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between publisher and subscriber.
This office is in receipt of dadoodles of literature
from the jingoes of the two houses of congress and other
parties of that nature, who seem for some reason de
sirous of creating a good-sized war scare in this coun
try. According to these war promoting fellows, this
country could not successfully compete with or stop a
good-sized dog fight. Our army and navy is not big.
enough nor sufficiently efficient to quell a mob of
small boys, according to these swell word-fighters.
They claim not over 20 per cent of our soldiers to
know enough to shoot off a gun, while the navy is a
poor little humdrum affair of so little consequences
and fighting ability that it would not be able to drive
overboard a few wharf rats that might infest the holds
of the ships. Heavens, what a state of affairs.
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I This country is now between the devil and the
I deep sea, according to the pacificst and militarist. If
I you do not get a bigger army and navy and make this
an armed neutrality, the jingo militarist is satisfied
^ we will be in a position to get thoroughly licked.
| If you do all this, the pacifists have it that that kind
of work will get you into the muss and as thoroughly
squelched. So you see, Uncle Sam is as good as
knocked out either way.
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Billy Sunday, the evangelist, closed his meetings
at Des Moines last Sunday, with 10,000 persons con
verted from the error of their ways. Sunday still
continues to be the greatest religious dragnet among
the Evangelists ever. People are busy wondering
what will happen when he tries his hand on Omaha,
the greatest of unconverted cities of the west.
It’s all right to give aid to the starving Belgians,
but what about the starving Americans at home?
Who made it possible for there to be starving Belgians?
Who has levied millions of dollars of war tax on Bel
gium, whose people the United States is asked to re
lieve because of the war forced upon them?
To again revert to Thaw, the used-to-be front
page sensation before the European war put him into
discard, the latest is that he has lost his fight for lib
erty and the supreme court in its last guess decided
he must still be deprived of his liberty and the right
to kill his enemies at pleasure. Now the front page
may continue to give its space to the big war murder
ing affair.
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If the jingoes could have their way, or do their
way, Uncle Sam will have more fight on his hands
in the near future than he can handle. Better put a
sticking plaster over the mouth-pieces of the jingo
element.
The difference between the United States and
Mexico in one regard is that the candidates for presi
dent in the latter country do their running after
they are elected.
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If war is what Gen. Sherman said it was, what
reason have the warring nations,or either one of them,
for claiming God is with them in their fight?
Mrs. Pankhurst is awful. She says, “Go to war,
men.” According to Gen. Sherman’s definition, just
think of that good lady’s opinion of men in general.
Each of the warring nations claim God is on their
side. They, or some of them, at least, are evidently
most cheerful-liars.
The Mexicans have thought better of it and con
cluded to move their firing lines further into the in
terior.
A GRAVE CRISIS COHFRONTS
THE RAILROADS
WAR NAS CLOSER MONEY MARKETS OF EIROPE
TO THEM INDEFINITELY
In view of the fact that one of the j
railroads of Nebraska has already filed
an application for an increase of rates
with the State Railway Commission,
it is the desire of all the railroads to
utilize this opportunity for anintimate
and frank discussion of the whole rail
road question with the people of this
state. To this end, the careful atten
tion of the reader is invited to a series
of articles which will appear in this
newspaper during the next few weeks
and which will contain the most far
reaching discussion of this great prob
lem that has ever appeared in the
public press. All that is asked in the
meantime is that the people of Ne
braska accord to the railroads the
courtesy of listening to their side of
the story and then form such conclu
sions as, in their iudgement, the facts
may warrant.
That the railroads of the United
States are today confronted by the
gravest crisis in their history there is
not the slightest question. For some
years they have been desperately
struggling with an ever increasing
cost of operation in the face of reduced
freight a.,d passenger rates—but seri
ous as this situation was before, the
European war, which has indefinitely
closed to them the foreign money mar
kets. has suddenly brought them face
to face with a situation which threat
ens not merely many new receiver
ships but the actual paralysis of' the
entire transportation industry of the
Nation. It was this state of affairs
which compelled the closing of the
New York Stock Exchange some
months ago. What will happen in the
future the future alone can tell.
'American railroads are valued in
round tiguresat twenty billion dollars,
and of this vast sum nearly five billion
dollars worth of securities are held
abroad. Should Europe, in its frantic
struggle for funds, seek to convert
these Securities into cash during the
next twelve months, whir* is the
money to eomo from with which to
buy thorn?—and failing to protect
these securities, what demoralization
will follow not merely in railroad in
vestments but in all other American
industrial values as well? The recent
statement of David Lloyd-George,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the
inability of Englishmen to convert
their American investment into cash
is crippling Great Britain in its pres
ent emergency is ominously signifi
cant. Possibly the New York Stock
Exchange may be able to resume
operations without disaster for the
time being but that the finances not
merely of the United States but of the
world Will be subjected te a strain
without precedent in history during
the next year or two is so apparent
that it requires no extended com
ment In a future article this phase
of the question will be dealt, with
more fully.
President Wilson s views
That the situation is profoundly se
rious is manifested by the recent ut
terance of President Wilson to a group
of Eastern railroad executives. In his
letter to Mr. Trumbull of the Cheas
peake & Ohio he said:
"You ask me to call the attention
of the country to the imperative need
that railway credits be sustained and
the railroad helped in every possible
way, whether by private co-operative
effort or by the action wherever feas
ible of governmental agencies, and I
am glad to do so, because I think the
need is very real.
“They are indispensible to our
whole economic life, anti railway se
cnritles are at the very heart of most
investments, large and small, public
and private, by invididuals and by in
stitutions. ,
“I am confident there will be earn
est and active co-operation in this
matter, perhaps the one common in
terest of our whole industrial life.
