The Frontier. PUM.ISllKP EVERY THURSDAY IIY THK FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY. W. p. Mathkws, Editor. STILL ANOTHER. Two Now Members of The Frontier Printing Company. CLYDE KINO. U. U. vllONTN. It I* a chilly week when O’Neill news papers do not experience a change, This has been every pleasant week. With this Issue the "Kids"—of Item fame— greet Frontier readers with a likeness of each youth, and by the honesty dis played on those noble brows above Mate that they are "here to stay.” The new members of The Frontier Printing Company will sling the local qufll and manage the affairs of the office. Bus! ness will be carried on at tho old stand, whsre we will be pleased to meet anyone who may have business with a news paper or job office. "We are the people and must be re spected."—Mr. Harrington. A nox of Ilolt county supervisors would make a valuable addition to Ne braska’s exhibit at the World’s Fair. In their efforts to clean the Augean stable*,' our demo-alliance friends should be eerr careful that there is no manure in their own stalls. Scott to Hayes: “Rhody, I charge thee, fling away ambition; by that sin fell the augels; and how can man, the image of his maker, hope to win thereby.” f Welcome to Doc Mathews, who has .. returned to his first love—the newapa F perial field. The two O'Neill republican newspapers—Tub Frontier and the Item—have been consolidated and Doc is the editor-in-chief. He will make things hum for the republican party this summer.—Hemingford Guide. Tub two republican papers at O'Neill, '' Tnn Frontier and the Item, have been consolidated and W. D. Mathews will be the editor. Doc has always been con sidered one of the brightest and most successful newspaper men in this part of t the state, and by this consolidation finds himself at the head of one of the best newspaper properties in the state.— Neligh Leader. The reaction in establishing two newspapers in towns where but one could exist with profit, or one where none should be Issued, is setting in as an inevitable consequence of such digres sion of Judgment. At O’Neill last week two of the best newspaper plants in Horthein Nebraska—Tub Frontier and the Item—were consolidated and ’will now be issued under the manage ment of The Frontier Printing Com pany.—Randolph Times. Milton E. Free has deposited $100 with the Bee as the nucleus of a fund to be Used in providing treatment of men addicted to the alcohol habit who are -v unable to pay the expenses for them selves. He has set an example worthy of emulation and the Bee hopes other persons who believe in extending a hand to the victims of dipsomania will send in contributions. This is a practi cal charity and the instances in which habitual drunkards have been cured are ■ so numerous in our midst as to relieve ;i« the charitably disposed from all doubt , as to the efficacy of the treatment pro posed.—Omaha Bee. Thd paper will pay a liberal price for one of those large, round, juicy tears Which was shed by Farmer Harrington * last Saturday afternoon, when, in one of his sympathetic paroxysms, he pictured the suffering of the starving and rag ged tax payers of Holt county in their pitiful efforts to pay their taxes into the county treasury, only to have them ap propriated to the personal speculation and aggrandizement of the county cor • morants. The only condition that we \ wish to stipulate is that it be mounted OB the gentleman’s railroad pass, which - this paper is informed is given on “ac count employee.” What means all this fuss about Treas urer 8cottf With a bond sufficient to cover the loss of every dollar of the Jsf county funds, what can the county hope fo make by impeaching and disgracing a county officer. If in the wisdom of our county board Mr. Scott’s bond is not large enough or good enough, let them demand an additional bond. It evidently concerns the average tax pay er but little whether tho funds are locked up in the county vault or wheth er they are in the banks, so long as the county is secure from loss. To the schem ing politician, however, whose only ob ject is to advance bis own interests, or blacken the character of a political op £ pooent to further partisan ends, it seems ! to mnlce considerable difference. And Is this not the real nnimns that lms prompted the impeachment nnri trial of Air. Scott? Is this not the milk