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HAWK'S WEEKLY
A Weekly Journal of Cheerful Comment whose mission it is to reflect sunshine
and pilot people around and behind the dark clouds. It believes in the Ultimate
Good and strives for it Until it runs out of Good Words to say about men
and women it will say no Harsh Wordsand there is so much of Good to be
said that Will Maupin's Weekly expects to be Very Busy on the Good End of
the job for many years to come. May we have your company along the way?
BOOSTING NEBRASKA ALWAYS
That is one of the best things we do and thepleasantest Just say ''Nebraska"
to us and you've got us going. Nebraska is inspiration for song and symphony,
for oratory and optimism. Will you join our Grand Chorus of Nebraska Boost
ers, instructed and conducted by Will Maupin's Weekly? Initiation fee and
one year's dues, One Dollarthe more dollars we get the better we sing.
THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR SMGMG LESSONS
FACTS ABOUT NEBRASKA.
Labor Commissioner Guye has just
issued a bulletin, "Facts About Ne
braska, tkat is full of mighty inter
esting reading. We quote the follow
ing: "Nebraska has 6,144 miles of main
line railroads within its border, com
prising seven trunk lines.
"Nebraska has the largest horse
Nand feed market in the world.
"Nebraska has the second largest
stock market and packing center in
the world.
. "Nebraska has the largest cream
ery and is the greatest dairy produc
ing state per capita in the world.
'"Nebraska produces one-thirteenth
of all the corn, one-fourteenth of all
the wheat, one-fifteenth of the oats,
one-fourteenth of the hogs, and one
eighteenth of all the cattle of the en
tire United States.
" Nebraska is the third largest pro
ducer of sugar beets and the first in
poultry and eggs.
"Nebraska's averaged sized farm is
93 acres and yet the most successful
I farmers in America are located in Ne-
braska and the sice of their farms are
I forty forty and twenty acres respec
tively. "Farm Bulletin 325, by J. A. War
)n, United States department of agri-
"i1i can ATV f Russia aiwk.
ates a forty-acre farm in Saunders
county, Nebraska, off of which his
sales were in one year $1,942.50 with
an expense of $436.50, leaving him a
net income of $1,506.45 or $37.66 per
acre, this being his average yearly in
come. "The forty-acre farm of II. F. "War
ren, in Adams county, shows similar
results, while the twenty-acre farm of
Arnold Martin, a Swiss farmer, lo
cated in Pawnee eoounty, shows even
greater results."
sundry journals. "How to make a
full set of parlor furniture out of
three soap boxes and a yard of crepe
paper;" "How to make father a pair
of slippers out of two Quiver Oats
cartons and five discarded neckties;"
"how to make imitation silver frames
for photos out of empty corn and to
mato cans, trimmed with the tinfoil
that comes around your yeast cakes,"
and all that sort of thing. Doubtless
this sort of slush is eagerly read, for
we find it in a whole lot of other
wise sane and respectable journals.
But if ever we catch any feminine
member of our household trying to
follow the directions hinted at above
there's going to be a sudden call for
the police by distressed and outraged
neighbors.
FOL-DE-ROL AND SLUSH.
If you want to acquire a groaping
pain in your abandon, as Mrs. Parting
ton would say, accentuated by dizzi
ness, palpitation of the heart and black
specks before the eyes, read the slush
out "dainty Christmas gifts made
fat home now running in divers and
THE EXPRESS GRAFT.
The express companies seem to have
got in their work on the national asso
ciation of state railway commissioners,
in session in Washington. A resolu
tion asking congress to enact legisla
tion requiring the railroads to take
over the express business was over
whelmingly defeated. As a matter of
fact, the railroads own the express
companies now that is, the men who
own the railroads also own the express
companies. It is a cute seheme for
getting around the prohibition against
excessive freight rates. Also a mighty
handy way of covering up excessive
profits of the railroads. The biggest
"melon cuttings" in the financial
world of late years have been the ex
press company stock dividends. Take
the Adams, for instance. An average
of 20 per cent cash dividends during
the past decade. Not much! "Well,
how about 300 per cent stock divi
dends during the same time? Suppose
you had invested $100 in Adams stock
ten years ago. By this time you would
have received $200 in dividends on the
original investement of $100. But you
would now have $400 worth of stock
drawing 20 per cent dividends a year.
See the graft! And the express com
pany employes. How about them!
The poorest paid men in the United
States, hours of labor and risks as
sumed taken into consideration. The
poor, downtrodden express companies
can not afford to pay decent wages,
don't you know.
"What's the answer! "Well, you
wouldn't consider for a minute a prop
osition to let some private corporation
handle the mails, would you! You
are perfectly satisfied with the way
Uncle Sam does it! Yes! All right;
the express is carried on the same
trains that carry the mails. Let's be
sensible and let Uncle Sam handle the
express business, just like he handles
the mails, only putting business men
of ability in charge instead of pot
house politicians.
