WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
F.L.SHOOP, Business Manager
PmUiWl Weekly t Lincoln. Nebraska
fcy tke Maspia-Shoop PublUhing Co.
Office 1705 O Street.
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ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR
A GREAT BIG BOOST FOB,
GRAND YOUNG NEBRASKA.
Will Maupin's Weekly, the
best single-handed booster Ne-
braska has or ever had, came
out in a blase of glory last
week with its "Nebraska In-
dnstries Number." Twenty-
four pages carried an immense
amount of highly interesting
matter regarding the resources,
attractions and opportunities of
Nebraska, and also numerous ad-
vertisements of manufacturing
concerns who make good goods
in Nebraska and are not afraid
to let people know it.
Will Maupin ought to be put
on the state's payroll for life as
official booster. Omaha Trade
Exhibit.
THE NEW YEAR.
The new year will be largely what
we make it. A great deal depends
upon how we enter upon it. If we
begin with a fit of blues, predicting
that because it is presidential cam
paign year everything is going to the
demnition bow-wows, and feeling sure
that things will go wrong then it wiii
be a pretty bad year. But if we begin
it hopefully, smilingly, determined
that no matter what comes well meet,
it bravely and make the best of it; if
we begin it believing that we are mas
ters of our own fate and capable of
conquering if we begin the new year
in that spirit it will be the best year
of all the years.
Will Maupin s Weekly is not going
to wish you business prosperity. That
depends upon yourself. It is not go
ing to wish you health, for that, too,
depends upon yourself and environ
ment. It is not going to wish you
happiness, for happiness is compara
tive. But it is going to wish for you
that you have faith in the ultimate
triumph of the right and courage to
fight for the right as you see it.
"Is life worth living?" asked some
one. "It depends upon the liver,"
was the reply.
That's worth thinking over, for it
has a double meaning. Keep your
body clean, your mind clean and your
business clean and trust God. But
, dent forget to hustle all the time.
Will Maupin s Weekly enters upon
the new year hopefully. It is going
to do its level best to arouse Nebras
kans to a realizing sense of the im
portance of boosting for Nebraska and
for Nebraska's producers. It is going
to preach the doctrine of optimism and
good cheer,, even though the sheriff
enter unbidden. It is going to search
very dark cloud for its silver lining,
aod bask in every ray of sunshine that
appears. It is going to keep smiling,
mo matter what happens. If 1912 is
t the best year that ever dawned
upon humanity, it will not be because
this humble little newspaper did not
d its utmost to make it the best
year.
That is the spirit that animates Will
Maupin 's Weekly, and every man con
nected with it. This spirit is recom
mended to Nebraskans everywhere.
THE CLOSING YEAR.
We are about to bid 1911 goodbye,
but before doing so we want to thank
k for a few things. Frankly admit
ting that it could have treated us
much better, we as cheerfully admit
that other years have treated us mueh
worse. We haven't a complaint to
lodge against 1911 and if we did
have we wouldn't lodge it. Time is
too precious to spend in "kicking"
and "knocking." It gave us crops
a little short of the average, but it
gave us for them a price a bit above
the average. It gave ns a bit more
summer heat than usual, but thank
goodness our pores were open and we
perspired freely.
There have been many worse years
than old 1911. It gave us a new im
petus towards universal peace, it gave
us an end to a despotism that flour
ished in a sister country that posed as
a republic. It gave us an awakened
sense of civic duty. It gave us a
nearer approach to freedom from nar
row partisanship. It gave us an
awakened sense of religious duty re
sulting in the Men's Religion and For
ward Movement. In short, 1911 has
given us many good things far more
than enough to counterbalance what
ever of bad it may have given.
We might have acquired more of
good in 1911 had it not been for our
own mistakes. If we are wise we will,
during 1912, profit by the mistakes
we made in 1911. We are not to be
blamed if we stub our toes once on
a naiL We have only ourselves to
blame if we stub our toes the second
time on the same naiL
So here's a hail and farewell to
1911! In view of all the good it gave
us we cheerfully forgive it for what
ever of bad it brought.
Will Maupin 's Weekly stops the
press in the midst of its long run to
wish Nebraska, and every Nebraskan,
a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Prosperity may depend upon weather
and financial conditions; happiness
depends wholly upon yourselfT-
We opine that John O. Yeiser's act
of filing Roosevelt for the presidential
nomination was one line agate ader
tising for Roosevelt and a whole col
umn next-to-reading-matter advertise
ment for the genial Mr. Yeiser.
Senator Smoot takes the report of
the tariff commission and figures out
that the wool tariff can be redueed
from 50 per cent to 48 per cent. That's
just about what the tariff commission
was created for.
It was a 'steen million dollar snow.
There is an interesting table rela
tive to Nebraska's productivity on the
first page of this issue of Will Mau
pin 's Weekly. Cut it out and carry
it around with you.
Will Green of Creighton is after the
harvester trust, and from what we
know of Will Green, we are willing to
bet a pretty penny that hell get the
harvester trust if he lives a year or
two longer.
Governor Aldrich has removed him
self from the senatorial race. Not
that he was ever in it, however, but he
has put a crimp in some of the plans
of certain schemers.
