The Frontier Published by D. H. CRONIN, ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Assistant Editor and Manager. • 1 50 the Year 75 Cents 81x Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsments on pages 4, 5 and H are cnarged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inch one column width) per month; on page 1 the charge Is II an inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. Klnkald, Phillips, Green, Keyes and Sturdevant “beat them to it.” Where is Whelan’s 500 majority? Fusion boodle has put Stuart pre cinct to the bad. Inman precinct did it right for Keyes and Scotty. Atkinson always does the right thing by a home man—98 majority for Scotty. If the tariff is the father of trusts in the United States, what fathers thorn in England? We didn’t win, but we’re gaining. The fusion majority of two years ago on county attorney had two-thirds cut off of it. O’Neill and Grattan township re publicans—and a good many democrats —stayed by Scott; the nasty work was done at Stuart. A majority of voters in the country precincts wanted Scott for county at torney. Stuart held the balance of power, where boodle was used the most lavishly. The fusion roorback on supervisor sprung in Inman township at the last minute done great work. The Inman fellows would have made it unanimous for Keyes if the fusionists had come a little earlier. The Bryan meeting drew a good cjowd Thursday night liist, but the attendance from the country was very small. A delegation from Brown coun ty were furnished passes to come sev enty miles to hear their inconsistent leaders howl about the railroads. As a sample of how the slander in dulged in by the strategy board “cut Ktnkaid’s vote” at home, Grattan township, which in 1904 gave the fu sion nominee 40 majority over Kin kaid, this year gave Kinkaid an even break with the fusion candidate, 85 votes each. The fusionists claim to have reduc ed the republican majority on con gressman in Ilolt couuty. Kinkaid’s majority two years ago was 625 and this year about 400. There were about 600 less votes cast in the county thia year than in 1904, so that if those who stayed at home would have gone to the polls Kinkaid would have had at least 400 more votes. The percent of his vote this year in the county is greater than in 1904. The World-Herald’s report of the Bryan meeting at O’Neill last Thurs day night was about the richest price of fiction published this season. The parade of “200 horsemen” consisted of a half dozen country boys astride their plow horses. The local managers of the Bryan meeting had their agents out in the rural districts for a week previous to the meeting endeavoring to work up enthusiasm over the “peer less” and announced that they would have a rough rider parade with 500 horsemen in line. Six or eight boys from the country responded and led the procession up the street astride their prancing plow steeds. The World-IIerald correspondent could just as well have made it a thousand as two hundred. ELECTION RESULTS. Throughout the length and breadth of the land the voters have by ballot expressed their faith in the great po litical party under which every ad vance step has been made in the na tion for the past fifty years. Nebraska goes republican by 18,000, Iowa by 20,000, New York by 50,000, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsyl vanir, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wis consin, the Dakotas, Kansas, Wyon; ing—from everywhere comes the word of sweeping republican victories. The national congress will again be strong ly republican with some new timber to strengthen the Roosevelt policy. In our own county neither side can claim a victory, as it is pretty near an even break between fusionists and re publicans. Republicans get two super visors, ond represenative, state senat or and congressman; the fusionist get two supervisors, one represenative and county attorney. The republican vote was largely increased over two years ago and withal republicans have rea sons to feel encouraged over the show ing made. Had the 600 voters who stayed at home went to the polls in all probability there would have been a republican county attorney during the next two years. THANKSGIVING DAY. November 2U is named as National Thanksgivingday by presidential proc lamation, in which ample cause for giving thanks is stated: Yet another year of widespread well being lias passed. Never before in our history, or in the history of any other nation, lias a peo ple emoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours; a prosperity so general that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride, and, least of all, a spirit of heedless disregard of our responsibilities; but rather a sob er sense of our many blessings, and a resolute purpose, under Providence, not to forfeit them by any action of our own. Patriotic words wisely and well spoken. Pride is not reckless that glories In splendid achievement. All may be properly proud of what has been accomplished in the past nine years of prosperity. Heedless disre gard of responsibilities it would be if we were to forget the chief cause of that prosperity. To forfeit our many blessings by destroying their source would be an act of surpreme folly. As a sample of campaign misrepre sentation, the Stuart Ledger made out last week that “The Frontier says their legislative candidates are pledged to raise an appropriation for a normal college at O’Neill.” The Frontier said no sucli thing. The Ledger editor should adjust her glasses and read it again. The Frontier did not say that “their ledgislative can didates” were pledged to anything. The Frontier did say that the re publican legislative ticket was fav orable to the proposition—nothing more, nothing less. The Ledger’s guess, as to the editorship of “the live republican papers of llolt county” is also a good sample of the reliability of the new apostle of reform, which is starting out quite as thoroughly un reliable as tire senior at O'Neill. Secretary Rootlscverely arraigned VV. R. Hearst in a speech during the New York campaign. Mr. Root lays the blame for the murder of William Mc Kinley on the Hearst newspapers and quoted from one of Hearst's papers, the New York Journal, to sustain his charges. Mr. Root showed that he had been sowing the seeds of discord an anarchy through his newspapers and had in fact called for the removal The big Sixth stays in the republi can column. .