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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1909)
i !ii iit &&n Published Every Thursday by TrM HwaM PubHshittg Company. K. A. rmtnos, Ir. I.miyd ('. Thomas, Pec Jons W. Thomas. Mr. JOHN W. THOMAS Editor J. B. KN1EST Associate Editor Entered at the postoflice at Alliance, Nebraska, (or transmission through the mails, as second-class mattet Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance. THURSDAY, NOV, 11, 1909. to NOVEMBERI909 SUN HOWTUBWEDlTIIU 1 8 7 mm i 9 3 10 17 A 11 18 FjUSAT !2!2 19 Z0 2627 Up to the liour of going to press wo have not heard of any demand from Mr, Henrst to open the ballot boxes. According to the election returns, San Francisco Is again entitled to the appellation, "The City of the Golden Graft." --- zzz Richard Croker told the New York reporters that ten years ago, before he retired from politics, he used to have headaches. Since the election, Mr. Murphy has ono. There is always a chance that you will bo able to once more handle the dollar which you spend in your own town. Tliero Is practically no possi bility of your ever seeing the 0110 that you send to somo far-away house for something that could be bought at home. Keep this in mind when you have money to spend and help to build up your own town. Exchange. On Thursday, October 28, John D Rockefeller gavo $1,000,000 for the eradication of the hookworm disease. On Saturday, November 0, tho Stand ard Oil company cut the price paid producers for crude oil five cents a barrel. Of course there is no connec tion between these two incidents, but just' the same, as in tho case of many other Rockefeller benefactions, the producer gets the hook. This teachers' association is the despair of tho reporters. It brings so many good things to town that it is im possible for any newspaper to do jus tice to them all- Each section is worthy of extended report. There ate so many sections that half a dozen daily newspapers issuing simultaneous editions would be needed to carry com plete reports of all their proceedings. One advantage in holding the teachers' meeting on the first week in November is the usual state of the weather at this time of year- It adds immensely to the comfort of visitors to have clear skies and dry streets instead ol the overcast sky and tho slush that often prevail during the holidays- This is a sound argument for making the change permauent- State Journal. The republic faces no greater men ace than the continued and growing usurpation by the com is, especially the federal courts, of legislative and ad ministrative functions- Perhaps, in the final analysis, it will be well if Gompers, Michell and Morrison, the labor leaders, are sent to jail for "con tempt of court," committed by them in the exercise of the constitutional right .of free speech. Their imprisonment would be an outrage, but it might awaken the people of the country to the fact that their liberties are in dan ger at the hands of a few self-constituted tyrants, who have abrogated to themselves functions and powers never conferred upon them by law or the constitution, Judicial tyranny lias no rightful place in this government Either the people must put it down or they will be put down by it. to take monev out. Just as soon as a full realization of this elementary fact sinks into the minds of the voters, protection will up longer have its "strongholds." Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in that halcyon day, will vote with as great a gusto against tariff grafting as will Texas and Nebraska. Senator Lodge Went on the platform in Massachusetts in the campaign just closed, and exhorted the people of that commonwealth to give the lie, by their votes, to the defamcrs of the Ajdrich tariff "which means so much to Mass achusetts." They listened to him and then went and voted the democratic ticket. At least some scores of thous sands of them did it who hadn't been in the habit of doing it before. For last year Massachusetts went republi can by 100,000! the year before by 80,000. This year it lopped off a cipher and went republican by only 8,000, Why? Why was not Massa chusetts, with its big cotton and woolen mills all fattening off the tariff graft, eager to vote its thanks to the party that had authorized it to levy still heavier tribute on the rest of the coun try? Because there arc more people, even in Massachusetts, whom the tariff hurls, than there are people it helps And they arc finding out the truth. The old fake about the tariff "protect ing American labor" is played out. It doesn't. It grinds Americau labor down to the merest margin of sub sistenceand pours the profits, all the profits, into the coffers of the corpora tions. Here are some figures just come out of Rhode Island, for example, where conditions are almost identical with those in Massachusetts. These figures are from the twenty-second annual report of the Rhode Island bureau of industrial statistics: Wages of operators in woolen and worsted mills, $8 to $9 a week; 80 per cent, of operatives foreign born- Wages in cotton mills, $7 to $8 a week; 80 per cent, of operatives foreign born. Wages in silk mills, $7 to $& 'a week; 93 per ceut. of employes foreign born. Wages in rubber factories, 8 to ?q per week; 70 per cent, of employes for eign born. Clearly protection dqen't mean a penny's worth of benefit to these peo ple, If tho tariff were wiped out en tire they couldn't be paid less because they couldn't live on less. And they have to keep from starving, because their services arc valuable to their em ployes, to society, to everybody but themselves! Hut protection does com pel these samo miserable, half-starved 'protected American laboringmen" to pay much higher prices for the cotton goods they buy, the woolens, the boots and shoes, the rubber goods every