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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1904)
. 6 TI-IE FALLS CITY TRIBlJ E January 22J 1904 - - - - - - - - - - - . - - - . - - THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Published Every riday at 11'ALLS I CITY , NEBRASKA By I ROSS & RAY Application mule for entry at thc L ! ails City post office as second class matter. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAH Il'elephone No. 226. I In thc excitement of an approaching - preaching presidential election the republicans of Nebraska must not forget that they have a statc . . ticket to elect. Political victories g like charity , begin at homc. 3 The birth rate in Lincoln has increased luring thc last year at , the rate of over twelve per cent for each thousand inhabitants. Thus the pcople of Bryan's town seem to have cndorsed President Roosevelts no race suicide policy. t Is your name written on the # roll of thc Roosevelt club ? If not you should see that it is.rl'hc time is at hand when the repub- licans of 1i al1s City , as well as of thc whole country , must take their stand squarely with thc party and bc ready for the big I contest that is ccming' R At noon Tuesday , June 21 , thc republican national convention I will meet in Chicago. The result of that convention is , of course problematical , but given a ticket 1 , headed by 'l'heodore Roosevelt with a good man for the second place , and a platform based upon the well tried principles of true l'epublicanisl , and the rank and me of thc party in Nebraska will i unfurl their banners and keep their faces to the foe until thc I Nebraska electors arc sent on t way rejoicing to cast thc electoral vote in Nebraska , for Roosevelt and - , and four more years of good old republican govern icnt. On his return to Lincoln from Europe , 1t'Ir. : Bryan announced that he would issue the Commoner - er as a daily paper during the convention at St. Louis. He was asked by a reporter whether or t not thc Daily Commoner would advocate the nomination of any particular candidate and he re- plied , "It will not , it will advo- catc democratic principles. " Hc was asked as to his opinion as to the chances of the several mien . uientioned as possible candidates , .to which he replied : "I don't care to discuss lnybody's chances. I have no fil\'orites. All that I desire is tat ! the candidate be a man whose democracy is so well known that it will not be a sub- ject of inquiry or discussion dur- ing thc campaign , and whose filelity to' the principles of de- , - - - , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , - mocracy will not be questioned after the election. I simply want to do what I can to protect the party from any confidence mine ( that may be attempted on vot- ers. Putting these two state- ments together , what do you think might happen in case of a dead lock in the convention ? GREAT ENDORSEMENT. The action of the National Live Stock convention in endorsing - ing' President Rooscvel Panama policy is very significan The resolution adopted the conven- tion is : "Resolved , That the sincere thanks of the entire membership of the National Live Stock asso- ciatipn in convention assembled , is hereby enthusiastically tendered - ed President Roosevelt for his untiring and successful efforts to bring about the building of the great Panama canal , thc comple- tion of which will in the judgment - ment of this organization , be the crowning achievement of the twentieth century. " While the National Live Stock association is a national organization - tion , its greatest sphere of activ- ity and usefulness is in the west , because the west is the great stock raising section and the center - tcr of the stockmans interest. 1"0 such a great extent is this true that it may be said that the C1l- dorsement of the Presidents Pan- ama policy is equivalent to an expression - prcssion of western sentiment on that question. The democrats have been study- ing thc president's Panama policy very carefully , seeking to find political capital and to get a clue for a party issue in the coming presidential campaign. With a blatant rl"'illman and an. icono- clastic Teller assailing his policy on the floor of thc National 1 con- gress it is gratifying to the admirers - mirers of the president and his administration policies to know that thc representative of great western interests have unanimously - ly commclHfed him and his pol- . . lCles. ANTI-TOXIN TRUST. It is not a very far cry from a traffic in thc necessaries of life , to a traffic in life itseH. This chasm , so narrow and yet so deep has been bridged -the anti-toxin trust has been organizcd and the price of thc only known antidote for diphtheria has been increased 1 of..j undred per cent. A trust might raise the price of any ordinary conilnodity one hun- dred per cent and occasion only a brief war of words between polit- ical newspapers and the people would continue to pay thc price , and take out the difference in , abuse for which the trust cares not ling. But to increase by one hundred - - - - - - . , - - - - . - , - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - per cent , the cost of thc only known remedy for one of thc most dreadful of diseases , is a