The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, April 29, 1897, Image 4
The Frontier. .« PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY HR FRONTIER PRINTING OOMPANY D. H. CRONIN, Editor. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. All onr subscribers who are owing os on subscription are roqueted to call and settle their account Do not put off the payment of your sub scription, but come and pay up at once. We need the money to keep our business going, and if our sub scribers do not come in and pay up we will have to employ a collector. Please call and settle. If a man is arrestd charged with murder is a sheriff performing his duty if he gives him the freedom of the city? Thk leniency of our honorable county judge in dealing with men accused of crime is causing con siderable comment We will have more to say of this matter later. OscW again has the fair name of Holt county been stained with crime. The funny newspaper writers have been furnished material for sensa tional stories about the lawlessness and blood-thirsty greediness of the .. citizens of this county, but not through the instrumentality of residents of Holt While the killing was done within the confines of this county the men who were instru mented in sending the soul of young Cole to his maker were from Keya Paha, aocross the Niobrara, a river ; whose waters have often been crim ... soned with the blood of misguided and lonely wanderers. Is there no law in Keya Paha county? Have they .no officers to pursue and arrest criminals or must such work be left in the hands of a few who pride themselves on their aptness in pull ing a “shooting iron ?” Is the life • of a fellow being thought so lightly of that a man will kill him for steal ing a couple of saddles and an old harness? When did two wrongs ever make aright? If the parties from whom the articles werj stolen had sworn Out a warrant &nd sent .. officers after them there is lib ques - tion but what they would have* been arrested and that without bloodshed. The property would have been re covered and the culprits could be punished according to law. But hew different now. < One or two men with the mark of. Cain upon their brow and a conscience whioh will ^alway accuse them and whioh they will find impossible to placate. Their most peaoftful dreams will be dis turbed by visions of the hillside near Stuart, where dole crossed the divide. , If the aocused a^econ \ demn&jfc and punished that will not ••restore to the aged mother her dar ling boy who, though probably a little wild, was dearly loved; The law should be strictly enforced and 'justice meted out to all offenders, is for the protection of the rich id the poor, the strong and the weak and its majesty should be Maintained. f BEFORE AMD AFTER. Lincoln, April 27, 1807—Special Correspondence: Of the ' active •farmers now iu Nebraska, most of the older set remember how we used to stand op in line before the teacher’s desk at the district school and read from the old McGuffey’s $ Fifth Header. It was a sterling book and every “piece” was a gem. How proud we were when we had < been promoted to the fifth reader * : class and conld stand up with the big boys and girls, and read verse . about down the line Some of us ' can even yet recite from memory tfaie thundering lines from Bryon de scribing the battle of Waterloo, ■j commencing, “There was a sound of revelry by night” We can remem ber some of the stirring passages . from Webster’s great oration where V he began, “Mr. President, I shall Miter into no enoonium upon Mass i achuaetts.” We remember the story from Washington Irving of a buffalo hunt which occurred over a hundred , years ago out in this western conn C try somewhere, and the story of the \‘. . ' ■ ‘ . - n<S beautiful Genevra, who in thought less playfulness locked herself in the great oaken chest which held the secret of her death for fifty years. Life seemed very beautiful aod romantic to us then, when our hearts were tender and impressionable, before these later disappointments had deadened our finer sensibilities. “Bat we promised so much nnd we’ve gained so little, We promised so much of glory and gold, And we’ve gained so little That our hands are cold. And for gold and glory we’ve gained instead, Hearts that are sickened and hopes that are dead ” There’s as much beauty in the world now as there was then, but we don’t see it Love is humming the same old tunes, but the gentle music does not reach our ears. “Time that defaces us, Places and replaces ub,” has put deep furrows and harsh looks ttpou the happy faces which we had then. If we had been con tent to keep in the broad highwny where competency and content comes at last as a sure reward for honest toil and frugal living, if we had kept out of the side roadB into which greed, speculation and fash ion were forever beckoning us, we would now be looking at life fiom a different standpoint, and the dis tance between what we hoped to achieve and what we have achieved Would not seem so great. But speaking of how we some times see ourselves from the wrong standpoint and how the burden of each one seems to him heavier and harder to bear than the burden of his fellow, reminds me of'another one of the “pieces” which we used to read in the old McGuffey’s. In a certain country the people came to the king, each with a bur den peculiar to himself, which seemed to him more grievous than the burden of any other and which he prayed might be removed by some act of the king or some process of law. One man had a scolding wife, another had a carbuncle on his shoulder, another had a cork leg, and still another had an undutiful son. Now, if that king had been a demagogue, he would have tried to fool the people, to- take their minds off on a wild goose chase after some pretended reform; He would have called a convention and would have prepared some thundering resolu tions. He would have organized a street parade of those who had grievances. There would have been banners and mottoes crying “Down with carbuncles!” “Down with un dutiful sons!” “Down with sodding women!” “Down .with oork legs!” But the king was neither a dema gogue nor a chump. He knew that life was no joke, that it was a seri ous matter, that thundering resolu tions or flying tanners would never do awqr with carbuncles, undutiful sons, scolding women or cork legs. He was philosopher enough to know that each man' must evolve within himself sufficient individual strength to solve the problem of his own par ticular life and must keep his tem per sweet enough, his mind clear enough, and hia eyes open enough to see whatever sunshine would -fall upon his path. The king knew that each of these eomplamers had brooded