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Published Every Thursday by
The Herald Publishing Company.
T. J. O'KEliFE
J. B. KNIEST ,
Editor
Associate Editor
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Nebraska, for transmission through the
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W. J. BRYAN WILL
VISIT ALLIANCE
Information Received by The Herald
Last Week to the Effect that Ne
braska's Favored Son will Make a
Tour of this Section June First
Hon. Arthur F. Mullen, of O'Neill,
was in the cilv for a short lime last
Saturday calling on the local democ
racy and imparting the glad tidings
that the next president of the United
States, Hon. William J. Bryan, would
make a tour of western Nebraska and
be in this city June 1, for an evening
meeting. Mr. Bryan will come by the
way of Grawford where ho will arrive
over the Northwestern. Two speeches
will be made that day at Chadron and
Crawford. From hero Mr. Bryan will
make a trip over the Guernsey and
from Mitchell will go to Kimball by
automobile and thence cast.
The loqal democracy are, of course,
jubilant over the good news and will
mako every arrangement to havo Mr.
Bryan's coming an event long to bo re
membered. The Herald will give the full details
of the itinerary of Mr. Bryan's speech
that everyone will know in advance the
full arangement for the great reception
and speech and also for other meetings
in this part of the state.
"When Bryan comes to town" is the
topic of conversation on tho streets of
Alliance now.
A movement is on foot to purify lake
Michigan. Good enough, but it would
be well to wait till after the republican
convention.
General Taft in a speech at Louis
ville, Kentucky, last week insisted that
the tariff must bo revised. What, we
thought the General was a republi
can. Perhaps the most aggravating thing
next to a balky horse, are the measly
little stickers that mailing clerks on the
Omaha Bee and WorldtHerald insist
on placing directly in the cet.tcr of the
most important news items.
Count Tolockl, of Hungary, was as
sassinated last Saturday by a Russian
'Anarchist student named Mierosiap
Sjozyneki who barricaded himself
against the police behind hisatiame for
several hours before being arrested.
Governor Johnson of Minncsotano
doubt is a very popular man, but he is
entertaining the friendship of a body
of eastern "would-be" democrats who
are likely to cause him regret that will
not soon be forgotten. Governor John
son is too good a man to be misled by
this faction, and his sincere friends in
Minnesota should warn him of the ene
mies who desire to use his standing for
their own selfish ends at the coming
national convention in Denver.
The Wall Street Journal, a publica
tion very friendly to the Taft can
didancy, says: "Granting that Taft
and Bryan are opposing candidates,
what would be the likely issue of such
a contest? Against Taft are to be
counted, first, the effects of panic aud
depression, which always hurts the
party in power, represented by Mr.
Taft; second, much factional bitterness
within the republican party in several
of the most mportaut states, including
Secretary 'faffs own state of Ohio;
third, certain decisions rendered by Mr.
Taft when he was a United States
judge and which were objectional to
leaders of organized labor; and fourth
the antagonism of some of the strongest
financial interests which are opposed
to Roosevelt and regard Mr. Taft as
simply standing for the Roosevelt idea.
.In Mr. Taft's favor are to be counted
- President Roosevelt's great popularity
throughout the larger part of the coun
try; second, Mr. Tatt's own personal
-strength and engaging personality and
remarkable public record; and third,
'the fact that Wm. R. Hearst is
evidently determined to nominate a
third ticket which, while drawing some
what from the republican vote, would
nevertheless cut most deeply into the
Bryan column and serve materially to
weaken his candidacy."
AN EVIL TOSUPPHESS
Debauch of the Nation's Elect
orate Must Cease.
NEED OF THE PUBLICITY LAW
8liameful Methods Employed to Fill
Coffers of the Republican National
Committee Mr. Watson and the
Populist Party True Meaning of the
Democratlo Filibuster An Attempt
to Force Needed Legislation.
Dy WILLIS J. AriHOT.
