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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1911)
circumstances is a much more powerful argument against our present "ticians, and for that reason it is going to be retold in these columns judiciary system than Warren in the editorial chair could be. next week. It will be worth reading, too. - The Capital Removal Organization is still busy. The real estate boomers and ''hammermen" who are behind this move are having a lot of fun with themselves and causing no one any par ticular uneasiness, least of all the people of Lincoln. Nebraskans who understand the situation will not work up any particular en thusiasm over the removal project, well knowing that it had its inception in a desire to "punish Lincoln" for her attitude on certain moral and social questions, and taken up by men who desire to inflate the value of real estate by having people believe that the state house is very likely to be moved to their immediate vicinity. A half -million people will have q settle rn Nebraska west of Hall county before any city will be more easily' accessible ag a capital than Lincoln is now: A circle one hundred -and fifty5 th iles-' in diameter of which1 Lincoln is the center, would" take1 in three-fourths cf the state's. present population." -In other-words,' three-fourths of the people in Nebraska live within seventy-five miles of Lincoln. So far as a somewhat extensive observation reveals, this is true of no other capital city east of the Rocky Mountains. The capital movers should spend a decade or two in rigging up some' sort of a disguise for their ulterior motives. The plan so successfully used in the sale of Texas lands ought to work equally well or better with Nebraska land, the only differ ence being that the size of the Nebraska tract would of necessity have to be somewhat larger. There are in Nebraska something like 12,000,000 acres of fertile but untitled land, much of it lying in large tracts and held by land speculators. There are thousands of people yearning to get onto the land, and Nebraska needs several hundred thousand more people upon her soil. As soon as Will Schwind and John Maher get through with their big land deals in Texas we would like to see them tackle the same sort of a game with Nebraska land. If they were one-half as successful in Ne braska as they have been in their Valley Fruit Farm and Garden Company deal, they would make good money and at the same time confer a wonderful benefit upon Nebraska. Naturally enough, Senator Norris Brown is taking an active pert in this new "progressive league." The returns from the Ne braska election last fall were calculaated to make the junior soon-tc-be-senior senator understand that "insurgency," on "progres siveness," Whichever you are mind to call it," is the thing in Ne braska, and that swinging on the fence will no longer suffice. Nor ris big vote in the Fifth was also calculated to make Senator Brown -sit up and take notice. Weeks ago this newspaper predicted that Senator Brown would begin insurging to beat the band, and al ready the first- proof of the truth of the prediction has come to hand. v- i.givL:iu 11ULV; uiv. auoviivc wviaLyi - rv . j lull - xw4u the list of senatorial .members -of , the- "progressive league." -Senator for re-election. -.--...: - . -.- rii : .v ...? If the formation of the "progressive- league" ; means anything-, at all it means radical realignment 01 men and parties. Ihe men pt-shing that league can not expect the support of the Payne-Aldrich-Cannon cohorts any more than the "Bryanites" ever expected the hearty and honest co-operation of the Parkers, Belmonts, Murphys. Connors and others of that ilk. The rumpus that was pulled off in the democratic party in 1S96 will not be a marker to the. one that is going to be pulled off within the republican ranks between new and 1916. What the Office Boy Says Me clothes ain't as fashunable as some w'ot de kids o my age is wearing but I bought an paid Fr mine. P'rhaps me woiges would be bigger if sassiety didn't haf t keep so many fellers busy makin' a easy livin'. Me best goil ain't much at de pianner playin game, but de bistdts she makes are reglar Mendelshon sonaters. Just as we warned City Clerk Dan! Butler of Omaha last week. Governor Aldrich comes right back with what looks like the proof. When a city ward casts more votes than the govern ment census shows male inhabitants thereof, the indications are that there is something wrong about the voting. And the issuance of certificates in blank, amply