The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-15
BILLY MAJORS DOPE CARD
THE SANE CONTAINING A FEW UNBIASED OPINIONS ABOUT
MATTERS OF MORE OR LESS INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC

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Here goes the journal again, weep
ing over the sidewalk issue with all
the sobbing and signing necessary to
make people believe that the whole in
dustrial future of Lincoln rests upon
whether sidewalks were built just so.
I want beautiful city just as much
as anybody, but l am forced to con-
fess that I am so fully occupied getting
the grub and the clothing for a fam
lily Of eight that l haven't much time
to spend in considering the question
Of "city beautiful" And to me the
question of keeping the larder filled is
of vastly more Importance than the
question Of keeping our sidewalks on
straight. ff the journal will join with
a lot of us unartistic, unappreciative
and sordid workingmen in solving a
few questions Of the immediate present,
we'll cheerfully agree to come across
when they are solved and join in the
crusade for city beautiful. Just now
we are engrossed in the question of
eats.
Last week | made few remarks
about our educational system I have
before me right now letter written
on a typewriter by a graduate Of the
Lincoln high school who is also grad
uate Of Lincoln business college. The
letter is one in which the writer makes
application for position as stenog-
rapher. There are 154 words in the
letter, exclusive of address and sigma
ture. There are five misspelled words
in the letter, and the punctuation is
worth going miles to see And to cap
the climax the writer spelled my name
wrong!
l have personal grievance against
Alderman William Schroeder, and
there are some twenty-five or thirty
others just like me along North Thirty
third street. Economy is all right, but
there is vast difference between econ
omy and penuriOusness, a difference
that Mr.. Schroeder seems unable to
understand.
We sympathize with the citizens of
Wymore, who are threatened with the
loss OF the Burlington shops because
the sheriff Of Gage county did not fol-
low the illustrious example of the sher-
if of Lancaster and appoint lot of
Burlington sluggers to protest the
"scabs.' Funny, isn't it, that rail
road corporations never take any re-
markable interest in the lives and bod
les of their employees until it so hap
pens that those employees are lot of
scabs" and strikebreakers and porch
climbers When that comes to pass the
railroad managers are awfully con-
cerned about protecting life and limb.
But is it better to have the shops
and sacrifice manhood, or to have man.
hood and lose the shops? 1t strikes me
that the railroads are going little bit
too far when they arrogate to them
selves not only the right of life and
death but also the right of property
and opportunity.
It is to laugh! 1 mean that it is
laughable the way the newspapers all
JUL Ill dSIccluS GIIdG IL Is quite SdClS
factory to have negro wear the belt
as the champion fighting brute. A few
short weeks ago and the sporting writ
ers OF those same papers were pointing
to Jeffries as the man on whom ''the
hopes of the white race were pinned ,
All right, all right Jack johnson
seems to have knocked out vastly more
than Jim Jeffries; he seems to have
knocked prize fighting over the ropes
The man who claims to be able tx
swing the labor vote is a liar. But HI
isn't as big liar as the man who will
fully charges another man who is try
ing to advance the cause of organized
labor is also claiming to be able t.
''swing the labor vote.'' No man own
the vote of organized labor, nor i
every man who is trying to advance tn
cause of organized labor trying t.
swing the labor vote Tho tro,,h1o 1u;+1