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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1892)
The Frontier. rum.rsiiKD every Thursday hy THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY. W. I). Matiikws, Editor. 1 U't.r>8titin metaphysics I cun not help but put A philosophic moral where I tblnk it ouplit to luuiit: l’vo soon a boom for office Grow foeblo at the root, Then chanito Into a hoomlot, then to a boom eranit. In eaueuB orconveutlon.ln village or In town; Who opunoth a jack pot may not always rake It down I --—*-«»*-.« The collcgo boys are largely republi can this year. Say, Trorn., what do you think about it anyway—the weather? Tiie independent county convention is called to meet in O’Neill on Saturday, June 20. ————»«>> ♦ Some of tho O’Neill girls need to take treatment for the candy habit. The gold cure hypodermically applied might do the business. "Giianokatuek'h hat” is becoming a trifle old, but nowadays the old hat is popular, and the boys at Minneapolis will endorse it with enthusiasm. Tub Niobrara Pioneer is booming Judge Crounse for governor. Crounse would prove a vory strong candidate with the people and no mistake. If Gov. Holes is nominated for presi dent by the democrats he will make the canvass on the record he made when he was a republican, which was nearly all his life. —---*-•«+» -- Plant corn, and as much of it as you can. Wet spring weather never knocked this section of the country out of good crops. Fire the corn into the greund as rapidly ns possible. --- —. “Tits present congress has dawdled and dallied andbampietcd till the coun try is sick and tired of the antics,” says , the great democratic New York World, and advises an early adjournment. Mabk it down in yonr diary for future * reference: Snow fell all day on the ' 30th of Mny. It was a gentle sugges J?' tlon to the democrats as to how they would be snowed under in November. It is intimated that the Sun hns not only made proposals to the alliance wench with satisfactory results, but that it has secured the services of Sambo Sunflower as editor in the fond hope of "bustiug the Tribune wide open.” ;!?: ; ‘3\ John I. Blaib, ninety-two years old, will be a delegate to the Minneapolis convention. He has been a delegate to a national convention each four years since 1840, when he helped to nominate William Henry Harrison. Mr. Blair is hale and hearty, and actively engaged in business. . Hebe is Watteson’s description of the m Tammany leaders: “They are a band of professional politicanB made up of demagogues, time-servers, spoilsmen I and jobbers, who would no more hesi tate to knife a national ticket objection ;• able to them than to scuttle a ship, or cut a throat, or take a drink.” -- The.women of the Methodist church have again been denied representation f<; in the geperal conference. In our humble opinion this is not just or right. The women are the workers for the church all the time. Take them away and there would be no church. But it is only a postponement of the inevitable. The women must and wjll bo recognized. Kino & Ckonin, formerly of the Item, are now managing The Fbontieb, pub lished at O’Neill. They arc considered ^ the youngest editors in the state and are known throughout northwestern Ne braska as “the kids.” They are rustlers and their publication enjoys the distinc ' tion of bbing among the neatest and best conducted in the state.—Printer's Auxiliary, Omaha. The democrats in congress bare not been very bappy in tbeir treatment of the tariff question, showing by their un willingness to bring in a general bill how unfortunate they might And It to meddle with the present public confidence in the McKinley act. There is an impres sion at Washington that the desire of the house majority for an early adjourn ment is due to the wish to get away from the responsibility of something consis K tent in the line of a tariff bill. Even ;V- - democrats arc not without admirers of »:'i the new tariff and its workings. , ... , M#* W — «J"i A true friend is to be prized. But true lriends are scarce. You may think a man your friend; you bank on his word; you exert yourself to accommo date him; you defend him when tra ■ duced, and in all ways remain true to his interests even when he is in hard luck: but when it comes to a show down | ; and you are compelled to put up your good money, to the distress and dis fc: arrangement of all business calcu lations, then you become pessi mistic, discouraged and lose con fidence in mankind. Thisfeeling.it is to be hoped, will wear away in the case of the writer, but just now it seems % tough, and we cannot keep our mind in \> the Christian state of good will to all. 