same care and attention that is lav
ished upon -the high-priced fruit lands
of the northwest,, and Nebraska fruit
lands will produce vastly more and
infinitely better s varieties. The dis- :
play of apple at the January meeting
of the Nebraska Horticultural society
in Lincoln was the finest, ever made t
in any city "or' state.' ; -t .
Manufacturing Nebraska ! Do not'v
get the idea into your head that Nebraska-
is solely an agricultural state.
True, her " chief; industry, is! agricul
tural,' but Nebraska is forging to the
front in the manufacturing industry.
The percentage of growth along man
ufacturing lines in Nebraska during
the last ten years has been greater
than in any. other state. "We have
already passed the $300,000,000 mark,
and the $400,000,000 mark is in sight. -Factories
that consume the raw1 ma-' ":
terial produced in Nebraska are
springing up 7 on every side. ' Today
Nebraska offers greater opportunities
3 the investor than any other state.
he needs - tanneries, shoe factories,
ereal mills, garment factories, - sugar
actories, etc. But, first of all she:
needs to cultivate .the- spirit of sup
porting home, enterprises. , In that,
one respect only is Nebraska lacking,
but she is curing the defect at a grat
ifying rate.
. Speaking of Nebraska manufactur
ing, why she is manufacturing every
thing from wooden-soled shoes to
MEN AND
It is interesting to compare the
claim of the rabid protectionists that
the tariff is for the protection of
"American labor" with the names of
the strikers who appeared in Wash
ington as witnesses during the brief
congressional hearing fails to reveal a
single distinctively American name.
All bear a remarkably foreign flavor,
and we are told that some of the most
important witnesses had to have the
services of an interpreter. But while
the American Woolen company has
been waxing rich behind the tariff
wall erected ostensibly, for the pro
tection of American labor, it has been
filling its mills with imported work
men, grabbing them up in the most
ignorant and benighted sections of
southern Europe.
When Theodore Roosevelt entered
public life he was a free trader. He
talked it and urged it until he con
ceived the ambition of being secretary
of state for New York. Then he quit
talking tariff, and so far as we have
been able to ascertain, hasn't men
' toned the subject since. Right now
' le tariff is a vital topic of political
iscussion, but what Theodore Roose
. elt said about it in his now famous
Columbus speech wouldn't make a
black mark on a sheet of white paper.
Charles E. Fanning of Omaha has
filed as a candidate for Nebraska
member of the democratic national
committee. We think a lot of Mr.
Fanning. He is a friend of many
years' standing, and a democrat who
works for democracy's success. But
we opine that this isn't his year to
become member of the committee.
Nebraska democracy has been signal
ly honored by the election of Dr. Hail
as vice chairman of the committee,
and Dr. Hall has rendered splendid
service in the years gone by. This
being a crucial year in the history of
the party, there are a lot of demo
crats, friendly enough to Charley
Fanning, who will oppose the idea of
swapping horses at this time.
Tom Blackburn of Omaha continues
to add to the gaiety of politics, al
though pestering some of his repub
lican colleagues almost to death.
Sometimes we wonder if Tom is real
ly in earnest about wanting to go to
congress, or whether he is a candi
late merely because of the opportun
ty it affords him to write open let
ers and make life a burden to real
andidates. We wish Tom would take
us into' his confidence and tell us the
whole truth about the situation.
It appears that Henry Richmond
is not going to have any opposition
in his ambition to grab off the' demo
automobiles. She is supplying the
world with marine engines. She is
. spreading butter on the world's bread
rrt-fand furnishing a, lot of the bread.
Her mills are known in the flour mar
kets of the world. If all of Nebras
ka's .1911 crop of wheat were- ground
into, flour and that: flour! made into a
doughnut, . . the ' hole would be 7,000
miles . in : diameter'.- Her packing
"Tibuseis are turning out enough bacon
every year, "and-her hens are produc
ing enough-eggs every year, to fur
" -nisli'" a' month's "breakfast of bacon -and
eggs "for every man, woman and
child ; on the v North American conti-.
nent. - -
A " really wondorful yea, marvel
ous -commonwealth is Nebraska.
