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NORTH PLATTE,- JfEBRASKA, FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 23, 1896..
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GREAT CLEARlbG
Slaughter! Slaughter! Slaughter!
We have got to make room for our
immense line of Fall Goods and for that
reason will sell all of our goods at marvel
ous low prices lower than ever known in
Western Nebraska. ' 1
. Now is Your Chance! '
We positively will allow no one to
undersell us. Comparison solicited. Goods
freely shown.
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WEBER & VOLLMER, PROPS.
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If you are posted you cannot be deceived. We write
this to post you. SOLD ONLY BY
A I Fl A VI S The 6reat and 0nIy Hard-ware Man
A L UA T iQ9 n Lincoln Co, that no one Owes.
Full Line of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES, STOYE
PIPE, ELBOWS, COAL HODS, ZINC BOARDS,
etc., at Lowest Prices on Record.
NORTH PLATTE,
fllfEST SAMPLE ROOM. IN ITORTH PLATTE
Having refitted our rooms iq the finest of style, the public
v ; is invited to call and see us, insuring oourteous treatment.
Finest Wmes, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar.
Our billiard ball is supplied with the best make of tables
and competent attendants will supply all your wants.
KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE i'HE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT
SALE!
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You oan't find in these
United States the Equal
of the Genuine
Beckwith
' fecund Oak.
You may try; you'll get
left. Remember, it's the
combination of good points
that makes the Perfect
Stove. That's where we
get the IMITATIONS.
They can't steal the whole
stove. They steal one
thing and think they have
it all, but it FAILS. They
build another. It fails.
Still they keep on crying
good as the RQ J N D
OAK Some peculiar
merchants say they have
NEBRASKA.
WALLACE TUG ITEMS v
The people of North Platte are
firstclass entertaiuers.and the thou
sands who visited the city this week
will return to their liomes with
fonly pleasant memories. Those in
charge of the fair especially deserve
credit for the ability displayed.
Our fellow-citizen, J. O. Browuell,
was "touched" for about $10 while
standing in a dense crowd in the
Wild West side showr where he
went to inspect the fat woman and
the blue man. The pickpocket
overlooked 25 cents. Elmer Bundy
was eucheredout of SI by the "light
ning change" ticket seller.
Attorney Parsons of North Platte
addressed our people from a Chicago
platform standpoint last Friday
night. Owing to the threatening
weather his audience was not large,
but those who agreed with him
appeared to be pleased with his ef
fort. Mr. Parsons Undoubtedly
means well, but he lacks the mag
netism and depth which make con
verts. The attacks are being made upon
J. S. Robbins will not lose him a
vote. They are purely partisan,
coming from men who would not
support for any position anjr one cf
the millions of republicans in the
United vStates. The Tug has had
numerous opportunities to circulate
rumors not to the credit of Mr. Rob
bins' opponent,' but has steadfastly
adhered to the policy outlined in the
initial number. Mr. Robbins is
competent and worthy, and his de
feat cannot be accomplished b
abuse and misrepresentation.
THERE IS MILLIONs'ni IT.
Our western farmers are really
beginning to wake up to the im
mense possibilities of the beet sugar
industr', says the American Agri
culturist. The experience of the
factories at Watsonville, Alvarado.
Chino, Lehi, Grand Island and
Norfolk have silenced all critics.
The new factor' in the Pecos val
ley of New Nexico, about to begin
operation for the first time, will re
ceive a goocly tonnage of beets this
fall of a rich sugar content. 'This
whole sugar beet industry has
grown fqr beyond the experimental
state. It is an assured success
where once the industry gets estab
lished Now our western farmers need to
realise that there is far more for
them in the beet sugar proposition
than in the free silver idea. 4 Pro
tect the American market against
foreign sugar and our fanners will
at once be forced to giow this new
and profitable crop. However,
opinions may differ, according to
independent unlimited coinage of
silver, we have yet to find the man
who will gainsa' the position on
the sugar question.
This country has also tried the
experiment pt free wool. We want
no more of it. With protection
against foreign -wool, our western
states can supply the eastern wool
market and in time furnish woolfpr
export. So, too, with fruits, nuts
and many other articles of produce
now imported.
This is not politics. It is busi
ness for our western farmers to
make the most of the new and
growing industry of growing beets.
Unless they do this, other sections
of the country will get the business
away from them. The middle
south can raise beets of admirable
quality and a movement is already
on foot to interest capital in beet
sugar factories in Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and North Caro
lina. Even Arkansas is waking up
to the possibilities of this industry.
