THE ALLIANCE HERALD
I,IX)YI) 15. THOMAS, HiiMiicks Manager
JOHN W. THOMAS, lIltor O. K. MAYNAHI), City i:litr
K. CATIIEMNE MOOIIE, F.dltrrss Social Department
Published every TliurwUy by
TMl HURALU PUBLMINQ COMPANY
Incorporated
Lloyd 0. Thotnas, President J. Carl Thomas, Vice Pre.
John W. Thomas, Becretary
Entered at the post office at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through
the malls as second-class matter.
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torily, you should phone 340 or drop a card to the office. The beBt of serv
ice la what we are anr!ous to give, so don't hesitate to notify us without
(lay when you miss your paper.
WILL BE REMEMBERED
Quotation from Michael Monohan, according to Doc Bixby in
Daily Drift; Henry Ford's efforts to end the war may fail of their
object and they may not gain for him the Nobel prize, but he will be
honored and remembered for his humanity when some of the loudest
who now ridicule him shall sleep under a triple veil of oblivion.
"PREPAREDNESS"
As indicated in the editorial in tins issue under the caption,
"Whv The Herald Is Democratic," the question of preparedness, as
it is called, is not now, and probably will not become, a party issue.
In the republican camp we find the widest possible differences of opin
ion on tl:- subject, and no one's republicanism is questioned on ac
count of this lack of agreement. These, differences run all the way
from the war-like attitude of ex-President Roosevelt to the Quaker
belief in noiircsislance. If democrats are wise, they will not question
each other's democracy because ot differences on this nonpartisan is
gue. Before the outbreak of the European war, democrats in general
opposed increasing the size of the standing army and the expenditures
of the government tor armament, while in the republican party there
was ti strong sentiment, in favor of it. This is simply stating a fact
with which most readers of this paper are, no doubt, familiar.
MR. HOWARD APPROVES HERALD SPECIAL EDITION
"We are pleased to acknowledge receipt of the following letter
from S. H. Howard, immigration agent of the Burlington railroad, re
garding the special edition of The Alliance Herald issued on Febru
ary 24, with special reference to the North Platte Valley:
'Teriult me to congratulate you on your last edition of The
Herald. I believe this issue will be a powerful aid in drawing
more people to Alliance during the new Land Drawing. I am en
closing herewith a list of nameH of people who have Inquired at
this office during the past two or three weeks regarding the North
Platte Valley lands. I should like to sen a copy of The Herald In
the hands of each one of these if possible."
Tn answer to the above letter we sent, the following reply:
"In accordance with your request, we are forwarding in sin
gle wrappers today to each of those on the list sent us, a copy of
the edition mentioned.
"We feel that The Alliance Herald, in older to keep its title
of the leading western Nebraska newspaper, should devote much
time and sp-ice to the different interests of this end of the state
and letters like yours ltmke us feel that our efforts In this line ore
doing some good. The agricultural edition which we published
on February 3 wns distributed widely, and the Agricultural Exten
sion Bureau of the Stat University used 500 copies for distribu
tion in counting which have no county agent.
"Western Nebraska needs more fanners. The Ilurlington
railroad can help till this need. The people of this end of the
i state appreciate your courtesy in coming out here the first of this
week to confer with them regarding plans for bringing in new settlers."
the same, or would be, if under the former public officials could and
would always ascertain the will of a majority of the people? and dis
charge tin ir ofiicial duties accordingly. Unfortunately it sometimes
happens that those fleeted to office by the people fail, owing to the in
fluence of their immediate surroundings, to ascertain the wishes of
their constituents, or, knowing their wishes, evade them for selfish
reasons. There are some, even in this country, who believe that the
rank and lile of the people are not ocmpetent to pass upon questions
of public polity and that it is not safe to trust their conscience where
issues of a moral nature are to be settled. They prefer to trust the
judgment and conscience of a select few rather than of the many.
The Herald believes most emphatically that it is safe and right
in matters of government to trust the common intelligence and the
common conscience of an enlightened citizenship.
"There's nothing in a name," sometimes, but it happens that the
difference between the republican and the democratic parlies of the
United States may be defined, in a general way, as the difference be
tween government by a select coterie of statesmen and politicians
and government by the people as a whole, the difference between
what has come to be known in recent years as reactionary and pro
gressive principles. To be sure, there are, individually, some splen
didly progressive republicans, and some who are known as democrats
are reactionary in their personal belieis. It is absurd to condemn or
disparage a person merely because he affiliates with any political par
ty, or to commend another person tor no other reason than that he ad
heres to another party ; but in general the above line of demarcation
indicates the cleavage between the republican and democratic parties
of this country.
