The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN
ItOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Kditor
and Manager.
It AO the Year 78 Oents 81* Months
Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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Another crisis is announced in
Russia.
Tlie press bureau senatorial booms
are liable to strike a snag yet.
People have long pointed with pride
to Lincoln as the city of schools. The
schools have now become Lincoln’s
disgrace. _
A fifteen-year-old wife of a forty
live-year-old husband is locking May
in the arms of January pretty strong.
A law that sanctions such marriages
at the consent of the girl’s parents
needs amending. If parents have no
sense of the eternal iitness of things,
society owes it to helpless children to
enact marriage laws that will protect
them.
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One thing seems quite logical, and
that is if the next republican state
convention does anything radically
different than previous conventions
oilier blood will have to be injected
into the component parts of the con
vention. It may not be expected that
tlie same old warhorses who have been
delegating the convention for the last
quarter of a century will do anything
radically different than heretofore.
It is not unlawful to roll a cigarette
for your ow,n use, says the surpreme
court. The cigarette law contains a
clause prohibiting the manufacture of
cigarettes. The court holds, in a re
cent decision, that a person rolling
tobacco in a piece of paper to smoke
himself is not manufacturing cigar
ettes,and therefore is notaromendable
to the law. The court’s decision does
not, however, destroy the validity of
the law as to the manufacture, whole
sale or retail of cigarettes in Nebraska.
This much of the law appears yet to
be intact.
“God be merciful unto us, and bless
us; cause his face to shine upon us;
that thy way may be known upon
earth, thy saving health among all
nations. Let the people praise thee,
O God; let all the people praise thee.
O let the nations be glad and sing for
joy; for thou shall judge the people
righteously, and govern the nations
upon earth.Let the people praise thee,
O God; let all the people praise thee.
Then shall the earth yield her Increase;
and God, even our own God, shall
bless us. God shall bless us; and all
the ends of the earth shall fear him.”
The republican state committee
meets next week to arrange for the
next state convention. The direct
primary proposition, which has been
growing in favor among the laicty of
the party, is one of the serious pro
blems confronting the committee. It
is understood that Victor Rosewater
has a proposition up his sleeve to
bring before the committee that will
materialize ,the desired result. There
are some good men on the committee
who are capable of handling this ques
tion, but no doubt theylwould appre
ciate timely tips from anyone feeling
like making them.
The Scientific American raises the
question of what material or sub
stance will take the place of iron when
the world’s supply of that much used
ore is exhausted. It shows from a re
port lately made by the Swedish gov
ernment that the total available iron
ore of the United States will be ex
hausted within three quarters of a
century at the present rate of con
sumption and that at the same rate
the total world’s supply must be ex
hausted within 100 years. This is bor
rowing trouble a good way off and we
of the present d,ay may leave it to the
genius of any future generations to
discover what shall be used in place
of iron.
There can be no adoration of the
shrewdness of the barrister who heads
off a just retribution for grave and re
prehensible crimes. Society has quite
as much to be alarmed at in the one
who saves the criminal from a just
reward for his deeds as in the one who
commits the act. A truely great law
yer aids, not hinders, the operation
of the law.
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.
The Columbus Telegram speaks of
Allon B. Parker’s recent startling
utterances as “a voice from the
tomb.” _
The Hastings Tribune conjures the
following reason as to why it does not
favor Norris Brown for the senate:
“He is a machine-made candidate, a
candidate boomed and groomed by the
Harrison-State Journal fake press
bureau, and it is for this reason that
we cannot conscientiously give him
our support.”
“Congressman Kinkaid gives it
out,” says the Burwell Tribune, “that
there will be no land leasing law en
acted at tills session of Congress.
None of the bills presented accorded
the homesteaders the protection Mr.
Kinkaid thinks is due that individual,
and he favored none of them. The
small cattle man and homesteader are
the ‘salt of the earth’ and the con
gressman is eminently correct in the
stand taken by him.”
Commenting on the report that
Charles J. Green of Omaha, a Burling
ton railroad attorney, will ask to be
sent to the United States senate, the
Bloomington Advocate thinks his
selection “would be a calamity.” Says
the Advocate: “A man who has
grown up in the employ of the large
corporations is not free enough from
bias or prejudice to faithfully serve
the interests of the great common
wealth in the United States Senate.
There are now too many paid at
torneys of railroads in the Senate, who
upon all vital questions where their
clients’ interests are at stake, forget
their oaths, and vote as they are ord
ered to.” _
The Albion News propounds this:
A banker going home for his dinner
saw a $10 bill on the curbstone. He
picked it up and took the number
home in order to find the owner.
While at home his wife remarked that
the butcher had sent a bill amounting
to $10. The only money he had with
him was the bill he found, which he
gave to her and she paid the butcher.
The butcher paid it to the farmer for
a calf and the farmer paid it to a mer
chant, who in turn paid it to a wash
woman, and she, owing the banker a
note of $10 went to the bank and paid
the note. The banker recognized the
bill as the one he had found, and
which up to that time had paid $50 of
debt. On careful investigation he dis
covered that the,bill was counterflt.
Now, will some of our friends tell us
what has been lost in this transaction,
and by whom?
“Brown, Millard, Wattles, Schnei
der, Hammond, Green and perhaps
half a score of others have been men
tioned as likely to succeed J. H.