Less than fifty years old, she is the
" superior " of most and the equal of
' any: " No otker state can approach
her record in the matter of growth
and development. No other state can
equal her record for progressiveness,
political or industrial. And all the
wonders she has wrought - during the
' forty-five ; years of; her ; existence as a
state- is i but aii. evidence ;of what she
is; going: to accomplish during the
next; half -century. ' :
" It's might good to be living in Ne
braska these days. Better than to
have been a citizen of Rome in her
palmiest days,; for here every man has
opportunity, and the rewards of in
dustry are certain and sure.
MATTERS
cratic nomination for auditor of pub
lic accounts. This would please
Henry and a lot of others quite well.
"Gus" Webbert of Kearney keeps
right on going after the republican
nomination for auditor, and consider
ing the fact that he is a new one in
state politics and bucking up against
one of the oldest working republican
wheelhorses in the state, Evans of
Adams, he seems to be putting away
a sizeable crop of congealed moisture.
We've got a mighty friendly feeling
for j "Gus." - Many years ago- we
worked at the case alongside him in
a Kearney print shop, swapped
smokin' terbacker and lies, and drank
water from the same battered tin
dipper. If so be he should happen
to land the nomination and win at
the election, we'd feel free to go up
to the auditor's office, put our feet
up on the desk and swap some more
stories with that official any old time
we wanted to do so.
Andrew Morrissey looks like a win
ner in his campaign for the demo
cratic nomination for attorney gen
eral. He is making a quiet but effec
tive campaign, and wherever he. goes
he makes a mighty good impression.
A lawyer of acknowledged ability, a
young man full of energy, and a
democrat who has rendered valiant
party service, there is every reason
why democracy should honor him.
If Judson Harmon has in every
state a champion of the Chris Gruen
ther calibre he is a mighty fortunate
candidate. Gruenther's letter in re
ply to charges against Harmon, now
being circulated in printed form
throughout the state, was a master
piece of English composition and a
refutation that the Harmon oppo
nents will have to go some to offset.
Like Gruenther, we would like to
know where the money is coming
from the defray the heavy expense
of printing and distributing all that
anti-Harmon literature. Evidently
those circulars are being sent out by
the hundreds of thousands, and print
ed matter eosts money, while Uncle
Sam refuses to send matter free
through the mails. Somebody or sev
eral somebodies, is mightily inter
ested in preventing Judson Harmon
from being nominated. Can it be
some of the men who dodged when
Harmon declared that "guilt is per
sonal?" As our friend Togo would
put it, "we inquire to know."
The "public ownership"-' meeting
at the state house the other evening
was attended by a large number xtf
very earnest and very practical men.
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Bankers life
ASSETS
Cash in Office and in Banks - - $ 75,953 23
First Mortgage Farm Loans - - 4,280,000 '00
Cash Loans on Company Policies - 252,793 08 '
Interest Accrued, not Due - - 80,361 57-'
Home Office Building - - - 220,314 46;,
Bill Receivable ----- None
Deferred and Unreported Premiums None
Furniture and Fixtures Account - None
Collateral Loans - - - - - None
Premium Notes - - - - None
Stocks and Bonds - - - None
Agents' Balances - -. - - None
"Other Assets" - - - - - None
Assets, December 31, 1911 - - $4,909,422 34
Gain in Surplus
Gain in Reserve
Gain in Assets
Twenty Payment Life Policy
. fjj Matarcd ia Ac
Old line Bankers Life
Insurance 'Company
Lincoln, Nebraska
Name of Insured,
Residence
Amount of Policy
Total Premiums
Lewis E. Jones
Palmyra, Nebr.
$2,000 00
$1,165 20
Settlement
Reserve
Surplus
. $1,018 08
$1,018 34
Total Cash -
$2,036 42
We Lead the World in Our
But it seems, also, to have been at
tended by the usual number of cranks
and impracticals who never lose an
opportunity to shoot off their bazoos.
One trouble with all meetings of re
formers is the presence in large num
bers of modern Adullamites men
who have grievance, or are discon
tented or are in debt. The class of
men we refer to are very aptly de
scribed in Holy Writ, and if you want
to know more about them, just turn
to the twenty-second chapter of First
Samnel.
