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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1910)
' ! I III " - piiii.ih 11 11 11 HKMI.I 1 nil illinium I IL -.- rrW YHE, JUWKE jfcRND Published Every Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. LLOYD C. THOMAS, Business Mfrr. JOHN W. THOMAS Hdltor J. B. kNlEST Avtocinte Hdltor Entered at the poMoffice nt Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THURSDAY, OCTOBER . 1910 1910 1 OCTOBER jt9io San. fUn. Tim. Wed. Thu. I'rl. 3t. 7777 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 . ' i , i ii i i ' TARIFF A BURDEN Vastly Increases the Cost of Pro duction TARIFFS BREED TARIFFS Manufacturers and Consumers Alike Suffer From the Protectlva System. High Duties on Raw Materials Bar Our Products From World's Markets. The high tariff Is jotting to he looked upon by Intelligent manufacturer as bolut,' more of a burden to them than a beneUt. If they got protection to the extent of 00. 00 or oven 100 per cent upon their products they are also taxed heavily for the materials they ubc "Everything we buy," says the National Association of Agricultural Implement Manufacturers, "is protect ed by rates running from 10 to 75 pur cent, and yet we are open to England, which Is the lowest priced market In tho world nnd buys her materials at from 15 to 40 per ceitt below us." Mr. Walter II. Lliugshilw or Now Bedford, Moss., Rives similar testi mony about tho cotton trade, In a statement published In the New York Journal of Commerce he says that the cotton industry "requires nearly twice ns much capital to ciiulp and operate n plant ns It docs In England and pays "45 per cent on nil its Imported machin ery or Its equivalent to domestic man-, ufieturers." H"presentntlve Foss of Mastchu setts, a Inrge manufacturer who en Joy n tariff of 45 per cent upon lit products, declared In a speech In con grerfs a few mouths ago that he was perfectly willing to have the 45 per cent taken off provided the duty on bis materials were taken off nt the sumo. time. He further said; "I believe today that under free trade conditions we ran compete In the markets of tin1 world In most. If not all. of these in lURtrle. and compete to better advan tage than we do now" ' In asking for n tariff of 50 per "cut on sweetened biscuits (which the have since obtained), a firm of biscuit manufacturers gave as a reason the fact that they could not compete with the fore'trner became lie got Ills ma chlner. and appliances free of duty. wher-is they had to pay'a heavy duty on their Imported machinery as well ns a Mnl duty of I'M per cent upon the woo'i'ii felt aprons used by their workmen. Facts like these could be supplied nd Infinitum. They all teach the same lesson thnt the tnrlff Increases the cost not only of the nrtlcle on which it Is placed, but nNo of other articles whose production depends upon it Our manufacturers of advanced goods complain about the high cost of production. Hut this high Cost of production turns out to be due lu most cases to the high tariff on their mate rials. Our national policy has hitherto been when we have put a tariff on crude products to put another tariff on the manufactured articles lest the sec ond man should be at n disadvantage ns compared with the tirst man. And so on throughout every stage of Industry ttil we come to tho tluul con sumer, who buys the Mulshed article uud who generally sells labor In re turn. He stands nt the end of the Hue. Do we give him n compensatory tariff on what he has to sell, as we gave the others? We do not. He is the man next the wall, and he has to bear the bufdou. Aud If he only knew his own interests he would go to the polls in November aud insist upon removing every layer of protection from the ground upward which the machina tions ,of organized selflshness have thickly laid upon our Industrial sys tem. Then will the natural cost of produc tion determine prices. Then will our manufacturers be better off by buying cheap and selling cheap than they are now by buying dear and selling dear. T. SCANI.OS. f iratu men aud engine men can secure daily tune, books at The Herald office. ' ' fiffiKRBMMINS 1 l4'9HI9Pv IB f it:E5 M ' J QCLfL " 4jfc? '.vnmri'll imy. sH itHtJSMts wxocmA, "$ WpWmMt& LK,BBMmWtKlB9'9k News Snapshots Of the Week nil over tho nnllon. Brook Ins' flights In Chicago gave the Windy City Its the summer vacation occupied a prominent part in the week's news. "And Still They Yell." i Ul Boston Herald. Do n man u favor once and he may be grateful. Do him .several favors and he will think you owe them to him.