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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1908)
Ef Published Every Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. T. J. O'KEEFE J. B. KNIEST , Editor Associate Editor Entered at the postoflice at Alliance, Nebraska, (or transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance. DemocraticNationalTicket FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT JOHN W. KERN OF INDIANA ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR COUNTY ATTORNttV. I hereby announce myself as a candidate fot nomination to tho office of county at torney of Box Butte county, Nebraska, subject to the decision of tho democratic and people's parly voters of said county at the primary election to be held on Tues day, September i, 1908. Respectfully. Euoenk Burton. The paper mills of the International Paper company closed their doors last Monday and several thousand employes were discharged. Vole for Taft. Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance will only include 5,300 words. But then it must be remembered that Mr. Bryan can say much in a few words. Your appendix instantly and pain lessly removed is a new feature iu modern surgery that is giving Dr. Rcid of Rome, New York, a world-wide reputation. Members of labor unions take no tice: W. J. Bryan was elected an lion nry member of the Lincoln Typograph ical union at its last meeting by a unanimous vote. For pure, unadulterated gall, Him yellow journal known as "Judge," has been telling the working men to vote for Taft and the full dinner pail. With shops closed all over the laud and thousands in the east out of employ ment as a result of republican policies, that purchased little rag has the gall to usk the laboring people of the United States to perpetuate their present serf dom condition. Can the republican party hoodwink the laboring class with such trash? The Alliance Times is greatly alarm ed for fear the negro vote will go back on the republican p.irty this fall and in its effort to ch.ituje the tide before election day, devotes considerable edi torial space in its efforts to make the colored man believe that the lynching recently done iu Kentucky was the work of democrats. Such an assertion is the silliest rot imaginable, but it will not overcome the insult and injus tice done the colored soldiers at Brown ville by the Roosevelt administration. The republican party is reaping its re ward. In replying to the statement of Geo. B. Sheldon, treasurer of- the republican national committee, who stated that the party he represented was opposed to the guaranty bank deposit system in vogue iu Oklahoma and inaugurated to protect depositors, Gov. Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, says: "The opinion amounts to nothing. Why should not the Washington offi cials oppose the guaranty bank deposit law when tliev have selected George Sheldon of No. 2 Wall street to be campaign treasurer on Wall street's promise to raise $2,000,000 for their campaign fund in return for the repub licans standing pat on the tariff and opposing guaranty for bauk deposits." Senator Wiu. B. Allison, tho oldest member of the United States senate, died at his home iu Dubuque, Iowa, Wednesday afternoon of old age. Mr. Allison was a candidate for re-election and succeeded the nomination after one of the most hitter paity strifes that ever occurred in the republican party in Iowa, Seuator Cummins, his op ponent in the primary fight, has an nounced that he will be a candidate to succeed the deceased for the senate. This will again opeu a bitter fight among the party leaders and it may be sure that the Hawkcye state republi cans will agaiu be ou the warpath with the "progressives" after the "staud patters" in all parts of the state. The Difference. Attorney General Bonaparte an nounces that if the national banks of Oklahoma continue to take advantage ALUASC of the state law Riving their depositors ' braika that brouht the 2.000 knights up the benefit of Buarnnteed deposits it standlnat. It was a maKnificent demon will be considered as just cause for the s'"t'oa and "' occasloQ w" accounted a , , huge success, forfeiture of their charter. Certainly. Of course. ' The selection of Dr. P. L. Hall of Lin- Strange how touchy a republican coin to be vice chairman of the national administration can be about banks violating the law that is, some laws. According to Bonaparte it is contrary to the law which governs them for them to act under the Oklahoma guar anty law. So they must stop it, forth with. If they refuse, tliiir charters will be revoked. But the charters of the big