Should the November election give
an emphatic yerdict in favor of pro
tecting American farmers in their
home maket for $lCOfGOO,000 "worth
of this new crop, it is believed that
an ab'undance'of capital both from
this country and abroad will flow
into the sugar industry. We feel
most strongly in this proposition
and the more so since the actual
practical success
of the. factories
mentioned more than
confirms our
most sanguine expectations.
"From the gray summit of the
mighty peak which now casts its
shadow over us on to the rocky
coast of Maine, there is' but one
land., fed by the same dews, watered
from the same heaven and kissed
by the same suq. No stockade di
yides us. We are of one race, onp
destiny, one common and immortal
hope. In the century now dying,
we who are the inlieritors or the
liberties secured us by our fore
fathers, will build no "barriers ot
sectional hate to sunder us from
our brother whom we love, or to ex
clude from our , vision the hills and
valleys far away where our child
was nursed and our dead lie buried?'
Senator Wolcott.
mIkcus a. hank a.
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WHATj GREAT WORKERS IN LABOR'S
CAUSESAY OF HIM.
nigh Officers of the Association of Iroa
and Steel Workers Officers of the Ohio
BCiners' Union, the Scameu'a Union, and
Trades Assembly T. V. Puivderly oz
Deb'ased Money.
"No man, woman or child within the
state of Ohio shall be without food,
shelter' and clothing while I am gov
ernor." William MKiiley to 'the des
titute coal, miners, of Sunday Creek
Valley, 1833. " ;
As the Democratic managers have
spread all over the country the charge
that Mr. M. A. Hanna, chairman of the
Republican national committee, is un
just and despotic to his employes, a
number of well-known and very popu
lar men in labor circles have seen fit
to make the following answers to the
charges: j
President "William A, Carney's Investiga
tion. After a thorough investigation of the
charges made against Mr. Hanna in re
gard to the treatment of the men in the
Michigan iron mines controlled by M.
A. Hanna & Co., I am convinced that
.-.they are false and were made purely
for political effect. M. A. Hanna & Co.
were the first men in the Michigan
mining regions to give their employes
land, free of rent, on which to build
their homes, and it was done at the ex
press direction of Mark Hanna. His
is the only mining company which did
not reduce wages this summer.
There have been two strikes in this
district, one in 1890, on a question of
hours. The men in the Hanna mines
adjusted their differences with their
employer in a few hours and returned
to work. The second strike, in 1896,
on a question of wages, did not origin
ate in the Hanna mines, but the men
there were compelled to walk out. They
returned to work three weeks before
the strike was ended. The property of
the other mines was protected by state
troops, but no troops were needed to
protect the Hanna property.
WILLIAM A. CARNEY,
President of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and SteelWorkers and
Ex-President of the American Feder
ation of ."Labor.
The President -or the Ohio State Trades
Assembly Spoaks.
I had charge of an investigation of
the marine interests of Ohio, made un
der the auspices of the 6hio bureau of
labor statistics, in 1894. My inquiry
went back for twenty years, extending
beyond the time of the trouble between
the Lake Carriers' association and the
Sailors' union. There was no evidence
found in the course of this investiga
tion to show thai Mark Hanna had any
part in the difficulty then existing be
tween t,he sailprs and their employes.
' . T-L, LEWIS, N
President Ohio State Trades Assembly
and Secretary Ohio Miners'. ITnlon.
Kicharil Powers of the Se.nn'nS Union.
Knowing the history of the Lake Sea
men's union from its organization to
its pi-esent, and participating in its
struggles when to do so involved dan
ger and sacrifice, I can truthfully as
sert that never in all this time, nor at
any other, has that organization had
any trouble with Mark A. Hanna. All
assertions to the contrary, are false
hoods, manufactured for political erfect
and wit?! a desire to mislead working
people, and I denounce them as such.
Yours truly,
RICHARD POWERS,
Ex-President Seamen's Union.
Mr. Hanna rays the Highest Wages.
The statistical investigation of the
workshops and factories for the city
of Cleveland, made by the labor bu
reau, was under my direction. The
reports 'based upon this inquiry are on
file in Columbus, and they will show
that Mr. Hanna paid the highest stand
ard wages for labor performed in in
dustries in which he was interested.
" T. L. LEWIS,
Presidont Ohio State Trades Assembly
and Secretary Ohio Miners' Union.
