The Frontier
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IIY
THE FRONTIER PUINTINO COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN. Editors.
It will bo a groat relief to the people
when the board of supervisors is
abolished.
Tayloii, the South Dakota treasurer
who embezzled a half million, is out on
|23,000 bail. ;
The populist press of the entire state
is in a transport of enthusiastic delight
over the verdict reudered in the murder
case.
The supervisors should make an ap
propriation for the purpose of establish
ing training quarters. There is no use
of talking, they can’t be expected to put
up a good light when they are not in
form.
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One newspaper in Nebraska runs
each week without credit a column of
clippings culled from its exchanges.
Although the hoading shows that they
aro not intended as original, the practice
is a questionable one. Credit should he
given to whom credit is due.
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The will of General Gresham has
been probated. It was written by him
self and bequeaths his estate, worth
$31,000, to his wife: It is stated that
during the time of his service as secre
tary of state and up to his death he hal
not drawn the pension allowed him by
the government.
Thu Sud is a handy piece of ma
chinery for the pops. It often happens
that they want to say things unofficially,
that is not as pops, and in that case
they go to the Sun and the Beacon
Light remains silent. Such an arrange
ment is convenient for the pops and a
matter of profit to the Sun. Mcllugh is
just the kind of a man for the position.
He has no individuality and never had
an idea that was not injected into him.
Thohb people who seem to think that
the tariff question has been settled
should note what Senator John M.
Thurston said upon that point in the
league convention at Cleveland: "The
republican parly will never let the
tariff question rest until it has been set
tled right and forever. What this
country needs is not an opening of the
mints to the silver of the world, but an
opening of the industries to the muscle
of the citizens.”
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Two weeks ago the Sun attempted to
criticise The Frontier for the position
it took upon the question of division.
Last week it published an editorial in
which were embodied ideas advanced by
us months ago. It also stated more
fully its position upon division, it
said, in effect, this: First, vote against
any division; second, if you must vote
for division, vote for the O’Neill-Stuart
Chambers combine. This is just what
we have been anticipating. It shows
plainly that the populists are going to
throw their strength against the move.
They don’t want division. There will
not be a man occupying a place upon
the populist ticket who will support di
vision. Division would ruin their offi
ces, should they be re-elected, and they
all expect re-election. A man with
half an eye can see the trend of affairs.
The Beacon Light, while accusing us of
being recreant to O’NeiH's interests, has
never come out squarely and advocated
the division that is said to be wanted by
O’Neill. It has quoted the expressions
of business men, but it has not advo
cated the plan or said that it was en
dorsed by it. That was left for the Sun
to do, the pops figuring that anything
the Sun would say could not injure
in anyway their political chances, but
even now it has been called down and is
crawfishing. If division gets any
warm newspaper support in O'Neill it
will be Tns Frontier that gives it.
Just stick a pin here.
These soft July breezes waft to the
ears of The Frontier rumors of popu
list slate-making by such illustrious
farmers as Michael Harrington, T. V.
Golden and others. The latest is that
Mr. Golden has his district judgeship
boom inflated sufficiently to cause it to
float when it shell be cut loose from its
moorings. He is to have the Holt
county delegation and enough from the
west end to insure his nomination.
Michael Harrington is to be a candidate
for supreme judge and the Holt county
delegation will be at his service.
Michael, however, does not expect the
nomination: he expects notoriety. The
plan is for him to take his little delega
tion down to the state convention and
make a grandstand play. By virtue of
his leanness he expects to work his way
through the assembled hosts of popdom,
spring boldly upon the ramparts, inflate
his lungs to their fullest capacity and in
a spasmodic burst of grandiloquence
nominate for supreme judge that grand
old man, Maxwell. Then the applause,
which will cause the welkin of the
casino to rattle like dry bones, will be
music to his ears more soothing than
the song sang by the sad waves at the
sounding sea shore, and the echo will
tell him a tale of congress. In 1896 he
will be a candidate to succeed Kem.
The plot is a pretty one but its force
and effect will be somewhat impaired by
its early publication. Those little
things all seem much nicer and freer
from intrigue when they have the ap
pearance of spontaneous combustion as
v it were.
