The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVKKY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN. EDITORS.
The sewer broke again last week and
another half-column of sulphureted gas
escaped.
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It is not essential that Bro. Hates
should concern himself about King's
compiusation. Virtue is often its own
reward.
It looks as though somebody has
been doing a little fo’cing on the divis
ion question. If that be true somebody
has been fo'ced.
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The man who says this paper ever
supported the Atkinson plan of division,
If not a deliberate liar is a muchly mis
taken individual. This paper said ‘that
the Atkinson proposition had less to
recommend it than the one advooated
by O’Neill, and further, that the only
division that could carry would be a
straight two-county cut west of Emmet.
That's exactly what we said.
Fkw weekly papers possess editorial
merit equal to that which has made the
North-Western Catholic a brilliant
light in the constellation of religious
publications. Mr. Brennan, its editor,
is a scholar and a writer whose produc
tions are pleasingly destitute of ambi
guity, while his religious arguments,
permeated with tolerance and fairness,
cannot put challenge admiration.
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Tub press gang is roasting the state
fair officials to a nicely. They hick be
cause they have not been furnished a
season ticket. Tub Frontier arises to
remark that the state fair will get no
favors in these columns, nor will the
editors ask any odds of the fair. If we
want to see the pumpkins, the sheep,
the parsimonious officials and the black
boar pig we will present ourselves at the
gates and make a tender of a coin of
the proper denomination. The fair
should be made a success, but the boys
who do the advertising should not be
treated as unwashed mendicants. If the
country press of Nebraska would be
respected it must respect itself.
Tub editor of the Atkinson Graphic
went down to Lincoln last week and
told to the State Journal a pitiful tale
concerning the manner in which the
board submitted the question of county
division. From its interview with Mr.
Jeness the Journal gathered and pub
lished among other misleading state
ments, the following:
Acting under the new law the people
of Atkinson and Ewing recently set to
work and secured what they claim was a
* majority petition for a proposition to
divide the county into exact quarters, to
be called Adair, Fountain, Elkhorn and
Holt counties. This proposition would
leave O’Neill the county seat of Holt,
Atkinson the seat of Adair, Ewing the
seat of Elkhorn and no settled seat for
Fountain county. Those who favored
this plan of division presented the mat
ter to the county board and asked that
the proposition be submitted to the peo
ple, and then the trouble commenced.
The board had a plan of its own, in
tended, it is claimed, to defeat all plans
of division, and if that failed to at least
have the division after their own hearts
and in such a way as to leave Atkinson
in the same county with O'Neill and
powerless to do anything by ballot. So
when the Atkinson plan was presented
the board refused to receive the petition
but did receive the other proposition
and has gone so far as to vote for its
submission to the people.
We see no reason why the editor of
the Graphic should so terribly mutilate
the facts. Thb Frontier has no love
for the board of supervisors but it ob
jects to having them misrepresented:
the good Lord knows that the truth is
always bad enough. Now the facts are
simply these:
Stuart and Chambers filed a petition
praying that the three-county division
be submitted.
Atkinson and Ewing filed a petition
which besought the submission of a
four-county proposition.
The board appointed a committee to
investigate the merits of the two peti
tions. The committee worked night
and day for a week and finally reported
that the Stuart and Chambers petition
was first on file; that it had the most
signers and in the judgment of the com
mittee was the only legal petition, on
file. This report was adopted by a vote
of 16 to 4 and the proposition submitted
by a vote of 18 to 13. The statement
that the board refused to consider the
Atkinson petition is wholly falso.
The Journal says further that Billy
Summers has been employed by Jeness
to open up the case in the supreme
court and that action would be com
menced Friday in the supreme court
against the board of supervisors. “The
exact nature of the suit has not been
decided upon,” says the Journal, "but it
will probably be a suit to compel the
supervisors to open up the matter and
investigate the petitions of both factions,
or in the nature of an injunction to re
strain them from submitting the propo
sition set forth in the alleged fraudulent
petition.”
" This action comes with mighty poor
grace from Atkinson. She made her
fight and lost and should take defeat
philosophically. Supervisor Wine, who
led in the fight for Atkinson, sized the
situation up about right when he said,
after the battle: “Boys, we’ve no kick
coming. They are too smooth for us,
that's all.”
