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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 190<) NUMBER 15 NATION’S MEN OF WORTH IN TRIBUTE TO ABRA HAM LINCOLN. PRESIDENT MAKES ADDRESS Qualities and Deeds of the Great Pres ident Set Forth by the Chief Exec utive in Impressive Speech—Im mense Concourse Gathered to Wit ness Exercises in Connection with Laying of Corner Stone of Memo rial Hall. Hodgenville, Ky.—The corner stone of the splendid memorial to be erected to the memory of Abraham Lincoln was laid by President Roosevelt. The exercises were participated in by many of the nation's Hading men. Cardinal Gibbons and ex-Gov. Folk of Missouri being among those who made ad dresses. From all points, by train and over roads not particularly smooth at this season of the year, the people gathered to the exercises. A building four times the size of the tent provided could not have accommodated the crowd. The corner stone of the Memorial hall was laid by President Roosevelt. In an impressive address the chief ex ecutive eulogized the life and work of the great statesman. He spoke as fol lows: “We have met here te --lehrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans: of one of the two or t hr*- greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the world's history. This rail splitter, this boy wiio passe;] his un gainly youth in the dire poverty of the poorest of the frontier folk, whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to load his people through the burning flames of a struggle from which the na tion emerged purified as by fire, born anew to a ioftier life. After iong years of iron effort, and of failure that came more often than victory, lie at last rose to the leadership of the republic at the moment when that leadership had become the stupendous world-task of the time. He grew to know greatness, but never ease. Success came to him, but never happiness, save that which springs from doing well a painful and a vital task. Power was his. but not pleasure. The furrows deepened on his brow, but lii3 • yes were undimrr.ed by either hate or fear. His gaunt shoulders were Dowel, but his steel thews never faltered as he bore for a burden the destinies of his people. His great and tender heart shrank from giving pain: and the task allotted him was to pour out like water the life-blood of the young men. and to feel in his every fiber the sorrow of the women. Disaster saddened but never dis mayed him. As the red years of war went by they found him ever doing his duty in the present, even facing the fu ture with fearless front, high of heart, and dauntless of soul. Unbroken by ha tred. unshaken by s-orn. he worked and sutfered for the people. Triumph was his at the last; and barely had l;e tasted it before murder found him. and the kind ly, patient, fearless eyes were closed for ever. Washington and Lincoln. “As a people we are indeed beyond measure fortunate in the characters of the two greatest of our public men, Washington and Lincoln. Widely though they differed in externals, the Virginia landed gentleman and the Kentucky baok woodsman, they were alike in es sentials, they were alike in the great qualities which rendered each able to ters of mankind who have too often | shown themselves devoid of so much as the understanding of the words by which we signify the qualities of duty, of mercy, of devotion to the right, of lofty dlstinterestedness in battling for the good of others. There have been other men as great and other men as good; but in all the history of mankind there are no oilier two great men as good as these, no other two good men as great. Wide ly though the problems of to-day differ from tlie problems set for solution to Washington when he founded this nation, to Lincoln when he saved it and freed the slave, yet the qualities they showed in meeting these problems are exactly the same as those we should show in doing our work to-day. Lincoln's Deep Foresight. ‘‘Lincoln saw into the future with the prophetic imagination usually vouclisafed only to the poet and the seer. He had In htm all the lift tow ard greatness of the visionary, without any of the vision ary's fanaticism or egotism, .without any of the visionary s narrow jealousy of the practical man and inability to strive in practical fashion for the realization of the impossible. At the very time when otie side was holding him up as the apostle of social revolution because he was against slavery, the leading abo litionist denounced him as the "slave hound of Illinois.” When he was the sec ond time candidate for president, the ma jority of his opponents attached him be cause of what they termed his extreme radicalism, while a minority threatened to holt Ills nomination because he was not radical enough. He had continually to check those who wished to go forward too fast, at tile very time that he over rode the opposition of those who wished not to go forward at all. The goal was never dim before his vision, but he picked his way cautiously, without either halt or hurry, as he strode toward it, through such a morass of difficulty that no man of less courage would have attempted it, while it would surely have overwhelmed any man of judgment less serene. Man of Great Toleration. “Yet, perhaps the most wonderful thing of all. and. from the standpoint of the American of to-day and of the future, the most vitally important, was the j extraordinary way in which Lincoln • LINCOLN? K MEMORiAL f an ideal. He had the practical