To my mind tho, most Important po
litical event In the United States of
recent date occurred not li Washing
ton, but in New York. It happened
when Thomas F. Ryan, who Is attempt
ing to control the Democratic pnrty of
Virginia, testified boforo the grand
Jury that prior to the lf)0O campaign
ho, William C. Whitney, Thomas Do
Inn, Wltleuer nnd Elklns contributed
$500,000 to the Republican national
committee.
The trensurer of thnt committee,
Cornelius X. Bliss, strenuously denies
thnt he received this contribution. It
may be remembered thnt this Hnme
Bliss denied when .Tudgo Parker wns
n cnndldnte for the- presidency thnt the
Republican committee hnd received on
behalf of Mr. Roosevelt any funds
from trusts, corporations or life Insur
ance compnnlcs. When Mr. Roosevelt's
denr friend, Governor Hughes, took
hold of the Investigation into the life
Insurance companies it wns discovered
thnt $115,000 had been taken out of
the pockets of the people -who were
pnylng for Insurance nnd turned over
to the Itcpubllcnn nntlonnl committee
for tho benefit of Theodore Roosevelt.
The recollection of Trensurer Bliss nt
thnt time was slngulnrly faulty. It
mny be thnt the mere mntter of $500,
000 given to him by flvo men, two of
whom wore nomlnnlly Democrats, mny
havo csenped his mind ns completely.
But It Is worth whllo to call attention
to tho fact that the story Is told by
Thomns I Ryan, nnd told under onth.
Where the Half Million Came From.
Don't for a moment think thnt Mr.
Ryan or Elklns or Wldener or Wllllnm
O." Whitney or Dolnn put up the $500,
000 turned over to Bliss to debauch
tho electorate of the nntlon In 1000.
Men of thnt typo raise money, but they
do not themselves furnish It. They
organized a Htieet rallrond compnuy
which has never run enough street
cars to be nt all notlcenblo on tho
streets which It Is supposed to traverse.
They put out tho stock of this com
pnny nnd offered It to trusting Investors,
They stocked It for nn .amount of
money thnt If It hud beep honestly
used would hnvo built n street rallrond
from the Bnttory to the Ilnrlem river,
nnd I use this Illustration because New
York Is doubtless better known to tho
people limn nny other city.
Tho Rtock wns sold. The bonds wcro
plnced. Tho promoters of tho wholly
flctltltlous rond pocketed lnrge profits.
And then, If Mr. Tliomns F. Itynn, the
would be controller of the Democratic
politics of Virginia, Is to be believed,
they turned $500,000 Into n nntional
cnmpnlgn fund. Mr. Bliss denies thnt
It went Into tho Republlcnn cnmpalgu
fund. But ns It so hnppens thnt I hnvo
some knowledge of the nmouut of
money possessed In 1900 by the Demo
cratic national committee, though I
hnd no connection with either the col
lection or tho dlbursement of thnt
money, I nm nblo to say thnt tho en
tire amount jlld not reach the $500,000
which Thomas F. Ryan says was con
trlbuted to a nntlonnl committee.
The Cure For 8uch nn Evil.
There Is pending In congress a bill
offered by the Nntlonnl Publicity nsso
clntlon and most nbly nnd enthusias
tically pushed by the Hon. Terry Bel
mont, some time since a member of
congress, which would provide that
contributions of this sort should be
mnde known before the election nnd
not painfully dragged forth nfter they
hnd done their nefnrlous work and
when publicity could no longer correct
their evil effects.
The bill for publicity of campaign
contributions Is before committees In
both house nnd senate. Tho bearing
of tho Itynn testimony upon this bill is
evident nnd scandnlous. It may well
be submitted to the reader of this ar
ticle whether, If he had known In the
year 1000 that Thomas F. Ryan, head
of tho tobacco trust, hnd put Into the
McKInley cnmpnlgn fund $500,000 ho
would hnve looked with oulto ns much
respect upon thnt cnmpnlgn ns he then
did In Ignorance.
