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We greatly fear that our good
friend, Grant Shumway of Seotts
Bluff, is becoming unduly excited
over the matter of democracy's can
didate for railway commissioner. At
this distance if would seem that Brer
Shumway is anxiously watching a
lighting rod of his own erection.
Time was when it was popular for a
candidate to i mount the stump and
proceed to damn the corporations up
one side and down the- other. '.. And
there's no disguising the fact that
along about those times the corpora
tions deserved all the damnation they
got. But tne people are not looking
for candidates of that kind now.
They know that we've got the cor
porations pretty well saddled and
bridled now, and that the aforesaid
corporations are well broken to ride.
What the people want is a safe, sane
and square regulation of the public
service corporations and the cor
porations are not averse to that sort
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of things themselves. The man who
seeks election on the ground that he
wants a chance to "rip hell out of
the corporations'' is not going to get
very far with it. We've passed the
"hell ripping" period.
It strikes us that W. E. Hardy has
put his finger on the weak spot in the
discipline of the penitentiary. He
proposes to put a stop to prisoners
giving orders for the . money due
them. If they want to spend it, let
them spend it direct and under the
supervision of the warden. And if
we may be permitted a suggestion,
why not pay the guards a little bet
ter wages and insist upon a little
better class of men? '
There is no use for any of Theo
dore Reesevelt's boosters to continue
their efforts to disguise the fact that
Teddy 's third term ' boom has fallen
pretty flat. It didn't arouse the wild
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enthusiasm that either Teddy or his
supporters anticipated. On the con
trary is has aroused the resentment
of men who believe in the square deal
as well as preach it. It has made
angry men who believe that friend
ship means something. And it has
also stirred up resentment of the
intimation that this republic is going
to the demnitition bow-wows unless
just one man is given charge of affairs.
William II Taft is not a man of
great initiative. He reminds us very
much of the brawny blacksmith who
has the muscle to hit a tremendous
blow, but who is so muscle-bound that'
ere he can deliver it his antagonist
lands an uppercut and gets away.
But when the aforesaid brawny black
smith gets to a clinch he is liable to
crack somebody's ribs. William How
ard Taft has gone to a clinch with
the nimble and erratic Roosevelt, and
we are hearing every day the crack
ing of Rooseveltian ribs inside the
political ring.
We are not very much interested in
the present movement to release the
Gas company from liability for over
charge for gas by repealing the dol
lar gas ordinance, provided the com
pany will institute dollar gas at once.
It is the same proposition submitted
by the company a year or so ago.
We signed a release at that time, not
because we favored the gas company,
nor because we wanted dollar gas
right away. We did it believing that
the city would be benefited as a whole
by stopping the everlasting and eter
nal "rag chewing" that has served
to retard the city's growth and pros
perity. "We confess ignorance of the
art of making and selling gas either
illuminating or oratorical. We do
know that the privately owned gas
plant is giving gas consumers better
service than the municipally owned
water plant is giving to water con
sumers. We know that the privately
owned gas company has spent more
money for extensions and improve
ments in the last five years than has
been, spent ; in improving and extend
ing the municipally owned water
. plant. There are more Idles of gas
mains than of water mains, and gas
consumers get more attention to com
plaints than do water consumers.
Maybe the gas company can make
and sell gas at a dollar a thousand
at a goodly profit. We are of the
opinion that it can, and should. But 1
just now We are more interested in
seeing a quietus put on all this jang
ling and discord than we are in get
ting gas 20 cents a thousand cheaper.
Will Maupin's Weekly doffs its
chapeau to the enterprising people
of David City. They've set a record
that pleases this newspaper clear .
down to the . bottom of its -column
rules. David City has just dedicated
a $25,000 library and gymnasium.
They scorned to ask Andy Carnegie
for a contribution, and dug up the
; money from their own pockets. They
wouldn't establish the library in the
Y. M. C. A. because that is a sectarian
body, excluding a number of people
from, participation in its management.
The new library building is a hand
some one, and is well supplied with
books. The gymnasium is up-to-date
in every respect. And it is open to
Gentile, Jew, Mohammedan and Bhud
dist. It was built with David City
money honestly earned, and not in
any part by Homestead money bear
ing the stain of blood or the taint of
.special privilege. We commend the
David City example to every other
city in America.
The situation in the Nebraska dem
ocratic camp is peculiar. It is a case
of one faction being afraid while the
other ' dassent. And while the con
tending Harmon and Wilson forces
are scowling at each other the Clark '
forces are working quietly and effec
tively. A whole lot of democrats who .
are thinking more of the' triumph of
democratic principles than - they are
of personal aggrandizement are say
ing "a plague on both your houses"
and lining up behind a third candi
date who happens to be ol' Champ
Clark of Missouri.