over his particular griev ance' until he had become morbid and chronic in his discontent, apd that the only way to cure him of this mind malady was to change off with the other fellow. And so he appointed -a day when each should bring bis burden to the palace and exohange it for another. And now the man with the scolding wife came, dragging her in, and filing her down before the king. The oork leg was thrown into the heap of discarded bnrdens and the nndntifnl son with his cigarette and tan colored Hhoes was tumbled in along with the carbuncle. And then there was a scramble each for what the other had discarded. The carbuncle man had long had his eye on the scolding wife, for she had never scolded him, and he had seen her only in company where her manners were amiable and sweet The father of the nndntifnl son was tiokled to death to get the carbuncle, and the oork leg man was delighted at having an heir to his fortune and was willing to spend any amount of SSni&Si •. <'■ "t V *. , * , money on cigarettes and tan colored shoes for the undntiful son. But you remember, my old school fellow from way back, how each of these men returned in a day or two pnd begged for his burden back agam. And now I am wondering how Nebraska people feel since they have exchanged republicanism for populism. The taxes were a heavy burden nnder republican rule. The popu list politicians told the people over and over again that they w^uld reduce the salaries of those tvho lived on the public, that they would abolish the secretaries of the board of transportation, would abolish a great mnny of the useless positions which absorb the substance of the people and render no equivalent. They would abolish railroad passes and stop the private junketing of public offices. Enough of the peo ple believed these promises and voted for a change to put the popu lists in charge of the state govern ment. Now, what is the result? Has the burden been made lighter ? I have seen a gaunt mother pur sued by a hungry pack. I have watched her to see if she would finally yield to the cries of the fat little rascals who were too lazy to root for themselves. I have seen her at last, as if overcome by the importunities of the brood, lie down and turn up her dinner basket, and I have observed how each little pig rooted his nose about to find the softest teat, and how in their greedy scramble they crowded each other, how they sucked and pulled and grunted with satisfaction as the last drop was sucked from the poor old mother and how when she could no longer give down they jamed their little sharp hoofs into her flesh, root ing, pulling, sucking and squealing for more. Did you ever see pigs suck with more energy than these reformers who are sucking now? They have been jostling each other and quarreling like cats over the spoils instead of remembering the promises they bad made to the peo ple. Some of them have not only their noses but both feet in the trough, and some of them, hundreds whom I could name, are squealing all over the state because there was no teat for them. If I should write it down now that all these fine pre tentions of reform were utterly false, that they intended to fool the people by this trick of pretentions just a r Bryan fooled the people when he pretended to hate injunctions, and just as he advised the farmers and working men to deceive during the last campaign, and if I would say that populism is only an organized appetite for office, then the governor would send out, over the signature of his stenographer, another com munication to the populist press denouncing me as a skunk. If the Oder which republican writers give out is bad, it is the oder of populism uncovered, and I don’t blame them for holding their noses at the smell. Honest populists all over the state are turning their noses away when they see this mass of pretended reform reeking with wriggling poli tical maggots whose only instinct is appetite. They are grabbing passes ns passes were never grabbed before. They are grabbing salaries as salar ies were never grabbed before. They are off on junketing tours, some of them, before they are dry behind the ears from being born into public office. A week before thtf legislature adjourned it was all at once discovered that the secretary of state was absent. It was given out by his clerks that he had left no word, but they thought he was off for a day or two at his home in Merrick county. It was an awkward and unusual thing for the secretary to be away at such a time. All the business of the session accumulates into his hands at the close, and it is important that he be t^iere above all times in the year. The bills passed are required to be handled with great care lest there be some error in compiling them into the printed laws. But the secretary was away just at this critical time, and the mass of newly made laws was dumped into his office, into the hands of a lot of inexperienced clerks, just as a careless farmer ' dumps a load of corn into the mud \ ... ■ . ‘i before a poo full of hungry cattle. The lawyers and those who under stand how important it is to koep the work of legislation orderly and straight, smiled when they saw the general tumbled and disorderly manner in which the session was ending, and some of them say there is scarcely a bill passed which, when it finally gets into the book, will stand the test of its constitutionality. But the secretary was away, every thing went by guess, and no one could tell where he was or when he would return. In two weeks after the close of the session he appeared and began to tell his confidential friends of the wonderful sights and the wonderful advantages of Florida. He had been on a junket to the south and could not keep the secret. Warwick Saunderk, one of tho oil inspectors, is.. just, returned from Texas, and is trying to be inter viewed in an advertising scheme as a reward for his transportation. The governor and his private secre tary, with their families,-are off in a private car for a junket to Port Arthur and other . poidttf in Texas, which are trying to boom. The Gulf road, which furnished the private car and equipped it with victuals and drink, is sending out booming dispatches all over the country, quoting the governor add Maret as being wonderfully im pressed with the opportunities offered by western Arkansas . apd other points which ace seeking em— migration from NebUfska.- How do you like the change as far as you’ve got '■ J. W. Johnson. YOUNG WIVES We Offer You a Remedy Which Insures SAFETY to LIFE of Both Mother and Child. MOTHERS’FRIEND BOBS CONFINEMENT OF ITS PAIN, HOBKOIl ANI> DANGER, Makes CHILD-BIRTH Easy. 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