And, ngnln, when Judge Parker de
clared thnt the cnmpnlgn commlttco
which was pressing Mr. Roosevelt's
candldncy in 1904 wns ncceptlng con
tributions from doubtful sources nnd
Mr. Roosevelt himself indignantly nnd
somewhat vltuperatlvely denletUIt, If
there had been a publicity law which
would havo shown nt thnt time,
as the Insurance Investigation after
ward showed, that Judge Parker was
right and Mr. Roosevelt wrong, would
not It hnvo hnd some effect upon the
outcome of that election?
The Need of the Publicity Law.
Thero aro few Issues before the
American peoplo today of more, vital
Iraportnncp than this one of publicity
for campaign contributions. These
two Incidents show how thoroughly
vital to the Integrity of our elections
this publicity has become. It happens
that I have seen the work of three nn
tlonnl committees on tho Democratic
side, and I cau, testify thnt for per
fectly legitimate purposes money In
large amounts Is necessary. I do not
bollevo that u presidential campaign
could be conducted with lesa thau
$500,000, but I do not believe that a
presidential election enn be cnrrled by
the people for tho cnndldnte whom
thoy desire to elect If an organization
given over to plutocracy possesses
$8,000,000, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000, ns
It Is rumored nnd believed wngiised
by the Republican nntlonnl committee
In 1890 nnd In lesser degree In1000.
The Democracy Is used to making Its
campaigns with little fluids. What It
nsks now Is thnt the contributions
mnde either to the Democratic pnrty
or to the Republlcnn party shall by
law bo mnde public both as to nmount
and ns to the names of the donors.
But It won't be done by this Repub
lican congress. Like the tariff nnd
everything else, It Is somethings, that
must go over until after election.
The Populist Ticket.
Newspapers of n certain sort that for
twelve yenrs hnvo done nothing except
denounce Mr. Brynn ns a ropullst are
today Bhoutlng with glee because the
Populist party, with every one of Its
members assembled In convention at
St. Louis, refused to either noirilnate
or to Indorse him. He himself neither
Bought nomination nor indorsement.
Tho rcnl voting members of thej.Peo
ple's pnrty long ngo came over Info the
Democratic party nnd will there rc
mnln unless the Democratic party
should commit the error of going back
to reaction nnd Bourbonlsm.
It Is Interesting to find Tom Watson
of Georgia nominated for the presiden
cy. Thomas Is nn nblo citizen. Wheth
er he Is n stutesman is yet to be proved.
Ho has compiled some books on the
history of France nnd the life of Na
poleon thnt nlmost nppronch brllllnncy.
Ills life of Jefferson, while readable,
does not go far toward the brilliant.
But one wonders whether an upostle of
tho people who wns willing fof the
mere purpose of putting out a personal
magnzlue to enter Into financial rela
tions with Colonel William D'-Afrmon
Mnnn, the owner of- the somewhat no
torious Town Topics of New Yorl can
bo quite nt heart devoted to a popular
cause. Of course In tho part of the
country where Mr. Watson hns his po
litical strength Colonel Mnnn Is not
known, but sooner or later the Intelli
gence thnt Watson went from his home
In Georgln to New York nnd entered
Into u relntlonshlp which wns not cred
itable to a man making his profession
of devotion to the cause of tho common
people will be known even there. ' That
his essay In attaching himself to the
"swell" Journnllsm of the rich set In
New York proved unfortunate was only
to bo expected. Nobody probably de
plores It more than lie does today. , But
tho man who wns willing to tlo tijjijwitu
Town Topics for journalistic purposes
might tie up with other curious Institu
tions or characters for political' pur
poses. The Populists might well; look
out for Watson.
Tho Filibuster In the House.'
Tho word "filibuster" has not a-'good
significance among the people 'of tho
country. What It really means now Is
that the Democratic minority In the
house, headed by John Sharp Williams,
hnve determined to see thnt either leg
islntlon demanded for the good of the
people, legislation asked for by Mr.
Roosevelt, shall be enacted or else that
nothing shall be done.
