The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY D. H. CRONIN, Editor. ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Associate. Mark Hanna is still cock of the republican roost in Ohio. No public utility gets the use and abuse that does the railroad. —■ ■ ~ -»■<•> « Political discussion is about tho scarcest thing on the market at present. —-- - The North Platte Telegraph thinks the best way to nail a lie is to hamrnar the liar. -- Under the tempestuous winds from the south, the oceans of water are fast returning to the heavens. - » - There is one thing the Prysbyter ian creed revisers seem to be agreed upon. The collection box will be retained in the service. ---- There is no surer token of the waning of populism than the efforts that party is making to retain the favor of democrats toward fusion. -- While not exactly driven to drink, David Nation has packed his ban dana and left his wife Carrie to her saloon-smashing avocation while he goes and lives with relatives. The export trade of the United States for the fiscal year of 1901 is figured at $1,500,000,000, or $100,000,000 in excess of last year. No wonder foreigners are beginning to wink at each other. Anothor attempt was made Mon day night to burn the state peni tentiary. Men who will commit ciime and get into prison will com mit crime to get cut and hence eternal vigilence is the price of bondage. ---•* -—.— If there was ever a deod in the name of Christianity inspired by hadeatic powers it is the exaction of nearly three hundred and fifty millions from China by the powers. And the missionaries are as eager for the millions ns the governments dare be. The Boyd county cyclone suffer ers have the sincere sympathy of everybody in this section over their terrible calamity. While we who escaped the monster’s ragings look upon the aspect with awe it should inspire reverence to reflect on the fraility of man and uncertainties of our earthly pilgrimage. _ _ _ .. me editor ot the Allen XNows apologizes for attending a Sunday ball game. Some people are Billy enough to think that it is all right to loll in the shade and read news paper accounts of ball games and other things on Sunday but their pious eyes must not behold those profane things in actual life. The Frontier would not say one disparaging word to the woman who aspires to a place in politics, but it sees no special advantage to either woman or politics in female suffer - age. The average woman makes a better woman than politician and where they depart from the acknowl edged walks of woman life and take to the pen or rostrum their talents are best displayed in the treatment of other than topics of state craft. Many women of today have come to look upon the duties of a home as belittling and little by little have intruded upon the domain hitherto belonging to man. They are not altogether responsible for this ns the times undoubtedly have brought many into trade and business pur suits who would prefer to be the mistress of a home. There is no greater work in the world for man or woman than to control their c>wu household, and their is a vast un cultivated field of literature uud oratory before American women to exert an angelic influence over the home circles of the nation. Love Talk Without Lovers. Stuart Lodger: Tin time ia fast I coming when a mere contract be | tween a man and -woman will be as ! binding as a Catholic cc :emony with ! bells, books and tapers. The whole j trend of Protestantism i toward tho j civil marriage. Mr. 1 ierron, with j all his frailty, is sim ly a man in i advance of his time. He sees farther than the multitude and they have put the crown of thorns on his head. This does not mean that Mr. Herron did right if ho deserted his wife and children for another woman. Therein lies the gist of his wrong doing. The present generation has the fortune or misfortune to live in a time of shifting notions and turbid opinions when the waters that have rollod calmly over soverul centuries of moral and material quietude are surging in rostless billows on tho ocean of time and tho man or woman who is able to keep his or her hearings until anchored on tho slioros of eternity, where the wisdom of man will appear in its folly, is fortunate indeed. Amid tho myriads of cults that are reared on the lusts and nmbitions of men in “advance of their time” the star of truth would forever sink be hind the boundless horizon of error were it not for the pitying hand of tho Providonco who continues to lead in the “way everlasting.” In the long and dolorous night that enshrouded tho earth from the fall of Romo to the birth of that spirit of freedom which Ret in motion the Amer ican republic, when despots enslaved tho bodies of men and scholars dip ped their brushos into tho inkpot of ignoranco and painted tho in tellectual darkness a blackor liugh, it seemed as if the last ray of light •was withdrawn from the earth, but this epoch of human history did no more to obscure the star of truth tliun tho modern devices of men un der the g8rb of free love and the hundreds of cults and codes that offer us a moral guide nothing but pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Freedom of fornication was na tionally legalized by tho French chamber of deputies when the com mon law marriage was adopted aud the French legislative body had the amazing hardihood to declare that “the fear of the Lord is so far from being the beginning of wisdom that it is tho beginning of folly.” A libidinous actress was enthroned as the goddoss of reason amid the voluptuous caresses of licentious legislators, while marriage vows wore disregarded and lust ran riot. It is said of the wise man: “But King Solomon loved many strange women.” For tho smile of a woman tho great king gave up the smile of heaven. Tho biu of tho king cost his sou the kingdom ere tho women polluted careas of Solomon was cold in the tomb. His