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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1892)
The Frontier. PITHLTSIIKT) EVERY Tlll'HSl'AY 1IY THE l’HONTIKK P1UNT1NO COMPANY. W. 1>. Matiikws, Editor. Harrison And Morton are the men to head the ticket. A rat is an auimal generally detested, especially the rat printer. •■Vote,” says the laboring man to the tax-payer, "for the bonds.” -- If there is anything O’Neill needs more than money it is water. The anti-Harrison talk is a good deal wind, and of newspaper manufacture. Tint man who wnnts work can get it if we build water works. Vote for the bonds. -— It may seem a little monotonous but wo again ejaculate, vote for the bofids. Tint reunion of the* old soldiers of the union for north Nebraska occurs ut .Oakdale July 1, 3, 3 and 4. Ik O’Neill had had water works the mill and academy could have been save! from destruction. Vote for the bonds. It would not be true economy nor the . display of enterprise to defeat the water works proposition. Vote for the bonds. -- - Thk people’s party of Indiana has placed a full ticket in the Held. The ■ party refused to indorse a prohibitory plank. _ Who will be county attorney? Let us not worry about that until the water works proposition is decided. Vote for the bonds. ' Thk Oakdale Guard is a model paper in all ways but politically. Ham Kautz man is every inch a man and deserves big success. Wb have had lots of water during the past two months, but didn't keep it. We need water on tap all of tho time. J i, Vote for tho bonds. Tiibrb promises to be a red-hot con test in the independent state convention ;«/ between Van Wyck and Powers over the nomination for governor. There may not be much politics in the question, but it is of far more inter est to the people of O'Neill—the question of water works. Vote for tho bonds. ----- The expenditure of money if the water works are constructed will be appreci ated by every business man as well as by the ones who do the work. Vote for the bonds. -- As a protection from the ravages of fire, water works aie an absolute neces sity, and we cannot afford to procrasti nate,until]we are better fixed financially. Vote for the bonds. Wuetiirk the republicans, democrats or independents elect the legislative ticket is a connundrum to lots of people, but the water works election comes first. Vote for the bonds. Who will be state senator is a question of interest to tho people, but does not compare to the question as to whether or not O’Neill will put in a system of water works. Vote fot the bonds. We are ail interested in the Minneop lis and Chicago conventions, and in the contest at the polls next November, but we should be more greatly interested in the result of the election next Tues day. Vote for the bonds. Tom Majors would make a splendid govenor and no mistake, and without consulting him we feel safe in announc ing that if he lived in O’Neill he would agree with Tiie Frontier that the town needed more water, and would gay, "Boys, vote for the bonds.” In speaking of Jimmy Donham, of the Butte Banner, the Dakota City Eagle says “that since graduating at the O’Neill Institute he presents quite a con trast to the J. L. Donham, the whisky soaked, emaciated person who for a ^ long time made Dakota county his stop gj ping place.” . Hon. Jerry SmrsoN, once Socklcss Jerry, not only rides a bicyle, but sling3 rh* on the style in dress. The Capital has this item about him: "Jerry Simpson’s ; new spring outfit makes the dudes green with envy. He came out last Sunday with kid gloves, a dazzling neok-tie, striped trousers and a very pretty walk ing stick. Jerry is known in Washing ton as one of the neatest dressers in congress.” Hon. James Whitehead, who dcliv . ered the address here on memorial day, is a candidate for the republican nom ination for congress. While Mr. White head is an undoubted republican he is very liberal in his ideas, and esteems justice to all mankind above all things. His friends and admirers are numbered In all parties, and should he go before the people his rugged honesty and self indicated plainness will count largely in his favor. His life as a farmer in Custer county for ten years has been one that is free from censure, and with .: his neighbors he is said to be exceed ingly popular. He certainly made a good impression here. "Inpiviihiai. disappointments will not control tlio convention,” says Prusi ilent Harrison. It is to bo hoped not at any rate. The splendid administration commends itself to the country, and if it is not endorsed at Minneapolis a mistake will he made. However, we feel confident that no mistake will be made—that Harrison will be renomi nated, and that Jim Blaine will help to bring it about. The Amelia Journal, which by the way is. being greatly improved each week, truly remarks that "there is noth ing like being energetic and putting the best foot foremost in building up the country. Lot the people know of the advantages that Holt county possesses and the county will rapidly settle. A larger acreage of small grain lias been sown this than any previous year in Holt county nnd tho outlook now is good for a larger yeild per acre than last year.” Tnn Enterprise material has been moved from Atkinson to O’Neill and will be used this week in printing the lirst number of the Independent. The new paper will be managed by Messrs. Messenger, Woods and A1 Evans, nnd will advocate the cause of the alliance. It would appear that the Tribune occu pied this field lully, but that is no con cern of ours nnd The Frontier wel comes the new paper nnd the projectors to our city, nnd trusts their path will be strewn with roses. Two weeks ago we republished an ar ticle from the Times, printed at the town of Alliance, but by error it was credited to the Alliance Tribune, and Bro. Evans appenrs to be somewhat ex orcised therent. However he takes oc casion to neatly compliment the subject of the nrticle in the following language: “The article in question was a well writ ten endorsement^ of our fellow citizen Mr. Bartley for state treasurer. While we have nothing in common, politically, with that gentleman, we are.free to ad mit that if any republican is to have that position we should prefer Mr. Bart ley to any one else in that party.” Viewed from any standpoint The Frontier is of the opinion that the citi zens of O’Neill should vote for bonding for the purpose of erecting a system of water works. This needed improve ment has been talked of for several years, but something has come up that appeared to make-it necessary to wait. Of course taxes nre now high, but we will not ma terially feel the addition caused by fif teen thousand dollars of long-time water bonds, and the benefits to be derived are so numerops and weighty that the objection of cost should not be consid ered. There is not another town of the size and importance of O’Neill in the state but that has a water system. It is not by any means a luxury—it is a nec essity—and we urge our people to vote the bonds in the honest belief tbat they are doing the right thing for the town as a town and for themselves as indivi duals and propci ty owners. The Fremont Flail is in error. The Frontier did not say that Frank Stouffer was cashier in Dorsey’s bank. It did not even intimate any such thinj* The writer has a personal friendship for Mr. Stouffer and would not under any circumstances say one word derog atory to him, end would rejoice in his success in any line, politically or other wise. That he U worthy and well qualified is not questioned. But we did say, and hereby reiterate, that he was brought out as a candidate for state treasurer by Mr. Dorsey, both directly and indirectly, and we can prove the assertion to the satisfaction of any reasonable man. And we claim that Dodge county is not entitled this year to representation on the republican state ticket, and the friends of Mr. Stouffer will be convinced that the republicans of the state, when the convention meets, are pretty unanimous in that same opinion, and will agreq with us that the move was an unwise one. While we do not question the right of Mr. Stouffer to be a candidate we think that under the circumstances it is deuced poor politics. The Frontier is highly pleased at the unanimity of expression of senti ment and sympathy on memorial day. The Grand Army boys had made splen did arrangements for tho observance of the day, and it only needed the co-oper ation of our citizens to make the affair a success. This ’they received to the fullest extent, and it must indeed be gratifying to the living members of the grandest army that ever responded to the call of country to know that the people of the town in which they live so freely and fully showed their feelings of reverence for the members who have responded to the last roll call, and have taken their places in the silent city of the dead. O'Neill has observed this occasion in other years, but not so generally or unanimously. This time places of business were closed, and men. women and children attended the exer cises at the court house and participated in the march to the cemeteries, and the decoration with beautiful flowers of the graves o! the fallen comrades by the sweet young girls was witnessed by the multitude with proper respect and decorum. It was a glorious, a solemn sight, one that will be long remembered, and the example will without doubt be followed in after years. The Liberty, a paper published at Lincoln in the interest of the independ ent party, speaks pretty plainly when it says: "“At the request of Thornton, Pirtle, Dcch, Wright, et al, the alliance is being basely turned Into