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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1910)
An Independent Newspaper Devoted to Sunshine and Good Cheer. Without Malice and .Without a Muzzle '.- Volume 7 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 25. 1910 Number 36 SOME CURT COMMENT ON DAILY TOPICS The narrowness of the republican majorities on all state officers below governor are an indication of what might have happened to the g. o. p. if the bi-ewery-booze managers had kept their fingers out of the political pie instead of trying to run the democratic party. All the brewery-booze managers succeeded in doing was to arouse so much animosity that they will have all they can do preserving their business, -without finding any time to try and manage political parties. The county optionists spent so much time in denouncing "Dahl manism" that they overlooked to a large extent the necessity of electing county option members of the legislature. They succeeded in defeating Dahlman by 18,000 majority, but they did not succeed in electing a county option legislature. There is always danger ii becoming too hysterical. It has been suggested to us that we advise the Douglas county delegation in the house of representatives the wisdom of selecting seats convenient to some capacious exit. This in case some officer of the law appears with an extradition warrant or an indictment from a grand jury. Mr. Aldrich admits, frankly and freely, his debt of gratitude t. Richard L. Metcalfe. This is meet proper. Metcalfe was a tower c , strength to -Aldrich in the recent campaign. And the gentleme: who were informing "Met" that he would have to come back intc the democratic ranks as a private are now quite willing to permi "Met" to come back any old way he prefers, just so he comes bacL Our compliments to Rev. Luther P. Ludden, Lawson G. Brian an one or two other members having in charge the normal schools o the state: Permit us to make you acquainted with Prof. Joseph "W Crabtree, superintendent-elect of public instruction. Crabtree ha' come back. - Speaking of "presidential possibilities" brought out by the re cent election what's the matter with Gilbert M. Hitchcock? Tt be elected democratic United States senator by a majority of 22,0C in a state that elected a republican governor by 18,000 is some running, isn't it? And isn't it equal to Harmon's victory in'Ohio, or Wilson's victory in New Jersey? It's a little early to prognosti cate on 1912, but we advise the president makers to keep an eye on Hitchcock. The old familiar Bryan obituary is going the rounds of the plutocratic press. It has the same old ring. It will have the same old answer. The first thing the obituary writers know the corpse will rise up and kick them in the brains, thereby seriously ruffling the seats of their trousers. And when Bryan does die and is buried, the obituary writers for generations to come are going to be kept busy writing the sad farewell words over "Bryanism. " Funny, isn 't it, that every time there is a stir in economic circles or in industrial circles, those pesky socialists are charged with fomenting all the trouble. A busy lot, those socialists. Fred D. "Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in the federal prison for of fering a reward for the kidnaping of Ex-Governor Taylor an d hic return to Kentucky. It was to have been expected. The men who 'kidnaped Moyer and Hayward were never punished. The man who merely suggests the kidnaping of an indicted fugitive from justice is fined and imprisoned. The man who thinks that this sort of thing wilj kill socialism merely admits that his head is full of aaaiea eggs, warren as a martyr to tne cause wiu exert a far greater influence than Warren the editorial mouthpiece of a propaganda. The Wageworker will be one of a hundred news papers that really believe in free speech and a free press to pay Warren's fine. What's the use of squandering $5,000 for a bond for the treasurer of Nebraska? 'Just enact a law making it a capital crime to embez zle state or county funds, and then hang the first offender. The state would not only save money, but it wrould save a lot of worry. The election of Hitchcock to the senate rather blocks the sen atorial ambitions of Victor Rosewater., And it is calculated to make Senator Brown a bit uneasy. When Hitchcock replaces Burkett there will' be two senators north of the Platte which is not to be onsidered for long. True Kearney, while north of the Flattee is only forty miles from the Kansas line, but it's north of the Platte, and that settles it. Brown will have to go or precedent of forty years smashed to smithereens. Being a lawyer Brown can not thr-..v-any rocks at "precedent." If a republican succeeds him wThat's the matter with Norris? And if a democrat succeeds him there is just, one answer Ashton C. Shallenberger. Leo Matthews, private secretary to the goverror ard se re'firv of the democratic state committee, announced his candidacy for 'c hief clerk' of the house. Why not? Matthews has renderei spier di I arty service and is thoroughly capable. He is methodical, untiring nd loyal. He has made good all along the line and is entitled to eward. An east Lincoln man recently had three yards of sand dumpel n front of his home, preparatory to building a sidewalk. Before ''e could use the sand, and while absent, from his home, a force of Street Commissioners Hensley's men came along and graded the treet. Instead of notifying the householder of their intentions and Permitting him to move the sand, the graders distributed it over the treet for three -blocks. Hensley said he could do nothing; that .he householder was liable to fine for not having a permit to dump ; he sand in the street, and that he" was very sorry. The sand amounted to $4.05, the annoyance to three times as much and a citizen and taxpayer forsed to lose it all by the actions of a lot of men without courtesy or commonsense working under the direc tions of a man who secured his office through the influence of organ ixed labor and hasn't paid a dollar of union dues since he landed the job. Will some one kindly set a date for a "tag day" for the benefit of the poor and unfortunate Lincoln Traction Company? The superintendent of schools in Lincoln-receives a salary of $2,500 a year and has supervision over about 9,000 school children and about 140 teachers. The state superintendent receives a salary of $2,000 a year and has supervision over 375,000 school children, 11,000 teachers, 7,000 schools and four normal schools. Lots of funny things in this country. ' ' For instance, the state treasurer receives a salary of $2,500 a year, and for that money he handles from $5,000,000 to 7,000.000 a year twice over, invests a million or two of state money in securities for the permanent school fund, officiates on several boards, ore beinpr the board of purchase and supplies, and manages an office force of ten or twelve people. The president of a bank attending to that volume x)i business usually receives a salary' of from $7,500 to $15, 000 a year. . There are department managers in Omaha and Lincoln department stores who receive double the salaries paid the governor of Ne-
