The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-09-30
JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES

day Governor Shallenberger' success
sor is inaugurated-not only ready,
but willing and anxious. Experience
has taught one more man that he who
gives up good job at his chosen pro-
fession to accept a political job is
well, experience is a dear school, but
fools learn in no other. The game Of
politics is all right. Every man should
be more or less Of a politician, but
they ought to play the game for the
love of it and for the good of the
country But until man is ready to
political office for honor or ADVERTISE
ment, he ought to be content with play
ing the game from the outside. This
thing of trying to make a living hold
ing office and administering that office
honestly isn't what it is cracked up
to be.
o, no; there's nothing of "sour
grapes" about this. The compiler OF
these feeble lines is drawing near the
half-century mark he has given some
seven or eight hostages to fortune; he
hasn' t laid up any treasures to amount
to anything on this earth, and after
a couple Of years experience in politi-
cal officeholding he has made up his
mind that it is high time for him to
dig in and try to lay up something for
the inevitable rainy day. That's all.
Mr.. Aldrich is quoted as saying that
he would like, to t'get behind Omaha
and shove the whole city over into
Iowa" Also, that Omaha is very much
akin to the city that. Lot escaped from
just in time to escape being barbecued.
All of. which, if Mr.. Aldrichi u.s. cor
rectly quoted, is not only very foolish,
but in the last instance very untruth-
full also. Omaha will, not, At least,
have to answer for the sin Of hypocracy
which will not be the case with some
municipalities much given to criticism
of Nebraska 3 metropolis. The fact of
the matter is, Omaha is a great big,
growing, prosperous city with cos
mopolitan population; a city Of energy
and enterprise; city that is growing
too fast for her garments-thus quite
often exposing too much of fanky limb
for the comfort of the prudish-minded
The gateway of q vast population con-
stantly shifting eastward and west
ward it is only natural that Omaha
should have at times more than her
quota of criminals But those who as
sert and declare that Omaha is doni-
mated wholly by booze, that her gov
ernment is permeated by graft, and
that the majority of her people are
immoral--those who constantly assert
or intimate that sort of thing are
merely exposing the fact that they are
80 narrowminded that they could turn
their heads around between the wall
paper and the plaster without mussing
hair or disturbing the paste. "';''>'
As before mentioned in these col
umns, the trouble with Omaha lies in
those whom it has allowed too often
to appear as her spokesmen. Her real
business men have been so intent upon
business that they have allowed a lot
of frothy-mouthed advocates of per
sonal liberty meaning thereby un-
bridled license-to make it appear that
the aforesaid f. m. a IS. are Omaha.
Some of these days the real business
men Of Omaha-the liberty-loving,
me-sustaining, city-building, state
supporting men-will rise up en- masse
and squelch the self-constituted mouth
pieces now SO numerous. and put the
real Omaha on view for the edification
of the state. Aside from the mouth
pieces mentioned Omaha has some
things that she would be better off
without, but she also has a lot of
things that some of her detractors
would do mighty well to acquire-the
spirit of "hustle," for instance; and
the spirit of tolerance; and the spirit
of "pull-all-together that must be in
evidence in every city that amounts
to a hill of beans
German Day. in Lincoln. as else
where in this land of the free, will
be great day. Senator Richard o.
Neill Of Lancaster county. voiced the
sentiments of most of us when he arose
on the floor Of the senate a few years
ago and asserted in an orotund tone
of voice surcharged with deep feeling
that "every man ought to love the land
of his nativity, whether he was born
there or not" The man who does not
always cherish something of a feeling
of love for his native land, no matter
how bitter it's prosecutions may have
been. lacks a great deal of the fine fibre