The Frontier.
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' KINO & CRONIN. Editors.
■ft t The Jew says be was approached by
a "gentleman" Sunday. Verily, truth is
stranger than fiction.
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Wonder if Charlie Hamilton realizes
that the dew is whetting a knife to a
razor edge to be used In his political
anatomy at the next county populist
convention.
Tits last pamphlet North-Western
Reporter gives six cases passed upon In
this district by Judge Kinkaid and ap
pealed to the supreme court. They
were all affirmed.
Tub Jew professes great solicitation
for the, interests of O'Neill business
men in matters relating to county di
vision. It has been less than six months
since this same Jew threatened to have
his pals come In and burn the town, and
the business men have not forgotten
about It.
The county board of Dodge county
hired a man to do the work of the
county attorney and a tax payer appeal
ed from the allowance of his fees, just
as was done with Harrington in this
county. We supposo the Scott gang is
responsible for the action of the Dodge
county tax payer.
w it bn A man undertakes to do any
thing by the law he must be governed
by the law. Mike Harrington is en
titled to no lympatky on account of the
protesting of hia claims filed for attor
ney fees. Harrington la a lawyer and
knew when be undertook the job that
the law would not grant him compensa
tion. _
Tiie Atkinson Graphic haa cut ua
from its exchange Hat. We have no
idea what overt act of oura haa merited
the duke’s displeasure, and therefore
know not upon what lines to seek for
giveness. Borne day when we receive
the boodle that haunts the mind of Bro.
Bates we will subscribe for the dictator's
sbeot. but in the interim we will worry
along without it as best we may.
The following from a Pierce county
paper is interesting: “Pierce county pur
chased a poor farm and prepared for a
' v grand opening. The board of super
visors gave notice that all persons de
pendent upon the county for assistance
should appear at the farm on a given
day, and lot not a pauper came in sight,
whereas the list of those, receiving aid
from the county had numbered 105 for
* the year. The above story contains
- food for the profitable consideration of
other county boards."
The Sun has again staggered upon
the truth. Delegations of business men
have waited upon The Frontier, but
they said nothing about county division.
They all brought large orders for job
work, which we are executing with
characteristic neatness and despatch.
The business men of O’Neill know The
Frontier has been their friend
through the ups and downs of fifteen
long, weary years, and they are not the
class of people to be led astray by the
delirious ravings of boycotters and in
cendiarists.
Tub Beacon Light ia authority (or the
' ' atatement that Tom Golden, Henry
Murphy and Tom Carlon are candidates
for district judge subject to the action
of the next pop convention. If long
and faithful party service count for
anything either Murphy or Carlon will
secure the nomination, as they have
been long in the middle of the dusty
road, while it was only last fall that
Golden, with regrets, left his old friend
McHugh and openly identified himself
with the pops. Golden will get the
:% nomination.
Judicial anarchy and usurpation is
worse than treason. Let this district
have more of it.—Beacon Light.
It is truly appalling to note how
swiftly a man degenerates when once
seated upon the toboggan, but it is not
difficult to trace step by step his course
in his downward career. In this par
ticular case came the advocacy ef open
anarchy and rebellion, then the theory
that dead men are the easiest to handle,
and now the slogan is “judicial anarchy”
and the Jew wants “more of it/
Better promote to the district bench
some jurist from “the court of last re
sort in the Niobrara district.”
In the last issue of Scott’s Frontier
it again resorts to its misrepresentations
and slander of M. F. Harrington and
incidentally the county board. The
'K'. Frontier for several years never has
told the truth except by mistake. In its
article it charges that at the last meeting
fof the county board it voted him *1,600
besides a lot of money voted him by the
legal committee. The charge is as false
as ever The Frontier could make it.—
Beacon Light.
■f>, - The Beacon Light persists in mis
quoting us, although it is to the disad
vantage of its own cause to do so. A
man may gain a point by such rascality
but it is dearly bought and will result in
£ ■ but temporary advantage at best. We
did not use the language credited to us,
but said: ,
' We are informed that the county
board has allowed Attorney Harrington
fees to the amount of about $1,500, be
sides considerable cash paid him by the
legal committee.
Does the reader notice in the extract
any place where we said “that at the
Inst meeting of the board of supervis
ors it voted him 81,000 besides a lot of
money paid him by the legal com
mittee?” Certainly not. We said he
had been allowed claims to the "amount
of about $1,500."
