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7UBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
AT THE COUNTY SEAT.
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TKKM.H »l.«l PKH YEAH IF PAID IK ADVAJK E
Kntpreil at the Loup City I’natofRce for trurm
inlNsluu through the mall* aw second
class matter.
Official Paper Sherman County
An eminent lecturer once said
that the longest man he ever knew,
his name was short, and the shortest
man be ever knew, his name was
long, and reasoning on the same
lines oce would conclude that the
uame chosen by the founders of the
sheet knownas the Appeal to Reason,
had selected a very appropriate name
II is rather amuaing to see the
pop papers declare in one column
that McKinley, is a coward and con
trolled by the money power to such
an extent that he does not dare de
clare war against Spain, and In the
next column tell you that he cannot
declare war, that no power in the
United States except congress can
do ao. Ido they think that their read
ers are so devoid of brains that they
will believe both stories, or don’t
they dare make the proper deduc
tions.
The populist papers in the slate
are publishing, with glowing head
lines the fact that Kugene Moore,
was granted a new trial by the de
cision of the republican majority of
the supreme court, and that Judge
Sullivan had very positively descent
ed, as he believed that thieves should
he punihsed. Hut iu the next column
they very meekly say tiiat “Bartley
was granted a new trial” and let it
go at that. They forget to say that,
Judge Sullivan handed down the de
cision that freed Hartley, at least
for the present, and gives him a first
class oppertunity to go entirely free.
Ob no populists, your oagans are
appearently only to willing to cover
up the fact that Judge Sullivan vir
tually asked it as a personal favor
that Bartley he given a rehearing,
and that upon bis request the repub
licans ac<|uiest. Former develope
rneats would indicate that our
Governor,was pretty badly mixed up
with Mr. Hartley, could that fact
have any bearing upon their silence.
It has always been a pleasant
morsel for pop and popocratic papers,
to shove to their constituents that
old money bags was always glad
when he could see a war cloud hover
ing in sight as it gave him an opper
tunity to buy bonds that the govern
ment would he forced to issue to
carry on the war, and as the capital
ist never helped do the fighting, the
poor man had to do the fighting and
pay the hoods also, hut in the last
few weeks we have witnessed the
peculiar pbenomina of a back sum
mersault by these puselanemous pig
headed “I told you so's” of avowing
that if it were uot for the money
-p» --* u<*fc net’ll UC
dared and Culm freed long ago.
tint as soon as war is declared and
bonds have got to lie issued to pa)
a heavy war expense those same ••]
told you so s” will say that the inou
‘*y lenders are the fellows that ari
profiting by the war. They remiuc
one of the Irishman that said he die
not know what party he belonged t«
but he was forniust the Government
What a job, indeed, the nation*
administration would have if i
aboulU try to satisfy the demaud o
populism? In this stale for tuataucc
the demand of the oppuaition is fo
w»r and McKinley is sorely deintuuc
ed for preferring peace, Here the pop
ulist idea is that McKinley ha* auk
out to Wall street and has refuser
to declare war at the command o
the -unmet power 1 Hut liov. |.*tb
of Kansas, who has gamed some no
ivrtelv a* bring • tugger find lhai
Waite of Colorado, ha* a dilfereni
t-le* he »*t» that the preparation!
now taring pushed f<-r national dn
fsnae m a scheme of the unmet
power to r-imp a large standing army
for the purpose wt intimidating labor
and crushing out the liberties of ids
"great comm.m people tSrpolteu
aland read) e«en where to dauta
McKinley whelhet he Ones or Ui
not Kenmey J*un
SPAIN’S PAST HISTORY.
Spain has been a thief, a rubber
and a murderer, ever since she ha*
disgraced fbe face of the globe, arid
could her history be blended in col
ors it would make a black streak
across the face of a Guinea “Nigger.