fathor David, before him, loved Bath-Sheba, and felt remorse and heartaches for his sin. Adam followed Eve from paradise in re sponse to the incidious ullurment. The Herrou matrimonial mode is but a revival of the system that brought moral pollution to Frauce centuries ago. It is built on sensu alism and lacks every essential element for the maintenance of a sauctilied homo aud an uucorrupted society. It throws down every bar rier and opens an avenue to the most licentious freedom. There are men and women who would remain true to the ties of husband and wife without any binding cove nant in public form, but dare the common law advocutes assort that Boeiety thereby would be brought to a higher plane of life? Does the example of Prof. Herron in leaving a widowed woman and fatherless children disgraced aud helpless inspire any woman^with a desire to venture upon the tuncer tainties of free love? Homes have been wrockod,the hearts of husbands aud wives have been broken, inno cent and irresponsible children have been made homeless ophnus, the i frosts of seventy winters have settled upon the head aud the heart of many a girl because of the unfaithfulness of one that had been loved. Common law marriage is free lovo. Freo-love, in the abstract, is self-love, which consoutrates culy in self aud loves only what gratilies its desires. As objects are seen that arouse desire love of possession is felt and ns often as now objects of attraction appear so often is tho love transferred; and so in the end it is only self love. Agricultural Prices. A Washington telegram states that the government has been in vestigating the present prices of ag ricultural supplies, as compared with the prices which prevailed dur ing tho middle of the last century. It has been found that the farmer has benefited enormously by the in genuity of the American inventors and the constantly increasing cheap ness of the products of mill and fac tory. The manufacture of agricultural implements and machinery hasgrowu to enormous proportions in the United States, and this country sup plies nearly the whole world with this line of goods. The farmer at home has benefited by this large production, as it has lowered the domestic price list to a remarkable degree. There are over a thousand establishments manufacturing ma chinery for the farmer, in which are invested nearly $2U0,000,O0O in cap ital. The product of these factories is valued at about $100,000,000. In the cultivation of corn the con trast between 1855 and the present day is shown by the fact that in the first named year it took four hours and thirty-four minutes of humau laaor to produce one bushel, and the cost of this labor was about 36 cents. At the present day this same bushel of corn is produced with forty-one minutes of human labor at cost of lOJ cents. The amount of humau labor now required to pro duce a bushel of wheat from be ginning to end is on an average about ten minutes, whereas, in 1830 it took three hours and three min utes. During this time the cost of the labor to produce this bushel of wheat declined from 17 cents to three cents. A ton of hay in 1860 took one man thirthy-six hours to make; today it is mude in eleven hours, at a cost of $1.29, as compared with $3.06. In the seven principal crops the sav ing in tho cost of labor to muke the same harvest has been duruing the last twenty-five years about $700, 000,000 in oue year. This is due entirely to labor saving machinery, and methods which wore unknown twenty-five years ago. Tho farmer is now buying his car riages, buggies, cultivators, drills, harrows, harvesters of all kinds, mowers, rakes, in fact, everything which is needod to make a harvest, from 50 to 200 per cent cheaper than he could buy them ten years ago. In some articles there lias been a slight raise or they have held their own during tho past two or three years, owing to the general increase in the price of building material. Fremont Tribune: The president has just issued a proclamation, transmitted by Secretary ltoot, de claring the Philippines to be under civil government on and after July •t. The date, which has been given an additional sacredness and signifi cance by the convening on that day of populist and democratic national conventions, will be a propitious one upon which to extend the blessings of civil government and freedom to the Filipinos. The promise of it is to be faithfully kept. The blessings for which the American flasr stands are to be carried into all ports of the archipelago willing and ready to receive them. The false alarm of fusionists are stilled and benevolent assimilation extends its peaceful sway. The government department of justice has taken up the very com mendable task of investigating the movements of certain great corpor ations which aro suspected of viola tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. There is no doubt but that many of the groat corporations owe their exist • ance to a violated law and should be dealt with ub any other criminal. The department is going at the work with the evident determination to find out the facts and punish the guilty. The government machinery of justice is a power capable of bring any culprit to justice and there is no reason why the power of federal authority should not be brought to bear upon corporate criminals with the same force it is on the lone highwayman. -- The Frontier rounds out a score of years and one today, and therefore is twenty-one years of age. We are not going to burden you, dear read er, with long recital of our many virtues nor move you to tears with pathetic pathos of our long and useful career of moulding public thought and showing tenderness to the delinquent subscriber. Neither do we intend to amuse your vanity by words of flattery nor recount the faults that do appear as huge as high Olympus. 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