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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1900)
T he Northwestern PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THE COUNTY SEAT. KO. K. ItKNSfHOTEK, ( Kill lorn Hurt BO. II lilltSON, \ I'll blither* TKRMS 11.00 PKll TKAIl, If PAID IN AIlVAM I! Entercl at the Loup City Pohtofflre for trans mission through the malls as second class matter. If pig tails were as highly value a bv the aristocracy as oxtails are the * allied forces in China might realize expenses out of the raid on Pekin. England has come to the United States to borrow 125,000,000. The reason she did this was because we had plenty to lend. Four years ago our greatest commodity was soup. The London papers now charge the United States with being the “New Hanking House of the World.” We wear our honors gracefully and will continue to hold the title until after another democratic president is inaugurated. Bryan presented 14 square miles of Ins letter of acceptance at Indianap olis last week, and notified the deni ocrats that the balance would he for warded on two fiat cars in a few days. Since Towne has pulled down his name from the conglomerate mast head it Is supposed that the fusion papers around here will dust them selves in sack cloth and ashes and shed great drops of gore and—g< vote for Stevenson and equal rights for all regardless of color, In »2 the slogan of the Democrat ic party was free trade, and its trial brought on one of the worst panics the country ever experienced. In ’!lii while we were still steeping iu this panic, brought on by their blun der, they told us that a thorough dose of HJ to 1 on a free coinage basis was sure to heal the w ounds of theii first prediction made, They In •Mj acknowledged that they had made a mistake in their paramount itsue of 'f»2, but now they were right and if the country was trusted to their keeping 4 years more they would redeem it from the terrible conditions their mistake had brought upon it and place it upon its feet, but to trust Republican principles, they said, would send the country to wreck and ruin on their gold stand ard policy. Now after 4 years of demonstrating of Republican ideas we find the country in the most nourishing condition it has ever ex pericnced. Protection did wnat the Jiepublicun party said it would, the gold standard has been the main prop to our protected prosperity, the falacies of democracy were shown up and that party were compelled to hunt a new issue. It is an old saw that you can lock from a thief, hut a consumate liar is beyond the con trol of old nick himself. The reputa tion of democracy is beyond repair for false doctrine, all that needs be done is to run your memory back over the history of the party to show their incorapeteney and mis-calcula lions. Institute lte»oIutloti». I.oap City, Neb.. August 10, 1900. We the members of Sherman county In stitute, having spent two weeks so pleasantly and profitably, and feeling highly pleased with thorough work done by our compitent in structors and the benefits received from the same, and appreciating the royal manner in which we have been received by the cltl /ens of layup City: therefore be It resolved h’lrst. That the thanks of the Institute lie tendered to our county Superintendent, Mr L<elnlngtr. for the able, dignified and impar tial manner in whieli he has presided our our assembly. That we are grate!ul to him for the assistance given while teaching That thunks arc ulso due to Mrs, Leininger for the efficient way lit whlch she conducted ihe musleal portion of the Institute. Second. That we are pleased to renew and continue our acquaintance with Prof stookdale Principal of Arlington High School, and wlili Miss t'leland of tUieyenm . Wyoming, and to el press our sat Inf actios with their efforts m ou. behalf we are also pleased to make lha ac>|iiaiiitaner of l*rof r It Atkinson nupt of korh t‘liy Schools and espress our highest appreciation of hliu as a teacher Wocoarejr to uti h of these instructors our good will and hope at amir future time to toitlinue our href a.'uuhlut aneo Third Thai the gratitude of the sh< nnan t'ouaty Inslilute be ettemied lu lha lndlttl uals who so willingly •oOlrlhuled to th. ptogrwm of Thursday even e *>v furnlshm. music IsmIi instrumental and total gottrih ’That we Irsolf to the > t .