national banks iu New York weren't revoked, last fall, when they refused, persist ently, to pay depositors on demand. Their charters weren't revoked when they persistently violated the law against lending more then teu per cent of capital and surplus to one person or interest. Their charters weren't revoked 'when they used the funds of the entire south and west iu Wall street gambling, and for the Imlooning of speculative and water-logged securities. It has been openly and repeatedly charged, since the Wnbh failure and the panic last fail, that the big banks of ths country have been flagrant, no torious and habitual violators of the national banking law; that the comp troller of currency has had official knowledge of the fact but no charters have been revoked. But all these violations have been iu the name of the big interests that con trol the batiks have been committed under the banner of High Finance. The "violation" down in Oklahoma is merely for the safety of despo3itors and the good of the local business com munities. . That is the difference. That is why the; law is to be enforced rigidly against national banks iu Oklahoma. World Herald. From the Center of Things I Hpeclal Lincoln Correspondence.! Lincoln, Neb., August 6 Lincoln has for the past week been enjoying something of a calm before the political storm the aforesaid storm being due to break on August 12 On that date William J. Bryan will be officially notified of his nomination, and the occasion will be seized upon to open the campaign with a 1,ouse- x,ie nrasica state nana, a p.a grand whoop. Representative Clayton of I 'n f P1!ce and a committee of citizens Alabama, who presided over the Denver I wi" ac' as escorts. The notification cere convention, will deliver the speech 0f'ml5ie' wiU bain at 2 o'clock. At 4 notification. In tho meanwhile the demo-1 o'clock Mr. Bryan will hold an informal crats of Lincoln and Nebraska are plan- reception on the capitol grounds. At 6:30 ntng to make the occasion the biggest democratic rally ever held in the west. Mr. Bryan returned from Chicago last Tuesday, having spent the Saturday be fore in conference with the sub-committee of the national committee. On his way back he stopped over in Omaha. On Monday afternoon he raised a flag at the Creighton school, which was founded by ' John A. Creighton, Omaha's foremost philanthropist. Mr, Creighton at one time and another gave upwards of $2,500, 000 to educational and charitable institu tions in Omaha. He endowed Creighton Medical College, founded St. Joseph's hospital, endowed Sacred Heart convent, and provided the funds that made Creigh' ton College one of the greatest schools in the west. During his lifetime Mr Creigh ton was one of Mr. Bryan's warmest friends and admirers. A millionaire bank er, he fought for Mr. Bryan in 1S96, and was a delegate-at-large from Nebraska to the Kansas City convention. It was na tural that Mr. Bryan should seize an op portunity to show his regards for his dead menu, and to eulogize turn on the oc casion of the flag raising. On the same day Mr. Bryan was the guest at a dinner given by prominent Omaha men at the the Omaha club. This was non-partisan. In the evening he was initiated into the Ak-Sur-Ben society, which is made up of Omaha business men with the intent of pushing Omaha and Nebraska. Mr. Bryan's address before the knights of Ak-Sar-Ben (spell that hyphenated word backwards and you will see the point) was bubbling over with humor. The presiding officer perpetrated a joke by pretending to be introducing Mr. Bryau and suddenly pronouncing the name of William H. Taft. Then one of Omaha's big lawyers big physically and mentally was rush ed to the platform, and impersonating Mr. Taft made a speech full of happy hits at the guest of the evening. The pseuda Mr- Taft read several letters pledging him support. When Mr. Bryan got startedon his speech he pulled several letters from his pocket and said "I, too, have received some letters pledging support'" Then he pretended to read on from the Afro-American Ami Taft Lagu pledging him support on the ground that he had paid more tips to Pull man porttrs than any othur man in Ameri ca. Another was alltfgsd to b from a Cincinnati labor organization pledging support, "not because we know you, but because we do know Taft." "I have read the advance sheets of the speech you are to deliver tomorrow," said Mr. Bryan, "and I am compelled to say that the speech you delivered tonight and; wnicn was not censored at uyster nay, is superior to the one you will deliver tomor row after it was censored at Oyste r Bay." Then Mr. Bryan paid a tribute to Ne- committee