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6 TI-IE FALLS CITY TRIBlJ E January 22J 1904
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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.
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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'
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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THE GREAT WEST.
Marvelous Recent Growth of the
Trans-Mississippi Region.
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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 . - [ _
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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.
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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 : '
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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
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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.
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