MAYER BROTHERS
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Men's and Boys' Clothing, Furnishings, Hats and Shoes and
Ladies', Misses7 and Children's Shoes
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This Big Sale offers you
greater assortments are
and Overcoats. It will
you will have.
a chance for greater sayings than any previous sale we've ever held
offered and larger reductions made specially on Men's and Boys' Suits
pay you to attend this sale and the earlier you come the better selection
Men's $40, $35 and $30 Suits and
Overcoats priced now
$23.50
$23 and $25
$18.50
$22, $20 and S1S.50
$14.50
$15 and $12.50
$9.50
$10 and $8.50
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$5.
Men's Odd Pants
Men's $10 Pants now $5.95
Men's 6 Pants now.. 4.95
Men's 5 Pants now 3.95
Men's 4 Pants now 2.95
Men's 3 Pants now 1.95
Men's 1.50 Pants now 95
20 Per Cent Discount
On all Winter Underwear
On all Men's Flannel Shirts
On all Men's Sweaters
On all wool Gloves, Fur Gloves & Mittens
On all winter Hats and Caps
Boys' Knee-Pant Suits
and Overcoats
Ages 4 to 18
$12.50 Suits & O'coats now $7.75
10.00 Suits & O'coats now 6.75
8.50 Suits & O'coats now 5.75
6.00 Suits & O'coats now 3.75
5.00 Suits & O'coats now 3.25
400 Suits & O'coats now 2.75
3.50 Suits & O'coats now 1.75
Young Men's Suits and
Overcoats
$30.00-25 Suits & O'coats $17.75
22.50-20 Suits & O'coats 13.75
18.00-15 Suits & O'coats 10.75
12.00-10 Suits & O'coats 6.75
8.50- Suits & O'coats 4.75
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LADIES' SHOES
Ladies 4.30 Shots satin, velvet, patent,
gun metal kid, in lace 4 button, rew styks
Ladies -LOO Shoes in all le&theis. lace and
button, turn and welt soles, smart styles
Ladies 3.50 Shoes in patent leather, gun
metal, cloth or kid top, this season's shoes
Ladies 3. GO Shoes from broken lines,
priced to clean up
3.20
2.95
2.69
2.40
Big lot of Ladies' 2.30 Shoes from dis
continued lines, choice
1.95
Ladies tan Shoes, button or lace, this season's
styles from broken lines, worth 4.00 and
' 'S.SO pair, now
Big bunch of odds and ends, mostly small sizes.
but good styles, in all leathers, worth
-4. 00 to 3.50
2.95
all sizes,
1.95
Discontinued lines of Nettelton
Shoes, all leathers
Men's 4.50 tan and black Shoes, button and lace,
all leathers, including some nice tans.
now .
Men's 4.00 Shoes, from odds and ends of stock.
including some Flonheims, some Nettle-
tons, at.
MEN'S
20 Off
and lace,
3.20
of stock,
1.95
SHOES
2.95
2.40
Discontinued lines of men's 3.50 shoes,
Discontinued lines of men's 3.0O shoes.
Men's best Viscalized Elkakin. high top, m am
welt shoes, 16-inch, worth a 50 & 6, now T'.iO
AH Men's, Boys, Ladies', Misses and Cafldren's
high cut Shoes 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT
Boys' broken lines 20 per cent off
Boys' all regular lines 10 per cent off
20
Per
Cent
OFF
MAYER BROTHERS
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abled and unable to earn a livelihood.
Yet he was active enough to be a suc
cessful lawyer and to serve as peusion
commissioner. We also remember
when a Nebraska lawyer holding a
12400 a year job was granted and
accepted a pension of $33 or $40 a
month. This, too, while thousands of
lirvitit aiitl tilv Vtt trains were
pet tin? no pension at all, or at best
$12 or 13 a month. Doubtless more
han one-half of the pension money
paid by this government is paid to
veterans who never got further
south than the Ohio river, and never
served over ninety days and never
smelted gunpowder burned in anything
more deadly than target practice or
salutes.