The fundamental difference between the democratic and repub
lican parties is not their disagreement on the tariff question: that is
only an incidental difference. The question of "state's rights", as it
is called, is not an issue, as a few mossback stump speakers still try
to make us believe : that question was settled for all time at Appomat
ox. Hut the question of the rule of the people is still an issue. As
the democratic party takes the side of the people, as in the popular
nomination of candidates by primary elections, the election of United
States senators by a vote of the people of the states instead of by the
state legislatures, the nomination of presidential candidates by pri
mary elections (only a preferential vote yet), direct legislation by
means of the initiative and referendum, getting office holders in clos
er touch with the people and more responsive to their wishes and de
mands by means of the recall and other practical reforms, The Herald
is in politics, and will continue to be, democratic.
When You Know
What Is Best, Ask
for it by Name
Hy .1. li. HAMILTON
Former Advertising Manager of Wanamakers, Philadelphia
WilliM
can
All Ready!1
Before you take your car out on the
road, look well to your storage battery.
Bring it to us and we'll tell you what it
needs for Spring.
AI.I.IANt i: IXK TKICAL WOUKS
Alliance. (Phone- ."()) Nebraska
Free inspection of any battery at any time
If a man has anything; b- is proud of, he given it a name
whether it be a baby or a pair of Imots. Ami the more lie is piwA
of it, the more he talks about it.
Xnmeh'ss things art' seldom good, and never reliable. If y
want to rut down your cost of living the very best way to do it is
to learn to ask onlv for standard articles.
When you know the name of a good maker of shirts or shoes,
of furniture or pianos, of hardware, or underwear, fix that name
definitely in your mind and remember it when you come to buj.
Do not allow strange things to eonie into your home an
more than you would allow strange people.
The brand and the trade-mark ami the copyright are the let
ters of introduction from the Maker to you. In this way he
vouches for their respectaT 'lliy and guarantees their good be
havior in your home.
There is a name for every good product that is made. And
most of these names art1 known to every man and woman in
America. Manufacturers have spent hundreds of millions of dol
lars to standardize these names in your mind. From the lining
of a dress to a laundry soap; from a cleanser to a baking powdery
from a suit of clothes to a kit of tools; you could rail every stand
ard article on the market by name if you would only remember
to do so when you rome to buy.
It is through your carelessness that lies and adulterations
creep in. The standard is set by good men, but the standard
only maintained by you.
It is time for you to forget the generic name of every article,
and remember only the standard name of its quality.
In the advertising news of this paper today you will find
many of these standard names and brands of quality. This article
is written for the sole purpose of rema hiding you to use thone
names. It is only fair that you should do as much for these good
manufacturers as they are doing for you. It is only right that
you should help in this great standardization of good products
that is going on throughout America.
Hegin now to ask by name for everything you buy. And yo
will find your satisfaction growing greater day by day aud your
optimism extending even down to your po ketbook.
(Copvriulitrd
THE HERALD WAN! AD DEPARTMEN7
; THE GROUNDHOG AS A STANDPATTER
The Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram, of February L'G, eon
tamed an editorial on "The Groundhog's Error," in which his royal
nibs, the woodchuck, was criticized lor not improving his habits in
keeping with modern hygienic research, and incidentally a little
thrust is made at standpat statesmen for not keeping in touch with
present-day, progressive movements. As will be seen by reading the
editorial, which is printed below, it was written during the February
warm spell, just before the last cold snap set in:
In staying In hit winter quarters the past week or so the
groundhon has detled all the rules of hygiene. He ought to get
out in the sunshine and take dome exercise. lie. could at least
sleep on the Bleepiim porch and take a cold bath before breakfast,
like the other liars. If he would do this a little while he wouldn't
find It necessary to go into his hole and Htay there for six weeks.
If the groundhog were afliliated with the republican party he
would be a standpatter. He would want to let well enough alone.
