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WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
F. L. SHOOP, Business Manager
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Tor & journal of cheerfulness and
eternal boosting for Nebraska, Will
Maupin s - Weekly, published at Lin
coln, is some "pumpkins." While
Maupin 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 Maupia-kiad-of-a-booster.
DON T BELIEVE IT!
Dont believe all the stories you hear
about the terrible loss to apple grow
ers by reason of the cold snap last Sat
urday. About the first thing Nebraska
needs to do in her campaign of pub
licity is to massacre the "string
friends" the newspaper correspond
ents in and about Lincoln and Omaha
who make every snow flurry a bliz
rard for eastern consumption, and
every early frost a crop killer for the
delectation of down east readers.
True the cold snap caught a lot of
apples hanging in the trees, but that
was because the growers had been so
busy gathering and selling apples up
to that time that they don't mind the
los of the few remaining. Doubtless a
loss of the few remaining. Doubtless a
snap because - the growers were too
busy caring for more' profitable busi
ness than the gathering of apples and
apples are mighty profitable, at that.
. But the amount of apples destroyed by
the cold snap isn't a marker to the
amount that had already been picked
and either marketed at once or put
into cold storage. Most of the loss was
sustained in the fertile imaginations of
the "string fiends."
STOP THE FOOLISHNESS.
No matter what business undertak
ing you set afloat, or what enterprise
you contemplate, the minute you set
about it you are met with a statement
something like this:
"Things are a bit slack now. With
a national campaign coming on busi
ness is unsettled and uncertain. Money
is getting tight, and investors are hold
ing back."
Why should a presidential campaign
unsettle business T Why should a
country that produces so much as this
one be eternally subject to this cramp
ing of business? Why do we always
begin to pull long faces, squeeze onto
our dollars and talk lugubriously about
eight or ten months before a presiden
. tial campaign conies on, and then un
dergo a year or more of business trou
ble and trial!
Isn't it about time to stop this fool
ishness Does the approach of a pres
idential campaign take a bit of fer
tility from the soil, or remove the need
men have of clothing and foodstuffs
Does the approach of a presidential
campaign decrease the demand for
those things necessary to life? Does
it not seem reasonable that with the
soil as fertile, with human demands as
great, and with human energies as ac
tive, that business ought always be
good in this great country, and Certain
ly as good in a presidential campaign
year as any other year ?
The trouble with us is that we have
talked about the "timidity of capi
tal" until weve got every dollar in
this country afraid to show itself out
side of a safety deposit vault. We
st up bogeymen and then throw fits
of fear in front of them. So greatly
do we love worry that we actually
worry ourselves into financial panics
just to have something to worry about.
Come out of it! True Nebraska's
crops this year were not as great as
in some years gone by, but when was
there ever a Nebraska crop worth
more real money than the crop of
1911 T When did Nebraskans ever en
joy a greater meed of prosperity than
they are enjoying now! When did
they ever have more money in bank,
more dollars' worth of grain in store,
more high priced cattle and hogs in
their feed yards, more alfalfa in stack,
or brighter prospects for the future?
Yet despite all these blessings here we
are complaining about "dull busi
ness" and talking in lugubrious tones
about the future. We ought to be
ashamed of ourselves. And if we are
not we are not worthy of the bless
ings God Almighty has so abundantly
showered upon us in the last decade.
Omaha points with pride to the fact
that the registration at the recent con
vention of teachers in that city was the
largest in the association's history.
Well, there are more teachers now than
ever before. And Omaha had Council
Bluffs to draw upon. And we dont
blame the teachers for wanting to see
Omaha, for Omaha knows how to en
tertain. The criminal clause of the anti-trust
law provides for a fine of $5,000 or im
prisonment not exceeding one year for
a violation of its provisions. No one
has ever been sent to prison for violat
ing the anti-trust law. You may corner
the nation's food without being in dan
ger, but don't you dare stead a de
crepit mule.
CoL Roosevelt declares he has noth
ing more to say about the steel trust's
swallowing of the Tennesee Coal & Iron
Co. We should think not. He is very
much in the position of the little boy
under certain specified circumstances.
By their votes the men of the Third
Nebraska district have demonstrated
that they do not believe that Dan
Stephens corruptly used money in the
Latta campaigns or that if he did
they are glad of it.
If Nebraska apple raisers paid as
much attention to their orchards as do
the apple raisers of the northwest, the
northwest orchards would not be one,
two, three with Nebraska orchards.
It took experts five weeks to ascer
tain that the Austin, Pa,, dam was
faulty. It took the people of Austin
about ten minutes to ascertain the same
fact about five weeks earlier.
President Taft's voting of the
"Boss" Cox ticket in Cincinnati is by
many taken to be evidence that the
president is a much better partisan
than he is citizen.
What makes us mad is to hear a man
who is puffing away on a Philadelphia
made cigar boasting about how he
stands up for Nebraska industries.
With autos stuck in the mud, airships
stuck in the sand, and street cars with
their trolleys off ain't life just one
darned thing after another?
By the way, when you buy Christmas
candies be sure they are "made in Ne
braska." This will insure your getting
the freshest and best.
It seems that instead of tackling an
easy job in endeavoring to pull Tur
key's tail feathers, Italy has gone up
against a real task.
"We are all patiently waiting for
Mike Harrington to step to the front
and point to a vindication
Next to a campaign of publicity Ne
braska's greatest need is tax reform,
a short ballot and fewer elections.
