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Printed primarily for people
who look upon life cheerfully and
hopefully. Also for people who
ought to do so. The promoter of
ail good things and good people,
of which first Nebraska is chief
and of which second Nebra.sk ans
are mostly.
DOLLAR A YEAR
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CURRENT
It is oaly natural that the agitation
over the traction -situation should re
sult in a demand for municipal owner
ship. All things being equal Will Mau
pin's Weekly is an advocate of munici
pal ownership of public utilities, but un
der existing conditions in Lincoln this
newspaper would be inclined to op
pose niunicipalixation of the street raili
way system. In the first place there is
nothing about the present condition of
city management to enthuse anybody
in the direction of municipal ownership.
There is now no possible way to fix re
sponsibility for mismanagement. There
is now no guarantee that we would
have officials capable of handling so
vexed a problem as the traction prob
lem. Voder a commission form, where
responsibility could be fixed, and where
we could be sure of securing competent
men to manage the system, it would be
possible to secure results. But to un
dertake municipal management of tlu
tract tkn system under existing condi
tions would be the sheerest folly.
A very Urge section of Lincoln has
had a sample of inefficient municipal
mismanagement of a public utility dur
ing the past year. .We have been wont
to boast of our municipal water plant,
but when a real test came during the.
hot and dry weeks of the past summer,
it failed us, and today we realiae that
we are up against a very serious condi
tion. We can readily imagine what
would happen to a private corporation
managing a public utility if it gave the
people such abominable service as our
water department gave large sections
f the city during, the summer mouths.
Yet in the face of this showing there
are those who are now insistently de
claring that the solution of our traction
problem is municipaliaatiou of the sys
tem. Either municipal ownership or so
cialism !' shrieks one advocate of muni
cipal ownership. Well, there might even
be wwrse things than socialism. It is
quite evident that socialism couldn't be
ny worse than some things we have
under the present system.
Well, Maine is to remain dry after
all. Not that we care a continental
whether Maiue is wet or dry. On the
whole we are rather glad it is to re
main prohibition. In this way we will
always have ready to hand ample proof,
first that prohibition is a success; sec
ond, that prohibition is a failure. It
will depend upon the bias of the man
arguing. And isn't prohibition the ideal
condition after all? Those who want
prohibition have it, and those who want
liquor can get it without auy particu
lar trouble. The only thing about the
REAL CLOTHES
That explains why men who want real clothes value
combined with style and appearance, come here to buy.
We sell the kind of Clothing that gives satisfaction
from all viewpoints.
FARQUHAR
The Horn of
GOOD CLOTHES
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COMMENT
Maine result that makes us rejoice is
that at last it has been definitely set
tled. The police in Chicago are raiding
bridge whist parties and actually break
ing up private poker parties wherein
society women are the participants. Of
course this is all wrong. It is perfect
ly proper for men to gamble on ex
change, or for society women to frivoi
away their time playing bridge for high
stakes, but awfully wrong to engage in
gambling games under other conditions.
There are those who will play bridge
for high stakes who would throw fits
of indignation if charged with gamb
ling?. This is a mighty funny old world,
with a lot of funny people in it.
Of course Governor Aldrich was nis
taken if he really did say at Holdrege,
or anywhere else, that he made an ap
pointment to offiee at the request of Mr.
Bryan. In the particular case said to
have been mentioned by the governor,
it is doubtful if Mr. Bryan knew the
y ones' lady in question save as a mem
ber of the Commoner clerical force.
That the young lady did have the
endorsement of men acknowledged to
be pretty close to Mr. Bryan politically
is not to be denied, and that she was
worthy of the endorsements is equally
true. But Mr. Bryan has made it a
rigid rule not to endorse any appli
cants for office, and this newspaper has
evidence at first hand that under no
circumstances will he deviate there
from. Trades unions are not opposed to
trade schools, provided, of course, the
trade schools are schools in fact, not in
name only. But the trades unions are
opposed to any system which turns out
half-baked mechanics who will displace
skilled workers because they will work
long hours for low wages. That the
unions favor trade schools is evidenced
by the fact that several of the trades
organizations have established schools
of their own wherein young men are
taught not only the rudiments of the
trade, but the whole trade, and turned
out skilled mechanics competent to
work anywhere. But the so-called trade
schools in conjunction with our public
school system today are merely recruit
ing grounds for strike breakers,
"scabs' and incompetents. It is no
wonder the organiaed workers oppose
thorn.