Conquest, hypocraev and assassin
ation has been her most, pleasant
pastime since her earliest distance,
and coupled with her averacious
nature, mark for her the bloodiest
record or a.iy nation in th known
world Her blood thirsty enterprise
has conquered and ruled many coun
tries in the past ten centuries, yet
today she is being fast crowded to
the confines of herorigiual kingdom,
and her former splendor is i thing
of the past.
In I4U2, when Columbus sought
the .Spanish double headed throne to
enlist them in his great scheme of
discovery, the out corne of which
was the discovery of America, he
found them down in southern lies
punia butchering the Moores to their
hearts delight, and their treasury
entirely empty from the drum put
upon it by their wars, and the money
to fit out such an expidition not in it.
Hut the enterprising avaricioosness
of Queen Isabella, was awakened by
the ideas of Columbus to such an,ex
tent that she sold her jewelry to raise
the money, and ere long her bloody
hand had a new field for its cunning,
hut at too great a distance to satisfy
her people at home, for they must
see real blood to be satisfied, and
not merely hear about it, so they in
augeraied tue world mined mi|uni
tions, and while her soldiers were
reveling in blood in the western
world she amused herself with the
rack, the thumb screw, iron virgin,
tbe knife and many other devices
that could only he evolved from ihe
brainof a fiend incarnate until more
tban200,U00 of her people were put
to death in the most horrahle manner
in their power to devise.
In 1519 Cortez' dropped anchor
off the coast of Mexico, and at once
proceeded to devastate the land of the
Aztecs, a people that on general prin
ciples were nearer hatnau than their
Spanish butchers, but with whom
the then modern warfare was un
known and the bow and arrow had
to soon go down before the powder
and ball of Spain, and the blood
of the Aztecs drenched the soil of
their once happy land until there was
none left to iesist, and Spain was
sole possessor of the land and the
fullness thereof
In l524Piiaro, wbesc blood stain
ed path of carnage and murder is
still told in tradition, made a visit
ti the coast of Peru, South America,
but not until seven years later did be
begin his work of extermination of
the Incas, who had lived in oblivion
of the Spanish butcher for so many
generations but at last awoke to the
fact that the re was men with
a whiter skin than tiieirs but a blacker
heart than that of lucifer himself.
Taking one of the Inca rulers prisoner
through pretension of friendship, he
afterwards ottered to set him free
upon the pa> merit ot a heavy ransom
and after the natives hml .... I
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precious metals to the value of about
$18,000,000 upon hi* pile of demand,
he ruthlessly put him to death and
1 kept the valuables, but in 1541 was
himself assassinated
Their reign in Cuba, with one ex
> ception, that of (iov.(ieD La*l’u»as,
begmuiug iu t7«o, has I teen one of
I the iron heel, the people of that is
land have been slaves of Spain tin
f <ler the taskmaster generation alter
generation almost in sight of Mlt
stars and stripes, there cau be lillle
wonder that tbet were almost ul» >t<
iu a state of iusereetiou lor misrule
! bad dnveu the people of Cuba t..
^ detperallou The leu tears war
f beginning in I s*ls, was pul down l.t
Hpauislt aims after l total ot t 'uba>
noble sons had been killed in l>attt.
**‘d | t,UIMi prisoners of * n |u |
been slain, ami im*rv than t5tt,tiuu
anhltera had l«e*n sent from si pan,
lotto the but* lining, n ^ ,t
over ♦.u.tHHi imi |„4. |p
taswravtiwu unit after • lip >
®f eighteen tears to bit •* nut ig* n
In a wore virulent form than on
In Ik# past two tests she b«» .. „t
wore than !#|A two wfetora to mni,
the bamlful of pan loti. i4i.im
•ore than twsi Hunk of wimh tta**
pe'*she«l »a tsattle •f >di • binW«t in
the climate, site has starved more
women mid children Ilian the
r, mount of soldiers >die sent, caused
the Cnit.d Stales mi expense of
millions to maintain the neutrality
laws tu sides blowing up one of our
In st liiiitl. ships and destroying the
lives of 2‘>'l of our sailors. Can any
government ask f'u un re forbear
ance, let tin I nit.d S-tics awake to
her duty and wipe the (tower of this
excresenee from the face of 'lie
westein world.