'v Perhaps it is a good time to give notice that we have sworn off on signing notes » for other people. See? WaT.T Masos is evidently a lover of the weed. Hear him warble: "There is nothing on earth makes a man feel so comfortable and so pleased with all the world as a good, reliable appetite. It is a pleasure to become so hungry nt stated intervals that you feel as though you could eat a horse power with mules at tached. People who are disgruntled and blue all tlio time doubtless have no appetites and should bo regarded charit ably. There is nothing more encourag ing than eating; the only possible ob jection to it is that you have to quit smoking while you are at it.” --- The meeting held in Atkinson recently attended by Messrs. Smith. Woods, Craw ford, Bertha, Alfa, Boll, Lessinger, Broady, Dayton, Mullen and Golden, it is supposed will result in focusing the independent sentiment to a Golden issue. At least the machine has so been set to grind by the bosses, with the intention that the rank and file of the parties will accept the dictum without a kick. This is a case of the democrat rut eating up the alliance cat. With the Atkinson Enterprise as the organ of the combine, printed at O’Neill, it is hoped to whip all the democrats and independents into line. See? Tine policy of a protective tariff is treated as fatal to a foreign trade, but it docs not work that way. The returns are now in for three years of the repub lican administration, which construes all laws in harmony with the spirit of protection, and which for nearly half that time has had the most perfect pro tective tariff law ever devised. Com pared with the preceding three years of a democratic administration, the aver age annual exports increased from $720, 1)00,000 to $907,000,00 nna the balance of trade in out favor from $9,000,000 a year to $93,000,000. While the imports gained on ah average $100,000,000 a year or a little more, the exports gained nearly double that amount. We learn from events sometimes where we look an theories with distrust. The events have fully demonstrated that the policy of America for Americans works well. ---— A ornlkman out on the Short Lino whispers to us that Atlce Hart will cast his vote for J. G. Blaine at the Minne apolis convention. We can scarcely believe this, although our informant was very positive in claiming to know just what he was talking about. The con vention of the third district was em phatic in its instructions to delegates to support Harrison, and if Mr. Hart should disregard the almost unanimous sentiment of the convention he will prove himself unworthy of trust, and should hereafter be repudiated by the party. The writer has esteemed Hart an honorable man and refuses to believe the report until the result is actually accomplished. We have always been an admirer of Blaine, he would have been our first choice this year had he been a candidate in the ordinary accept ance of the term, but when he so posi tively declined to permit the use of his name, we consider it an insult to him to persist in forcing him on the convention, ns there appears to be a concerted inten tion of doing. We have confidence sufficient in the integrity of Mr. Blaine to expect that he will forcibly and pub licly tell the convention when it meets that it must not use his name in con nection with the nomination. The earnestness of Mr. J. 8. Clark son's republicanism is not to be ques tioned and h:s antagonism to President Harrison can undoubtedly be accounted for by a feeling that his renomination was not a wise one when judged from the ttandpomt of the doubtful states. Ou the temper of republican feeling however, his opinion is not the best of authority. His sarcasm in assuming that the demand for Harrison is the pro duct of the newspapers or of federal placeholders shows either a very super ficial acquaintance with public opinion or a spirit that does him discredit. The suspicion that he would not faithfully keep his honor with his state in the sup port of Harrison nearly cost him his election as a delegate at large from Iowa. Mr. Clarkson assumed that the with holding of instructions for Harrison in any case means that a state is not for Harrison. That is a weak assumption as is shown by the case of Maine, where the resolutions expressly declared that General Harrison ought to be renomin ated. but withheld ironclad orders as countor to the spirit of the republican party and representative institutions. This absence of instructions cannot be construed to suit any end one pleases. The Fiiontier would throw up its silk tile for Blaine any time, and would re joice to support him, yet believes he was in earnest in refusing to be a can didate, and that Harrison is the only name that should be considered, all things considered, at the Minneapolis convention. --— “Erin Mou, a Story of Irish Republi canism,” by John Brennan, formerly' of Sioux City, Iowa, now of California, is just issued. Mr. Brennan has many friends in O’Neill, who will read this book with interest. Neil Brennan will order the book for those who want it. W e have a copy, but not having read it cannot pass judgement, but it is safe to say it i8good. The book is dedicated to President Harrison, and the language used is worthy of reproduction. Mr. Brennan says: “The purpose of the nutbor is neither to excite nor perpetu ate any form of foreignism, but the ear nest desire of creating in the minds of bis Celtic brethern a