-Life. Our protected industries are about the very best Illustration of this. First they cry out lu piteous tones for a lit tle protection to tide them over the precnrlous period of Infancy. Nest they become louder and louder In their demands until we actually per mit them to write their own schedules. Flnnlly they come to think that the whole mass of consumers are for them to pluck and that to lift a linger against their extortion Is to assail the sacred foundations of society. FREE TRADE CONGRESS. Side Lights on Tariffs From Many Quarters Representative Men Re cord Their Obssrvatioi.s At the recent free trade congress nt Antwerp considerable light was thrown upon the working of tariffs lu different countries by representative speakers. Dr. Carl von Tyszku of Germauy, dealing with the comparative prices of goods lu England and Germany, quot ed statistics showing that before 1870 Ue price of wheat was considerably higher In Loudon than lu lterlln. whereas since Germany adopted pro tection the case has been reversed. wheat lu Berlin costing 07 per cent more than lu London In 1000. The same change has taken place as re gards meat. Up to 1000 Loudon prices were higher. Since then lterlln prices hnve been higher. There has been a constant lessening of the consumption of bread aud meat per head lu Ger many. Mr. George N. Barnes, the English labor leader, as a working engineer, gave his views on "dumping." He wel comed the fact that England was able to get raw material cheaply from abroad. "The more they dump the better for us." he asserted. Free trade meant cheap and good food for the masses It brought about a better understanding between foreign nations and promoted peace nnd last, but not least, it prevented the growth of trusts and so checked the maldistribution of wealth. Senator Pulsford of Australia while disagreeing with the tariff which was passed when the commonwealth of Australia was adopted In 11)01. held that it was benellcent In one respect, "for It swept out of existence all du ties between the various states, and this naturally resulted In a great de velopment of Interstate trade and of Australian shipping. Tills sweeping away of tariff Impediments, which has been so good for all of the separate states of Australia might, it seems rea sellable to Infer, jield equally satis factory results If adopted b) the nn lions of Europe between themselves It may be pointed out as a stngular thing thnt wlieu a number of states unite in a federation It is always on a free trade basis free trade of the most absolute kind, and further, that the result Is invariably and admittedly satisfactory." The congress sent the following mes sage to the leaders of the Canadian fiee trade movement by way of en couraging the Canadian farmers In their revolt against protection: "The International free trade con cress now sitting at Antwerp nnd rep resenting twenty-six countries desire me to convey to Canadian free traders their congratulations on the stand they nre making for freedom and In the name of all the countries represented here to thank them for the example iiul the high and unselfish Ideal which they u rescuing to humanity. .(Sighed) Louis Strauss, president." 'TH THE "P lii Vf .pJ!!wij ,t -p i Tho nomination of Henry L. Stlmson by the Republicans of Now York was nn Important event In the political calendar. The Installation of ti successful trackless trolley lino near Loh Angeles. Cal., marks an epoch in transportation. Contests for the James (ionlon Bennett trophy for the fastest (light in nn aeroplane will he held the latter part of October. The Vnndcrbllt cup races were watched by thousands. Vice President Sherman's defeat by Roosevelt at Saratoga was watched by polltlcl'uis VITAL STATISTICS Pneumonia an! Tuberculosis Head List of Fata) Diseases. KOOHOLERJ OR YELLOW FEKEo Infantile Paralysis Claims 533 Vittirru in United States Disease Is Mainly Among Whites, Colored R?ce Mor tality From Th.s Source Being Very Small Nine Deaths From LsproJy Washington, Sept. 27. Theto yai 1 nolewoith) decrease in ine uunuei of deaths Horn influenza, common.) called "grip," in 1909, in the cnisuj buieau'B death registration uioa, iep rebentlng over 55 per cent or the esti mated population in continental Unit ed States In the year In question, it la to ho seen in the census bulletin on mortality statistics for 1909, prepared by Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief bttitis tlclan for vital statistics. The deaths from Influenza num bered 0,649 In 190), as computed with 9.9S9 In 1908, lu the registration area. Tills is considered remarkable since bronchitis and pneumonia, diseases classified under respiratory diseases but usually closely associated with In fluenza, showed, for bionchltls ao.nit the same number or deaths, and tor pneumonia a marked increase for 1909 Pneumonia, In the aggregate, caused more deaths thun other dlsenses, ex cept tuberculosis. The number in creased from CI, 259, or 130 per 100,000 population, in 1908 to 70,033, or H3.fi per 100,000 population, in 1909, the lat ter number being only seven less than the number, 70,040, Trom tuberculosis of the lungs. Diseases of the nervous system In .creased from 71,090 for 1908 to 71,050 for 1909. There were 569 deaths from acute anterior poliomyelitis, or. 