t
"crook'' ami a "long-eared jackass." If he did not he would
have yelled "liar'' at the man who said he did. The wonder
is that he didn't yell it anyhow, as soon as he learned that
the remark was injudicious and unpopular.
There are many reasons why a Tammany candidate for gov
ernor of New York ought to be defeated, but on general prin
ciples the election of John A. Dix is devoutly to be wished.
It would be a severe blow to the ranting and bloviating lloo.se
vclt and calculated to undermine the president.
Of course the Chicago police manage to maim a lot of strik
ers in their efforts to preserve a peace that is not in danger
of being disturbed until the police raise a riot by their arbitrary
tactes.
We stop the press to announce to outsiders that it would be
cruelly unjust to judge Nebraska as awhole by the kind of a
campaign the state is suffering from at this particular time.
Every dollar spent in building up Nebraska industries is
a dollar kept at home for the further enlargement of Nebraska
business. Let's get sensible on this business proposition.
What has become of the Nebraska League of llepublican
Clubs under the able guidance of President Guerdon W. Wat
tles, the champion union buster of Omaha?
Now that we have fought the county option cumpaign, what
have we gained? It will all have to be fought over again
through the referendum.
The political versatility of Roosevelt is evidenced by Ids
support of standpatter Lodge in Massachusetts and progressive
Beveridge in ndiana.
If Mr. Whedon does not cease pulling the Congressional Rec
ord on Senator Burkett, the senator will have' to move to sup
press the Record. 1 , "
If you do not like Lincoln, either move out or quit "knock
ing" and give the rest of us a chance.
Cheer up! There's plenty of coal in Lincoln. All you need
is either the cash or the credit to get it.
Land monopoly is the curse of the civilized world.
Named for Lincoln
Made in Lincoln
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NOT LABOR'S IVAY
Trade Unionism Not Responsible
For Los Angeles Affair.
LABOR'S DUTY TO ITSELF.
Organized Workers Must Exhaust
Every Resource and Use Every En
deavor to Place the Blame Where It
Belongs.
In refreshing contrast to the pluto
cratic press in general the Philadel
phia Public Ledger refuses to. believe
that the explosion that wrought such
havoc to the Los Angeles Times was
caused by union labor. It says edi
torially :
The promptness with which some of
the labor organizations of Los Angeles
hare joined with the city authorities
in the effort to apprehend the mis
creants responsible for the destruction
of the Times newspaper plant and
the appalling loss of life attending It
shows that the labor leaders of the
Pacific coast recognize that no more
deadly blow could possibly be admin
istered to trade unionism than its in
timate identification with assassina
tion. It is impossible to believe that the
Typographical union as a body had
any hand in the destruction of even
so implacable an enemy as the Los
Angeles Times or in the wanton mur
der of its employees.
It has taken the right course In
promptly joining with the authorities
in the effort to run down the crim
inals. Rewards aggregating $100,000 or
imore have been offered for detection
of the miscreants "who in attempting
to destroj the Los Angeles Times
committed a score of murders. No
monetary consideration should be nec
essary to spur organized labor to an
endeavor to uncover the assassins and
to demonstrate beyond all cavil that
workmen banded for mutual protec
tion have no part or lot with cowardly
criminals.
The Pacific coast has been the scene
of many acts of violence perpetrated
as war was waged between employer
and employed, but in almost every in
stance the secret plot, the placing of
a bomb, the use of the torch, has been
traced to some ruffianly element that
under " guise of unionism has given
reign to its own base instincts. The
anarchist, the loafer, the agitator,
have used the opportunity to express
their hatred for law. for society, for
every form of restraint, and the onus
of their deeds has rested, at least for
a time, upon those to whom the deeds
were abhorrent. . " .
From the fact that the owner of the
Times had long fought the unions and
that between him and them existed an
acute hostility it is easy to rush to
the conclusion that the unions are re
sponsible for the recent outrage. The
establishment of this hypothesis as a
fact would be the most serious blow
that could be - administered to union
Ism in this country. Union labor
should regard as intolerable even the
vague shadow of a suspicion and
avert it by prompt and decisive action.
The Typographical union has an
honorable history. It has made ear
nest fights for its principles and when
it has won has not abused the fruits
of victory. When it has lost it has not
appealed to any form of Incendiary ac
tivity In reprisal. That it could have
any sympathy with the villainous as
sault upon life and property is un
thinkable to those familiar with the
character .f its membership.
Union labor Has an open foe in those
who oppose it as an institution. It
has a more insidious and deadly ene
my in the vandal and assassin who
essays to steal Its livery and uses as
though to advance its cause weapons,
that would destroy unionism unless
the pretense were exposed. To assist
in running down these murderers is a
duty union labor owes to itself.
Rights of the Worker.
The laboring man has a right
to trial by jury, and no judge, as
in an injunction suit, has the
right to be lawmaker, judge of
that law and prosecuting attor
ney as well. W. J. Bryan.
How Union Helped Bookbinders.
Robert Clocking, president of the
Brotherhood of Bookbinders, in speak
ing of the growth of bis organization,
said: "It is now seventeen years since
the International Brotherhood of Book
binders was organized. Since that time
we have advanced the price of our la
bor from $11 to $17.50 for males aud
from $4 to $7 for females per week.
We have reduced the hours of toll
from sixty to forty-eight per week. To
summarize, we have advanced the
wages of our craft, male, $260 per
year; female, $156 per year; a reduc
tion of hours of a fifth, equal to a
further Increase in wages, making a
total advance of -$312 for male and
$187 for female per year."
Unions Aid a Widow.
- Recently a widow with four small
children hud the misfortune to lose her
bumble home by fire near Stockton,
Cal. The Stockton labor unions, hear
ing of the mishap, decided to rebuild
the home. To that end the members
of Carpenters'. Plasterers", Bricklay
ers". Lathers. Hodcarrlers" and Paint
ers' unions volunteered their services.
The structure was completed in a very
short time and at absolutely no cost to
the poor woman.
The Reproof.
It was in the midst of the football
season, and the students of Professor
Blank's class, well aware that their
lesson had been neglected, were pre
pared for reproof, but not for Just the
way in which It came.
At the end of the hour be slammed
down bis book on the desk and ex
claimed: "Well, that's the worst recitation 1
ever listened to! Why. I've actually
done nine-tenths of it myself I" Youth's
Companion.
Unanswered.
To "Anxious Inquirer," who asks us
If there are rats on a catboat and
whether cowcatchers were first put on
milk trains, we reply that the editor
who knows all about such things Is
busy looking up whether or not Rich
ard III., when be stopped King
Henry's bier, thus became the first
temperance crusader, and will not be
able to answer Anxious Inquirer until
he rests up a little. Browning's Mag
azine. Well Answered.
"Do you see much difference between
Americans and Englishmen?" a band
some, spoiled English guardsman Is
said to have asked a sparkling Amer
ican girl newly arrived in London so
ciety. "Oh. yes. was her quick reply..
"Over there the men admire us; here '
we are expected to admire you."
They say the astonished soldier al
most fell off his chair at the unexpect
edness of It