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VOLUME XVII.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.60 PER ANNUM.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 15, 18967
O. H. CRONIN, EDITOR AND MANAGER.
NUMBER 15.
NEWS SAIWHISIERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
, Local Happening* Portrayed Por General
Edification and Amusement.
D. Sammons, of Amelia, is in the city
today- _
If you have number 673 call at
Bentley’s. __
H. A. Allen was down from Atkinson
Monday. ._
Sanford Parker was over from Spencer
yesterday. _
Mrs. O.O. Snyder visited relatives at
Allen last Saturday.
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Nat Lucia visited over Sunday with
relatives at Allen.
Attorney C. L. Tahnage, ot Lincoln,
transacted business iu the city Wednes
day. *
Jim Gallagher is down at Neligb this
week where be has charge of the station
during the absensc of the agent.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Long of Amelia, died yesterday and
-was buried today at Chambers.
Thomas Kearns, of Park City, Utah,
was in the city yesterday. He left for
the east this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Chapin, of Wake
Held, Neb., were in iu the city last week
visiting '.heir daughter, Mrs. S. Barnard.
T. J. Birmingham, of Galena, 111.,
president of the First National bank, is
in the city looking after bis business
interests. ___
You are going fishing? Well, before
you start get your fisbing tackle of Neil
Brennan, who keeps everything in the
. sporting line. 44-tf .
James N. Blakeree, of Diller, Neb.,
Mrs. Bettie Klinetob, of Inman, were
married by Judge McCutchan yesterday.
The groom was 53 and the bride 56.
Those wanting to buy winter apple
toy the barrel will do well to see us be
fore buying.
14-15 O’Neill Grocery Co.
The Ladies McKinley and Hobart
Club will meet Friday evening, October
16, at tine club rooms. All members are
earnestly requested to be present.
Corbett’s photo studio and dental
parlors will be open from October 23
(to 30, J896, inclusive.
.9-5 A. H. Corbett.
Walter Phillips, of Knoxville, who
went to California a couple of years ago
has returned and will again take up his
residence in this section. He is an
uncle of Frank Phillips, of Star.
A quaiter section of clear land in
Madison ceunty, Mo., assessed valuation
4B7 per acre, to bet against $1,000 that
McKinley will b« elected. For further
reformation call at the billiar d hall.
Don’t trifle away time when you have
cholera morbus or diarrhoea. Fight them
in the beginning with DeWitt’s Colic
and Cholera Cure. You don’t have to
wait for results, they are instantaneous,
and it leaves the bowels in a health
condition. Morris & Co.
There is no flour, at any money, as
good as White Satin, and there is no
flour for the price that equals G. A. It.
.‘They cost no more than other flour of
<the same grade, but will give better
■satisfaction. 114 J. P. Mann.
It doesn’t matter much whether sick
beadache, billiousness, indigestion and
constipation are cansed by neglect or by
unavoidable circumstances: DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers will speedily cure
■them all. Morris & Co.
Attorney W. J. Courtright, of Fre
mont, wu in the city Monday. Mr.
Courtright has been stumping the state
for the republican ticket and as he is a
speaker of marked ability has been
doing much good for the party.
DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla is prepared for
cleansing the blood from impurities and
disease. It does this and more. It
builds up and strengthens constitutions
impaired by disease. It recommends it
self. Morris & Cq.
Theories of cure may be discussed at
length by physicians, but the sufferers
want quick relief; and one minute cough
cure will give it to them. A safe cure
for children. It is “the only harmless
remedy that produces immediate results.'
Morris & Co.
Mrs. R. R. Dickson returned Tuesday
evening from Iowa, where she had been
visiting relatives the past six months.
Thk Frontier is pleased to welcome
Mr. and Mrs. Dickson to O’Neill again
and hope that they will never regret
having returned to Holt county.
!
Charles Hemstreet has leased Stan
nard’s billiard hall, fitted it tip and is
now able to shoot the ivories with any
of the boys.
