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WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
PuttKikcd Weekly t Lincoln, Nebraska
fey Will M. KUupin.
rd il.ii lt(f FahMir 3. 191 1.
Nebraska. d tk Act of
Marc 3, 1S79."
ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR
DOING OUR LEVEL BEST.
(Grand Island Free Press.)
For a journal of cheerfulness and
eternal boosting for Nebraska, Will
Maupin's Weekly, published at Lin
coln, " is some "pumpkins." While
Man pin is one of these 'ere city dudes,
he knows something of the greatness
of the products of this state and never
tires of singing its praises. Every
citizen ought to be a Maupin-kind-of-a-booster.
THE MAN FOB THE PLACE.
This newspaper has little patience
with those who talk about "geographi
cal location" in connection with lo
cation of regents of the .university.
The uuiversity is in Lincoln, and there
is just as much reason why the re-,
gents should live here as there is why
the other state officers should live
here.
The matter of looking after such a
tremendous institution as the Universi
ty of Nebraska demands business abili
ty of a high order not political fin
esse. A man who can build up and
successfully manage a business run
ning into the hundreds of thousands
of dollars every year is just the kind
of a man needed upon the board of
regents, regardless of his geographical
location or his political affiliations.
The regents are responsible for the
right fid expenditure of more than
half a million a year. It therefore
behooves the taxpayers to elect men
who are known to be men of success
ful affairs, and men whose interest in
the welfare of the institution and the
young men and women of the state is
sufficient to induce them to sacrifice
their own time to look after it and
them. If this newspaper enterprise
could secure the services of a man like
John E. Miller as business mauager for
the paltry sum of $o00 or $400 a year
it would jump at the chance. And
Nebraska has just such a chance
the chance to secure the services of
this successful business man as one of
the business managers of the great
state university. It is almost unbe
lievable that the voters of Nebraska
will neglect such a rare opportunity.
Mr. Miller is willing to give the state
the benefit of his business acumen
and his experience. The state will ex
hibit almighty poor judgmeut if it
neglects the opportunity.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Dr. George E. Condra says there is
plenty of water, and good water, in
and about Lincoln. That satisfies us
as to the ability to secure an adequate
water supply, for Dr. Coondr knows
what he is talking about. He is a
'water sharp," as well as various
other scientific things.
We've had altogether too much un
favorable publicity concerning out
water supply. This newspaper has
always been confident that the supply
was adequate; it is .the management
that is at fault. Last summer it was
borne upon us that the facilities were
inadequate and here we are, three
9t four months later, and not even one
test well completed. If any important
branch of a private corporation's busi
ness were to be handled for a couple
of months as Lincoln's water depart
ment has been handled for the past
three or four years, the manager of
that department would be yanked up
on the carpet.
Dr. Oondra says there is plenty of
good water to be had. The city plant
is making big money. Then in heav
en's name why not do business in a
business way and get the water?
lucalcuable injury has been done to
Lincoln by reason of the publicity
given to our water troubles, for the
wrong construction has been put there
on. Lincoln's water plant in municipally
owned. It will always be so owned.
If there be those who think other
wise, let them have their heads bored
for the simples. But let not those in
charge of that department imagine
for a minute that the people will for
ever stand the utter inability shown
for grasping the situation and meet
ing it in a businesslike way.
The water is at hand, ready to be
brought to the mains. Dr. Condra
says so, and he knows. Now let us
proceed to get it.
"We are a funny people. A man
invests in real estate and makes 2,000
per cent in ten or twelve years, and
we say he is a man of discernment
and business judgment. Another man
invests in public service corporation
securities and just about doubles his
money in ten or twelve years. And
then we call him a thief and a rob
ber. There are IS.000,000 acres of fer
tile and nn tilled Nebraska land wait-,
insr for homeseekers. Nebraska ought
to be telling the homeseekers about it.
Here we are weE into November,
with nary a freeze and hardly a kill
ing frost. You can't beat Nebraska
climate for sunshine and balm and
health.
The American Tobacco Co. will be
compelled to split up into three trusts,
all owned by the same people deter
mined to continue the same old rob
ber game. Our supreme court is mak
ing every dog-goned one of the trusts'
do just as they jolly well please as
the trusts please, we mean.
Of all the interurban railroads built
in the United States in the last decade,
Nebraska contributes three miles. And
those three miles were built by a bank
rupt company with certificates issued
by a receiver appointed by the fed
eral court.
"With a properly equipped bureau of
publicity and immigration Nebraska
could halt thousands of homeseekers
who now rush across her fertile do
main to settle in less favored sec
tions west of the mountains.
After next Tuesday you may walk
the streets with the consciousness that
that man who meets vou with a smile
and outstretched hand is really a
friend, not an office-seeker.
We greatly fear that Clarence E.
llarman is neglecting a golden oppor
tunity by not stirring Michael Har
rington up to writing some more open
letters.
Only eight weeks to Christmas, and
the green not yet gone from Nebraska
trees. We'll be raising bananas in
Nebraska the first thing you know.
If it is a legitimate Nebraska enter
prise Will Maupin's Weekly will be
mighty glad to boost it. Anything Ne
braskan is good enough for us.
Despite the news from Omaha we
refuse to believe that Tom Dennison is
the most active and influential man in
that city.
Those who think the members of our
state supreme court are slow ought to
see them on salary warrant day.
