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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1892)
S. M. COCHRAN * CO. , * ABE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Union Press Drills and One Horse Hoe Drills , WAGONS AND BUGGIES. ALSO KEEP REPAIRS FOR ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY. Absolutely Rust Proof Tinware ' * < Their prices on all goods are as low as the lowest possible. S. M. COCHRA J * CO. , Went DeuiiUoii Street * W. C. BULLARD & CO. -lol- LTME , HARD CEMENT , AND DOORS , BER. WINDOWS , . SOFT BLINDS. SOFTCOAL. . BED CEDA.R AND OAK POSTS. xT. WARRRN. Manager. Meat Market. FRESH AND SALT M EATS , BACON , BOLOGNA. _ . CHICKENS. . . , . TURKEYS. &C. AC. S. WILCOX & CO. , Props. Notary Public. Justice of the Peace. REAL > : ESTAT LOANS AND INSURANCE. Nebraska Farjn Lands to Exchange for Eastern Property. Collections a Specialty. IMIcOoos : , Mexican ; Mustang Liniment. A Cure for the Ailments of Man and Beast A long-tested pain reliever. 3ts use is almost universal by the Housewife , the Farmer , thw Stock Raiser , and by every one requiring an effective liniment. "Nro other application competes with it in efficacy. * This well-known remedy has stoodthe test of .years , almost generations. : No medicine chest is complete without a bottle of LINIMENT. 'Occasions arise for its ue a.most every day druggists and dealers hae it. 40 TO 2000 ACRE TRACTS. TO S15 PER RCRE. d stamp for Price List and Descriptive Circular'of Southwestern Nebraska to AND STOCK RANCHES S. H. COLVIN , McCookwniour Co. . Neb. A/ v/ . . . CONDITIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN VT THOSE OF THE UNITED STATu J Blghor Taxes , Txm-cr Wages , Mor < ' pcrs , Smaller Saving * I Greater National Debts in Than In the United States. [ Special Correspondence. ] WASHINGTON , Oct. 17. Do the pet- ' \vho are clamoring for free trade compare the conditions of the pat r. present of this country with the ouo . , - B'jntial free trade country of the world- England ? Ifj not , it might ba a good thing for them to do so. I have been looking into the question a little of hito and comparing the conditions in this country and in free trade Great Britain. HereareEomeof the things which I iiad : The annual tax collected from the people ple by the government of free trade Great Britain is-$12.60 per capita , while that of the United States is less than $0 per capita. The deposits in savings banks in Great Britain amount to $180,000,000 , or five dollars per capita , while those in the kavings banks of the United Statts amount to $1,623,070,794 , or twenty-live dollars per capita. The amount of money in circulation in Great Britain is $17.90 per capita while the amount in circulation in the United States is $25.62 per capita. In deed there is scarcely a country of any importance on the map of the world which has as large an amount of money per capita as has the United States. The national debt of Great Britain amounts to $90 for each individual in her population , while that of the United States amounts to § 13 for each individual. The annual interest charge upon the public debt in Great Britain is $3.23 PIT capita ; the annual interest charge upon the public debt in the United States is 85 cenid per capita. Great Britain , under her free trade system , has decreased her public debt in the last thirty-five years $620,000,000 ; the United Stales , under protection , has decreased her public debt in twenty-five years $1,551,000,000. In free trade Great Britain there is 1 pauper for every 39 individuals , and 1 person in every 12 receives more or less parish support : in protective United States thuro is 1 pauper for every 643 in habitants. The "balance of trade" is hundreds of millions of dollars against Great Britain every year. Under her vaunted free trade she imports vastly more than she sells. Her exports last year amounted to $1,300,000,000 in round numbers , and her imports amounted to $2,100,000,000 , making a balance on the "wrong side of the ledger" of $800,000,000. Our exports last year were $1,039,335,626 , and our imports were $827,391,284 , thus giving us a balance of $202,944,342 on the' 'right side of the ledger. " The balance of trade was $800,000,000 against free trade Great Britain last year , while it was $200,000,000 in favor of protected United States. In the last ten years our exports bar * exceeded our imports by § 706,383,314. In that time the exports of Great Britai : ; have fallen $8,515,000,000 below her im ports. In other words , in the decml just ended protective United States hrs a balance of over $700,000,000 on tht right side of the ledger , while free tra ' .e Great Britain , whose "commerce nlt-i the world , " shows $8,515,000,000 on th < wrong side of the ledger. In free trade Gi'eat Britain bricklayer.