Tho five men who really constitute
the governing power of the United
States Speaker Cnnnon, Representa
tives Dalzell, Pnyne, nepburu nnd
Tawney are now stnndlng pat on the
proposition thnt nothing shall bo done
during this congress. They will not
pnss nny bill nffectlng the Interests
of the people ns a whole neither the
bill demanding free paper and free
wood pulp In the Interests of newspa
pers nor nny other measure of general
public Interest. Tho ordinary private
pension bills go through without much
discussion, but few bills of nntlonnl
Importance ever emerge from the com
mittees. That Is why the Democratic minority
has begun to fight. The position of
tho minority, ns Mr. Williams frankly
expresses It, Is that It believes a Re
publican congress, with n Republican
president back of It, should do some
business. Mr. Williams Rays very can
didly that the uiero passage of private
ponslou bills Is not doing public busi
ness. When the president bombards
congress with messages asking for
Huch measures as the employers' lia
bility bill, the amendment of the anti
trust law. the revision of the tariff and
the nbolltlon of tnrlff on wood pulp,
It dots not seem quite In accord with
tho duty of congress that It should
give Its attention to every trivial mat
ter which the president has not urged.
It is this that Mr. Wllllnms. lending
tho Democratic pnrty In the house, has
tried to make clear. And his Insistence
that tho Republlcnn party must either
enact the leglslntlon of Importunco
which their leader in tho White House
has put before them ns the most linpor-
tnnt Issues or else do nothing becauso
of Democratic opposition is logical and
right.
A filibuster In congress may have
two purposes. One nt the end of a con
gressional session can be utilized to
prevent leglslntlon which is unjustl
flnble, extrnvngant or unwise. A river
nnd hnrbor bill was talked to death by
a Republican filibuster four years ngo.
The force bill wns defeated by Sena
tor Gorman years before thnt time
through filibustering methods. Tho pres
ent filibuster in the house of represent
atives Is directed ngnlnst the purpose
of the majority to Ignore the measures
which have been urged by President
Roosevelt. It Is the one device that the
Democratic minority can adopt to com
pel the presentation before tho house
of these measures. Tho present Demo
cratic filibuster, and" It Is a filibuster,
Is Intended not for purposes of delay,
but to compel the Republican majority,
n majorltv in the house and senate, to
bring before cong-css the measures
which are essential to tho well being
1 of tho people of (he United States.
I wosnington, u. c.
Build Up the
American
IMerchant Marine.
Dy WILLIAM H. TAFT, Secretiry of War.
tMiMl'ni our coast iino on tho Pacific, with tho deep
interest we hnve
wuyF
TAINLY WE OUGHT TO TAKE STEPS TO
ASSIST TILE RECONSTRUCTION" AND MAIN
TENANCE OF STEAMERS CARRYING THE
AMERICAN FLAG from our west const to tho
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orient. The bill which offers inducements for the construction of
ships to cam tho mail subsidies proposed will be an experiment in
this direction, nnd if it proves to bo successful it ought to bo followed
by greater and greater government contributions to THE BUILD
LNG UP OF OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
I cannot understand any difference in principle between govern
ment assistance to our merchant marino and our protective tariff
system, our system of improvement of internal waterways or any
other method by which the general welfare is promoted through tho
government's assistance of particular industries, in which all may
engage.
LET U3 HOPE THAT THE MAIL SUBSIDY BILL LEADS TO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIRECT LINES BETWEEN NEW YORK
AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE ONE HAND AND BETWEEN THE
PACIFIC COAST, JAPAN, CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES ON THE
OTHER AND THAT IT MAY BE THE MEANS OF POINTING OUT
HOW A WIDER SYSTEM OF MAINTENANCE OF THE MARINE MAY
BE INAUGURATED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
Dy W. E. HUMPHREY, Congressman From Washington.
HE foreign trado of this
more than $3,000,000,000, the largest over done by any
nation in all tho historv of the race. Tho balanco in our
favor will bo more than $000,000,000, a sum never before
approached on tho balanco sheet of nations. Of this vast commerce,
tho greatest tho world has ever known, only about 7 per cent was car
ried in American ships.