is wonderfully pleasing to west era democrats. He is a leader who leads and a democrat who fights for his dem ocrncy. As a business man he has been successful, and no man stands higher as a citizens. He is president of the Central National Bank of Lincoln, and has been engaged in the banking business for twenty years. Before that he practiced medicine in Saunders Co., Neb. A democratic friend once told this story on him: "Dr. Hall, like many other physicians, does not take much stock in drugs. In the old days when he practiced in Saund ers county he was just as good a democrat as he is now. Then, when a republican came to him for medical help Mr. Halt would give him calomel and quinine and tell him to swallow them until he got re sults. But when a democrat came for medical help Dr. Hall would give him a copy of 'The Life of Jefferson' and tell' him to read it and be cured of every ill.' In one of these letters it was stated that Mr. Brydn is the second wealthiest man in Lancaster county. What was meant was that according to the personal assess ment rolls he was the second wealthiest. There are a number of men in Lancaster who are wealthier than Mr. Bryan, but their wealth is in corporations, mortgages, etc. And not every taxpayer makes as full returns as Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan will make at least one speech in Kansas during the campaign. It is reasonable to suppose thut guarantee of deposits will be duly emphasized in that ' particular speech. It will be delivered at , Topeka some time in September. It has been decided that the notification! of Mr. Bryan will take on a non-partisan ' appearance. The proposed parade of marching clubs has been abandoned. Governor Sheldon and the other state offi cials, all republicans, will take part in the exercises. Senator LaFollette, who will speak at the Epworth Essembly in Lincoln on August 12, has been invited to partici pate. At 10:30 in the morning the Ne braska State Band will give a concert at the state house grounds. At noon Mr. Bryan will entertain the members of the notification committee at lunch at the Lincoln hotel. At 1 30 Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern will be escorted to the state ,ur ur'in win entertain ai onmer on int Fairview lawn mittee and Mr. the members Ke.rn. of )he com- For notification purposes, at least, Lin coln will be a "Bryan town" on August 12. Everybody, regardless of political af filiations, will assist in making the occa sion a success. It is really remarkable, ,n'3 change in public sentiment towards Mr. Bryan in the capital city of Nebraska. Twelve years ago he was bitterly reviled, and almost daily insulted. The morning republican organ was so bitter that it re sorted to language that forced Mr Bryan to take measures to prevent his family from seeing it. His nearest neighbors flaunted pictures of his opponent in his face, and his mail was deluged with stuff that would have subjected the senders to heavy penalty had Mr. Bryan complained to the postal authorities. It is different now. The morning republican organ fs treating him fairly, and the evening re publican paper, the Star, is making many friends by its kindly references to the An Election Pertinent Points About Our Election Machinery For New footers and Old. THE VOTER. Who is entitled to vote in national, state and local elections? Any male citizen who litis reached the ago of twenty-ono years. How about the women? In the four states of Colovndo, Idaho, Utali and Wyoming any woman who has reached the ago of twenty-ono years is entitled to vote on all matters at all elections, hor privilego of suffrago being identical with that of tho men. Are there no other states in which women may vote ? Very limited woman suffrago prevails in nineteen other states. In Kansas it is restricted to votinsr on school matters and at elections for municipal officers. In Montana and Iowa women may vote on tho issuance of municipal bonds. In Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, Massachusetts, Now York, Vermont, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Washington, Arizona, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Connecticut and Ohio women .have school suffrage. Can Chinese in the United States vote, if naturalized? An act passed by congress in 1SS2 expressly prohibit tho naturali zation 6f Chinese. By what right do negroes vote? . By the tight conferred upon thorn by tho fifteenth amendment to tho national constitution, which United State to vote shall not bo States or by auy state on account of servitude," democratic candidate, although it is a strong Taft