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OK THE
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McCook Nebraska
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Fractional paper curroncj nickels and
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby ghen that on the 28th day of
May 1908 the articles of incorporation of the
Masonic Temple Craft of McCook Nebraska
were amended in the following
TARS RELIGION
William Taft is
Catholic Is it
IT AN ISSUE
POLITICIANS PRESENTING RELIG
IOUS ISSUE DENOUNCED BY
EMINENT EDITOR
Philadelphia North American Scores
Politicians Who Would Deny the
Constitutional Right of Lib
erty of Conscience
The un American and indefensible
attempt of democratic politicians to
make a partisan political issue out of
the religious beliefs and church at
tachments of William H Taft has re
ceived the following deserved and
this paper every week It is nil printed I fittmS condemnation from the editor
at homo No patent print Read all of the Philadelphia North American
Typowriter ribbon for sale at The I
one of the best and most intelligently
edited newspapers of the United
States
The North American says
We have received numbers of let
ters inquiring about the religious be
liefs of Taft The two which we
print below we have selected as fair
samples because they raise the two
questions which constitute the basis
of all similar communications
la the State of Nobraska at tho clote of m
iya
To the Edltor of tlle North American
iiusfc September 23 in I
TSESOURCES
Loans ami Discounts 122970 44
It is rumored in this place that
a staunch Roman
true If so can
28rOoo Americans and especially those born
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8271 u on American soil support him fop
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president as he would be subject to
MrPil a foreign potentate
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JOHN B MYERS
Hanover Pa June 10
To the Editor of the North American
I have heard a report today in
Pittsburg to the effect that the Hon
Total S21G0G0 91 William H Taft is a Unitarian and
liabilities does not helieve in the divinity of our
Capital stock paid in oo Jesus Christ I do not wish to
Surplusfuud 2000 00
Icise or Question the wisdom In
Undivided profits less excuses and i se-
HjniianoiutaidV ngnm lecting our candidate for presidency
Due to State Hanks aud Bankers 5018 02 but desire to call it to your
Demand cortificatos of deposit 1060 u Uon ana trust you will make proper
5t Instigation and let the facts be
Cashiers checks outstanding SQ 0J known promptly
Total 216060 91 jf he js an unbeliever we cannot
State of Nebraska
County of Red willow J ss nope to elect him at a general
IC J OBrien cashier of the nbove named
tinn tn tb npooMonnn
f rv
UOn l0 tne Of o Christian
bank do solemnly swear that the above state 1 Presidency a
mentis true to tho best of niy knowledge and country and I trust you will see the
belief C J OBeien Cashier
Correct Attest advisability of a proper investigation
P Walsh Director
C P Lehn Director and se your powerful influence toj
Subscribed nd Csworn to biforeme this 2Sth PlCe a mm with Pr0ner standinS a
day of September 1903 Peter Foxen the head of our ticket We cannot
seal J Notary Public I
My commission expires May 11 1912 count on tne support of a Christian
people for an unbeliever
D B
Jeannette Pa June 15
EVANS
Article iour thereof amended to read
was
as rjn AXnxn t u
r
follows The general nature of the business dlsP0Se Of questions which
to be transacted and tho object of this sTirmlrl nnt 1 vo acL nj n -ii o
tion shall be to purchase real estate in McCook I vu o om
Nebraska upon which to erect a building to be possible let us say that Mr Taft
known as a Masonic temple and to furnish in j t
said building a room or rooms to be used for JS not a Roman Catholic He is a
Masonic purposes and rooms for oflices store member of the Unitarian
and other purposes and to furnish said ofiice ummuau church
and store rooms and to construct and erect in That was the church of his parents
said building an opera house and to lease and I
recehe the rent of said building and any and and ne nas never separated himself
nil parts of it and to operate and maintain s tt a
said opera house and to recehe the profits lrom Hls wlfe however is an
therefrom This corporation shall have the Episcopalian and he worships
more
power to contract for and complete said build 1 r amo mun
ing to raise and borrow money for said often beside her in her church
poses by pledge of its corporation property or
otherwise These are the facts which are
Article Five thereof amended increasing
was torlw and qhcninfai
the capital stock to fortj fivo thousand dollars absolutely unimportant
