CURRENT COMMENT
While passing around the 'compliments to those who performed
such good service in planning and carrying out Lincoln 't first "safe
and sane" celebration of Independence Day, do not overlook the
fact Prof. Lucille Eaves of the State University is entitled to an
unusually large share of the credit. Miss Eaves devoted all her time
to the work for several weeks, and because of her thorough knowl
edge of social problems she knew just what would interest and
please the most people. Of course the whole committee is entitled to
all praise, but it is not-unjust to the rest of the members to pay
this extra tribute to Miss Eaves.
The republican press bureau, with headquarters in the state
house and under the active supervision of an appointee of the
governor, is devoting most of its attention to John H. Morehead.
This is but natural when one takes all the facts into consideration.
The chief trouble with the bureau, however, is that failing to find
anything to the discredit of Mr. Morehead in either his public or
private record, it must resort to innuendo and downright misrepre
sentation. The bureau's latest dodge is to assert that Morehead 's
vote against Senate File 128 was a vote in favor of the corporations
and against the interests of the people. Nothing could be further
from the truth. In voting against Senate File 128 Mr. Morehead
performed a distinct service to the people. That bill provided, in
a mysterious maze of language, that all public service corporations,
including lighting companies, water companies, street railway com
panies, etc., should be put under direct control of the state railway
commission. It was claimed that this was for the purpose of pre
venting the extortion of unreasonable rates.
the plea being that it is necessary to seggregate the social evil be
cause it can not be abolished. Of course it will never be abolished,
but segregation is not absolutely necessary. Let us proceed to
abolish the prime causes of the social evil. This can be done by
eliminating certain evil influences and by education. One trouble
with parents and with schools is a mock modesty that prevents our
children being taught sex science. We need a little more plain talk
from pulpit and from press and a whole lot more parents who not
only know a few things but are quick to teach their children.
It is said of the Germans that when they get "tanked up" they
want to sing; of the Irish, that when they get "tanked up" they
want to fight, and of Americans, that when they get "tanked up"
they immediately want to make a round of the bawdy houses. And
there is more truth to that saying than there is to the average
saying.
Those gentlemen who are. planning to "do things to Bryan" at
the coming Grand Island convention are much more interested in
conserving some selfish iterest than they are in winning victory
for right and justice. Mr. Bryan has pretty effectually squelched
the charge that he plotted to get the nomination for himself. And
history proves that in defeating Bryan and his principles the demo
crats of Nebraska have pretty effectually defeated themselves. ' It
will not take genuinely progressive democrats long to spot those
alleged democrats who are much more interested in "downing
Bryan" than they are in promoting the success of democratic principles.
Its real purpose, however, was to deprive the people of munici
palities of the right to regulate their own internal corporations. It
was a piece with Roosevelt's "federal incorporation" scheme, name
ly, to center all regulatory power in the "hands of a few and deprive
the people at large of their right to regulate their own business. Had
that bill been enacted into law Lincoln would not long have a six-for-
a-quarter street car fare. It could not force a lower price for
fas. It could not regulate any of its public service corporations. In
short, Lincoln, and all other cities having public service corporations,
would be deprived of their right to regulate and control them, fix
rates and defend themselves against extortion.
What Nebraska needs most of all right now is a more thorough
co-operation of the people and those interests that must be depended
ipon to develop the great natural resources of the state, lhis does
not mean that the people must give these interests the best of it; it
simply means that the two elments should work together for mutual
advantage. Regulation of public service corporations is right and
proper, but Nebraska lacks a whole lot of having all the big develop
ment corporations she needs. Until she gets them the natural re
sources of the state will lie dormant, profitable to no one and a
sheer waste of magnificent opportunities. And Nebraska will never
get these concerns until she drives with a bit looser rein and gives
men who risk their money in great public enterprises the promise of
a return commensurate with the risk. We would rather have the big
corporations to regulate than to have, strict regulation laws that
prevent the creation of corporations to regulate.
Governor Aldrich is happiest when he can face an audience
and denounce the Sanborn decision and tell how he, Hadley of .Mis
souri and Harmon of Ohio were made a committee to prepare the
brief in the rate cases. It gives him a chance to denounce federal
''interference with the rights of the states to regulate purely local
traffic. Yet Senate File 128, which his appointee holds out as being
such a good thing, was intended to do for municipalities in Nebraska
just what the Sanborn decision will, if upheld, do for the states
deprive them of a right that is inherent. 1
There are those who pretend not to understand the basis for the
charge that the great business interests of the country are behind
the Roosevelt candidacy. Such people merely confess their ignor
ance of conditions and of recent history. The day that Roosevelt
became president the great trusts of the country were capitalized at
$3,700,000,000. During the seven years of the Roosevelt incumbency
this capitalization increased to $32,500,000,000. During those seven
years not a single trust was "busted" or "dissolved." On the con
trary, the two greatest mergers in business history were effected
the Northern Pacific deal and the swallowing up of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Co. by the Steel Trust. The Northern Pacific deal was
winked at; the Steel Trust deal was openly and flagrantly promoted
by Roosevelt. ,
Roosevelt is in favor of the federal incorporations act which
would give control of all corporations to the federal government,
thus depriving the people of the several states of the right to regu
late and control the business that corporations transact within the
individual states. This is the dream of every railroad magnate,
every big trust manipulator. To that end they have put up their
millions to promote the third term candidacy, and are willing to
put up millions more if they can see any possible chance of winning.