We insist upon this policy as es
pecially necessary for the protection of
the farmers and the laboring classes, the
first and most defenseless victims of
unstable money and a fluctuating cur
rency.—Democratic platform, 1893.
The great scenic production, Lincoln
8. Carter’s "Fast Mail" Company, which
appears at the opera house this evening
has played all over the United States for
the past three years. It is unnecessary
to dwell upon its merits—suffice to say
that for this season it has new scenery
and mechanical effects that surpasses all
previous efforts. The present season
Mr. Carter has six companies—four in
this country aud two in England.
The meeting held at the court house
last Saturday evening was a hummer.
J. L. Caldwell, of Lincoln addressed the
people and for two hours he poured
shot after shot into the populistic herd
who foamed and pranced like yearling
calves who were being introduced to the
weaning process. Preceeding the meet
ing a torch light procession was formed
on Fourth street, consisting of the
Atkinson and O'Neill Ladies McKinley
clubs and O'Neill McKinley and Hobart
club. The clubs marched pypr tbe prin
cipal thoroughfares to the court-house.
Among the numerous transparences we
noticed one that bore the inscription:
“I voted for Grover and got a $1 for my
wheat, nit,” reminding the people of the
promises made by the boy orator four
years ago, and one old soldier after
reading the above exclaimed: “He was
a liar then and he’s a liar now.” He bit
the nail squarely on the head. The
promises made to us four years ago
hare not been fulfilled. The novelty of
ladies matching in a torchlight pro
cession attracted i-onelderabla attention
and they received many compliments for
the simplicity of their costumes in which
were combined beauty and ueatuess.
Their presence in this campaign bears
an ill omen to the ranting blatherskites
who would (lestro/ l)}fs fundamental
principles of our government, end the
ill-bred scoundrels who stand on the
sidewalk spewing tobacco juice over
their wearing apparel and making in
sulting remarks about these faithful
women, many of whom lost a father or
husband battling for a country that is
gracious enough to allow such men (?)
to participate in the affairs of this gov
ernment, will, we hope, be compelled to
take'their cadaverous carcasses into their
dens of coiruption and stay there.
John Skirving, chairman of tbe county
central committ.ee, and Clyde King,
secretary, have arranged for the follow
ing republican rallies to be held in the
county, speaking at each meeting to
fiomuronce at 8 o'clock sharp:
October l?VRon. James Whitehead
and Col. W. R. Aker;, at jqttyaq,
Cctober 19—Judge John ,0. Tipton, at
Emmett.
October 20—Judge John Q. Tipton at
Saratoga.
October 21—Judge John G. Tipton at
Cleveland'
October 82—Judge John G. Tipton at
Green Valley.
October 23.—Judge John G. Tipton at
Amelia.
October 24—Judge John G. Tipton at
Chambers.
October ?7—G. M. ’ Lambertson at
Atkinson,and Ron, James Whitebad and
Col. W. R. Akerc at Rwlng.
October 29—Hon. T. L. Mathews at
Stuart.
The Silver Dollar.
Just to illustrate bow much one of
Uncle Sam’s silver dollars will buy from
us, we quote a few of the many bargains
to be found in our store:
Granulated sugar }J) pounds for $1 00
Arbuckles Coffee per pound - J9
Rolled Oat Meal 8 pounds for - 25
Gloss Starch per pound • - 5
Baking powder per pound - 15
Ginger Snaps per pound • - - 7
Best Soda Crackers per pound 7£
Sun cured Japan Tea per pound £5
Broken Leaf Japan Tea per pound 12}
Parlor Matches per dozen - 10
Climax, Horseshoe, Star and Spear
head Tobacco per pound - 38
One pound sack Smoking Tobacco 17
Thirty-three bars laundry soap for 1 00
Three cakes toilet soap }0
CANNED GOODS.
California Peaches 3tt> cans 12}
California Egg Plums, grapes, gages 12}
Pie Peaches 31L can 10
Eastern cherries, gooseberries and
blackberries three for 25
And many other good drives.
O’Neill Grocery Co.
STUDENT AGAIN IN8TBUCTS.