the channel of private malice, to abuse papers and men who do not endorse a political crime. We say fear'cssly that Mr. Kern’s bank ing bill is a political crime, because it proposes to violato the very principles upon which our republic is founded. It proposes to violate the constitution itself, and could not become a law with out having first destroyed that instru ment, which was given to us, written in the blood of our heroic ancestors. And because we do not endorse it; because we refuse to be false to our country, humanity and God, we are condemned, to satisfy the spleen of a few designing politicians.” Tho editor then goes on to read the riot act this way: “It looks to us as though a certain few would have us remain silent, lest the party be in jured* Tho party will die and ought to die .if it is to be placed under the supreme leadership of Thornton, Pirtle, Hem, etal. There would be nothing to fight for but ignorance and office. We desire to say in nil candor, that if the people of Nebraska desire the early Jeatb of the independents, they have :>nly to place it in the bands of these men and they can bury it in November, if it was organized to beg passes from W alt Seeley, for the benefit of its secre tary, the sooner it dies the better. If it was organized to blackmail passes for riiornton and his friends the sooner it dies the better. If it was organized to defend Pirtle in attempting to ride on transportation issued in another man’s name, the sooner it is buried from sight the better for the people. If it was organized to attempt the destruction of the liberties of the people, by establish ing a property qualification of $1,500 or over, as a test of citizenship, in ac cordance with Thornton and Kern’s banking bill, the sooner it is dead and forgotten the better. If it was organ ized to trample in the dust the character of our liberties and enslave our race to capital, the people will kick it to death, and ought to.” -- When the Nineteenth Wisconsin In fantry was recruited at Portage City in 1862 two young country boys enlisted in company D, named James Whitehead and John Halloran, who at first sight were attached to each other and became messmates and chums. During the four years service for their country Jim and Jack were warm friends, and there was no break in that friendship. Side by side they marched, side by side they slept, side by side they fought through seven great battles and many engage ments. When mustered out of service at the close of the war they separated, and for twenty-seven years they cher ished the memories of the war comrad ship, but neither knew the abiding place of the other, or in fact whether in the land of the living or not. When it was announced that Comrade James White head, of Broken Bow, would speak at O’Neill on Decoration day, and the number and name of his regiment was giyen, it caught the eye of John Halloran who lives near Inman, and is one of Holt county’s respected and pioneer homesteaders, he naturally was deeply Interested, and resolved to be on hand. i ne uranu Army Doys were m line at the depot to receive Mr. Whitehead upon the arrival of the train Monday, and when Col. Towle introduced him to the comrades and Mr. Halloran made himself known the meeting of these now gray haired men was. indeed affec ting. Tears stood iu the eyes of those brawny men as they clasped hands, and it was Jim and Jack again. The re union brought to mind thoughts of the war times, when as boys of seventeen they formed a friendship which was now to be renewed as men. Mr. Whitehead on Tuesday visited Mr. Halloran, spent the night with him and we presume the "camp fire” they held was kept burning till near morning. What a reunion was that? * We of today cannot realize it fully, yet we know it must have been pleasant to Jim and Jack. Mr, White head compliments Mr. Halloran in the highest terms—says he was a model sol dier, brave always, never shirking duty, kind and considerate, and was called "the handsome Irish boy.” And Hal loran speaks os creditably of Whitehead, but he didn’t say he was handsome. FACTS AND FIGURES. A farmer living northeast of O’Neill came into the Sun office the other day and wanted to know what proof we had for the assertion that protected farming Implements, made in this country, were sold cheaper to foreigners than to our own farmers. The Sun produced the proof and can do so any day. If the manu facturer’s word will he taken. Here Is what A. H. Furqnhar, of York, Penn., one of the largest implement manufacturers in the United States, says: ,‘We do sell goods from live to ten per cent olieaper to customers In foreigu countries directly and to jobbers for export than we do to the domestic trade. This I could not truthfully deny or candidly conceal." Mr. Farquhar' has been engaged in manufacturing farming Implements for the past thirty years and evidently knows what he is talking about.