Berger, socialist congressman-elect, from taking his seat, the ground
for this action being that Berger would "destroy the constitution."
Gee, but ie;d like to see just such a fool move as that made! If
there is anything on earth that would rip the old political parties
up the back, and throw the fragments to the winds, it would be a
move lihe the one suggested- Just as soon as the voters could get
action they'd simply elect a socialist congress.
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Business Man, every time you send out a job. of printing
bearing the label of the Allied Printing Trades you are inviting the
best paid mechanics in the world to reciprecate by trading with
you. The union mechanic is always the best paid mechanic.
The Traction Co. should either compel the conductors to; stand
outside while receiving fares or abandon the i pay-as-you-enter
system until it has equipped its lines withe cars built for that system
The system as enforced in Lincoln under present conditions is a
condemned nuisance.
To the Women of Lincoln : Do your Christmas shopping early in
December, and do it early in the day. Why? Because by doing it
early in December you will confer a favor on the men and women
who clerk in our stores. By doing it early in the day the tired :
mechanics will have a chance to sit down in the street cars when
they go home after a hard day's work. Be considerate, please!
f ABOUT MEN AND MATTERS
No, sir; we didn't have a turkey at our Thanksgiving dinner.
Never did care much for turkey, anyhow that is, not during the
last twenty years or so. At any rate not since they began selling
by the ounce, troy weight. . We had chicken roasted to a delicious
brown, stuffed with sage dressing and garnished by escalloped
oysters. We do not wear our diamonds lest we make a vulgar and
ostentatious display of our wealth. For the same reason we never
carry a turkey home under our arm.
What, abolish the governor's staff ! Never! A vaunt, ye who pro
pose it. Abas! Likewise consquez! What would we do without an
occasional opportunity to see a lot of gentlemen with swelled chests
ard enlarged caputs strutting around with enough gold braid on
'em to sink a battleship? Life is a serious business at best, and we
betide those who would deprive us of a single opportunity for 'unal
loyed glee, such as we have when the be-braided and be-buttoned
colonels of the governor's staff are paraded before our eyea like the
prize Perch erons or Polled Angus at the state fair. We insist upon
retaining the staff.
What a wonderful state Nebraska is. And how criminally ne
gligent her people have, been in the matter of advertising her
superior advantages. The average wheat yield of the entire United
States for the ten-year period, 1901-1910, waa 14 bushels per acre;
the Nebraska average was 19 bushels for the same per acre. The
nrerace corn yield for the same period in the entire United States
was 24 bushels; the Nebraska average was 27 bushels. The same
record is trade on oats. And yet, because Nebraskans have ne
glected to advertise the real facts about Nebraska there are millions
who yet. VelieVe that what land is not given over to the Indian and.
the bur alo is really a barren plain devoid of fertility and wholly
lacking. in moisture.
Adjutant Gereral ITartigan's plea for a better supported militia
is based on sound reasoning, but while General Hartigan realizes
why orarired labor is opposed to the militia system as now sup
ported, there are those w ho do not. Organized labor is not op
posed to a ti ; ilitia system that can not be used by selfish men for
selfish purposes. It is opposed to a militia that is the plaything of
politics and of "big business.' It ought to believe in a well
drilled and a well-disciplined militia, for in time of war it is the
machanics. the farmer boys, the wage earners, who must fight the
battles. "Pig business' never shoulders a musket it is too busy
manufacturing shoddy shoes and clothing to sell to the government
at exorbitant prices, or cornering the finances so as to. compel the
government to give it a five-dollar interest bearing bond for every
dollar put up to finance the the war. But as long aa the militia is
used to break strikes, protect conscienceless employers, intimidate.
4tien seeking justice and protect dollars at the expense .of souls-aa
loner as that system prevails organized labor-wilt oppose the militia
system.
