn grower everv time. All of which reminds us that the boys are setting the pace for their fathers in the matter of making the land produc tive1. The "old man" is very apt to le set in his wavs, contending that the wav he 7 learned to farm is good enough for him because it was good enough for his father. The boy, however, is an inquisitive, ac quisitive being. Not only does he want to know how to make1 the work lighter, but how to make1 it more profitable at the1 same expeneliture ef physical energy. Hence the agricultural college. We wouleln't give one graduate of the Nebras ka State School of Agriculture fer all the graduated "luvy scouts" you could crowd into the Lincoln auditorium. Five speech ami a free press have noth ing to staml on when a federal judge feels like taking a whack at them. Judge Han-feu-d ot Tacoma issued an injunction re straining the eople of Washington from demaneling transfers from the1 street rail way companies. The fact that the ordi nanev required transfers eliel not out any ice. Judge Hanfeuel hehl up the law and eMijoinenl the whede public. Ex-Mayor Fawcett of Tacoma, Councilman Erick gou of Seattle? ami five other men, in cluding the editors of the Seattle Star, were haled into court for contempt lx cause ihcj dared to criticize the Han ford injunction. Judge Hanford says these me'ii are guilty, also, of conspiracy to ol struct justice, and asks that they be in-dieted. AVhat divinity is it that hedges federal judges? Ace-oreling to the Hanforel idea any attempt to impeach a federal judge the only method of removal would lie an "attempt to obstruct justice." According to Hanford it would make no difference what a federal judge may do, any criti cism or denunciation would Ik punish able by fine and imprisonment. The ac cused men addressed a mass meet in;: calleel to protest against the Hanford in junction. For this they arc to be fined and imprisoned if Judge Hanford has his way. It is high time that the people take hold of the federal judiciary and shake it hwn hard. It is becoming altogether too powerful for a five country. The Plattsmonth Journal asserts that Roderick Dim Sutherland of Nelson will be a canelidate for the democratic gulKT natorial nomination next year. There will be no lack of available gulKTiiatorial tim ber in the democratic forest, and Siither laiul will cut a pretty goiwl sied log. Of course the republican nomination is e incluMl, for Ahliich will have no opjiosi tion worthy of the name. Nor should he. He has remleivd good service and is standing squarely on the principles upon which he was elected. Rut he will Ik oih posel politically, and by a man who will "give him phnty to occupy his time dur ing the campaign. Some time ago Will Maupin's Weekly was committed to the candielacy of State Senator Morehead of Rieharelson, ami to elate nothing has tran spired to change its views. Senator Morehcad's business ability, his freedom from entangling alliance's and his kuowl etlge" of Nebraska conditions peculiarly fit him for the office f governor. The "American Eeonemiist," subsidizes! organ of the tariff belief iciaries, elemands a ''scientific tariff." Gosh, have they dis eovered a neater wav of robbing us? The Marion, la.. Register calls atten tion to a bulletin recent lv issued bv the Unitcd States Rureau of La!or wherein it is shown that vages in the I'nited States average twe and one-half times higher than in free trade England. Well, what of it. That is not the question at all. The question is, elo the wage earners of the Unitenl Staters get more wags in proportion to their production than the wage earners f tllT cemntries. An i ;