in the coconnut? Chagrined at their defeat nt the polls last fall, disappointed nt Mr. Scott’s promptness in presenting the cash at his settlement a few days ago, the same crowd has now abused the power vested in them by a confiding constituency and a generous Jaw, to still further persue and persecute their victim. What matters it to this class of people if a man’s happiness is destroyed, his reputation smirched and his bonds men bankrupted, if only their hyena ap petites for something sensational can lie satisfied and their own personal and po litical internals advanced? If Mr. Scott is a defaulter and his bond is sufficient, the bondsmen will bo the losers and not the county. If said bond is not eufii cient and the county loses, then the blame is upon the board that approved it, or knowing it to he insufficient, neglected to demand more. As Tins Frontier understands it, there has been no complaint as to bond, and in fact there has been no oomplaint from any of Mr. Scott's bondsmen. It has been imagined on the part of some of the vicious ‘‘reformers” that Mr. Scott is » defaulter, and on this imagination mainly a case has been predicated, his vacation of the office demanded and u successor chosen. It reminds Tub Fjiontieb of the story of the girl who was found weeping bitterly and when asked for the cause of her tears replied, that she was thinking how awful it wou]d be if she should get mar ried, have a baby and the poor little thing should die;.boo. boo! Mr. Scott’s enemies, like the girl, seetn to be terribly exercised over the fear that in case such aud such is the case some thing awful may happen to the excheq uer of tho county some two years from now when Mr. Scott’s term expires. BANKER-EDITOR. “Doc” Mathews, who has resumed ed itorial control of the O’Neill Frontikh, is us interesting a writer as there is any where and that he will make a success of the paper is beyond question. But this depurtmcut cannot understand why Mr. Mathews should resign the prcsi dency of a bank to take charge of a newspaper. It must be fun'to be a banker; it must be simply immense to sit in regal grandeur and watch clerks and other hirelings shovelling gold coin into the groaning vaults, while at the little brass windows corporation cormorants, vandais and janizaries deposit their roils for safe keeping! There is no cx hllerntion in the thing of sitting at a desk in the waning light of a winter day trying to extract a forty-five calibre thought from a twenty-two calibre brain, as the author of this is frequently doing. An explanation from Mr. Math ews would be timely and interesting.— Walt Mason in Fremont Tribune. As something like a thousand individ uals have asked us the snme impertinent questions during the past few woeks. much to our distress of mind and the trying of the Job-like patience for which we have always been noted, we have concluded that the best thing to do for the relief of the public, and our self, is to succinctly promulgate in cold type the reasons fo* the change above referred to. Like every newspaper jnan of the country persuasion, we have always looked upon the banker as the man above all others to be envied and the banking business as the easiest, most elegant, and withal tnc most independ ent on earth. In fact Mason pictures the business just ns we did. “It must be fun to be a banker,” and the height of our ambition was to some day be at the head of a bank. The time came, perhaps sooner than we expected. Dame Fortune smiled on our business matters, and by working everything to one ob ject we two years ago organized a bank, built an elegant block, fitted up as fine bank quarters as there is in the state, outside of the cities, and opened for buBiuess smilingly happy, with plenty of money in the vaults and more in re serve. The sensation of handling gold by the handful and currency by the SfiOOpackagcs was for a time exhilerating, intoxicating nnd most pleasurable, but that feeling soon wore oft, and we be gan to realize, figuratively speaking, that “all is not gold that glitters," in other words, that the management of a bank was not so funny after all—that to he responsible for the placing and looking after nearly a hundred thousand dollafa'WsU'werlc of the hardest kind on both body and mind. It wns fun the first two or three months. It was so easy to get the money out. The