NO MIDDLE GROUND.
A government is one of two things.
Either it is a government of the rude
untaught rabble by persons divinely
gifted to rule. Or it is a government
by the people with no measure nor
standard of wisdom except the collec
tive wisdom of the community. There
is nothing between these two, what
ever pretense we may please to make
about it, "When a man assumes that
because he has succeeded in getting
himself elected to office, he, therefore,
is endowed with superior wisdom and
knows what is good for the people, he
is merely adopting the good old theory
of the divine right to rule. He may
not be perfectly conscious of the fact,
and he may on the platform prate
much about the republic and popular
rule. But if he thinks that the people
do not know what is good for them
and his mission is to guide them in the
way they should go, he is subscribing
to the doctrine that has cost many
king persons their heads. Charles Ed
ward Russell, in The Coming Nation.
was speaker, a few congressmen met
by chance in a committee room and
proceeded to indulge in a gabfest and
smoker. Nelson Dingley happened in
and was offered a cigar. He declined
it with the remark:
"I never smoked in my life, nor
haTe I ever known the taste of tobacco
in any form. Further, I have never
tasted intoxicating liquor of any
kind."
There was a moment's silence,
broken when Congressman Johnson of
Alabama said:
"I wish I could say that."
""Well, you may if yon want to lie
about it like Nelse did," remarked
Reed.
OF COURSE JOHN MAY.
Col. John G. Maher, writing to the
World-Herald on his favorite topic
Governor Harmon concludes by say
ing: "I may say that nearly all progres
sive democrats, not only in Ohio, but
outside of Ohio, who are familiar with
Judson Harmon's record favor him as
the democratic nominee."
Of course the genial Colonel Maher
may say it if he wants to. And that
reminds us of a story:
A few years ago, when Tom Reed
THE COURTS ASD THE PEOPLE.
Abraham Lincoln denned the true
relation of even ihe highest of our
courts to the people. Having been
challenged by Stephen A. Douglas,
much as Mr. Taft now challenges Mr.
Bryan, with reference to a decision of
the Supreme Court "on all fours"
with the present one, Mr. Lincoln said :
"I am opposed to that decision in a
certain sense, but not in the sense
which he puts on it. I say that inso
far as it is decided in favor of Dred
Seott's master and against Dred Scott
and his farmily, I do not propose to
disturb or resist the decision. I never
have proposed to do any such thing.
I think that in respect for judicial au
thority my humble history would not
suffer in comparison with that of
Judge Douglas. He would have the
citizen conform his vote to that de
cision; the member of Congress his;
the president his use of the veto pow
er. He would make it a rule of politi
cal action for the people and all the
departments of the government. I
would not. By resisting it as a politi
cal rule I disturb no right of property,
create no disorder, excite no mobs."
Mr. Lincoln thought well to fall back
upon authority on that occasion for
there were Tafts also on the other side
in those days, and Douglas was one"
of them so he quoted Thomas Jeffer
son. He quoted Jefferson the great
democrat to the democratic Douglas,
as Lincoln the great republican may
be quoted him: "Our judges are as
honest as other men, and not more so.
They have with others the same pas
sions for party, for power, and the
privilege of their corps. Their TnaT"n
is, 'boni judieis est ampliare jurisdic
tion em," and their power is the more
dangerous as they are in office for life,
and not responsible, as the other func
tionaries are, to the elective control."
Shall we, then, be advised regarding
courts and judges by Jefferson the
fundamental democrat and Lincoln the
fundamental republican, who regard
ed the courts as part of the conven
ient machinery of social organization,
or by Taft the aristocrat, who regards
them as a sort of bench of bishops with
eivil and criminal jurisdiction!
Chieago Public. -
WHAT KIND?
When President Taft said: "I love
the judges; I love the courts; they
are my ideal on earth and typify what
we shall meet afterward in heaven
under a just God," did he have in
mind the supreme court of the United
States that decided the Sherman anti
trust law to mean every rest mini of
trade, or did he have in mind the. su
preme court of the United States that
decided the Sherman law to mean only
those restraints that the judges may
regard as reasonable! Did he have
in mind a eourt like the federal court
presided over by Judge Sanborn which
decides that the states have practic
ally no power to regulate railroad
rates; or a federal eourt like the one
presided over by Judge Warrington
which decides quite the opposite !
When the federal courts exhibit such
remarkable differences of opinion as to
what constitutes justice, what kind of
courts does President Taft have in
mind when he says "they typify what
we shall afterward meet in heaven
under a just God?" La FoUette's
Magazine.
There are eighteen political parties
in Germany. Isn't that "nuts" for the
ward heelers and party workers!
Some of our preferred candidates
were elected, and some were defeated
but the country will get along somehow