The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-06-17
IS LINCOLNS SLOGAN A JOKE
MEN SHOUT LETS ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR LIN
COLIN" GO BOOSTING WITH A CHEAP LITTLE


Club or any Of it's members in commit
tee going outside Of Lincoln to employ
musicians. The Commercial Club has
conducted some five or six of these
trade excursions, and on no one Of them
has a Lincoln band been employed. It's
almighty easy to holler Let s all work
together for Lincoln but how n thun-
der is the Lincoln worker going to
keep eating if every time the business
men want to employ somebody they
go out of town to get them?
Last Wednesday two little girls try
ing to earn bit of money by selling
soap for an outside concern were
stopped by the activity of the CONNER
cial Club, that organization holding
that the little girls ought to be selling
Lincoln made soap.
o Gosh! Fudge and Heck To say
nothing of Splash!
And the next day the same Organise
tion slips over to Hebron and hires a
cheap band to play on an excursion
planned to boost Lincoln.
Wouldn' t that jar you?
Stand up for Lincoln-and hire the
Hebron band to furnish the music for
the Lincoln Boosters2 The local musi-
clans are really not worthy of consid-
Grafton. This is reciprocal trade ex-
cursion, don't you know-and the He
bron band will work cheap.
The committee that waited on the
excursion folk were courteously re-
ceived but it got almighty little salts
faction. All it learned was that the de-
fense Of reciprocal trade excursions
was merely blind to cover up the fact
that the cheap band was hired in pref
erence to giving employment to Lin
coin musicians at living wage.
If that isn't Sears -Robuck, Mont
gomery Ward, proposition, we never
saw one.
Let's all work together for Lin
coln" Give me one Of those cigars
made in Philadelphia tenement. They
are better than the Lincoln made ci-
gars.
"Let's all work together for Lin
coln!" We can hire the Hebron band
for our Lincoln booster excursion
cheaper than we can hire Lincoln
band, so we'll limit our boosting to
other lines and hire the Hebron band.
AS remarked in the beginning, it is
beautiful slogan Let 8 all work to-
gether for Lincoln!'' The man who or
iginated it was genius. Go on, Mr..
Lincoln Musician, and work your fool
head off for Lincoln. You haven't any
thing else to do, for the main squeezes
will hire an out-of-town band to play
for the Lincoln trade excursions so you
will not have the excursion Of another
job to explain why you are not s'work-
ing together for Lincoln"
"Let's all work together for Lin
coln!' The rhythm of that slogan is
fascinating; it haunts the mind like
Mark Twain s story Of ga blue trip
slip for six-cent fare, pink trip slip
for four-cent fare, buff trip slip
for two-cent fare, punch in the pres
ence of the passengaire. Let the chill
dren of Lincoln workingmen sing it as
the trip blithely to and from school.
Papa isn't working, because it was
cheaper to hire man who spends all
his money in Hebron. Let the house
wives sing it. Their husbands are not
working, for it was found cheaper to
hire the husband of another woman iv-
ing in city hundred miles away.
Let everybody who works in Lincoln
sing it with vim. The policy pursued
by the Lincoln Commercial Club in the
instance of the trade excursion about
to start, will soon result In Lincoln
workingmen having nothing else on
earth to do but sing, ''Let's all work
together for Lincoln
l ain t choich member yet, cause
/ ain t found one t. date dat shows as
much intrust in me as it does in dem