man's hard common sense and willingness to adapt means to ends: but then was in him none of that morbid growth of mind and soul which blinds so many practical men to the higher things of life. Xo non' practical man ever lived than this homely backwoods idealist: but he had nothing in common with those practical men whose consciences arc warped until they fail to distinguish betwe< n good and evil, fail to understand that strength, ability, shrewdness, whether in the world of business or of politics, only sen e to make tiieir possessor a more noxious, a more evil member of the community, if they ar- not guided and controlled by a fine and high moral sens-. Lessons from Lincoln's' Life "We of this iicy must try to jolve many social and industrial problems, requiring to an espe dal degree- the combination of indomitable resolution with cool-headed sanity. We can profit by the way in which Lincoln used both these'traits as he strove for reform. We can learn much of value from the ’Very attacks which following that course ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bern February 12, 180, render service to his nation and to all j mankind such as no other man of his generation could or did render. Each had lofty ideals, but each in striving to attain these lofty ideals was guided by the soundest common sense. Each possessed inflexible courage in adversity, and a soul wholly unspoiled by prosperity. Each possessed all the gentler virtues common ly exhibited by good men who lack rug ged strength of character. Each pos sessed also all the strong qualities com monly exhibited by those towering ma»* Died April 15, 1865 Brought upon his head, attacks alike by the extremists of revolution and by the extremists of reaction. He never wav ered in devotion to his principles,. in his love for the union, and in his abhor rence of slavery. Timid and lukewarm people were always denouncing him be cause lie was extreme; but as a matter of fact lie never went to extremes, he worked step by step; and because of this the extremism hated and denounced him with a fervor which now seems to us lam tastic in its deification of the unreal and could fight valiantly against what he deemed wrong, and yet preserve undi minisin d his love and respect for the brother from whom lie differed. In the hour of a triumph that would have turned any weaker man's head, in the heat of a struggle which spurred many a good man to dreadful vindictiveness, he said truthfully that so long as lie had been in his office lie bad never willingly planted a thorn in anv man's bosom, and besought his supporters to study the incidents of the trial through which they ware passing as philosophy from which to learn wisdom and not as wrongs to be avenged: ending with the solemn exhorta tion that, as the strife was over, all should reunite in a common effort to save their common country. Strong Sense of Justice. "He lived in days that were great and terrible, when brother fought against brother for what each sincerely deem“il to be the right. In a contest so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the* deep convictions of those with whom they grapple ir. mortal strife. At such times men see through a glass dark ly: to only the rarest and loftiest spirits is vouchsafed that clear vision which gradually comes to all, even to the lesser, as the struggle fades into distance, and wounds are forgotten, and peace creeps back to the hearts that were hurl. Hut Lincoln was given this supreme vision. He did not hate the man from whom he differed. Weakness was as foreign as wicked to his strong, gentle nature: but his courage was of a quality so high that it needed no bolstering of dark pas sion. He saw clearly that the same high qualities, the same courage, and willingness for self-sacrifice, and devo tion to the right as it was given them to see the right, belonged both to the men of the north and to the men of the south. As the years roll by, and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride 'in the valor and self-devo tion. alike of the men who wore the blue and the m-n who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to f«*el a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days: the lover of his country and of ail mankind: the man whose blood was shed for the union of tiis people, and for the freedom of a race. Abraham Lincoln.” Bishop Butler’s Generosity. So many examples of episcopal cu pidity have been cited in the Office Window of late^that the average read er may be excused for believing the bishop of a century or so ago to have been, an incarnation of greed. But against the Luxmores, the Watsons and the Porteouses may be set the saintly Butler, whose "Analogy" is still used as a text-book for clerical exam inations. Butler kept open house at Durham, where he dispensed hospi tality with a lavish hand. On one oc casion a man called at the palace so liciting a subscription for some chari table object. "How much money is there in the house?" asked Butler of his secretary. The secretary, after in vestigation. replied ihat there were £500. "Give it to him, then.” replied the philosopher bishop, "for it is a shame that a bishop should have so much.”