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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1902)
i ,1 l.t4H'W414$4$'i$ NEBRASKA -tMWW$$"H4HH44$frH4 SHOOTING 18 A MYSTERY. Victim Refuses to Tell How the Injury Wat Received. SILVER CREEK-Monfiay after noon a man was found at tho coal house west of town yelling for dear life. He was taken In chargo and on examination was found to havo been shot directly under tho left shoulder blade. Tho man Is about SO years of age, gives his namo as James J. Fran cis, says he 1b from Baltimore, but refuses to talk further. Three hours after tho shooting a man boarded an eastbound freight west of town and persons seeing him say he answers the description of the bub who was with Francis. The doc tor gives little hopes of the woaadeel aaa's recovery. COLUMBUS. Chief of Police Shack received a description of a man wanted at Silver Crook and within twenty minutes had hlB man in Jail. Ha was afterwards sweated by Sheriff Burnes, but absolutely rofuBod to say a word. ,When searched ho had a new Smith ft Wesson 38-callber revolver and a bottle of somo kind of acid. Sheriff Byrnes says ho is confident that this man and tho ono who was shot aro both wanted for postofflco robbery at Belgrade. The descriptions tally ex actly. The Merrick county officers will be after tho man. He stands per fectly dumb befo.ro all questioners and if he has a voice the officers have had no evidence of it LARGE IRRIGATION PROJECT. Prepsse to Build a Ditch One Hun dred and Fifty Miles Long. LINCOLN Ono of tho largest irri gation projects conceived In Nebraska is Involved In a hearing begun be fore State Engineer Adna Dobson, be ing tho matter of a protest filed by the Farmers' Canal company and the Farmcre' Irrigation District against tho replication of William Frank. Mr. Xtank's application for wator from tho North Platto river in Scotts Bluff county was filed last April and tho Irrigation district filed ono subsequent to that date, but tho real contest dates back five or ten years. Bonds to tho amount of $400,000 wcro onco voted by the irrigation district, but they have never been disposed of. The Farmers' Canal company built twenty one miles of what was intended to be an extensive lino of ditches and then Btoppod work. Now two contend ing companies deslro to complete the original plan. Mr. Frank proposes to build a ditch 150 miles long, at an estimated cost of $580,000. Tho dis trict expected to build eighty miles -with tho $400,000 bonds voted. Rob ert Walkor succeeded to the rights of the Farmers' Bond company. Ho has sold his rights to William Frank, who baa associated with him H. G. Lcav itt of tho Ames Sugar company. They are admitted to havo a prior claim, dating from 1887, but tho other Bide alleges that theso rights have been abandoned. LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER. Anton Chrlstenson Must Pay Heavy Penalty for Killing His Wife. OMAHA. The solemn hush that at tended the sentencing on Monday aft ernoon of Anton Chrlstenson to spend all tho rest of his days behind prison walls was broken by the quick, ve hement clapping of the sister of the wife whom he had murdored. Never was applause less expected and never has it been more startling to thoso who heard it. The little group about tho condemned man had been breath less as the Judge pronounced his blast ing words, and shuddered to hear that sound of exultation which is so rare in court rooms, even when the pro nouncement is one of hope instead of withering doom. The prisoner ut tered not & sound, but bowed beneath the blow, meekly and with all hope gone. Chrlstenson shot and killed his wlf last August Wolves Attack Hogs. TECUMSEH. For many years Johnson county farmers have been troubled but little with wolves, but this is not the experience of W. P. McCoy, who lives northeast of this city. Ills herd of hogs has been pest ered with the animals considerably of late. Ono evening recently Mr. McCoy heard a disturbance at his hog pen, and upon going out found two big wolves attacking an old porker. Be fore Mr. McCoy succeeded In driving them off they had wounded the hog to the extent that be died soon after. Sneak Thief Robs York Store. YORK Some sneak thief entered the store of W, O. Boyer somo time In the night and took $35 from a drawer behind the prescription case. It is supposed he crawled in through a cel lar window. dog but holdfast is a better one." ould hardly be improved on at this flay. IN GENERAL BRIEF NOTES. Tho first automobile has made its ap pearance in Fremont A movement Is on foot at Grand Isl and for starting a canning factory. Tho Boldlers' monument on the court house square at Beatrice has been com pleted. Rev. Hess of Beatrico last