The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 16, 1897, Image 3
RACK TO COLLEGE, mt h •v - PROP. WILSON'S PRESENT OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SOMETHING 1 ABOUT THE TARIFF. BAH FOB PBOSPER1TY 'IS NOW WITH US IN DEAD EARNEST. ■Hi<w of Labor'i Products Go Hifhtr and tlt> Plutocrats Will Hereafter Be Required to Share Their Btoney With the Producers. - The Smoking Chimney Top. Morn after ’morn the artisan Has watched with longing eye ' To see the grimy smoke In wreaths Swirl up Into the sky; He listened for the whistle shrill— Its echoes came not back— And cold and black and deaolate Still stood the chimney stack. He heaved a sigh for days gone by When early r rising day Found him with face to fac t t’ry turned. 'Light hearted on the way. ■- Ana now straight on before his eyes, While on his Journey bent, ' Behold the Bmoke-crowned chimney stack, Industry’s monument. ' The shouts of men give him good cheer When he has reached his goal; ' The hissing steam the fact’ry roar Are music to his soul. The grimy Titans of the shop— Waifs of the wizard’s brain— * With deft and skillful hand he leads - Submissive in his train; • Or with uplifted arm he rains Such sturdy, ringing blows As fashion forms of usefulness. And thrift and wealth bestows; He laughs and sings from morn till night Like the miller of the Dee; His fireside is his sweet delight: Itich in content is he. Ho hears again the tuneful ring That melds the hammered steel. He hears again the whirring din Of swiftly turning wheel: Ther? are the bustling ranks, of men— Our nation’s stalwart prop; Tiio fires are lit and there, above, is the nomking chimney top. Akron, Ohio, —Josiah Hartnell. RETAIL STORE TRADE. BeueUtH Accruing to All Claude* of Worker* Cutler the Diitglejr ]:■;!. The free trade papers of New York city are doing excellent work in popu larizing the Dlngley tariff. By the aid of illustrations, showing the examina tion of the baggage of passengers who arrive from Europe, they point out .clearly to American dressmakers, .jewelers and tailors, to the dry goods, stores, to men’3 clothiers,^ and to all whom they employ, that the patriotic policy of protection will check whole sale smuggling on the part of tourists. The former policy of promoting the in dustry of the smugglers also stim ulated the robbery of the United States treasury and encouraged the Tobbery of American wage-earners. .Speaking of the “unpratriotic American citizens who go to Europe for their boots and clothing," the Daily Telegraph of Syd ney, Australia, said: The swarm of these people has been Increasing of late to such an extent that American tailors and bootmakers have been agitating on the subject. So have American milliners and dress makers. Women are .among the wont offenders. They not only pay the cost of a trip to Europe out of what they save on the purchase of a year’s dresses and personal fixings, but they make a trifle out of the deal by bring ing across cargoes of things on com misssion for their female friends and enemies. Such of these things as could be classified as personal garments had to be worn In order to admitted free of duty. The elastic female conscience used to get over this difflculty, while the owner of it at the same derived a certain amount of satisfaction, by try ing on all the frippery during the trip across. Thousands of tourists, jnen and women, brought over enough clothing to last them for several sea sons. The Dingley bill is going to put a stop to this as far as legislation can stand against the ingenuity t>f lawless ness. While this statement may be some what overdrawn, it is important to note the interest in the subject that is taken by a free trade paper in a free trade British colony. At any rate the "ingenuity of lawlessness” is being checked, the robbery of the United States is being stopped and the em ployment of American labor is being increased, to the great delight of both male and female American wage earners, also to the benefit of our home store trade. The Baying of Food. Retaliation will be next in order, and it is almost certain that means will be found to discourage the importation of our breadstuffs and meat products and petroleum into European countries that will find the markets of the United States closed to their manufacture by the new Republican tariff bill.—Spring field, 111., Register. . Europeans are not going ta cut off their noses to spite their faces. If they arc in need of food, and know they can buy it from the United States, they will buy it here. If they don't need it,- not all the free-trade calamity howlers in the world will make them buy it. True to Their Record. Once more the Republican party has proven itself the greatest political or ganization in constructive ability which the nation has known. Another Republican promise has been grandly performed, and the prosperity which has been absent for many years will soon be restored to the country.