- get § 1.17 per day ; in protected United States , § 3 per day ; carpenters in Gmit Britain get § 1.28 per day ; in the United States , $2.35 per day ; in free trade Great Britain engineers get $1.46 per day ; hi the United States , $3.22 per day ; in Great Britain machinists get $1.20 per day ; in the United States , $2.50 per day : in Great Britain compositors get 15 cents per thousand ems ; in the United States. 40 cents per thousand ; in Great Britain shipbuilders get $8 per week ; in the United States , $16. Thus it will be seen that in every par ticular our condition is better than that of our free trade neighbor. Our com merce is in infinitely better condition because we receive hundreds of millions of dollars more for our products than we pay out for the things we buy , whil" the reverse is true with Great Britain. Our public debt is less than one-sixth per capita that of Great Britain , while our annual interest charge is only about one-tenth per capita that in Great Brit ain. We have decreased our debt in 23 years 2 % times as much as Great Britain has been able to decrease her debt in 35 years. Great Britain has 1 pauper for every 39 persons , while we have 1 for every G43. Our government collects from her people less than $6 per capita of taxeb : that of Great Britain collects from her people over $12 per capita of taxes. Tiie deposits in savings banks in Great Britain average $5 per capita of the population ; those in the United States average $25 per capita of population. The money in circulation in Great Brit ain is $17.90 per capita , while that of tht- United States is $25.62 per capita. Wages in the United States are from 75 to 100 per jent. higher than those paid in Great Brit. i. What good reason is there for desiring to exchange English free trade for t protection which gives us these con , . - tions , which in every case are so mue'i "better than-those of our British neighbor : What business man is there who hi seen his business grow up and prospi'i 'under the system which has been i. . ( operation < n tl is country for the pa't 'thirty ' years who wants to endanger i : - Isteady progress by the adoption of . . system which compares so unfavorably with our own in its results ? O. P. AUSTIN. Republican * should not forget that thi-n ro eigfct btates In which the plura2i ( four years ago traa less than 3,500 and I ome cases leu than 1,000. The rex ; * ibilitj- for success or defeat rests on 2 Individual activity. Tote , and ser your neighbor * Jo so. lf DESEflTL Name * Northern Democrat * Aptil Union Soldiers When They TitlJc Their Real Sentiments. The following extract from the Ha- Icigh News and Observer of Sept. ' 10 ii an account of a speech delivered in th : % city by ex-Congressman J. H. Murphy , of Iowa , Sept 15. It seems from tha that the northern Democrats fully agree with their southern associates in hating Union soldiers , and don't hesitate to say so when they think they are out of hear ing of the old soldiers themselves : "The speaker next called attention to the infamous pension system. It now amounts to $150,000,000 per annum. In a few years more at the present ratio of increase it will reach the limit of our revenue. / / was a shame that we sliould have to put our hands in our pocJtets to pan pensions to a lot of cowards , deserters o ; 2 bounty jumpers. ' ' J. H. Murphy was a member of the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth congresses from the Dfvenport : ( la. ) district , a nu- tiva of Massachusetts , and posed in his candidacies and while in congress as u friend of the soldier. This is the wj'.y he talks when he thinks he is alone with the southerners and is privileged to ex press his real sentiments. Mr. Cleveland's letter as a round whole is as impermeable and elastic as caout chouc. New York Sun. A COMPLETE REVERSAL. Cleveland's Klectioii Means Control ol House , Senutt ; und Presidency. Chairman Carter has presented the situation in plain , unvarnished language. In a conversation at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York he said : The people of this country are called upon to say whether they desire to sub stitute the policy of free trade for the policy of protection ; to substitute the wildcat state banking system for the present reliable currency ; to abandon the shipping policy and the trade treaties known as reciprocity. There should be no doubt about the result. This is not a free trade country. The people do not favor wildcat currency. They are in fa vor of reciprocitv. Thev desire the mer chant marine of the United States re established , and are opposed to free trade