Nor should the public be deceived by
the claim that the unions are limiting
apprentices, thus preventing American
boys from learning trades. The only
limit the unions put upon the number
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of apprentices is designed to benefit the
apprentices, not to deter boys from
learning trades. The fact of the mat
ter is, and statistics will bear out the
statement, the employers are not using
as many apprentices as the union rules
permit. The unions throw restrictions
around the number of apprentices that
may be employed, the purpose being to
make it possible to give each apprentice
ample opportunity to become a skilled
mechanic, not to limit the supply of
workers. The oft-repeated statement
that the unions are trying to prevent
the making of mechanics is a barefaced
lie, floated by men who have a selfish
purpose to serve. It is time the unions
were making the truth known.
If we had the authority we certainly
would take the members of the Sparta,
Wis., board of education out behind the
woodshed and spank some common
sense into them. : The aforesaid board
has prohibited basket-ball among the
girls of the high school on the grounds
that it is not conducive to good morals.
We presume the board objects because
the team members wear bloomer skirts
and actually dare to show a bit of leg
below the knee. Shocking! Isn't it
awf uL Mabel, to think of a young girl
15 or 16 years old wearing a costume
"that shows a bit of stoeking'between
the hem of the skirt and the top of the
shoe! It is just such congenital idiots
as seem to make up the Sparta board
of education that often make us wonder
if the world isn't growing; backwards
in mentality. We'll wager a cookie
that not one of that board would ob
ject to seeing Sparta girls lace them
selves into tight corsets until their
eyes the girls' eyes, we mean bulged
out like hip-pockets in a prohibition
community, or object to the wearing of
"peek-a-boo" waists that exhibited
more anatomy than bloomer suits could
exhibit if only half as long as neces
sary. Somebody should, in all kindness
to suffering humanity, swat that Sparta
outfit over the head with a pillow and
thus beat some sense into its collective
head.
Douglas is a funny county. Last year
the republicans elected only one man
on their county ticket. This- year the
democrats elect only one man on their
county ticket. And now the repub
licans are handing back to the demo
crats the merry quips and jibes tha
democrats so freely handed to the re
publicans just one short year ago.
Tesday's election was full of sur
prises outside of Nebraska. New Mex
ico elects a democratic governor, which
nobody expected. New Jersey elects a
republican legislature, which nobody
expected. Maryland goes republican
and Kentucky does democratic. New
Yorkrpnts her legislature back into re
publican hands, whieh is neither unex
pected or unpleasing to lovers of
cleaner politics. Republican polities in
the Empire state is not as white as
snow by a great deal but it is at least
a gray alongside the blackness of Tam
many. Massachusetts elected a demo
cratic governor. One Kansas district
elects a democrat to congress for the
first time in its history. As a whole
the election is comforting to the demo
crats, not altogether unpleasing to pro
gressive republicans, and displeasing
only to the gangsters of both parties
everywhere.
It is declared now that the big trusts
sent hundreds of thousands of dollaars
to Canada to defeat reciprocity. The
trusts must go !
1911
MEN AND
The election of Dan V. Stephens to
congress from the Third district was
not a surprise. In the first place the
district is demoeratie, and in the sec
ond place it was unthinkable that the
people of the district would neglect an
opportunity to secure the services of
sueh a man. We mean no disparage
ment to CoL Elliott, the defeated re
publican candidate. But there are few
men in the west so thoroughly ac
quainted with western problems, west
ern aspirations and western ideals, and
at the same time so well equipped to
solve those problems and achieve the
ideals, as Dan Stephens. He will wield
an influence in Washington circles that
will be of benefit to his district his
state and the entire west.