Goverror-elect -Aldrich will have, plenty of .applicants . for. tjfe
yardenship of the state prison, feut he "wiflhayVa mhty har4'tim.e
; trying" to- find a rr an; who is the equal tot Tom Sraitbjin thtsition7
"Urder Warden Smith's management the prison-has been improved
in many ways, the discipline ia better the. cost ta the taxpayers ia
lessened, and the results upon the inmates more beneficial. Doubt
less the spoils system will deprive Warden Smith of his official
head, but that will simply mean that the taxpayers are foolish fori
allowing the spoils system to prevail.
Mayor Love is in the Canadian northwest telling the people of
some big city up there of the benefits of a "dry city." There
are many benefits, to be. sure. "But so far as we have observed
cleaner streets is not one of them.
One of the biggest enterprises under way in Nebraska today:
is the construction of the great drainage ditch in the Nemaha
valley, beginning at Humboldt and straightening the channel of that
woefully crooked stream to its junction with the Missouri. The;
ditch will cost a quarter of a million dollars, but it will redeem'
thousands of acres of the most fertile land in the world from over
flow and save enough crops in one year to more than.pay its entire
cost. Some ideal of the crookedness of the Nemaha may be had
from the knowledge that in one place a stretch of ditch just two
miles long shortens the channel of the stream a little more thani
eleven miles. ,
Governor-elect Aldrich has returned home from his visit to the -'
Aldrich homestead in Ohio, and his troubles are now begun. He .
has about 600 jobs to give out, and there are 3,000 aspiring states
men who want to fill them, each one with proof in his" pocket that
without his aid Aldrich could not have been elected. If Governor
elect Aldrich is desirous of rewarding the man who contributed
most to his election he will offer the fattest job at his disposal to
James C. Dahlman. ,
It seems a cinch that Senator Norris Brown is going to have a
fight on his hands for re-nomination at the hands of his own party.
Congressman Norris is sure to go after the nomination. While these
two are' fighting it out for the republican nomination a gentleman .
claiming a, residence several miles southeast of McCook will be
setting the pins to lick the stuffing out of the winner.
The death of Colonel Moses Wetmcre in St. Louis marks the pass
ing of a man who knew how to buck a trust. Col. Wetmore was
squeezed by the tobacco trust several years ago, and he wasn't in
shape to fight back at that time. But later he was, and he at once
organized an independent tobacco company. He was so perniciously
active that he forjd the trust to buy him out at his own terms. -Then
he started in all over again and made the trust come across
with another million or two. He might have kept this up indefi
nitely, but the trust gave him a million or so for his promise that
he would not again engage in the tobacco business.
Lincoln business men will find that it is a paying idea to have
the Allied Printing Trades label on their printed matter. It is
a standing invitation to the best paid mechanics to trade with them.
The socialist editor and the union labor leader who violates a
law or disregards an injunction is sent to jail. V The trust magnate
who is convicted, of viloation of law is fined, and at once makes:
the people pay the fine by merely raising the price of the trust
made goods. A trust magnate behind the bars would have a greater
moral effect than all the fines ever assessed against trust managers. '
A half-dozen democrats of the "big interests" variety may meet
in Baltimore and resolve to their hearts "content. But five or six
million democrats who never attended a six-dollar-a-plate banquet
will put the quietus on any. little scheme the "big interests" demo-'
crats may frame up.
If some labor paper editor were to use the language or advo
cate the measures used and advocated by John J. Kirby, president -of
the Manufacturers' Association, he would probably be sent to
jail, and in any event he would be denounced as a disturber, an
anarchist and an irresponsible agitator. Kirby has money, however.
The First National Bank is spending a quarter of a million to
beautify and improve its corner at Tenth and 0. As soon as it
has completed its job it will be fined about $3,000 a year for its,
enterprise. In the meantime a lot of people who own shacks in
that vicinity or vacant lots near the business section will reap an
undeserved reward in the way of increased property values and
neither the city nor the state will ?et any share of the increase. "
Laws that punish thrift and enterprise and put "a premium on the
lack of them are unwise laws'. , : .
Ther insurance that Nebraskans carry should be carried by Ne
braska insurance companies. Why drain money from Nebraska to
r.buiid up. big business enterprises in Connecticut and Massachusetts
and New York v.
' "Tnsurgencv will be rather more fashionable in Washington dur
ing the next four months.
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