—London Chronicle. Poo-Bah in Real Life. A counterpart of Poo-Bah has been found in New Jersey. The town of Beverly has elected a. new constable whose pay is to be $5 a month. In addition to his constabulary work, the incumbent of this overpaid sine cure must also serve as pound-keeper, harbor master and overseer of the poor. This "multum in parvo” job must be looked upon as one of great honor, ac there were six applicant* for iL AFFAIRS IS WEEK MUCH OF IMPORTANCE DOING IN WASHINGTON. ROOSEVELT SENDS MESSAGE President-Elect T2ft to Confer With Knox and Others Regarding Cabinet Makeup. Washington.—Washington promises to furnish the greater share of mat ters of news interest this week. Colonel Goethals, engineer in charge of the Panama canal work, will ap pear before the sub-committee of the house committee on appropriations. He will be questioned regarding the estimates of the isthmian canal com mission The president will send to congress a message regarding the care of de pendent children and will confer with, president-elect Taft. Mr. Taft will be fairly busy during the week. He left Cincinnati Monday for Washington where he will receive the report of the engineers who went to Panama with him. While in Washington Mr. Taft ex pects to confer with Senator Knox and with others relative to cabinet ap pointments. The cabinet gossip, which is regard ed as the most reliable, is that no one has been determined upon for the treasury portfolio. Senator Knox and Frank H. Hitch cock have been asked and have ac cepted the positions of secretary of state and postmaster general. As to the other nlaces. unconfirmed rumor with a fair percentage of likeli hood for correctness, makes the cabi net as follows: Attorney General—Mr Wickersliam of New York. Secretary of War—Mr. Wright of Tennessee. Secretary of Navy—Mr. Meyer of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior—Mr. Ba! linger of Washington state. Secretary of Agriculture—Mr. Wil son of Iowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor —Mr Xagel of Missouri. It is the general understanding that Mr. Taft wishes to fill the treasury portfolio, either from Illinois or Ohio. Should tfle appo'ntment go to his own state, it is likely that it will fall to Myron T„ He rick. The seeming tumul; of cand dates from Illinois is regarded as militating against, rather than for. that state’s chances. Mr. Taft also will consult with the president and others regarding liis in augural speech.^ Lusitania Has Stormy Trip. New York.—Held back for two days by fog and heavy seas, the Cu nard steamship Lusitania came to its dock Sunday after the roughest voy age ever experienced by the boat be tween here and Liverpool. Six feet of a starboard rail on the boat deck was carried away by a boarding sea last Thursday. For three days the Lusitania battled with the waves and slow time was made. Sherclivre Mutt Go Back. St. Paul, Minn—Governor Johnson signed a recuisltion of Governor Shafroth of Colorado for Frank Sher cliffe. wanted in Leadvilie, Colo., where he was convicted of murder. Venezuela Claims Settled. Washington—Special Commissioner Buchanan telegraphed the State de partment that he has signed a proto col with the Venezuelan government for the settlement of the disputes be tween that country and the United States. TAFT ENDS SOUTHERN TRIP. President-elect and Wife Are Guests of C. P. Taft at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. O.—President-elect and Mrs. Taft arrived in their home city from Panama and New Orleans Sun day. They will be guerts at the C. P. Taft residence’ until Monday, when they will leave for Washington. The trip to Washington is important, as its primary object relates to the re port of the euenoen who accom panied Mr. Taft to Panama. This likely will he given him upon his ar rival there Tuesday morning He wTl take the document to the White House, where it will be the subject of a conference with President Roose velt. HARRIMAN BUYS RAILROAD New Co?.! Line in Virginia Absorbed by Union Pacific Magnates. . Knoxville, Term.—It was reported here that the Harriman interests have obtained possession of the Clinchfield Carolina & Ohio railroad. This is the line just completed from the Vir ginia coal fields, through Johnson City, to a connection with the Sea beard Air Line at Bostic, N. C„ 208 miles. Train service will be estab lished on the road at once. . Liberty Eell May Come West Philadelphia—The Interstate Com merce commission has granted a per mit for the free transportation of the Liberty bell and a guard of Phila delphia policemen to the Alaska-Yu kon exposition at Seattle, Wash., and it is probable the famous old relic will be taken to the far west the com ing summer. Mayor Reyburn has re ceived a number of petitions from several Pacific coast cities request ing that the bell be sent west and will recommend the city councils that the request be granted. THE YELLOW PERIL. t*U)FORN!^ | :ilui3LMUR£ a' ^;f CARNEGIE JOLTS CONGRESS INCOMPETENT TO SETTLE TAR IFF, HE SAYS. Ironmaster Declares Trusts and Mo nopolies Must Be Controlled and Suggests Plan. New York. — Andrew Carnegie yesterday declared congress is #in capable of fixing a just tariff schedule j and that a permanent bi-partisan com-t mission of experts is the only solution of the ever-troublesome tariff problem. Mr. Carnegie urged that all manu- j facturers of the country attend the na- i tional tariff commission convention, j which assembles at Indianapolis on February 1C. He also asserted that the average congressman as a rule is unequipped by training or knowledge | to fairly and understand in gly deal with such an abstruse proposition as tariff. "The difficulty with the tariff com missions or regulators composed of members of congress," said Mr. Car negie, "is that these