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THE NEBRASKA CAMPAIGN
Tin- irfrom priMH of Nebraska In taking a
lively Int. 'i cut lu the. present campaign because
for the' (fist I Imp I h democratic and populist
parlies are contending ill fact iih well as In
theory for the same principles. The democratic
platform contains planks that rould have ap
poured only In a populist, platform a decade ago.
TIip rank and Me of licit h part leu now seem to
realise that the ono way to secure better govern
ment In NebruHliu in o wrest control of govern
ment from the railway and give It to the people
and to secure II in their halids by enlarging the
scope of popular rule:
We are riot no much opposed to the use
of passes a h we are to the hyisicrlay of the
holders of iiaiHeH. If .Indue I etton wishes
to accept panne from the railroads while he
In In h Judicial piwltlon, and we are Informed
(tint h hug, we presume that It 1h un to him
and Mm conscience. However, when ho
inukeg n grandstand plav hefore a convention,
lie should unload himself of passes. Beatrice
fjun.
We have pot our new revenue law and It
In a scorcher. It goes un In the garret, down
In the cellar, all lbrnii"h the barn, stock
yardH. Iu pens, and chicken coops and the
only wav you can evade taxes h to He about
It or have your wealth Invested In some
cortiora'lon. With all thlH lncrcne In taxes,
republican extravagance eat if all up and
mere. Kvery fund shews a rieftclenev for
September, and he un'verniv fund goes
broke. The expenditure for the month of
September exceeded the receipts by $144.
STn.7 1 . ruder the old system of taxartoa
the fuslmilKts met expenditures and had a
balance left. Wouldn't It be rood policy to
pet back, or do vou prefer to ho eonn'tally
going deeper Into debt ? Mlnden Courier.
It Is with no llMe tdpfiHiire that we note
that our old time and hMily rsicemed friend,
Judee Ti)gtinis of Wllher. has been nomi
nated Iit the fipdonls's for Judee of the su
prene enurt. We know htm Intlmatelv an a
lnwver and Jud-e and wo have naught hut
(rood to ggv of him. lie In learned In the
law. honest and kind hear'ed. Tf the fualon
Istg vhoitld l.v accident carry the state they
would have a "um eminen'Iv wnr'hv to alt as
n memlier of the supreme court and one that
would add honor and distinction to that
Biiciiot dv. We do not mean to gav bv this
article bnt we are sunportinc Tudfe Hastings
for guoreme tudi'e on 'he fusion f'cVef, for
we are not. The republican tmrfv ban a can
db'atu In the ieron of .tudee l,ettnn. also
personally known to ug, tbt la tn everv wiy
WT'bv of the position to wh'ch be asn'rea.
We rIiiipIv de"'re to guv of Vr. "f'stlngs what
Is his due. Wood River Interests.
rvsptto the fact tf,t the renuMican state
odditis hiie returned tbe'r passes wl'h a
pieaf ee.,ro), f trumpets ihov are enwed
In n rtplO-ersiip gttpnnt to deceive ht nemde.
The HerM knowg of one gtto official who
Fave up big ppfs and had the fnct scattered
bros tcagt it pegng of iho public pHntg who
l rld'ne on "dd had" mllegt-e which he
recel'-e,) f,-,,, thp Ruip gource from wh'eh
he has been In the bnblt for years of re
ceiving rrog. The rcP'ibUegn eresq of the
gto iH Itvlnir s'regg nnon the fuct that ther
offldals are cnrrvinor out ther pla'form
pled-eg fnd thlg gbewg bo wav fhev gre dv
Ine It P.ivp run nnv f,-.Hh that the reiiudi
etiei of the Bt,ie will treat itie poimlc fairly
gg atralngi the demanda of the corporations
If hev are rven a vo'e of confldence for
their pre.ont .leccptlon? If "vou have your
bump of cr-l'illty i gtmormally developed.
rremont Penibl
We wnidr If t Is iwshv thut the mw
pie of NchrgiVa ponernllv who degire that
the i-wer of 'he riHron-'g hoib he lessened
In 'prpka wl't'cs will vne for Jude
li tton for supreme lud"e. hnkln! that he
fsvnnMe to the tnteritg of the nentde rather
thun thooe of the rorporMtlong? We wtuit tbt
people of DuwHon county to know that Judge
U'tton wag the choice of the Northwestern
railroad for supremo Judjje, and that the
Dawson county dok'Kullon to the republican
state convention cast their votes for Judge
Ameg, the candidate favored by the Union
1'uclflc railroad, and that If the majority of
the people of Dawgon county cast tholr votes
for Judge Ietton they cant them for a man
whoge candidacy wbh championed by the
ChleaKo & North western railroad. With this
knowledRe before you you have a rlRbt to
vole for Judge llton If you want to, but
don't fool yourself into believing that you
are voting contrary to the wishes of the rail
roads and corporal iona. We advise every
man tn Dawgon county to vote for Judge
llastliigg. lie Is a man of great ability and
owes his nomination to no favoritism of cor
porations. Lexington Clipper-Citizen.
Norrls Ilrown, Nebraska's voluble at
torney general, Is branching out to suggest
a maximum rate to be fixed by law as a
remedy for life insurance evils. There may
be merit In the suggestion. Much would
depend, however, upon whether or not the
rate were enforced or not, once it was en
acted. Nebraska, for instance, has a max
imum rate law. It relates. It is true, not to
life insurance rates, but to railroad freight
rates. Nevertheless, it is a law of much Im
portance to Nebraska. It would save hun
dreds of thousands of dollars every year to
the citizens of the gtate if it were enforced.
