culture is a joke. The system used for four years in Nebraska is bet
ter than the system used by the national government, are gathered
more quickly, and are used by the government itself in revising its
estimates. "Joke?" Does the Journal mean to say that the progres
sive farmers who furnish the figures are a lot of incompetents and
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THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Entered m ecood-clasa matter April 21. 1904, atthe poatoffice at Lincoln. Neb., under die Act of
Concrcaa ot March 3rd. 1879.
Some Short Jabs to the Jaw
Nebraska has the goods. AVhat Nebraska needs is the proper
advertising: thereof.
Danield Wolfert Cook s solitary vote for senator proved the slim
basis for an almighty big laugh.
"Blue Eyed" Billy Sheean of New York seems due for a pair of
black eves in his senatorial chase.
The last Roosevelt notice we saw was used to pry apart a couple
of patent medicine locals in a country exchange.
Doubtless those Los Angeles union smashers have their Harry
Orchard all ready to swear away the lives of innocent men.
Naturally the Oregon-Nebraska way of selecting United States
senators is calculated to make the "big interests" throw 57 kinds of
fits.
A little more attention to the proper breeding of children without
any less attention to the proper breeding ot hogs and cattle, would
1-elp Nebraska a lot.
To Church Howe in Manchester, England, and Tom Majors, in
Peru, the proceedings of the Nebraska senatorial election must have
made mighty tame reading.
Lodge of Massachusetts profits by the fact that the people had
no voice m his selection. If they had Henrv Cabot Lodge would soon
have ample leisure in which to prosecute his literary studies.
The St. Louis Republic opines that the decision of 100,000 to
bacco growers not to raise any tobacco this year will not effect the
cigaret industry. Certainly not; it will merely stimulate the ebbage.
industry.
Champ Clark says that Smoot had as much to do with the robber
tariff as Aldrich. Everv dav that Smoot remains in the senate is a
reminder of the corrupt tie-up between the republican machine and
the Mormon church.
The Iowa standpatters are quite in favor of the direct primary,
now that they see a chance of using it to keep their famous standpat
leader, Lafe Young, in the senate a few weeks longer. A great deal
always depends upon the point of view.
The initiative and referendum bill as introduced in the Nebraska
legislature ought to go through without a single amendment. Mem
bers who seek to amend will lay themselves open to suspicion of being
intent onlv on emasculating the measure.
Say, isn't there some wav to gather reliable statistics as to the
difference between Lincoln dry" and Lincoln "wet?" We are get-
t?ng all balled up on the conflicting figures being sent forth by in
terested parties.
Mayor Love has been telling the Sioux Cityans a few things
about "Lincoln's dry policy." Truly the conditions in Lincoln are
ideal, so tar as the liquor question is concerned. 1 hose who want prQ
vhibilion have it, and those who want liquor can get it without very
much trouble.
The proposition to employ a special assistant to the attornev gen
eral to be stationed in Omaha to prosecute offenders against the
lquor laws should be put to sleep as quickly as possible. If the em
inent statesman who fathers the bill will sweep his own countv's
doorstep clean he will have quite enough to do without noting the
irost upon Douglas county tiles.
Of course the esteemed State Journal did not know what it was
talking about when it referred to the crop statistics of Nebraska as a
colossal joke. The fact of the matter is that the Nebraska statistics
are the most reliable of anv state in the union, and so admitted bv
government. experts. The 950 crop correspondents are all practica
farmers, many of them graduates of the State School of Agriculture.
Jf the statistics they furnish are a joke, then the State School of 'Agri
Wageworkers ask your
Fraternal Insurance Order WHY
they don't make a valuation each
year and prove to you they are
safe? THE MUTUAL PROTECT
IVE LEAGUE makes annual valu
ation and shows it CAN pay all future obligation 100
per cent on the dollar. Demand this of your Lodge.
How do you know they won't bust to-morrow?
We Demand the Label.
C. E. Campbell, state manager.
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