—O’Neill Sun. The above is misleading. A quotation only of u manufacturer’s statement is made. The free trader has but little argument it seems to back up his assert ions, and cannot be consistent. Misrep resentation is always rasorted to. The Frontier takes pleasure in calling the •bun’s attention to the following state raents of leading manufacturers of America. There is nothing to conceal in an argument with the English-sym pathizing free trader, and while we know he could not be converted he must be taken in hand occasionally (or the enlightenment of the reading public. We will admit the statement of Mr. Farquhar to be true this far: Any man, American or foreigner, can buy for the discount uamed providing he pays cash, and one has no favor over the other. In reply to the inquiry, “Are your prices the same to American and foreign customers,” the foltowing replies are quoted: Ann Arbor Agricultural Company: "Prices to wholesale dealers in this country are the samo as to foreign wholesale dealers, with boxing and New York delivery added." Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing Co.: "We have never made a distinction in price in favor of a foreign market; all reports to the contrary are absolutely untrue." Oliver Chilled Plow Works: “We do not make lower prices to foreign than to Amorlcan wholesale dealers. Are pre pared to prove that all such reports arc false.” o. i. vase company: -we ao not know of a single manufacturer of farm implements who does not get more money out of the goods shipped to foreign countries than he does out of an equal amount sold in the United States." Mr. A. B. Cohu of the A. B. Cohu Company, manufacturers agricultural implements, 197 Water Street, New York, made the following unreserved statements as to discounts in the agri cultural implement trade: We have been twenty years in the business, and our experience has been that goods are sold in this country as low if not lower than they are sold for export, with this exception: Export buyers pay cash or give a letter of credit on London which we sell here on the day the goods are delivered on board, and get cash for it. This gives them a slight discount, but domestic buyers at all times can obtain the same discount by buying on the same terms, that is, by paying spot cash. Domestic dealers at all times can obtain as good terms in the agricultural implement trade as can be obtained by buySrs for export." When asked whether agricultural implements were supplied to retail pur chasers in foreign countries at whole sale rates, Mr. Cohu said: ‘‘There is no such thing as a retail trade, in foreign countries, which we know anything about. We do not sell $100 worth of goods abroad at retail in a year. No manufacturer does that kind of business. The foreign consumer buys of the dealer abroad just as the consumer in this country does. A single plow ordered by a South-American farmer would cost more than half a dozen plows obtained in theordiuary way.” Mr. Cohu said that he stood ready to prove the above general statements by reference to a hundred invoices of domestic and foreign sales as they are recorded on his books. POLITICAL POINTERS. The Prints In It. Doc Mathews, who edits the O’Neill Frontier, is mentioned as a candidate for state senator. It might be mentioned right here that this is the year for country editors.—Omaha World-Herald. Ah, There, Major? Major John W. Wertz, of the Stuart Ledger, has at last received a meagre re ward for his years of zealous labor in the republican vineyard, in being appointed postmaster at Stuart.—Superior Times. Oh, Ho. Lessinger, a defeated candidate for clerk of the distrtct bonrt, is evidently again on the warpath for official prefer ment. Report says that it is a legislative bee now buzzing in his bonnet.—Atkin son Graphic. _ Why John? Butte Free Lance: Our esteemed cotemporary is a howling, shouting, roar ing supporter of Doc Mathews for senate. Doc would make a fairly good senator but if he does nut want bis bocm to wither and decay in early spring time he must muzzle Skuse. > > Improves by Time. And Joe should not lose anything, no matter how long he has to wait for the assembling of the convention, for there is not in all the state of Nebraska, a more popular, more deserving and better qualified man for state treasurer than Joe Bartley.—Hemingford Guide. All Want Office. There seems to be an internal com motion in the abdomen of the Holt county alliance. Judging from the malodorous reports that escape through ungarded orifices in their secret con ferences, it is evident that they are in sore trouble caused by an insane am bition among all the privates to become officers.