and bad inonej- and the reactionary pol icy of the Democratic party. The common sense of the people stands as a bulwark opposed to any policy which by any possibility may result in hurling the nation down from its pre3e.t prosperous condition into commerci. ! * chaos , industrial distress and financial ruin. 1 think the people understand that both brajiches of congress would necessarily be Democratic in the event of President Harrison's defeat. We cannot lose tbe presidency and save either the senate or the house. We are therefore confronted with what must seem to the ordinary citizen as an appalling proposition to promptly and absolutely revise the policies under which our present prosperous condition has been brought into existence. Republican Tariff Good for Silver Ttliners. Governor Prince , of the territory of New Mexico , injiis annual report to the secretary of the interior says : "Mining has had its ups and downs during the year , but at present it is flourishing , and now that cheap Mexican labor has been got out of the way the miners receive fair American compensation for their work. " The report adds : "It would be hard to imagine a case in which the present tariff has been of such immedi ate and obvious benefit as that upon sil ver and lead ores. " Democratic success next month means that for the Srst time since 1861 the Democrats will control house , senate and presidency and bo able to reverse the tarifl' system under which our spleiidi'l prosperity has been built up. Yon will be responsible for this reversal if vou do not \ote for Harrison and sco that your neighbors do no. Thompson' * ItanU Note Detector ol 1858 published u list of 753 brolcen , closed and worthless bank : , iu the United States , and showed that the notes < > i other banks were subject to a discount from 1 to 7 per cent. The Democratic party now proposes to return to this kinil of currency. The Australian ballot , wherever use-- ' kept Republic-ails away from the polls Ko Republican should permit the mj * teries of this , new and apparently conip catcd nystem to prevent him or his nci 'i bor- . from voting. On your vote and thi.i of your neighbor may depend the result. Eiery county , ward and precinct shciuU' have its "Tjallot .school" established . ' once to famillarUo Republican voters \\i' ' . the new ballot sj.stem. E\ery Hcpublit . Should see that this , is done , and du : promptly. If jou neglect it , the rcsjiii : y of defeat may be upon your sli There are five states with 6c\ontj- . electors in which a change of 1 per f. of the vote of 1888 would change the ; Utical complexion of their electors. ' responsibility rests upon jou to votr eo that all members of your party > 'T < THE SHOULDERS OF'THE 8TM AT HOMES WILL REST THE RESULT. Stiiles So Close That Neglectful Votc7 May CauHe the Loss of Any of Them. The Australian Ilallot Must Ko Studied and Voters Prepared to Uie It. [ Special Corrcsi > onilcncc. ] NEW YORK , Oct. 17. One thing the voters of the United States ought to un derstand very clearly. That is that thy neglect of a few people to vote at the com ing election may change the result anil change the entire business condition of the country. There are ten states in the country in which a change of from 800 to 4,000 votes would change the result in those states. There are five states in the country in which less than 2,000 voters remaining at home on election day would changes the result. There are states in which a change of a few hundred votes from one side to the other would change the result. There arc others in which a mere handful of voters neglecting their duty to go to the polls would allow the opposing party to carry the election in those states , and perhaps change the en tire result of the presidential election. What a Change in Administration Would Do. This is a matter of such vital impor tance that the voters of the country can not give it too much thought. A change in the administration , it is conceded , means u general change in the policy of this government. The chances are ninety-nine out of 100 that if the Demo crats succeed in electing their president they will by the same stroke obtain a majority in the house and senate as well as control of the presidential chair. That has not happened before for over thirty years. When the Republicans got into power in 1860 they changed the general policy of the government from a low tariff to the protective tariff. It is not necessary in this connection to go into the details of the wonderful pros perity which has followed. Everybody conversant with the history of the country must realize that the prosper ous condition of the people of the gov ernment of the country generally is so patent that nobody can