People who express the opinion
ilia' President McKiniey should
make greater has'e in action in the
('uIran Spanish matter piolmbly do
not take into eonsideiation all the
difficulties wldcli are apparent to tin
man who realizes the immense re
spousihillity attached to his indi.i
dual action in the mat'er There
has been a constant civ for years
that the I'nited States wna absolutely
and notoriously unprepared foi war.
yet peoph are demanding that the
President shall jump into a war with
merely a few day 's prepesation, and
that b o. a war in which a navy and
coast defenses would la- the most
important features, and for the lack
of which we should suffer most.
K very day of delay is precious to
those who are making prcp.-iaiiotis
f >r war; and to In ing about active
operations before preperationa can
be completed would be to court dis 1
aster to our seacoaet cities and p.*i
haps defeat for the navy. Besides
this, there must In* taken into eon
.. A.. :. _ .1 e . . . 1 .. 1 :
r>M,iviuM"il tin ' vil il n in .1
would necessitate the sending ol
troops to Cuba aub a.constant eon;
muoication between this country and
that island would l»> almost certain
to introduce yellow fevt r in tbe south
and thus endanger millions of live
in this country. It in not because]
of unwillingness on the part of the
President to maintain the honor and
dignity of the nation or to protect
those in Cuba who are suffering, but
because he realizes the danger of en
tTing upon a war before pr< peration
has been made, and the importance
of averting hostilities if this can lie
done in a manner ccisistent with
the facts
About the latest and most inter
esting bit of loeal news is found in
the following clipping from the Qrd
Quiz It appears that during a recent]
visit to that town, Jacob Albers of
this place resolved to have a little
fun with the Ordites and according
to reports succeeded pretty well, at
least until the tables turned, and
now they are having some fun with
Jacob. The Quiz says:
A first class fake struck town yes
terday. He rode over from Loup
City and claimed to be a captain in
the Sixth infantry of the regular and
went to talking a recruiting station
here, sajing that the government
was establishing such stations all
over the country. l{e was at first
accepted us gemma-, but n began
to crawl through the wool of the
citizens soon that he bad no uniform.
Captain Gudmuiiscn, when lie heard
about the sixth racket said he wa» a
fake, for he knew that regiment too
well. By the time the man .jut
ready to leave tin- town people were
onto him. George McDonough
was one of the tlr-d to tumble lor
he knew he lived ovt r in Dead Horse
t any on, aud when the -‘captain
called for his lull George told him
that Ins regular rates i-,t soldiers «
•3.00 a day, but he would ht Inn
olf willi a f rale lie legisti-to , I
as t ipaiu Al'i.-r • l.m In turn, d
out to In-simple .1 ik. \d.
Bad iIn- ui ti-iu for * let.. ,,,, g
to the Itir'li-i, *»e t-r... made b\ a
republic ♦„ a howl ».,,,|. ,f „(l
( frmu the throat* «f \.-hr.».K , f ,„
lots that would hate » *i. I ii,, *,r
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Our trade is steadily inereasiug and it is flattering evidence to us that our
new plan of hammering down the prices is appreciated by the public, and by
adding largely to <>ur stock, many articles heretofore sold in other stores for high
prices, and selling them on a very dose margin, we an gradually building up a bus
iness that is highly satisfactory. We have a mammoth stock of Dry Goods,
Boots. Shoes, Hats. < 'aps. and Notions, all new spring goods, hut we do not be
lieve in selling them on large profits to make up fora sacrifice in some other de
partment, because we find that we can do more business on dose margin than on ^
large profits, and a large volume of business will give us good interest <>u our
investment. Don’t go by our store if you want a bargain in a Trunk or Valiee
or in fad anything to put in it. We are here to do business and have employed
the aid of low prices in every department to assist us. (kune in and see our
goods and learn our prices when you visit the county seat. Remember the place,
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