NOVEMBER 5, 1909.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Big Discount to Reduce Our Enormous Stock Before
tjfi c iJ& y the Building Season Closes.
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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.
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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
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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
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anywhere else
it's
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That JO. 98 fig
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page 2 of our
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