Mr. McCafferty exhibits the qualities
of an apt scholar in at least one respect,
the power of imitation. Like his chief,
Mr. Bryan, although not in so high a
degree.be possesses a peculiar faculty for
evading questions that would lead to the
utter overthrow of his doctrine. In
answer to a question, the foundation for
which was laid by himself, and a direct
answer to which would involve either an
anbandonment of his theory of unlimi
ted coinage or place him in the light of
an advocate of an almost endless chain
of absurdities, he replies that he will
answer by asking another.
Here, in substance, is the question put
to him: "If it is the height of nonsense
that the bullion value of a dollar affects
its value as money, why, under a system
of unlimited coinage, might not gold and
silver be coined at a ratio of 1 to 1?"
He answers the question by asking
authority for the assertion that the
government keeps gold and silver at a
parity on condition that it be allowed to
limit the coinage of silver! A most
pertinent answer indeed!
It is about as easy to trace the relation
between Mr. McOafferty’s "answer” and
the question as it is bis kinship to Adam
and Eve.
But Mr. Me. must admit tbe facts, as
he tacidly has done, that the government
is pledged to maintain the parity, and
that it is possible to carry out this pledge
only by powff tp cpntro) silver coinage.
It i6 a principal of law that an auO)oi>itar
tive act implies the necessary means tq
carry it into effect. This I will leave to
any attorney of repute in town, regard
less of his party affiliations.
But, as before stated, this has not one
thing to do with the question pnt to Mr.
Me. He has merely takeu umbrage un
der it to avoid a direct answer.
Mr. McCafferty wastes a large amount
ot space in rehashing the opinions of
commissions and individuals upon finan
cial quest|on«|. He tplglit spend aljfp
time transcribing the opinions of the
most eminent men who have ever ex
pressed themselves upon either side, or
upon both sides, of the question, or upon
any question, and still he would not
baye furnished sufficient material to
support a ya|id poppjqgion—a conclusion
capable Qf enforcing a conviction. J
don’t wish to be understood to mean
that the opinions of others are of no
value, or of little value. What I mean
is that an "opinion" never loses its
character until it is verified, and it then
becomes a "fact.” Hence, all tbe opin
ions advanced since the creation ot man
upon any one subfect would be insuffi
cient to disprove a single fact relating to
the same subject.
ft )t pqerllp, therefore, to offer naked
opinion, po ujatter wliat ipay pe the
character of the author, iu support of a
theory disproved by every known faot
relating to it. The history of the civil
ized world, on the financial question,
affords far more proof than is necessary
to show the futility of attempting to
keep gold $Dtl silver circulation under
a system of unlimited coinage at aqy put
their commercial ratio or one very close
to that. It is not necessary, in fact It
might be justly denominated pedantry,
to fill up a newspaper by quoting author
ities in support of this. It is known to
every one who has given the slightest
attention to the financial history of this
and other oiviliged countries, yet, after
the experience of centuries to the con
trary, wc find a glibe-tongued dema
gogue able to force the belief upon bis
votaries that he is capable of overturn
ing wnat is next to a law or nature.
*Vnd he $ept forth a roan from Qmaha to
show how it pan bp dfipp. The {lustra:
tion is very simple and harmless in itself,
but none the lesB deceptive. He told his
dupes (and of course they applauded vo
ciferously) that the ratio of value be
tween the two metals would be governed
by the same law which would preserve a
level in two tanks filled with liquid and
connected bv a pipe although you should
turn the faucet loose in cither. Now
this is certainly very simple and. in
regard to preserving the level of (he
liquod, it is true, being governed by a
law of hydrostatics. Financial princi
ples, however, are not governed by hy
drosdatic laws. The principle govern
ing the circulation of two metals of
different commercial values under a
system of unlimited coinage js
what is known as the "Gresham
Law.” It is, to put it in a few words,
this: When the commercial value of!
the two metals differs, the cheaper
metal goes to the mint, and the dearer
one to the market. It is easy to see that
neither law has any similarity with the
other. J think, however, that Mr. Mc
Caffeity’s faith In the application of the
tank fake to the financial question
would largely depend upon the kind of
liquid the tank contained.