thing they help to make, just exactly as it compels the Nebraska farmer to pay more. And neither the employe or tho farmer gets the remotest benefit. It all goes to the mill owner. AH the employe and farmer get is the privilege of living in the same country with trust magnates worth hundreds of millions of dollars, "earned" by passing the hat around among the rest of us while Uncle Sam compels us to contribute. Every graft takes just as much money away from Peter as it gives to Paul. The tariff the same as the rest only there are many Peters, and only n few Pauls. Even Massachu setts is beginning to undet stand it. In another year Massachusetts will be joining Nebraska in going democratic on the tariff question. shop and put before the public as the real thing. It raises grave doubt as to whether Elmer .f. Burkett is the real thing or can be palmed oil on the voters as the real thing. Further, it makes the republican party managers wonder if it is wise to stick" by Burkett and try to pull him through in spite of his corporation-rallroad'tariff-po-litical record, or if it would be wiser to ditch him and select a republican who is not entailed by alliances which must be vigorously defended. The unfortunate part of the whole situa tionfrom the Burkett-repUblican stand pointIs that next year we will elect our senator by that cursed Oregon plan, which places in the hands of the people the privi lege of designating the man to be elected by the legislature. A non-partisan pri mary will be held on election day. The voters will express their preference for senator. No matter whether the legisla ture is republican or democratic, it is reasonably certain that the man who gets the public endorsement at the polls will be elected. If the republican managers had to fight only the senatorial candidates within their own party, and could then turn their at tention to the election of a legislature, they wouldn't be especially frightened, But under the Oregon plan it is a sort of go-as-you-please, and if Burkett is elected his party managers will have to go out into the highways and byways and muster the vote of the majority of the qualified elec tors of the state, republicans, democrats, socialists, prohibitionists and populists, without regard to party. That is what has thrown the double-distilled fright into them and that is what has made them wonder if they can succeed in such an undertaking with Burkett as their candidate. In the meantime, the people don't seem to be doing much worrying. If Tuesday's vote means anything it means that parti san under whose cloak such men as Bur kett have been waxing fat an political preferment cannot fool the people of Ne braska much longer. They act as if they intended to sit back calmly and let the other fellows do the fretting, and then go to the polls and vote for the man they think is their best friend. In this connection the republican man agers should remember that the demo crats have also been doing a fine line of analyzing since Tuesday and may be ex pected to take advantage of the unpopu larity and dead weight which attaches to the man now slated as the republican bid der for senatorial honors. The democrats have two or three pretty strong men who might be induced to run for senator in view of the apparently good chance they would have of winning against Burkett. Although Mr. Bryan has been considered as out of the fight, even he might be in duced to enter the lists. On the face of Tuesday's returns, the most casual student of politics would have to recognize that Mr, Bryan might really have a fair chance of beating Mr. Burkett. Meeting of State Teachers' Association In making a partial report on the re sult of the State Teachers' association, held in Lincoln last week, and at which most of the Alliance public school in structors were present, Prof- Hayes informs us that the Alliance schools were successful in landing some of the desirable. prizes offered. Among the successes were the following: First prize on agricultural exhibit from this county, consisting of a collection of weed seeds common to this locality. In the water color department two sec onds and one third prize were captured. Two sec&nd prizes for free hand draw ing were also directed into Alliance's fold, totaling sufficient success in the competition at Nebraska's capital to cause those interested in making the en tries to feel well repaid for their en deavor. Much of the work has been prepared since the holding of the coun ty fair, and speaks praises for the suc cess of teachers and students during the present term of school. This annual meeting of the state association is conceded by many who are conversant with school work of Ne braska, past and present, to be the best ever held- The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Supt. N. M. Graham, South Omaha, president; Supt. Taylor, McCook, vice president; Supt. A. H, Staley, Super ior, treasurer; bupt- btockvale, Madi son, Supt. Arnot, Schuyler, and Supt. D. W. Hayes, Alliance, executive committee. The president is cx-officio president ot the executive committee, but has no vote in the deliberations thereof. The secretary will be elected by the executive committee at a meet ing to be held about December tst, which meeting will probably be held in Omaha. . A Greater Alliance QUAKER VALLEY Frank Johnson is putting up some buildings for Mr. Shoffner. Miss Beck is thinking of spending the winter in California on account of poor health. Mrs. Bond is spending a few days with her daughter, who is attending school at Alliance. Old Winter puts in his'appearance once in awhile to let us know he is coming to stay before long. James Jamison goes to Iowa this week utter his family, who have been waiting for him to get his house built. Mr- Baccus and family, Allie Jami son and family, Mr. Jamison and