deep, intense nnd fervid Americau national spirit. In tbe present Clicif Magistrate tbe author re cognizes the ideal American, who, in his official character and conduct, reflects alt that is wise, generous, heroic and merciful in the genius of the great re public, Toward Russia, charitable; with Chile, patient; with Italy, merciful; and calmly courageous toward England, Proud and happy be that president under whose administration the Repub lic has nttuined a position of material greatness and moral eminence unex ampled in the lives of nations, ancient or modern. This grateful tribute is not of that reprehensible sort "born of benefits receieved,” or "fostered by the hope of favors yet to coma,” but the heartfelt testimony of an adopted citizen, who joyfully contemplates the pros perity and glory of the great republic.” W ell, now what will the free traders say, who have pointed to England as an illustration of the beauties of free trade, when they read tho speech made by Lord Sailsberry on the 18th of this month? He was talking of the grave situation confronting England, and used this plain language: England not only maintains the position it occupies by tho vast Industries existing here: but u danger Is growing up. Fifty years ago everybody bolievod that free trade had con quered the world, and prophesied that every nation would follow the example of England. The results, however, are not what had been expected. Despite the prophecies of the free trade advocates foreign nations are adopting protection. They are excluding us from their markets and are trying to kill our trade. And this estate of things appears to grow worse. Wo live in an ago of wartaritfs. Another important point Is that while nations are negotiating to obtain each other’s commercial favor, none is anxious about the favor of Groat Britain, because Great Britain has stripped itself of tho armor and weapons with which the battle Is to be fought. Tho attitude which we liavo taken in regarding it as disloyal to the glorious and sacred doo trlnes of free trade to levey duties on any body for the sake of anything wegetthoreby 3 ay bo noble but it is not businesslike. On thoso terms you will not get anything if you Intend to hold your own in this conflict of tariffs you must be prepoaed to refuse nations who injure you access to your mar kets. Wo complain most of the United States and it so happens that the United States maintains and furnishes us with articles which are essential to the good of tho people and with raw material which is essential to our manufactures. We cannot exclude either without serious injurjlto ourselves. J am not prepared, in order to punish other countries, to Inflict dangerous wounds on ourselves, We must confle ourselvosto those matters wherein we will not suffer much whetherr Importation continues or dimin ishes. While we cannot raise tho price of food and raw material there is an enormous masB of imports, suoh as wine, spirits, silk, gloves, and laces from countries besides the United States whico are merely luxuries, and of which a diminished consumption could be riskod In order to secure access to the mark ets of our noighbors. I shall oxpoct to be ox communicated for propounding suoh a doc trine, but 1 am bound to say that I think the free traders have gone too far. TnE New York World is tearing its hair and screaming in double-Jeaded editorials because the democratic house has lost the presidental election from its party. The world says: Are the democrats of the house of repre sentatives mud? Or huvo they submitted themselves to tho control of political lm bodies? Upon no theory of sanity or sense can their recent course be explained. For days in succession, with a majority of 1G0, they permitted tholr quorum to be broken by a horse race. As though the faithfulness of inattention to duty were not bad enough, they reassembled in force only to enter upon a carnival of extravagance. It is time for a halt. Tho men who are making this record are betraying and in danger of destroying their party. Weotell these heedless hot heads plainly that If this country is to have a succession of billion-dollar congresses they should be and they will be republican. The democrats of the Union have no use for a congress that will imitate and even exceed the extravagance which it was elected to reform. We tell them furthor that if they do not halt and retrace their steps they 'will bo almost certain to throw the next presidency into the waiting laps of the jeering and exult ant republicans. u«7 uui- »uc, ur uu nicy nui c;iru, mat they aru passing bills oue day to reduce taxes and revenues and passing bills the next day to pile up expenditures, when a republi can deficit Is already Impending? Do they not perceive that the Issue of a deficiency, If raised by a party of economy, will be more effective In the prcsidental cam paign thnn oven the worse-than-war tariff or the war-iu-peace Force bill? How can the democrats raise this issue If their bouse out-s<)uanders the squanderers— if. Instead of cutting down the appropriations $100,000,000 as they promised, they increase them $50.000,000—passing the Half UlUlon high water mark at the first session? If there be not an instant halt and a com plete i about-face In the house, the Chicago convention may as well not meot. “Are the house democrats mad?” Oh, no! they are only incompetent. The World's question answers itself. The horse race majority, which is in the house when a quorum is not attending the races, is submitting itself to the title of “political imbeciles.” POLITICAL POINTERS. You’re Bight. Attorney Scott of Atkinson and O. C. Hazelet would make good men for rep resentatives this fall.