Then, in order to enlighten its readers
and tell them Just how it was, the Bea
con Light made a statement purporting
to cover all the bills allowed, and cash
received by Harrington. They foot up
exactly $1,500.
In an attempt to convict us of falsify
ing the Jew has with bis own pencil
written our vindication.
Other men have toiled in the vine
yard, snatched the pop party from the
grave and decay, but old Kautzy denies
them the privilege of reaping and insists
that all spoils come his way,. Now
McHugh (lid not work tor the glory, or
sweat great drops just for fun: he had
his eye on the job work and expected
from Hamilton a share of the “mon."
But Kautzy kicks on the divy, says the
claim of McHugh is mere mud; that he
alone boro the cross and suffered most
from the fire and the flood. He whets
his razor on the hone of his anger, and
swears by the beard of the prophet
true that he will have the pap of his
party—-and how do you like it McHugh?
INCONSISTENCY.
The worst inconsistency of the advo
cate of free coinage is the ratio at
which be Insists silver must be coined.
He wants it coined at 16 to 1. That is,
he would put sixteen times as much
weight in a silver dollar as is put in a
gold dollar. On this basis, before
either piece of metal is converted into
stamped money, the piece of gold
would sell in any market in the world
for 100 cents, whereas the piece of sil
ver would bring but little over 50 cents.
It is clear that the silver 50 cent
piece must be made by law inter
changeable with and practically redeem
able by the government in the lull
value gold dollar; otherwise the two
dollars would not circulate side by side.
Yet this silver theorist rails at the gov
ernment for keeping a gold reserve to
make this 50-cent silver money pass for
100 cents.
If silver advocates want to coin all
the siver in the world why do they not
propose to put 100 cents’ worth of silver
into the silver dollar? It would then
stand alone, and until silver declined
they could, without distuibance give
the metal the "wide use" to which they
claim it is entitled.
The writer does not believe in nor ad
vocate the practicability of this policy,
but speaks from the silver standpoint.
And such policy would be more honest,
and somewhat less dangerous than the
plan proposed, though it would doubt
less soon result in the disasters of the
Sherman law.
In former ages and periods silver was
in great request as a money medium,
because the supply was very limited.
But modern discoveries, appliances and
Inventions have so increased and cheap
ened the product that it is fast ceasing
to be of value as a money metal. While
in former ages it was turned out by the
pound, it is now turned out by the ton
and the ship load. At one period of the
world copper was used as money, and
would doubtless have continued in use
to the present but for the fact that it be
came so abundant that it ceased to be a
precious metal.
It is not easy for people now to ac
cept the idea that silver may for the
same reason eventually cease to be use
ful for monetary purposes. That time
has not yet, and may never conte, but it
cannot be said to be a remote possibility.
It is foolish to go on theorizing about
the cause of its decline, and the methods
that would raise its value, when it is be
coming so abundant that warehouses,
instead of strong boxes, must be pro
vided for its storage. The commercial
law of supply and demand regulates its
price exactly as it regulates the price of
every other known product, and it is
not within the power of all the legisla
tive bodies in the world to permanently
and materially raise or depress its value.
Whether they all “demonetize" or “re
monetize” makes in the long run small
difference. The law of supply and de
mand has small respect for the edicts of
legislative solons.
Happily, however, for other nations,
and for the general good of mankind,
the United States is the only country on
earth dominated by the mine owners of
a few sparsely settled states. England,
France and Germany have a few vis
ionaries, but their legislative bodies are
not bullied by a powerful lobby of mil
lionaires with train loads of silver for
sale.
All efforts looking to free coinage hi
metalisin by international agreement are
wasted. The credits of Europe,
amounting to thousands of millions of
dollars, are based on a safe and perma
nent standard. Its disturbance would
result in disaster and calamity, such as
would shake to the foundations every
throne and government on the continent.
No step will be taken in the direction of
such danger. And it is probable that
even some free silver mine owning
senators are not quite so blind as to be
unable to see the folly of expecting any
move abroad in that direction. But
they will clamor all the more for re
newed and enlarged “recognition" at
home, on a basis of 16 to 1, for their
beloved metal.—Dollars or What.
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