—Kit ;aning (Pa.) Press. , ’Twas ever thus. But the best of It is that the people, having had their "object lesson,” have realized the full force of Republican teachings, thus as-, suring the maintenance of Republican prosperity for many years to come. Free Trade In AumraKn. An advertised meeting of those will ing to form a branch of the Australian I’ree Trade Democratic league, In the colony of Victoria, resulted in the presen'ce of exactly three people. One ‘ of these was a reporter, who left the other two gazing at each other with every appearance of dejection at the prospects of the cause. Goo<l R ‘iison Why. ‘‘The American people have grown tired of buncombe legislation."—Ev ansville, Ind., Events. That is the reason why they ordered the repeal of the Gormar.-WIlson mon strosity. Sunshine. The sunstreaks of prosperity oan be seen on the horizon, which will con tinue to increase until the country is aglow with happiness and contentment. —Clarion, Pa. Hence the surrounding brightness. Ha Pi u lea tat h Too Hook. Tile Japanese minister to Franca, Hr. Sone Arasuke, is reported by table as having said that: ^ The Dingiey tariff would ruin Ja pan’s great and growing trade with the United States in carpets and mats, r.nd he protested against the placing of prohibitive duties upon goods for which there is no corresponding indus try in the United States. The minister protesteth too much. It may be that we do not manufacture precisely the same quality and grades of carpets and mats that Japan does; but we do have Industries in the United States that manufacture other qualities and grades of carpets and mats. The minister must be perfectly well aware that every Japanese mat or carpet which we Import takes the place of a mat or carpet that might have been produced in our own mills. Hence the necessity for protection to our own in dustries. He Stand* by the Ship. The Republican administration is al ready In very rough water, and the storm threatens to grow still darker and fiercer as days roll on. It is hard, however, to entertain the Idea, support ed by rumor, that the pilot contem plates resigning his duties In a panic or a huff.—"Northern Whig," Belfast. Quite the contrary. The water is much smoother and the storm clouds are breaking quicker than at any time \ within the past four years. As for Pilot McKinley’s deserting the ship, never. He is not made of that kind of stuff. He will stand by the Repub lican ship of state as long as it has a plank left In the political sea. Maine Sets the Pace. In the general “slump” which fol lowed the advent of the free trade party Into the control of the govern ment In 1893 wages on the Maine Cen tral railroad were cut down, and they stayed at the cut figure until the free trade party went out of office. But among the first fruits of the restoration of protection to American industries is the restoration of wages in the Sfalne Central to what they were previous to 1893. They used to say, “As Maine goes, so goes the Union.” Maine has set the right pace this time and it will not be long until the rest of the Union follows with better earnings' for the people. Where 1* Grover* Oh for the scorching breath of some mighty political prophet that would pierce the mass of political rottenness to the center and lay bare the hld&n sources of corruption, is the cry of the people at present.—“Long-Islander,” Huntington, L. I. Where is the “stuffed prophet” ol Princeton? Who is there more able to “pierce the mass of political rottenness to the center?” Who is there, with more experience, that can “lay bare the hidden sources of corruption” than'Dr: Cleveland? Southern Sentiment* “There is no one who has kept up with the reports of the business condi tions in the various states but is com pelled to admit that there is a prospect of much better times before the close of the present year."—Richmond, Va., States. Thus is the advent of protection her alded in the south. But why should there be any "compulsion” about ad mitting the better times? We must be careful, however, to keep the gate locked and prevent their escape again. Ko Middle Ground* Dr. Cleveland, while he was the occu pant of a public office, once said that: “This question of free raw material does not admit of adjustment on any middle ground.” The American people agree with the doctor. They have settled the question of free raw material, not "on any mid dle ground,” but by compelling the ab solute protection of all so-called “raw material,” which is always the finished product of some of our wage earners. Free Trad* Reasoning. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” must be the watchword of the free-traders. The free trade Boston Herald announced that if prosperity did not come to fhe country within a year the Republican party would be held responsible, but. it went on to say, that if prosperity did come, it would be due to other causes than the tariff. Truly tho methods of reasoning employed by the free traders are past finding out. Th* “Kndlea* Chain Brokan." What has become of the “endless chain” in the treasury department? It seems to have been broken off short since we had a Republican President in whom the country had such confi dence that money flows into the treas ury instead of into old stockings and teapots. The “endless chain” is a thing of the past and.will not be heard of again as long as a protective tariff is in force. Statesmanship. "Every tariff is more or less an ex periment; but there is every reason to believe that the Dingley bill will prove to be a satisfactory experiment, and that it will stand for years as an ac cepted settlement of the tariff ques tion."—Statesman, Yonkers, N. Y. This is spoken like a true “States man.” Better Protection. The payment of fees to American consuls is, of course, distasteful to foreign exporters. But the heavier these fees are made the stronger be comes our policy of protection. STRAIGHT,GOOD TALK NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN PLAT FORM IN FULL. Tariff Legislation That Brlt.frs Good Times Commended—The Goveunor and Hl< Action Condemned— Katarn of Business Cnafldeno* Welcomed. Nebraska Republican Platform. The platform of the republicans of Nebraska having’ heretofore only been printed in condensed form, the same is now given in full, as follows: The republicans of Nebraska reaffirm the principles enunciated by the na tional republican convention in 1896, and congratulate the country upon the triumphant popular indorsement of those principles in the election of William McKinley and tiarrett A. Hobart. We commend the tariff legislation enacted in the special 'session of con gress at the instance of President Mc Kinley as the most effective measure for vitalizing the patriotic principle of protection to American industries, through which American manufactur ers are enabled to compete successfully with the imported products of foreign labor, American workingmen are af forded an opportunity to secure em ployment at remunerative wages dnd American farmers secure the benefit of a market through increased home con sumption. We hail with joy the return of busi ness confidence, financial health, and better prices for the products of the farm and factory, since the election of a republican president and congress. We take this first occasion to express our abhorrence of the crimes com mitted by the late defaulting state treasurer and state auditor, which prove their recreancy to republican morals and their departure from re publican teachings, and we urge their speedy prosecution and trial, and if found guilty, their severe punishment. We also demand that immediate steps be taken to recover all public funds that have been wrongfully diverted from the treasury. We condemn the governor for failing to exercise his prerogative in requiring the treasurer to make an exhibit of, and account from time to time for the public funds in his custody, and by reason of this palpable dereliction of duty he cannot escape his share of the responsibility for the treasury defalcation. We deplore the discredit that has been brought upon the state by ill-ad vised attempts of the present state ad ministration to array class against class for partisan purposes, and to manufacture testimony to prove that our farmers are paupers, and that the laws are inequal and inadequate for the protection of the interests of the laboring man. We most earnestly denounce the at tempt of the present state officials in conjunction with the majority of the legislature at its late session to falsify the returns of the last state election on the proposed constitutional amend ment increasing the number of justices of the supreme court. The reckless disregard of law and Contempt of public decency that char acterized the action of the governor and the joint legislative committee that pretended to recount the ballots in their efforts to cancel and overturn by legerdemain, an overwhelming ma jority returned against the amend ment, and to carry the same by star chamber proceedings, are without pre cedent in the political