Frontier FabUafcsd by D. H. CJOIII SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manafer. n Cants Mix Months O'Neill and Holt county. smoke hu cleared in Iowa aud things have reached the heat stage. Iowa courts hold that railway do not have to run their onto private tracks, add this good law. -a*iei^ pops are lining up to be welded the democrats again this Iftear. will be held slmultane at Lincoln August 15. attendant at the Norfolk at the Investigation of mistreatment Of patl was only coddin’ when he buggy Whip on the patients. MThe story that the mayor of Lincoln gave out the information that the £ber dealers of the state were fug a large fund to defeat this r)i Brown candidacy for senator hjp been nailed as a lie by Mayor Brown. That is, he says he didn't Ay It. -- ^If the lumber dealers' association is o#t a trust, the suit brought against tVbjr Attorney General Brown can do At harm; if it is a trust the public ought to know it. In^ either event, -foe mxnm of the lumber dealers t’uwsfd Brown is oreatlng considerable suspicion. ivf -•****,— . Added to tbe other grlefk of the $hpat packers comes a conviction in d««rt *t Kansas City of the Armour, fglfc and Cudahy companies for ac ^pfittg rnbates. This statue under whifch conviction was obtained pro vlfd^s for flnes of hot less than 11,000 for ignore than 1120,000 on each count. V l -- ^founro of Omaha and Currie of fttohen Bow are two late arrivals for I ffsaforlal honors. The people gen • There is nothing in the endorsement of Bryan by Missouri and Arkansas democrats to get excited over. The public’s good health is of more Importance than any material in dusty, Mr. Day to the contrary not withstanding. When conditions in the great packing plants were a menace to public health and after fair warning by the administration the packers refused to rectify the evils, It was clearly up to the admin istration to do something. The meat business will suffer temporarily, but better it should, a thousand times better, than for the public health to suffer. -■» » v The Independent last week gave space to a (lengthy production of bil lingsgate from the Nebraska Libera), a political and particular yellow sheet published over at Creigton In which all the political sensations and exager ations and misrepresentations and falsehoods published by the newspaper renegades and sensationalists from Maine to California finds a place. The Liberal is edited with a pair of shears, with an occasional original product like its assualt on The Frontier. It comes at us with a very edifying lot of rot about Bartleylsm. Perhaps the Liberal doesn’t know nor the Inde pendent doesn't know that when the prince of defaulting Nebraska officials was languishing in the penitentiary —where he ought to be today—the only democrat holding office in Holt county today circulated a petition for his release from the pen and this peti tion was signed by such as the chair man of the county central committee of the high and mighty reformers of Holt county. 'Irhe World-Herald, the head and tall of democracy and popo cracy In Nebraska, was another active laetor in securing Bartley’s release and extolling Governor Savage for his inexcusable pardon. The close association of democratic politi cians with the gfafften and defaulters kicked out of the republican party in Nebraska is 'notorious, and it is com monly known that some of the loudest decriers of the defalcations around here got their hands the deepest into the boodle. "RAILROAD DOMINATION.” Senator Sheldon Ottt far Governor On Platform That May Prove Popular. Senator George L. Sheldon of C%ss OOonty has his Stakes set for the re publican nomination for governor. He states "where he is at” In the following language: "As it seems to me, the most impor tant work for the people of Nebraska now is to assume and to take active control of the state government and the publlo affairs. "I mean that the thing most needed In Nebraska is a complete establish ment of a true representative govern ment. One that will earry out the will of the public untrammeled by railroad domination. We have the [form of representative government in this state, bUt we need more of the spirit and the power of it and the force of coming directly from the peo ple. We need in the conduct of oUr public affairs more of tbe influence of disinterested citizens and less of the self-seeking railroad politician.” "The government is, to a large de gtee, what the official does fn his offi cial capacity. If the official actB for the whole publlo, then it iatruetyrep resentative government, because his acts represent the public will. But if the official’s act is directed by the rail road Influence, then it is government by railroads.” “We have had too much of this gov ernment in Nebraska. There is an opportunity now to put an end to it, for a time at least, and it ought to be done. The railroads have a right to expect, and should have, fair treat ment. But they have in the past, however, had a great deal more than fair treatment. They have