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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1910)
W.5 - WAG VOLUME 7 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1910 f . NUMBER 29 i;"'' f-JT IljI - I JUST BETWEEN The late Nathan K. Griggs will be re- - ntembered long .after better known of his generation are forgotten. Quiet, unasuming, Mr. Griggs delighted in doing good in an unostentatious way. His charities were numerous. He spread sunshine wherever he went. One of the best tributes I ever heard paid to a ddreire, general manager 01 ine isur- lington system. .Mr. liriggs was a member of the Burlington's legal staff and his ability was evidenced by Mr. Holdrege's 'tribute. A well known Lin win attorney happened into Mr. Hol drege's office one day, and during a little desultory chat the name of Griggs was mentioned. "What kind of a lawyer is Griggs?" iski-l the Lincoln man. ""Why. I i1 n't know that he is a lawyer at!!." replied Mr. lloldrege. "That's strange." said the Lincoln man. "He has been a member of your legal staff for a long time." "Yes, that's true." said Mr. llol drege. "lint I do not know whether he ns a lawyer or not. I do know, how ever, that he settles more damage suits for less money, and at less expense, than any other man we have 'in our lecnl department." The Missouri Pacific management in sists that it ought to be allowed to charge higher freight rates because it cost so much to build and equip it road, maintain it and operate it. That re minds us of a little incident. A few weeks ago Church Howe came across f rom England to visit among Ne-' braska friends. "While attending a pic nic in Nemaha county he was .addressed by a negro who reminded Mr. Howe that he was the bo, who officiated as cook on the private uar Mr. Howe occu pied when he was acting as president of the construction company that built the Missouri Pacific branch from, ,a point on the Central Pooific in Kansas nn.int QttirtTM tht rfl ffWAMS Anil sanumirs in nonnwesiern auhhis cuuu ty. That reminded Mr. Howe of some- . thing and he told it to a friend. A con struction company was organized to build that branch. The people of the various townships and cities through which it passed voted bonds in an amount that .built the road and left a 'handsome profit for the construction company. Then the construction com pany made Jay Gould an absolute pres ent of the whole road on his promise to operate it. Gould accepted the pres ent without returning thanks, then pro ceeded to mortgage the road for $20, 000 a mile and issue stock amounting to $40,0(X) a mile. He sold the bonds and stock for cash, pocketed the money, and his successors are now compelling the people who must patronize it to pay freight rates that will not only pay the operating expenses, bait pay dividends on the cost of construction .and the stock, and interest on the mortgage. The day that Representative Taylor of Custer arose in his wrath and landed heavily upon the jaw of Representative Shoemaker of Douglas -will long be re membered. During the noon recess a little buneh of representatives gathered in the rear of the hall todiscuss the incident. While they were conversing Senator Tom Majors strolled in and remarked: "I understand that an attack has been made upon one of my old army comrades." , ' nm .ii. -:..i.i i........,....,f.. 1 Iiai S rigi:i, sum ni"iirinnuic Ha per of Pawnee. 11 Til) ""M I'M 4,to come to his rescue." "That's just like you always were." drawled Raper; "getting on the scene ofActnon long after the fight was over." ST When Judtre Hopewell began the Vast task of tiling and ditching some 500 acres of swampy bottom land he t owns in Burt cor ty, a lot of wise men sat around and snook their 'heads, hint ling that the judge was getting wrong lin the upper story. They were as un Vbl to understand his methods as the ,"eople of Dawson's Landing were to understand why Dave Wilson wanted to own half that dog. But J udge Hope rwelr merely smiled and went ahead with his tiling and ditching and firiish '! it-in time to drain the land suffi ciently . to permit its being planted to ni last spring. The judge is now en--tjsed in huking enough corn from at fom;r Swamp t. pay the entire ntpeiise of draining it, and the men vbo wagged their heads in derision OURSELVES I are now swearing that "Judge Hopee well is suttinly a mighty lucky man." Some of them manage to come back and be better than before. There is Walt Mason for instance. He made a meteoric literary fight in Nebraska twenty years ago, and then faded out like Halley's comet. Everybody ' thought Mason was a permanent mem ber of the "D. & O." 2lub. And he was for a little while. But later he took a fresh grip on