The Frontier.
rum.lSlIKI) KVKI’.Y Til U ns DAY IIY
JAUES 11. maos, Editor and lb-op.
OBO. D. *1008, Aaaoolat* Editor.
A bill has been Introduced in the
lower bouse of the Iowa legislature to
They aro electing lllaltie delcgr.tcs in
Pennsylvania, and insist that the
plumed knight will he a candidate.
8bnator Paddock’s pure food bill has
, been reported favorably and is almost
certain to become a law. And it should.
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The year 1803 will be a prosperous
one for O'Neill. Keep your eye-glass
turned In the direction of O'Neill, and
watch her gait.
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There will be three Keeley institutes
In Nebraska when the one at O’Neill is
established. The other two are estab
lished at Blair and Beatrice.
Mr. Clarence Ski,aii will, by invita
tion of the club, read another paper on
the silver question at tho Republican
Club rooms on the evening of February
0, that being the date of the next regu
lar meeting. _ 1
The police of New York hnve arrested
a man named Henry G. Dowd, who, is
supposed to have committed the long
list ot murders that have been recorded
against "Jack the Slasher.” Hu bus
plead self-defense.
WB will have war with Chile. Wc
will not have war with Chile. And there
yon have the situation in a nut-shell, ns
outlined by the dally press. There is
nothing compulsory in the matter, kind
reader; you can take your choice.
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Chile's silence is becoming obnoxious
and the president, It is understood, has
given that government until February 1
it to say something. A war with Chile
would cost the government of the United
States several hundred million dollars.
The World-Herald slaps a double
leaded dose of taffy onto Mr. Bryan's
ambitious breast every day or two, and
Its latest is that the farmers of the west
endorse Mr. Bryan's opposition to the
Russian relief appropriation. The World
Herald editor has been dreaming again.
Sixteen of New York’s fairest and
most popular belles, whose ages aro al
* leged to be below the 10-year mark, will
on February 1 run a 130-yard footrace,
the winner to be awarded an elaborate
gold medal. The race will be run on the
boulevarde between Coney Island and
Brighton Beach.
Chairman Clarkson and General Al
ger called upon the distinguished secre
tary of state a few days ago to learn pos
itively whether or not he is a candidate
for the presidency. The secretary re
ceived them in his usual cordial manner
and talked with them for an hour or two
upon the political situation, but—
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The Democrats are very much wor
ried aa to who will be the Republican
candidate for the presidency- It is a
settled fact it will be either Harrison or
Blaine, and Republicuus generally aro
satisfied with the situation, as either of
the distinguished gentlemen mentioned
could carry the Republican flag to vic
; tory. Hurrah tor Uairisoni Hurrah
for Blaine!
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The Atkinson Plain Dealer brings out
the old chestnutty lie that the increased
- - ' duty on tin plats makes an increased
cost to consumers of $30,000,000 au
nually. Every consumer of tinware
knows well enough that the cost of the
. manufactured product has not been in
creased one iota since the passage of the
McKinley bill, and all this howl about
the Increased cost is simple soDhistry.
And the people will hardly be deceived
by it.
IIr Edison is successful with his scheme
beat-and light an ordinary dwelling
house for 60 cents per year, Tub Fiion
v tier is in favor of running him for the
* presidency, or anything else that he
wants. It makes the ordinary mortal
shiver to think of heating a dwelling in
Nebraska for the insignitlcant sum of 00
cents per year. Well might we inquire,
t “Whither are we drifting.’! But then
we will all be ready to drift as soon as
Mr. Edison says the word.
Walt Mason, the brilliant peot,
humorist and all-round journalist, whose
work a few years ago on the Lincoln
Journal made that newspaper so univer
. sally popular, is taking the Keeley treat
ment at Blair, and the hundreds of news
paper men throughout the country who
haye known and admired him for his
brilliancy and originality as a writer,
will unite in wishing that he may be
cured of the terrible drink habit which
fe\ ■ bas been a curse to him for so many
years. . _
P? The English and German papers now
freely admit that the McKinley tariff is
beneQttlng the United States, says the
Burlington Sawluye. It is only the
Democratic and Mugwump papers that
deny the obvious fact. But mere denial
wont count much Ion gcr. The republic,
Bader the Republican policy, not only
*r controls its own markets, but is rapidly
reaching out for the “markets of the
world." As long as our foreign com
i merce continues to increase it will be
uphill work to convince the people that
the tariff restricts trade.
Tiik New York Herald wants to run
Ilonry Watterson for president, and
says tliere is no doubt that be would be
tliu most universally popular candidate
that the Democrats could possibly name.
"Ho would secure," the Herald says
‘ beyond a doubt, the whole Clevelaud
vote and the whole Independent vote.”