Sunday preached his farewell sermon. He will locate at Tipton, Iowa. Nebraska produced in 1902 the fol lowing: Wheat, 60,216,670 bushels; oats, 68,503,007; rye, 11,707,123; barley, 2,152,522. Fifteen houses havo been built In Yutan during the last few months. One $5,000 church has been erected and two moro churches were renovated. P. W. Blrkhouscr of Sarpy county has been showing his friends a second growth of strawberries that ho picked from his farm south of Papllllon. While threshing near Ellis, Gage county, Chris Knochc, a prominent German farmer, had tho misfortune to run the tino of a pitchfork in his right eye. Nebraska's corn crop for tho past five years shows the following: 1902, 224,201,950 bushels; 1900, 241,035,627; 1899 244,125,093; 1898, 180,611,944; 1897, 229,907,863. Alfred J. Anderson, a farmer living east of Oakland, had a valuable riding pony stolen. Tho animal was taken while its owner was attending an en tertainment In town. From some unknown cause the High school building at Arrapahoe was burned and is an entire loss, not even the brick walls remaining Intact Tho aggregate loss 1b $20,000, with $8,000 in surance. One of the largest stones ever quar ried in the stato was cut at tho Blue Springs quarry, recently. Tho stone is forty-five feet long, four feet wide and eighteen inches thick, and made a good carload. A horse driven by E. B. Cowlcs, for mer county superintendent of Jefferson county, ran away and, whllo crossing tho railroad tracks, overturned the buggy, throwing Mr. Cowles to tho ground, severely Injuring him. Capt A. H. Holllngsworth, who pi loted company C while the First Ne braska regiment was on duty during the Philippine war, and Miss Myrtle Roes, a leading society girl of Wilbor, were married at the bride's home last week. At a special meeting of tho Board of Directors of the Luther Acadomy at Wahoo it was decided to erect a new school building at a cost of $18,000. P. L. Plym, an architect from Lincoln was appointed to draw up the plans and specifications. At a danco glvon at tho home of Da vid Kluck, a farmer living two miles north of Richland, a man named Young, about 25 years old, was serious ly stabbed during an altercation with a fellow from Schuyler. Young's con dition is said to bo serious. Charles Ogoms committed suicide at his home eight miles northwest of Gib bon. Ho was a farmer in good circum stances, owning a farm of 160 acres with Btock and a good crop. He leaves a wife and five children. His home re lations were nleasant and comfortable; Land in Boono county is changing hands rapidly. Within tho past two weeks 8,000 acres of the ranch and farm lands recently purchased by a New York syndicate, has been sold by MoKillip & Swallow, their agonts. This land has all gone to Individual land owners. A peculiar freak of nature occurred on Martin Kllm's farm, near Adams, a few days ago. About twenty-two days ago ono of his cows gave birth to a calf which was dead when it was born. Sixteen days later the some cow gavo birth to another calf which is alive and doing well. The verdict of the Jury in the Lillle murder case at David City before Dr. Sample, the coroner, was rendered af ter being locked In a room three days and threo nights, and is as follows: That Harvey Lllllo came to his death by a gunshot wound, feloniously in flicted by a party unknown. The senior class of the State uni versity has received a report from the committee to select a list from which the class orator shall be picked. The names submitted embrace Henry Wat terson, Senator Beccrldgo of Indiana, Mark Twain, Thomas B. Reed and Hamilton Mable, editor of Outlook. The list was presented to Chancellor AndrewB. Coroner McCabe of Lincoln county was called on to examine into the cause of the death of two men. Word was receivea irom wanaco mat a man, namo not given, was found dead under a wagon box. All evidence Indicated an accident R. A. Brown, moll driver between North Platte and Gandy, was found dead in his wagon. The team pulled up to the Myrtle postoffice' with the dead body. The mall was undls turbed and all Indications were that he had simply dropped dead. FOR TARIFF REFORM VOTER8 MU8T 8UPPORT CANDI DATES SO PLEDGED. Each Ballot Cast for a Republican Congressman Is a Vote to Maintain the Trusts In PowerSupport the Democratic Candidates. All Republicans believe in protec tion, but thcro is a shade of differ ence between tho schools Into which they are divided. Tho Massachusetts school believes in free raw material; the manufacturers there aro demand ing It Then there is tho Iowa school, which believes that tho tariff fosters trusts, which so shockedSpeakor Hen derson that he declined to bo a candi date, especially as ho found a "great many" Republicans In his district who believed that the trust-protecting tar iff should bo revised. Tho largest school, what might be called tho college of protection, Is still the dominant faction. These oxtrom nd uncompromising protectionists have an organ, the American Econo mist. It constantly denounces and do rides tho reformers and preaches that It would bo dangerous to disturb tho present tariff law. This being also the idea of Senator Hanna, may there fore bo known as tho "Stand Pat" school. Tho Economist has been sorely trou bled lately, and has eased its mind by formulating a "tariff plank" in which, It says, "is told tho whole story of tho operation and effect of protection upon American labor and business." That statement, of course, Is very mislead ing, for it would require several largo volumes to tell such a Btory, but such exaggeration Is constantly Indulged in by the Economist and its protection ist followers. It ends Its "plank" with this declaration: "We therefore heartily commend the Dingley law and demand that when any of Its schedules aro revised it shall bo for the strengthening, rather than the weakening of the protective policy as expressed therein." That means oven higher duties and that war Is declared against tho Mas sachusetts and Iowa schools of pro tectionists. So far it has not scared tho New Englanders, but the Iowaltcs havo backed down, from Gov. Cum mlngs to Senator Allison, and tho can didates for congress are now occupied TROUBLE IN THE TARIFF BAND WAGON. & r. WlAAAAAAAASAftAWSVftWVWWVWWASWAWW In the perilous feat of riding the pro tection horso and the tariff-fosters-trusts horse at tho same time and it need hardly bo said that their paths tie in a different direction their only object being to fool the voters to again vote tho Republican ticket. The Iowa idea was undoubtedly meant as a sop to the tariff-reform Republicans, who abound on tho Iowa prairies, but even the wayfaring man, though a fool, must see tho Republi can leaders have determined to quash the reform movement The Economist, or "Stand Pat" school, will dominate the next congress If the Republican party has a majority to organize it, and the tariff will be continued as a trust breeder. The only chance for revision and for stopping tho fostering of trusts Ib for those Republicans who believe that it Is time to cry a halt on trust exactions to vote for candidates for congress who are not afraid to declare for radi cal reform that is, to place trust pro ductions on tho free list and thus make the trusts sell as cheaply in the United States as they now do In Eu rope. That is the Democratic plank and the Republican tariff reformers must adopt it if they wish to accom plish anything. A Republican member of congress who believes In tariff reform, when he enters the portals of tho capltol, will be like a sheep In the hands of the shearers dumb, and open not hlB mouth, or he will be ostracised and driven Into tho political woods. Polit ical history tells of but few such pa triots. Some may be found to talk In dependently before election, but when they reach Washington and tho full power of the Republican machine and King Caucus is turned on them, they, like their fellows, will be clay in tho hands of the oligarchy that dictates legislation. The only relief in sight for those voters who believe In tariff reform la to vote for the Democratic candidates, who are pledged to revise the tariff and are not under obligations to com bines and corporations. The Negro In Politics. The Republican politicians in the louthern States and that means tho Federal officeholders havo ostracised tho negroes from being delegates to, stato conventions, with tho evident in tentlon of preventing them from tak ing part in tho next national Ropubli-i can convention. President Roosovolt seemB to be helping the matter along, by appointing white men to federal of fices In tho southern States. Tbreo, bishops and some other colored uota-j bles called on the President for an ex planation. Ho explained to the satis-! faction of tho bishops that ho was not' discriminating against the colored brother. Yet ho Is known to favor tho building up of a whlto Republican party in the south and Is appointing renegade Democrats to fill tho offices., In Indiana and In some other states where tho colored voters hold the bal ance of power, how many state, coun ty or town offices are gtven to them, to repay tholr devotion to tho Repub lican party? The negro will never get his fair share of the spoils until hi shows his power by occasionally de feating tho Republican ticket TRUSTS OR ANTI-TRUSTS. Is the Question to Be Decided on Elec tion Day, and It Is Now Up to the American People. Tho election 1b