, We rather like the platform enunci
ated by John H. Morehead. It is the
platform of a conservative and suc
cessful business man, lacking in fine
theories and' full of hard business
sense. And it is 'high time Nebraska
had a chief executive who looked
upon the job as one requiring con
stant attention and the exercise of
good business judgment. It is a job
that, like a jealous mistress, brooks
no rivals. The man who fulfills its
duties hasn't any time to attend to
outside matters. Mr. Morehead is
not promising to reform the world
and a few outside suburbs. He is
merely promising that he will give to
the state's business the same careful
attention to detail and .management
that have made his own private busi
ness successful to a marked degree.
He is fundamentally right on princi
ples, and . he may be depended upon
to enforce them.
The United States court of customs
appeals has just rendered a decision
that is of interest. It is to the effect
that an importer may appeal from
the appraisement of the inspectors
and get a higher appraisement, thus
enabling him to secure a greater
measuse of protection. As if the
tariff bulwark were not already high
enough ! .
By another four-to-three decision
the United States supreme court has
handed the public another "facer."
It is to the effect that patentees may
not be restricted in the conditions
they impose upon the users of their
patents. That simply means that
blood-sucking trusts like the United
Shoe Mahcinery company may mo
nopolize the shoe machinery business
and put every manufacturer of shoes
at its mercy. It is a genuine charter
of unrestricted monopoly.
Already the plaint of the pessimist
is heard in the land. A few months
ago he was bellyaching because there
wasn't enough moisture. Now he is
doing the same stunt because he fears
the. recent heavy snows are going to
melt with a rush and drown out the
wheat in the lowlands. The pessimist
is always with us. Perhaps it is well;
that, he is on the same principle that
it is well for a dog to have fleas be
cause it takes his attention away from
the fact that he is a dog. But we'd
like to take a swift poke at the pes
simist who is never satisfied with the
outlook. We know something about
Nebraska, and we're right here to
say that on this date the prospects
for a bumper crop of wheat were
never better in any year of Nebras
ka's history. These heavy snows sim
ply mean that the almost exhaust ad
reservoirs of the earth are going ta
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Are unnecessary in our store. Every article marked in plain
dollars and cents with a ten per cent discount for cash or a
little down and a dollar a week will do.
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be filled with moisture, and that
moisture is going to nourish the roots
of the biggest corn crop in Nebras
ka's history. If there's any satisfac
tion to be gained from a cheerful out
look, then every Nebraskan ought to
be smiling so broadly that his hat
slides off the back of his head.
The Grand Island Commercial club
is going some. It has just secured
for secretary A. M. Connors . of
Omaha, who has been traffic manager
of the Maney Milling company for
several years. He is going to let all
the world know what a substantial,
progressive and prosperous city Grand
Island really is.
NEBRASKA MADE CANDY. '
Take it from us, and we know, for
we 've a sweet tooth of our own and
a half-dozen kiddies well equipped the
same way, that the confectionery
made right here in Nebraska is the
equal of any made anywhere on earth,
and superior to most. It keeps us
busy buying the sweets for the kiddies,
and ourself, and every time we buy.
we stipulate that it shall bear: the
name of Gillen & Boney. Whyt Be
cause there is none better, and be
cause this is a .Nebraska institution
that has been built up on merit and
deserves the hearty support of loyal
Nebraskans. . A few years ago the
annual output of the Gillen & Boney
concern wouldn't cut much figure in
the totals of the country. It's different
now. These gentlemen started right
and continued right. They made the
best, put it up most attractively; and
stood behind their product. Now Gil
len & Boney 's candies are standard
throughout the country. They don't
make all kinds they make only the
best kind. But they make everything
in the line of fine confections. Their
name on the box is a guarantee of ex
cellence, both in material and manu-
facture. Nebraskans who pass the
Gillen & Boney product by to purchase
the output of Chicago or New York
concerns are merely passing up the
best while injuring the business' inter
ests of their own state. We say it,
and we know, that Gillen & Boney 's
candies and confections have no super-
ior. -
There wasn't enough gold mined in
any one state or territory in 1910 to
buy the eggs laid by Nebraska hens
in 1911. Nor to buy the poultry and
butter produced in Nebraska in- 1911.
There was not enough gold mined in
the United States and Alaska in 1910
to buy the hay and oats crop of Ne
braska in 1911. Not one state or ter
ritory mined enough gold in 1910 to
buy Nebraska's 1911 crop of alfalfa.
No two states or territories ' mined
enough gold in 1910 to buy Nebraska's
1911 crop of prairie hay. i