Omitting the numerous "opinions”
(mostly of the forbidden foreigners)
offered by Mr. McCafferty.as "immaterial
incompetent and irrelative,” there is
little left for consideration.
Mr. Me. errs in saying that all agree
that there is not enougtv actual cash to
do the business of the country.' He can
not claim a deficiency of currency while
millions upon millions of dollars are
lying idle, the owners being afraid to
invest under the present disturbed con
dition of the country. After the ides of
November, when the tocsin peals the
glad tidings of William McKinley’s
election, then we will find that, once
more, the hoarded millions, rushing into
the channels of trade, whirling round
the wheels of industry, thereby affording
the laborer and mechanic an opportu
nity to exchange muscle for food and
clothing, this land of liberty will resume
the accustomed condition of happiness
and prosperity incident to republican
rule, bringing peace and lov to the
hearths and homes of even those
who are banded together for its humili
ation and, perhaps, destruction.
The conduct of the Yale students Mr.
Me., received the prompt condemnation
of the republican press and people. It
was otherwise with the Bryanite press
towards the disgraceful conduct the
hoodlum element of its party toward
Bourke Cochran at nearly every place
of note that he delivered an address.
At Omaha it is said that Br/an’s private
secretary was the leader of the ruffians,
and Bryan's mouthpiece, the World
Herald rather defended than condemned
the rascality.
If you enn establish equality of con
dition among the people of the earth,
Mr. Me., yop are just the man we want,
provided the condition be a happy one.
But you can’t, with the vast amount of
experience before us, and which still
continue to stare us in the face, make us
believe that you can accomplish it by
placing the country on a silver basis,
which must inevitsbly result from your
theory of unlimited coinage at 16 to 1.
We turn in disgust from the condition
of the unfortunate people of China,
Japan and Jndia, and also from that of
opr southern neighbor, Mexico, a« given
in the report, just published, of the
Trades' and Labor committee sent to ex
amine into the condition of labot in that
free silver country. It seems there were
poor,, aiid wealthy in the time of the
Savior—“the poor ye have always with
you,” Jfe said- These conditions are
likely to pontlnue. fyr a comparison of
the condition of the people under a gold
with that of those under a silver, stand
ard, you pan very plainly see that your
cure (silver basis,) if there is a disease, is
worse than the malady itself.
John acts like the finder of a she
horses nest in his remarks on bimetal
lism. Bimetallism, John, m any other
sense than that of concurrent circula
Mon may be bimetallism in pa^e, but
that Is all; and I apk, whqt i$ tbe use of
tbe name Without thp substancef Again:
You say no silver standard country ever
claimed to have bimetallism. You also
deny that gold standard countries have
bimetallism. Where, then, according to
your notion, can a bimetallic country be
found? No where 1 The gold standard
cotintrieg of tofiay tylefl fur years, as
tbeir histories show, to maintain concur
rent circulation under unlimited coinage.
They tailed. But they have in use to
day about as jnuch silver as they have
gold, while there is not a single silver
standard country able to keep one dollar
of gold in circulation. Not only that,
(hp gold standard countries heye
several times more silypr in use, per
capita, than the silver standard countries.
These are facts, not opinions. What
hope, then, is there of increasing the
circulation,admitting it were insufficient,
by adopting unlimited coinage at 10 to 1,
Which WPH'd Unquestionably place us
upon a silver basis, and consequently
drive gold out of circulation? The facts
are all to the contrary.
The royal commission theory of bimet
allism would be effective if the "ratio
fixed by law" was the commercial ratio,
and there were no fluctuations in the
market. But one of the necessary con
ditions (non-fluctuation) is impossible of
affirmation; therefore the conclusion
cannot follow.
It must have been about bed time
when Mr. Me. wrote that the value pos
sessed by gold and silver over the baser
metals was given them |bv law. It is
strange why the law had not the same
effect in regard to the baser metals—iron,
brass and copper—when they were used
as lawful money, vis: to make them
more valuable than the precious metals.
