Tee Frontier.
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Address the office or the publisher.
There is no question but the admin
istration is doing right to protect the
public land for actual settlers. That
was the intent of the homestead law,
and laws arc made to be enforced.
There never was a time when times
were better in Nebraska than at this
time, therefore it is a good time to
lay something up for a rainy day. It
Is expecting too much to expect such
abundant crops and good prices for
ever.
Nebraska lias made such gigantec
strides forward in athletes the past
year that the eastern colleges were
afraid to allow her to enter the
charmed circle to compete with them
for the western championship. Stand
up for Nebraska.
J ust now the widows of Soldiers are
prominently before the public in the
light of being accused of unlawfully
using their homestead rights. It does
not appear to be the policy of the
government to prosecute the widows,
who have generally acted upon the
advice of supposed friends; but the
government desires to put a stop to
the practice of the solicitors, who
hunt up the soldier’s widows, and in
duce them to file on lands for other
persons, which is clearly a violation
of the homestead law.
In order to effect a complete fusion
in the last campaign the populist
leaders promised the democrats that
they would allow them tg have two
candidates upon the county ticket
next fall. The democrats, if the pop
leaders will be able to deliver the
goods, and there seems to be no ques
tionaboutthat partof the program,will
be given the nominee for clerk of the
district court and either county clerk
or sheriff. As these were the only
two nominations the democrats were
to receive Judge Morgan will probably
be pushed out and a populist nominat
ed for county judge. The latter ar
rangement is highly gratifying to
O’Neill democrats who severely cen
sured the judge for the manner In
which the nomination was received a
year ago and it is reported that per
fect fusion was only made possible
when the pop leaders agreed to drop
him at the end of his term. Several
democrats are now actively engaged
In a preliminary skirmish securing
support for the three offices mention
ed in the agreement and the indica
tions are that the ante-convention
campaign will be quite interesting
among the bourbonites of the county.
Many of the leading democrats of
the state now confidently assert that
there will be no populist party in the
State next fall. They argue, and
rightly too, that populism is dead;
that many populists have gone and
will go to the republican ranks while
the others will drift into the demo
crats fold. The Frontier predicts
that when this disintregation takes
place that M. F. Harrington will be
found occupying a seat close to the
head of the democrats banquet board,
as Mike can take to democracy as
naturally as a duck to water. The
men in this county who have been
staunch and true democrats and whc
have upheld the banner of democracj
through sunshine and rain; througl
the years of drought, Grover, anc
the panic,will find themselves relegat
ed to the rear. There will be no roon
for them at the head of the banquei
board. This place will be taken bi
men who have enjoyed the fruits o
populist victories and who by tbei
manipulation have been successful ii
landing the populist party bag am
baggage in the democratic camp. Thi
is the condition of affairs today an
The Frontier falls to discern a ray c
hope for the old-time democrats ii
the new democracy of Nebraska. A
Nebraska is a staunch republican stat
the question of leadership Is of littl
moment, but should democracy suc
ceed,during the next ten years, in cap
turing sufficient electorial votes to
place their candidate in the white
house, would it not be humiliating to
such democrats as G. W. Smith, Ed.
Purdy, John McNlcbols, Will Purdy,
John Ilarmon, Frank Campbell, Joe
Cowperthwaite, William Fallon, John
Brady and a dozen others to have to
stand back and see Harrington parcel
out the offices to the faithful of his
selection. He would be the sole judge
as to the worthiness of tne applicants
and it is safe to assume that the mem
bers of the “old guard” would not
stand inspection, when scrutinized
thorugh glasses tainted with pop- ;
ulism. No wonder democrats wander ,
around the city in a dazed condition ,
each asking the other: Where are we
at?
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THOSE FENCES.
Of course, there is no excuse that
holds water for the cattlemen who \
have gone upon Uncle Sam’s land and
erected wire fences around great
tracts, from twenty thousand acres ^
to a patch upward within which to ,
herd and pasture their cattle, it is ?
the old Anglo-Saxon grievance against ;
the rich and powerful for fencing up j
the common just because they were
able to build the fence and relied on
the pull they had in parliament to de- ^
fend them from punishment. Of )
course it is a goou tiling ior tne ien
cers and it doesn't injure us, so far
away, if we do not happen to want a
big lot of tile same land ourselves and |
perhaps give us cheaper beef, but that
does not argue that the act is not
pure and simple brigandage. Uncle
Sam isn’t using the land and it be
longs to all of us, and if all of us should
turn our cattle into it, doubtless it
would be overstocked and the cattle
would starve. But at the same time
we do not propose that the land be
I fenced up in Helds eighty miles long
by sixty miles wide by one man or cor
poration for exclusive use. It is not
so much to keep the cattle in, as it is
to keep the cattle of the rest of us
common owners out, that these fences
are built. I
They have herders all the same and
the herders can keep the cattle safely
enough without the fence. The presi
dent did not make the anti-fencing
law. That is on the statute books
and, through all sorts of collusions, |
lias been openly and definitely violat- j
ed for years notwithstanding the i
efforts of private citizens, who want to !
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use some of the pasture themselves, to
have the fences taken down. The
president is merely seeing the laws ■
executed and lie has sent out in the 1
person of Colonel Moseby, a determin- 1
ed old gentleman who knows a fence
when he runs against it, to execute (
the law. There is no privilege class
in this republic. The common is a
common and must not be fenced by
anybody who has not acquired a law
ful right to exclude the general public
from it or some portion of it.
Congress may, if it sees lit, pass a
law for the leasing of these lands in
large tracts at a fair rental but when
it does, it should give every man a 1
chance to bid on a t ract and should ,
not insist on its being so very big a
piece of the public domain that none
but millionaires or wealthy syndicates
can become bidders. Each tract
should however have water privileges
connected with it, so that it would be
really open to any bidder who wants
to hire land for grazing purposes.