—Ewing Democrat. Quasi-Senator-Attorney. Thomas V. Golden who, by the way, is no slouch of a democrat, will dis cover, in due time that the senatorial bee now buzzing in his bonnet, will prove to be nothing but a “quasi” drone. —Atkinson Graphic. Who Is the Kant The independent who thinks he car rles the independent party in hU vest pocket and can fuse, trade, or sell it to suit his ‘convenience, will think he has been struck with a pile driver before the campaign is over.—Ewing Advocate. Jos Has the Bottle, Too, Joe Bartley is so sure of being the next treasurer of Nebraska that he is actually putting in his spare time on a dummy set of books. Josiah tecks not that there is mangr a slip twixt the bottle and the lips of the republicans these days. - World-Herald. Werts’s Choice. It would be wisdom on the part of republicans of this congressional district to place Hon. M. P. Einkald in nomina tion for congress even though he is ad verse to running. No fair minded per son can help but see the need of just auch a candidate as he would make.— Stuart Ledger. _ Hot all Harmony. It appears that Eem will not have it all his own way for a re-nomination for congress at the hands of the independ ents. John Q. Painter, of Broken Bow, is reported as preparing to enter the Held as a contestant for the nomiation by that party.—Sioux County Journal. Evans Says “Ho Consolidation.” There is a rumor afloat that the county alliance has bolstered up the Atkinson Enterprise to the tune of two or three hundred dollars and that the paper will soon be moved to O’Neill. Evans, jr., of the Tribune, will assist Mr. Woods, [t may be that two alliance papers can make it scour in O’Neill, but if they have any doubts we would cordially in vite one of them to locate in Ewing, as we know of no better point for a good, live alliance paper.—Ewing Democrat. Sid Ton Everl The G. O. P. schemers are setting up their pins to run another scheme on the democrats similar to the one they worked last year, viz: Encourage the democrats to nominate one of their most popular men, (Irish democrat) with the assurance that they will not only support him but furnish the necessary spondulix to run his campaign. This will get a man in the' field, who, they think,will draw Irish independent votes, you know, and let the G. O.. P. can didate in slick as a whistle. If you don’t believe this, note the result of Campbell and Sullivan’s campaign last fall.—Ewing Advocate. We Blush, It is now quite evident that W. D. Mathews of O’Neill, will be the re publican nominee for state senator from this senatorial district and we hope to the Lord he will. It would be a pleasure to vote for a good-hearted, whole-souled, * unassuming gentleman like Doc, besides his nomination would insure republican success, as he could not only carry his own party vote, but would draw heavily from the democratic ranks wherever he is well known, and his acquaintance is quite extensive throughout the district. The republi cans could find no better man, and it is very doubtful whether they could find another who could poll the vote Mr. Mathews can if nominated. For state senator of this district, W: D. Mathews of O’Neill.—Boyd County Banner. Smith Wont Give Up. The republicans along the line of the F. E. & M. V. railroad are seemingly very reluctant to see Judge Kinkaid withdraw from the congressional race. The fact is Judge Kinkaid has never been in the race, no more than he is today. Many of the well posted re publicans believe that Kinkaid’s nom ination means success for the party in this district, believing that he can se cure more votes than any other man in the district. It is an undeniable fact that the district—taking the vote of two years ago—is doubtful. In view of this fact it behooves the republicans to place their strongest man in the field. A man with an able, clean record, one whose past record will need no defense, is the only kind of a man that the republicans in the Sixth district can expect to elect. M. P. Kinkaid is just such a man, whether he aspires to the position or not.