This declaration virtually places the
Herald on record as being a free-trade
paper, and it also proves conclusively to
every candid person that it is the earn
est desire of the Democratic leaders—
the Cleveland wing at least—to form an
alliance with the Independent leaders
and wheel what votes they contiol into
line for free-trade. The Republican
party could ask nothing- better than to
have Ilenry Watterson, the avowed free
trader, at the held of the Democratic
ticket.
Ik the public bad no other means of
knowing the facts in reference to the
late McHridc Hkirving “contest” than
tho mention made of it by the Hun they
would know very little about it and
would be led to believe Mr. Hkirving
was not a citizen at the time of his elec
tion, but we believe the facts prove
otherwise. That is why The Fhontieh
made some comment upon the Sun’s
“four lino item.” Tiie Fhontieh agrees
with the Sun and tho “republican” that
Mr. John McBride is a gentleman and
we think he did tho gentlemanly and
sensible thing in stepping asitle without
making further protest.
Cuaduon Citizen: Congressman Owen
Scott of I ml i mm lias begun a tight
against the piloting of “special request”
envelopes at the bovcrmucut printing of
fice. Every country publisher who runs
a job oitice in connection with his news
paper, and most of them do, should do
all in his power to assist Mr. Scott in
this fight, and a demand should be made
on the Nebraska representatives to join
hands with him at ouco and never let up
until success crown their efforts.
Tub Item calls upon us to “tie loose
those dogs of war” and then immediately
this one of the “dogs" crawls into its
hole and pulls the hole in after it. Thu
Item prattlers, as well as a few others
hereabouts, know from experience that
the “thing that runs Tuts Fuontieu”
hus more backbone than is generally ac
credited to it. So far the Item prattlers
have done all the bluffing, and that is
their principal stock in trade.
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And so the Sun feels called upon to
take Up the cudgel for—well, it’s no mat
ter just now. The fact is simply this:
Tub Fiiontikii is the only paper in this
county that has dared speak out its own
mind, and the Sun is as much a truckler
as any of the others it mentions. The
fur may fly and it may not fly, Mr. Mc
Hugh. It all depeuds upon the other
fellows.
SPRINGER VS. JACKSON.
Congreeaman Spring
er, Chairman of
Wage ami Meant'
Committee, at Jack
eon, Dinner, Janu
ary S, 1892.
The country doe*
not need to be in
formed, by a bill for
ageueral revision ol
the tariff, what the
Democratic party;
desires to do upon]
this subject or what
it would do if the
law-making powci
were in the hands ol
our party.
One-lialf of the
tariff burden will be
lifted from the
shoulders of the peo
ple by placing wool on
the free list and mak
ing the correspond
ing reductions in the
duties on woolen
go'ds. A measure
thus affectin g so
largely the neces
sary expenses of the
people, so essential
to their health and
comfort, will not
fail to attract uni
versal attention and]
rectlve, when thor
oughly understood,
universal tupport.
Andrew Jackson in
his famous latter to
Dr. L. h. Coleman
of North Carolina,
April M, lSJlt.
Heaven smiled up
on and gave us lib
erty and independ
ence. The same
Provi ience has
blessod u6 with
means of national
independence and
national defense, lie
has filled our moun
tains and our plains
with minerals—with
lead, and iron and
copper — and has
given us a climate
and a soil for the
growing of hemp and
wool. These being
the great materials
of our national de
fense they ought to
have extended to
them adequate and
fair Protection, that
our manufacturers
and laborers may be
placed in fair com
petition with those
of Europe, and that
we may have with
in our country a sup
ply of those leading
articles so essential
to war. In short,
sir, we have been
too long subject to
the policy of British
merchants.
THE ATTACK ON EECIPKOCITT.
From the Cleveland News and Herald.