Article Eight thereof was amended to read as The matter of a mans religion has
follows The board of directors of this
poration shall declare dividends during tho HO rightful place in consideration of
months of January and July of each year pro- v ji x
vided the surplus profits remaining after the mS fitness for the presidency The
payment of all current liabilities of this constitution of the nation ordained
aiuuu ui uomcu
poration are suflicient to pay tho dividends of
at least two and one half percent and if at said and established to secure the bless
times said profits are insufficient to pay such I
dividends dividends shall be declared by the ings Of liberty to ourselves and our
directors as soon as suflicient profits accumu 1 iif raci i t
Q
late to pay such dividends no dividends shall Posterity expressly places the very
be declared winch will impair the capital of suggestion of such thought outside
is
company
seal
Masonic Temple Craft
of McCook Nebraska
By C L Fahnestock President
Attest Lon Cone Secretary
thp rnnrfc house in the City of McCook in said
County at which time ou may show cause if
any there be why said account and petition
should not be allowed
It is further ordered that notice of such
hearing bo given by publishing a copy of this
order in the McCook Tribune for three succes
sive weeKS prior 10 me aaie oi suiu iieanuB
the pale of patriotism
No words can be clearer than these
from nnr pmintrve fnn1iTnoTitoi low
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rt roHtrinilc toef Ckvar cTioll Trk
ORDER OF FINAL HEARING lQ uc lc
In the County Court of Red Willow County quired as a qualification to any of-
AfBructaDeccedMntter rtheEstate ofla fice or public trust under the Tjnited
To all persons interested in said Estate You States
are hereby notified that ou the 30th day of Sep- i
tembcr 1908 John F Helm administrator of Tne numerous queries about Mr
the estate of Ella A Buck deceased filed his
rpjo i i ie i
final account and petition for distribution of j Taft s religious belief show Simply
said estate and petition for discharge of such the extent to which his enemies have
v iinto a
administrator and such account w ill be heard j
on the 17th day oi uctooer haw at tne nour oi gone to rouse some prejudice against
Nine oclock A M at the county court room in
iiiiu oiucb uitiie was no spot upon
his whole clean record of private
conduct and public service to which
they could point to Tafts detriment
they displayed their willingness to
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I
descend to anv aeln Ot petty COW
Imnd and affixed mv official seal this 30th day I
of September 190s ardly contemptible attack that might
sjEAlI J C Mooee County Judge
Boyle ldred Attorneys do him harm
Now it was not because Mr Taft
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
S born oi a Unitarian family that
In the county court of Red Willow county
Nebraska In the matter of the estate of An- It was thought possible to dissem
drew R Hammell deceased I
Notice is hcrebv Given that 1 will sit at the Inate a false sentiment His enemies
county court room in AIcUook m said county on
the 27th day of March 1S09 at the hour of ten
oclock a m to examine adjust and allow all
claims against said estate The time limited
for the presentation of claims against said es
tate is March 23 1909 and any claim not pre
sented by that time shall be forever barred
The time limited for tho payment of debts is
one year from September 19 190S
Dated September 23 190S
seal J C Moore County Judge
Cordeal McCarl Attorneys
In the county court of Red Willow county
state of Nebraska In the matter of tho estate
of David K Bertolette deceased State of Ne
braska Red Willow county ss
To all persons interested in the estate of Da
vid K Bertolette deceased
You are hereby notified that on tho 24th day
of September 1908 Myra C Cratty adminis
tratrix of the estate of David K Bertolette de
deased filed in said county her final acconnt as
said administratrix and petition praying for a
decree of distribution of the residue of said es
tate now in her possession to the persons en
titled to receive the same and that said final
account and petition may bo heard by the coun
ty judge at the county court room in the city of
McCook in said county on the 10th day of Octo
ber 190S You are hereby cited to appear at
the time and placo above designated and show
cause if any such exists why said account
should not be allowed and tho prayer of said
petition granted Itis ordered that a copy of
this notice be published in the McCook Trib
une a newspaper printed and published in
said county once each week for three snecess
iva weeks prior to the date set for said hearing