—Ainsworth Star Journal. If only certain people could every day take a vacation, say of two hour* from being moral, and looking at everything from a moral point of view, and could spend these two hours in playing on other strings of their na ture* how relieved and thankful all about them would be! Their very re ligion is too often nothing but an acute case of moral tribulation. Surely the all-bountiful God never treated them as they treat him in return. Was he not forever seeking to make them frolic in their children, sing in the bird* exult in the mountain and ocean? Did he ever care to make the piping robin moral, or the sunset in structive? Even when the tragedies of life assail his children, and their dearest ones aro taken away, is there any warrant for believing that he would have them look forward to re union in the blessed realm beyond us the reunion of mere naked, disem bodied consciences, with nothing milled akin to the groves and lakes, ther vers and mountains, the mirth and briglh intelligence, the poets, builders and prophets, who were genially given here below to sot all the varied string of the nuture vibrating and so to gel the soul in tune for the fullor smy phony to come? | There are no Buch periodicals in the world as the best American illus trated magazines. The English aim to equal them, and they have been in the nabit of claiming superiority in literature generally, but they are so far behind us in the illustration branch as to be practically out of competition. An acre of land at present devoted to wheat or corn could, we beliove, by more careful farming, be made to produce nearly one-third mor.e than it does under the current indifferent methods of agriculture. This better farming, of which we speak, implies not only more careful and thorough preparing of the ground and care of the crop while growing, but it also means the use of a reasonable amount of fertilization, which, even where our soil is so deep and strong, is fast becoming a necessity, at least in the older portions of the state. hie scii-centerea isolation tnat dis tinguished the old-time saint is giving way before the diffusive solidarity that is the note of our democratic age. To-day men do not most readily find God in the darkness and silence of a cell, but in the places where men and women are most wont to gather, and in wise and helpful plans for the pro gress and happiness of the race. In these latter years of the nineteenth century a now and vibrant meaning has been put into the words of the Apostle: “None of us liveth to him self, and no man dieth to himself.” To msE froin»the darkest ignorance to such a stage of enlightenment in one generation is an achievement worthy of any race. The fact that many negroes have made no progress argues nothing against this record of development. After more than a cen tury of favorable government and fa voring conditions of all kinds there are still in the United States thous ands of white people ignorant and vicious. To lift all of a race to the same plane is impossible. The pro gress of a people is to be judged by the advancing many, not by.the lag ging few.* llow careful should mothers be to make their homos sunny, joyous, bright, and attractive; for on them is built the great fabric of the yeivrs to come. The long chain of life-exper ience and lifetime memories begins j there, and thought retravels the path so often, lingering hero and there by the way. living over and over again the sunny springtime memories. Mothers too should instil into every member of their families not only a love for truth, honor and virtue, but also a love for temperance, correct living, and all tho health command ments which are needful to a health-; ful life So long as tho race continues will it be imperfect, for there is no life without change, and a change for the worst is in the direction of extinction, while an achievement of perfection leaves no room for growth. Though we are in fact less vicious, less ignorant,* more righteous and more enlightened than our forefathers, we are by the last of these conditions under an obligation to put forth more thoughtful efforts. Tho most hopeful sign in the life of to-day is the atten tion which is paid to social problems. Yet these have as yet boon barely touched upon. Man in the past has achieved much, man now is doing more, but there is an illimitable field ■till unexplored. a rweuii aormuu on missions nev. Dr. Beard, of New York, gave some interesting facts concerning the pro gress of the colored people in the South. On the abolition of slavery the negroes were at the bottom of the moral, intellectual and social scale, and their total taxable property amounted only to $12,000. At the end of little more thun one-quarter of a century we find them with $214. 000.000 of property subject to taxa tion. There are 18,000 colored teachers and 1,240.000 pupils in the schools. There a.