proved by the governor, is so palpably illegal that we doubt if even City Clerk Dan'l Butler will have the nerve to defend the practice. I'm achin t meet up wid some people datll take more intrust in me present an not so much in me future. I reckon de reason de men ain't marryin is dat de goils worth bavin' don't want t give up good jobs an' take de riski Folks is alius advisin' us woikin'men t buy homes, an' de tax col lector is wait in 'round de corner t' soak us if we do it. Governor Aldrich is clearly right when he demands something be done along reform lines in the matter of registration and voting, but it is to be hoped that the measures he asks for will be well considered. He is asking for something revolutionary, this matter of allowing the governor to appoint registrars, to appoint special election police and transfer election officials from one precinct to another. Especially is it to be hoped that his suggestion about special state police for elections will receive no consideration what ever. Various sections of the country have had experience with that sort of thing, and never satisfactory. Federal soldiers at the polls in the south and John I. Davenport's special election police in New York created enough trouble to last this country several generations. Instead of curing election evils in New York, Daven port's constables added a lot more. WTien dad was sick last fall de members o his church prayed Fr his recov'ry. His union sent de secretary aroun' wid .de sick benefit in cold cash. Strikes me dat a lot o' employers is tryin t' cover up their desire t git boys t do the woik by hollerin dat de unions is deprivin' boys o their chance t learn trades. De goil dat's been wToikin all day in a fae'ry or store is de only one dat gits me seat in de car when I starts home t' me eats. De damC w'ot's been shoppin c'n hang on t' de trap. WTien dad's gas bill is over due he gits notus t pay up or it'll be shut off. Wish dere was some way o shuttin off de gas dat a lot o would-be statesmen is usin' these days. Holding that Governor Aldrich has proved his case despite tu . j i. -j r j u the strenuous declamations of Citv Clerk Dan's Butler, we are . DTe 1x555 5ef e T Vi -!k .P5 cr now waiting to hear what Danl has to say. That he will have aa"; .I.?ya,? ? ,husk? JkcJramitlis 'Zf? j Peters, plumbers something to say is not to be doubted. an bricklayers bein spoiled by makin half-baked lawyers o dem. Any land congress, or conservation congress, or any other kind of a western congress, that is organized and then put in the attitude cf opposing Gifford Pinchot is going to be discounted in the minds ot the people before it gets well started. The opposition to the Pinchot policies comes from men whose schemes of gigantic profit at the expense of the whole people have been thwarted by the gifted forester. Prof. Condra is to be congratulated for having nipped an anti-Pinchot scheme in the bud when the land congress was organized at Omaha . this week. Joe' Bums dropped into Lincoln the first of the week, and immediately things legislative took on a more familiar aspect. The spectacle of the ever-smiling Joe" perambulating the corridors of the state house and putting his arms around the legislators, is calculated to make us all reminiscent. Now if Church Howe, and -Tom Majors would happen along on the same day and hobnob with -the. members -.a ;bi.. -wouldn't things look natural? -The story of the - Howe-Majors- fead. is an old ore so old.that it will be ne to jthe -younger generation of poli- , WTien a lot o' women git together dey sip a cup o tea and nibble a bit o cake. WTien a lot o" men git together dey fill up on a course dinner, tell stories courser dan de dinner, an' swill 'steen kinds 'o' booze. Yet dat same bunch of men would prob'ly say dat women ain't got sense enuf t be trusted wid de ballot. True of Oregon, True ofNebrasIca x ne real owners 01 tne iana in urcgon are xne people 01 vregon. Lack of every land title, no matter how yellow with age, is the power and right of taxation. The sovereign state never can give more than a leasehold, call it what you will in redundancy of law. The people of Oregon own the land of Oregon as long as the people are a free people and not dominated by some foreign power. If the people of Oregon conclude that it is foolish to collect rent from houses and jewelry the people can cease to do so, and can increase will be a great ay when the holiers'of vast land values in -city- and country are told .to pay more rent or vacate the premises. Portland