Dated this 24th day of September 1908
J C Moobe County Judge
saw their chance in the fact that
Taft when governor general of the
Philippines adjusted for all time a
diplomatic question of such extreme
delicacy that handled by any other
American representative it would
likely have rankled for half a cen
tury a source of danger and dis
pute
The disposition of the friars lands
Involved besides important finances
religion in Europe and this country
and revolution in the Islands The
place to do business is at headquar
ters Taft went to tne Vatican And
in two days talk he settled the con
troversy upon lines so fair so broad
But Taft went to the Vatican
That
was his first offense I
The second offense was having hia
picture taken beside the -pope Thai
picture has been reprinted and dlsj
the letters we have received show-
that this had some effect even in ai
Those two incidents constitute the
foundation for all the censorious
gossip that has been set going con
cerning Mr Tafts religion
The first won for American statesi
manship and American fair dealjingi
the approval of the world
Nor can we see a semblance ofj
excuse even for covert attacks by
unscrupulous enemies in the recog
nition of an American representative
by Rome or in dignified deference
shown by that representative to tho
head of the oldest Christian church
the revered chief of 230000000 Chris
tians throughout the world including
11000000 loyal Americans
The attempt to hurt Taft by essayf
ing to identify him with the Roman
Catholic church we place on the same
plane as the attempt to censure him
because he has refused to turn from
the church in which his mother
knelt Both are kindred appeals tq
the bigotry which we hold in utter
detestation
We had thought as we have hoped
that the day of religious prejudice
in national yolitics was done in this
country What better proof could
we have asked of the disappearance
of that vicious error than the re
ligious complexion of Roosevelts
cabinet
No sane man believes that the
president chose any adviser save for
his fitness certainly not because ol
his religion So we have seen the
Dutch Reformed churchman surround
ing himself with Root the Presbyter
ian Taft the Unitarian Straus
the Jew and Bonaparte the Roman
Catholic
And not because of their varying
faiths but because not one word was
spoken of the religion of any as a
qualification or a disqualification we
thought we had reason to believe
that the prejudices which never
should have existed were dead at
last
The North American yields to no
one in Its Americanism And in the
spirit of the normal but intense
American we say that if Mr Taft
were a Roman Catholic or a Hebrew
or the adherent of any other faith
our support of his candidacy would
be no less ardent because he chose
to worship God according to the dic
tates of his conscience
What the man murmurs with bowed
head on Sunday matters much to
his soul But what concerns us In
the filling of an office with which re
ligion has no affair is that not on
one day but every day with his eyes
facing all men the every act of this
man has proved him the God fearing
patriot who has done Christs own
work in earning the title of the
secretary of peace
That religicus prejudice has sur
vived so long under this government
whose basic principle is civil and re
ligious liberty has puzzled the deep
est students
True much of this is the inherit
ance of the ages In parf it all dates
back to the barbarous martyrdoms of
Catholics and Protestants in turn as
each in turn gained dominance We
can trace it through the prompt
shifting of the Puritans from
cuted to persecutors Knownothing
ism the fruit of a long growth left
a bad bitterness not yet wholly ob-
literated
But while much of the prejudice may
thus be accounted for in our judg
ment the feeling is kept alive and
nurtured less by the persecutors than
by the persecuted themselves There
is no ethical difference between sup
porting a bad man for high civic
place because he professes a certain
religion and opposing him or any
other man because of his religious
faith
Any man who is not a good and
upright citizen is not a good and up
right follower of any religion What
ever altar the betrayer of public
itrust kneels before he is a Judas
And he is far less worthy the sup
port of members of the faith to which
he is a traitor than of the votes of
those indifferent or opposed to the
creed he speaks but in acts denies
Church members lose claim to good
citizenship and honest religion when
they approve the man who gives
color to the charges of the enemies
of their faith and promote instead of
rebuking the dissembler who dis
graces their urch
Nor is that uie worst By their ac
tion they foment and foster this
same religious prejudice which has