Take fifty-two eonsecutive weekly
doses of Will Maupin s Weekly for
that grouchy pessimistic feeling. Price
$1. Cure guaranteed.
Insofar as Nebraska is concerned,
both Taft and Roosevelt might well
pray: "God deliver us from our fool
friends!"
Yes, there are too many middlemen.
Also too many men on the consuming
end and not enough on the producing
end.
Anyhow, we can't lay the blame for
water conditions in Lincoln on the
"men higher up." There are none.
Omaha is still engaged in the pleas
ant, and to somebody, profitable task
of buying the water works plant.
So Lincoln is to have a "White
City" next summer. All right; but
we'd prefer a clean city first.
If you don't believe that it is more
blessed to give than to receive, just
ask any Lincoln Elk about it.
ARMSTRONG
AransfaroEg CloitMimg Co.
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
V M V
Will Maupin 's Weekly bespeaks for
the city -council the utmost charity of
opinion. It is doing the best it can.
What should we expect , of a council
man for $25 a month! The plain
truth of the matter is that we are
getting just what we ought to ex
pect, and therefore we have no right
to complain.
Time and again this newspaper has
warned the people against the utterly
incompetent management of the
waterworks system. The municipal
water plant is a success in spite of
itself, not because it is municipally
owned. We are not getting water as
cleaply as we think we are. We are
not getting as good nor as great a
supply as we would demand from a
privately owned corporation. And
the men who are charged with the
responsibility of managing the munic
ipal plant go right ahead working un
der the erroneous idea that the water
plant should be paying a handsome
profit .to, the city. The municipal
water plant should not pay a dollar
of profit After allowing for expense
of operation and depreciation, every
dollar left should be devoted to exten
sions, better supply and lower rates.
Not for a minute do we believe that
the Rice well's water was responsible
for the recent epidemic of bowel trou
ble, nor for the not so recent epidemic
of typhoid fever But for the last
five years it has been little less than
criminal to pump Riee well water into
the mains for household consumption.
It is in a location where an immense
amount of filth must of necessity filter
into it. Filth may not produce dis
ease, although it almost always does.
One look over the region of the Rice
well during the summer is enough to
make any cleanly man or woman for
swear drinking water forever rather
than drink water from that well.
But to talk about dismantling the
Rice well right now is to talk foolish
ness. At best we have not enough
water supply for fire protection, nor
will we have any too much when the
We wish you a Happy and Prosperous
New Year. We thank you for your
liberal patronage during 1911, and re
spectfully solicit a continuance during
the coming year.
It will be our aim in the future as in
the past, to contribute to your prosperity
by selling you the best Clothing at the
lowest possible price.
May good fortune attend you during
the year.
Sincerely,
MATTERS
present supply for fire protection is
practically doubled. But the A street
wells are capable of furnishing enough
for consumption under present condi
tions, and if our $25-a-month couneil
men can quit chewing the raw and
playing horse long enough to get down
to business for a few hours we may
hope to have the supply for consump
tion practically doubled before the
summer "peak load" is upon us. But
until the A street plant's capacity is
at least doubled it would be just as
criminal to dismantle the Rice well as
it would be to continue to pump Riee
well water into the mains for domes
tie consumption.
The protest meeting at Grace M. E.
church last week was fully warranted
by the conditions. If ever conditions
pointed out, and most emphatically,
the necessity for having a form of
municipal government wherein respon
sibility may be quickly and accurate
ly fixed, present conditions in the
water department point them out. Dr.
Waite says he discovered that myster
ious pipe dripping filth into the Riee
well at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and
told somebody connected with the
water department. But the Riee well
pumps continued forcing that dirty
water into the mains until quitting
time at 10 o'clock that night. Water
Commissioner Tyler " says he never
heard a word about it untitl after 10
o'clock. When Mayor Armstrong
called him up about it after that hour
I ori i u-ii UNCLE SAM SAYS
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f THE BEST COAL LINCOLN I
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he said he didn't see how anything
could be done about it. Bat Mayor
Armstrong could see and he did
something, and just as soon as - he
learned about that mysterious pipe.
He called upon Fire Chief Clement,
and the chief responded promptly.
Firemen were sent out to open hyd
rants and drain the mains filled from
the Riee welL
But who is responsible for allowing
that filthy water to continue rushiBg
into the mains, and through them into
hundreds of Lincoln homes, more than
eight hours after that mysterious pipe
was discovered. God only knows.
And the people are helpless under
present conditions. Mr. Tyler can sit
baek in his ofSee chair and tell the
people to go chase themselves. Dr.
Leonhardt shifts the blame upon the
shoulders of others, and these others
shift it on. People whose lives are
threatened because of utterly incom
petent management of the water plant
are told by eouneilmen that they are
acting like children.
Ov well; what 'ell does it matter if
hundreds of taxpayers are wholly
without water supply; other hundreds
illy supplied, and thousands of
pie forced to 4 drink eontaminjJ
water? There are some sidewjvT
outside of the four-foot line, and' n
else must wait until that Efe-axMZ"
death matter is settled
It is intimated in certain quarters
that all this hue and cry about mis
management of the water plant is
merely for the purpose of discrediting
uiuuicipaj ownersmp; icai mere is a
plan on foot not only to dispose of