supporter. Bryan pictures are seen In windows on every hand. The dejperate - effort of the youthful managers of the republican campaign in Nebraska to make it appear that some "Bryanite" cut down the Taft banner hubg across O street excites only derision in this section of the country. The ban ner was hung the week that thousands of democrats were stopping oft in Lincoln on their way to Denver. One night it came down, and the wire cable crossing a trol ley wire burned it a little bit on one corner. Now the committee is sending out postal cards showing the disfigured banner and seeking to make campaign capital out of it. Democrats here are not objecting to the presence of the banner it is simply adding to the Bryan sentiment here. This is a strong union town, and ths Taft ban ner was not made by union men. There is a well defined suspicion that the repub lican managers endeavored to quietly take it down one night for the purpose of hav ing a union label put on it, 'and that dur ing the effort it fell and was injured Whatever the cause, the effort of the gen tlemen who are managing the g.o.p. cam paign to make capital out of the affair is exciting only ridicule. Mr. Bryan is a total abstainer, and while not pretending to dictate to others he has a few rules in this regard which are respected. At banquets his glass is always turned down. Never a drop of wine or liquor is served at Fairview. Now people are speculating on what will happen at the White House dinners when Mr. Bryan occupies that historic mansion. Only Mr. and Mrs. Bryan can answer that question, but the writer opines that the situation will be the same as it was during the Hayes administration when Senator William Evarts got oft his famous "mot." Returning from a dinner at the mansion he was asked about the wine question, "O, water flowed like champagne," aa,u luc w'"y 1,ow lulK' Wijll M. Maupin. Stockmen Fear New Law Cattlemen of the west who make a business of handling range stock are up I in arum apainqt n nrnrnsil law fnr flip handling of cattle in transit, which, they say, will prove very expensive to them. The law now provides that cattle may not be kept in cars over twenty-eight hours without feed and water except on a properly signed re quest from the shippers, when the limit may be extended to thirty-six hours. There is a rumor that the government is going to exact the unloading of range cattle at the end of thirty-six hours for rest, although the cattle are fed and watered enroute. The ranchmen main tain the cattle would get no benefit from such a stop, but instead the cat tle would show a greater shrinkage. They say the caftle are afraid of strange feed racks and watering troughs and that it would be far better to ship them on through when they are in cars provided with feed and water. The question "is not fully decided as to whether it is necessary to stop cattle for rest-when they have feed and wa ter on the cars, and the ranchmen say it will be a big handicap to them if the law is changed. Suits have been brought in Chicago against several of the railroads and if these are decided against the roads, some expensive set tlements will have to be made which were not anticipated. The heavy ship pers are figuring on some steps to be taken which will prevent a change from the present methods. Primer reads, "Tho right of citizens of tho denied or abridged by the United of race, color or previous condition 00 HEAVIEST Protective Tariff Always Favors the Well to Do. REAL NECESSITIES TAXED. Duties Are Much Heavier Upon Ar ticles That People of Small or Mod Irate Means Aro Compelled to Buy Than Upon Those In Which tho Wealthy Atone Are Interested. It is universally conceded that a tax ought not to fall more heavily upon those of Nintli or utcdorute wealth than It does upon the well to do and wealthy. It Is often considered right that 11 tax should be graduated so as to bear proportionately more he.ivlly upon those haviug greater wealth. In imposing an Income tax small incomes are usually exempted, and the rate of taxation Is oftcu made to increase with the size of the Income. It Id also generally rerognfred that a tax upon an article of general use. even If the tax be levied at a uniform percentage, imposes an unjust burden upon those having small or moderate Incomes, for the poor man will spend it much larger share of his Income for the article taxed than will the million aire. Working-men undoubtedly spend a much larger fraction of their income for articles like sugar or salt and therefore pay, Iu proportion to their wealth or Incomes, a much larger share of the tnrlff duties 011 these articles than Is paid