Mr. CLOAK SALE! On account of the delay in shipment by the manufacturers this season, our stock of Cloaks was very late in arriving, so we have decided to make a reduction at this tune while there is a demand for the goods. Here we give you some very attractive prices: One lot LADIES' COATS in black, grays and fancy weaves, $12.50 to $15.00 values, specially priced fijj Q AT One lot LADIES' and MISSES' COATS in black and mixed colors, $8.00 to $10.00 values, specially priced at $5.00 Our entire line of MISSES' and CHILDREN'S COATS at a PER CENT 20 BEAR SKIN $1.98 reduction of CHILDREN'S COATS, 2 to 6 vears Ladies' Suits &S for you to purchase your suit now. we offer our entire line of Ladies' Suits at a discount of SPECIAL Silk Blacks and colors PER CENT 10 Underskirts in $4.48 Norton's McDonald took dinner at Cash Farley's Sunday. Mrs. Ha worth will preach at the home of Mrs. Shoffner next Sunday at 11 o'clock. Everybody invited Robert Shoffner has gone to Indiana on business to be gone a few days. We suppose he will tell the people about raising such fine potatoes in the sandhills. He weighed six that tipped the scales to ten pounds Wanted Woman to do cleaning one day in the week. Telephone 340. Four room house, furnished or un furnished, for rent. Mrs. Moran, 201 Yellowstone avenue. Heln wanted for general work at the Barry House. 48-21 Seed Wheat and Rye I have a quantity of winter wheat threshed and also some fall which I will sell to persons wanting the same for seed. P. J. Knapp, 8 miles north west ot Alliance, on place known as the ''Donovan ranch." Wanted Woman with small child ren to keep house for widower and child. Address, Box 761, Alliance, Nebr- r 46-3W The business of the Bennett Piano Co. has grown until it has been con sidered desirable to put another man on the road, traveling out of Alliance, consequently they have secured. the service of A.' T. Ross of Denver, who began work Monday. The Senatorship The Victims of the Graft From Omul 1 u World llemlil No matter how big and juicy a graft may be, its beneficiaries, ps a rule, are very few in number by comparison with its victims. This is just as true of the protective tariff graft us of any other. Even where protection is strongest that is, where most of those live who empty the coutents of the hat into their own pockets after passing it out among the people there are, a great many more who ate jCinunellud . tp put money into the hat than are privileged Krum The t.Iii'rolii Star, Nut. (I: Second in Importance only to the actual selection of tljree supreme court judges is the bearing which Tuesday's election in Nebraska has on the United States sena torship. Elmer J. Burkett, who longs to succeed himself in the American house of lords from Nebraska, can. if he looks for it, see in the Mate vote a hobgoblin of such ugliness as to send cold chills racing up and down his more or less sturdy spine. His friends, the republican leaders, can also find much to ponder over if they wilt take thi trouble, to analyze the returns a trouble which they are reported to have zealously but fearfully tackled about four teen minutes after the polls closed Tues day evening. The vote shows that the people of Ne braska are thinking about the issues of the day. It shows that the masses of the peo ple kqow what's going on, in the realm of politics. It shows that the voters are not engaged these days in marching blindly to thn polls and casting their ballots tor any old candidate who happens to bear their party label, neatly displayed on a breast beneath which may beat a heart not in stmpathy with them, their needs, and their desires. It shows that the man who is Chosen United States senator in Nebraska next year will have to be a man ot the people and no' a lay figure patched to gether in a corporation or political work- A good part ot what properly con stitute!. Alliance is not included within the city limits- For some time past it has seemed to the editor of The Her ald that the city limits should be ex tended so as to include West Lawn and the several auditions that are uow on the outside. We are pleased to note that other parties, also, are inter ested aud that the matter is being agitated- There are several reasons why the city limits should thus be extended, aud one in particular why it should be done soon- Tho United States census will be taken next June, aud it will be to the credit of the city' to make as good a showing as possible. But there are other reasons probably of more importance. Theso" suburbs should have the benefit of the city water and sewer systems, but of course they can not ask for the extension of the same to reach them until they are included within the corporate limits. Reward for Cattle Rustlers from Crawford Trilmuu. Nov. 5: A standiug reward of $350 is offered and will be paid by Box Butte county for apprehension and conviction within the borders of said county of any per son for horse or cattle stealing. The above paragraph is a direct re sult of the sudden activity among the cattle and horse rustlers in this portion of the state. It seems that no matter what the penally of the crime may be, some men will continue to ride away with some other man's horse as often as the opportunity arrives. A few years ago it was the custom of these horse rustlers to work in bands and clean out a section of the country in which they operated. . When a reward like the above is offered by an adjoining county to keep the rustlers away, it is time for us to do the same. Small House for Sale F. R. Baker, flanager H. N. Gamble New Phone 201 York Market Phone 201 Formerly C. F. Kroll Three Special Saks E?erj ' Saturday r s s s s s I have a good, small house in Al liance for sale. Inquire at my place, jo 1 Wyoming Ave. Phone 40. 48-1 w CitAs. 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