The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-29

sentatlOn OF the fight pictures and ac-
quiescing in the rotten industrial con-
ditions of today are merely looping off
few twigs instead of cutting at the
roots. Men whose physical strength
is sapped by hard toll performed for
meagre wage are not going to take
kindly to efforts at righteousness that
do not first make for physical and
economic betterment. Girls whose
strength is being sapped and whose
very souls are in danger every day,
are not going to be benefited by eff
forts in their behalf that are confined
merely to preventing them from see
ing pictures of an exhibition that oc-
cupied more space in the daily prints
than presidential election
Preventing fight pictures from be-
ing exhibited is not going to make
mothers Of worth out of the girls who
are being physically wrecked in over
heated laundries and foul garment
shops. nor home builders and bread
winners out of men who are fighting
a desperate battle for existence against
industrial odds that do not excite a pro-
test from men and women who think
they are doing something to advance
the public welfare. There is such lot
of Tommy Rot about some of the no
tions of people who think they are re
formers, that some of us who have had
experience in the industrial field must
confess to feeling of lassitude in the
lumbar region every time they butt in.
If there was nothing more dangerous
to the young manhood and young wo-
manhood Of today than the exhibition
of fight pictures, I'd be hollering my
head off in protest against their ex-
hibition. But when / see thousand
girls in Lincoln compelled to work for
meagre wages; when l see them fall
fainting and bundled into hacks to be
sent home when I see all the dangers
and temptations that surround them
by reason Of the industrial conditions
of today-when I see all these things
and never hear peep from these same
people who are throwing fits over the
Exhibition of the fight pictures, I SIM
ply say fudge" to myself and won
der what will be necessary to arouse
them to the real dangers that front us.
Mr. Bryan took one hot shot at his
opponents at Grand Island, and it was
a shot that told, too. One Of his op-
ponents taunted him with not advocat-
ing the submission of the question Of
relocating the state capital Mr..
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out the saloons, could not be bulldozed
into admitting them again by threats
Of moving the capital. And that s
great fact, too. And that is the basis
of all this talk about capital removal.
1t never would have been sprung on
the people had it not been thought that
it would frighten the people of Lin
coin into re-admitting the saloons. Lin
coin may re-admit the saloons some
time or other, although doubt it. But
this much is sure-the saloons will
never come back to Lincoln because
Lincoln people are afraid Of losing the
capital by refusing them re-admis-
sion. This little scheme on the part
Of the "wets" will prove to be
blunderbuss more dangerous at the
breech than at the muzzle.
1t is difficult to understand the men
tai processes of the gentlemen who
compose the water committee of the
city council. There is large section
in the northeast corner of the city that
is totally without an adequate water
supply. But because these people have
little service pipe the committee says
they are already consumers there
fore it would not be profitable to give
them an adequate supply. There are
thirty families in this particular sec
ton served by pipe one inch in dia-
meter They have pleaded in vain for
a water main, but Chairman Schroeder
refuses to entertain their plea.
whats the use?' he asks. ''You