at band. Tho re sult will be much more far reaching than the election of congressmen gen erally Is. If tho Republicans hold their own or aro able to organize tho Houso of Representatives, it will bo heralded as deciding that the protective tariff Is endorsed by tho voters. Such a result will even bo interpreted tc mean that thero are no bad trusts, and that the American people are willing to pay moro for truBt products than tho trust is asking tho foreigner to pay. In short, tho voter will "stand pat" with Senator Hanna, al though they know they have a losing hand in tho trust and tariff game. If tho Democrats gain tho lower houso of Congress and carry the legis latures of some states that are now represented by Republican United States senators, it will be notice to tho protectionists that their days are numbered and that monopoly is to bo unthroned. To Bhow that these issues between the parties are not exaggerated, and that the Republicans really stand foi protection to the trusts, and the Dem ocrats for placing trust productions on tho freellst, it is only necessary to tako the known utterances of th YA nominees of both parties on these questions. Of all the three hundred and ovef Republican candidates, only one, Mr Foss of Massachusetts, has been quoted as declaring for any relief from trust exactions. Ho wants free coal, free Iron, free hides and free wool He does not say he wants It to help tho people, but as a relief to the man ufacturcrs of tho country who use those raw materials. For such a small expression of free trade the Repub lican machine, managed by Senator Lodge, the Home Market club and the other Republican auxiliary organiza tlons, did all they could to defeat him. It Is true that Secretary Moody and perhaps others have declared for free anthracite coal, but as there is no true anthracite nnywhero In the known world that equals the Pennsylvania product, it require b no argument tc show that after the extraordlnarj prices that now prevail for hard coal recede to tho normal level, nono will be imported. So tho taking off the duty of anthracite and leaving it on bituminous coal will not affect the price of the American consumer. Is any other Republican candidate for Congress In favor of free ravt product? If so, now is the time for him to lift up his voice and deelare it On the other hand, nearly every Dem ocratic candidate Is either pledged by his platfrom or has openly declared for free trade in trust productions. The declarations of tho Democrats also call for a reduction of the tarlfl to a reasonablo basis. So thero Is no doubt of the Issue, and It Is almost Impossible to believe that thero 1b any doubt of the result It Is improbable that a majority of the American peoplo will vote to hurt themselves and help tho trusts. No Effort to Suppress Trusts. No real effort has ever been made to enforce any law regarding trusts. And It Is very doubtful whether any law adequate to the condition exists. It has certainly not been brought to a full test Many legal expedients have not been tried at all. There has been no heart in the work. Commoner A CATECHISM ON IMPERIALISM. Q. Is tho Philippine qoustlon set tled? A. No, V W. how can It bo settled 7 A. Either by applying American principles to tho Filipinos or by aband oning those principles in the United States. Q. Why do republicans declaro that the question is settled? A. Because they do not dare to dis cuss the principles involved. Q. Is It possible to havo self-government In the United States and a colonial policy in the orient? A. Not permanently. As a man for a while may lead a double life, so our nation may for a whllo proclaim the principles of tho declaration of Inde pendence here and deny those princi ples to tho Filipinos, but the irresisti ble teedency to reconcile preaching and practice will ultimately compel us to stop preaching self-government here or to stop practicing colonialism across tho Pacific. Q. By what title did we acquire the Philippine islands? A. Wo have no tltlo to tho Philip pine islands that can be recognized or defended by American citizens. Q. What tltlo is asserted? ' A. Somo argue that we bought tho is lands and the people from Spain, and others say that we obtained title by conquest Q. Did Spain have a right to sell us eight millions of Filipinos at two dol lars and a half a piece? A. No. A Spanish king had no more right to sell Filipinos to us than our presldont or congress would have to sell seventy-five million American citizens to the Spanish king. Q. Could we buy the islands and then claim the peoplo as "fixtures that go with the land?" A. No. The purchase of cold, Inan imate matter can not be held to carry with it title to living beings possess