by men of large wealth. Indeed, there Is little doubt that many a worklngmau with a large family pays, absolutely as well as In propor tion to Income, more of the tax on cer tain necessaries of life than Is paid by the millionaire because he and his fam ily consume more. The tax on articles of ordinary con sumption would thus be condemned as uujust If the poor paid at the same rate per cent as the rich. But the tnrlff taxes are outrageously unfair for the further reason that almost without exception they Impose a heav ier rate of tux upou articles consumed by the poor thnn upou those used by the wealthy. This could uot be so if all rates were ad valorem, n certniu percentage of the value of the article taxed, and the same rates were applied to the cheaper articles bought by the poor and to the costlier articles bought by the rich. But the Dlngley tariff contains a multitude of specific duties, so much per pound or per ynrd. and the effect of these duties Is to tax the article of poor or moderate quali ty just as much as the ttuest and most expensive articles. For example,' the man who buys an unllned glove of sheep leather, "glare" Mulsh, Is tnxed by the Dlngley tariff at the rate of $3 per dozen, and the man who buys a lined fancy stitched or embroidered glove of the same ma terial pays duty at the rate of $4.40 per do.-.en. But during the year end ing June III). 1907. those who purchased the former and cheaper grade were taxed (515.28 per cent of the value of the glove, while those who purchnsed the latter and more expensive glove were taxed only 14.10 per cent. The lntter glove was worth $31 per dozen, the former $4.53. In ladies' or children's gloves the discrimination was great. Gloves of the material already mentioned over seventeen Inches in length, worth only $4.20 per dozen, were taxed $3.15 per dozen, equal to 74.98 per cent of their value, while gloves of a finer quality, worth $19.08 per dozen, were taxed $4.15 per dozen, equal to only 20.78 per cent of their value. Thus It was that the poor man buying gloves of this sort paid on his own gloves a tax nearly five times ns henvy and on the gloves of his wife and children a tax nearly four times naheavy as the tax paid by his wealthy uelgbbor. The man who used Iron or steel trousers buckles, worth 8 cents per hundred, was taxed at the rate of T7.48 per cent of their value, while the man who could afford a better quality, worth $1.28 per hundred, was taxed at the rate of only 20.08 per ceuL The man who bought spectacles or eye glasses worth 24.4 cents n dozen paid a tax of 9C.81 per cent of their value, but the man buying a quality worth $3.07 per dozen paid only 50 per cent. The purchaser of a certain class of watch movements worth only 85.3 cents apiece was taxed 00.02 per cent. Tho purchaser of a quality of watch movements worth $30.10 apiece was taxed 31.95 per cent. Agate buttons worth one-tenth of n cent per line en dured a tax of 70.75 per cent. Metal buttons worth 5 cents per line bore a tax of 30.03 per cent. Fur hats and bonnets of all descrip tion averaging in value V-.GO per dozen were taxed 90,00 per cent; those of a quality worth $25.4!) per dozen were taxed 47.10 per cent. Partly manufactured wool and hair worth 33 1-3 cents per pound was taxed 1 19 per cent; that worth $1.14 per pound was taxed 93.70 per cent. Wool blan kets worth 23.) cents per pound paid n duty of 105.42 per cent, blankets worth $1.05 per pound a duty of 71.30 per cent. Pliibhe.s aud other similar fab rics worth 35.9 cents per pound sus tained a tax of 111.78 per cent, those worth $1.00 per p.ound a tax of 95.33 per cent. It will be seen that when rHi and poor were laying In a stock of cloth ing I'nele Sam was guilty of dis crimination of much the same charac ter ns the discrimination he has sq rout illy and justly condemned In the railroads between small nud large .shippers. The Dlngley duty is like the secret rebate In more ways than one It strikes down Its victims so Insidi ously and secretly tint they do not know what has wounded them. They blauie themselves. Provl.letice, luck anything but Mie right cause. The. voter of moderate means who has beeu voting for tnrlff taxes would do so ,110 longer If when he went to buy the winter's clothing for his family h could know-the actual truth that tint millionaire aud his wife, trading on the other side of the store, pay through the storekeeper to Uncle Sam or to the trusts a tax of only 94.32 tier cent ou woolen or worsted cloth worth $1.12 per pound, while he pays 134.07 per cent on similar cloth worth 33.8 cents per pound; If he knew that his rich friends pay for their knit fabrics