T. V. Powdcrly on Depreciated Money,
When labor was scare and wages
high in England, in Qitf sixteenth cen
tury, persevering efforts were made to
oppress the working classes, but laws
could not reduce the wages of labor;
t' king, backed by parliament, the
nouility, the. army, all the power lodged
in the crown 'and eeepter, could not do
it, but debased money did it. It made
miserable slaves of men, women and
children. Do the worjtingmen wish to
call down upon themselves and their
families all this suffering by voting in
the interest of the owners of a few sil
ver mines? T. V. POWDERLY,
Ex-President Knights of Labor.
PATENT PLAN OF PROSPERITY.
There is a cheerful frankness about
the Bryan plan of "prosperity for 'thc
plain people." The Wrmuk Is simplic-.
ity itself. Everybody is to be, made
happy by raising prices.
The old notion tha.t tfoo more a man
could get for his money the better it
was for him, is, it seems, exploded.Four
years ago Mr. Bryan and every Demo
cratic speaker grew eloquent about the
advantages of free trade that would
make lower prices for all the neces
saries olife.
Now they are playing a different
tune. They have found a new way to
benefit "the plain people." The price
of bread and butter shall be doubled.
The dollar shall buy less meat. Cloth
ing shall cost twice as much. Savings
bank deposits when they are drawn
out to be spent shall have only half
their present purchasing power. If
a foreign-born citizen who is doing
well in this country wants to send 3
passage ticket to his brother in he old
country to enable him also to come out
here and settle, the ticket shall cost
him $60 Instead of $30, and that will
surely gladden "his heart,
Truly, this is a groa scheme. It la
to be carried through by such a sim
ple process, too. Instead of putting
100 cents' worth of value into the dol
lar we. shall only put 53 cents' worth
into it. Dollars being worth less, every
body will want a larger number of
them for the same amount of goods and
that will bring us at once into the
happy land 'of higher prices and gen
eral good times.
There is no doubt that It will work
that way. too. It has been tried many
times in many countries and it has
never failed. It was never known to
fail. We tried it ourselves in war times.
We made fiat dollars because we had
to do it to save the Union. Those em'ejr-
"gency dollars were not as good as gold
dollars and everybody "caught on" to
the fact in short order. They wanted
more of them because they knew they
were worth less.
Prices rose. In 1S60 flour cost $8.25 a
barrel. By 1S66 it had risen to $16.25 a
barrel. Butter sold for 17 cents a pound
in 1860 and rose to 55 cents-in 1866. Cof
fee went up from 12 to 43 cents a pound
in the same six years. Coal jumped
from $4 to $10 a ton. Carpets that were
bought for $1.20 a yard in 1860 brought
$3.50 a yard in 1S64. The prices, more
than doubled all along the line.
But what about labor? Wages rose,
but only 48 per cent, at the last and
highest point. While everything else
doubled or trebled' wages never once
overtook or even approached the leap
ing prices for the necessaries of life.
The laboringman was a heavy losei
by greenback inflation. He would as
certainly be the loser by free silver in
flation. When the Democratic orators were
calling for lower prices by lowering the
tariff in 1892 they were demanding a
cheapening of goods at the expense ot
American wages, and for the benefit ol
foreign manufacturers. Now they are
demanding higher prices through a
flood of cheap dollars and again
at the expense of American wages. It
is a hollow humbug and the American
Avorkingmen see through it. They made
the mistake of taking a dose of the
Democratic medicine in 1892. They will
not repeat the same treatment. Co
lumbus (O.) State Journal.
THE WORST OF ALL.
One of the meanest things about
Bryan is his sectionalism. Ignoring
the brotherhood of man, in all that it
implies of the very highest civilization,
he steadily strives to make one class
in the community hate the other class.