“Undoubtedly men,both in and out
of official position, will appreciate
what is involved and lend their aid
heartily wherever it is possible for
them to lend it. But the emergency is
in fact extraordinary and where there
is manifest common interest we ought
all of us to speak out in its behalf, {
and I am glad to join you in calling
attention to it. This is a time for all
to stand together in united effort to
comprehend every interest and serve
and sustain it in every legitimate
way."
Railroad* Lost Millions
The net operating income of the
railroads of the United States for the
year ending June 30,1914, was #120,
000,000 less than for the previous year.
The gross earnings for the year were
•44,000,000 less than for 1913—while
expenses and taxes were $76,000,000
more. But heavy as this burden was
before, the great struggle across the
seas, carrying in its wake the destruc
tion of untold hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of all kinds of property,
readers the situation a thousand-fold
more serious. It means, in short, that
for a number of years to come Europe
will have no surplus money for in
vestment in the United States or else
where and that American railroads
will have to finane* their future
n**dsathom*i How herculean this
task will be, saying nothing about
protecting themselves against the
dumping of foreign securities, maybe
judged from the fact that the bond
V ' -w.ir .
and note obligations which will ma
ture between now and the end of next
year and which the railroads will
have to meet in some way, amount to
more than $.*>3.000,000—and this
doesn't take a dollar's worth of new
improvements or betterments into
consideration. These are obligations
which were incurred in the past and
which must be met as they fall due if
the transportation companies are to
be preserved from wholesale receiver
ships and ruin.
Manifestly, therefore, American in
vestors, big and little, will have to
come to the rescue—and! before they
will consent to do this American rail
road securities will have to be re-es
tablished as a sound, respected and
paying investment^-and this, on the
basis of present railroad earnings,
is impossible!
For this reason the railroads of Ne
braska believe the impending crisis
demands that they lay this whole
problem before the people of the en
tire state—that they have a heart-to
heart talk with the farmer, the mer
chant. the manufacturer, the banker,
the laboring man. and all other citi
zens upon this great question which
so vitally affects the future welfare
of the commonwealth and the Nation.
Why Railroads Are Helpless
Iu times of acute financial stress
private industries are in position to
wry largely adjust their affairs to
meet the emergency. They can ad
vance the price of their commodities,
cut their payroll in half,or shut down
altogether, and thus permit thestorm
to blow over without actual ship
wreck. The railroads, as quasi-public
enterprises, however, are in an en
tirely different position. Their rates
are regulated by law and cannot be
advanced without the consent of the
people through t.ieir law making bod
ies. In order to please the conven
ience of the public and not to break
down the commerce of the country
they must operate their freight and
passenger trains whether they carry
a full load or only a quarter of a load
—and in view of these facts it is mani
festly unfair to put the railroads in
the same class with private industries
in the present crisis and ask them to
shift for themselves as best they can.
When the people took over the com
plete making and regulation of rail
road rates they at the same time as
sumed the solemn implied obliga
tion to see that the railroads get s
square deal —for the people are the
only power that stands between
them and ruin.
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Order of Hearing and Notice on
Petition for Settlement of Account.
State of Nebraska, 1
Us.
Sherman County, )
In the County Court
of Sherman county, Nebraska
To the heirs, legatees, devisees and
to all persons interested in the estate
of George L. Zigler, deceased:
On reading the petition of Mattie
D. Zigler, praying a final settlement
and allowance of her account filed n
this Court on the 17th day of Decem
ber 1914,and for decree of court foi dis
tribution of residue of personal
property and possession of real
estate- It is hereby ordered
that you and all persons in
terested in said matter may, and do,
appear at the County Court to be held
in and for said County, on the 9th,
day of January A I). 1915,at 10 o’clock
A. M., to show cause, if any there be,
why the prayer of the petitioner
should not ce granted, and that notice
of the pendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof be given to a 1
persons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in the
Loup City, Northwestern a weekly
newspaper printed in said county, for
3 successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
Dated December 19th, 1914.
[seal] E. A. Smith,3S
County Judge
Last pub. Jan. 7.
Order of Hearing and Notice of
Probate of Will.
In the County Court of Sherman
County. Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, > ,-c
Sherman County, j
To the heirs, legatees devisees and
to all persons interested in the es
tate of Jacob F. Bock, deceased:
On reading the petition of Ida D
Bock praying that the instrumuit.
tiled in this court on the 4th day of
December, 1914, and purporting t<< be
last will and testament of the s; id
deceased, may be proved and allowed,
and recorded as the last will and
testament of Jacob F. Bock, deceased:
that said instrument be admitted to
probate, and the administration f
said estate be granted to C. C. ('ari
sen, as executor. It is hereby order
ed that you and all persons interested
in said matter, may, and do appear at
thecount court to be held in and lor
said county on the 20th of December,
A. D. 1914, at lOo’cloeka m., to show
cause, if any there be. why the prayer
of the petitioner should not be grant
ed. and that notice of the pendency
of said petition and the hearing there
of be given to all persons interested
in said matter by publishing a copy
of this order in the Loup City, North
western. a weekly newspaper printed
in said county, three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Witness mv hand, and seal of said
court, this 7th day of December. A.
D. 1914.
E. A. Smith.
[seal] County Judge
Last pub. Dec. 31.
Notice to Creditors
State of Nebraska, 1
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Sherman County, )
In the County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Juli
ette Waite, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
sit at the county court room in Loup
City, in said county, on the 31st day
of March 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m. and
the 0th. day of July 1915,
to receive and examine all claims
against said estate, witli a view to
their adjustment and allowance.
The time limited for the cresentation
of claims against said estate is the
0th day of July, A. D. 1915, and
the time limited for payment of debts
is one year from the 24th day of Nov
ember 1914.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said county court, this 7th day of
December, 1914 E. A. Smith,
[seal] County J udge
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