practices. We say maybe ! But if he did not he is mentally incom
petent, therefore unfit to be a senator of the United States.
The proposition to make the Orthopedic hospital an adjunct to
an Omaha medical college, so that students of orthopedic surgery
may have a chance to experiment upon the helpless little wards of
the state, is too revolting to be paiently considered. These helpless,
and often friendless, little cripples, deserve the very best care and
attention that this rich, prosperous and Christian state can give them.
The legislator who votes to make the Orthopedic hospital an experi
mental station adjunct to any medical college ought to, and will be.
damned by every Nebraska man and woman with a heart to feel
sympathy for helpless little children.
Mr. Charles Skalla of McCook, an ardent advocate of the election
of Representative George W. Norris to the United States senate in
1912, has written an open letter to Senator Norris Brown, demanding
that Senator Brown fish or cut bait. We opine that Senator Brown
is going to be an insurgent of insurgents from now on. Why? Well,
Brown is a wise gentleman and what happened to Mr. Burkett a few
weeks ago will not be lost upon him. Just be patient, Mr. Skalla, and
you'll see Senator Brown insuring in such a way as to threaten with
relegation to the rear such insurgents as LaFollette, Bristow, Cum
mins, Murdock and Norris. O, Brown is going to be the real goods
in the insurging line.
A couple of bankers at Greenwood, Neb., have been arrested on
the charge of embezzling a bushel or two of money belonging to the
depositors. The bankers are out on bond. Of course the people will
not believe that all bankers are thieves because thieving bankers have
been occasionally exposed, but isn't that about the way the general
public judges the trades unionists?
The death of Michael Cudahy, the millionaire packer, gave the
capitalistic press a fine opportunity to get off the usual cargo of"
"bushwa" about every poor boy having a chance to become a million
aire. Of course every poor boy has a chance one in 'steen million,
and the chances growing fewer every day. Michael Cudahy had his
chance at the packing business and seized it. What chance has a
poor boy of today to become a millionaire packer? A few years ago
railroad presidents were selected from men who had learned the art
of railroad building and managing from the bottom up beginning
as section men or brakemen. Fine chance now to get to the top that
way! Railroad presidets of today are selected for their ability to
.manipulate stocks and bonds, not for their ability to construct atn$
operate great railroad systems. A lot of boys are being ruined these
days by filling their minds with the "bushwa" about having as many
opportunities as the boys of former generation. It's a plain lie for
they haven't. And they will not have until social conditions are
revolutionized.
Fred Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, has been sentenced
to pay a fine of $i,00o and serve six months in the federal prison at
Leavenworth. Do you happen to know what Warren's crime was?
He was found guilty of offering reward to any man who would do
something that the supreme court of the United States had declared
to be perfectly legal. The men who kidnapped Moyer and Hayward
and forcibly took them from Colorado to Montana were declared to
have been within their legal rights. Warren offered a reward to any
body who would do to ex-Governor Taylor of Kentucky what had
been done to Moyer and Hayward. That was his crime. Think
that over, Mr. Wage Earner that is if you have any brains to think
with. It ought to interest you and open your eyes.
Governor-elect Aldrich's appoinment of W. R. Jackson to be
food commissioner may have been intended as a recognition to the
thousands of democrats who bolted Dahlman and voted for Aldrich.
If it was so intended Mr. Aldrich missed his guess and missed it
badly. Viewed in any light, whatever the appointment of Jackon to
that position is a joke and on Nebraska !
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the western roads
have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike in case their demands
for an increased wage and better working conditions are not complied
with. This does not mean1 that there will be a strike. Far from it.
One does not have to risk his reputation as a prophet to prophesy
that there will be no strike. The railroad managers will , simply
spring the joker in the Erdman act. Then there will be arbitration,
because the engineers dare not get in bad with the public by striking
while arbitration is going on. Besides, neither the engineers nor the
railroad managers want any strike, and both sides will make conces
sions to avoid it. The engineers will get a part, not all, of what they
ask for, and peace will soon reign. The experience of the 1888 strike
has not yet been forgotten.
For years the pastors of Milwaukee complained of the dance
halls of that city. They wanted them abolished, but they offered
nothing in the way of amusements to replace them. aMyor Seidel,
socialist, put the low dance halls on the bum with one move. He
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