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VOLUME 7
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1910
f . NUMBER 29
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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." , '
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Ha per of Pawnee.
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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. . '
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