The Frontier
Published by S. H. CRONIN
KOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Notwithstanding, there are several
Nebraska patriots left yet who think
they could give the administration
satisfaction.
The strongest advocates of public
improvements and government owner
ship of public utilities are the ones
who pay the least taxes.
■ The state of New York has author
ized the expenditure of $50,000,000 for
good roads. Western states might
put some of the money that now goes
into normal schools and expositions
for the benefit of the big towns into
work of this kind. It would be a real
benefit to the rural districts, from
whence comes a large portion of the
revenues.
While the rural free delivery may
be considered a pretty good thing, yet
many believe it would be a better
thing to expend the millions going
into that work in fixing the roads of
the country. Many farmers say they
wouldn’t mind spinning down the
pike to town after their mall if there
were good roads. »
Attorney General Moody lias In
structed all of the United States
district attorneys to vigilantly enforce
the provisions of the Elkins law
against rebates and discriminations
by transportation companies. In
view of the recent lightning.flashes
among the federal servants we may
look for some attention to be paid to
the attorney general’s orders.
Railroads in this sect ion of Nebras
ka are doing their duty by the govern
ment by paying their taxes as assessed.
The Burlington isstill unwilling to con
tribute a 3 or 4 per cent raise on their
taxes for 1904 and 1905, while the
common tax payer in some counties
through which that road passes cheer
fully walks up to the treasurer’s office
and pays 10 or is per cent more on his
personal property. There is no reas
on why a corporation, like an individ
ual, should not pay its taxes when due
itnd there should be the same recourse
to recover from a railroad by levying
j on the property as in the case of the
individual.
Judge Cunningham R. Scott, the
former cyclone of the Omaha district
court and an aspirant to thesurpreme
bench In 1898, lias joined the silent
majority. Judge Scott was as eractic
an individual as ever presided at a
court of law, but withal was an Im
partial judge and treated high and low
alike who came before his court.
It Is rumored from Valentine that
a move is on foot to utalize the un
limited supyly of “sandy loam” in the
sand hill district by putting in a glass
factory and that local capital is busy
ing and interesting itself in the enter
prise. There are a number of lines of
industry that might be developed in
the sand belt that will come sooner or
later.
The time must speedily come when
a more limited authority is reposed in
the clutches of federal judges. I5y
the injunction granting power, cor
porations are defying the laws of state
and nation. The constitution should
be amended so that federal judges
may be elected by the people for a
term of years, when less opulency
would be manifest on the federal
benches.
The Kearney Democrat takes up
the plea for equality in freight rates
on coal. Though 200 miles nearer the
Wyoming coal Helds than Omaha, it
says the latter place continues to have
its coal hauled right through Kearney
at a rate of .a dollar or two less a ton
than Kearney is compelled to pay.
Tills is a universal complaint over the
state. If the railroads do not elect to
remedy it in their own way they will
be compelled to do it in the people’s
way some day.
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A healthy change is coming over
the political sentiments of the Amer
ican people. A few years ago a stick
or two of “taffy” dealt out from the
stump in florid prose or honied lies of
rhymn sufflcled an audience of voters.
Now the man who aspires to public
honors must come out square-toed on
a definite platform. The day is also
past when demagogue or devil can
hold out on fluent and alluring oratory.
Not the man who talks but the one
who does things counts just now.
Speaking of Nebraska’s needs in the
executive office the Albion News very
sensibly says: “A man big enough
and strong enough to be elected
against the opposition of the corporate
trusts and combines, and yet who is
big enough and strong enough to
give them a strictly square deal. We
want no retaliatory program. No rea
sonable man wants to cripple in the
slightest degree the railroads or other
corporations. We want more railroads
in Nebraska, and we want more
monied corporations. But we want
them to come and take their chances
on the same terms and conditions as
the rest of the people.
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9 9 THE O’NEILL GROCER
A bill Is before congress to discon
tinue the otlice of receiver in the
Uic United States land offices. It is
argued that the office can be atrolished
with crippling the efficiency of the
department and' effect a large annual
sa ving to the government.
The Bee observes that that the Kin
kaid act may be a breeder of land
frauds, but so is every act of congress
that has opened the public domain
for homestead entry. Had the Kin
kaid act been passed by congress as
originally drafted by its author there
would be less opportunity for fraud.
Eastern statesmen undertake to blue
pencil proposed legislation for the
west without understanding the west.