Our flag is DISAPPEARING FROM THE SEA. Today
with all our vast wealth, our unlimited resources, our mighty com
merce, wo havo 150,000 less tons of shipping engaged in our oversea
trado than wo had ninety-fivo years ngo, in tho early infancy of the
republic. In only one port in all the United States is thero a greater
tonnngo of our foreign trado carried in American vessels than in
foreign vessels, and that port, I nm proud to say, is the port of Puget
sound.
WE ARE SPENDING MILLIONS EACH YEAR IN THE
STRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS, AND WHEN FINISHED WE
HAVE NO MEN TO MAN THEM.
TO IMPROVE OUR HARBORS TO ACCOMMODATE FOREIGN SHIPS.
WE ARE SPENDING MILLIONS TO BUILD THE ISTHMIAN CANAL,
AND WHEN IT IS FINISHED IT WILL BE TRAVERSED ALMOST
ENTIRELY BY THE SHIPS OF OTHER NATIONS.
Our trado is at the mercy of foreign combines and trusts that dis
criminate against us. We aro not getting our fair share of tho rapidly
developing trado in South America and tho orient. What is tho cause
of thoso conditions? This question can bo answered in a single sen
tence higher wages paid in this country and subsidies paid by other
countries. This tells tho whole story.
It costs from 40 to 100 per cent moro to build u ship in this coun
try than to build it in n foreign country. It costs from 20 to 30 per
cent moro to operato an American ship than a foreign ship. This
additional cost in construction and in operation is almost entirely due
to tho high price of labor in this country.
IN ADDITION TO THE INCREASED LABOR COST IN THIS
COUNTRY THE AMERICAN SHIP IS HANDICAPPED BY THE PAY
MENT OF HEAVY SUBSIDIES BY FOREIGN NATIONS. THERE IS
NOT A FIRST CLASS FOREIGN VESSEL IN THE WORLD TODAY
ENGAGED IN THE DEEP SEA COMMERCE THAT DOES NOT DI
RECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RECEIVE A SUBSIDY FROM SOME GOVERNMENT.
When Wealth Getting
Becomes a Crime.
Dy JOHN A. JOHNSON,
p
ERSONALLY I would
would livo a hundred years than be able to amass wealth
that would onablo thoso who inherit it to livo for genera
tions in luxury, and yet tho amassing of wealth may be of
vast industrial service to tho country and to thoso who seek honest
work and wages.
But WEALTH GETTING BECOMES A CRIME when tho
man obtains it by tho sale of all his finer instincts, by tho sacrifice of
his character, by tho violation of tho nation's laws and by trespass
upon tho rights of others to tho pursuit of liberty and happiness. It
is this spirit and not tho thing which detormine3 tho nobility of a
career and tho degreo of success.
THE HIGHEST VICT0RIE8 MAY BE WHAT THE WORLD CALLS
FAILURES.
Stock Gamblers Must Go.
Dy Governor JOSEPH
8
TOOK and grain gambling
conscience. That this form of gambling is INJURIOUS
TO PUBLIC MORALS all must admit. That tho peniten
tiaries reap an annual harvest of embezzlers from it no one
can deny.
THE TRANSACTIONS THAT AMOUNT TO GAMBLING ON THE
RI3E OR FALL OF THE MARKET SHOULD BE PROHIBITED AND
SEVERELY PUNISHED WHEREVER THEY MAY TAKE PLACE, AND
WITH THEM WILL GO ONE OF THE GREATEST EVILS OF OUR
COUNTRY.
Tho bucket shop is already condemned, and if the stock exchanges
do not clean themselves of gambling THEY WILL BE CLEANED
OUT BY THE PEOPLE, for CONSCIENCE has written that
tho gamblers must go.
in the Chineso trade, CER
country for tho year 1907 will bo
CON
WILL WE ARE SPENDING MILLIONS
Governor of Minnesota. .
rather bo ablo to write n book that
W. FOLK of Missouri.
aro under tho ban of this era of
GRAY DOES NOT WANT HONOR
Jclaware Judge Writes Letter, but
Convention Instructs for Him.
