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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1903)
NOVEMBER 5, 1909. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 7 V oooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo o o o o o o o n CM . n n I o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0000 ooooooooooooooooooooooooo Big Discount to Reduce Our Enormous Stock Before tjfi c iJ& y the Building Season Closes. - ' ! " ' tk If you intend building a house, barn,granary or corn crib we want to give you an estimate on your lumber, shingles, windows, doors, and iliill work. It will cost you noth ing to get our prices and we can save you money, carrying, as we do, a large stock at Lincoln, and having the most complete planing mill in the state. We make water tanks of all kinds, store fixtures in fact everything that can be made in this line. ITo matter where you live write us for prices of goods delivered at your station. We invite a visit and personal inspection of our lumber at pur yards, 700 0 street and of our planing mill and equipment at 21st and Y streets. If you cannot Call, your Order by Mail will receive V as Prompt and Careful Attention Ho Wo Browe LiLimber Co 700 0 STREET, LINCOLN, NEBR. U, Why Stand, Yi Idle? ' Cincinnati, Nov. 1 "Why stand ye here' all the day Idle?" This was the :-; text of a sermon by Herbert S. Bige Jow in hia pulpit at the Vine Street congregational cnurcn ioaay. Mr. Bigelow spoke of the 'value of the parable to the student of history. He said that Jesus in inventing his tarahles was an unconscious historian. These little word-pictures of every 1y scenes, he said, throw much light upon the manners and customs of the time; and he referred to the parable of the employer who went into -the market place to hire workmen as throwing some light on the question of wages in that day. He said in part: We learn from this parable that the customary wage for common labor was one penny, which is more properly translated shilling. We might infer from this that the condition of labor was much worse then than now. But this would not be a safe conclusion. Wo may read of wages in India or China in ancient :. A v-v . . IK. . 'I ,1 . i . . . I i t " ; I . - -. ' -, or modorn times t tnt eem astound inuly lunall in comparison with mr imn. Hat we know Unit there t au ho but Htttrt rfal dlaVrrmA for Ihrm tiro wnlform nini!ntn which Ur.A in rk tlmn tlio wn to lh iH!r.t if lu ultittjf fur t!',niin vr, TJhj ti-1 In anrlmit Any what wi tav now, a jicm ly wLKh t ho richest vineyards and the most valua ble mines and the enormous land val ues of cities gravitate Into the hands of the few, and as population en croaches upon the land, these few have, an increasing power to appropriate to themselves the products of labor; and as labor becomes more efficient through discovery and invention, the favorei ones who monopolize the op portunities of labor reap the lion's share of the world's wealth. It is only in new countries where the supply of unused labor is great in proportion to the population that wages are relatively high. It is not our tariff wall, it Is the abundance of free land that has made America the Eldorado of labor. But as population grows and this availa ble land -becomes monopolized, Eu ropean conditions are bound to reap pear in America and wages must go down to the dead level; and that is nature's penalty for the crime and the folly of land monopoly. And the two-penny statesman can no more avert this penalty without going down to the root of the evil than he can make fishes live in the air or men thrive in the sea. . . The employer went Into the market place and found men at the close of the day in the busiest time of all the year who were idle and waiting to be employed. This is a ftrlking por trayal of our nial-adjusted organiza tion of industry. Even now we hear the approaching steiw of a panic. The Bhuttlug down of the copper mines of Montana is an industrial mrtluiuake the rumbling of which will Rhnlio the continent. Butte