ing souls and made In the image of their Creator. To claim that the peo ple were "thrown In" with the land would be as bad aB to buy them at so nanch per head. Q. Can title be secured by conquest? A. No. Seventy-five millions of peo ple can no more secure title to eight millions by whipping them than a big man can secure title to a little man by whipping him. If the governments de rive their Just powers from the con sent of the governed then it is Im possible to secure title to people either by purchase or by the exercise of su perior force. Q. Docs the suppression of tho In surrection change the situation? , A. Not at all. Tho rights of tho Fili pino are the same whether ho 1b able to enforce them or not , Q. But has our nation not promised to bo good to the Filipinos? A. Yes. But what tyrant ever prom ised less to his subjects? Q. Will it not bo better for the Fili pino to be a subject of our government than to bo a citizen under a govern ment of his own? A. No. Because citizenship stimu lates progress, whllo the conditions of a subject destroys hope and ambition. Q. Could our country afford to have subjects oven if it were best for the subjects? A. No. We can not afford to abandon our theory of self-government even if it would enable us to help peo ple hold as subjects under a colonial system. Our duty to ourselves and to the world requires our nation to assert and to exemplify tho self-evident truths: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed with In alienable rights; that governments are instituted among men to securo these rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. No destiny can be high er than this and no advantage obtain able from a colonial system could com pensate us for lowering our nation's ideals. Q. How have the republicans been able to avoid the Issue of imperialism? A. At first they denied that they in tended imperialism, then they said that they could not discuss tho future un til tho Filipinos laid down their arms, and now they Bay that the Filipinos having laid down their arms the ques tion Is settled and that there is noth ing to discuss. Q. Have the American people ever indorsed imperialism? A. No. The republicans have never gone into a campaign advocating a colonial policy. Even after tho election of 1900 President McKinley declared that "no thought of Imperialism lurked In tho American mind." Q. Do all republicans favor imperial ism now? A. No. But few republicans actual ly favor imperialism. If the really fa vored It they would boldly proclaim thelm belief in imperialistic principles. Q. Why do republicans fall to pro test against Imperialism? A. Because they have not studied the question sufficiently to understand its dangerous tendencies. They have faith ia their party and believo that it will do right in all things. Q. Will faith save them? A. No. Faith wltnout wows is aeaa. Each republican Is a part of his party and he can not shirk responsibility for what his party does. He can not expect other republicans to save his country, he must help save It He ought to have his opinion on the subject and ought to express that opinion at tho polls. Q. Has the democratic party any plan for settling the Phillpplns ques tion? . , A. Yes. It not only has a plan, but it has the only plan that has been pro posed. . . Q. What Is the democratic plan? A. It 1b set forth In the Kansas City The Washington city man who was sent to Jail for sixty days for stealing a pickled plgsfoot should have stolen a huge slice of the public demaln and posed as a trustee of Providence. A German scientist advocates isola tion as a cure for the habit of lying. But how could republican campaign managers frame party platforms if this method were adopted? What were those republican con gressmen doing when the anthracite coal duty was "secretly and covertly smuggled" into the coal schedule. Comment- . platform and is as follows: "Lot the nation immediately announce its pur pose to givo the Filipinos, first a sta ble form of government; second, inde pendence, and, third, protection from outside Interference as wo have pro tected tho republics of Central and South America, It Is, in other words, to do in the Philippines what wo have done in Cuba. Q. How can a republican show his. approval of such a plan? A. By voting the democratic ticket - UNSAFE FINANCES. 