presi dent soon learned to talk finance glibly, and imagined himself a great success. Oh, yes, l.e was a good judge of men! It would be a hard matter to fool him when it came to arranging the prelimi naries of a loan. And besides he flat tered himself that his long residence in the county, with an almost universal acquaintance, made him familiar with the financial condition of the people. Oh. yes! Well, as before remarked, the money was loaned in small and large lots, and it was remarkable how 'many friends the president had scattered over . the great county of Holt, who dropped injto see how the new bank prospered and before leaving wanted to borrow a few dollars. In our good nature wc did not consider that any of “the boys” wiuld let us down. They might not be financially responsible for any great amount, but they were ail right and good fellows. Yes! Well, we believed all this, and when our associates in bus Incss questioned a loan we would set hot nnder the collar and just to prove our confidence would write “\V. I). M.” on the corner of the note, remarking that “I’ll see to that mvsilf,” Now that we have a couple of thousand dollars of this kind of paper among our assets, which wo felt in honor bound to take up, we have somewhat changed our mind in this regard. For a long while the president cs ieemed himself a good banker, and thought he had found a calling commen surate with his natural ability, that he would grow rich, live loug and be happy. He could draw up a note and chattel mortgage with great dexterity, and when the applicant said “one horse eight years old, weight 1200, color bay, worth $150 casv,” he believed it, and figured that the security was good, etc., etc. Don’t call the president an ass. be cause it made him blush and stammer to charge big rates of interest. He was human, that's all, and it hurt to tie a man up and exact hiir interest. But lids same i resi lent in time learned that all men are not honest—that some men borrow money with no intention of pay ing at all, misrepresenting everything to get the loan; others arc quick to borrow and awfully slow to pay; othcrslmve bad luck and cannot pay, etc., so that with a worry here, a defiance there, a threat to the right, a kick to the left, a skip out north, a death south, a cheat east and a fraud west, the life of a banker is anything but pleasant. We have had enough of it, and when a man tells us that the hanker in this country is the happy man we will tell him to keep right on thinking so, hut if he is a friend wc will advise him to let the business alone. There ere men who cun be good bankers, that is successful bankers, but they must be particularly trained by nature and long experience, they must of necessity he fair lawyers, have some knowledge as detectives, have the powers of a constable, the facial appearance of saints, the nerve of Jesse James, hearts in which there is no compassion, and even then they are liable to get left. Do not be envious of the banker. You do not know his trials and tribulations, his sleepless nights, his torment, and the cause of tlio wrinkles and gray hairs. Be happy in tho voention you are familiar with, even if it is simply running a country newspaper or a Kceley insti tute. It is hard work writing copy, to ho sure, but the after-effect cannot be as injurious or annoying as writing or signing notes and chattel mortgages.” Which come due with such remarkable suddenness. And then as an editor you can say so many good things that it makes you pleased with yourself and you can sleep good all night. If you do get sour occasionally and say something mean you can take it all back and smooth tlie matter over so that no scars arclcft. You can’t do that in abank where dollars and cents are figured. Of course there isn’t as much money in the newspaper as in the bank, but there is a whole lot more contentment hud more fun, especially in a political campaign when tlie lightning is flashing in every direction and liable to hit any one ex cept a banker. See? TEE REPUBLICAN CLUB. There were just one-third the num ber of republicans present at the club rooms Saturday night that should have been there. After the regular business of the meeting had been taken up and disposed of, Vice President Shanner took the chair and Hon. A. L. Towle addressed the members upon the “Tin Plate Industry and the