annals of the country. We learn with extreme regret of the increase by the railroads of freight rates on grain transported between Chicago and the seaports, and we call on the inter-state commerce commis sion to investigate this advance in rates and take such steps as will pro tect the farmer and shippers of the west from the payment of unreason able transportation charges. We also favor such amendments of the inter state commerce act as will give the commission power to enforce its own orders. The heroic struggle of the Cubans to achieve their independence and secure the blessings of liberty and self-gov ernment commands our warmest sym pathy. We express our abhorrence of the cruel warfare of extermination waged by Spain against the Cuban in surgents, and we urge the speedy in tervention of our government, before the Island of Cuba is completely de vastated, either by according her be liggerent rights or recognizing her independence as a free and independ ent nation. We commend the fidelity and effici ency of Senator Thurston and Con gressmen Mercer and Strode in the discharge of their official duties and their loyalty to republican principles. Resolved, That we heartily com mend the attitude of our representa tives in congress towards combinations of capital in restraint of trade, that seek in this or any other way to con trol the prices of the necessaries of life, and that the attention of the vot ers of Nebraska be called to the fact that the only federal statute that seeks to protect consumers from the ravages of trusts, was indited by the Hon. John Sherman, our present secretary of state, passed by republican votes and signed by a republican president, and has been sustained by the supreme court of the United States; that we commend the steps taken by the last legislature to improve the effective ness of the Sherman anti-trust law, believing that in due time, the execu tive department of the present admin istration will be able thereby to suc cessfully cope with combinations that are in spirit or execution antagonistic to those well defined and cherished principles lying at the foundation of this republic. Whitt Hart* Nebraska. Dec Moines Register: The Omaha World-Herald is edited by a disordered brain. It has been a misleader of pub lic sentiment in that state in spite of its continued recklessness in regard to truth and intelligence. Replying to a recent paragraph in the Register in regard to Iowa land being more val uable than Nebraska land, because of the more correct views of intelligent and safe government on the part of the roaiority of the people of Iowa, the World Herald attempts to make it ap pear that the difference in the price of land in the two states “is due to the fact that the Missouri river is a basing point for railroad rates, and that an Iowa farmer on the Missouri river has [ a clear advantage, in freight rates over the farmer who lives just across the river.” That is untrue and it has been untrue ever since the railroads were bringing freights from 300 miles west of Omaha. The freight rates from west of Omaha to Chicago are cheaper than the freight rates of the Iowa farmers on the Missouri river. That fact has been proved every time the matter has been brought before the inter-state commerce commission, and the commission has upheld the cheaper freight rates on Kansas grain shipped through Kansas City to Chicago. It will be well for the editor of the World-Herald to rest his disordered free silver brain while reading up on the freight rate question from his own city and state to Chicago in compari son with the freight rates from Iowa points to Chicago. The wild theories of the majority of the voters of Nebraska are responsible for the cheaper lards and higher inter est rates in that state than in Iowa; that is for the lands 150 to S00 miles west of Omaha. Beyond those limits the soil is sandy and therefore not so valuable as the land of Eastern Ne braska which has been cheapened by the action of the ma jority of the vot ers of that state endorsing the ignor ant theories advocated by the Omaha World-Herald. That is the plain truth, and it is time the voters of the state of Nebraska should be reading and heeding the plain truth, for that is the only method by which the land, interest rates and business methods of the state of Nebraska can be again re stored to an equal footing with the more intelligent government of Iowa. , The minority sentiment in Nebraska is all right, but it is suffering from tha constantly depressing and destrnctiva influence of the majority deceived and mislead by W. J. Iiryan and the Omaha World-Herald. * * * Nebraska is all right, except the pea pie of