'Infantile paralysjs, 110 from pellagra, 55 froai rabies, or hydrophobia, and 9 deaths from loprosy In 1909.' It is reported that of the 5G9 denths from Infniitlle paralysis, 532 were of white and orly 17 colored persons. i Jneob Boniface, 101 years old, was a complainant before Magistrate Nan mer in Brooklyn against his four sous, all men of middle age. He asked that the court compel them to contribute to his support. While trying to aid Ensign Charles Talley Blackburne of the battleship Kansas Rave a young woman fiom drowning In the Hudson river, a sailor, believed to be Eugene Audit of the Knnsas, was drowned. Edward T. Ho3enheliner, niaiiufuct uier, was Indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree, chnrged with being responsible for the death of Miss Grace llouuh. who was killed in an automobile ecl itiou in New York. The Jury In the cnie of T. V. Ilul soy. foimerly an otHcial of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph com pany, charged with offering u bribe to a member of the Schmitz board of supervisors, returned a verdict of not eullty. After living across the street from ench other for forty years, Frederick Dahms and Mary Andrecht of Pala tine. III., eloped to Arlington Heights and were married. Mr. Dahms Is sev enty years of age and his bride is m year ills senior Governor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma tnfoimed George R. Beldlug of Little Rock, seiretary of the Ar kansas Fair association, thnt ho de clined an Invitation to be present at tliH reception to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Little Hock, Oct. 10. A specific Instance of what condi tions exist In the prairie towns has Just been seen at Abilene, Kan. Hav ing voted to do $40,000 worth of pav Ing, it became necessary to float $10,000 In bonds. Fanners subscribed for tho Issue, paying more than outside in vestors were willing to offer. High Winds Do Damage Down East Sanbornville, N. IL, Oct. 3. For twenty minutes Wolfborn, twenty miles from here, was the center ot n cyclonic wind such as nevor before visited New Hampshire. It left In Its wake damaged houses and barns and uprooted trees. first view of air craft, and the first meeting of President Tafl's cabinet after NEBRASKA NEWS Secretarj floyse's Figures Show Gain In Stockholders. BOTH GLASSES ARE JOINING, Borrowing and Non-Borrowing Mem bers Take Part in Business of Cor. poratlons of State No Changes in Law to Recommend Schuyler Asso ciation in Hands of Receiver. Lincoln, Oct. 4. Secretary E. Itoysa " me state uauKiug ooaru nas com- vmva nis annual repot i oi me uuuu Ing and loan usboclatlon business ot Nebraska for the year ending June 20. Thirty associations were doing busi ness at that time. The report to too banking boaid shows a gain ot 2,by lu the number ot Lion owing stock holders for tho year, tho total nuuibei being 19,025. The' non-uorrow tiii, stockholders Increased from 31,770 tu 35,070, a gain of 3.90U. The touij number of stockholders of bctu f.imu lucreu3ed trom 4S.309 to C4.701, a gu.i. of G.392. At the end ot the rlscal ju;. the following facts are noted: Amount of leal estate loans In lorce $19,(543,C22.S2 Appraised value of real Cstate and improve- mtnts 43,513,"4b'.7. Amount of tire insurance assigned Amount of tornado insur ance assigned Amount of business done during the year At a cost of M 4dil)oLv 2 g7:,j;:j., lC.liol.Olti.co 210,7iiu.-, . Condition of Associations. Secretary ftoyse said In his report to the banking board: "Duringhe , year the Home Build ing and loan association of Beatrice went into voluntary liquidation, wound up its affairs and quit business. ''The remaining members of the Schuyler Building and Loan associa tion, which was in process of volun tary liquidation, found It necessary to place it in tile hands of a receiver to properly wind up Its affairs, and upon receipt by the state banking board of a request for such receiver, the nec essary steps were taken to have one nppointed and placed lu charge of the association. "I am pleased to congratulate you upon the growth and condition of the building and loan associations under your supervision, as shown by the ab stracts, summaries and comparisons on preceding pages of this report. "It Is no longer a question of the permanence of the building and loan association as a part of the financial Interests of the state, and the propor tion to which the aggregate resources have, attained clearly indicate the im portance of watchful supervision in tJl0r affairs and administration. This Is peculiarly true because of the fact that a class of people are affected j that can Illy afford losses from mis management or dishonest conduct of their affairs. "There is no doubt but the present building and loan law has had much to do with the development of these Institutions, giving