Present Tariff.” He said: Mr. President and Gentlemen: Shall we manufacture our own tin plate? The art of tinning plate iron was invented in Bohemia about the beginning of the Sixteenth century, although tho tinning of copper was known at an earlier date, England just begun to make tin in 1670, and from about 1740 the industry had taken permanent root and from this time up to a very recent date England possessed a monopoly of this industry. Before she became skilful in this art she imported her tin plates from Ham burg, they being hammered, while the English improved upo^ their methods by running them through a rolling mill, thereby producing a jjlate of fine gloss and much superior to the imported plate. She then placed a protective tariff upon tin plates and kept her money at home instead of sending it abroad. Tin plate is composed.of from 95 to 97 per cent of iroD or steel and from 3 to 5 per cent tin. Terne plates are com posed of iron or steel sheets covered with an alloy of tin and lead varying from 1 of lend to 9 of tin and vice versa. Tin or* is found in Cornwall, Eng land, and yields about 2J per cent rae talic tin; in Capalico, California, about 13 per cent; in Rockbridge county, Va., from 14 to 65 per cent; in the Black Hills from 3 to Go per cent; in the Har ney Peak region tho veins are as wide as 50 feet and yield better than the Corn wall mines, "and in custer and Penning ton counties as reported by the British Consul at Chicago, there are veins in width from 1 to 300 feet and in length from a few yards to five miles, from which 4 per cent can he depended on everywhere ” Tin ore is also mined in the Ternescal mines ot Cal., and one half the metalic tin of the world is ex ported from the Malay peninsula, where the mining is carried on almost entirely by Chinese. To be more explicit I will SEE OUR SEEING STOCK-OF MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING. HATS, GAPS, GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES. No Firm in north NebrasKa has Stocked Up as we have this season. It presents opportunity for economical buying that nobody can aford to miss our imense store this se ^ presents. A Sight Worth Seeing in the way we have Stocked Up for the tW trade, and that LOW PriCOS we will give you this season on Clothing is worthy \\ patronage of every customer in Holt county. Our immense stock was bought direct fm the manufacturers, which enables us to do just what we advertise and will prove the same' you come and see us. When need of Over Alls, Cheap PantS, Workh Shirts, Jackets* Claves, Working Shoes, anything to wear, do notP! our store. Come right in. Come to us for your Spring Goods and you will come out ahead PEP SJOCK Prices at the CHICAGO GLOTHJ tfc Hoilsi McBRIDE BUILDING SOUTH P. O., O’NEILL, NEB J. E. SMITH, Manager. state the amount of mctalic tin import ed into the United States for tho year ending June 30, 1890: 1,934 2.880.411 Tin bars, blocks or pips. Countries from j,-rained or granulated, which imported: Pounds. Dollars. Germany. ,5.203 England. 14.280,873 Quebec, Ontario, Mnnl tobia and the north west territory. 304 British East Indies . 10,272,560 British Poss. in Austra lia.,.. 3.520.570 Netherlands. 007,407 * 80 3,130,759 090.820 192.199 Total. 34,993.009 *0,898.909 Prpbably much of that credited to England was mined in other countries and merely transshipped hither. Three fourths of the metalic tin used in the manufacture of tin plate in Eng land comes from other countries. Eng land has been shipping into this coun try "for years tin plate to the value of about $17,000,000 per year and the total quantity of tfn plates imported into this country in the 20 years from 1871 to 1891 was 3,022.750 gross tons, foreign value $306,341,404 and in addition to ibis sum our people paid freights and importers’ profits, making a conservative estimate and allowing heaps in production, we have paid in these 20 years $100,000,000 more than if wo had produced our own tin plate, and instead of paying 300 mil ions to the Welch tin trust we would have paid 200 millions to American man ufacturers to he paid to American labor ers, while the $100,000,000 that we have been paying to the trust in the form of higher prices would have remained ns additional savings in the. pockets of American workmen. The man jfacturer of this tin employs 50,000 persona in England and Wales besides the men em ployed in producing the iron ore, lime stone, coal, coke and pig iron which en ter into the manufacture of tin plate, 254,951 gross tons of tin plates represent 870.000 tons of iron ore, 300,000 tons of limestone, 1,800,000 tons of coal and coke, 300,000 tons of pig iron, 5,000,000 pounds of lead, 25,000,000 pounds of tin, 12.000. 