—Atkinson Graphic. Wants a Senatorship. The Journal has it from unquestioned authority that Hon. W. W. Wood of Rushville, is not a candidate for the con gressional nomination. He is admitted to be good timber but does not seek the nomination. It is conceded that Dor rington will have the northwest solid at his back and while another candidate sprung in his territory might draw some votes it would quite likely result in the defeat of any one in the west end. Mr. Wood is for party success, not personal aggrandizement.—Harrison Journal. I I 'Smother Day. What are the wild waves saying in re gard to Senator Day’s status in the ap proaching senatorial conflict? It will probably be a triangular fight which will make it difficult for the Garfield dude to succeed himself. The present Day is not so auspicious for him as that diurnal biped enjoyed two years ago.--Atkinson Graphic. Thanks. The Enterprise rises to nominate W. |D. Mathews, of the O’Neill Fhontiek, for state senator from this district. “Doc” as he isfamiliarly known, is an indefati gable worker, a true and tried republi can,and has the ability to properly rep resent the people of the 13th district in the state senate. Holt County is entit led to the repnblican nominee and “Doc” is entitled to the nomination.—Garfield County Enterprise. Reformer Rem. A river and harbor bill has passed the lower bouse of Congress appropriating $20,000,000 and with side trimmings which will run the amount up to over $50,000,000. This is about double the amount ever appropriated for such a purpose and has the appearance on the face of being a deal. Our honorable Kem voted for the bill and it is pre sumed now that he will have plenty of money to run his campaign on.—Custer Leader. Will Remember Him. Amongthe several names so far men tioned in connection with the office of State Treasurer that of Joe S. Bartly of Atkinson seems to be generally the most acceptable. Mr. Bartley is a prominent financier of acknowledged ability, a gen tleman possessed of the highest social qualities, and has a political acquaint ance over the .state so general and so personally favorable as to render him a foimibapie candidate. He was a strong candidate for this place four years ago, and it is understood that he withdrew in Hill’s favor with the tacit understanding at least, that his claims should be con sidered at this time. The indications are that the boys are disposed to remem ber his generosity at that time and give him a strong support for the place this year.—Blair Pilot. Time Will Tell. Butte Free Lance: Our republican friends are at ssa in the big Sixth con gressional district as to the best congres sional timber to use in the approaching campaign. Gen. Whitehead of Broken Bow, and Col. Dorrington of Chadron. are prominent candidates, but the un sophisticated grangers and several un godly country editors will presist in ask ing questions, “who the d—1 are they?” Of course if the bosses o. k, them, the rank and file must take their medicine with out making wry faces. The people de mand Judge Kinkaid but his modesty forbids; he earnestly desires a mob of about 500 voters to capture him anu compel him to walk the slippery plank. If Judge Kinkaid desires the nomina tion he can have it. His election would be a foregone conclusion. If he does not desire the honor, that should settle the question. Why not select his col league, Judge Bartow? He is capable, honest, popular, He was elected judge in me iace or determined, well organ ized opposition. His brief career as judge bas demonstrated that the people made no mistake; that all his friends predicted has been verified. Judge Valentine had scarcely made the circuit of his judicial district when the people sent him to Washington as their mem ber of congress. Ho was the most use ful, hard working member ever sent from Nebraska to the national capitol. We firmly believe Judge Bartow would make a similar record. Try him. Then there :s Hon. A. L. Towle, receiver of the United States land office at O’Neill. He carries all the necessary qualifica tions under his hat, is popular, well known throughout the district and would poll more than his party vote. To be kindly affectionate towards all to bear no grudge or 111-will, no thought of displeasure or revenge towards any man is the easiest post al the most pleasant state of mind. Week we to ask a hundred men who from small beginnings have at tained a condition of respectability and influence, to what they imputed their success in life; the general answer would be “It was from being aarly compelled to think for and de pend on ourselves." An Eastern man, discussing high way improvement suggested the use of double road tracks made of heavy iron bands from six to ten inches wide, instead of rock, macadam or jravel. as being cheaper, more dur able; more easily kept in repair, and in every way more satisfactory. ____________ In