doubt that pros perity has attended "the protective tariff" experience of the United States. There is not a man in the United States who can doubt that the election of a Democratic president , a Democratic house and a Democratic senate would mean a reversal of the tariff conditions under which this wonderful prosperity has come. Your Neglect May Change the Result. Every voter of the country who does not want to see this splendid condition j of our country destroyed a condition i which every nation of the world ha ? j recognized as one of superior results I ought to recognize the fact that on his , ' vote and the vote of his neighbor may j depend the question of a change in the | administration or no change in the ad- ' ministration. In the state of Connect- i cut in the last presidential election the Democratic plurality was 2,216 votes. In the state of Nevada the margin of plurality was only 1,615 votes. In In diana the Republican plurality was only 2,348 votes. Out of an enormous num ber of votes cast in West Virginia th * plurality was but 526 votes. In a num ber of other states the plurality was but a few thousand. In many of the state ? a change of 1 or 2 per cent , from one side to the other would have changed the result. In some of the states the neglect of less than 1 per cent , of the Republican voters to go to the pollb would change the result. This bringb us to a point which is very important for every voter to remember. Farmers and Worlcingnicii Should Be Sure to Vote. In nearly every one of the close states the Australian ballot or something pat terned upon that has been adopted since the last presidential election. The ex perience which has accompanied the use of this system in the state elections has shown in nearly every case a falling off of the farmer vote. The farmer does not like the Australian ballot. He looks upon it as a device of the city schemers and as a troublesome , uncomfortable method which his fathers did not use , and which he thinks he should not be compelled to use ; the result is that it has kept thousands and thousands of farmers away from the polls. Not only this , but the workingmen do not like to be compelled to call upon others to help them out in unraveling its mysteries. The honest farmers and the honest workingmen form a very large element of the Republican party. Hence a bal lot system which is not acceptable to them , and which res-nits in manv nf them staying away from the polls , naturally reduces the Republican vote. The experience in all elections in which khe Australian ballot or anything like it has been tried shows a falling off in the Republican vote. This is accounted for by the fact already indicated that the honest farmers and workingmen of the country do not turn out and vote un der fhis new fangled arrangement as they did before. If the honest farmers and honest workingmen in the Repub lican party are not careful to do their full duty this time regardless of the fact that they do not like this new fancied way of voting they are liable to wkkt * up on the morning after the election and find that their state has gucw Hk * wrong way ; that by staying away from the polls they have caused that change. A Solemn Duty of Kvery Kepubllcan. It is the duty of every Republican voter to begin to-day , now , and make a study of the new voting system of his state , and not only to study it for him self , but to instruct his neighbor and hi neighbor's neighbors in it. It is also his duty to go to the polls and vote on elec tion day , whether he likes this sew fan gled way of voting or not , and also to see that his neighbor and his neighbor neighbors do the same thing. If he does it , if you do it , the contiu ued prosperity of this country under ii- present and splendid system is assured. f 11 , J ) < Mith Cniijtlil Him C < . , . . E. Lowur. fniumitii of tliu U & M. | jnrrt t'liu'iiio , \ \ > IH iMiiL'lihi'Livuun the cu'-s hist iiighi mid t.-rriltly unshed. J lml oilier car ! * w.'n * Ijoiny I h.v 'Hi-mis of u dn-hj. and 1 wi-Mi iiiiuicii lliu cnrn'l"i > 4o ( > den ! the chain , 'I lirm > r | | berne niliTnmlor- i landing the un-jino btu-kt-il up nnd Lower waa caught hotwvvn tin- cure , J one of which had no dmulmud He WHS picked up and cnn-i.-d into the roundhouau and Dr. Everett w s sum " moned. i The injut it ; * were on the left side , und huii.ynliroly iiUonml , nlmoat nothing rinld ; no Junu for him. About 11 o'clock lie was iiilctMi in iho | ; < | trol wnnon to his room in MmM. . nfove block , where a numhei of bis friends and fellow niilroml nu-n uatclied his sufferings in liolj.r | > r-ymputhy. At } X\2 \ death tonic liitn ontof his misery. J.O-.UT has u sihlor. Mrs. W. H. Kitn- biill. U. n.rat lt:51 F .street , but. moat of his p-.M , i , . ijveat Albia. I , , . Ilohaa- been ciitio\ | | ( > | in v.