-« also sixty-six academies and high schools and seven colleges with colored presidents. Their editorial talent is represented by 154 newspapers and two mag azines. Tiie kindergarten is no longer an experiment. It has been tried and proved, in public and in private insti tutions until its suprome value for the young has been demonstrated. The private kindergarten exists every where for the beneiit of wealthy par ents who can afford to give their little ones the advantage of this initiation into the first mysteries of learning. The only reason why it does not form a part of public schools generally is not because its value is not of the highest but because it has been thought a thing too rare and costly for iho general use. Wo might have magnificent high schools, and labora tories equipped with costly apparatus for the little contingent of cultures but we could not furnish to the groat army of the people the training schools that would best begin the fitting of their little ones for the serious work Of life Ambition’ Is a powerful motive, and f . do directed only to honors?, and valuable issues, it is & rkrh.J one: but Where it leads to what “I false, and hollow or turns means an end. it is a curse to its possessor An international agreement should oe reachod to establish somewhere land—island preferred for the sake of peace—on which anarchists could eg. tablish their ideal government and to which all governments could send ilioir surplus stock of anarchists for permanent retirement: community so thoroughly helpless as those who have not only no means of support but who have lost their rea. son. and the measure of true charity which a city is capable of can perhaps oo best gauged by its treatment of those individuals who do not know sntmgh to complain even when they ! *rn ill-treated. To UVE happily with othersv« aiust first learn to live happily with ourselves; for he who rules his own spirit well, can so adapt himself to tha shiftW phases in the life of his friends, as never to be drawn into Harshness, never to do violence to the feelings or tastes of those who are bound to him by the sacred ties of friendship or love, \V a do not want the anarchists any more than England or France does; and we have not, like ftiose govern ments, any other country to which we can pass them. Our only defense is to meet them with an inhospitable wel come at the ports of entry, and ex. perieuco has already taught the futil ity of relying ou the method of exclu sion to keep anything ont, whether Lhiuo.-e, typhus fever, illicit jewelry or undesirable immigrants. A sun who arms himself with a pistol while rage is at his heart whether such rage is born of wrong really done him or of only fancied in justice, is alike a murderer. This ac cepting of alleged provocation as an excuse is working mischief. It is justifying the taking of law into a man’s own hands. This cannot be done safely under the impelling of temper, for temper is at the bottom of the most of this provocation. The average system of public schools in American cities is singular ly incomplete; and its defoots lie at tho end where the greatest care to se cure perfection might have been ex peeled. Almost everywhere there are high schools of great excellence in which the few children who are able to pursue the higher education may find the best facilities for it. after they have finished tho ordinary work of the lower grades. But how about the many ? Industry applies to hours in busi ness and out of business. It means not only to perform all required work promptly, but to occupy spare maments usefully, not to be idle evenings, to rise betimes very early in the morn ing. and not to fritter away holidays. An employe should not confine him self to his mere obligatory duties. He should be ready to work sometimes over hours, or in other departments if it is desired of him. Willingness to work is ono of the finest qualities in a character. j.::k man wno uniats tor a war is one thing-; but the men who enlist (or service in garrison either here or in England aro with very few exceptions men who have been beaten in their struggle with the world and have s"r rcndored. They have given up part of their liberty in order to be taken care of. and if the best of them are cou pled in the public mind with the worst it is becuuse all weaknesses are liable to be confused and olassed to gether. (treat injustice is often done in this way to soldiers, but it is in eqitable both in England and America that the man who prefers soldiering in peace will be regarded as his in ferior by the man who accepts pover ty and oven want so long as he can maintain his independence. T'.vkxtv years ago men of scienca and a good many others, well know that of all the phases which energy can assume, electricity is most to be preferred for various practical uses. They weri familiar with the easy in sulation of electricity, its all but in stantaneous transmission, its conver sion at wilY.into motive power, light or heat. unuUts utility in uniting or severing the Elements of the chemist And yet xvhatVmight bo man’s best anb universal sfervant was then em ployed atjittlo noro than conveying * plating base metals jold. To-day, at last, lering upon its work in earnest. Is In iruessed for the tasks of factory and i line, the drudgery ol the household; Lives traction in cities a new cleanliness and controllability, providos its brylliant light more an more widely; aPd in its entense hea enables the mptal worker to sbaps and join copper and steel as if 9 war* handling wax. telegrams and with silver ana electricity is ,ei