actually dictated the state government in many important matters. In the matter of taxation they have attempt ed to lessen their taxes by lending their efforts towards increasing the value of all other property within the the state. Some of them have refused to pay the taxes that have been regu larly assessed and levied on their pro perty, and have appealed to the courts. Because the attorney general under stood that it was his duty as a public; and to enforce taxation on all proper ty alike, and has stood unequivocally for the enforcement of the law, he has incurred the enmity of the railroad po liticans, and they are attempting to retire him to private life, Just as they have in the past been retiring all pub lic men who have referred to serve the public rather than to serve the rail roads.” “The stand taken by the attorney general gives us an object lesson of self-government that is good. He cer tainly should receive the commenda tion of all good citizens who believe In ‘equality before the law’ for the stand he has taken. Other officials at the house have resisted railroad dicta tion, and there has been a splendid be ginning there and at the national cap ltol. Now it seems to me that the people ought to back up this beginning by getting themselves into the pri maries and caucuses and sending their influence untrammeied by railroad dic tation to a state convention of Inde pendent and untrammeied men, who will be, in fact, respresentatlves of the people. “The railroads have dominated state politics in Nebraska for a long time. It has mattered not to them what party was in office, they have been constantly at the helm. Through the free use of passes and a strong organi zation they have been able to exert a powerful influence over legislation, and over the acts Of public officials. For that reason they have had their own way, and there is now no law on the statute books to curb their greed in extortionate freight charges. The transportion companies are entitled to receive a reasonable and Just compen sation for their services, but it is gen erally ooncededthat theircharges are, and have been, not reasonable but ex tortionate in many cases, and that they are wringing from the Nebraska producers millions of dollars annually that in justice they are not entitled to. “It will be up to the next legislature to settle this question and establish more equitable rates. It is up to the people now to determine what the next legislature will do. If the people expect that legislature, in the hand ling of this rate problem, to consider their interests and to represent the whole public, they must get into the caucuses, the primaries and the coun ty conventions, and exert their influ ence and the force of their will in nom inating of these legislatives members. “The last legislature made some pro gress towards rate control. The Cady amendment, in my judgment, should be adopted at the election this fall. It is a beginning. It is a commencement of control by the public. Now, as I said before, the important thing for the people is to get into the primaries and the county conventions with their influence, so that the influence will be the moving power that will control the next legislature. “If we are to have just legislation, and a railroad commission that wil en force such legislation, the people must put the force of their influence into the state convention that nominates this commission. This can be done if the people get into the caucuses and primaries, and we will have rate regu lation and rate reduction that will save milliuns annually in freight charges to the whole public. “Now, the question is, ‘What are the Nebraska people going to do about it?’ It is up to them. If they want a state government that will represent their interests they must get into the caucuses where this government starts If the people neglect the primaries they will lose the battle. It they lose out there, at the beginning, they will lose the whole cause. The public is demanding a square deal. There is a deep sentiment among all the people for this. It is the shibboleth of the American people throughout the whole country. It is the people’s government and they want it to have regard for their rights. “But in this struggle for a square deal we must remember, as citizens, to build up, and not tear down. We must put in force everywhere the motto of our state, ‘Equality before the law. ’ You can trust the represen tatives of the people to deal fairly with the railroads and the corporations, but you cannot trust the representa tives of the railroads and trusts to deal fairly with the people.” CONTEMPORARY COMMENT. “Democrat* are complaining that Roosevelt stole the ideas upon which his popularity was built out of a de mocratic platform,” observes that time honored pop organ, the Nebraska Independent. “But nobody ever heard them complain that their party con fiscated the whole platform of the populists in 1896, and in addition to the platform scooped in a couple of million populist votes.” “The cigarette