the Omaha World-llerald class— the people who have been deceived and mislead into voting disaster and dis honor upon their state. The World Herald should relieve itself of its brain disorder, and will be compelled to do so within the next two years, for the people of Nebraska now realise that they have blindly followed disordered minds to their own great Injury and the dishonor of their state. Keep an eye on Nebraska's congressional elec tions next year, for certain it is that Nebraska will be redeemed to civiliza tion in 1808. Tha State Central Committee. When the selection of a state central committee was brought up in the late republican state convention the follow ing names were reported by the vari ous districts: First district—W. J. IIaide man, Burchard. • ■> Second—Thomas J, Majors, Pern. Third—H. C. Freeman, x Fourth—W. H. Newell, Plattsmonth. Fifth—J. Hassett, Pupil lion. Sixth—D. H. Wheeler, W. H. Saund ers, Omaha; A. R. Kelley. South Omaha-' Seventh—John F. Nesbit, Tekamah. Eighth—H. 0. Baird, Coleridge. Ninth—S. B. Moorehead, Albion. Tenth—H. F. Clary, Blair. Eleventh—John P. Bressler, Wayne. Twelfth—Henry Ragatz, Columbus, Thirteenth—D. H. Cronin. O’Neill. Fourteenth—R. W. Montgomery, Al liance. Fifteenth—F. M. Buble, Broken Bow. Sixteenth — John T. Mallalieu, Kearney. Seventeenth—G. H. Thummel, Grand Island. Eighteenth—J. H. Mickey, Osceola. Nineteenth — George W. Lowly, Seward. Twentieth—Dr. J. L. Greene, Uni versity Place; R. J. Greene, Lineoln. Twenty-first—W. H. Edgar, Beatrioa. Twenty-second—John N Van Duyn,, Wilber. Twenty-third—Peter Jansen, Jansen . Twenty-fourth—W. E. Dayton, York Twenty-fifth—E. E. Hairgrove, Sut ton. Twenty-sixth—J. Galnsha.Red Cloud. Twenty-seventh—C. F. McGrew, * Hastings. Twenty-eighth—John L. McPhely, Minden. Twenty-ninth—H. H. Troth, McCook. Thirtieth—C. H. Bowman, Madrid. Charles Callahan, Sidney. Populists Sold Oat ond Swallowed Dp, It is probably a fact that there were more populists in Lincoln at the recent convention who favored a straight populist nomination than otherwise. Quite a large number of those, when they found the fusion element in con trol, left on the evening trains and thus took no real part in the conven tion. The tip was quietly given among the fusion leaders that if the proceed ings were delayed long enough the middle-of-the-road populists would tire out and go home, and the work would then go along more smoothly. This is really what happened; and during the deliberations, when it became plainly manifest that the master hands of Bryan, Allen, Holcomb and othe*s were guiding the party straight up to fusion, many delegates left the hall and did not return. That the conventions did not repre sent the whole state is proven by the fact that fifteen of the western count ies were without representation in the populist convention, and about the same number were absent from the other two conventions. In some oases, whole delegations left for home, leav ing no one behind to cast the vote of their counties, and when the silver republican crowd came to the decision which brought about the nomination of Sullivan there were scarcely fifty counties represented in the ball. Many populists who went to Lincoln with a determination to preserve the identity of their party and compel the two smaller parties to join with them feel that they have been sold out and their party swallowed up, and those who remained in the city were freely expressing themselves on the subject. They pointed ont that in spite of the fact that the silver republicans cast an insignificant vote in the state, their convention was conceded exactly the same power as the others in the selec tion of the nominee, and in the end practically turned dictator in making the selection between Neville and Sullivan. They believe that the popu list party, with a vote aggregating ten times the number of silver republicans in the state, should have been 0--'-eiled a proportionately greater pov er i 1 the selection of candidates. The majority of rising young men of today run elevators. A gift with a string to it is a great drawback to charity. CHURCH REBELLION. Mrethren Iloo’t Dwell Togethnt In Fwn mad t’nltjr. 'S' % V ‘ Chicago, sept 10.