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VOLUME 8 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 6, 1911 NUMBER 29
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Tin real facts about the Austin, Pa.,
flood are bad enough, but that is no ex
cuse for the deliberate faking perpe
trated by the news gathering associa
tions, the Associated Press and the Unit
ed Press. That the faking was delib
erate is evidenced by the fact that there
was no lack of time or opportunity to
get at least a glimmering of the true
condition of affairs long before the
time the regular editions of daily news
papers came from the pre. To report
a loss of a thousand lives, and then fol
low six hours later with tfee report that
the loss was less than two hundred,
looks very much like deliberate lying
for the sake of creating a sensation and
then profiting thereby.
AUTUMN IN NEBRASKA
MEN AND
MATTERS
The war between Italy and Turkey
will be full of comic opera features.
Before it can become a. real war the
powers will step in and put a stop to
the whole thing. Not b use the pow
ers are particularly des -reus of peace,
Lfraid of war.
cervously sit
eagazine. and
but because they are
The whole of Europe T
ting over a powder
everybody is smoking aud ervless with
the rlre. If ever a live spark gets in
side the magazine there will be a blow
up of gigantic proportions. Italy will
capture a few antiquated Turkish war
ships that are manned by illy-paid men
who would rather lik to be captured,
and perhaps shoot some helpless hamlet
on the sea full of holes. That will be
all. . ....
The newspaper "boy" of the coun
try lost a mighty goed friend and inex
haustible fount of " rtories" when Gen
eral Manderaoa died. ITe was a perfect
Chesterfield in his fanners, and he
gladly went out ot his way to grant
favors. He was usually prominent in
all public function in Omaha, and to
him the newspaper aen looked for any
help they might -seel in cohering their
stories. And the g-n.raJ never failed
them. If there win no other way of
getting next to the "big gun" of the
affair on hand. th' reporters needed
only to apply to "ieneral Manderson,
and if the report tH didn't get what
they wanted, thing stopped doing.
1
It was the personal privilege of the
editor of Will Maupin's Weekly to en
joy Geueral Miuiderson's personal
friendship. A number of kindly let
ters written in the general's fine hand
writing will be family relics long after
the writer has passed on. I shall never
forget a little incideut that happened a
, ; number of year ago at the time when
Greece and Turkey wcgat war. A
Greek society in Chicago had arranged
to send all Greek reporting themselves
ready to fight for Greece to New York,
and a New York sociey had arranged
to send them ou to Athens. .Four
Greeks, stalwart young . fellows, ap
peared iu the World-Herald office one
uioruiug and said they wanted to get
to Chicago, explaining how they could
get from there to their native Ihiul.
"They were anxious to fight for their old
home country. I tried the general of
ficials of the several railroads, endeav
oring to secure passes to Chicago for
the four men, but was fronted by an
iron-clad agreement not to issue passes
save uudeVHrtui specified conditions.
BY THE POET LARIAT
Don't talk to me about the blue of far Italian skies,
Nor prate to me of Naples or of Rome;
Don't talk of foreign sights to please my keen artistic eye
We beat 'em to a frazzle here at home.
For an autumn in Nebraska, with her glories unsurpassed,
Suits you Uncle William bully, got alj others far outclassed;
Beats 'em both ways from the middle, got 'em all lashed to the mast.
For blue sky and mellow sunshine, fruit of vine and field and tree,
Talce your hat off to Nebraska she is good enough for me.
Her bins are full of golden grain, and on a thousand hills
Her cattle graze upon her grasses sweet.
Her children sing glad harvest songs that all the country fills
As home they go with eager, dancing feet.
For the summertime is ended and the cool October days,
With a tingle in their breezes and their Indian Summer haze,
Make our lives well worth the living as we wander downthe ways.
And I laugh to scorn the praises of the lands beyond the sea,
For I'll stick to fair Nebraska she is good enough for me.
There's a joy beyond the telling in her bending skies of blue;
A healing balm borne on her ev'ry air;
There's reward for ev'ry effort of the men who dare and do,
There's surcease from ev'ry sorrow, ev'ry care.
For Nebraska's skies are bluer than those bending over Rome; . .
There's a glow that warms and cheers me from the sun in heaven's dome;
Where my hat's off in Nebraska, there I know I am at home.
And IU camp right here till Gabriel sounds his trumpet full and free,
Then I'll ask him: "May I stay here? This L good enough for me."
and this was not one of them. Finally I
bethought myself of General Mander
son. I went to his office in Burlington
headquarters and explained the situa
tion, introducing the four Greeks.
"Ill see that these men get to Chi
cago!" exclaimed General Manderson.
"And I wish I were twenty-five or thir
ty years younger and once more with
ray old brigade of Ohio men, I'd like to
take a hand with these four patriotic
young men who are so anxious to fight
the 'unspeakable Turk.' You boys,"
turning to the four men, "call here in
an hour and 111 have your transporta
tion to Chicago. And if the Chicago
society fails you. let me know."
I went back with them an hour later
and General Manderson handed them
passes to Chicago, shook hands with
them and wished them Godspeed. I
never asked who patched up the rule
that the general fractured, but 1 know
that he smashed it all to smithereens
for four young Greeks who were
anxious to fight under the flag of their
native, country.