000 pounds of tallow or palm oil, 35.000. 000 pounds of sulphuric acid, 11, 000,000 feet of lumber besides fire brick clay, oil, ’ubricants, hemp, etc. It would require 68 large works of five trains of rolls, involving an outlay of over $30,000,000 capital and giying em ployment to about 24,000 workmen in the rolling mill alone, who would earn at least $12,000,000 per annum,” and this was less than the shipments of tin into this country from England between 1871 and 1891 for two years. With such a saving, should not every true Ameri can wish for and work for the establish ment of this industry in the United States? The question is, can it be successfully established? We will proceed to invest igat. "In 1875 a specific duty of 11-10 cents per pound was put on tin plates. Following that at three places in this country, certain Welchmen started three factories, one at Willsonville, O., and two in Pennsylvania: one at Lead burg and the other at Dernier. The re sult of this was that whereas in 1873 the best quality of tin plates commanded $14.75 per box, after these factories started the best quality of tin plates could be bought in 1878 for $6.25 a box and second quality which was $14.50 per hox could be bought for $5.18 per box, "but as soon as the English manu facturer found we were in the field against him they cut the prices, that, with the small tariff existing the infant' industry could not survive, and why could they fall'so quickly? Because the whole tin manufactures of England are controlled by less than 100 men. But now under the healthy influence of the j McKinley bill with its tariff of 2 2 10 ' cents on tin plates (the old tariff being | one ecu'.) we find the following manu factories of tin plate in the Uuited States existing and doing business, and among them we find tho Demler tin | plate works again on deck wilh a capac ity of 3,000 boxes of 1C tin per week. The following list is furnished by the i Tinned-Plate Manufacturers' Associa Capital Invested $300,031 1C0,00< 75,00i 200,00C 200,00( 250,001 150,00( 800,0m 75.00( 75,001 300.001 153.001 250,0W ico.oci 250,001 75.001 12,cm 15.001 5,001 50.001 10,001 tion of the United States and is correct ed to January 0, 1892: Capuclty In boxes 1C, 14x20 Name of company. pel-week. American Tin Plate Com pany, Biwood. Ind. 2,000 Anderson Tin Plate Com pany. Anderson, Ind.1,003 Bhilrsvllle Rolling Mill and Tin Plate CO., Blalrsville, Pa.1,000 Tlie Britton Polling Mill Co. Cleveland. Ohio.2,500 Cincinnati Corrugating Co. Piqua. Ohio. 503 Coates & Co., Locust Point, Baltimore, MU.1,000 Kieekhefer Bros. & Co., Mil waukee, Wis.3,000 Marshall Bros. & Co., Phila delphia, Pa.2,000 Norton Bros., Chicago, 111... 5,000 Pioneer Tin Plato Company Joliet, 111.:.. 1,000 Pittsburgh Tin Plate Works Strawbridgo & Beaver, Kensington. Pa.1,000 St. Louis Stamping Co., St. Louis, Mo.8,000 P. 11. Laufman & Co.. Ap ollo, Pa. 1,000 Somerton Tin Plate Works, , Brooklyn. N. Y.3,000 Summers Bros. & Companv, Strothers, Ohio.'.. 1,500. United States Iron 'and Tin Plate Mfg. Co.. Denimlcr, Pa.3,000 Wallace, Ban field & Co.. Irondale, Ohio. 1.000 Cleveland Tin Plate Com pany, Cleveland, Ohio.... 5!,0 Fleming & Hamilton. Pitls liurgh, Pa. 000 Grilliths & Calnallodur. 23d Ward. Pittsburgh, Pa. 300 Wm. T. Simpson & Co . Cin cinnati, Ohirf....1,000 Record Mfg. Co., Couneaut, Ohio.2,500 N. & O. Taylor Co., Phila delphia. Pa. 700 Columbia Tia Plate Com pany, Piqua, Ohio. 450 Union Tin Plate Co.. Alle gheny. Pa. . Western Tin Plate Co., Jol iet, 111. . The American Tin & Terne Plate Co. Phlladelphla,Pa. . The following companies are able to fur nish tin plate bars: Shoenberger & Co.. Pittsburgh, Pa. Bellaire Nail Works, Bellaire. Ohio. A3tna Iron and Steel Co.. Bridgeport, Ohio, The question is not a political ques tion so much as it is a question of love of country. Will you stand up foi British industries or will you stand up for American industries. We can, we arc and we will manufacture our own tin, the bowlings