eo impartial as to win for America i bloodied the pages of history They
The Lincoln and
Dowlas Debates
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supposedly sane and civilized Commemorating the Anniversary of an
tion i
Event Which Stirred the Country
Fifty Years Ago
sJ
EXT year will be notable for
the celebrations in honor of
the centennial of Abraham Lin
colns birth In the uieanthno
this autumn brings the semicentennial
anniversary of the famous Lincoln
Douglas debates which had so much to
do with crystallizing sentiment in the
north ou the slavery issue and defining
the questions which were to be settled
a few years biter through a resort to
arms These debates between Lincoln
and his opponent as a candidate for
the United States senate from Illinois
Stephen A Douglas began at Ottawa
111 on Aug 21 lSoS and continuod at
intervals of a few days in the towns of
Freeport Jonesboro Charleston Gales
burg and Quiney and ending with the
debate at Alton on Oct lo
The occasion for the debates the
struggle for the senatorsbip was felt
even at the time to be an important
one though just bow fraught with im
port It was could not be realized until
the flight of years enabled the histo
rian to show how many and great
events hung on the issue of the contest
and its sequel Ior Lincoln did not win
the senatorsbip Had he done so possi
bly be might never have been presl
dent
Douglas was then a candidate for
senator to succeed himself He regard
ed the election as a stepping stone to
the Democratic presidential nomina
tion in 1SG0 But in order to win the
senatorial election in Illinois where
anti slavery sentiment was strong be
bad to make some concessions to this
sentiment In doing so be offended the
south and lost its support in the con
test for the presidency two years later
At the time of the debates Lincoln was
little known outside of Illinois and
Dougkis had a national reputation s a
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IiINCOriN AT THK TIME OF HIS DEBATES
WITH DOUGLAS AND THE 1TV HAIiti AT
AIiION AVHCBE THK CONTEST ENDED
brilliant orator and a great statesman
He was not in harmony with Buchan
an and was opposed by the agents of
the administration at Washington
Many Republicans advocated the elec
tion of Douglas on the ground that in
view of the differences in the Demo
cratic ranks be and bis faction of the
Democratic party might be won over
to the Republican side on the ques
tions becoming of greater and greater
moment Illinois had always been car
ried by the Democrats in a national
amass up l this time and everybody
epected Douglas to win in the sena
torial campaign He did win but by
a very small margin and the result as
arterward appeared meant bis speedy
elimination from politics Lincoln
who was then forty nine became a na
tional figure at once and the strength
he showed marked him out as the fu
ture leader of the party which was to
carry to a successful issue the princi
ples he upheld in this famous contro
versy The debates occasioned great
outpourings of the people as many as
1C00 sometimes assembling in the
open air to hear the battle of words
between the orators
The accompanying portrait of Lin
coln shows him as he appeared about
the time of the debates and Is from an
ambrotype taken in Springfield shortly
afterward The OAvner W P Brown
of Philadelphia gave this account of
it This picture along Avith another of
the same kind was presented by Pres
ident Lincoln to my father J Henry
Brown deceased miniature artist aft
er he had finished painting Lincolns
picture on ivory at Springfield III
The commission was given my father
by Judge Read John M Read of the
supreme conrt of Pennsylvania imme
diately after Lincolns nomination for
the presidency One of the ambrotypes
I sold to the Historical Society of Bos
ton and it is now in their possession
The miniature referred to is now own-
the honor and admiration of the do mora than aught else could toir ri Ti t
hierarchy of the Catholic church yet justify the persecutors and the engraved by Samuel Sartain and wide
making no concession ihat ever yet persecutions they cry out against ly circulated before the inauguration
has offered a loophole for censure iFor their own solidarity In wrong After Mr Lincoln grew a beard Sar
by the bitterest opponent of Roman cause forces a faotional alignment of tam Put a beard on ns and the
Catholicism
all who think unlike then
I engraving continued to sell extensively
His Own People
The negro blood wherever It Is de
clares Ray Stauuard Baker In Ameri
can Magazine supplies an element of
light hearteduess which will not be
wholly crushed In illustration he tells
this story of a very light mulatto of
Tennessee
A number of years ago It came to
him suddenly one day that he was