gentlemen are j necessarily uninformed upon the ’rue conditions of the varied industries. Evidence given by interested patties cannot be depended upon as disinter- j esttd. Interested people form dis torted views, colored as these are by ' their own interests. This is inevitable. ; Such is human nature. They may not J wish to deceive. They are themselves deceived. "Congressmen hearing evidence on j the technical points of an industry are j not familiar with the language. They I cannot understand the bearing of the i testimony given. “Another misfortune is that con-1 gressional tariff committees get no i trustworthy evidence upon conditions in other countries, and before men can legislate wisely they must be in- j formed upon the relative conditions ! of both domestic and foreign mamtfac-1 turers. “There should be a permanent staff of able, disinterested men. Some of our most important industries to-day are only nominally competitive and in reality are monopolies sc> far as an understanding exists as to prices that will prevail. “These virtual monopolies must be controlled in some way or' other. A supreme industrial court will have to be created and eventually will have to pass upon prices—disguise this as we may.” $225,000 FIRE IN BUFFALO. Whole Produce Commission District Threatened by Flames. Buffalo. N. Y.—Fire Wednesday j night destroyed the entire south end of the block facing on Michigan, Scott and West Market streets. The Buffalo produce exchange and about twenty commission firms were burned out. ) involving a loss of about $225,000. The i worst blizzard of the winter was rag ing and for a time the whole produce commission district was in danger. Roanoke. Va.—Fire Wednesday night in the new office building of the Nor folk & Western Railway Company did damage estimated at from $50,000 to $75,000. Roosevelt Makes a Denial. Los Angeles, Cal.—President Roose : velt made his first denial Monday of I the charge of striking a woman's ; horse while out riding several weeks ago. The denial was made in a letter | sent to Mrs. A. W. Rhodes of this city, mother of'the girl who was men ; tioned in the Washington stories. Ac cording to the reports circulated at the time the alleged incident oc eurred, President Roosevelt struck Miss Rhodes' horse because she passed him on the road. Eloping Pair Nearly Frozen. Muscatine, la—Fearing to appear before Judge Jackson, charged with in corrigibility, Margaret Markes, aged 16, eloped with Joseph Paeey, trarnp i ing through snow to Mayfield, ten miles north of here Thursday night. They were almost frozen. Mad Dog Bites Three. Burlington, la,—A mad dog belong ing to a negro ran through the prin cipal down-town streets Thursday and bit three persons. The dog was killed after a chase by the police. “AMERICA” STOPS FIRE PANIC. Mad Rush in a Fargo Theater Stayed by Music. Fargo. X. D.—With the Fargo opera house packed to the doors Friday, a majority of the audience school child ren and women. George Radley, en gineer at the theater, dashed from the stage through the audience calling for Chief Sutherland of the fire depart ment. In an instant the place was a verit able mob, with everyone cramming for the exits. Cries of "fire, fire.” were all that could be heard. But then cooler heads prevailed until the piano player was rushed to the instrument on tlie stage and 'America'' was played with a charm that thrilled the mob. A chorus of voices on the stage took up the air and in a moment the audience joined and order v.as restored again. Although a few were jostled and slightly bruised, none was seriously injured. The address of President E. M. Vittum of Fargo college was then resumed and the Lincoln centenary program was carried out. ROOSEVELT NOT TO TESTIFY. Refuses to Make Deposition in Brook lyn Libel Case. New York.—An effort made Tues day in a libel suit in Broklyn to secure the testimony of President Roosevelt in the case is not likely to be success ful. The case is that of Borough President Bird S. Coler against a Brooklyn newspaper. Mr. Coler's counsel, M. L. Towns, made a motion before Judge Thomas in the supreme court for the appoint ment of a commission to go to Wash ington to take the president's testi mony relative to the dismissal by him. as governor, of charges brought against Coler when he was comptroller of New York city. Decision was reserved and mean while Mr. Towns telegraphed his de sire to the White House. A reply was received from Mr. Loeb, the presi dent's secretary, as follows: “President of the United States does not testify in court nor give evidence by deposition.” Mr. Towns apprised Justice Thomas of the telegram s contents in court Wednesday. CHURCH OFFICIAL A SUICIDE. Chicagoan Kills Himself Following a Charge of Theft. Chicago.—Despondent under the charge of embezzlement of church ac counts, Allen Depue. 56 years old, financial secretary of the Roseland Central Presbyterian church, commit ted suicide in the parlors of the church rather than face the church board. His body was found by Rev. Albert D. Light, pastor of the church, who was on his way to open the reg ular evening prayer meeting. Depue had been o regular church goer and had been financial secretary of the church for several years. Sev eral weeks ago it was discovered that he was short in his accounts and the officers of the church speke to him of the matter. He denied the charge and said he had been blackmailed. Cuban Troops Mutiny. Havana.