In the same spirit the standpatter manifests, the groundhog says
that his father, hi grandfather and all his ancestors back to the
time of Noah's Ark have come out of the ground on February 2 to
see what the prospects were. If they didn't serin just right, they
went back and Blept for six weeks. It couldn't be, the groundhog
says, that all that noble line of ancestry were wrong, and he is sat
isfied to follow in their footstep. He doesn't believe in new de
partures anyway. He doesn't believe the signs would work if he
catre out an I looked around on February 1 or February Goiim
back into his iu:r(ers and bein; oblivious to oat her conditions
for six weeks In really doesn't know that weather signs fail about
half the time. And, like the Mandpattei , it is so nice to lie in a
comfortable, warm bed anil snooze without disturbing one's self
over distracting tilings.
It Is obvious that the groundhog's system is a bad one. He
has been asleep, now, since February 2, and in the meantime he
haB missed the genial warmth of the sun, he has not seen the glor
ious cerulean tints of the skies at Bunrise and sunset, he has not
heard the song of the robins at daybreak, be has missed the in
vigorating air, and has been a stranger to that ecstatic sensation
when i here are thrills in veiu and muscle from exercise iti the open
air on a bright day after long confinement lu close quarters. No
doubt he has rheumatism, too. and is a confirmed pessimist.
Oh. groundhog, you Btaudpatter, get out into God'a Out-nf-Doors!
If you come out only on February 2 and see your shad
ow, what else but shadow can you expert if you hike into a hole
where the sun never shines!
KATES: The charge for bott
regular ana special editions is lc per
word per insertion, six words to th
line.
Advertisers so desiring may havt
answers to tueir advertisement ad
dressed to a box number, care of Th
Herald.
Advertisements charged to patroni
having accounts are measured by the
line, not by the word.
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sponsible for more than one wrons
Insertion due to typographical error
No claim for error can be allowed af
ter the 10th of the following month
Any advertisement Inserted to rur
until forbidden must be stopped bj
written order.
WANTED AGENTS
WANTED One of the large mag
azine publishing houses desires to
employ an active man or woman Id
this community to handle a special
plan which has proven unusually pro
fitable. Good opening for right par
ty. Address with two references.
Publisher, Hox l.j.".. Times So,. Sta.
New York City.
i2-2t-t;ao
WANTED- Young men from eigh
teen to twenty years of age wanted
to solicit business for a local com
pany with a proposition that will
make good money. Address Box
6620. care Alliance Herald, giving
full particulars.
12-tf-6620
WANTED
WANTED Good second-hand roll
top desk for store use. Inquire of B
E. Johnson. Hemlngford.
12-2-6639
These little ads
Are Genuine Business Getters
They are at your service. Use them.
They reach more homes than any similar department prun
ed in Western Nebraska.
May be an opportunity among these ads for you today.
Head and see. Might be money in your pocket to place an ad
in next issue.
Use Your Phone Call 340
Only He per line Count 6 words to the line
from town east of Alliance. Will seli
cheap. Address Box 6166, care Alli
ance Herald, Alliance, Nebr.
51-tf-6166
FOR SALE At Herald office. M
papers. 5c per bundle.
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED Every reader of The
Herald to form the habit of reading
all the ads. It's a "Mutual Benefit"
proposition.
WORK WANTED by competent,
able-bodied man. Will clean lawns,
ruu errands and do any work.
Wm. C. Garland. Phone 34 0.
n-tf-67if.
WHY THE HERALD IS DEMOCRATIC
"We hold tkctie truths to be self evident, that all men are created
equ;d." In this quotation from the preamble to the Declaration of
Inrtpcndcno , is found the key to The Herald's democracy; but to
make the point even plainer by quoting from President Lincoln's Get
tysburg hpeeeh, we believe in "A government of the people, for the
people, and by the people." We believe in the capacity of the people,
in an enlightened country, for self government ami their right to ex
ercise it. - -
Under inonarchial and hcaurocratie form of government, it i j WANTED Dressmaking by the
assumed that it is right ami necessary for public affairs to be admin-,'"'- Have no objections to going out
ifitered by a feelcot few. If in any degree the common people are giv-jt town. Phone ion. or cull at 419
en a voice io suck matters, the power of veto is retained by some per- .Cheyenne. Mrs. L. c. Shaw,
son or persons wkose position is secured aud maintained by heredity 1 14-tf-t7ot
or some method of selection other than popular election. ' "
In a republic, laws are enacted and the government administered ' stokf. Ktu SAl.r.
by representatives chosen by the people ; in a iure democracy, that is j Good busmess; tow n small but
. government absolutely democratic, the laws are enacted by direct 'growing; in a prosperous agrlcultur
Tote of the people and administered by ofticers who are directly amen- :al "d stock raising country. Only a
able to the peoplft a8 a whole. (cash deal considered. DOVE K CO.,
Bepubliean and democratic forms of government are practically 14-4t-667T Angora, Nebr.