them power and privileges enabling them to appeal to tho people for support. "I am not ready at this time to point out nny material changes to be made In the present building nnd loan law; however, It will naturally follow that with too rapid Increase of busi ness abuses will develop and restric tions become necessary that are ap parently not needed at this time." ARMY TOURNAMENT BEGINS Bridge Building and Demolition Event Is Feature of Opening Day. Omaha, Oct. 4. Thousands of sol diers of the United States army per formed intricate drills for the enter tainment of an equnl number of spec tators at the opening of the army tour nament today. A musical saber drill by the Seventh cavalry and a musical callsthenlc drill by the Fourth Infan try brought forth rounds of applause from the grandstand. In both drills tho troopers and infantrymen went through the performances as one man tn the music of Use regimental band3 Without any exception, tho bridge building and demolition event was the feature of the program. In fact. It la n veritable sham battle bultt around tho erection and destruction of a bridge by company K, Third battnllon of engineers. The number presented on n small scale the functions of the various branches of the service in their relations to each other In active operatirn, Irtsrurban Survey Delayed. Linco'n. Oct. 4. The survey author- 'xod by the Lincoln Traction company .'bettors lor .an lnterurban route be tween Lincoln and Auburn will not be mlertaken for some time yet. It was .lot r'?'re(: to stcrt the survey nt a time v'.:?n sirvejors would have to ',n through Tebis of giow'ng crops, be (n'i"c cf ti.e domatte and expense that would be ncc;.snry rnd as the season went by It was flnallv decided to put of)' the suivey until such a time as Mttle damage wl'l be done bv tho sur veyors in goiny: through fields. Nora Bank Robbers Escape. Nora, Neb., Oct. 3. Nuckolls county officers are still trying to obtain a clue to the men who robbed the State bank of ?3.200. Three explosions were required to opan the safe. The rob bers escaped bv holding the citizens at bay whllo tney decamped. WOMEN END CONVENTION New Rules Governing the Affairs of the W. C. T. U. raiioury, Neb. Oct. 3. The staM Vomen's Chrlstlai. Temperance union Ufin iln.?wl 'Pink wi uf'iln nrtnt'uittlnn I lino Livivu in tiv.iv uiuiv iii-iniJu ., will be hold at .Mi Cook the last week in September or the that week In Oc tober next year, 'lhe prinilral changes made in the constitution were tho elimination of the time limit of offi cers, the organization of the young people's branch, the entire responsi bility placed upon the superintend ents of departments, a member can not be considered a delegate to a con vention without credentials nnd a re ceipt, fiom the stato treasurer show ing th.'t county dues have been paid where lo'.ntles are not organized and trom county treasurers where counties are organized. ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK FAILS Robbers Blow Vault, but Are Unsuc cessful in Opening Strong Box. Oakdale, Neb,. Oct. 3. An attempt was made to rob the Antelope County bank. Burglars gained entrance to the bank through a rear door by breaking a heavy plate glass In the door. The vnult was blown open, but the safe, one of the new type and evidently too difflcu't to crack, was not disturbed Parties living near the bank say the dynamiting occurred about 3 a. m. The attempted robbery was not discovered, however, until morning. It Is reported I that nothing of value Is missing. Sheriff Miller was quickly on the' ground and everything possible Is be ing done to get a trace of the robbers. ' GIRL DROWNS IN PLATTE While on Bridge She Is Frightened by Man Into Jumping Into Water. Schuylor, Neb., Oct. 3. Miss Edna Kavan of Butler county, a girl of nine teen years, was drowned In the Platte river, two miles south of Schuyler. Miss Kavan was crossing the bridge aud there she was met by a section baud, who by his gestulations and talk Is said to have frightened her. While she was attempting to escnpe from him she fell Into the river. The man who frightened her was later ap pheheuded and Is being held in the county jail awaltlim the coroner's jury verdict. AGED MAN FALLS UNDER CARS! AlatUfflMN TftLLD UNU EH 0113 Lewis Booknau, Formerly of Custer, County, Dead at Hazard. Broken Bow, Neb., Oct. 3. Word has just reached here that I-ewIs Booknau, an old und respected former resident of this county, but late ot Lincoln, was ground to pieces at Hur urd by falling under the wheels of a moving freight train. He had been looking after some property at that place and was attempting to board a westbound train when the accident oc curred. Mr. Booknau owned much valuable property In Custer county. Several near relatives reside near Broken Bow at the present time. WYMOflE MiN'S CLOSE CALL A. Jacobs Rolls Under Train, but (a Pulled From In Front of Wheels. Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 1. A. Jncobs, a butcher from Wymore, narrowly es caped being killed at the Burlington sum. on. In attempting to board tho train he missed his footing and fell ngalnst the trucks nnd rolled onto tho i track. The baggageman grubbed him i and pulled him trom under the coach brfore Hip bind wheels passed over ! him. He sustained an ugly gash In ' the head and was severely brttlswl, J but otherwise escaped Injury. He was put on the train and taken homo. Thompson Not Resigned. I L-inroln, Oct. 3. Though Attorney Genetnl Thompson has been .orn tn ' as solicitor of the treasury depart ment' at Washington, ho has not yet severed bis connection with the legal department of the state. When ho left Mr. Thompson expected to return to Lincoln some time In October nnd wind up some cases in which the stato Is a party. He probably will not re sign until after election. This will obviate the necessity of the appoint ment of a new attorney general to serve until January, as the governor probably will appoint whoever Is elect ed In November to styve out the unex plred term. , j Condition of State. Treasury. Lincoln, Oct. 1. The report of State Treasurer Brian for the month of September shows the receipts of tho office to have been $230,279.80; payments, $323,097.93; balance in all funds, $55(5,140.86. The cash and cash Items on hand amount to $326,937, tho remainder being on deposit. The per manent school fund contained unin vested only $12,523. The permanent funds Invested amount to $8,787,340. Higher Switching Charges. Lincoln. Oct. 3. The railroads havo not yet formally notified the stato railway commission that they will ob ject to absorbing the increased switch ing charges which tho stock yards company has been permitted to make. The commission gave the companies until Oct. 17 to appear and object to the Increase and it Is the general un derstanding that they will object to bearing the burden Signals for Aerial Maneuvers. Chicago, Oct. 4. Signals for aorial maneuvers will be planned and ar raneed for this week by Glenn II. Cur tis? for the Chicago-New York aero plane race, which begins Saturday, for the -$30,000 prize offered by the Chi cago Evening Post and the New York Times. - . -v.-.---.- .- 0'DERS ARE DISOBEYED Six Killed in Second lnterurban Wreck In Indiana. Tipton, Ind., Sept- 2G. Disobedience to orders by the crow of a freight car is said to have been the cause of thu second lnterurban traction wreck within a week lu Indiana. The disas ter cost the lives of six persons, thu serious Injury of six more and severe hurts to a score. The dead: Walter Hotthouser, Brooklyn; Dr. It. C. Holthouser, Brook lyn; Verdel Rnllsback, Hynierla, Ind.; Joseph Baker, motorman on limited car, l-ogansport. Ind.; Lewis Broo, Kokomo, Ind.; B. F. Welsh, Marshall, Mich. Among the Injured was Charles Grace of Fort Des Moines, la., troop C, United States Infantry, nose cut and dislocated hip. A southbound freight car crashed head-on Into a northbound passenger car on the Indianapolis and Peru di vision of the Indiana Union Traction company shortly after noon, two miles north of this city. The freight car was in charge of Motorman Lacy and Conductor Sebre. The freight car, it Is said, had or ders to stop at the first switch north of Ressler's crossing, but tried to make the first switch south. A clump of trees hid the limited and the crew of the freight had barely time to jump to save their lives. The front end of the limited was shattered and all passengers In the smoking compart ment were killed. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS BOON! Million Dollar Msrk Is Passed During Eight Months Ending With August. Washington, Sept. 20. A boom 1 both directions swept both the imports and exports of tho country across tho billion dollar mark during the eight months ending with August. The Im ports were $1,033,100,000 and exports $1,027,400,000, against $947,000,000 and $989,100,000 respectlely for August in 1909. Though the Imports of most or the manufactured materials Increased, silk, wool and fibers fell back a little on account of the exceptionally heavy Imports of the preceding years. In exports unmanufactured cotton de creased by $1,300,000 to $192,500,000 and automobile exports increased i from 5.io.oo to $6,300,000, lMmber, leather, manufactures of Iron and steel, sewing machines, type- writers, scientific instruments, elec trical machinery, furniture, also In creased, while foodstuffs, including wheat, flour and meats declined. Dr. Hyde Files Appeal. Jefferson City, Mo., SepL 24. Attor neys for Dr. H. Clarke Hvde of Kan sas City, under life sentence in tho penitentiary for tho tnurdeKof Colonel Thomas S. Swope or Kansas City, fl!ei an appeal in bis case in the supreme, court. The caso will be docketed f' 'earing -'nrlug the January tera ot co-irt. which benns .7au. - ty .if. l