Millard as United States senator from
Nebraska,” saysl the Tilden Citizen,
“but the whole bunch combined
haven’t the ability that is wrapped
up in the small stature of Edward
Rosewater. No other man has ac
complished so much for the state nor
done so much toward the success of
the republican party within its bor
ders as the editor of The Bee. His
consistent battle for better and purer
politics has made him bitter enemies
among the class that depends upon
political graft for an existence, but
his efforts in this direction should, and
do, command the respect of the rank
and file of republicans. If he desires
to round out his long and honorable
career with a term in the United
States senate, he richly deserves the
distinction, and the independent
voters ot the republican party should
make themselves heard with no un
certainty in his behalf.”
A family rumpus resulting in a
Stanton county man of middle life
shooting his wife who was a mere
child of fifteen years inspires the News
at Norfolk to write: “There is too much
laxity regarding the laws that govern
marriage and divorce in this country
today. Hundreds and hundreds of
crimes result from unwise marriages,
performed without regard to law or
compatability of nature, and from
which there must come a break and
lack of harmony. There are too many
marriages performed in this day and
age, which ought not be performed,
and too many divorce suits result
from this condition. It is against
the law for a girl of fifteen to
marry in Nebraska. Yet this child of
Frederick Ilohneke was allowed by
her parents, and later by the county
officials who performed the ceremony,
to become the wife of a man of middle
: life. It is no wonder that harmony
, was lacking in the Mueller household.
There were no common ties to bind
’ these two minds together. They were
1 so widely different that they couldn’t
think together if they chose.”
PACKERS ARE IMMUNE.
Not the Individuals Hut the Corpora
tion Amendable to Law.
Chicago 111., March 21.—All of the
packers indicted by the federal
grand jury last summer upon charges
of being in conspiracy in restraint of
trade and commerce were to-day
granted immunity from criminal pro
secutions under the indictment. While
the individuals are to go free, the
indictments found against the corpor
ations, of which some of the indicted
individuals are members and others
employes, are to stand.
A decision to the above effect was
handed down this afternoon by Judge
J. Otis Humphery in the United
States district court. The arguments
in the case were concluded shortly
after 3 o’clock. Judge Humphrey at
once commenced the delivery of his
opinion. He reviewed the case at
length in all Its bearings, cited all the
essential facts which had been brought
out and concluded as follows:
Under the law in this case, the im
munity pleas filed by the defendants
will be sustained as to the individuals
and denied as to the corporations, the
artificial persons, and the jury will
find in favor of the government as far
as the corporations are concerned and
against the government as far as the
individuals are concerned.
The courtroom was crowded. Ed
ward Morris and Edward Swift were
in court, and both smiled happily
when the decision was announced.
The attorneys for the defendants were
also highly pleased, and they hastened
to the jury box to shake hands with
the jurors, who had been excluded
from the courtroom during all of the
arguments made in the case, and who
returned a verdict in accordance with
the directions of the court. District
Attorney Morrison sat with bowed
head for a short time after Judge
Humphrey had concluded, and then
walked over to the jury box and also
shook hands with the jurors.
Immediately following the dismissal
of the jury Mr. Morrison raised the
question of the date of the trial of the
corporations. He asked that the case
be set for trial and that it commence
within two weeks. This met with a
storm of protest from the attorneys
for the packers, who insisted that they
would be unable to prepare for the
case before the fall of the year. Judge
Humphrey directed that the lawyers
agree among themselves upon a date,
and notify him of their decision next
week. It is expected that the total
number of witnesses in this trial when
it begins will number at least 1600.
The attorneys for the packers declar
ed to-day when asking for a postpone
ment of the trial that their witnesses
would number 1500.
The court proceedings for the day
were commenced by the argument of
Attorney John S. Miller, who scouted
the contentions of the attorney gener
al, saying that it was evident to the
most casual reader of the interstate
commence law that no distinction
existed in that act between evidence
given voluntarily or evidence given
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Part of Judge Humphrey’s decision
was as follows:
The defendants are indicted under
the Sherman act, charged with a con
spiracy in restraint of trade. They
have pleaded that, as to them, that
act should be suspended, because they
were compelled to furnish evidence
concerning the matter in the indict
ment, and, under the law, such fur
nishing of evidence gives them im
munity. The law under consideration,
for the construction of which the court
is called upon to decide, is the com
merce and labor act.
It is clear that the primary purpose
of this act was to enable Congress to
provide, through the channel of offi
cials charged with the execution of the
laws, remedial legislation. The act
is a substitute for one of the most
cherished rights of the American cit
izen, which is the right to remain sil
ent when questioned about any sub
ject, the answer to which might in
criminate him. It is conceded that the
privilege amendment to the consti
tution can not be taken from the cit
izen without giving to him something
equally valuable in return. The pri
vilege of the amendment premits a re
fusal to answer a question relating to
the offense. The privilege must be
claimed by the witness at the time.
The immunity flows to the witness
without any claim on his part.
It is contented that the defendants
in this case were volunteers, because
they haggled with Garfield at times,
debated, resisted, gave less than he
asked and withheld some things. The
record does show that, but the fact
remains that every approach was
made by the government. Garfield
make his demands, and it does not, to
my mind, destroy the character of the
compulsion under which they acted, ,
that the defendant after having con- j
sidered the law, and after having de- ,
cided that they had no legal right to 1
resist, still debated with the commis- \
sioner, in the hope of inducing him to '
take something less than the origin- ,
ally demanded, Garfield came to the '
defendants and held up before them i
the powers of his office. They did not j
go to him and volunteer anything, i
Now, since the defendants volunteer- ‘
ed nothing, but gave only what was ,
demanded by an officer who had the
right to make the demand, and gave,
in good faith under a sence of legal (
compulsion, I am of the opinion that
they were entitled to immunity.
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