By the way, did you ever hear of
any scandal about "professionalism"
on a university debating squad?
In the meantime quit talking about
doing your Christmas shopping early
and do it.
A Hamilton county farmer refused
an offer of $175 an acre" for his 160-acre
Oitah
FOR
For men who
want distinctive style and fit; who are not content with just any
thing. We tender such as. these our best offices the best makes
of clothing on the market clothes that have distinction, that are
stylish, hand tailored, made of perfect fabrics and in pleasing colorings.,
SUITS AND OVERCOATS $10 to $40
The difference lies wholly in the fabric and trimmings all
are as well made as man and skill can devise.
We call especial attention to our $25 line. The tailor would
ask you at least $40 for a suit or overcoat equally well made.
They are the best clothing bargains ever offered. No words of
ours will suffice to convince you you must come in and see. We
are staking the reputation built up through fifteen years of suc
cessful business upon the quality of these garments.
And, of course, you are just now deeply interested in the
overcoat problem. We have the solution for you. Come in and
let us solve it ' . .
AraHStTOEg GloAkg C(0)o :
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
farm. He was wise, yet equally good
farming land in Nebraska is to be had
at from $25 to $60 an a ere on easy
terms. The trouble is that Nebraska
is not making the fact known in quar
ters where it would do the most good
to Nebraska.
New York is mad about it, and pro
poses to do a little "back to the land"
advertising on her own account. Any
old quarter" seetion of New York land
would be vastly improved by scattering
a few wagonloads of Nebraska soil
over it.
Mark this prediction: Twenty-five
years from now the Nebraska bluff
lands along the Missouri river will be
the greatest grape lands in America,
and eastern Nebraska will be the great
est apple growing country in the world.
The esteemed World-Herald chides
Governor Aldrich for not observing
the constitution, but since when has
the outworn and outgrown constitu
tion of Nebraska been observed either
in letter or in spirit!
Subscribe for Will Maupin 's Weekly
for some eastern friend, and thus place
the gospel of Nebraska in possession of
some one whom it may benefit, while
incidentally benefiting Nebraska.
Can you blame the mob at Shady
Bend, Kas., for desiring to keep it
dark!
MEN AND MATTERS
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calfe has a host of friends anxious
for him to announce himself. The sen
atorial primary in both political camps
will be"hoss races" before the time
expires.
While being considerable of a base
ball "fan" and football "rooter," the
editor of this newspaper is just old
fashioned enough to take a whole lot
of interest in the young men of the
University of Nebraska who are mem-
Iff ClOfHES
"QUALITY MEN"
want something besides
bers of the inter-collegiate debating
teams. On November 25 something
like 6,000 or 8,C JO frenzied people
will gather to see eleven Cornhuskers
strive to hammer the eternal daylights
out of an equal number of Badgers.
But when four Cornhuskers stand
forth to meet as many Wolverines and
another four Cornhuskers as many
Hawkeyes in a battle of brains and
quick wit and deep research, we opine
that it will not take the auditorium to
hold the listening erowd. We expect
to see the football game, to be sure,
but we also expect to hear at least one
of the inter-eollegiate debates, and we
anticipate that the debate will be vast
ly more beneficial to us, and to its
participants, than the football game.
Will Maupin s Weekly is a believer
in the direct primary. It would op
pose going back to the old convention
system. Yet the direct primary lacks
a great deal of being what its origin
al pro-ponents declared it to be, and
unless there is a speedy modification
in its terms and therefore in its re
sults, the old convention system will
be re-established- Under present cir
cumstances, despite the corrupt prac
tices act, the man with the longest
purse can get the nomination. We
fully believe that given $25,000 to
expend in a primary campaign we
could nominate any man for any office
in Nebraska. This is not an indict
ment of the people; it is a tribute to
the efficacy of advertising.
The fact of the matter is, we are
not intelligent voters; our ballot is
always bunglesome; and we are prone
to vote for the men whose names are
such that alphabetical arrangement
gives them a place at the top. Again,
we eleet too many officials and have
altogether too many officeholders, for
that matter. We favor the short bal
lot which simply means fewer elec
tive officers and more appointive offi
cers. And that means fixed responsi
bility. If we had our way there
would be no such thing -as electing
state auditor and treasurer and the
rest of them. "We would eleet a gov-.
1
mere "clothes" who
ernor, pay him a good salary and let
him serve four or six years. Then
we would let him appoint a cabinet, as
the president does, and say to Lint:
"You are the responsible head of this
state; select your own advisors and
helpers, but well hold yon personally
responsible for not only your acts but
the acts of your subordinates, and if
yon fail to make good we will recall
you."
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Facte
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It is a fact that at $10, $12.50
and $15 we are offering yoa salts
and overcoats that are the equal in
quality and style of suits and over
coats others ask yoa S3 1-3 per cent
more money for. ,
It is a fact that no better Quality
in clothinir i ctfTprpA 1uarbom t
matter what the price. f
It is a fact that we offer yoa tWw
ter bargains in clothing, under
wear, shirts, work garments, shoes,
etc., than any other store in Lin
coln. S UITS $10 TO $15
O'COATS$10to$15
and in quality and make and style
they are equal to any.
It is a fact that we are always on
the lookout for bargains not in
"cheap clothing" bat "clothing
cheap" and we pa3s the bargains
on to our customers.
LINCOLN CLOTHEfG CO.
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