a work recently published, the cost of hauling freight over the ordi nary country ropda or moving it upon the railroads is sharply contrasted. It is said to cost as much to take 100 bushels of grain ten miles from the farm to the station os to send it 1,800 miles from the station to the market The extortion of poor country roads a even greater than that of the rail roads. A clear stream reCects »u 0D, that are upon its shore, but u unsuL lied by them; so it should bo with oa, hearts—they should show tho effect of all objects, and yet remain un harmed by any. In a troubled stato we must do si in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through. for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do. andgi,, way as we conveniently can. When a friend told Plato what Scandalous stories his enemies had propagated concerning him, the phii. osopher replied: -I thank them-i shall have the more reason for try. ing to live so that no one shall believs them." As HE that lives longest lives but s little while, every man may be ecu tain that he has no time to vasts The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. Keep the tongue frotn unkindness. Words are sometimes wounds—not very deep wounds always, and yet they irritate. Speech is unkind some times when there is no unkindness in the heart; so much the worse that needless wounds are inflicted, so much the worge that unintentionally pain is caused. A cheerful heart paints the world as it finds it, like a sunny landscape: the morbid mind depicts it like a sterile wilderness; pallid with thick vapors; and dark as the ••Shadow ol Death.” It is the mirror, in short on which it is caught; which lends to the face of nature the aspect of its own turbulence or tranquillity. The genius of the bunco man hai given us bunco in the first and second degrees. That is to say, it provides for the fleecing of a victim on two counts. In the first place, he is swin dled in a “straight game;" as the par. lance goes, and then confederates ol the swindlers impersonate “detectives from police headquarters" and fleece the victim a second time, under pre tense of getting his money back. .When one stops to think of it there are very few states in the Union where the average farmer knows the difference between blooded and com mon stock. A few stock farms there always are where horses and cattle ol registered pedigree are kept; for fancy prices, as a whim of the owner. But the mass of the farming community looks at this as a mere fad. without commercial excuse, and believes the common horse and cow as good for the common purpose of farming life as animals in whose vhlns runs the blood of costly and carefully bred ■ires. It is said that man would be little better than a savage but for woman. With equal truth we may assert, both men and women would be hard and selfish beings but for children. These call out and refine, and soften the best feelings of the parental heart Their little needs are so many, and their simple innocence so affecting, and their very caprices so winning that love and attention flow out of them almost instinctively. That must must be a hardened nature which can be unmoved by the soft touch, the piayful childishness, and the hundred little pranks of a baby. The question of the right of physi cians, lawyers and other professional men to advertise their calling in the publio newspapers has long been a subject of controversy, but here, as in England, it has been held by the dom inant sentiment of both the leading professions that advertising their business is unbecoming, and in many localities the penalty is dismissal from the -fellowship of their associates. Re cently an English . dentist had his name stricken from the medical regis ter for having advertised his calling. an£ in this country, while the profes sional rules are less stringent, it is ac cepted as unprofessional for lawyers or doctors to advertise in the newspapers. As modern' social life is constituted complete mental rest for days and weeks together, says a contemporary, is necessary, in periods more or loss frequent, for every brain-worker. Rf rest indeed the writer does not mean self-imposed inactivity or banishment from all else but ourselves and our thoughts, for, with Cowper. he be lieves that "absence of occupation 18 not rest—a mind quite vacant is * mind distressed.” Probably this k n of mental inaction is seldom neces sary, or even advisable. But. besi e. the directly physical benefits of cessa tlon from professional work, change of air, and other slight changes res ful elements are to be sought in semi-emotional, serai-intellectual re reation of musio and art and o familiar scenery; in such social exe cises as acting and play-goi“g- e ing, singing and dancing; and. a all, in the pleasures of frlendsh ps a social intercourse*. /