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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1912)
Will Maupin's Weekly EDITED AND PUBLISHER BY HIMSELF ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR Editorial Rooms, 436 Bankers Life Bldg. Auto Phone B2994 Publication Rooms, 126-132 North 14th Street Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mall matter, under the Act of ii Kress Of March S. 1S79. A WORD PERSONAL. The issue of Will Maupin's Weekly of August 30 will be a "Harvest Home" number ,a repetition of the annual editions of this newspaper. I believe I am warranted in saying that the special editions of this newspaper are about the best possible textbooks on Nebraska and Her Resources. I am not going to make any big primises, but I do promise that the forthcoming annual number will be the best ever issued by me. As to what this means, I refer you to the annual editions of the past. In the "Harvest Home" number I purpose telling you a few thnigs about Nebraska's history, about her productivity, about her enterprise, about her resources and about her possibilities. I will give statistics that are startling, and presented in an interestiag manner not in the old dry-as-dust fashion. Something will be said about the men who are doing real things for the upbuilding of the state; something about the big enterprises of the state, both under way and in prospect. In short, the "Harvest Home" number will be worthy of the study of every Nebraskan who wants to know more about his state. Of course I will appreciate all support given me in this enter prise. The edition will be a good advertising medium for live and progressive business establishments. This paper is fighting for the "home patronage" idea with all its might, and seeking to cultivate state pride and state loyalty. I ask your cordial co-operation in my efforts to advertise Nebraska's resources and build up her local institutions. WILL M. MAUPIN. THE MAN KANSAS SHOULD ELECT. We confess our ignorance of Kansas politics, but we claim some knowledge of Kansas men. We are not so much concerned in what men say they stand for as we are in what they do to prove what they say. Plenty of men there are who are always promising few are doing. And because he isn't much given to saying, but is greatly given to doing, this newspaper hopes to see Arthur Capper elected governor of Kansas this fall. Capper is a progressive repub lican, a "Bull Mooser," if you please. A quarter of a century ago he was a reporter on a Topeka daily. He had an oreide watch and $2 when he landed there, ne wasn't content to remain a reporter, so he found a shoestring and utilized it to buy a weekly paper at Topeka. He made the "Mail and Breeze" a power in Kansas poli tics. Then he bought a daily newspaper a poor sort of an apology and proceeded to make it a winner. Then he bought the Topeka Daily Capital. It was Capper who inaugurated the fight against railroad domination in Kansas. He couldn't be intimidated and he would not be bought. He broke up the pass system first, and that took political control from the railroads. Then he put the machine eaucus system on the bum, and that shook a lot of grafters from the state pay roll. He has fought the people's battles like a man. We don't know much about his position on the tariff or the money question and we don't care. We do know that he stands for the square deal, for honesty in politics and for the dethronement of the political boss, and that's enough for us. WTere we a Kansan we'd be fighting for Capper with all our might. And the result of the Kansas primaries last Tuesday seems to indicate that our opinion is shared by a huge majority of Kansans. Kansas will honor herself a whole lot more than it will honor Capper by electing him chief executive. PRETTY GOOD, THANK YOU. During the year ending August 1, 1912, the banks of Nebraska, Btate and national, made a gain in deposits of $25,000,000. That is pretty near $20 per capita, and is an increase few. states can equal Things have been going pretty good for Nebraska during the last decade. Save for a little financial flurry under the administration of the only man that stands between this republic and destruction, Nebraska has been enjoying about the finest brand of prosperity ever put on tap. Crops h9ve been good, prices have been good, the demand for labor has been good in fact, Nebraska has been all to the good. Is there another state in this Union that has increased its bank deposits $20 per capita during the last twelve months! If so we want to know it. THEN AND NOW. As a sample of favor-seeking, vote-begging propaganda com mend us to the "statement" issued by Theodore Roosevelt just prior to his nomination by the progressive party. It is only neces sary to contrast the Roosevelt position now with the Roosevelt position when that gentleman was president. For seven years he had a splendid opportunity to do something, or say something, in favor of the