It seems it didn’t, though. You are
wrong end to, this time, John. Gold
and silver were selected for use, and re
main in use, as money, because of the
universal preference for them. After
arousing from your lethargy, you seem
to realise this fact when you state that
"gold’s relative value of sixteen times
(you should have said thirty-two times)
as much as silver is nothing more than a
fiction of the human mind ratified by
law.” Das so, as the darkey said, first
the preference, then its embodyment in
.aw.
The attempt to show that it is imma
terial whether, in expressing a change
in the prices of commodities, you say
that the value of commodities has de
clined or that of money has advanced, or
vice versa, can be true only when the
comparison is made between the stand
ard of value and a single commod
ity or when the , value ' of ail
commodities are affected alike.
The ' prices of some farm pro
ducts, such as: the cereals, are said to
have declined between ’78 and ’92, while
the price of eggs and 'ojtter remained
practically unchanged, and that of labor
had considerably advanced. Now,
under these circumstances (which are
verified by the senate committees’ report
of ’94) can we truthfully make the
general assertion that "money has be
come dearer,” during the period referred
to? Evidently not. In the case of
cereals, we might say it had becomo
dearer, in the case of butter and eggs j
etc., that it had remained practically the
same, while, in regard to labor, it had
actually become cheaper. The necessity
for a standard is, that we may compare
other things with it and thereby be
enabled to give expression to their
values in relation io it. The illustration
of the boys playing "teeter," Mr. Me., is
similar to that of the ‘two casks.” The
paralell might be admitted it, in the case
of commodities, as already stated, all
should vary, in regard to the standard,
in like proportion at the same time, and
that one of the boys were regarded as a
“standard” of position.
I have already shown the fallacy of
the proposition that “the prices of com
modities are governed by the amount
of money in circulation.” It is strange
that any man possessing a grain of com
mon sense would give credence to an
assertion that is contradicted by almost
daily experience.
It ia plain to anyone not blinded by
prejudice or hypnotised by demagogues,
that prices advance and decline under
copd|Uuna directly opposite to what is
claimed by this doctrine. We find
in our own country and right at home
here that the prices of commodities de
cline, without a contraction of the cur
rency, and advance when it was said the
currency was growing less. “Mi is un
necessary to go any further for proofs
although they can he furnished in abund
ance, and easily.
You seem to wish to leave the impres
sion, Mr. McCafferty, thati you have
done some tall reading on questions
financial and economical. Perhaps so.
But if you have, I submit that it has
done you more injury than benefit.
You seem to have grasped nothing but
the grossest absurdities of your authors,
and to have wasted valuable time which
yov\ might have improved in doing a
little studying yourself. One year spent
in faithful study is worth a life time
spent in cramming your brain with the
undigested thoughts of others. The
most powerful intellects of every age
have very often been diametrically op
posed on the most important questions
that baye been offered lor solution.
} This should teach us that we should not
endorse the opinlou of any one, no mat
ter bow eminent, without first digesting
the question, impartially, for ourselves.
I think, Mr. Me., that if you had acted
upon this principal you would not have
been led into such absurdities. Change
at once, and I am satisfied you will make
up yoqi mind to vote for William
McKinley. Student.
WE GLADLY ACCEPT SIEVES,
gold, or any kind of U. S. currency when
tendered in payment fer tickets over our
line, besides making your money worth
more than via other lines, for time is
money, and we save you three hours
time to Sioux City and beyond. Buy
local tickets to O’Neill and rebuy there
via the Pacific Short Line. Immediate
connections every day except Sunday.
BUY THE BEST.
TTllJ *-'.r
Every Pair is Warranted.
J. P, MANN.
L* V.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Micwlty for Adopting tin Amndawl
Enlarging the Supreme Court.
Of these there are twelve in namber.
