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WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor F. L. SHOOP, Business M&nagw PhUUImJ Wekly at Liacoln. Nebraska, by Tkt Manpuk-Slraop Publishing Company. T.J rhii ilwFibtim 3. 1S1 1. k t-ffic at I irl. N.hfita. J.c tlx Act af March X. 17. ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR If the people are competent to elect men who are competent to appoint judges, then the people are compe tent to elect the judges. The appoint ed judiciary is a menace to civil lib erty. THE STYLE FROM O'ER Dr. P. L. Hall wants it distinctly un derstood that he does not favor the Aldrich currency plan of a central bank. Dr. Hall's denial was not nec essary to convince those who have known him a long time. THE POM) By the way, how wet" is Maine? Oris Maine Vet?" Good morning! Have you deposited any money in a postal savings bank yet? President Taft is vociferously de fending the supreme court. It doubt less needs it. The West Point Republican is earn estly supporting its editor, James Elliott, for congress. 01 Champ Clark of Missoury con tinues to rack up quite a quantity of severed cord wood these days. It must be admitted that Governor Aldrich is keeping pretty well on the first page under the slug heads. That Italio-Turko war looks to us like a whole lot like the amenities at a wedding down in Russiatown of Lincoln. Of course President Taft is deeply interested in the supreme court. He took good care to make it just what it is today. The silence of Clarence E. Harman may be a foreboding of something awful about to happen to Michael Har rington of O'Neill. For a man who "can't be elected delegate to Jthe national convention" Mr. Bryan is drawing some mighty big crowds to hear him talk politics. When Governor Harmon comes to Nebraska the occupants of the first auto in the parade will be the chauffer, Governor Harmon, John C Maher and others. Attorney General Wickersham has ordered the steel trust to dissolve, and if it refuses Attorney General Wickersham will slap it right on the wrist. The best thing about the president's visit to Nebraska is that it gave the newspaper correspondents with him an opportunity to see the best state in the Union. Wallpaper manufacturers are facing indictment for conspiracy in re- j straint of trade. Judging by samples : murder in the first degree. Postal savings banks are open ing up all over the country, yet we haven't heard of our friend, Henry W. Yates of Omaha, throwing any financial fits. Our German friends are going to make "German Day" something to file away in memory. If you fail to decorate you will simply set yourself down as a never-wasser. An alarm of fire took an audience away from Roosevelt the other day. And time, was, not so very long ago, when a Roosevelt alarm would have taken a crowd away from a fire. Just about the time a lot of other presidential booms are running on deflated tires. Uncle Champ Clark's is going to come booming down the road. Paste that in your hat! Maybe Nebraska doesn't warm up to presidents, but when it comes to pro ducing the wealth she is a lallapakwla. And if Nebraska can not furnish a president she can, and does, furnish more foodstuffs to the world than any other state. It will be very easy to apply the criminal clause of the Sherman law to the labor unions now on strike against the railrads. A labor union is the only organization that was ever cinched under the anti-trust law. Is the created greater than the cre ator? Some men claim that it is un republican to elect senators direct. They insist that a legislature elected by the people is clothed with more power than the people who elected it. Adam Breede denies that he is a postmaster, that he was ever a post master, or that he yearns to be a postmaster. It would be a pity to spoil a mighty successful newspaperman by making an ordinary postmaster out of him, and we hope Adam sticks to the tripod. SHOULD BE REMEMBERED. Governor Harmon, in addressing the city club of St. Louis recently gave utterance to a great truth when he said: "The best city government will fail unless the citizens remember that no goverment is automatic" Everybody in general, and reformers in particular, should ponder over that remark. The trouble with most civic "reformers" is that they lay down on the job as soon as they get control of a municipality. On the other hand, the enemies of good government are never idle. The only way to achieve reform, municipal or governmental, is to stick to the job every day in the week, and every hour of the day. A municipality faces its gravest danger at the moment when a " ref orm' ' ticket is elected. MEN'S FORWARD MOVEMENT. The Men and Religion Forward Movement which was launched in Minneapolis early on October 2. promises to be the greatest movement of its kind in the history of the American Church. Thirty experts dealing with various phases of the social and religious problem are to be at work in the city for a week con ducting mass meetings and conferences Social service is to be given a prominent place in the program. The meetings will be held in nearly 100 of the prin cipal cities of the United States, but in addition practically the same program will be carried out in f ully a thousand smaller cities and towns. Each of the cities is making a very thorough study of the social conditions of the people. The educational advantages, especially for the sons of workingmen, will be studied by experts, the question being raised as to whether the courses of study in the public schools have in mind the 95 per cent of the working men's children who do not. go to col lege, but who are compelled to enter the shop and factory at an early age. . A study will be made of the public libraries, of . the amusements and recreational Jife of the people, as well as the number of boys arrested and the causes of their arrests. The immigration problem will be sympa thetically studied, and the question of municip.1 administration will be hand led in a scientific manner. A survey of the industrial life of the community showing the working conditions as to hours, wages, and the sanitary state of shops and factories will be made. The investigators will look into the matter of Organized Labor, studying very frankly the entire situation, and giving a public discussion on the problems of the workingman. The causes of crimes and arrests will be discovered. The question of the disposition of those who are arrest ed and the qualifications of the judges and superintendents of our various philanthropic organizations and public institutions will be investigated. The housing problem is an important part of this study. The movement will try BUT THE MAKE THE BEST-AMERICAN Our British cousins may be able to give us pointers on clothing comfort, and even on clothing style, but our American craftsmen in the garment industry are the most highly skilled in then craft of any