Baron d'Estouruelles de Constant's
structures on the public highways of
the United States are deserved of
course, but his explanation thereof is
reasonable. We have been too almighty
busy at other things to pay attention
to something that everybody ues. And
yet -it would have been the part of wis
dom to start the making of good roads
when the start was made to develop a
community. Bad country roads are
costing the people of this country vast
ly more than the combined "over
charges" in freight rates made by the
railroads. Measured in time and ef
fort it costs more to haul a wagonload
of grain eight miles over country roads
than it costs to haul the same amount
of grain from central Nebraska to Chi
cago. There is absolutely no excuse for
poor roads in Nebraska. Good roads
may be built without financial cost and
at the expenditure of less labor than
is now wasted upon them by fool roi
overseers. The explanation is the King
road drag. The trouble with the King
drag is that it is too all-fired simple.
That statement may sound strange, '
but it is true the King road drag the
common split-log drag is too all-fired
simple. If D. Ward King had patented
his invention, made it out of double
planed, triple-varnished hardwood, had
it brass mounted and nickel-plated,
with all exposed wood painted red
with gold stripes and then put it on
the market at a hundred plunks per
drag, he would have sold them by the
thousand. But any farmer can make
one if he has enough mechanical genius
to saw a board and drive a few nails,
and wit enough to know how to hang
a doubletree. Its very simplicity is its
chief drawback. At a low estimate
a million and a half of dollars are
wasted everyyear in" Nebraska "on al
leged "road improvements." They
usually leave the roads worse than they
were before, and even if the roads are
temporarily bettered, the work must
be done over again the following year.
If the railroads tried to charge as
much for hauling a ton of grain eight
miles as the farmer willingly pays for
hauling it the same distance over bad
roads, there would be a revolution. But
the farmer seems to enjoy robbing
himself, so what's the use?
The esteemed State Journal is wor
ried because there seems to be a dearth
of available land for farm use. Worry
ing, mind you, when there are 18,000,
000 acres of fertile Nebraska land
waiting for husbandmen. "But it isn't
free," you say. Well, it ought to be,
and would be if we weren't such a lot
of innocents in the matter of revenue
laws. Not free in the sense that men
could homestead it, but free in the
sense that the men who own it would
either have to utilize it or allow some
one else to do so. Under our fool sys
tem of taxation it is more profitable
to hold land for speculative purposes
than it is to cultivate it. The minute
a man begius to till his half-section
and improve it, that minute we step in
and soak him with a heavy fine in the
shape of taxes. As long as he lets the
sod remain unbroken and makes no
improvements thereon, we let him off,
a-id all the time his land is growing
invalne because other men are improvT
The election of Mr. Mohler to the
presidency of the Union Paeifie means
much to Nebraska and the west. Mr.
Mohler is a man of western ideas and
enterprise. With a western man oc
cupying the executive ehair, and with
headquarters in Omaha, it is quite cer
tain that western interests will be zeal
ously guarded. Judge Lovette, the re
tiring president, was a lawyer, not a
railroad executive. Mr. Mohler knows
the executive end of the business from
Lincoln is Mr. Mohler 's promotion. He
is Known to lavor onngmg the Laura
Pacific up out of the Salt ereek bot
toms, of a union depot and of giving
Lincoln a better freight and passenger
service over the Union Paeifie lines.
The death of General Charles F. Maa
derson, while not unexpected was s
deep shock to Nebraskans. He was one
of the builders of the state, always an
enthusiast in promoting its welfare, and
never so happy as when rereading
knowledge of her wonderful resources
and possibilities. . . Vr Xzs.d faf
senator for two terms, and president of
the senate for a time, he reflected credit
upon himself and his state. As a law
yer he ranked among the foremost
members of the bar. He was the Bur
lington's chief attorney from the time
he retired from the senate until bis
deaths but he never "played polities"
for the road, and to his influence is
largely due the faet that the "railroad
lobby" has of late years almost en
tirely disappeared. It was a rare privi
lege to know General Manderson per
sonally. He drew men to him, and held
them by his splendid personality. Sol
dier, statesman, civilian General Man
derson played a man's part on the stage
of human action. Dying he left the
priceless heritage of an honored name.
On the pages of Nebraska history no
name stands out brighter, nor more syn
onymous of honor and loyalty, than
that of Charles F. Manderson.
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Those who have read Governor Aid
rich 's open letter to Ross Hammond of
the Fremont Tribune and Adam
Breede of the Hastings Tribune, will
have to admit that the governor wields
a trenchant typewriter. The governor
is anything but mealy-mouthed in his
utterances, and he goes directly to the
point. Of course no one with ordinary
gumption believed that Governor Aid
rich was rightly quoted in that Sioux
City interview, for he is not the man
to make any sueh fool political break.
But he comes out squarely, over his
own signature, for LaFollette for presi
dent, remarking in the same connec
tion that in so doing he is exercising
his perogative as a sovereign eitizen,
and that he will not use his office to ad
vance his personal political views. To
that no fair-minded man may right
fully object. And Governor Aid rich
speaks the sentiments of the majority
when he frankly asserts that "if he
(Taft) don't do any better in the fu
ture than he has in the past, he not only
will not be re-nominated, but if re-nominated
will be defeated." As time flies
Chester II. Aldrich is giving- a pretty
good imitation of a man who knows his
own mind, -and knowing it has the
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