WANTED A cook at the Com
mercial Hotel, Hyannfs. Nebr. A. B.
Hosmnn, proprietor.
IS -1M-8679
HOME WANTED for three child
ren, two boys and one girl, ages from
three to six years. Prefer home with
elderly ouple without children. Will
pay reasonable for same. Might con
sider woman to keep house. Address
with full particulars, Hox 6633. Alli
ance Herald.
12-tf-6633
MEN WANTED
B. C. Johnson. 172 N. Halsted
street, Chicago, 111., president of the
largest concern of its kind in the
world, wants three or four men in
Dox Butte county and several men in
adjoining counties, to work for him
spare time or all the time. He can
use only those who have a rig or
auto. Work is very pleasant and no
previous selling experience 1b neces
sary. Work consists of leaving a
wonderful new household necessity
in the homes on free trial. Tests at
more than thirty of the leading Uni
versities and the U. S. Government's
Bureau of Standards show this new
article to be four times as efficient as
I article now in general use in this
section. Article is needed in every
rural home and benefits every mem
ber of the household, bringing cheer,
comfort and happiness into the home.
Not necessary to be away from home
nights. Pay from $6 to J 15 per day
according to ability and number of
homes visited. In writing Mr. John
son, mention what townships will be
most convenient for you to work in;
what your regular occupation is;
your age; married or single; how
long you have lived in the commun
ity; what kind of a rig or auto you
have; whether you wish to work
spare time or steady; how much time
you will have to devote to the work;
when you can start, and about how
many homes are within six miles of
you in each direction. This is a
splendid opportunity for several men
in Box Butte county and counties ad
joining to make good money, working
steady or spare time. Some of the
field men earn $300 per month; one
farmer earned $1,000.00 working
spare time only. No investment or
bond necessary.
14-3t-6682
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY for
man with small amount of capital im
get into good, paying business ks
western Nebraska. Prefer man wltfc
some experience in farming. Must bs
steady and reliable. Addrem. with
particulars. Box 6645, care AlUai
Herald
12-tf-664S
BIDS WANTED The two-story
frame residence building at the
northeast corner of Fifth street and
Niobrara avenue will be sold to the
highest bidder within the next thirty
days. The board of directors re
serves the right to rejeel any or all
bids. Odd Fellows Building Associa
tion. A. D. Rodgers. president;
Lloyd C. Thomas, secretary.
14-tf-6714
FOR SALS
FOR SALE Good, paying butch
er Bhop. Good location and steady
business at good prices. Address box
6406, care Alliance Herald.
9-tf-6406
TmT7uoMn7o1j
Good location. Electric lights and
city water. Price reasonable. Phone
643.
FOR SALE Card board in white
and colors, at The Herald office.
' pTanofTiTsaTep
ToTTTATEnrRDEnw
ful six-cylinder automobile. Will sel
cheap, or trade Call or write Th
Herald office.
l-tf-6568
'"inixiMjmsiME
820 acre relinquishment, four miles
MONET TO LOAN on real estate.
Apply to 11. M. Bullock, Room 4.
Reddish Block. Alliance.
6-tf-6307
riECOHD FOIPrnjUNMEW
Railroad men can secure a very use
ful book at The Herald office. It la a
dally time book for trainmen and en
glnemen. The price la reasonable.
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MOVKrXKNlTUUB
We have equipped our dray wag
ons and ante truck with the latest
appliances for moving furniture
without marring or scratching or
damage. Up-to-date wagon tada
will be used by us on all moving Job
JOHN R. SNYDER, Phone 16.
S7-tf-6950
Office blank and blank loose-leaf
books for sale at The Herald effloe.
Phone S4t and a representative wW
ealL
Buy yoar receipt books, legal
blanks, blaak Botes, all kinds of
blanks at The Irerald office. Price
Money to loan oa real estate,
" r. H. REDDIBK.
MONEY TO LOAN On Box Bottr
county land and ranches In the sand
hills. No delay in making the loan;
we inspect our lands and furnish the
money at once. J. c. McCorkle, Mo
Corkle Building. Alliance, Nebr.
l-tf-6554
Persistence ia the cardinal rir
tue in advertising; no matter how"
good advertising may be in other
respects, it must be run frequent
ly and constantly to be really stk-cecafttf.