We rejoice to learn that "despite every
effort to eneompass his defeat, Judge
Lee Estelle of Omaha is re-elected to
the district bench. We rejoice because
of a warm personal friendship for
Judge Estelle, and because we believe
him to be in every respect a capable,
upright and just judge. There would
be more respect exhibited towards
courts and judges were all of "our
judges as close to the common people
as Lee Estelle.
Nebraska has lost an exceptional citi
zen in the death of Frank D. Reed of
Shelton. who for twenty-five years
edited the Shelton Clipper and for an
equal length of time made it an earn
est and consistent booster for Nebraska
county. Few Nebraska
editors have served longer in the edi
torial harness, and few if any wielded
a wider measure of influence for good
in the community. Always optimistie,
always cheerful, always fair and above
board, Frank Keed was a lovable char
acter, a man among men. The editor
of Will Maupin's Weekly remembers
with pride a friendship extending over
almost a quarter of a century a friend
ship whose memory will always be a
cherished possession.
When Speaker Clark declared that
90 per cent of the people of this repub
lic favored annexation of Canada he
spoke the simple truth, and Canadians
know it. Why, then, all this fuss over
the speaker's statement? It is charac
teristic of us to desire the annexation
of any territory whose people want to
become one with us and we have been
guilty of enforced annexation. But the
Canadians are opposed to annexation,
and for very good reason. Although
laying ourselves open to the charge of
being npatriotic, we insist that Cana
dians have a more representative form
of government than we have, that their
government is more responsive to the
people, that their courts execute jus-
1528
A MERRY HEART
DOETHGOOD
LIKE
MEDICINE
Bat a broken spirit dried the
bones. That's what the Good
Book says, and well bank on it,
sure. Wax, Mauttx's Weesxt
works to make cheerful the hearts
of its readers, and thus do medi
cal duty. . Fifty-two eoBseeutrre
weekly doses for a dollar.
GUARANTEED
NUMBER 33
MATTERS
tice more rapidly and with a more even
hand, that her banking system is better
and that her management f the trust
question puts us to shame. Why, tlwn,
should Canadians not be opposed to an
nexation f
The defeat of John E. Miller for re
gent of the university was not unex
pected. Having in mind the proneness
of the voters to neglect their best op
portunities, we predicted Mr. Miller's
defeat from the beginning, basing the
prediction upon the fact that he was
the best man mentioned for the posi
tion.' A successful business man, deep
ly interested in the university, a lover
of young men and women seeking
higher and better things, and an en
thusiast along all lines calculated to
benefit the whole people, Mr. Miller
would have given the people splendid
and efficient service upon the board of
regents. He did not make any effort
to be elected. Sueh men seldom da
and that is one reason why they should
be elected when they do accept a nomi
nation. The socialists are claiming great
gains throughout the country, basing
the claims upon the fact that they
elected several mayors in Tarious
states. While there is no disputing the
assertion that the socialist vote is grow
ing, it is foolish to claim that all these
mayors were elected because they are
socialists. The truth is a lot of inde
pendent republican and demoeratie
voters repudiated their tickets and
voted for socialist candidates as a pro
test. It was 'done right here in Lin-'
coin. One of the good features about
the socialist party is that it acts so
well as a balance wheel for old party
machinery.
Of course the office of state superin
tendent should be removed from poli
tics. But are we ready to concede that
the state superintendent should be ap
pointed by the governor? Would that
help matters any, to have a man ap
pointed to the office of state superin
tendent because he happened to have
rendered good party service? That's
what it would amount to.
Grief over the death of Kev. Father
Murphy will not be confined to Cath
olic circles. Father Murphy was sock
an upstanding man, so deeply inter
ested in all good works, whether secu
lar or religious, that he made staunck
friends in all walks of life. He ap
pealed to men because of the upright
ness of his life, and because he daily
exemplified the fact that he did not
believe the fact that he was a priest
mctde him any less a man.
UNCLE SAM SAYS
GEO. W. VOSS CO.
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