WILL MAUPPTS WEEKLY
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
F. L.SHOOP, Bu&inesa Manager
PvUUhvd Wttkly at Lincoln, Nebrak
by tk Maoput-Sltoop PuWUKlng Co.
Office 1705 O Street.
ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR
A GREAT BIG BOOST FOR
GRAND YOUNG NEBRASKA.
Will Maupin's Weekly, tlie
best single-handed booster Ne-
brisk has or ever had, came
out in a blase of glory last
week with its "Nebraska In-
dustries Number." Twenty-
four pages carried an immense
amount of highly interesting
matter regarding the resources,
attractions and opportunities of
Nebraska, and also numerous ad-
rertisements 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.
THINK IT OVER.
Do you know the most valuable
single crop grown in the United
States?
No. H is not cotton. It is not
corn. It is not wheat.
It is hay just hay.
It ts not the most valuable crop in
every state, but it is the most valu
able in enough states to make it the
biggest crop in all the states. It is
worth pretty close to $5O.WO.00O a
year in Nebraska and that's quite
a sizeable bit of money. It is grow
ing bigger and more valuable every
year, too.
And do you Nebraskans know that
the biggest hay shipping point m the
world is right here in Nebraska!
That's a fact. It isn't a big city,
either; just a little country villa ire
Newport. Rock county, on the line of
the Northwestern. And Bassett, in
the same county, ruus Newport a
misihty lose second.
And do you know, Mr. Xebraskan,
that your state is the third largest
corn producing state in the Union?
And do you know that Nebraska pro
duces nearly S per cent of all the corn
raised in the United States?
And do yon know that Nebraska is
the fourth largest wheat producing
state, raisins; nearly 7 per cent of all
the wheat raised iu the United States?
Mighty good state, Nebraska. None
better for agricultural purposes. And
if we had the enterprise to advertise
it and put industrious people upon
her miUions of acres of fertile but
uutilSed com and wheat lands she'd
son be the largest corn and wheat
producer in the Union. But we seem
to lack the enterprise. In fact, we
seem content to sit around and com
plain about "tight times." and "tight
wads," all the while witnessing the
spectacle of less favored but more
progressive states skimming the cream
of the industrial population includ
ing our own.
Every time a man looking for a
farm home pae through Nebraska to
invest further west or in Canada, we
are chargeable with an onense against
the state for allowing him to pursue
his way in ignorance of what Ne
braska has to offer.
If everybody knew the fertility of
Nebraska soil, the healthfulness of her
climate and the magnitude of the op
portunities she offers to the home
aecker looking for land to till, there
noon wouldn't be au acre of idle land
worth tilling and we've got 20.000.
P00 idle acres of land that will pro
duce more eoru ami wheat and oats
and alfalfa than any other 20.000.000
acres in any or all other states you
can name.
But the world doesn't know it be
cause we haven't told about it.
Isn't it about time we woke up and
begin letting Nebraska's light shine?
SPEAKING OF SUGAR.
Everybody uses sugar. It is one of
.the biggest items of household ex
pense. For each pound of sugar pro
duced in the United States we im
port five pounds and the tariff duty
is 5 cents a pound, for the protection
of the American "sugar industry.
Is the American sugar industry
worth all that we are taxed to "pro
tect" it?
In 1910, the last year for whieh sta
tistics are available, the total produc
tion of sugar in the United States,
cane and beet, was 1,625.895 tons,
worth at retail prices $65,000,000.
Pretty big sum, to be sure, but we'd
rather have the price of Nebraska's
corn crop in any one year than the
price of the United States sugar crop
for the same year. In 1910 we con
sumed 3.910.6S6 tons of sugar, cane
and beet, worth at retail price ji A 1 1 j
496.040. If the tariff on sugar were
taken off we could buy it at 33 1-3
per cent eheaper or 149,165,347 less
than we pay for it now. In other
words we are fined $149,165,347 a
year to protect an industry that pro
duces only $65,000,000 worth of pro
duct. Or to put it another way, the
sugar consumers of the United States
are taxed an amount equal to the
value of Nebraska's annual corn and
wheat crops to protect an industry
whose product isn't worth as mueh as
Nebraska's eora crop.
It would be a measure of economy
to pay American sugar producers $65,
000,000 a year not to produce a pound
of sugar and then put sugar on the
free list. But we venture the opinion
that putting sugar on the free list
wouldn't reduce the production a
single ton in the United States, nor
cause a dollar of loss to the cane
and beet growers. The sugar trust
alone profits from the tariff on sugar.
What's this? The organ of the retail
liquor dealers association in Omaha
charging that there is "bootlegging"
galore in Omaha, and that if the
"bootleggers" and clubs and chop
suey joints patronize the right brew
eries they ean sell booze any old hour
of the day or night? We can im
agine what that same paper would
say were Governor Aldrich to come
out in an interview and make the
same charge.
With all due respect to the good
women of Kansas City who are try
ing to reform the deuii monde by
pointing them to a "refuge," we in
sist that the best way to abolish the
social evil is to restrict the activities
of the male prostitutes.
Just as soon as we are convinced
that some other state offers better op
portunities than Nebraska we are go
ing to hike for that state. Just now
it looks to us as if we are destined to
live out our days in this bully young
state.
Maybe you think the toba-eo crop
of the nation is something immense.
Well, it is. But the wheat and oats crops
of Nebraska in 1911 would sell for
enough money to pay for all the raw
tobacco raised in the United States
iu the same vear.