William McAdoo, the tunnel builder, says he is going to do all
that one man can to elect WTilson. Maybe you do not know McAdoo,
Well, he built the New York subway, and there hasn't been a sus
vania tunnels that put the Pennsylvania railroad trains into the
heart of New York City. And every dollar expended was accounted
for. He never had a strike or even a labor dispute on any of his
big jobs, ne is as easily approached by the humblest "mucker" as
the pawnbroken on the corner or the saloon man in the alley. He
started at the bottom and has worked his way to the top, doing it by
honest effort. He enjoys the, confidence of the big .corporations, of
the labor unions and of the people generally. Any man has a right
to be proud of the support of a man like William McAdoo.
Woodrow Wilson is a "preacher's son." Now wait and hear
the usual anvil chorus. Why is it that people generally hold to the
opinion that "preacher's sons" are always bad boys! Nothing could
be further from the truth. A little investigation will show that
"preachers' sons "turn out better than the average. 'We'll back
the "preachers' sons" against the sons of men engaged in any other
profession or calling when it comes to doing men's work. They
have made the world's greatest statesmen, its greatest soldiers, its
foremost lawyers, its most successful engineers and its leading
financiers. -They have been the world's greatest literary lights, and
they have been in the van of civilization as it marched into the
benighted regions of earth. Give the "preacher's boy
chance with his fellows and he'll make good.
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During the fiscal year ending June 30 less than seventy miles of
new railroad were built in Nebraska. Not a mile of interurban elec
tric line was built. Not a single dollar was invested in the develop
ment of any great natural resource. Yet Nebraska needs a thousand
more miles of steam railway, hundreds of miles of interurban lines,
and the development of thousands of horsepower now going to waste
in her rivers. Let's shunt the selfish political agitators to one side
for a time and give enterprising men a chance to do something for
themselves and for the public.
. Will Maupin's Weekly makes bold to siifferest. to the Central
Labor Union of Lincoln that it make arrangements to celebrate
Labor Day by participating in the ceremonies of unveiling the
Lincoln statute. The workers of this rennblic. and psnppiallv of the-
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city which bears the name of the martyred president itself the
nest monument yet erected to his memory-could do themselves no
greater honor than to set aside the day to pay tribute to this
greatest of all Americans. We feel sure that the men in direct
charge of the unveiling ceremonies will gladly co-operate with the
wage earners in this matter.
LOOKING OVER OMAHA.
A hundred Nebraska editors gathered in Omaha the first of
ihe week, the guests of the Omaha Commercial Club and the Union
Stock Yards Company and of the Country Club. - They were
whirled to Fort Crook and over the boulevards and through the
magnificent parks of Omaha by business men who took an afternoon
off and used their automobiles. The visitors were igiven an oppor
tunity to see Omaha and South Omaha in the making and they
saw the results of energy and hustle.
We do not blame Omaha and South Omaha for wanting people
to know what is being done to build big enterprises there. They
have been doing big things. Why, the stock yards industry in
South Omaha is the biggest industry in the state. It is the best mar
ket in the world for the Nebraska stock grower. The day the editors
were at the yards the highest price ever recorded at the yards was
paid for beef $9.50. The only time this price has been exceeded
in this country was during the war. .The stock yards, with the
attendant packing business, means business transactions amounting
to more than $350,000,000 every year.
Omaha has built some magnificent business institutions during
the last decade. She wants people to know what she has been
doing. She realizes that her growth and prosperity depends wholly
upon the growth and prosperity of Nebraska. She wants to be
known as being in full sympathy with the people of the state
the people who are doing real things and standing for those things
which alone count for permanent business success.
If ever there was a time when Omaha stood not in the good
graces of the rest of the state, that time has gone, never to return,
We all love Omaha today because her growth in size and in business
is typical of the greatness of Nebraska. She has grown so fast that
her clothes don't fit her very well, and she may expose a bit more
than the proper amount of bare limb, but she has some new clothes
in the making. Her form is rounding out and she is losing her
youthful ungainliness and akwardness. In fact, Omaha is developing
into mighty sweet womanhood. We say "womanhood" because we
always refer to a city as being of the feminine gender. The editors
who met in Omaha were well repaid. We hope Omaha profits
thereby.
Ot course the editors were entertained at the "Den." A big
meeting of any kind in Omaha during the summer, without visiting
the "Den" would be no visit at all. This year's stunt is a sirkus
with stunts that would make Ringlings' show back up against the
kitchen sink and holler for help. It has some real circus stunts and
some that are not so real. It has a chorus that would put the
average comic opera chorus to the blink in short order. And the
girls ! Such lovely females they be ! Their costumes are bewitching
and their dancing superb. But too many give evidence of being sad
ly in need of the services of a first-class barber. Otherwise they are
all right.
Just now there is a movement on foot to destroy the Alberts law,
' THE THREE KNIGHT STORES.
The three groceries, meat markets and bakeries operated by
Fred L. Knight are always ready for a visit from the health depart
ment s inspectors; the latchstnng is always out. These three pros
perous institutions are always under Mr. Knight's personal supervis
ion, and he insists at all times upon absolute cleanliness and perfect
protection of all perishable goods. He conducts a model bakery for
the purpose of supplying his own trade, and has built Up a splendid
trade in the line of bakery goods, as well as in the grocery, meat
truit and vegetable line. His three stores are located as follows
2202-08 O street, 1601 South Seventeenth street, and 512 North Four
teenth street. He always carries a complete stock of staple and
fancy groceries; always has the choicest of fruits and vegetables in
season, and always has the best in the line of fresh and packed
meats in his model markets. Mr. Knight was compelled to open his
branch stores in order to adequately care for his steadily increasing
trade, thus insuring prompt delivery and better attention to the
wants of each individual patron. His success in his business has
been earned by square dealing and courteous attention. If -it is
worth having in the grocery or meat lines, you may be sure of
getting it from Knight, all right, all right. x
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