things and wended his way back to Kansas landing finally on William Allen White's Emporia Ga- A PLAN TO PAISE FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO PAY ALL INDEBTEDNESS OF THE LABOR TEMPLE BUILD ING IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. WHEREAS, the Lincoln Labor Temple Building Asso ciation has now outstanding the sum of Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000)- in full paid stock, and is the oAvner of . its Temple Building, 217-219 North Eleventh Street, the fair and reasonable value of which is Twenty-five Thous and Dollars ($25,000), on which there exists an indebted ness approximating Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), and which indebtedness it is desirable to have paid and discharged, now THEREFORE, the following plan is submitted : 1. That a subscription for an additional issue of Fif teen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) of stock in said Asso ciation be solicited, the same to be sold at par, payable one-half thereof on or before the first day of March, 1911, and the remaining one-half thereof on or before the first day of January, 1912. 2. The said additional stock shall be non-assessable and to be issued only when paid for, and as follows : (a) Stock to the amount of one-half of each subscrip tion shall be issued to the subscribers thereof, and for :the remains wg one-half of each" subscrlptndii stock shall be issued and held by and in the name of the Trustees of said Association as provided by its Articles of Incorpor- . ation, to be held by said trustees in trust for the said sev eral subscribers until the full amount of the face of such trust stock shall be repaid to the subscribers severally, the same to be repaid without dividends or interest; but it is expressly to be provided that all dividends earned by said trust stock shall be set apart and annually ap plied to a fund which shall be used only for the purpose of repaying said portion of such subscription, and when zette. He edited the Gazette while White was doing Yurrup and made it brighter and better than White ever had. Now Mason is "back" ad doing better work than he ever did before. It is a joy to read 'his stuff 'and mil lions read it every( day. No one knows better than Mason how to reach the core of things in a way that makes us all siit up and take notice. Here's hop ing that 'his brilliant mind and trench ant typewriter will keep right on grinding out the stuff that makes mil lions smile and think. The Saturday Evening Post of Oc tober 1 contains a delightful sketch of Gilbert M. Hitchcock, in which the names of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Metcalfe appear in a humorous even semi-sarcastic way. It reminds us of a lit tle incident that 'happened while Mr. Bryan was editor-in-chief of the World Heraldnd Metcalfe his assistant. Bry an and the late Edward Rosewater had just finished a joint debate on the money question, and Metcalfe discover ed that Rosewater had "cribbed" the best part of his speech from some Texas man. 'Metcalfe wanted to print it in paralel columns and Bryan objected on the ground that it was "personal jour nalism. ' ' The matter -was discussed pro and con for an hour or two, and finally Bryan leaned back with a sigh and remarked: ' Well, Met, between my efforts to . make a statesman out of you and your efforts to make a journalist out of me, I fear we are going to meet up with 1 disappointments." Most old-time printers and many old time newspapermen will recall "Dixie" Dunbar.- In his way he was or is quite as noted a character as Peter B. Lee or Major Busby. One day "Dixie" while subbing on the World-Herald, wandered into Mr. Hitchcock's private office and tried to make a touch. He told a bully good hard luck story, but it failed to work. Finally " Dixie " sighed heavily and after a long pause said : "Well, Mr. Hitchcock, I wish there was another maai just like you living over in Council Bluffs." "Why do you wish that?" queried Hitchcock. "'Cause if there was the Missouri river would be frozen over winter and summer and I could make a fortune selling the ice." As "Dixie" was seen a few moths later in the act of slaking what ap peared to be a well-developed thirst, it ds believed that Mr. Hitchcock melted and came across. The base ball season is at an end. It has been a great season, too. The pennant we did not win this year we will win next year, and we resume our work with lungs strengthened by the exercise they had in rooting for the home team and hurling objurgations the full amount of the subscriptions represented by said trust stock shall have been repaid to said subscribers, then said trust stock shall be and remain the property of said Association in accordance with the provisions of Section 1, Article 14, of the Articles of Incorporation of said Association. 