-ess ol I .nop Illy war liewity thank* for th< k udiy ■o.tuner In whl» h they have cared lor the tra. hereof the institute an-1 thvir heart « operation In the cause uf Odueai a I fth I h *>• r . C, M 1 . t I the sshoccl lsa>4 of l oop ftly fur thy Uo uf the school bui d s ' Mitch TM' • of those re . uH. u. h> larwtshed to m A of the C--tMtt» pal * • I '* ptMkttka i » S !««*.. » i I at y It itetscot tins Minwraatw It me Ions a net1 »c i W It hwaasot t» I u yn» » c * 1 A Corruption Fund Raised by the Application of Fusion Principles to Fusion Officeholders. Bryan’s Predictions ami Itugabon* by tin; Logic of Events Train formed Into Nonsense. Di-inort-Ht* Deiimitil Full t'ltlxrnnhlp For Filipino* nml ui tlie Smn„ Time lll» franchlKit American C lllxcu*. Omaha, Aug. l!i.—Nothing haw con tributed more to the contamination of the publio service in the state govern ment, and particularly in the manage ment of state institutions, than the es tablished practice of the fusion leaders of compelling all persons on the pay roll of the state m givo np never less than 3 and often 5 per cent of their sal ary monthly for use as a corruption fund. That this Is the Used policy of the fusiouists is fully established and proven, both by statements made by fusion officials, who have been com pelled to contribute, and by the letter of the “poultice” committee of the tri umvirate to Superintendent Lang of the Institute at Beatrice, published in the weekly newspapers of the state a week or so ago. There are few people, perhaps, who fully realize what this means iu dollars and cents, say nothing of the evil re sults attending it. The lust legislature appropriated for salaries and wages $572,000. This, howover, does not in clude tho appropriations for salaries or wages at either tho university or the penitentiary. Iu this compilation these two institutions are not included, be cause it is assumed that with all the rapacity aud greed of the fusion leaders the university would be spared and tho appropriation for the penitentiary is merged with other funds iu tho audi tor’s report, thus making it impossible to determine how much was appropri ated for salaries and wages. However, to determine how much money is gathered in l>y the ‘‘poultice" committee (it is termed “poultice" be cause it draws) for use as a corruption fund one bus only to take 3 per cent or 6 per cent of the $•’572,800, tho amount appropriated, as all of it will be paid out before the closo of tho year. On the 3 per cent proposition the amount realised by tho committee is $17,178. On the 5 per cent, it amounts to $28, 630. In either event the fund is large, and, taken with money received from other sources, it runs the corruption fund away up in figures. It is this practice, more than any other onu tiling, that has caused so much wrung ling and discord at the various state in stitutions and that has so severely shaken these establishments. Managed From Lincoln. With the single exception of Gover nor Poynter, no governor, not even Silas A. Holcomb, ever attempted to manage or direct the affairs of tho pub lic institutions throughout the state from the capitol at Lincoln. Until Poynter assumed the executive chair the unvarying custom was to appoint otilcials to manage the institutions, give them full authority and hold them re sponsible for the proper conduct of af fairs. Experience had demonstrated that this was the only way satisfactory results could be attained. Governor Poynter appointed tho of ficials, but housed the uppoiutive power uiid the public patronage to reward his political supporters irrespective of their fitness, with the result that in many instances, he was compelled by reason of the lutter 8 liioompetoncy to take a hand in the management himself, lu no instance is the fruition of the “double standard" raoro accurately and elaborately depicted than in tho man agement of the state institutions. For, nnder Poynter, nearly every state insti tution has had two heads (tho superin tendent and Governor Poynter) and often three, four and five. After having appointed unfit persona Governor Poynter frequently had to intervene to help them out, so that at no institution and at no time has tho management been freo from interfer ence from the executive department at Lincoln, ileiug