-u-.oii * capiiuilUM nt niilroml u- . . - bout Ii. r. , fr - . , . * . . nil yt-aiv. und \\is wrin.Milar wins his associate. . . . . . * IJo wjiai. , ' : m.d | us likely to bo promoted from In.- present posi tion. U. . XVJIH L'7 yeuit , old nnd un married. His remain * will probably be cent btujir to AUn.i. A Sou. h ST. PAUL. Minn. , Oct. 2,1 A Pi-rr. . . S I ) . . HH..J.-I , | to the Pioneer % Press says : The chances uro that Sontl , Dakota will bo unable to clear up. the mmi.llo about b.ilJoU being printed sic-cording : to the now law. Yes- tuiday tliu MHJietary of state accepted thoiv.iignuiioii of Wood , one of the democratic nominees for congress. Half of the tickols wi.re already print ed and will now have to bo reprinted. The law requires that the ballots shall bo in the hands of county auditors at len-t. ten days before election. Even now the new ballots could bo printed in iliittiine , but the prohibitionists yesterday applied to the courts to compo - po , the secretary of flUite to add them to the ofliuial ballot. The case will bo heard Tlmrs.lay and if they win the names will have to be printed on the tickets. I3ut it will bo a physical im- ponsibUity to have ihe ballotd printed in the time allowed by the law. Sin , i n Is Girl's Fntlior. \VKKPIN WATER. Neb. . Oct. 27. _ Tom Andrew * , a cook in the I' inpean hotel , last evening shot five times utC. D. Sitxer , hitting him once in the arm. Andrews , is in love with with Air. Sit- zer's , daughter und called on her yes terday afternoon in the absence of her father. Whnn Sitxer returned he found the door locked. During the war of v.ords that followed Andrews ihol through a glass in the door. The wound it , not o' a serious nature. Mar shal Wood ward has Andrews in charge low and since his arrest he has at- : empted to end his life by the lauda- Mini route , but ho will recover Then nucr is of an emotional nature and i.aueiiuently re.-orlcd to knife or re- I voltor in bollling his dispute- , and is considered a lit. .subject for tbe asylum. ( ; r.ui < l il LINCOLN. Out. 2/ . _ Thereis no loner : . ! bt that the rccom- mendation . . . . -lute board of public lands ami l-u. ! < ' . . ! - in regard to the asylum \viii \s \ carried out. A special grand jury lias boon called to meet on November Kith. ? nd although the reasons for culling the jury are not given by Hi court , it is generally un derstood ih. : ; , [ he methods of purchas ing supplies foi the sisylum are to be thoroughly nm-stigated , und it is fur ther believed thai the inquiry will re sult iu the indictment of two if not three parties whose names have already been mixed up in the af fair. A Death Trap. GKAND ISLVND. Neb. . Oct. 27 Last night Henry Joeluik , yard master for the Oxnard beet sugar factory , waa crossing the Union Pacific at one of worst localities in the yard , when he was run into by a switch engine and escaped only by jumping quickly from his buggy The engineer of the en gine had seen him in time to slack speed somewhat and a more serious accident was avoided. The horse broke loose nnd ran away but the buggy is somewhat demolished. The tracks at the crossing were replaced * o run into the new depot and the crossing is still in a terrible condition a veritable death trap. Found Coal. PJ.ATTS.MOUTH , Neb. Oct. 27. It 15 not every day that coal is discovered in paying quantities , but nevertheless it remains for two of Plattsmouth's be t eiti/ens to unearth a vein of jrenu- ine coal , o\di * flve fee t in thickness and located on the old Kock Bluffs road , only five miles from this city. The coal was tested with the best of re sult : ; and is identical with the famous Ohio cannel coal. Richley Bros , , lum ber dealers , who discovered the pay ing qualities of the coal , leased over 700 acres of the land which surrounds the vein and will put in a large force men immediately. The fact that the coal lies so near Plattsmouth will in- i sure a great increase of business. Injured by a Fall. BL-KCHAKD , Neb. , Oct. 27 William Madden , a young man living about four miles south of this place , was thrown from his horse last night , shortly after the republican torch light parade , and was i-endered uu- conscious , in which condition he re mained for several hours. It is thought he will recover , as no internal injuries have been discovered. Nebraska Lutheran Synod. POXCA , Neb. , Oct. 27. The Ne braska synod of the Lutheran church convened at this place yesterday , with thirty-five ministers in attendance and as many more expected to arrive. There is considerable business to be transacted and the session will proba- blv laat OTRP R wpolr '