3. At all times the voting power of said trust stock shall be exercised by said trustees of said Association, and by no other persons, the intent and purpose of said plan being to certainly keep and preserve lin the officers, directors and trustees of sajd Association, full and abso lute control of said Association and its property. 4. Said subscriptions and each of them, shall be con ditioned on the aggregate .amount thereof, amounting to said sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), being subscribed by solvent and bona fide subscriptions, and being a sufficient amount to clear the said Association of debt, and the proceeds of said subscriptions used only fo rthe purpose of fully paying and discharging such indebtedness. N -., THE SUBSCRIPTION. Lincoln, Nebraska, October 3, 1910. We, the undersigned, hereby agree to subscribe for such numbers of shares -of stock of the Lincoln Labor Temple Building Association as is set opposite our names, said shares of stock being each of the par value of One Dollar ($1.00). Said subscriptions are conditioned upon the faithful carrying out of the above plan set forth: upon the umpire. But after all, is this exercise by proxy worth wSile? We opine that one hour a week at the old fashioned game of horseshoes would be more beneficial to the business man, the clerk or the professional man than days on end of sitting in a shady grand stand watching hired gentlemen cavort around a square diamond. We predict that if 'horseshoes should become a popular game 'among the business and professional men of Lincoln, there would soon arise a wail from the dis ciples of Esculapius. Reverting again to the subject of Mr. Aldrich ' speech in Omaha, we would recommend some of his figures to the careful consideration of the business men of that city. They are standing in their own light by further allowing it to appear that the chief business of Omaha is the distilling of whisky and the brewing of beer. The charter committee actually met one night last week and proceeded to get into a row.. It must have been interesting if not edifying. One bunch seems anxious to foist a lot of ideal istic stuff upon the people ; another bunch seems anxious to keep up the present -unbusinesslike and cumber some political system, and still another "bunch wants a compromise between the two. Lincoln wants either the present system or something wholly different. It either wants a mayor and a cumbersome city council, or it wants 'a plain, businesslike commission sys-, tern. It wants neither makeshift nor" experiments. Important Announcement Coming. I WHAT THE DICKEY BIRD SAYS That Nebraska is advancing in years is evidenced by the fact that one of the senatorial candidates is a grand father, although born in Nebraska. Un less we are greatly mistaken Gilbert M. Hitchcock is the first Nebraska born man ever to represent the state in con gress, to say nothing of being the or iginal Nebraska-born grandfather. There may be great honor in represent ing a sovereign state in the United States senate although there are some grounds for doubt, with our knowl edge of the aforesaid senate but there is no doubt about the honor of being a grandfather. And when to that honor is added the further honor of being the original Nebraska-born grandfather, such paltry things as senatorial .honors sink ,into utter insignificance. No one with enough political acumen to tell the difference between a eandi date's pledge and his official perform ance imagines for a mniute that the Lincoln Journal's story of Dahlinan's life will change the vote one way or another. "Jim", is frank enough to tell his life story as he remembers it but about the only thing it brougiht out was a state-wide smile. What we fail to understand is why "Jim" felt it incumbent upon him to light out of Texas af ter dropping the man who had deserted his sister. He had previously informed as to the conditions there and every day occurrance in that section and time, and unless we have been mis informed as to condition there and elsewhere during the era in question, to take the side of a woman was con sidered 'sufficient defense for almost anything. - The only 'seemingly plans- ' ible explanation is that the candida torial memory emitted a "pi line." Mr. Aldrich seems greatly surprised that upon -the occasion of his appear ance before an Omaha audience he was treated like a gentleman. , He talks like a man who expected to be met with deceased felines, decayed vegetables and decrepit shoes. Such an expecta tion is but the natural result of the eompaign of