Dover, Del., April 15. Desplto tho
written declaration of Judge George
Gray that ho could not under any cir
cumstances consent to havo tho dele
gates Instructed for him. tho Delaware
state convention officially placed his
name before the Democracy of tho
country for that party's nomlneo for
president of tho United States. Judgo
JUDGE GEORGE GRAY.
Gray's declaration, contained In a let
ter to Thomas Fi iBayard, chairman
of the state central committee, which
was read to the convention, came as a
surprise to the delegates, but they did
not hesitate an Instant to place him
in the field.
The platform adopted declares for
unfaltering devotion to state rights,
criticises tho national administration
and declares for a revision of the tar
iff. In moving tho adoption of the plat
form, Mr. Handy said that Judge
Gray's letter emphasized the modesty
of his character. "It proves, Indeed,"
he said, "that we are not inspired by
any ambition of his. His follow citi
zens desire htm to be president of the
United States."
The motion to adopt tho resolution
was carried with a hurrah.
LAKE DENES ALL CHARGES
President of Torpedo Boat Company
Testifies 'In Submarine Hearing.
Washington, April 15. Simon Lake,
president of the Lake Torpedo Boat
company, denied before the special
house committee investigating charges
made by Representative Lllley against
tho Electric Boat company that the
Lako company made overtures to the
Electric Boat epinpany to sell its In
terests In this country, as testified to
by President Rice of the Electric com
pany. On the contrary, ho said, over
tures were made to him by parties rep
resenting themselves as speaking for
tho Electric company to buy the Lako
company. He said he was given to
understand that ofilcials of the Elec
tric company desired the present In
vestigation stopped. Mr. Lake said
he declined to sell and Informed one
of the emissnrlcs vho camo to him,
Charles It. Flint, that his company
had nothing to do with tho Investiga
tion and could not stop It. He said
he had no knowleuge of any Improper
methods used' by the Electric company
or his own company to secure legisla
tion. He claimed that under the pend
ing naval bill his company is shut
out from competition.
Former United States Senator John
M. Thurston of Nebraska, counsel for
the Lake company, was the only other
witness of the day. He stated that
the Lake company was In no way re
sponsible for the Investigation; if ho
had known in advance of Mr. Lilley's
Intention to introduce his resolution
he would havo discouraged it, as it
might endanger tho appropriation by
congress for submarines.
HURON THREATENED BY FIRE
South Dakota City Surrounded by
Flames Several Buildirjgs Burned.
Huron, S. D., April 15. This city
was entirely surrounded by prairie
fires, the smoke from which was so
dense that the sun was obscured and
dust and ashes were driven in clouds
by tho high wind. The first fire came
trom the northeast, but tho wind
chauged and fires soon were sweeping
in from nil directions. Broadland suf
fered tho most. The Chicago and
Northwestern station house, water
tank and two boxcars were burned;
also the Atlas lumber yard and Atlas
elevator, containing several thousand
bushels of grain. The Holland hotel
and ono other house also were burned.
Tho Great Northern bridge across the
Jim river, two miles northeast of this
city, was badly damaged. All build
ings, except the dwelling on the Mor
row ranch, were destroyed, together
with much farm machinery. All build
ings on I. B. Parkhurst's farm, with
implements and much grain, were
burned. The school house in Grant
township was destroyed. Ed Klmes
house, west of this city, was destroyed
and Mrs. Kimes severely burned.
Barns, cattle, sheds and thousands of
tons of hay and grain were destroyed
in every mrection. No lives are
known to have been lost, but many
persons were more or less burned.
Hundreds of men went out from here
In automobiles and wagons to fight tho
fire.
Ohio Oil Ouster Suit Set for May 9.
IJma, O., April 16. The ouster suit
against the Standard Oil company of
Ohio and subsidiary companies
brought by State Attorney Ellis over a
year ago were set for hearing for May
9 by tha circuit court.
A