Some of our weekly contemporaries
have been coming out with a four
page illustrated magazine section and
tooting their horns loud and^long
about being the “only twelve-page
paper,” etc. The supplements are
planked down at the editorial door
every week "free of charge.” The
wily have been suspicious and now
the mouse is smelt. It transpires
that a syndicate representing eastern
plutocrats are furnishing weekly
papers these illustrated magazine
sections in which are thinly veiled
attacks on proposed legislation for the
masses in general and President
Roosevelt’s railroad program in par
ticular.
Taxpayers of Nebraska have under
stood as a sort of foregone conclusion
from the beginning that eventually
they would have to stand the heavy
loss which Joe Bartley heaped to his
shame upon them. The decision of
the supreme court releasing the bonds
men from liability in any sum con
firms this conclusion. Bartley stole
$600,000 of the people’s money and
was pardoned out of the pen through
the efforts of those who are disposed
to make heroes out of bandits and
martyrs of prison convicts. The men
who bound themselves to pay to the
state of Nebraska in good and lawful
money any defalcation of Bartley’s
are now released from their pledge.
Now let some active Bartley sympa
thiser start a subscription fund apd
rear him a stately mansion beside the
state house.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary
of the interior under President Mc
Kinley, who left the republican party
because of sympathy for the Boers,
has announced his return to the re
publican party in the following lan
guage: “I am an admirer of Theodore
Roosevelt. In my opinion, he is the
greatest president in the history of
the American republic, because he and
his policies are closer to the masses.
President Roosevelt opened the doors
of the republican party for my return.
His position in the late Japanese-Rus
sian war was the identical attitude I
urged President McKinley to take con
oerning the Boer war. I, therefore,
am back within the republican fold
and not only indorse President Roose
velt’s attitude in settling the war, but
I approve and admire his course on all
other questions now before the Ameri
can public.”
Something of a surprise and sensa
tion was perpetrated when the an
nouncement came from Washington
of the removal of T. L. Mathews,
United States marshal for the district
of Nebraska. The grounds on which
the president removed Mr. Mathews
are said to be the marshal’s failure to
excute the order of the federal court
in detail In the Richards-Comstock
illegal fencing of public lands suit, al
though there are probably oilier causes
not generally known by the public.
The president’s course in the removal
of negligent or delatory officials can be
but commended in the highest term
by all persons in sympathy with the
principles of a “square deal” to every
man. Richards and Comstock were
legally found guilty of breaking the
federal law. They were tilled in the
»um of $300 cash and committed to the
custody of the United States marshal
for a period of six hours. The mar
shal, it appears, instead of commit
ting them to jail left them in the cus
tody of their attorney. Theadmistra
tion is endeavoring to impress upon
those who are appointed to excute the
federal laws that it is their business
to aid and cooperate with the depart- j
ment of justice in bringing criminals
to justice, not merely to sit in their
jfflees and draw their salaries.
"Three Great Statesmen.”
Columbus Journal: M. F. Harring
ton for Governor, P. E. McKillip for
Congress from the third district,
Edgar Howard for some high office,
perhaps State Senator, a newspaper at
Fremont to help elect them, and the
“public ownership” pole to knock the
persimmons. This is the democratic
program announced in the last issue
of the Telegram.
Harrington writes to Howard and
compliments him for coming out
“squarely and without evasion or
dodging for the public ownership and
operation of railroads” and “welcomes
to our ranks so able and honest a pub
lic spirited citizen as Edgar Howard.”
This recommendation is intended to
qualify Howard for the slate senate.
And in order that no man may have
the temerity to question the strength
of this endorsement, Howard hastens
to feel “complimented by the approv
ing words of such a political economist
as M. F. Harrington” who, he declares
is “in the front rank of students of the
railroad question,” which qualification
is supposed to fit him for gubernatori
al honors this year and for the United
States Senate in 1908, the date fixed
for the democratic millenium.
Then in another editorial the editor
of the Telegram brings out McKillip
for Congress and tells things about
dissension over the republican nomin
ation in the Third district and about
“Post office bridgades” that the Al
mighty Father himself has not vet
learned, which “dissension” is suppos
ed to be able to elect McKillip.
As a corollary]to these “big plans of
big people,” the announcement comes
that the Telegram company has in
vested its surplus in a greatdemocrat
ic daily in Fremont in response to
Harrington’s appeal “to help us to get
the people to understand the little
piece of ‘two for a cent’ railroad regu
lation that the President proposes?”
Thus reads the political program of
three you-tickle-me-and-I-tickle-you
statesmen. As a piece of political
humor it is excelled only by those two
little stories which have been written
in Platte county politics, namely, |
“How Howard Saved the Democracy
of Platte County” and “How Howard
Resolved that the Carrig Should Sur
render IIis Railroad Pass, with a sho.t
essay on How Carrig Resolved Not to
Do It.” _
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