la in tho faco of starvation. If a besieging army were lying at her gatea, hunger could not le mora Imminent. Groat Industries havo been In the handa of Ramblers. Alroadv necurities hate shrunken to I wo billlona. N'uw orme a ihodi whJrh afferta tho Ilvchood, directly or IndlreHly, of liOO.WO mn. Student of ittxtnr.ilc history kitaw that ihU I only th blnnhu:. Otvc nj'Jiln, as Sn thi ptmlc of trn yrsxrn iu:-, that qtiM Hon nf th prafl will tiny iw dread ful lfijitn iinr One failure will brlfsjc iiothr. Th ttrtnv of tho unrmplort'd Ht Nell io moiifcfruiM pfotsortlona and hnn;ivf w:t a -k i of ! I. "Why xtjinil yi I'r0 all h dry Idle?" 1 retnfruWr the lrmif)l. tlm- nf t n ;rr tim, I wru In Chivivt o thf Minnut of .v rullKiid trlk On umh hardly walk th d!tance of a tifHk without living t . .ie, ly r btKrar. Along tto Like li.re on Mkh igan avenue one could see a great mul titude standing all the day idle. . , But with those crowds, it was evi dent that while their hands were idle; hunger 'had prodded their minds on to some activity. Agitators were har anguing excited groups. The blue-coat paced the streets and the people fol lowed them with sullen looks. There, within reach of mansions which rivalled $e glory of Solomon; there, at the feet of those stupendous works of stone which exfigured the en ergy and dicing of a mighty city; there, amid luxury's flashing colors and trade's countless columns; there were hundreds of thousands, slinking in the alleys or begging In the streets, out of work and out of hope, and look ing with eyes of envy and hearts of hate upon all that flaunted wealth and power. That angry throng was the frown of civilization. Beholding it, I thought of Macauley's prophesy of the Huns and Vandals which he said would be bred in our slums and rise up to over whelm us and I looked at that dark cloud of gathering hate and then at those defiant marble walls and I mar velled, that since the day of Babylon's glory and Nineveh's vanity and Home's pride we should have done eo little to solve thin greatest of problems - this labor problem, whkh Is the rock oa which the empires of the past have fallen and on which the republics of the future may perish. ' "Why stand ye here nil the day idle?" That U labor' riddle. Because no man hau hired you? To bo flure, But why has no man hired you? Why nre there not more Jobs than men? What do idle men want? If they want houses, are there no forests? If they want food, nre there not fields? If they want fuel, ate not nature's loi e hauiseg .';:!! ? Why then shouM human labor stand tll v by, or be waited In tnld I rented and uW rffort when all th? malerhl nr at hand from whhh wealth H mad? Why to not the ilctnnnd for Ubor always in txw.n of the supply? When the wnrMiuuum enn answer that rieth.n, ho mty man ! up and h a Cod on the e.uth and tho Ian 1 wl b hi dominion and Joy will crown hU toil. If troubled with cancer wrlt to Pr, T. O'Connor, whon- ad. appear In The Independent, Ho I a fpnhlt of tty end hi cured many of the m.-vt virulent ate Mo tit ton Tho Itiiv tn4rnU J 1 4 A Smashing Big Suit Value. You will be asked 112.00 for this Suit anywhere else it's A $12 Suit for $6.98 That JO. 98 fig ure is the price at the Big Cloth'fc Store. You'll find it described on page 2 of our Fall catalog. It's a Dickey CaaslBoere neat, dark color very heavy weight guar anteed all-wool. Buy it. Try it. Return it If not satis factory and get your money back. This should Interest you.. Write today about it I! Armstrong Clothing Go. 1221-27 0 St., Lincoln, Nebr. Cliicaso and Back On account of thu fourth annual In ternational lh tiH-k expf)Stttun we w ill nil round trip th ketx at th aUiyo on Nnvtinber IS, Z'J and 3( ,ood for n turn on any dan vp to and In tiu Ur?g l omt rr 7, I.lne:n to Chicago In 1.1 hour a en the fiUnoim 'OVi:UIJVNI MMITIMV the only uolld palare t train btwvtt t(iia!ia and Chi. a," . Hiiperbly eijulfv. I" I -In f u-f. It H V;!ly a modern tioui. . o rxri jar rnsrv;eo. It, W. MeUlNNH,t(ku'l A;t, 0 .St., Llwoln, Nib,