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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1910)
bing the metropolis of the state, is entitled: to one, senator.; . But not now, under the circumstances. Far be it from so ! ; -.Seiia tor Durkett voted against reducing the duty, on- sewjiij machines that protects a monopoly that has paid 3Q( pei- cent cash dividends during the last four. or five years, to say nothing of. stock dividends of practically 300 per cent. -The Singer Sewing Machine Co. is an infant industry" that: isqnite big; enough and strong enough to whirl theigJ p. tintf fibers " around its head like a small boy swings a dead rat tied to a string.. - - --. -. - -- .. ----- -.- And Mr. AVhedon continues to impale the senior senator upon the points of the barbed wire that the senator helped to keep the duty up on. - Lincoln democrats are not saying much about the mayoralty cpntest , next spring, although the republicans are showing some activity. Mayor Love will be asked by adinirng friends to stand, for re-election, and Mr. Quiggle has a. host of friends . boosting for him. Perhaps the democrats are figuring that the city will be under the commission system, before that time; anyhow, so what's the use. But if the present system is main tained there are surface indications to the., effect that Robert , Malone would not be averse to tryng for the job again, arid there are a Ipt of men willing to pull their coats and work for,;, him. :-. - - . The good women who are responsible for Nebraska's excel lent child labor law should take to themselves the compliment paid to the franiers of that law by a writer in the current issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. The writer in question says that Oklahoma has the best child labor law as it has the best gen- , eral labor laws of airy state in the Union, and then asserts that this is due to the fact that the Oklahoma law is made up of. the best features of the child labor laws of Illinois, Nebraska -arid New York Nebraska has a model child labor law. The -trouble is that while so many judicial officers are heartily in favor of the law, those, who are in favor of its enforcement are seemingly mighty hard to find. The deputy labor commissioner , has proved two violations recently, but in one case the defend- -ant was dismissed upon a technicality raised by the court it self, and in the other case the defendant was dismissed because the court didn't think that the violation amounted to a great deal. In other words the court in the latter case thought like the young lady who became the mother of a child outside of wedlock. She excused herself on; the . ground that it was a mighty little baby, anyhow.- . r ; , If the patchwork committee formed for the purpose of framing a city charter for Lincoln is getting anywhere with its.work, it is man aging to keep the fact very quiet. The two or three meetings that received notice in the public, press revealed the fact that the un wieldy committee was so hopelessly split up that there seemed; little chance for its arriving at any conclusion worth while. . The people of Lincoln are ready for a commission form of government, but they are not ready for any compromises or makeshifts. If they must per petuate the present system in one way or another, they prefer the present, way.. But the charter committee would: profit by speedily making up its collective mind to ne thing the charter it frames up will have to stand the test of a referendum vote. There will be no more chancing of jamming a charter through ' the legislature ithis winter than there was of jamming the late uniamented charter through the legislature 'of 1909. , ,, ...... Two things Nebraska needs alsove all else a new constitution that will fit a great and growing state,and a condification of its now badly jumbled up laws. Nebraska with a million and a half of: people is ., doing business under a constitution framed for a state of 200,000 people by men meeting under grasshopper conditions and without any idea that the state would ever have over half a million people, all of them engaged in tilling the soil or raising cattle. Nebraska's yearly output of manufactured products now exceeds what the framers of the state constitution thought would be the utmost limit of agricultural an'd live stock production. The Aldrich-Cahnon tariff has been in force about a year, perhaps a little less. In that time-the price of farm products has 'decreased-' something like 25 per cent., and the price of manufactured' products h&s increased from 10 to 30 per cent. Men who beldeye that a pro tective tariff, will make wool grow on hydraulic, ram will also be lieve that the- tariff whicK makes, .raw" po-djitc3t?,.S.e wjU' iuiake, goods manufactured from these raw products lower' ,1 v - r- The Only Safe Route There are no sidepaths, no tunnels, no short ' cuts in acquiring " money and property. ' Men have gone over the same route , for centuries and ther is no way ' open to any of us but the steady, conservative and matter of fact route. Save money and you will have it. Even squirrels save for the time when they cannot work. Bees do the same. " " V Both are hard workers more than they consume. and save 4 Of Interest Paid O on Savings $1 or mo. e will start you right, at This Bank. AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK 132 NORTH 11 TH ST. FOR A GOOD LINE OF UNION MADE SHOES Call On The Lincoln Shoe Co. 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