The proposition to lease the lands
at a level rate of two cents an acre is
hardly fair or business-like. The
grazing ranches should bring the rent
that the market will bear. Consider
ing tile fact that the land would be
untaxable, the rent ought to be not
less than six per cent of the appraised
value of the land as a pasture. It is
not ditllcult to estimate the value.
But no fences until the leases are
made out.
And the legislation should be fram
ed as to withdraw these non-tillable
lands from the market so that they
' shall not be subject to homestead en
• try. They are wholly unfit for home
i stead and the homesteaders who enter
l them do it for no legitimate purpose,
s They simply go there to be bought off
1 or to have a good base for depredating
f j on the cattle ranges. An ordinary
i homestead of 160 acres in the arid re
3 gions will not subsist enough cattle or
3 sheep to support the homesteader.—
>: State Journal.
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low John O'Doll Became a
Tramp,
BY MaKY STANDING.
nrhe sun never
1 shone bright
er to John O’Dell
than It did this
twenty-first day
of April, the grass
never looked half
so green, the cows
never gave down
their milk so easy
as they did this
memorable morn
ing.
John was a good
boy, obedient and
hopeful and had
always worked on
his father’s farm
Still he was never
:ontented with the daily routine of
arm life and had often told his
ather that he would like to go to town
ind look around among the various
flops to see if there was’ntsome trade
hat he would like to learn. His
ather needed him for the spring
vork which was just beginning, but
tfter some persuasion on the part of
lis good wife, Mary, he consented to
et John go.
The time of parting came at last;
vith an old fashoned hand-bag full of
fothes,a pocket full of good advice and
i iareweu 1001c at me oia nomesteaa
vhere he was born, fifteen years ago,
le sallied forth to seek his fortune
imong the higli buildings. Arriving
it the village inn the good landlord
ook his baggage and assigned him to
i dingy little room on the third floor,
which did not suit John, as he was
lsed to a large airy room in the coun
try, but hopeful as he always was, he
said nothing. After brushing the
lust from his homespun clothes, he
itarted to make the rounds of the few
(hops in the village. The first was a
blacksmith shop, he stopped, loooked
n the door at the blacksmith, who
was working in his shirt sleeves, his
face was black with coal dust from the
forge and the presperation was drip
ping from his manly brow. Surely
this was not what he was looking for,
ae wanted something easy. After
looking the town over for a few days
without success, he wound up in front
bf a printing olfiee. Shading his eyes
witli his hand, to look through the
iusty window pane, he saw, seated at
a desk, a gray haired man with a long
white beard, writing as though the
lives of all the people in the village
depended upon the point of his pen.
This was not all, as his eyes became
accustomed to the dim light of the
room, he saw in one corner an old
Washington hand press, which looked
as though it had seen better days.
An old rusty looking job press stood
near tne center of the room, and a
few cases of type near the back win
dow. Dimly the objects became vis
ible. The editor was not alone, for
there seated at a case, was an old
lady setting type, which afterwards
proved to be the editor’s wife. A
rack stood in one corner which held
the dusty files of the paper for more
than twenty years back. At the rear
end of the room stood a bos on which
sat a wash basin, a towel hung on a
nail near by, which did not look as
clean as the ones used on the O’Dell
farm. All of these things made an
impression on John’s mind. Taking
his hand from above his eyes, lie
turned and looked, first up the street
and then down, as if to see that no
one was watching iiim, lie entered
the office.
The editor, a kind but firm old
gentleman, lowered his eye glasses to
the tip of his nose, looked up, with a
pleasant smile, thinking that some
one had come in to pay up a back sub
scription. Upon seeing the boy he
adjusted his glasses, took up his pen
and renewed his work, thinking it
was one of the boys of the village.
John walked up to the desk, gazed at
tlie white locks of the editor and told
him of his wish to become a printer.
The editor, lowering his eye glasses
once more, looked at the boy and
wondered where he came from. After
putting a dozen or more questions to
l lie boy, receiving partly satisfactory
answers, lie arose from his desk,
straightening out his long, lanky
limbs lie towered above John some
two or three feet, his enormous height
with his skeleton like appearance al
most frightened John, he proceeded
to show him through the different de
partments of the office. The first was
the composing department, which
consisted of a few dirty looking cases
partly filled with type. The make-up
department consisted of one impos
ing stone, on which lay two forms
partly tilled with patent medicine ads.
The press department was what in
terested John, and how the editor ex
plained to him the workings of tlie
wonderful machine, and how he, (the
editor) had run off his weekly addi
tion for more than tw'enty years and
never missed an issue.
John worked in the office for five
long weary years, as faithfully as he
worked on his father’s farm. One hot
summer day, a shabby looking indi
vidual sauntered into the office, and
announced, to the editor’s astonish
ment, that he was a printer looking
for work. Having an unusual run of
job work the tramp was put to work.
All that day he told John glowing ac
counts of his travels and how he,
John, was foolish to stay in that
dingy little office, “come with me, we
will travel together,” he said. The
pictures and the way they were paint
ed looked good to John, and a few
glowing accounts of “life in the
jungles,” done the rest.
That night two forms were seen
walking along a dusty road, leading
in the direction the sun sets. They
came to the old homestead, John
stopped, he felt as though he could go
no further, he looked at the old home
he loved so well, standing there so
black in the pale moon light, while
tears came to his eyes as lie thought
of the loved ones inside. The tramp
gently took him by the arm and with
a few more versions of "life on the
road,” led him on. Now John is a
tramp printer.
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