white enough to pass anywhere fr
white and he acted instantly on the
inspiration ne went to Memphis and
bought a first class ticket on a Missis
sippi river boat to Cincinnati No one
suspected that he was colored ne sat
at the table with white people and even
occupied a stateroom with a white
man At first he said be could hardly
restralu bis exultatiou but after a
time although he associated with the
white men he began to be louesome
It grew colder and colder he said
In the evening he sat on the upper
deck and a3 he looked over the railing
he could see down below the negro
passengers and deck hands talking and
laughing After a time when It grew
darker they began to sing the Inimita
ble negro songs
That finished me he said I got
up and went downstairs and took my
place among them Ive been a negro
over since
The Elder Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was born at Little
Britain Lancaster county Pa Nov
14 17G3 His biographers have called
him a self made man and have
made but brief reference to bis par
entage It is noteworthy that his fa
ther the senior Robert Fulton in a
failure to leave financial patrimony to
his children lias not been accorded the
mention of other achievements not
slight in those primitive days His an
cestors crossed from Scotland to Ire
land prior to the time of Cromwell
From Kilkenny Ireland the Fulton
family came to America before the
year 1735 The senior Robert Fulton
was among the prominent men of
Lancaster his name having been on
record upon all the town organizations
which existed at that period He was
a founder of the Presbyterian church
the secretary of the Union Fire com
pany and a charter member of the
Juliana library of Lancaster the third
library established in the American
colonies GtaJrury
The Fourmilion
In the Sahara said an explorer
there Is a little insect that throws
sand and its volleys slay They call it
the fourmilion The fourmilion digs
Itself a funnel shaped hole of the cir
cumference of a silver dollar It lies
hidden and watchful in the bottom of
this bole and when a spider or ant or
beetle comes cautiously prospecting
down the steep and slippery sides the
inhospitable fourmilion launches upon
its guest volley after volley of sand a
hail of stinging sand so abundant so
suffocating so blinding that the visitor
loses his head He rolls unconscious
for the nonce to the bottoii of the
hole and the fourmilion calmly dis
members him before he has time to
come to himself again and puts him
in the larder for the next meal
Blooms but to Die
The taliput palm Corypha umbracu
lifera of Ceylon whose leaves are put
to such numerous uses by the Cinga
lese bears fruit but once during its
life This elegant tree measures about
ten feet round the trunk and attains a
height of about ISO feet The flowers
the appearance of which presages
death to the tree are inclosed in a tall
spathe which bursts with a loud re
port disclosing a huge plume of beau
tiful blossom The inflorescence is suc
ceeded by equally conspicuous bunches
of fruit When these have ripened the
tree withers rapidly and in tho course
of a fortnight may be seen prostrate
and decaying on the spot it adorned
He Might Have Married
Fitz Greene Halleck never married
yet as Mr Howe reminds us in his
American Bookman he could not have
been without attractions for a certain
superior lady is reported to have de
clared
If I were on my way to church to
be married yes even if I were walk
ing up the aisle and Hailed were to
offer himself Id leave the man I had
promised to marry and take him
To this perhaps should be joined his
epigram written for a younsr lady who
had asked for his autograph
There wanted but this drop to fill
The wifeless poets cup of fame
Hurrah There lives a lady still
Willing to take his name
Playing to the Cook
Mr Subberton yelling to kitchen
Sawdust and milk crust Adam and
Eve on a raft and wreck em On the
cantaloupe Draw one Make it three
all round
Mr Townley Great how
pardon me old chap but whats it all
about
Mr Subberton Sh Weve got a
former restaurant cook a peach and
we have to order that way to keep her
on the job Puck
Pleasant For the Bride
At the close of a wedding breakfast
a gentleman noted for bis blunders
rose to his feet causing keen anxiety
to all who knew him Ladies and
gentlemen he cried genially I
drink to the health of the bridegroom
May be see many days like this
Poor Board
I see said Mrs Starvem that a
certain scientist claims well soon get
a palatable food from wood
Well growled the cranky boarder
it seems impossible to get it out of
board Philadelbpia Press
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granted us by nature but the memory
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