Congressman Breckinridge of Kentucky
has done the Republican party a service
in attacking the reciprocity clause of the
McKinley tariff law. No part of that
strong and excellent measure has proven
ihorc popular or beneficial than this. It
has not only appealed powerfully to the
popular sense of national greatness, but
has opened new and valuable markets
to our farmers and manufactures. By it
American enterprise and commercial
prowess have already been given new
advantages and gained a larger prestige
in nearly half the most important mar
kets on this hemisphere, and within two
months more it will have won such
other conquests in both Europe ami
America as will deservedly place it fore
most in commercial value and national
importance among all laws of a trade
character ever enacted by an American
congress. *
But Congressman Breckinridge thinks
the provisional grant of retalilory power
to the president unconstitutional, and
his party agree with him. Thus is not
surprising. The close constructionists
have persistently fought every notable,
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national advance in our history on the
same grounds. It was on such a plea
that the old Bourbon saint, President
Jackson, overthrew the United States
bank and so disturbed the finances of
the country ns to precipitate the panic
of 1837. The same cry was raised times
without number during the war to pre
vent the enactment or enforcement of
measures essential to the very existence
of the nation, hnd now it is one point of
attack not only upon reciprocity, but
upon the whole plan and principle of
protection. We take no stock in such
childish assertions of the rigidity of the
federal constitution. The fathers never
intended that honored' document to be
come a clog upon national progress and
development, and they distinctly, in the
first congress assembled under it, recog
nized and approved the theory of pro
tective tariff .legislation. Even if this
howl of Mr. Brcckenridge were more
than the outciy of petty obstructionism,
he and his party might well have post
poned this attark until the case now
pending in the supreme court of the na
tion, in which the very point raised bv
Mr. Breckinridge is at issue, had reached
a decision. The word of that body will
settle the matter in a way satisfactorily
to the country, and if Mr. Breckinridge
had had any faith in the justness of that
Democratic cause he would not havo
made this attack, knowing that, if the
court decided as the Democratic orators
argue, there would be no need for con
gressionai action, The resolution of Mr.
Breckenndge is. therefore, a confession
of weakness, and a notice to the countiv
that his party will attempt in the house
what it has no hope of securing from
the supreme tribunal of the country.
The pitiful weakness of this attack is
further shown by the instruction to re
port a reciprocity provision different
from that now existing, one that would
be, as Mr. Breckinridge admits, open to
the same objection of unconstitutional
ity, and that cannot, in the nature of its
provisions, prove other than a worthless
imitation of one of the greatest strokes
of diplomacy and statesmanship in our
history. It is plain from these facts
that the whole aim of the Breckinridge
resolution is to weaken the Republican
policy, which the Democrats recognize
to be the most popular and valuable now
before the country, and to gather, if
possible, a little reflex glory from its suc
cess and popularity. But the attempt
will deceive no one. It will only attract
public attention more closely to reci
procity and demonstrate more clearly to
the nation the value of this great and
noble policy originated and promulgated
by the Republican party.
The Figures For It!
From the Sioux City Journal.
There are those who are actual! de
ceived as to the per capita circulation of
the United States. It is the stock and
trade of demagogues or misinformed
men to prate about contraction of the
currency. The truth is that at no time
in more than thirty years has there been
so large a per capita circulation as there
is now, and it is increasing under pres
ent coinage laws far more sapidiy than
population, even if we admit that the
per capita amount has any great import
ance. The following table is official:
Cire n
Amount in per
Yr. eireuiat’n capita
1800.. $4W,407.252 $13,85
1861. 448.405.7W 10.98
1802.. 3:14.097,744 10.23
1803.. 595,304,038 17.84
1HM.. 009,041.578 19.67
1805.. 714,702,995 20.57
1860.. 673,488,244 18.09
1887.. 661,992.009 18.24
1868.. 680,103,661 18.39
18<»9.. 6iK.452.891 17.60
1870.. 655,212,794 17.50
1871.. 615,889,005 18.10
1872.. 7:18,309,540 18.19
1873.. 741.881,808 18.04
1894.. 776,08fi.03l 18.13
1875.. 754,101,947 17.16
1876.. 727,609,388 16.12
Ciro'n
Amount In per
Yr. utrculat'n capita
1877.. *722,314,883 *15.58
1878.. 7,79.132,034 15.33
1879.. 818.8:11.79:1 18.75
1880.. 973.382,228 19,41
1881.. 1,174,238,119 21.74
1882. 1,174,290,419 22,37
1883.. 1,220,305.690 22.91
1884.. 1.253.925.969.22.65
1885.. 1.292.568.615.23.02
1886.. 1.553.740.525.21.82
1887. .1,317,539,153 22.45
1888.. 1.372.170.870.22.88
1888.. 1.389,381.(49 22.53
1899.. 1.429.261.270.22.82
1891. .1.500,007,555 23.45
1892.. 1,588,781,720 24.52
raaaooK Declares Himself.
lu a letter to Col. Pearman of Omaha,
Senator Paddock has the following to
say about his candidacy for re-election:
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—Colonel
J. VV. Pearman, 2926 South Nineteenth
street, Omaha: Dear Colonel—On my
arrival here today I find yours of the 2d
inst. I have never indicated, to anyone
that I would not be a candidate for re
election. I have, however, frankly and
frequently said that my candidacy must
rest with the people themselves. If
they desire that I shall succeed myself, I
shall gratefully obey such a behest.