Provision has been made by statute so
that a vote maybe cast upon these
amendments as a whole or with refer*
enoe to each separately, The first
amendment on the official ballot is to
increase the number of supreme judges
of this state from three, its present
number, to five. The necessity for this
increase becomes dear when we reflect
| that in the supreme court there are now
undisposed of 1.675 oases and that the
very highest average rate at which
cases have heretofore been disposed of
is 660 per annum. To clear the docket
of pending oases would require the court
as at present constituted, to work mare
than two years.- The oases being com
menced in the supreme court are at the
rate of 740 annually, so that with a
dear docket to commenoe with it
would be impossible to dispose of oaaea
as fast as they are filed
There is no danger that a majority of
those voters who vote upon this amend
ment will vote against it. An amend
ment to prevail must receive a majority
of all votes oast at the election at which
it is submitted. For example let it be
assumed that at the coming election
there will be cast the highest number of
votes for governor. If the aggregate
number of votes oast for all the oandi
dates for governor equals 800,000 a con
stitutional amendment to be adopted
must receive 150,001 votes, for the re
quirement is that the amendment must
BBOBIVK A MAJORITY OF ALL THE VOTX8
oast at the blbotion lit which it is sub
mitted. From the figures as to the con
dition of the business of the supreme
court above given, it would seem that
this particular amendment will meet
with no opposition. But this is not
enough. A majority of the entire num
ber of electors who vote in Nebraska on
November third next must express them- *
selves in favor of thia amendment or it
will nos be adopted.
THE CROS3 AND CROWN
Written for The Boo.
Spank not ao lightly of the orowu of thorns,
It pieroed the temple* onoe of God’s own non t
The leered emblem only all adorns,
Profane association, do thou shun.
Prate not too loudly of a cross of gold.
The cross He carried was so sanctified
nut bat to name it makes the blood ran oold,
And shows the darkened field on whloh He
Thy vain ambitions are too small for this,
Par mortal oraying* let the earth soffioe;
The crown of Christ, His oroas, are both a
They lire to point the way to Paradis*.
Isanab Bicut.
11 Business confidence,” says McKin
ley, “is what the country wants.” It
had business confidence when the Re
publicans were in control of the govern
ment under President Harrison. It will
hare business confidence again when
the Republicans are restored to power
under McKinley.—Omaha Bee.
The wooing of the old soldier vote by
the free silver press is not likely to be
attended with mnch success so long as .
sneers and insults are continually hurled
by these papers against the brave gen
erals whom the old soldiers still love
and reverence.—Omaha Bee.
A vote for J. H. MacOoll far gover
nor is a vote for practical business ad
ministration of the state affairs, and
Nebraska is sorely needing such an ad
ministration.—Broken Bow Republican.
“The idea that the government can
create wealth is a myth. The only thing
that oan create wealth is labor.”—Wil
liam McKinley.
What a Prominent Insrsnee Kukja
H. M. Blosaom, senior member of H,
M. Blossom & Co., 217 N. 3rd 8t. Louie
| writes: I bad been left with a eery die- -
treating cougb, the result of Influenza,
which nothing seemed to relieve, until 1
took Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. One
bottle completely cured me. I sent one
bottle to my sister who bad a severe
cough, and she experienced immediate
relief. I always recommended this
syrup to my friends.
John Cranston 908 Hampshire Street,
Quincy, 111., writes: I have found
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup superior to
any other cough medicine I have ever
known. It never disappoints. Price 25
and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P.
C. Corrigan’s.
What is a Qaranteef
It is this. If you have a cough or
cold, a tickling in the throat, which
keeps you constantly coughing, or if
you are afflicted with any chest, throat
or lung trouble, whooping cough etc.,
and you use Ballard’s Hoarhound Syrup
as directed, giving it a fair trial, and no
benefit is experienced we authorize our
advertised agent to refuod your money
on return of bottle. It never fails to
give satisfaction. It promptly relieves
bronchitis. Price 25 and 50 cents.
Free sample bottles at P. C. Corrigan’s. 4
LADIES ATTENTION!
We have now open for inspection six
nice decorated dinner sets, bought
direct from the manufacturers at un- '
heard of prices for this kind of ware.
One hundred pieces in each set for onl
97.50. Come in and look them over.
15-2 O’Nxnj. Grocery Co
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