Oft in the days gone by we've re
marked to the effect that the cam
paign for the repulflican congres
sional nomination in the Fifth dis
trict was going to develop into a
mighty calorific affair. AVe now point
with pride to our record as a political
prognosticator. It's mighty warm in
the republican camp out . there. Bar
ton and Prince are pitted against
each other, and both are reasonably
good campaigners, both able men,
both good organizers and both out to
win. Being wholly unprejudiced, we
have no hesitancy in saying that
whichever is nominated, the demo
crats are going to find it difficult to
Old lime
jl . V " ,- ;'
of Lincoln, Nebraska
wo
Financial Condition, January First,: Nineteen Hundred and Twelve
Agents' Credit
Death Losses Reported, Proofs not in
Premiums. Paid in Advance - -
Surplus -r - ' - . - . -
Record of Nineteen Hundred and Eleven
-'$ 278,796 93 Income Exceeded Disbursements
495, 803 53 Gain of Insurance in Force
- 780,949 13 Insurance Issued -
Insurance in Force December 31, 1911, $31,596,790 00
MILES M. DAWSON
141 Broadway,
November 10, 1911.
W. C. Wilson, Esq., President, Bankers Life Insurance Co.,
t t. o- I , i ! Lincoln, Nebraska.
My Dear Sir: '; :
Pursuant to your request, I have completed an investigation of the
apportionment of surplus among holders of deferred dividend policies of
' the Bankers Life Insurance Company.
This.apportionment has. realized' for each .policy holder who, has com
pleted his deferred dividend period, approximately the amount of surplus
estimated when he applied for the policy. I find that the credits have been
made in the case of each such policy which has not yet completed its period
that if credits arrived at in the same manner and by the same factors are
made hereafter, they will approximate at the termination of its dividend
period the amount of surplus estimated when the policy was applied for
and that the Company holds in its surplus funds, so provisionally ascer
tained and apportioned, the full amount, so required, as regards each such
policy.
I congratulate ,the Company upon having realized earnings so ample a
result due to unusual fidelity to prudent business principles, care in selection
of lives, safe and profitable investments and economy of management.
Yours sincerely,
' Miles M. Dawson.
Home State in Old Line Insurance Written in Nineteen Eleven
select a candidate who can keep out
of his dust.
Strangers who drop into Lincoln
and see the huge snowdrifts that still
line our principal' business' streets arc
not very apt to form a good opinion
of our enterprise and energy. Pres
ent indications are that the drifts will
have disappeared sometime prior to
July 4.
Maybe it is a bit early to mention
it, but wouldn't it be a good idea for
Lincoln ice consumers to begin think
ing up some method of doing away
with the senseless and useless and
barbarous system of demanding' Sun
day delivery of that commodity, thus
forcing men and horses to work fif
teen hours a day seven days a week?
Wouldn't it be humanitarian and
good commonsense to buy enough ice
on Saturday to last until Monday,
and thus give a set of hard working
men and horses a chance to get one
day's rest in seven? Think it over.
We submit that this is a matter that
the promoters of the "Men's Religion
and Forward Movement" would do
well to consider.
LIABILITIES
Reserve, Actuaries 4 per cent (rU) $3,532,344 88
Balances
' 8,555 82
; 13,000 00
' , 2,853 42
1,352,668 22
$4,909,422 34
P 775,252 54
1,938,841 00
5,300,106 00
New York
COUNSELLOR AT LAW
CONSULTING ACTUARY
THE THINGS MADE IN NEBRASKA
(Continued from Page 1)
Let us stand up for Nebraska in
deeds as well as in words. Let us give
to Nebraska institutions something bet
ter than mere word support. Let us
adopt the motto, "The Goods Made in
Nebraska are the Goods Nebraskans
Should Buy." Let us show by our ac
tions our belief that this is a great and
glorious commonwealth.
Let us all work together for Ne
braska. Will Maupin's Weekly is devoting
its energies to boosting for Nebraska
and for the men who are doing real
things things of benefit and service
to mankind. It seeks only to spread the
gospel of co-operation and the good
cheer of sunshine and optimism. When
it ceases to believe that Nebraska is the
best state in the Union it will say so in
plain terms, quit the game and its
editor will drift elsewhere. But he ex
pects to live a long time in Nebraska.