'An unexpected increase of moro than five hundred millions In the nation's -currency has temporarily saved the re publican party from the result of Its own logic and gives us higher prices In spito of tho republican party, aad yet the leaders of that party, blind to the lessons of experience and encour aged by the indefference of republican voters, has set the Fowler bill for con sideration the first day of the next ses-4 sion of congress. This bill provides for an asset currency, a branch bank and a redeemable silver dollar. Not only are they planning danger- ous innovations In finance, but they allow national banks to be conducted in such a way as to aggravate tho se verity of every panic The worst fea ture of a panic is the withdrawal of money from the banks because of the insecurity of deposits, and tho samo money is loaned so many times that tho withdrawal of one thousand dollars means tho skrlnkage of loans to an amount equal to several times that sum. National banks arc permitted to loan their reserves to other banks and thus tho samo money is counted in the deposits and loans of several banks. When times are good the loans are) thus fictitiously multiplied and when a reverse comes tho shrinkage Is also multiplied and tho shock made more severe. If banks are required to keep their reserves In their own vaults there would be less Inflation in good times and less contraction in bad times. Then, too, there is no fixed propor tion between a national bank's stock and its liabilities. Some banks loan as high as thirty dollars for every dollar of stock and surplus. This leaves a. margin of less than 4 per cent to cover shrinkage In value of assets before the bank becomes unsafe. Thero ought to be a law providing for a small tax on deposits until a guarantee fund is raised sufficient to protect -depositors when a bank falls. Why is the government turned over to tho financiers and the Interests of tho rest of the people disregarded? Be cause the financiers demand it as tho condition on which their political sup port is secured. To conduct the business of the coun try on a safe basis would require not only all the gold we havo now, but all the silver that could be coined under free coinage, but the financiers prefer to reduce the volume of real money so that It can bo more easily controlled and use the same money several times over in fair weather, leaving tho pub lic to bear tho storm as best it can. Tho contest between the money changers and the common people Is on unending one and it behooves tho voter to look well to the selection of con gressmen and senators, for only through these can reforms be secured. Tho great financiers not only stand back of our financial policy, but they are behind the trusts, the high tariff and imperialism. Nothing can be done to secure relief from any national evil until their domination of congress Ib broken. Mr. Rockefellor has offered $250,000 to a college as a thank offering for the escape of himself and family from death in a fire. While disclaiming any intention of drawing invidious compar isons it must bo admitted that some how or other there comes to the mind the case of another wealthy man who ultimately found hlmsolv in grave need of a drop of water. The superintendent of the Nebraska City, Neb., starch works says he will open up if corn drops enough to enable the mills to compote with eastern starch mills. As the Nebraska City mills are owned by the trust the people are inclined to believe that the super intendent Ib a great Joker. A pension bureau clerk hasb cen pro moled because he attended strictly to business and did not secure an advance by political influence. Several thou sand clerks In other departments are inclined to believe that he should have been taken before the lunatico inqul rendo. After denying for some years with much 8trenuoslty that Admiral Dewey treated the Filipinos as "friends and al lies" tho authorities at Washington are declaring that he did so treat them, seeking thereby to evade a payment of prize money claimed by the admiral. Mr. Mitchell experienced difficulty in persuading the miners to return to work, and they were the same miners that Mr. Baer declared so eager to work and prevented by intimidation. Mr. Baer should spend a few weeks in getting his veracity on straight Mr. Knox says the trust evil may be remedied by the enactment of common sense laws. But Mr. Knox may labor under the Impression that his former clients also have a monopoly on com mon sense. The coal combine, however, did not offer to arbitrate Its difference with the public. The coal combine knows when it has a good thing. Mr. Roosevelt has had much to say concerning a bad trust and a good trust, but he has not yet told us the difference between the two. Indeed it is doubtful whether any republican speaker would dare to undertake speci fications on this interesting question. It appears that the coal barons yield ed, not because they loved themselves less, but because they feared justice more. Pitt puff is a new game, and its name sounds like a republican editorial on prosperity. U 'JLS r y