worth $1.07 per pound a tax of only 05.07 per cent, while he pays 141 par cent on knit fabrics worth 30.4 cents per pound; If he knew that they pay on their winter Manuel underwear worth more than 70 cents per pound a tax of only 80.39 per cent, while he pays 143.07 per cent on the flannels which he buys worth 10.4 cents iter pound. If the obleetlon is made that not every man buys these Imported ar ticles, tne reply Is not dlHlcult. These articles of widely different qualities were actually Imported and sold, some of them In very ' large quantities. They bore these highly discriminating duties, and their respective American purchasers were treated most un equally and partially," the consumer of the cheaper articles paying at enor mously greater rates than the consum ers of the tiner qualities. In an opeu market Is It conceivable thnt there was uot something like the same d In crimination In prices between the con sumers of cheap and the consumers of costly domestic products? In these days much the smaller share of our tariff taxes goes to the government The bulk of them goes to the trusts, which sell at prices they are enabled to maintain because of the exclusion of foreign competition. Meu of mod erate means, worklugmcu, poor men of all 'classes, have been told that tho tariff exists for their special benefit and protection. If this claim wero true, would the makers of the tariff have so arranged the rates of duty that articles used by the wealthy bear by far the lightest burden of taxation? JESSE F. OKTON. RECENT INVESTIGATION. Shows That Workmen In Free Trado England Faro Better Than In Pro tected Germany. Protectionists often compare wages In protectionist America ami free trade England nud assert that the higher wages here are due to the tariff. It Ls obvious that the comparison would be much more logical and convincing If we compared free trade England with some protectionist European country more nearly resembling England In age. density of population aud other conditions. Such a comparison between England aud highly protected Germany has re cently been made in two English gov ernment reports, oue dealing with "working class rents, prices and wages" In the industrial towns of Ger many having just been published and a similar report with reference to Eng lish towns having beeu Issued last January. A comparison of the detail ed statistics In these reports shows that the German laborer in all trades but oue works more hours than the Euglish laborer aud receives less pay Iter hour, aud his entire wages will buy less of the necessaries of life than can be bought in England with the wages of the English workmau. Rents are found to be 23 per cent higher In Germany than In England for corresponding accommodations. It Is said that it would cost an English workman, with his habits of life, 18 per cent more to live In Germauy than It costs him lu Englaud, aud It costs a German workman, with his habits of life. 8 per cent more to live lu Ger many than it would cost him to live in Englaud. Skilled German engiucers earn only from SO to 85 per cent of the corre sponding wages In England, and in the building trades German wages are not more than 75 to 85 per cent of Eng ifsh wages, while In both trades the hours nre more than 10 per cent longer. German printers working about the same hours get only 83 per cent of the English printers' wages. In the aggregate the comparison Is over whelmingly In favor of free trade Eng land. DOES NOT CURB TRUSTS. Sherman Law Declared to Be a Failuro In This Direction. The Sherman lnw, now widely pe. verted from Its original significance, was at the start Intended to preveut combinations of domestic manufactur ers behind the tariff wall to put up prices and take the excess profit to themselves, as they were enabled to do by the excessive rates of duty. But the law as Interpreted by the supremo court has turned out a quite different proposition from what was originally Intended and has in no respect oper ated to restrain the artificial Increase of prices through combination. For these reasons a lowerlug of the present excessive rates on all classes of manu factures to some reasonable protective level, if that can be ascertained. Is fa vored by tho more enlightened. New York Journal of Commerce. Paper Trust Reduces Wages. Olikials of the International Paper company recently nnnouueed a wage cut of 10 per cent to go into effect Aug I. It was largely on the plea of In creased wages In Its mills that the trust stood off the removal of tariff duties on Its product. Now. when con gress lias adjourned. It proceeds to lop off the workman's share. . )