fiend is being hit hard upon ail sides in the business world,” observes the Bonesteel Pilot. “The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad company has announced that every employee on the company found smoking cigarettes will be deprived of employment. They have ascertained to their satisfaction that the cigarette fiend cannot, or does not, perform his duties in as satisfactory a manner as does the other fellow.” A recent writer calls attention to the fact that during the past few years 33 per cent of the people of Russia have been on the verge of starvation. This, together with the lack of fixed wealth, has made it an uphill task for the peasants who were allotted lands under the emancipation act. The lib erated peasants were given the land without means to cultivate it and they have rarely been able to secure the necessary fixed capital. Their pov erty made them ready victims of the money lenders and that assisted in sapping their economic power. With people in such condition there would be little surprise if there was a repeti tion of the French revolution. The starvation of the French peasants was one of the chief causes of the revolu tion. An empty stomach is a surer cause of discontent than any allegiance to principle. The Oakdale Sentinel hands out a bit of local logic. It says: “Build up your home town! The only way it can be done is by lending your support to every home enterprise. Keep within your community every dollar earned within it, and bring into it every dol lar that through your efforts are earn ed elsewhere. Bear in mind that an enterprise that will give employment to a dozen hands, even though its cap ital may not be great, means the sup porting of a number of families, and helps make a better home market for the produce that is raised on the farm.” _ “When smitten, offer the other cheek, was advice none too good for Mayor Dahlman, of Omaha, according to the story given out by his friends,” says the Sioux City Tribune. “When Mr. Bryan went to congress in 1892 from the First Nebraska district, Da hlman wanted an appoinment to the United States marshalship, but lost out. At that time he stated that he would make Bryan president. Now he proposes to organize a Nebraska as sociation to prepare for the homecom ing reception of the leader and to work for his nomination to the presi dency. Dahlman may have an eye on the United States senate. That would represent a pretty big contrast with his early employment as a cowboy. However, there is a good example of the work a former cowboy may do, and Dahlman’s ambition may not be so far fetohed.” “Like Shylock, with his judgment of a pound of flesh, an Omaha jeweler has been placed in the dilemma of not being able to claim his property award ed by the court except at the risk of murder,” comments a Missouri paper on a police court item at the Nebras ka metropolis. “In this instance the pound of flesh is a $300diamond in the veriform appendix of a self-confessed shop-lifter. A swell dressed young woman, while being shown a tray of diamonds, slipped one of the finest of the stones into her mouth. Surprised by detectives, she swallowed it. But modren science is not baffled by so simple a trick. The X-ray was applied to the young woman and the stolen diamond was located in her appendix. ‘The diamond is yours,’says the police judge to the jeweler. ‘Take it; but if you resort to a surgical operation against the prisoner’s will, and she dies, you can be held for murder.’ The doctors say the diamond can be remov ed only by an operation, and that if it is not removed the young woman will surely die. ‘I will die before I will let them operate,’ she says stoutly. The right to resist operation for appendi citis must not be broken down. If it should be, few of us might escape the knife. Few enough escape as it is. It was in this same city that a noted physician recently declared that not over three per cent of the operations performed for appendicitis were justi fied. The appe idix is supposed to be an organ of no use. But one that catches and holds a $300 diamond has its virtues, and none can blame the prisoner for insisting upon retaining it. True, a diamond in the appendix is of no use. But of what use is a dia mond anyway?” I FREEMAN BROS. KS ELECTRIC SHOW WILL BE IN O'NEILL I Thursday Ev’ng, Jun. 21, under canvass • - 1 -* Featuring the San Francisco Fire and Earthquake in moving pictures, the most thrilling tragedy in the history of our country. See the firemen rescuing men and women from burning build ings, soldiers dinamitlng buildings and feeding the destitute; police guiding the people to heavens of safety; suffering people camping and taking their meals at Golden Gate park; and much more than we adver tise. Remember the date and don’t miss it. ..PRICES— Aults 25c. Children under 12 yrs. 15c. Wti are getting broken up and you need to I 1 iWpKicei' iNr'odr table service you will find Horiskey’s I Grocery has some excellentbargains this summer. 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