He would fain incite the man who has
a dollar in his pocket to be filled with
envy, hatred and malice as he contem
plates the man who has two dollars
and similarly to inflame the man who
has two dollars against a man who has
four dollars, and so on. The Journal
of Commerce, after promising that
"there is a divine spark in some dis
content, it is discontent which has
made the United States the richest
country in the wprld," comes down
hard on the discontent and the conse
quent hatred which Bryan and his fol
lowers preach. It says:
"The discontent which the Bryanites
seek to arouse is the discontent ot
mobs and of the criminal classes; the
discontent which leads a man o try to
take something from others. Success
ful men excite their envy; they dislike
them;- they call them names; they try
to think up schemes that would add
nothing to the total wealth of he com
munity but that would take some of it
away from those who have it. Of course
they would prefer to have what is ta
ken from others given to them, but
they w aid rather see It destroyed than
possessed by others. This envy of the
possessions of others, this, discontent
with the success of others, this mean
disposition to attribute one's failure or
very moderate success to the great
success of some oife else, is the senti
ment which Bryan and his assistants
find it most congenial and believe it Is
most helpful to them t evoke. We
believe they are entirely wronjr. and
that the proportion of the American
people who can fee moved except to dis
gust by these appeals is not large. Tho
American has always been distin
guished by his determination to better
himself, but he has always despised
mean efforts to thwart some one else.
We are not prepared to believe that
the national character has suddenly
changed."
The Journal of Commerce is right.
Its utterance breathes the true, brave
American spirit. Bryan will discover
on election day that the national char
acter has not changed. Rochester Post
and Express,
THE POOR AGAINST THE RICH.
The ignoble but deliberate attempt
made by Bryan and Altgeld to array
the west against the east, the farmers
and workingmen against the bankers
and capitalists, the unprosperous
against the rich, in their own phrase,
"the masses against the classes," is the
last resource of a desperate case. That
it cannot and will not succeed is as
certain as that the sun shines, but it
is no less a menace to the good order
of society and should receive the se
verest condemnation at the polls.
The American people are not that
kind of people. We have not been so
bred and taught. There are no classes
in this country in any proper sense of
that term, though Ave sometimes use
it for convenience sake. But there is
no class here, as in Europe, into which
one is born, and in whicli, as a rule, he
must remain through, Hfe. The. son of
a laborer may aspire to the highest
station and reach it; the son of a rich
man niay- die in poverty and obscurity.
With us no insurmountable barrier
stops the progress of any man who has
the Will to dare and the ability to do,
and every boy is born with the belief
that he may one day reach the pres
idency. The farmer's son "becomes the
great merchant or banker of the city.
While the son the capitalist not infre
quently seeks the country.
There is no division line that keeps
any one out of any class, and the rich
are constantly being recruited from the
ranks of those who are in the humbler
walks of life.
What hope can there be, therefore
for demagogues who preach discontent
to the poor and unprosperoys, or- seek
to array class against class when they
recognize their own kinship and ac
knowledge a common origin? It is
useless tp tell the farmer that Wall
street s his enemy when he knows that
his son or his brother is one of the men
thus denominated. The poor man of
today expects .that he or his son will be
the rich man of tomorrow, and why
Should he treat as his enemies the men
with whom he hopes to associate?
Americans have no patience with
such teaching, and they have always
stamped it under foot. It is un-American
and unpatriotic. It belongs to
lands where hereditary classes rule. It
has no footing on American soil. Chi
cago Tir-i3-H--A
The free trade cloud is not divested
of any of its bad features because Bry
an is trying to give it a silver lining.
It is black and ugly and full of mischief.
' and American workingmen. are not
likely to become enamored of It. San
Francisco Chronicl
The. parades & Chicago were not
quite 6. o L hut they were at least" 6
o. Jn favor of sound money. Des.
I Joines Register.
A TERRIFIC
UPSETTING OF
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- A tiold, determined move to make Fair
week the busiest week this yearYi V-
STeyer were we so bountifully supplied with bargain
ammunition. Now is the time' to buy, when you can
choose from hundreds of special purchases too good to
last long. Not in our-6 years' experience have such alL
around low prices prevailed.
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Our shelves in this department are overloaded with Dress Goods,
Flannels, Ginghams; Prints, Sateens, Muslins, Table Linens, Towels,
Handkerchiefs and Sundry Notions.
OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT.
Everybody knows that this department is the largest and best as
sorted of any in the city. We are receiving uew and up-to-date styles !
everyday. Call and see them. fc
CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
Tins department is filled to overloading in Jackets, Capes and
Cloaks in all sizes and prices. . '".--
TRUNK DEPARTMENT. - . -
We have one of the largest line of trunks in the city, all kinds. I
Lowest prices. ,
Clothing and Gents' Burnishing Goods.
A fine line of Clothing, Shirts, Neck-wear,. Overalls, Blouses,. '
Suspenders, etc.
Give us a call. Ask to see in all departments, and do not be'
afraid to ask prices. - S-
Yours for business, " " :
THE ITAiIR, ' '
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