—A company of the Rural Guard mutinied Thursday afternoon and made an assault on the palace. The storming party was driven back by the police guard after they had gained the stairway leading to Presi dent Gomez' apartments. The cause of the mutiny was an order transfer ring the company to the permanent army. King Edward Leaves Elerlin. Berlin.—King Edward and Queen Alexandra left here for London Friday afternoon after a visit of four days in the German capital. They were ac companied to the railroad station by the emperor and the empress, and their military suites, and Prince Henry' of Prussia. Russian Graft Revealed. St. Petersburg.—Irregularities which amount to $1,000,000 have been dis covered in an investigation of the Rus sian army quartermaster's accounts. SILENT ONJABINET TAFT DECLINES TO DISCUSS HIS APPOINTMENTS. TALKS WITH HITCHCOCK Wants Congress to Remove the Bar Against Senator Knox Being Secretary of State—Leaves New Orieans for Cincinnati. New Orleans.—President-elect Taft left New Orleans Saturday after two days of entertainment here. He goes to Cincinnati tnd then to Washington, returning to Cincinnati next week. Friday night Mr. Taft and members of the party which accompanied him to Panama were guest3 of honor at a Creole banquet. He talked of his de sire as the chief executive to repre sent the whole nation, of his intention to make the representatives of the ad ministration in the south represent the best element of the communities in which they lived, of his recent visit to the isthmus of Panama, with a repeti tion of his hope for the completion of the canal within his administration. Although conferences during the day were had between Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitchcock, his postmaster general, and Treasurer Cpham of the naTional committee, nothing definite was ob tainable regarding the undecided places in the cabinet. Mr. Hitchcock furnished certain information desired by Mr. Taft. Mr. Taft has telegraphed to Senator Hale urging congress to remove all doubt of Senator Knox's eligibility to the office of secretary of state, and saying that the loss of Mr. Knox from the cabinet premiership would be a public misfortune. The telegram follows: “New Orleans.—Hon. Eugene Hale. United States Senate, Washington, D. C.—I sincerely hope that congress will pass a bill to remove any doubt of Knox's eligibility. I have no doubt that a bill to repeal the bill increas ing the salary of the secretary of state will effect this purpose, and I sincere ly hope that it will pass. I should re gard the loss of Senator Knox from the first place in my cabinet as a pub lic misfortune. (Signed» •WILLIAM H. TAFT." Senator Knox wired Judge Taft as follows: “A bill has been introduced in the senate to remove the constitutional bar to my eligibility to the cabinet by repealing the act providing for an in crease in salary for the secretary of state. I am in no way promoting or having anything to do with the meas- .« ure. "It is a matter for you as the ap pointive power to first determine whether the proposed action is de sirable or would be effective. Our minds should be free frem all doubt concerning the legality and propriety of the proposed plan before acquiso ing in it. If you have any reason for not approving what is being done, it should be announced, otherwise an in justice may be done, whoever may be appointed. (Signed) “P. C. KNOX." In his speech to the negroes woo greeted him by thousands at the ball park Friday, Mr. Taft reiterated his heretofore well-defined principles re garding the development of the negro race and the settlement of the race question. In his speech on the steps of the city hall here Thursday Mr. Taft made what he said was his summing of his recent trip. “I am here on my way from a great constructive work.” he said, after pay ing his compliments to his audience “The greatest entered upon by any na tion during the present two centuries, and I am glad to say to you, who per haps are more interested in that work than any oiher part of the people of the United States, that the work is going on as you would have it go. “That on the first of January, 1915. at least, if not before—and I am very much interested in having it within tite next four years—that canal will be completed. And when that time comes you will see loading down this river your great commerce bound through those straits to the west coast of America, to the west coast of South America, to the Orient and to Australia." TWO NEW BISHOPS ELECTED. Episcopal Convention Fails to Act on "Open Pulpit” Canon. New York.—The house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal general con vention, in session here Thursday, elected Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of Philadelphia bishop of Wyoming and Rev. Benjamin Brewster of Salt Lake City bishop of western Colorado. The amendment of the “open pulpit” canon was neither repealed nor interpreted and will stand in its pres ent form until the general convention of the house of bishops and the house of lay and clerical delegates meet in October, 1910. Warts $1CO,CGO fcr Trust War. Washington.—In a letter submitted to congress Fiiday through the secre tary of the treasury. Attorney General Bonaparte asks that an appropriation of $100,000 be made for the fiscal year 1910 for the enforcement of the anti trust laws. Chicago Alderman a Suicide. Chicago.—Joseph F. Kohout. senior alderman from the Thirty-fourth want and under Mayor Dunne a leader on the council floor, committed suicide by shooting himself Friday.