Cheer up! The wheat outlook is al
mighty good, and gets better every
day. We are more interested in wheat
conditions than we are in any old
presidential boomlet just now.
It will profit Nebraska farmers
more to test their seed corn than
it will to throw fits about the suc
cess of this or that candidate for
public office.
Every time you are threatened with
an attack of the "blues," just think
what a wonderfully productive state
Nebraska is. and then go to boosting.
Every time a man saves his money
and builds himself a home, we fine
him for it. If he- buys real estate
and holds it for speculative purposes
1912
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Now for the Sacrifice! Now for the
Unloading! Now for the Big Saving!
All lines of Winter Goodsall Broken Lotsall Remnants
Everything must be closed out Hundreds of Odd Lots
too small to advertise, will be displayed on cases and count
ers and will go at astonishingly low figures. This is surely
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY
"
On Dress Goods, Silks, Linings, Domestics, Table Linens, Knit
Blankets, Comforters,, Laces, Gloves, Mittens, Ribbons, Under
wear, Shoes, Men's Furnishings, and Ladies' Ready-to-wear Garments.
SPECIAL
Men's Sheepskin lined Duck coats
with corduroy collar, regular price
$4.25. Sale price $3.29
On Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Velveteens, Corsets,' Veilings, Handker
chiefs, Table Linens, Napkins, Bed Spreads, Children's Caps and
Stocking Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Hair Goods, Mufflers, Scarfs, all Fancy
Work and Jewelry, Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, Belts, Bags, Wool
and Outing Flannels, Knit Goods, Dresser Scarfs and Squares, Rugs,
Underwear, Wool and Fleeced Hosiery
25 PER CENT
Off on all
Warm lined footwear,
including Women's and
Men's shoes, slippers,
felt slippers, etc
we pay hin a premium for his laek of
enterprise. We've got our system of
taxation on crooked.
It's all right to advise us to boil
the water, but they'll fine us if we
litter up the streets by throwing the
residue of salt therein.
CURRENT COMMENT.
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waste any time worrying over its
future. The chances are that about
three-fourths of the Chinese have
never heard of the revolution, do not
know there is such a thing as a repub
lic in contemplation, and wouldn't
eare a rap if they knew. The whol
blooming imperial outfit at Pekin- -or
whever the capital of China is
might die of the cholera, and nine
tenths of the Chinks would never hear
of it. We are not anxious to see the
"awakening of China." If ever the
Chinese wake up and become civilized
according to our western standard,
they will be able by sheer force of
numbers to dominate the world. And
we are not anxious to see this world
dominated by a lot of "Yellow Bel
lies," no matter how highly civilized
they may be. And we are much more
concerned about the welfare of a few
million American workingmen and
women than we are in the physical
wellbeing of the Chinese.
JANUARY
EARING
0OFF
AT 1-5 OH
917-921 0. OPPOSITE POST
A GREAT BIG BOOST FOR
GRAND YOUNG NEBRASKA.
Will Maupin 's Weekly, the
best single-handed booster Ne-
braska has or ever had, came
out in a blaze of glory last
week with its "Nebraska In-
dustries Number." Twenty-
four pages carried an immense
amount of highly interesting
matter regarding- the resources,
attractions and opportunities of
Nebraska, and also numerous ad-
rertisements of manufacturing
concerns who make good goods
in Nebraska and are not afraid
to let people know it. Omaha
Trade Exhibit.
The Kearney Hub favors a return
to the custom of reading the Bible
in the public schools. Will Maupin
Weekly is opposed to it. At that, we
believe the Bible to be the greatest
book ever given to man. But there
are a great many parents who ought
to be teaching their children the
Bible, but who salve their conscience
by sending the children to Sunday
school an hour a week. A "back to
the Bible" movement would be a
good thing, but it should be a move
to' bring the Bible back to the home,
back to the fathers and mothers, as
SALE
Men's and Boys' Hats
Men's and Boys' Shirts
Men's and Boys Sweaters
Men's and Boys' Gloves and Mittens
Men's and Boys' Pants
Men's Underwear
Men's Wool Hosiery
Trunks and Suit Cases
SPECIAL
Discount
On Calicos, Scirting3,
Percales. Feathers,
Tickings, MzsUn. Tur
key Red Gmgtaaxixs Etc
OEBCE
well as to the children. There is
entirely too mueh shirking on the part
of parents. To teaeh the Bible in the
public schools would merely give par
ents another exense for not studying
it. enough to be able to teaeh it to
their children.
The men who purpose filing Sir
Bryan's name as a candidate for tie
presidency are not 3Ir. Bryan's
friends. No one knows this br rier
than Mr. Bryan, or the puhlls - at
large. Mr. Bryan w not a ean.l!dat
for the presidential nomination.
Secretary of State Waite's ruling;
that he can not refuse to file any pe
tition to place a man upon the pri
mary ballot, providing it the first
one offered, and that a man s name
may not appear twice upon the pri
mary ballot, would be laughable were
it not sure to be a source of great in
justice. Certainly a man should be
allowed to designate the See he
wants to run for. To rule that Roose
velt can not hare his name withdrawn
from the primary tieket in Nebraska,
or that if some one files Mr. Bryan's
name for the presidency he can
neither decline nor be a candidate
for a delegateship, is not calculated t
impress people with the idea that
Secretary of State Waite is of th?
proper judicial turn of mind to be
t rusted with the duty of sitting J.
judgment.