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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1910)
Gentlemen and Ladies HATS Worked Over New or Cleaned and Blocked Clothes Cleaned, Repaired And Pressed Fixed under Our Guarantee are O K. We have a dressing room and can sponge and press your clothes while you wait TED MARRINER, 235 NORTH IITH STREET First 2 Doors North of Labor Temple. Auto 4875; Bell F1600 Practical Hatter Expert Cleaner and Dyer 1 1 V o w " tfe THe Spots Don't Come Back When We Clean It o G Let Us Show ..You.. we are Right Lincolm Cleaning and Dye Works 320 to 322 So. 11th. Both Phones Wagons Everywhere E. W. TRUMAN, Prop. LEO SOUKUP, Mgr. ADE IN LINCOLN DE BY FRIENDS LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN ( No better flour sold on the Lincoln market. Every sack warranted We want the trade of Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it. if your grocer does not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it. H. G. BARBER S SON ! J Farmers and Merchants BanK a. W. MNTOOM KRV. President SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT H. O. PROBAHCO. Ciwhier START a bank account and keep up with the times. Everyone re members the story ef Lincoln and the check for five dollars he gave "the colored man with one leg." How much more business like that was than to to give the poor man the inoDey. EVERY BANKING CONVENIENCE 0EN SATURDAY EVENINGS i to 8 F. St M. BLDG. 5tb tt C STREETS. the men who Organized the Nebraska state federation of labor BILLY MAJOR'S SPIELING It is to be regretted that the tem perance movement is hampered by those who are intemperate intemper ate in their speech and often in their action. The other day I picked up the morning Journal and read a letter, printed in black-faced type and signed by the name of a reverend gen tleman well known in Uncoln. In that letter the reverend gentleman took occasion to cast some undeserved slurs on Omaha, referring to it as a "wide-open town" and expressing a fear that Lincoln would become as vile as the big metropolis. That is unfair and uncalled-for. Omaha is not a wide open town. It lacks a whole lot of being the "hell hole" that a lot of our intemperate temperance reformers would have us believe. The noise made by a few loud-mouthed ad vocates of unbridled license should not be mistaken for the voice of Oma ha. The reverend gentleman in ques tion, and a lot of others of his kind right here in Lincoln, would do well to keep right on sweeping before their own doorsteps and not bother them selves so much about the frost on the tiles of their Omaha neighbors. Thp Om:iha of today is a lot bigger, a lot cleaner and a lot better than the Omaha of a few years ago and it is getting bigger, cleaner and better every day. In this connection I 'want to relate :t little experience The Wageworker had a couple of years ago. George Thompson, a Chicago union man, came to Lincoln and advocated high license in a speech before the Central Labor Union. It was an address by a union man lo'union men, and The Wage vorkir, being a union labor paper, printed it. The license advocates bought several thousand copies of the paper and distributed them. In the same issue appeared a four-column letter by Rev. Mr. Batten advocating no-license. Several ministers and more good women roundly denounced Tli- Wageworker as a "saloon sheet" and its editor as a "whisky advocate" bocause it published the address of th. t itr.icn man. They never said a vord iibout the article written by Rev. Mr. Batten. Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned, but it strikes me that there are alto gether too many adolescent school girls allowed to promenade the streets of Lincoln of evenings, hanging on to the arms of swagger boys who look scarcely dry behind the ears. And too many of these girls, who ought to be at home, wearing short dresses and their hair in braids, have their faces kalsomined and their unformed bodies padded up like old stagers. As a father and as a citizen, I don't like it. The fathers and mothers who allow that sort of thing are storing up a lot of trouble for themselves, and perhaps a lot of disgrace" for their girls. The mother . who will allow her fifteen-year-old girl to prance about the streets o' nights hanging on to the arm of a pimply-faced, cigarette-smoking kid who ought to be wearing knee pants, should hasten to a surgeon and have her head bored for the simples. A ministerial friend told me the other day that he was going to try his best to work up enough sentiment for a Saturday half-holiday to bring it to pass. "At the expense of the wage earner?" I asked. That phase of the subject had never struck him before. Bless his sympathetic heart, the wage-workei-3 of Lincoln can have a half holiday almost any old time, provided they are willing to lose a half-day's wages. The Saturday, half-holiday at the expense of the worker who already finds it hard to make both ends meet working six full days a week, won't do, good friends. You'll have to go further than that if you exect to pre vent the workers from demanding an opportunity to enjoy their only holi day Sunday as they think best. I picked' up a - Jabor- paper - printed in a southern city recently, and read with some astonishment an editorial favoring unbridled license gambling, wine rooms, and all that sort of thing. It made me wonder how any working man could advocate such a policy, and I glanced on through the paper to as certain if possible the reason for it. I found it Of the fifteen columns of advertising carried . by the afore said labor paper a little over fourteen were devoted to advertising breweries, distilleriesandubars.s In.itbe.' language of labor's great and good friend, Charles W. Post, "There's a reason." If within my power I'd make it im possible to manufacture another drop of Intoxicants as long as the world stands. . But the total abolition of in toxicants, like the absolute purifica tion of politics, is, in the language of the late John J. Ingalls, a "d d ir ridescent dream." This fat often makes me wonder , if it wouldn't be best to remove all license and revenue from the drink, and allow it to be sold like any ''other ' commodity; say in grocery stores or anywhere else. I can not imagine a bunch of "good fel lows" hanging all afternoon or all night over a codfish barrel or a box of mackerel in the back end of a grocery "settin' 'em up" and imagin ing they were sports having a good time. I've often thought that we re formers too seldom take into account the factor of human nature in our ef forts to make the world as good as we think we are. I heard something the other day that I fondly hope is true that a liberal minded, generous citizen of Lincoln is going to equip a handsome billiard room in the new Y. M. C. A. building. A few weeks ago I had business in a neighboring city that boasts a Y. M. C. A. building, and I had a talk with a man who takes an interest in the association's work, and makes that in terest known by putting up l'berally for Its support. When I suggested the idea of a billiard room in the build ing he near.ly,.had1a fit. The very idea was little short of sacrilege, so he said. I spent the evening at the home of this friend, and after dinner was over and the dining table cleared off, he got out a parlor croquet set. Fixing some little metal dinguses on the corners of the table, he stretched a wide tape around it, then set up the dinkey little wick and invited me to join him in knocking the little wooden balls around. I did, and I beat him at the game, too. I asked him to tell me the difference between knocking some little, wooden balls around on a bare table and knock'ng some ivory balls around on a green cloth covered table. The only differ ence he could offer was that one was merely the pleasant little pastime of "parlor croquet" and the other was that devil's game, "billiards." Still he's a pretty good sort of a man. But I cpine that if he had lived in Massa chusetts a couple of centuries ago he would have furnished the flint and steel with Christian glee on the occa sion of every witch burning. You re member' that the Puritan fathers pro hibited bear baiting on Sunday not because it was cruelty, to the bears, but because it gave pleasure to the men. If it is true that a Lincoln man is going to equip a handsome billiard room in the new Y. M. C. A. building, I am going to tip my hat to him every time I meet him on the street, and also to any Y. M. C. A. director who is up-to-date enough to agree that that is a sensible move to make. BILLY MAJOR. OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. Office 2118 O St. Both Phont LINCOLN. NEBRASKA Wage workers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY & NORRIS I29 So. Ilth St. MONEY LOANED on household goods, pianos, hor ses, etc.; long or short time, No charge for papers. No interest in advance. No publicity or fil- papers. We guarantee better tei ms than others make. Money paid immediately. COLUMBIA LOAN CO. 127 South 12th. DR. 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