with the most magnificient opportunities along agricultural lines to
locate in less favored but more widely advertised states. The writer
personally knows of Nebraskans who have gone to the northwest
(country and paid $250 an acre for land that, will not produce any
better crops than Nebraska land that may be purchased today for
from $50 to $75 an acre. The trouble is that even Nebraskans do
not know what a magnificent state Ave have here.
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The esteemed State Journal comes forward with another fool idea
sprung in the name of an "ideal Lincoln." Itjs that we do away
Uvith the police force as at present constituted, using only a few
plain clothes men for detective duty and the "rough-and-tumble
arrests," and then employ a lot of students as a sort of "Columbian
Guard" detail for the work of directing traffic, etc. If you want
to enjoy a real hearty laugh some evening, just sit down and think
the Journal's suggestion over for a few moments, calmly and de
liberately. The laugh will follow in due time.
Once in a while even Homer nods. The esteemed State Capital
says that Iolinois voted three to one in favor of the initiative and
referendum and a statewide civil service. The fact is that neither
one carried at the recent Illinois election. The -votes in favor of
the two propositions outnumbered the votes against, but so many
failed to vote either way that both propositions failed ignominious-
Nebraska'has a "corrupt practice" act, the same providing that
Candidates for office shall file their campaign expenses, and limiting
candidates to a certain percentage of the salary of the office to
which they aspire. The law is a huge joke. One candidate at the
recent election defeated, by the way has sworn to an expense
account of less than $600. He spent more than twice that for pos
tage alone. For weeks he kept a force of four to seven people work
ing every day writing letters, mailing literature and buttonholing
voters. If he spent less than $7,000 or $8,000 in the campaign he is
a shrewd business manager. Yet he swears to an expense account
of $600. Another candidate successful swears to an expense
account of about $600. His election cost him thousands. Mr. Dahl
man's expense account as filed wouldn't pay his actual expenses
for one week during his now memorable campaign.
The ' 1 corrupt practice ' ' act has but one effect it makes a lot- of
men lie like horse thieves.
It is now proposed to make it a misdemeanor to smoke a cigarette.
All right we have no objections. There are a lot of reformers
who are insistent that everybody live as the aforesaid reformers pre
fer to live childless, grouchy, suspicious, narrow and bigoted.
If the "liquor interests" of Nebraska are wise -and they never
'.were they will let Lincoln severely alone. There is every reason
jwhy Lincoln should be a dry city, but no matter whether this as
sertion be true or not, the fact remains that every effort to bring the
saloon back to Lincoln intensifies the fight that the anti-saloon peo
ple are making. The fact that Lincoln, in sentiment and in fact, ram
ifies through every section of Nebraska makes it foolish on the
part of the liquor men to try and capture Lincoln again. The peo
ple who are sending thousands of students to Lincoln are not saloon
advocates as a rule quite the contrary. If the liquor men precipi
tate another fight in Lincoln it simply means that they will arouse
opposition to even greater heights. If they will let Lincoln alone
the chances are that the opposition will gradually lessen. But what's
the use of expecting the liquor interests to see any further than
the possible sale of a few gallons of booze today or tomorrow?
We take especial pride in reproducing the following editorial from
the "World-Herald of last Sunday :
"The "World-Herald publishes today a notable letter from Will
M. Maupin, deputy state labor commissioner, on the resources and
possibilities of Nebraska.
' ' Every Nebraska reader should first thoroughly acquaint him
self with this article and then see that it gets into the hands of some
friend or acquaintance who is not so fortunate as to live" in Nebraska.
Mr. Maupin states two very important facts. They are these :
"1 In soil, in climate, in productivity, in all that goes to make a
country for homes, Nebraska excels them all.
"2 The need of the hour is to make these facts known to the
millions of land hungry people throughout the world.
"Tt is this second named fact that it is important to emphasize.
We've got the goods. We can sell them if we advertise them. We
can double the population of Nebraska in the next decade, and add
hundreds of millions to its wealth and its annual productivity if we
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