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VOLUME 8
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 24, 1911
NUMBER 35
CURRENT COMMENT
Does anyone doubt that Theodore
Roosevelt is laying his plans to se
cure the republican presidential nom
ination T If such there be, let them
not say so else they be looked upon
as either ignorant or simpleminded.
Theodore Roosevelt is the most cun
ning and adroit politician this coun
try has seen since the days of Martin
YanBuren. Nor is he at all choice in
his methods once he is convinced that
they are necessary for his own per
sonal aggrandizement. 1 nose who
dare oppose him, or to deny his infal
libility, are at once catalogued as
liars or scoundrels, or both. There
may be those who doubt Mr. Roose
velt's ability to make a satisfactory
understudy for God, but Mr. Roose
velt is not among them.
After considerable cogitation and
research we are compelled to admit
that we have been unable to find any
fragments of trusts that were "bust
ed" during the Roosevelt administra
tions. We heard a lot of fuss, and we
aaw a great deal of political froth,
but nary a busted trust so far as we
can discover. Pinned down to con
crete facts the most ardent Roosevelt
advocate finally falls back upon the
assertion: "Well, Roosevelt settled
the anthracite coal strike." And even
that statement is not true. And if it
were, it is simply another proof that
Mr. Roosevelt balled things up then
as badly as he did when he gave of
ficial sanction to the violation of the
anti-trust law in the case of the steel
trust's absorption of the Tennessee
Coal & Iron Co. Had Rosevelt kept
his hands oil that strike it might have
resulted in a prolongation of suffer
ing in some quarters, but it would
have whipped the coal barons to a
standstill. " Had that strike gone a
bit further we would have made some
appreciable progress towards public
ownership of the coal mines some
thing devoutly to be wished.
wont to joke their democratic friends
by asking: "What kind of a demo
crat T" That's double-barrelled joke
now. We have several kinds of re
publicans nowadays.
Taft organization are wise in their
day and generation. Ton will notice
an absence of federal officeholders in
the membership roll. Of course they
are there like the traveling man's
overcoat but the rank and file don't
see them.
The funniest part of it all, however,
is the sight of Senator Is orris Browa.
MEN AND MATTERS
Take it from us and we are in a
position to know Mr. Bryan never
recommended any man to appoint
ment to publie office, save that of
postmaster when he was a member of
And now, just as we have some faint
hope of putting a few trust magnates
behind the bars on charge of violat
ing the criminal clause of the anti
trust law, along comes Mr. Roosevelt
with his federal corporation scheme
a scheme whereby the states are to
be shorn of their rights to control cor
porations within their own borders.
You 11 have great difficulty in locat
ing a trust magnate or a corporation
manager who is not earnestly la favor
of that.
Nebraska without a fight. Hence the
formation of this new Taft League.
Not long ago the republicans were
THANKSGIVING IN NEBRASKA
Taken by and large, up and down and across, the people of no other
state have more reason to be thankful than nave the people of Nebraska.
I know a bit about Nebraska and about other states. This I know:
There is less of destitution in Nebraska than in any other state. There is
more wealth production per capita in Nebraska than in any other state.
No other state has so healthful a climate, more days of sunshine, more
bounteous returns for labor whether in mill or upon farm.
The year now closing has not been the most fruitful in the history of
our republic. But no other state reaped more bountiful harvests than
Nebraska, L
The ninety-two counties of Nebraska -nave all prospered.- Every one
of them has raised a surplus of one or more commodities'' that the world
must have and for which the world looks to Nebraska.
We are not thankful that we are better off than others. We wish an
of them were as prosperous. But we are or should be thankful that our
lines are cast in such pleasant places; that we are privileged to live and
work in such a glorious commonwealth, where the rewards of toil are so
rich, and where environment is so pleasant.
Other states may excel Nebraska in some one or two particular things.