Wk are informed that the county
board has allowed Attorney Harrington
Ices to the amount of about 81,500, be
sides considerable cash paid him by tbe
legal committee. How do the people
relish this kind of reform? Do they
not wonder for what the county attor
ney draws a salary, with trimmings in
the form of office rent and fuel? The
allowance of these claims is without
question illegal. An Omaha attorney
had a written contract with the com
missioners of a certain county in this
state, for the performance of legal
work, but the suprume court said thnt
under the law he wbb not entitled to it
and therefore denied hint judgment. It
would he the same in this case if any
one took interest enough in the matter
to carry it up. This board, however, is
determined to reward those of the faith,
law or no law. It has been but a few
years since the board made a contract
with Walt Townsend to erect a bridge
across the Niobrara river. When work
was commenced it was found that tbe
plans and specifications were inadequate
and that the bridge must necessarily be
larger. Tho bridge committee accord
ingly authorized Mr. Townsend to
make the change, agreeing to pay a
reasonable sum therefor. The bridge
was built in accordance with the in
structions of the committee, but when
the bill was presented the board refused
to pay for the extras and the supreme
court sustained them upon the ground
that the committee had no right to alter
the contract. Mr. Townsend lost all of
the money put into the extra work and
the county got tbe benefit by sneaking
out through a technicality. But in the
case of Harrington, although tbe same
opportunity is presented to avoid pay
ment, they do not choose to avail them
selves of it. Townsend is entitled to
his money but he’s not in the push,
that's all.
THE DECLINE IN PRICES.
There has been a steady and persistent
decline in prices since 1805, and the al
leged ‘'demonetization’’ of silver in 1873
neither checked nor hastened that de
cline. We emerged in 1805 from the
greatest war of modern times. War is
a great destroyer as well as a great con
sumer. During the war period the de
mand had greatly exceeded the supply
in all lines. The sources of production
had also been cut off, or reduced, and
prices had gone skyward. Decline was
inevitable and immediately set in. Any
one in the mercantile business during
the period from 1805 to 1878 will remem
ber distinctly the difficulty of selling at
a profit any stock that lay a few months
on the shelves.
The tremendous march ot modern
progress began about this time to be
come a great factor in the reduction of
prices. During the period since 1870
the forces of civilization have developed
more power and progress than in five
hundred years, or even a thousand years,
before that time. The great alleged
"crime" ot “demonetiza'tion" in 1873
did not create a ripple in the resistless
sweep of modern ideas, invention, enter
prise and development. Railroads have
belted the earth, reaching thousands of
miles into wonderfully rich and formerly
unexplored regions, enlarging and
cheapening beyond computation the
production of every cultivated thing
that grows from the ground, and equal
izing (with cheap trasportation, which
has grown cheaper every year) all sup
plies in all parts of the world. Ocean
tonnage has also been largely increased
and carrying rates largly reduced.
Steam has supplanted the sail; the six
months' voyage of thirty-five years ago
is now measured by days and weeks.
Where capital was formerly tied up for
weeks, in an ocean shipment, it is now
released within a few days. Where
sales and purchases were made through
months correspondence by letter, the
telegraph and cable now do the work in
a few hours. The cost ot doing a given
volume of business is reduced by 50 per
cent. All of these things have contribu
ted to the steady and swift reauction of
prices.
it Biiouiu tie needless to direct atten
tion to the marvelous improvement and
development in mechanical appliances
within twenty-five years—a develop
ment probably exceeding that of all time
from the days of Adam. The cheapen
ing of all manufactured products has
been in direct ratio to the increase and
perfection of these appliances. And,
they have also greatly reduced the cost
of growiug and harvesting wheat, corn
cotton and other agricultural products.
The unlimited coinage of silver could
no more have stayed the effect of these
forces than a bunch of straw would
turn Niagara. They have simply devel
oped new and strange conditions,
whether for the good of mankind or the
reverse remains yet an unsolved prob
lem. But it would seem that in the end
great good must come from the cheapen
ing of the cost of all the necessities,
comforts and luxuries of living. Labor
problem, and many vexing questions
and issues not now quite clear, must be
adjusted. But silver has no place what
ever in these adjustments.
1 \Yc have had a transformation since
the “demonetization" of silver. We
are living iu a new age. And the free
silver advocates have as yet been un
able to comprehend or accept the con
ditions. They have eyes but do not see
They cling to the dead past, and live on
a pleasing but foolish memory. Some
of them garrulous and miserable. Others
are spiteful and venomous, because they
foolishly believe that the great marching
procession has “conspired” against them
and against the idol they have so long
cherjshed with a singleness of heart and
pathetic devotion. They are mischiev
| ous, because some of them have filled
| high places. Many people are impress
ed with the tenacity of their devotion;
others are attracted by the noise they
make. But they are as unsafe guides
as an old man in his dotage with a host
of immaginary wrongs.—Dollars or
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