The trouble with this whole pension
quesliou is that neither political party
has ever had the courage to eome out
squarely on it. Both have trimmed
and evaded, always playing for the
""old soldier vote, and always afraid
of being roasted and toasted by a
horde of pension attorneys who make
fat picking from the veterans. Pen
sion every deserving; veteran, but for
heaven sake let us have done with
tv plain, uuornamented svsteiu of
trying to bribe by granting pensions
UHlisenwuiatelv to tleservinsr veteran
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uu uouiwri ruuwwirr auKe.
The 'editor 'of Will Maupiii's Weekly
happened to be in the editorial rooms
of th Houston, Texas, Post, when ex
Governor Shallenberger was inter
viewed by ' reporter for that enter
prising newspaper, and also happened
to hear ' the, interview. Ex-Govrnor
Shallenberger did not say that he be
lieved Nebraskans would turn down
the initiative and referendum; neither
did he express himself as being op
posed to"it On the contrary he ex
pressed the belief that it would carry,
and his advocacy of the doctrine. It
so happens that an initiative and refer
endum .-fight is now on in Texas, and
the IltHistom Post is opposed to it.
And the Past is losing no opportunity
to bolster -up its side of the case. Far
be it from! us to accuse the Post of
delilera.te. jmisrepresentation, but we
do iusist that it is almisrhtv careless.
velt did in seven. Let us be fair
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enough to admit what Is a self-evident
truth. . -
The appo..Uueut of Arthur B. Al
len to be secretary of the state rail
way eoiumissiou means that Mr.
Perkins is to be succeeded by another
newspaper man. and one amply quali
fied for the position. Mr. Allen was
Governor Mickey's private secretary
for four years, then oil inspector un
der Governor Sheldon. For some time
he has been secretary of the republi
can state committee. Mr. Allen, who
is a fine, up-standing specimen of Ne
braska manhood, has performed good
service for his party, yet he has not
been a blind partisan. The commis
sion gave recognition to a party
worker,, but at th same time it se
cured the services of one of the best
qualified men the state has to offer
or the position.
When " the handful of republican
editors? met- in Lincoln last Tuesday
and agreed that the Taft adininistra
tion needed a press agent, they laid
their finger lipon the weak spot in the
Taft campaign for re-nomination. The
LaFollette bureau and the Roosevelt
bureau are always alert, but the pres
ident seemingly has no one to tell the
public ..about, the good points of his
administration. Surelv the adminis
tration, has, many good points to its
credit. ajjd they ought to be pointed
out. "Jh chief trouble with President
Taft .is -that is, in connection with
campaigning that he is a poor politician
Compared with the tempestuous,
riotous., blustering Roosevelt admin
istration the Taft administration is so
placid.' " s"comtuonsense, that many
people are deceived into believing that
it is little if any better than a nonen
tity. We had an awful lot of anti
trust bluster sunder the Roosevelt re
gime, but that is all there was to it
bluster. -That administration closed
with more -and bigger trusts doing
business than there were at its be
ginning.' ! The Taft administration has
not blustered much, but it has accom
plished more in two years than Roose-
CAN THIS BT TRUE?
Indianapolis, Iud., Jan. 3. "No
union labor leaders, not even Samuel
Gompers, head of the American Feder
ation of Labor, have lifted a hand to
help us in cleaning up the 'big dyna
mite conspiracy, either before or since
the MeNamara confessions at Los An
geles," said Oscar Lawler, special gov
ernment prosecutor for the district of
southern California today.
The above appeared in the telegraph
dispatches in the daily papers last
Thursday morning.
Can Mr. Lawler s eharge be true!