of the tin liars to the contrary notwithstanding. We have all the materials to make the tin and with the lively competition created by the much abused McKinley bill, we will manufacture our tin all here, give em ployment to thousands of men, pay higher wages than England and prove to the free trade cranks that they arc not in it. and that we ate out of sight. Let us see for a moment how badly the terrible McKinley bill has affected prices of tin. In view of the tubs of tears which have been shed by tree traders over the increased price of tin plate since the new tariff act passed, it will not be amiss to look up the subject of prices of the same article in previous years. According to the supplement of the Iron Trade Circular (Ryland's) of January 16, published in Birmingham, England, the highest price of tin plate in each year from 1877 to 1.891 has been as given below. We haVe added a col umn giving also the foreign price pins the duty: * 1 FHJCES or CHAllCOAJ,, lOJSIN PLATES. Foreign Foreign price price per box. plus duty. Year $5.30 .. 4.S7 . * «.tw . ' H.28 . 5.33 . 5.23 5.11 . 5.11 4.50 . i 8.83 , ' 4.01 , 4.01 , 4.3S 1" 4.20 ; 3.01 $8.44 5.05 7.77 9.38 0.31 8.31 6.19 8.19 5.58 4.91 5.09 5.09 5.48 5.28 *5.42 1877 . 1878 . 1879 ." ‘ 1880 . 1881. 1882. 1883 . 1884 . ' 1885 . 1888. .. 1887 . 1888 ... 1889.....'. 1833. 1891. *New duty added. It will be seen that it was in the years before the McKinley 'tariff that the Welchmen prospered n^ost, when we were at their mercy apij had to pay as high as $9.36 a box for the plates which arc now selling in New York for several dollars per box less. Ves, if you want to discover when the) \Velch tin plate monopolists were in itlieir glory nnd fleeced their American victims according to their own sweet will, you must go hack before the McKinjey tariff appear ed on the scene and s rted into life an American tin plate industry to curb the rapacity of the foreign {makers. At the present time prices in,Wales are at th lowest point ever reached in the histor of tin plate making. We do not pretem that protection increases profits of W eign manufacturers. Let us also at this time examine inti the wages of the tin plate workers of two countries. Mr. Wilkins Prick, torn eriy secretary of the Wales Tin Plan Makers’ Association, of Swansea, giro the rates of wages paid to labor in th plate making in Wales and in the Units States, as follows: English r. , , rates Itoller ana catehor (combined) per day...J3.14 Doublers, per day. l.yj Furuaceinen. per day. 1.75 Opener, per day. Shearer and assistants (paid for product of four mills in both countries) total earnings per day. 10.13 Ore men, per week. 7.20 Hoys, roiling, per das.40 Catching, per day.$:S l.i Greasing, per day.20 foreman and roll turner, per week .14.43 jy Muson, bricklayer, per day. 1.44 :;i Blacksmith, per day. lit; Millwright, for repairs. 1.4-1 si Now if there is anything Ikatwi make a free trader smile it is to singi an audience the song of the workman dinner pail and tin cup, and I presume there arc thousands of men who really think they are telling the truth, but you ever investigate? Did you evei know how much tinware you owned You don’t know, do you? (Concluded next week.) fate M O’N'LILL BUSINESS DIRlxTQ' H. PIERCE. ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Real Estate and Insurance. II. BENEDICT, LAWYER, Office in the Judge Roberts building, north of Barnott & Frees’ ’.umber yard, O NEILL, NE“ g W. ADAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will practice in all the courts. Special at tention given to foreclosures and collections. Is also COUNTY ATTORNEY. JJR. B. T. TBUEBLOOD, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Hseuses of t»he Eye and Ear and Jttlnt lasses a specialty. Office hours ii to l- a. - ,nd 2 to 5 p. m, Office over “THE EMPORIUM." g EWING MACHINES REPAIRED BY GEORGE BLINCO J®~Satisfaction gauri •anteed j'ULLEN BROS., CARPENTERS & BUILDERS. atimates taken and material; furnish^ ibing promptly attended to. C. SMOOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OIQAR8. ETO. BOYD, builders. ESTIMATES FURNISHED. K. C. D. B. EISAMAN. PHYSICIAN & SURGE°N' RILL, neb O'NEILL & GALLAGHER. —DEALERS IN 3 A specif' e»8 and liquors of all kinds, y made of fine cigars. d0 want a drink of good Bin®1 not faU to call on ns. in’s old stand. O'Neil1