The legal committee refuted to make a
detailed statement of its transactions as
per order of the board. The boaid in
structed the committee to prepare and
submit a statement showing the amount
of money received by it; the amounts
paid uut and to whom and for what; the
amounts contracted to be paid; the
amount of salary drawn by each mem
ber of the committee for committee
work performed. The committee, hav
ing absolutely refused to throw any
light on its business, gives the tax
payers ample license to infer—as Tuk
Frontier always has—that something
is putrid in Denmark; that the business
methods of the committee have been
such as to excite the indignation of the
peoplo should they stand revealed; that
too much cash has been paid to Mike
Uarrlngton and the governor of Chi
huahua, and that in the matter of per
sonal remuneration it had too freely
scratched the chronic eruption in the
palm of its own band. This committee
has no legal existence. Warrants drawn
in its favor were in direct violation of
the statute which makes no provision
for a simple appropriation, but says all
claims against a county must be filed
with the county clerk. In this case no
claims were filed, but numerous war
rants were drawn payable to the chair
man of the legal committee, and now
the people are denied the right to even
learn what has become of them. It the
tax payers would pay less attention to
the leak at the spigot and watch the
over-burdened bunghole they would get
their eyes open after awhile.
A certain O’Neill paper says the
people or the cattle thieves will have
to leave this part of the state. We see
no reason for an exodus on that account.
A greater number of men have been
murdered in Holt county the past
year than there were cattle stolen.
“FRIENDS” OF THE PEOPLE.
The politician, who gets a living out
of politics, and by far the greater part
of whose business it Is to influence
votes, Invariably poses as the “friend”
of the people. Most of the people are
poor and bard run; it is natural for
them to feel that something or some
body is to blame—sometimes one or the
other is—and the designing politician
shrewdly turns this condition to his own
account. He abuses without stint or
distinction the lender whom these peo
ple owe; he rails at the property owner,
whose lands they till, and whose houses
they occupy; he slurs the seller from
whom they obtain supplies; he de
nounces the employer who gives them
work; he throws mud savagely at every
class, and at every individual toward
whom he can hope to direct the preju
dice of unfortunate voters. He is a
hypocrite. He is a wolf in sheep’s
clothing. He wonld, if it served his
interests, blast the people he professes
to serve. He goes to the legislature or
to cougress and accepts favors and
bribes from unholy corporations and
unscrupulous schemers whom he so
savagely denounced when talking to
the people. For a railroad or a street
car pass, or a few shares of stock in a
corporation, or in consideration of a
“tip,” as to the course of a stock on the
stock exchange, to be manipulated by
his bribers, he barters the people’s
rights, and lays upon them heavy bur
dens. To placate one class of voters he
hurls epithets at another, to favor one
class he levies tribute on and oppresses
others, feeling sure always that the
wronged ones are in the minority. To
advance himself he betrays all, conceal
ing as far as possible his treachery
under the cloak of innocence.
It just now suits the purpose of most
of these “friends” of the people to pose
on what they believe to be the popular
side of the silver question in their re
spective districts or states. The ques
tion itself begets prejudices, and they
are making the most of those that are
natural. They are trying to array class
against class, interest against interest,
the poor against the rich and well-to-do,
sowing seeds of dissatisfaction, social
ism and communism. They are trying
to make it appear that the interests of
different business classes are widely dif
ferent, and have nothing in common,
and that stagnation, contraction and
loss will cheer and prosper one class,
while it impoverishes and depresses all
others. One must keep a pretty clear
head, or he will conclude that the
worm u really out or joint when the
preaching of such doctrine by such well
known kind of preachers finds eager
and attentive listeners. Right thinking
and prudent men should denounce in
stead of embracing such dangerous
heresies. Unjust and iniquitous combi
nations of capital do undoubtedly exist;
combinations largely promoted and en
couraged in secret by the bribe-taking
“friends” of the people; and in the na
ture of things they will pontmue to ex
ist until human nature changes or the
millennium comes. But they are con
fined to no business class or condition
of men. And even these unrighteous
combinations are vitally interested in
the prosperity of the country. It is a
seiious mistake to assume that any
body or any class can prosper on tbe
general misfortunes of the country. It
is a mistake fully as great to permit the
judgment to be influenced by any office
seeker whose integrity and manhood are
not known to be grounded on a rock.
How many such did you ever know?
How many do you know today? The
“friends” of the people are humbugs.—
Dollars or What.
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