—Rebellion baa broken out in the Methodist Episcopal church. The laymen demand equal representation with the ministers in the great quadrennial legislature of the church. Three times have the ministers voted on the question and defeated it and the laymen have lost patience. The church will bo brought face to face next week with a revolt that will probably overshadow the question of women delegates in tha general conference. Representatives of Pennsylvania and New Jersey conferences issued an address for the change. Leading lay men of Indiana called a state conven tion to meet at Indianapolis next Wednesday to .consider the question. A lay convention, representing tha Cincinnati conference, sent greetings last week to the Indiana convention and urged the calling of a na tional convention. The laymen of Central Illinois conference have called a convention to meet at Can ton, September 17, and that meeting will probably take action on this ques tion. Another trig convention will bo held in Baltimore next month, and, if not forestalled by the Indianapolis convention, it is expected to issue a call for a national convention of Meth odist laymen to make plans to bring tho ministers into line. Under the rules of the church each conference is entitled to at least one lay delegate,but In no ease oan it have more than two. In the general con ference at Cleveland last year 16,000 ministers had 317 representatives, while the 2,700,o0o laymen of the church had bnt 100. In Indiana 13* preachers had seven representatives, while 00,000 laymen had but twa Under this system many small con ferences have disproportionately large representation, while the large con ference that contributes heavily to tha support of the church can have only one lay delegate more than the small eonference over in China or India, that has to be supported by money sent from America. There is little doubt that a national convention of laymen will be held and it promises to bring out many of the moat prominent members of the church. ' :• i ■ •; GUATEMALA IN BAD SHAPE Failures for •8,000,000 la a Month— Berrios Unpopular* Sax Fraxcisco. Sept 10.—News just received from Guatemala la that tho country is in a bod way financially and politically. Last month the fol lowing failures were reoorted: Fred erica Chacon, 2800,000; Loren so & b> sen, 21,700,000; Enrlqne Mentsa, 31,^00,000; Aseolle A Co., 21,000,000t Bauer A Co., 3800,000; Victor Mat theus, 22,000,000; total, 27,700,00a All’ of these houses have been extensively engaged in the exportation of colfeo and other Central Amerloan products and the importation of merchandise. Besides these, a great number of firms have gone under for leap amounts. The total is nearly 28,000, 000, but is a trifle misleading, how ever, because It repreaenta Central American money, which is very much depreciated in value, Reina Barrios, the man who was president and who declared himself dictator of the republic a couple of mouths ago, is excessively unpopular ..because of his high-handed action and his cruelties J. R. WILLARD A CO. FAIL The Firm, Including Zlmrt DwIgglaF ! Nephews, Swamped by Grain. New York, Sept 10.—James R. Wil lard, Elmer Dwiggins and Jay Dwig gins, who compose the firm of J. B. Willard A Cot, bankers and brokers, with offices in this city, Buffalo, Washington, Philadelphia, Ps, and Montreal, to-day assigned to James Starbuck, William H. Osterhout be ing preferred for 220,000. No state ment of the condition of the firm is yet obtainable, but it is estimated that their liabilities will reach 21.000.000L Jay Dwiggins is traveling in Europe. “The cause of the failure,” said Mr. Starbuck, ‘‘is simply that the firm has been upon the wrong side of the market. They have been short on g ri’.i n. ” _ COOLER WEATHER. — ■■■ ' ■_ A 47nre of Relief on the Way From the Rockies and the Upper Missouri. Chicago. Sept 10.—The thermome ter has fallen from 10 to 29 degrees in tho Upper Missouri valley and the Northern Rocky mountain districts and was below freezing point ties morning at Alberta, Mich. The indi cations are that cooler weather uilt reach the Mississippi river to-night .and be experienced in the Central states to-morrow. Jfflntiftt* Vanish Or Nlzht. liAKNKi), Kan., Sept. ;o.—The joints here had been flourishing under muni* eipal protection, the town deriving about 525 a week revenue, when the Law and Order league conferred with ti’.c county attorney, Mr. itogcrs, and arranged for a raid and seizure for yesterday tnorni ijr. Hut the jointista learned of the plan and Tuesday night packed their goods and disappeared. The town is now wholly dry, but it is not expected that it will, long remain Two Minors Killed by » Mast. Wkbb City, Mo., Sept. 10.—At the Cornfield mines, in South Carterville, yesterday afternoon, William Collins was instantly killed and W. W. Moss fatally injured by a premature blast. They were miners Moss leaves a wife and three children and Collins leaves a wife and fqur children. Favors for Americans. ■ Madrid, Sept 10 —Th e official Ga zette to-day publishes the'new cus toms tariff of Cuba Nearly all Amer* lean goods are subjected to lower duties M