things he is now advocating but he did not. Today Mr. Roosevelt is very loud in his protestations of friendship for labor. While president he did not hesitate to perejudge the case of men on trial for their lives by calling them "undesirable citizens." He was not so much concerned about the rights and welfare of labor when he so savagely attacked labor in his famous decision in the Miller case. We did not hear him denouncing the exploitation of helpless women while he was in position to accomplish some thing in behalf of the underpaid ' women in the tenements and sweat shops. The agitation for equal suffrage has been on for years, but Roosevelt, while president, never endorsed it and never urged congress to consider the question. We know that such men as Ray mond Robins and such women as Jane Addams are sincere in their advocacy of justice for the workers and the raising of the American fctandard of wage and living. They have been working for those things for years. But we believe we may be pardoned for doubting the sincerity of the man who, when it was possible for him to do something worth while, refused or neglected to do so, but who now comes to the front, seeking renewed favor, and makes such glittering promises. The Nebraska State Fair is the best because Nebraska produces the best stuff to be exhibited. Tme Value ARMSTRCM G'S Value id-Summer Reduction: Sole f "F the men of Lincoln realized fully the excellence of the values this sale otters them, the crowds that come here daily would be more thandoubled. Those who are buyiner most liberals are men who are personally acquainted with the superiority of the merchandise carried by Armstrong's. To them buying suits at these prices is equiva lent to exchanging fifty-cent pieces in return for dollars. All Men's and Young Men's Suits are Included U- U-023) Buys any Spring or Summer Suit that sold at $35, $37.50 and $40. Buys any Spring or Summer Suit that sold at $25, $27.50 and $30. Buys any Spring or Summer Suit that sold at $16.50, $18 and $20. You can no more question the value of these clothes than you can question the stand ard value of American currency. "Hart Schaffner & Marx, " "Hirsh-Wickwire and "Fash ion Clothes' are worth every penny of thier regular prices. We're selling them at these no-profit prices, although the high quality remains unchanged. BOYS' WASH SUITS-!S,?,S?J"hS8 " ,abfics that Lot No. 1 Wash Suits! worth to $2.50 at. $1.15 Lot No. 2 Wash Suits worth to $3.50 at. $1.65 Lot No. 3 Wash Suits worth to $5.00 at. $2.45 Good Clothes Merchants c A VSsSt to Otau? Salesrooms WILL INTEREST EVERY WOMAN WHO COOKS FIRST She will learn the secret of shorter kitchen hours. She will find gas ranges with ovens so conve nient that she is bound to use them ovens that are all heated with one set of burners, which means, economy. SECOND A little gas water heater, attached to a 40-gallon tank, gives her hot water for cooking, washing dishes and cleaning at a small cost. THIRD--A little gas laundry stove will boil the clothes; and cook the starch, etc. These appliances and many others may be seen in our salesroom. Lmcolai Gas audi Electee L&ght Co Bell 75 Fourteenth and O Streets, Lincoln Atito B2575 WWWWWWW1-- - - - Douglas county democrats have a habit of complaining of the treatment accorded them at state conventions. May that treatment not be due to the fact that the delegations do not usually represent the very best elements in the democracy of Douglas? Many of the delegates to the Grand Island convention are the warm personal friends of the editor of "Will Maupin's "Weekly, but he is compelled to admit his belief in the assertion of Delegate Marshall that the delegation did not represent the real sentiments of the Douglas democracy. Suppose our Douglas county friends try a change in the system and see how it pans out. The Lincoln Daily Star's annual number, was worthy of the many words of praise said for it. The contents were interesting and instructive, and the advertising of Nebraska resources and possibilities bound to be profitable to the state. Newspapers like the Star, enterprising and reliable, are doing much to advance the interests of the great west. No, Binaldo; you'll have to tell us of something better than a 40-bushel yield of wheat to make us sit up and take notice. Such reports are becoming monotonous around the office of this Stalwart Upstander for Nebraska. Voters who imagine that the "progressive party" is not going to cut any figure in this campaign ought to take something for it. It is going to be a mighty big factor. . "We are preparing to organize a new political party, although we hereby declare that we will not be its candidate for the presi dencyand the declaration has no Roosevelt strings attached to it. Our new party's platform will be: "Don't take your politics so damned seriously!" D) MM, D 0 3 its 5AILY TH ENTIRE CHEYENNE (WY0.) frontier Days Show $13,000 IN RACES VAortmam Allen Shows ffiiyiu.E MGfr?A(S Fireworks