workers, anywhere. So when we combine English style and fit with American skill in craftsmanship the result works an epoch in the clothing industry. The season's styles, English, but workmanship American. A GREAT BARGAIN A majority of men, business, professional and craftsmen, have fixed on $25 as the right price to pay for a really satisfactory suit for general wear. We have an exceptional bargain at that price The swell English effect soft roll collar without padding coat correct length two or three but ton cut trousers with comfortable waist and hip snugness and legs of just enough roominess' Hand tailoied throughout the tailor would demand not less than $40 for a suit equally well made from fabrics of equal worth. All the popular colorings and weaves. Other grades at from $10 to $40 and all exceptional clothes values at the indicated price. Amstroeg Cloftkg Co. GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS to discover whether there is over crowding and whether the law is being observed with regard to light and ventilation, and whether there is sufficient space for yards and courts. The matter of the city's health will be surveyed. The number of deaths per one thousand population during the past ten years, showing the record for each year and indicating causes of death for each year, will be asked; also the percentages of deaths of children under one year of age, as well as of older children. Investigation will be made of the number of deaths from tuberculosis, but principally an attempt will be made to arrive at the causes of the diseases from which most of the people in the city have died, and a very definite attempt will be made to get at those who are responsible for the sufferings of the people in this connection. The political life of the community will be studied and, it is hoped that, as a result of this study, the men in the town will line up definitely with the parties or leaders who stand for the best interests of the people, re gardless of their political affiliations, whether or not the hospitals are effi ciently conducted, and if adequate provision is being made for the poor of the city will be a large part of this inquiry. The care of the aged and little children will be gone into pretty thoroughly. This entire study will be conducted upon the most approved scientific principles, and undoubtedly, as a result of this survey, there will emerge a definite policy concerning the treatment of the unfortunate and the handicapped who are going through life often suffering on account of the misdoings of others. Such a movement should appeal to every workingman. and it is hoped that if the Men and Religion Forward Movement comes to the cities in which there are central labor unions, or even if there are only detached groups of organized working men, that organized labor will respond to it. Among the speakers connected with the social service part of the work, are such men as Raymond Robbins, Graham Taylor. Professor Rauschenbush, and Charles Stelzle. CLOTHING AT COLUMBUS DAY. Last Thursday was "Columbus Day." By enactment of the last legis lature October 12 is a legal holiday, because just 419 years ago Christo pher Columbus discovered us. That is. he discovered a bum little island down in the Carribean sea and thought he had discovered a new route to the East Indies. Chris was some man. be lieve us. lie figured out that the world was round, and the wise gaza boos of his day tappet! their foreheads significantly when Chris shambled by. signifying that he had cobwebs in his garret. They looked on Chris pretty isiuch as the wise heads of Dawson's Landing looks on Dave Wilson after Dave expressed a wish to be the own er of one-half the dog that was mak ing night hideous with his howls. But Chris stuck to his geography "bug and made good. lie had to turn some pretty eute tricks to get away with his scheme. One of the best was in ducing Queen Isabella to hoek her sparks and loan him the money to buy his bum little boats. You and I wouldn't trust ourselves on the heav ing bosom of Capital Beach take dur ing a squall in either one of Chris' near-ships. Remember 'em? The Nina, the Pint and the Santa Marie. We've often thought Chris was all to the forgetful when he failed to name one of his boats after the dame who put up the spon for the trip. Another of Chris' cute stunts was the egg trick. The wise men of the Spanish court said Chris was dippy, and Chris asked them if they could balance an egg on its little end. They tried and failed, and admitted that it was be yond them. Chris took the egg, tapped a flat place on the little end and stood it up. Then he leaned back in his Morris chair and gave the wise boys the equine eachinnation. Columbus didn't accumulate much as a result of his voyage of discovery, save some handcuffs and leg irons and a bed on the stone floor of a dark dungeon in Havana. A lot of us met last Wednesday night and banquetted in Chris' honor, eaeh one of ns stow ing away more grub in an hour than Chris got in a month of his dungeon service. We're paying the old boy a lot of honors these days, but it" a cinch that if he could tell as about it he would say that 419 years w an awful long time to go without binx given the glad hand. Bnt that's usu ally the way. A lot of ns won't live to get all that's coming to bs for which we onght to be duly tfcankfal. We can't all be Christopher Colnso bnses. br.t we can do what Chris didn't have the nerve to do we can grt out the hammer first and put the woaui be knockers out of commision. Chris was a Genoese by birth, but he isn't to be blamed for that. It vu his misfortune, jnst as it Is tW mis fortune f some men t. be- bm n New Jersey. Chri gt away frni hi birthplace as soon a he onM. which marked him as bein; wise. A ! of men b:;ra hi New Jersey haven't g-t i.ny mre sense than to stay th-r. lit steadof coming to Nebraska. PLEASE EXPLAIN. tiovernor Aldrich risrhtly say that it is foolish to inject the presidential question into the cam pa lira this year. Those friends of Mr. Taft who have persisted in doing this, are doing more to defeat their man than even the: radical insurgents.' Albion New. The esteemed News shonld explain. Why is it f!tsh to inject the presi dential question into thss campaign? In six months we will be called npn to express our choice of candidates. The lines are already formicz. Prvi dent Taft is making his bid f-r re nomination. La FoUette's friends are active. Democratie partisans are lin ing np for the men of their choice. National policies are disenssed t the exclusion of everything else these days. Why is it foolish to recognize what patent on its face? HEAR, HEAR! Sometimes a merchant says that he doesn't need to advertise because he has been in business in his present lo cation ten. twenty or thirty year. In some eases the goods on bis shelves have also been in business that long; bnt it's no particular honor to the store. Beatrice Son.