But in the grand aggregate of production of those things that go to reward
the toiler, to make life happier and easier and make more sure the future,
Nebraska leads them alL
For all the blessings of sunshine and of rain; of fruitage of vine and
tree; of grain and grasses; of hogs and cattle; of health and opportunity,
Nebraskans every one have reason to be thankful to Almighty God.
There's a joy just to be living day by day
In Grand Nebraska.
With the smiles of God to light us on our way
Here in Nebraska.
There's a rich reward awaiting all our toil;
Richest fruitage from our ever fertile soil,
Here in Nebraska.
Health in every breeze that blows across her fields;
Plenty for the world her wondrous bounty yields,
Here in Nebraska.
And for all the joys that help us on our way
We unite as one this blest Thanksgiving day
In our thanks to God whose hand has been our stay, '
WILL M. MAUPIN.
or that person would be pleasing to
him. He never told Governor Aid
rich so. If anybody told Governor
Aldrich that such and such an ap
pointment would be pleasing to llr.
Bryan, that party said so without
authority. Lastly, Governor Aldrich
never said Mr. Bryan asked him to
appoint anybody. So let's have aa
end to it.
It seems to have dawned upon the
Taft republicans that they are not go
ing to secure a Taft delegation from
The men at the head of this new
ONE-FIFTH OFF
I am com
The reason
I have bought Mr. Fulk's furnishing goods department,
pelted to turn most of the combined stock into money at once.
is obvious.
Quality clothes and furnishings, one-fifth off, and right at the begin
ning of the season. This ought to be of interest and benefit to you. These
goods are the highest quality that money can buy. My deal with Mr. Fulk
gives you an opportunity seldom equalled, never surpassed.
Tb Hots of
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and National Committeeman Victor
Rosewater getting together amicably
in an effort to hold the state in line
for Taft. The senator is there be
cause he knows that his political sal
vation depends on holding the state
in the Taft column. Rosewater knows
his reputation as a political manager
is dependent upon his ability to make
good for the administration. And it
must be admitted that the recent state
election and the Douglas county elec
tion demonstrates that Dr. Rosewater
is far removed from the amateur class
of political managers.
Of course the democratic opponents
of Mr. Bryan are not going to try
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consress. He never asked Governor
Aldrich to appoint anybody. He
never told anybody to tell Governor
Aldrich that the appointment of this
Of course we have reason to b
thankful. Not that we are better off
than somebody else, but that we are
as well off as we are, and that we
have an opportunity to help those not
so fortunate as ourselves. We dont
like this thing of postponing all our
thanks for eleven months and twenty
nine days of the year, and bunching
them all on Thanksgiving day. W
want to give our thanks for what w
receive when we reeelve it, and we do.
And we have reason to be thankful
every day. For life, and health, and
opportunity, and friends and homo
eirele. - We've been up against it pret
ty hard in time gone by, but never so
hard up that it could not have been
worse. And we were always thank
ful it was no worse.
A lot of people imagine that if they
give thanks on the last Thursday in
November they have paid the debt.
They haven't paid the interest! They
belong to that class who send their
children to Sunday sehool an hoar a
week and think they have attended to
their Christian duty as parent. Suck
will get their bumps in doe time.
The trouble with most people is
that they give thanks after the man
ner of the Pharisee who thanked God
that he was not as other men. They
give thanks because they are not so
badly off as some others they know.
Hell's full of sueh people.
We of Nebraska have every reason
to be thankful, and if we are not we
don't deserve our blessings. Whax
we've got we worked for but we
ought to be thankful for the oppor
tunity to work. Our socialist friends
will not agree with this, but that our
socialist friends find it extremely diS
eult, sometimes to agree among them
selves. It's all right to express thanlnt
next Thursday, but there arc 364
other days in the year on whieh most,
if not all. of us should be returning
thanks.
State Senator Selleek of Lincoln is
reported to be on the point of an
nouncing himself as a candidate for
the republican congressional nomxoa-
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