CURRENT TOPICS
Continued from Paige 1
government bond. All of us admit
the necessity of better service, exten
sionns of lines, opening of new terri
tory and better cars. Will some ex
pert now kindly step forward and ex
plain how capital is to be induced to
come to the rescue in the face of the
fact that it is not assured of adequate
returns, in the face of agitation for a
further reduction of fares in a city
that already enjoys the lowest fare of
any city of its size in America, and in
the face of the fact that there is an
almost total lack of united civic spirit
for the upbuilding of Lincoln?
Senator Epperson's proposal to
penalize non-voters is getting down to
Oothes WiA "
We mean clothes that are different different because better in fabric and make, better in
style and finish. Clothes that are distinct that give the wearer the look of distinction. In other
words, clothes that make a man look like prosperity and thafs half
The Secret of Success
Say about $25 for a suit or overcoat. That's where we shine. At that money we give
you a remarkable clothes bargain. Something from the shop of the world's best makers hand
tailored, finished like a watch. The tailor never made anything so good for less than $40. They
are the acme of the clothing art. Something better at $30 to $40, but better enly in
trimmings, linings, etc Or at
From $10.00 to $20.00
equally good fabrics and styles and colors, but lacking a bit in the matter of trimmings. No
slight in the workmanship however.
And in the underwear department the Superior line of union suits. Something new in
union suit construction don't bind, always comfortable. And hats just what you want just
what any man can want.
AranstroE
basic principles. We penalize voters
now by making them pay poll tax and
by searching the voting lists to secure
names to put in the jury box. The
man who is entitled to vote and does
not should be made to pay poll tax,
while evidence of having voted should
release a man therefrom. And juries
should be drawn from the non-voters
as far as possible. In addition to
thus penalizing non-voters, failure to
vote at two or three successive gen
eral elections should operate to dis
franchise a man for a term of vears.
Next Tuesday's election, whether
the voters so desire or not. is sioing to
give some line on next year. Insurg
ency is rampant in all parties, but
particularly in the republican party.
Insurgency in democratic ranks played
its large part several years ago, be
ginning with the famous '"free silver
conference" in Omaha more than six
teen years ago. It was then that the
plans were laid that resulted in sweep
ing the old corporation-assistant-republican
crowd ont of democratic party
management, not only in Nebraska,
but in the nation. The republican
party is now undergoing the same
process. It remains to be seen whether
the republican insurgents have got the
nerve to stick to it like the demo
cratic insurgents did. Tuesday's elec
tion will give us an indication.
The crop expert of Will Maupin's
Weekly has been "pestieating" around
quite a bit of late. He is "bugs" on
knowing all he can learn about crop
outlook in this good state, and he
backs np into a corner every out of
town friend he meets and insists on
knowing. And right here he insists
on stopping the press to report that
the winter wheat crop never stood bet
ter at this time of year than it does
right now; that there never was sueh
a large acreage, and that the soil con-,
d it ions were never better. If the
winter conditions are equal to the con
ditions last winter. Nebraska is going
to have the biggest wheat crop in her
history during the summer of 1912.
And the winter conditions are going
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GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
to be all right, thank you. Paste these
predictions in your hat.
The re-election of Judge A. J. Cor
nish should be practically unanimous.
No district judge in Nebraska ever
made a better record for ability and
fairness, or for distinguished service
upon the bench. If there is sueh a
thing as a "labor vote" it shonld go
solidly to Judge Cornish, for in him
the wage earners have a staunch
friend. He is a student of affairs as
well as of law. and he knows men as
he knows his legal text books. Kind
ly, affable, approachable, and always
tempering justice with mercy. Judge
Cornish is an ideal man for the bench,
and his distinguished services and
ability entitle him to a re-election so
unanimous as to be at once a compli
ment to him and honor to the voters
wise enough to give it to him.
The death of Joseph Pulitzer leaves
only one newspaper man of the old
order in active service Henry Watter
son. Yet Joseph Pulitzer was of the
old school, yet not of it. He was of
it because he made his personality
felt in the great journals he eonduet
ated methods that were calculated to
ed. and not of it becanse he inaugnr
and the elder Bennett turn over in
their graves. This Polish Jew came
to America a poor emigrant boy, and
almost before he learned our language
he was editing and managing a great
daily newspaper. How he 'did it no
one knows, but he managed to get
hold of the almost moribund Post-Dispatch
in St. Louis, and almost in the
twinkling of an eye it became one of
the best known newspapers in Ameri
ca. St. Louis soon grew too small for
him and he invaded the New York
field- He made the blase Gothamites
sit np straight and gasp in amazement,
and in a year the World grew from
an undersized and wholly nninflnential
sheet into perhaps the most powerful
daily newspaper in America. It was
the World that aroused patr:otic
America and secured the money to
properly erect Bartholdi's "Statute of
Liberty" on Bedloe island. - This was
the first big trick turned by Pulitzer.
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map. .
and it made the World famous in
day. But the biggest thing accom
plished by the World, and it accom
plished many big things, was to fore
the Cleveland administration to back
down from its bond conspiracy with
Wall street and give the people the
benefit of buying in small lots, thus
saving them millions and adding mil
lions to the public treasury at the
same time.
MJr
That means something- to you.
LISTEN!
Ell & Ess Clothing is out of
the ordinary because it is bet
ter than the ordinary. Hand
some fabrics, beautiful styles,
fine workmanship.
Here is the bargain that will
interest you. One hundred and
fifty Ell & Ess suits at
Never before has this grade
of clothing- sold for less tfrgTi
$15 the suit. We got the bar
gain and pass it on to you.
SHOES
From $3 to $4.50 the best shoe
ever offered.
LINCOLN 'CLOTHING CO.
OPPOSITE POSTOFTICE
ESS
$15