rather poorly qualified himself to give advice, for Governor Poynter has had absolutely uo experi ence in teaching the blind, oaring for the indigent, the insane, the feeble minded and kindred wards, ills inter ference was more often attended by bad than good results. It hM frequently liven said that "too many cooks spoil the broth." Viewing results attained at these iustitutious the logic of this de duction can hardly be quc-ti mod. Gov ernor Poynter'* policy of rewarding politicians by appointment to utficu without questioning their fitness has bet it attended by deplorable multi has, in fact, crippled the msimgeuivut of ucarly every institution in the slate. % 1 * 11 *u rro|ih«l. It it an old align that a jar.-nil's ilil) kens eouo' h one to r > >st ' Mr Hryati should have thought of this, whet) four years ag<> ha was predicting »ll »utta of dir« disaster In the event of H> I'ttt'ii.m sm-ery. taka tL fahl <1 elmV.u, Mr Itryan's prqh -i * have cum > b me t» ro-.et. sud, elist make It eiut>«rra*«ing for him, Is, llisl they are i osttug on the memory of a largo number of X'lrnkt voters, w h > w ».•» ilrouel an l f silnl Istu following tins a hi >•* and beoevlug in the p»» l,rtl »i.s iif the "ts>y mat >i ' in I van. It la stud nf a Mi**-.uri Ibmassl aim toted f t i lev.: vu i and Ir e wu*d tu iw\ w<*4 <tt l j*d »l |Otv lu (live tisot «lidl ha tmumaemS dmrtag *st« sheap the nrart rfs.% bo stourf ta a tits «Jjh dia* usirv# exirimlly, trfug s-lvus.4 f v Inok Ife ar'riil in tho face. Mr. Bnra.i finds hiaiwlf in aborct the same pmiic aaicnt, but with Napo Irani* fortitude, tmlikn the Missouri farmer, ho looks the people in tlio face without even hinting at, an apology for imposing up on their credulity. In no instance have hia prophesies proven prophetio. Every prediction, every statement of Ilia, haa been exploded—has fallen flat. Tho people of Nebraska never experienced tnnro prosperous times, but Bryan in 180fl told them a thousand times or more that if McKinley was elected and free silver defeated terriblo distress— tho hardest of hard times—would fol low. Bryan told them that tho purchasing capacity of tho dollar would double, and that the price of all farm products and the wages of labor would fall cor respondingly. Has this statoinent”como true? Is there a farmer or laborer in Nebraska who can say that Bryan's pre dictions have been verified? Where isall this distress Bryan talked about in 189*1? Why doesn’t Bryan pull the drop curtain aside and let the people sue it? AJl that can toe seen is prosperity. Can Mr. Bryan exhibit any other photograph and say that it is the correct one? Now then, if Mr. Bryan’s reasoning was fallacious in 1800 why is it not to day? He is not parading the distress which four years ago he said would fol low tho election of McKinley, because proof of prosperity is too ubuudunt. lie was dealing in futures then, and ho is dealing in futures now. Bryan’s predictions always deal with tho far future, so that if he is wrong, as ho in variably lias been, ho has time and op portunity to realize on the beiielits ac cruing in the way of fooling tho people into voting for him before they find out or discover that they have been duped. How many times have alleged prophets prophesied terrestrial destruction, and duped and terrorized more or less peo ple with their awful forebodings, and liow many times has the day of destruc tion, fixed by them us tho duto upon which the world was to bo destroyed, come and passed without tho slightest ripple on the world's affairs? False prophets and vagaries are not confined to crankdom alone. rreo silver whs nryati it "paramount and bugaboo in I SIM). The people have discovered Hint it wan all a furoo. This time it is ‘‘militarism” aud "imperial ism.” ilryan sees in tbo dim mists of the perspective and introspoot the hag gard ghost of “forco” coining upon earth to govern this Country without the consent of the governed. This “prophesy” almost roaches the summit of lunacy. It is an imposition on popular intelligence, an insult to sober reason, an illicit compromise be tween wanton mendacity and shameful demagogy. Ilryan himself does not be lieve it. To charge a party with mili tarism that fur 40 years has contributed its best genius and statesmanship to the achievement of peace without