Hut there's the rub. The railroads don't
want It enforced. It would interfere with
the fat dividends they are paying on watered
stock. And Norrls Ilrown, attorney general,
whose duty It is to enforce it, casts his lot
with the railroad bosses and allows the
statute to slumber undisturbed and dlsre
guarded. World Herald.
FOLLY OF CHILD LABOR
The folly of child labor Is clearly pointed out
hy Owen K. IxvcJoy In Men and Women for Oc
tober. He shows that low wages must produce
poor purchasers and can therefore never increase
prosperity:
We have deluded ourselves with the be
lief that national prosperity is measured by
ability to produce goods. The theory Is
fundamentally unsound. The material pros
perity of a nation depends on the ability of
her population to consume goods. Any sys
tem which weakens the consuming power of
a community strikes at the foundations of
Its economic prosperity. Tendencies in so
cial development that augment the cost of
living without a corresponding Increase in
the rewards of labor may build imposing
structures, but they are without foundation.
Hence the crowning indictment against child
labor In a practical age Is that the child
laborer Is a poor consumer. Undeveloped
physically he lacks the capacity for those
goods which are the gtaplcs of vigorous phy
sical life: undeveloped In mind he lacks
the capacity to consume books and other
means of extending his Information; un
developed In taste he lacks the ability to
consume those various works of art which
are the pride of modern civilization. Fur
thermore he is a poor consumer because he Is
poor, for the prevailing wRges or the child
toiler fasten a millstone of permanent overty
upon 90 per cent of the cjiild laborers which
will exclude them as purchasers from the
markets of the world. The bogle man of
the Industrial world Is overproduction: over
production of clothing, food and furniture.
Yet there are literally thousands of homes
In America today for which clothing has not
been over produced, and whoso children Ho
down at nlKht in racs spread on the floor,
because no over produced beds have come to
their tenements or pioneer hut. And every
day In manv of our great cities may be geen
the lean, little nneers diving Into ashcans
In (Why courts, to find the fragment of gome
'overproduced" bit of fruit to allav actual
hnneer! Markets are flooded and Industry
periodically languish, not from over produc
tion, but because poverty raises a barrier
betwwn the goods and the would be con-
Burner; and the greatest n,t irij:, h , . ...
lack of adjustment betw.-en , ,,.!
ability to purchase is the h,.lll2 Uu
laborer the fair compensailoi, ir w,k
and this is made possible bv 'ii- iiurira'
Juvenile army which a short .,!.-i,;i jir
economy keeps ever on IkiikI ,, . raw niaier'ai
to force the labor market.
ELY SEES THE SIGNS
rresiueni, miy of me Anienc-nn siri.H
way association said in a speech at I'hllarMphs
that municipal control of street railways
other public utilities may soon Ik conic an m
in practical politics and he added: "This l d
to a mass of censorious slatcim ii'h in the pub.
lie press. We must refute these FiatemHi'i or
suffer by them." The Columbus Pmafig,
commenting on these remarks, lu this to ay:
The street railway syndicates nt like
"to suffer" and they are growing mure and
more fearful that the education of t he j)t!i
will cause just the kind of HutTcring that will
hurt them most. There has been a iiiiKhtf
advance in the reasoning power of the people
within a few years, and the subject on which
their entire thought is concent rated at t his
moment is municipal ownership of public
utilities. How to get rid of ornitiun la
municipal government, has been answered In
hundreds of instances by the people rising
in their Intelligence and their power, and
themselves taking under their own s'iier
vision and their own control their lluht,
their waterworks systems, their garbage
systems and the other utilitieH in which they
are individually and collective!!- in'erwed.
The next logical step in this progressive and
purifying movement is municipal control of
street railways; and the American Street
Railway association Is convinced that the
people intend to take that step. Hence the
cry of warning which the president of Ihii
association utters. He begs the question by
calling municipal ownership "Socialism,"
and characterizes its advocates as "dema
gogues." The people will not he diverted
from their purpose or their rit-'h's hy the
mere calling of names; but they will one and
all bo able to discover the kev which un
locks the secrets of the opposition, of the
American Street Railway association, to mu
nicipal ownership, which President Kly fur
nishes in the words: "We, must refute the
statements or suffer by them."
CRITICISING THE CHANCELLOR
The address of Chancellor Andrews in de
fense of the Rockefeller methods gave zest to
the campaign for regents at the very outset
The reform press continues to condemn the chan
cellor's position and to point out that the true
sphere of a state university Is independence:
Chancellor Andrews of the 'la'e uni
versity has gone back to his Winer con
victions. He can now defend HockeMler ana
Rockefeller's methods of getting money-Nebraska
State Democrat.
"The main thing Is piling up "alth -Chancellor
Andrews. Building up character,
getting an education. Is secondary auxiliary
to the main thing, "piling up wealih.
. .i.k !.. nn.tlal vlainn call P-ailllJ
own wmi niiy jiai iiai " ,
see that tainted money taints There
method In It. Rockefeller will ';'" l
him from now on. Mlnden Cornier.
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Do the plain, hard working I ''"' J"
pie of Nebraska pay the head "f
university a big salary to teach theti
that their fathers are actuated l-v 11 r "' '
wealth when they believe that t ' .
robbers, otherwise known as ;
should be brought to Justice.-crat.
Chancellor Andrews of the N'e
university heartily compliments ' ((
who have amassed fortunes " ''
that those who have been caunht '""" fc0
machinations of "bad" promote
.....,.. -, - t r tsdemnatlon, t btu made!
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