If it is. then it is high time that Pres
ident Gompers. John 'Mitchell, James
Duncan. Frank Morrison, and other
officials of the American Federation of
Labor, get busy. Right now is the
time to give tangible evidence that
the American Federation of Labor, its
officials and its rank and file, is un
reservedly opposed to dynamiting, or
to any other form of violence. It is
time that these men, acting as the
official representatives of organized
labor, lend every possible aid to the
government in ferreting out any and
all men within the ranks of organized
labor who have been guilty of these
outrages. "
It is not enough for these men to
say that they were ignorant of what
was going on. Everybody of fair
mind believes they were ignorant. But
that is not enough. These outrages
were going on, and somebody was re
sponsible for them. Now let the Fed
eration officials prove to all the world
that they are willing to rid organized
labor of that criminal element.
calamity had Lincoln lost the fran
chise. And it would have been only
a little less criminal to have allowed
Despain to lose out after his splendid
efforts to give Lincoln good and clean
baseball.
The business men who have gotten
behind the movement to finance the
club are entitled to great credit for
thir enterprise and public spirit. It
will mean more than the retention of
the ball team it will mean a new im
petus to the "get-together and work-together-for-Lineoln"
spirit. And it
is the growth of that spirit that we
most need right now, and always.
GOOD WORK.
It is now assured that Lincoln will
retain its place on the base tball map,
and that Don Despain will retain
the management and direction of the
Lincoln team. For all of which let
every "fan" be truly thankful. It
1 would have been little short of a
BOBLEY D. EVANS.
The death of Robley D. Evans,
"Fighting Bob," following so closely
after the death of Admiral George
Dewey, reminds us that the Spanish
American war in which they won im
mortal fame, is already in the dim
and distant past. We have been mak
ing history during the last fifteen
years. Rear Admiral Evans was a
gallant seaman and rendered con
spicuous and gallant service to his
country. Of a different type of indi
vidual than Admiral Dewey, Rear Ad
miral Evans was as prominent in his
position. One was given to the use
of emphatic language, the other was
reserved. But both were seafi enters
of the type that has made the name of
the American navy famous from the
days of John Paul Jones to the day
of Dewey at Manilla and Schley and
Evans at Santiago.
THE JURY SYSTEM.
We are not prepared to render a
verdict in the charge that the Omaha
& Council Bluffs Railway Co. has been
guilty of jury tampering. We are,
however, prepared to say that if the
eharge is true it is only a natural
result of making a public service cor
poration like that one the victim of
every schemer and shyster who coald
get under its hide.
Of course there are those who will
hold that the Omaha corporation
should submit with the best graee pos
sible to being mulcted by every man
or woman who eould make a serateh.
appear a dangerous and permanently
disabling injury. But after being:
gouged a few times by that sort of
"justice" it would be only natural for
the corporation to defend itself by re
sorting to illegal methods.
We are turning out lawyers much
faster than we are providing them
with legitimate law praetlee, henee the
"ambulanee chaser," the shyster and
the "fixer." With legal technicali
ties upon the one side and the archaic
jury system on the other, "justice"
is being given a wrench about every
time she shows her head. Some of
these days the people will rise up and
sweep this technicality business aside.
Then they will inject a little common
sense into our jury system. After
whieh Justice will have some show.
Doubtless there is plenty of ground
for believing that the elaims depart
ment of the Omaha corporation has
been altogether too industrious. But
no one will believe that the high
minded and successful business men
who control that corporation have
been cognizant of the corruption. It
may be that they are censurable for
not knowing what was going on. Bat
there are a lot of us who ought to
' know more than we do about what
is going on in publie and official life.
A little sweeping in our own door
yards before sweeping the dooryards
of cur nergh'b&rs might help some.
In the meantime let us have a thor
ough investigation of that Omaha case
together with some others and let
swift ' punishment be meted out t;
those who are found guilty.
THE "NEW BROOMS."
The newly elected officers of Lan
caster county have taken hold of their
positons. Will Maupin's Weekly wishes
every one of them success, and expects
each one of them to make a record for
faithful and efficient performance of
duty.