*23«^=r-. SHELDON GOES IN BY NEARLY" 20,000! of Mr. McKinley from national politics by assassination and that McKinley’s slayer was only answering the call of Ilearst’s paper when he tired the fatal shot. That Ilearst represents an element dangerous to American poli tics is the verdict of many thoughtful men. lie would array class against class and create discord instead of pro moting the spirit of peace and the common welfare of all classes. LABOR SHARES IN PROSPERITY. Wage Earners Receiving More Pay and Working Shorter Hours Than Ever Before. American wage earners are enjoying a large share of the general prosperity of the county, says the New York Sun. This fact is shown by an analysis of the recently published report of the United State Bureau of Labor on wages, hours of labor and prices of food. The figures show that the aver age wage earner is working shorter hours than ever before, that he is re ceiving more pay for the short hour week than he formerly received for the long hour week, and that the in crease in his average wage has been so great that its purchasing power has risen, notwithstanding the increase in prices of many commodities. Fin ally, it shows that there has been an enormous increase in the number of persons employed. The report covers the sixteen year period beginning with 1890 and ending with 1905. From 1890 to 1893 the con dition of the workingman was fairly good. In the last mentioned year the general business depression set in and the wage earner suffered with all oth er classes. A clear idea of the extent of the improvement in conditions can be obtained by comparing 1894 with 1905. Such a comparison shows that the average wage per hour has increas ed 21.5 per cent, while the average wage earner, working shorter hours, earns 10.7 per cent more per week than in 1894 and 12.9 per cent more than in 1890. In the meantime the average price of food, weighted according to the average family consumption in the families of 2,567 working men, increas ed 12.7 per cent above 1894 and 9.8 per cent above 1890. Notwithstanding tliis increase, the average wage hour would purchase 7.7 per cent more food in 1895 than in 1894 and 8.1 per cent more than in 1890. Still more import ant has been the increase in the num ber employed, amounting to 42 per cent over 1894 and to 40.9 per cent ov er 1890. The combined effect of the increase in the average wage and in the number employed was to increase the total amount paid in wages per week by 65.7 per cent above 1894 and 59.1 per cent above 1890. If the bureau of labor had secured data as to the total cost of living for the series of years under consideration it would have shown a ilarger incease in the purchasing power of an hour’s wage than is shown by considering the price of food alone, for it it true that while there has been a general advance in commodity prices since the beginning of the present era of pros perity, that advance has been greatest in the prices of agricultural products and raw materials generally. The average increases in prices of manu factured articles have been much less. The increase in the price of agricul tural products, especially meats, lias advanced the cost of food to a much greater degree than the prices of cloth ing and house furnishings have ad vanced. In some localities the cost of fuel has gone up and in some localities house rents are higher, but on the whole the average cost of living has not advanced in proportion to the cost of foods. That manufactured articles have not advanced in proportion to the ad vance in the prices of raw materials and the wages of labor is due to the fact that manufacturing establish ments, especially the larger concerns, have been able to introduce economies that have to some degree offset the greater cost oi labor and materials. One of the most important factors in moderating the advance in commodity prices generally, has been decline in the cost that enters into the selling price of practically every commodity. The average freight charge per ton per mile for 1905, as reported by the Inter state Commerce Commission, shows a decrease of 10.9 per cent as compared with 1894 and 18.6 per cent as compar ed with 1890. The figures for 1906 will show a still further reduction. This rapid decline in the average cost of transportation in the face of greatly increased expenditures for rail road wages and materials and supplies of all kinds has been made possible by the expenditure by the railroads of hundreds of millions of dollars for the betterment of tracks and roadbeds, the elimination of grades and curves and the purchase of more powerful engines and larger cars, enabling them to make large increases from year to year in the average trainload. These railroad improvements have contri buted materially to the general in crease in prosperity of the whole coun try, gi vingemployment to many thous ands of wage earners and distributing enormous sums of money. This work of railroad extention and improvement will continue on an unprecedented scale for some years to come if it is not interfered with by radical legisla tion. A recent review of the work now in progress and projected in trunk line territory alone shows that the roads in that one section have planned for the expenditure of not less than $400, 000,000 during this year and 1907. In the vast region beyond the Mississippi, between the Canadian border and the Rio Grande, thousands of miles of road are under construction and pro jected, and all over the south existing lines are being improved and extended. The Markets South Omaha, Nov. 7.—Special market letter from Nye & Buchanan. —We had a heavy run of cattle Mon day followed by a light run Tuesday. Beef steers are slow to a dime lower; cow stock 10 to 15 cents lower; good feeders are about steady; light and medium grades are slow and dull at last week's decline. It is thought that on account of lack of railroad fa cilities that the western run of cattle will be dragged out a few weeks later than usual this year. Indications seem to be for steady to stronger prices for the balance of this week if receipts continue light. We quote— Choice steers.$5 75(a>6 40 Fair to good. 5 00(a>5 65 Common & warmed up. 4 25(a>4 90 Cows and heifers. 15 00(o)4 50 Thin cows. 1 75(^2 90 Choice heavy feeders. 4 10(« 4 75 Fair to good. 2 00(a4 oo Light Stockers.. 2 50(aH 25 Bulls. 2 00(a>4 00 Yeal. 2 50(<£6 00 Hogs continue their downward course with light receipts. Range $5.80 to $6.05. The supply of sheep is liberal; mut ton is about a dime lower; feeder sheep steady and feeder lambs easier. To Exchange for Holt County Farms or Ranches. 307 acre stock and grain farm, Monona county, la. Well improved, close to town. 280 acre improved farm in Missouri, all lies level, an ideal home. 214 acre grain and stock farm in Monona county, la. Good buildings. 100 acre improved farm in Monona county, la. All good heavy land, 4 miles to towm. 70|acre home, well improved, joins a good town in Monona county, la. Well improved and an ideal home for the person that wants to retire. The above described land is all good and will bear inspection and if you wish to exchange your farm or ranch write me fully giving a full descrip tion of your property and price. I have a cash customer for a strictly lirst class ranch. Fred L. Rarclay, 17 4 Stuart, Neb. Chapped hands are quickly cured by applying Chamberlain’s Salve. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Gilligan & Stout. _ Get your typewriter paper at The Frontier. [the W. C. T. u. corner] l,“J