military arbitrament; to charge a party with imperialism that for 40 years has met and repulsed overjs en croachment on popular governmcut— that lias siuce its advent to power added additional constitutional palladiums to the individual rights of American citi zenship—is base ingratitude, withering hypocrisy and shameful deception. Mllltarlom and Democracy. It is a fact worthy of note that the only exhibition of militarism in the last quarter of a century in the history of this country was made by a Democratic president. That was during the labor troubles in Chicago, when President Cleveland, against the protests of Gov ernor Alt geld and the mayor of Chicago, sent the troopa into the state of Illinois to put down local labor disturbances. It will also be remembered that Mr. Bryan, if history bo not faulty, was at that time a member of congress, but neither in nor out of congress did Mr. Bryan utter one word of protest against the unprecedented act of the president. If the Republican policy lias brought prosperity and success, which it surely has, how can the Bryan policy, which is directly opposed to and intended to destroy tlu? Republican policy, bring anything but the opposite of prosper ity—bard times? Jt is safe philosophy and it is so recognized in worldly af fairs that a medicine that will lull will not curt?. imfraiiclilslnir Voter*. Iii the Ktatoelection just held in North Coroliua the issue on the Democratic side was the adoption of a constitutional ameudineut which disfranchises the negro. The Democrats curried the day, and the right of the negro to exercise free suffrage in that slate no long* r b tains. In all 75,000 eitixeu-voters are disfranchised. In the face of this, Democrats ull over the land are demanding at the top of their voices that the Filipinos be r >• stored to full eiti/.eiibhip govern tie ;u eelves und therefore exercise free suf frage w bile at t)u* same t ime they like away the right of free suffrage tr an cilia*o* of this country whose super). r* ity a* citt/,-u* over the Filipinos is el* milted by everyb'dy c>>mp tent toju is it any worse to govern uiwd »• ted, uii mlta-d people without t i l# «•> o» nt then it Is to govern Amen ail CilUeit*, thnrongbiy ill svuijial by w .: U Amsii tit laws custom* and lus'it* lions, w ithout in.nr couseiitf I rue, an I D on rats will no d ubt claim It, the r* *IIUH> ll It I'nullii ut on all tjuili ha! test If a u »'«* v !>>r van r> ,< my o-v11 >u i f I s t > >11 I u> 1 U ti .■ 11 lie to- - ■ W h>* >t I U. I, h ..»* V I |i ' li aim I This unit let, an i any >to fainiuar win ilc s'4i. 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One bottle wholly cured her: and she writes, this marvelous medicine also cured Mr, Long of a severe attack of Pneumonia Snell euics Hie positive proof ol its power to cure all throat, chest and lung troubles Only Mk* and #1.00 Ouaraii teed. Trial bottle free ;>t Odendahl Bros, drug store Million* wl|!h< 'pent io politics this ye:r \V can't keep the camp gu go lug without money any more than we can keep th" body vig"rotis without food, D)-p« pt le* Um d to starve tin in selves. Now K idol Dyspepsia « ure dl* {fsts w hat y uu eat aid allow* yi.it in eat ail In' g o l t mnI y tt w nt It rni Walty nr ■» stomach troubles Eor *«le ii» O lcndahl l‘.r«is -' ftio'htra J h< i v gather. Vhcv ■ \\. ikv . .. J *.hi> attevt> ihf t db>, ! ,i.h mother p.vil t h ! rnuhion. It i*,v*i*s t .tungth amt nuke* •*r«adt’Ju ti.J . »' 'indar.t t the market affords is none to good for those who buy their goods from me and if you will I will show you prices that will convince you that you saved money, and that it paid you to our complete line of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ladies and Gents furnish ing goods. Don’t fail to examine before making your purchases. Our goods are fresh and our prices right.—Yours respectfully, J. Phip Jaeger. South Side Public Square Loup City, Nebr. furniture J T. 31. REEDS. We afe Headquarters for WINDMILLS, PUMR PIPES & FIXTURES We hav e every appliance for making first class Drive or Hydraulic Wells and respectfully solicit your order. Our charges are reasonable, jour prices are right. \VK UKI'AIK IMMIKKS AM> IIOIM; I'OvThUS AN1» OtJAUAN THK OI H WUKK T«M!ltK SATISFACTION. 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