dif- fercn matter. It opens up an entirely new phase of the trust qucstion. The whole world hailed with delight the discovery of anti- toxin and thc demonstration of its wonderful power. Thousands of lives have been saved by it , and its true value is perhaps known only to thc health officers and thc mcdical fraternity of the great cities. The arbitrary action , of thc trust has made the price of anti-toxin prohibitive i to the poorer classes. The whole country was shocked at the action of striking livery drivers in Chicago , when they sought to prevent the burial of the dead. 1"'hcir's was a prevert- cd unionism. Deplorable as their action was , it is nothing compared - ed to this action of the anti-toxin trust. This action is prevcrted commercialism-i is a traffic in human life. . _ Naturally , the people look to the medical men for relief , and it seems that from this source their help is to come. The Chicago Medical : society and the Illinois State Medical society will bring action against thc trust under the anti-trust laws. The case will be watched with thc closest attention - tention and : t is to be hoped that the strong arm of thc law will be powerful enough to choke out the life of any corporation , that seeks to make life itself thc me- dium of gain. It has . been suggested that in orderto head off the " death tn\Rt" each state provide a laboratory of its own for thc manufacture and distribution of anti-toxin. Certainly if it is proven that our anti-trust law is inadequate or powerless to reach the most heartless of all trusts. But if it cannot reach and control the trust it cannot control any and ought to bc stricken from the law books. \Ve belie\'c that when a great medical discovery is made that ' means so much 't0 suffering humanity - inanity as thc discovery of anti- toxin , that discovery should become - come the property of thc govern- ment by whom it should be madc and sold at the actual cost of manufacture-the discoverer to be adequately compensated of coursc. Perhaps a law to this effect would be unconstitutional. don't know. \Ve talk a great deal about American law being for the best good of the greatest number and we think such a law would be one of that kind. hiss Magnolia Ewal , who has been attending school itt Lincoln has been compelled hy illness to return to her home in this city for the present. - . ' _ . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE GREAT WEST. Marvelous Recent Growth of the Trans-Mississippi Region. . I ' Since 1850 the farms which have " 1' ' been opened between the Missis - sippi and the Pacific are almost I equal to the entire land area of . i ' tile original 13 states , and these . - [ _ . are ' the f. ; increasing rapidly , says St. Louis G 10be.Dl'mocrat. The.'I . will make a further large incL'easp 1 when the national irrigation act i of 1n02 gets fairly into OI > l'ration. : This region in 19(1O1wpduced ( U5.5 , . per cent. of the entire countrJ" wheat , 51.1 per el'nt. of its corn , Ii 78.2 per cent. of its barley , 2.7 per cl'nt. of its buckwheat ] , 48.1 per ent. of its oats and aOl per cent. of its rye , 01' 53.1 per I cent. of the t'ouuh'J"scereals in the aggregatl' In 1850 , on the other hand , this locality ' 0 t'ulity produced only U.fj per cent of the country's . cereal yield. Of the countrJ"s cattle , horses , mules , sheep , swine and other farm mini- I mals , 5UA pel' 'ent. were found 1 west of time Mississippi in 1fOO ) , as compared with l1.B per cent. in ' 1850. This locality in 1fOO ) pro duced ff.G ) ) per 'l'nt ( : of the ( , OUlI)1 ; tl'J"s gold and Un.8 per cent. of its sHyer. , . I While the center of the ( 'oun- . trJ"s area , exclusive of Alaska and l the islands aequirpd in 1898 is i iu . northern Kansas , the center of time 'ountrY's popula1i is in nOl'th- prll Indiana , and that of the 011110 , try's manufaehll'ps is in Ohio : ' - . . . . . . . r' Although this region had 27.5 per l " - 'ent. of the whole eountr.y's pole ) , \ . i ulation in 1fOO ) and furnished , in value , 48.2 per 'ent. of the conn- trJ's farm products } of all sorts . the products } of its manufactures nearly ( half of whi'h was furnished . - nished bJ' MisRonri , California and Minnesota ) was only 16.1 IH'I' 'ent. of that of the entire eonn l'\ . But here , too , there has been an . - immense advance , for in 1850 thi _ locality provided only 3f ) per cenl. ( of the countrJ's manufa't11l'PH - 't his relative gain is pulling thp manufacturing center westward This westward swing thp'c' ( n. J ter of population and manufa . . ' tares will bp hastpllpd by th" " 1 ( growth in rai1l'oad , only 7fJ. ) . miles of railroad , all in Louisiana , being west of the J iH isAippi Mississippi in 1850 , and 87,000 of 1hp comltl''y' ! . 1naOOO ( lIlill' winA' } here in UWO I I the proportion in this spc'tion increasing - creasing from a ' ' ' of 1 ' quarter per I ( ! 'pnt. of time ( 'ollnt I'r's , l'ailwlI\ , I mileage in J850 t'oJ5. . per cent in " 1900. t { A. H. Keim went to Lincoln 'ruesday. Bryan's Bargain Store lJ'avingpurchased the stock of merchandise of I-Iollston & Sprains I have opened it : up for business in the 1Iaust Bldo' . l-o first door south of the Union I-lol1se. Call and see us and get our prices. S. Bryan. . 'yl.