But 1 have also said, and I now say to
you, that I will not go through another
personal struggle, such as I have been
compelled to make three times in the past,
iumy own interest as a candidate. Ee
fore my successor is elected I will pre
sent the report of my stewardship, and
if. from the record of services rendered,
the people of our state shall elect to con
tinue me in their service, I shall grate
fully, and with my best ability, return
to the same, after my present term ex
pires. Faithfully yours,
1 A. S. Paddock.
Custer Leader: The editor-in-chief of
the court house syndicate sheet at
Merna, in its recent issue, sends forth
this: *‘If Nebraska was as ably repre
sented in the United States senate as it
is in the house of representatives we
might feel more than proud of our
Washington contingent. But Mander
son and Paddock are two of the worst
eases of mis-placed confidence on rec
ord. They are natural-born dead-heads.”
If Manderson and Paddock are not a
credit to Nebraska manhood and ability,
where in the name of God will our dis
grace end with such a representative as
Kem to father on the people of this sjate
and district! It-will he disgrace eternal.
"Scotty" Talks About "Car Joe.”
From the Lincoln Journal.
“Joe” Bartley of Atkinson, Holt
county, is understood to be a candidate
for state treasurer. It is said that the
Republicans of his county and those of
the adjoiuing counties are unanimously
for him and do not propose to allow the
candidacy of any one else from that sec
tion of the state for any other office to
jeopardize his chances for a nomination.
"Kvery last one of us,” said Barrett
Scott, county treasurer of Holt county,
“every last one of us up there are proud
of Joe, and recognize in him as true and
staunch a friend as walks on the top of
the footstool. Raised on a farm and
having undergone the hardships of fron
tier life, his heart beats in sympathy
with all deserving men, whatever may
be their occupation in life, so it be honor
able. Strictly honest himself, he deals
with others in a manner that inspires
their confidence aiul cultivates in them a
desire to deal honorably with others. I
will defy any bank in the state to show
a record that beats his. During his
eight years’ business as a banker in At
kinson, he has had an average of $50,000
loaned out all the time, and during the
entire period he has never foreclosed a
chattel mortgage, sued a man or spent a
dollar in attorneys’ fees.”
Don’t be Hard on Them.
From the Creto Vldetle.
Really, though, you could not blame
McKeighan and Kern for voting ngainst
the appropriation to transfer relief sup
plias to the famine stricken districts of
Russia, for how shallow their calamity
wails in congress would he in the light
of a train load of corn donated by their
constituents to the needy in foreign
lands! But these farmers will assist in
another kind of transportation exercise
next fall
Hake a Note of This.
From the Fremont Tribune.
And Kem and McKeighan voted with
Bryan against an appropriation for car
rying the free-will offering of the north
west to the starving Russians. All of
them aided the rebel brigadiers in their
little piece of spite-work ngainst a nation
that was in sympathy with the cause for
which the boys in blue fought. Perhaps
the boys in blue scattered over Nebraska
will make a note of this.
Interesting to Sheep Baisers.
From World-Herald Stock Notes.
Among the prominent stockmen at
the yards was seen L. P. Southworth,
one of Nebraska’s successful sheep feed
ers, who was on his return west from
Chicago. Mr. Soutliwoith is feeding
17,000 sheep at Ravenna and Shelton,
and reports their condition as being very
good. Plenty of straw was obtainable
this winter, hence feeders have but lit
tla difficulty in furnishing warm quar
ters for their stock and the cold weather
loses most of its effects on the annimnls.
Mr. Southworth looks for a very fair
market for mutton sheep this spring, as
not so many are being fattened this year
as last. Sheep feeders have been ser
iously handicapped heretofore in fatten
ing sheep, owing to the high price of oil
cake, an article extensively used for that
purpose, but Mr. Southworth solved the
problem of cheaper feeding to obtain
the same quality by substituting for oil
cake flaxseed meal and the seed itself,
and reports that his sheep have done
fully as well as when fed on the cake.
Feed of all kinds is much cheaper this
year and prices so far have been quite
satisfactory.
Anyone who looks into the crop statis
tics of the year cannot but he impressed
by the fact that the United States is the
most prosperous nation in the world to
day. The year just closed is unparalled
in its plenty here, and the comforts of
all the people were never so great in any
other nation as they are in America to
day. The corn crop of the country last
year aggregated 2,060,154,000 bushels, or
nearly thirty three bushels for every man,
woman and child in the country. The
wheat ctop was nearly teu bushels per
capita, and oats over eleven, so that as
a whole, fifty-four bushels of grain was
harvested last year for every person in
the country. Added to this was a large
potato crop, plenty of fruit, and fairly
good prices for everything. It is such
figures that make us more thankful we
live in the free aRd fertile land over
which float the stars and stripes.
Don’t be deceived by J. P. Mann’s big
advertisement. If you want good goods
at bed rock prices go to Roy & Mc
Gowan, Scottville.
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