misrepresentation and falsehood that has been waged against the Nebraska metropolis by fanatical people. When we want to mention the most contemptible species of partisan ship, the uttermost depths of mean ness, the acme of fanatical prejudice we do not pick upon Omaha as the ' scene thereof. ' We merely allow our minds to run back about fourteen years when Lincoln, the home of the presi dential candidate an honest, upright, God-fearing man spat upon that can didate, treated him as if he were a thief and a traitor, insulted his family,, ' and hooted his portrait. Happily Lins- H coin has outgrown that sort of , thing, but let it be cheerfully admitted .that Omaha was never, so far as hsitory re cords, in any such frame o'f mind as Lincoln was during 'the memorable cam paign of 1896. - - 1 . v : Nor should we fail to contrast tlra recetition accorded to Mr. Aldrich ia wide open Omaha with the reception accorded to Clarence DaTrow in intel lectual, polished, religious Lincoln. Had Mr. Aldrich 's reception inCreigh ton Hall been marked by any such scenes as marked Mr. Darrow's .recep tion in Lincoln's auditorium, the re-, sultant howl from the Aldrich advo cates would have been heard from Dan to Beer-Sheba. The great trouble about reaching a rational solution of such a vexed problem as the one now confronting the people of Nebraska is.' the fanatical fulminations upon the one side, and the booze-laden bushwa upon the other. ..'!, When William T. Thompson lays aside the duties of attorney general' of Nebraska the state' is going to lose one of the ablest and most conscien tious servants it ever had. Mr. Thomp son 'has not played to the grand stand at any time. He has not sought adver tising, and has not played politics, for his own personal advancement. On the' contrary, he has performed the duties -of his office faithfully and well, quietly and unostentatiously, and as a .result he has done more for his state and rits people than any other man ever occu pying the position of attorney generaL - Will history repeat itself in Nebras-'. ka? Just twenty years ago James. E. Boyd was elected governor upon his frank declaration that he was opposed to prohibition, and his promise to vote statutory prohibition' if it eame up to him. Lucius D. Richards, who dodged the issue, was defeated.: Now James & Dahlman f rankly asserts that he is op-S posed to county option and declares he" will veto a county option bill if it comes up to him 'because it simply means pro- hibition. Mr. Aldrich dodges the pro-, hibition. issue but says be favors county option and will sign a county option bill. . After a political party becomes thor oughly discredited it "cuttlefishes" by nominating a good man when it is sat isfied it can control, and then, joints with pride to' its regeneration. The i latest example is the . nomination of President 'Woodrow Wilson of Prince ton University for the governorship of New Jersey, by the discredited dem ocracy of that state. In this instance, however, the bedraggled democracy of the worst trust ridden state in the Union made the mistake of nominating a man whose name is an insult. to every, member of organized labor. . New- Jer sey is one of the most thoroughly or ganized states in the Union, and it is not difficult to prognosticate what the wage earners will do to an .avowed ' enemy of unionism who is the candi' date of the bunch .that has waxed rich 1 from the oppression of labor and "the rich graft afforded by special privilege. ; Railroad employes should not ' be censured if they appear a bit confused as to their duty these days. When socialists sought to impress" upon them the thought that they, the railroad em-i ployes. constitute a class having special class interests, great morai philoso-: phers and keepers of the public con science like Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, arose and sought to impress upon the railway employes : minds the fact that this appeal to class" was unpatriotic and obnoxious to a high degree. Whereupon the railroad managers applauded to the echo. And. now comes one railroad manager iafterv another seeking to impress upon the minds of the employes that they should vote religiously against those who-, stand for railroad regulation, meaning thereby that they ought to wipe from their mind all that "bushwa" about: voting as American citizens and come out boldly and vote for their own' par ticular class interests.. Whereupon Theodore Roosevelt and Williaam How ard Taft remain as, silent upon that score as a high license advocate- in a Methodist college town. Once more we assert that the railroad employes : should not be censured if they appear to be somewhat confused in the prem ises. . ' t "4