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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1915)
Deposits in this bank have the additional security of the De positors Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. A NEW YEAR’S RESO LUTION of itself will not help you to get ahead this year, You’ve got to ACT. The promise to yourself shows your intention but it takes per formance to “make good.” * If you are in earnest in your resolution to get ahead you will find the use of our bank account plan the safest and most businesslike method you can use. Loup City State Bank Lohp City, Nebraska. We pay 5 percent interest on time deposits »J. G. Pageler AUCTIONEER Loup City, — Nebraska All Auctioneering business attended to promptly. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Give me a trial. LUMBES When in Need of i COAL or first-class of all dimensions, We also nave a car of Coke. We also have a good line of Fence posts, range ing in price from ten to fifty cents. Phone Red 29 and you will receive prompt attention LEIN1NGER LUMBER COMPANY Get All the Facts About THE Panama Expositions You need not spend a fortune to visit California and its Expositions in 1915. Anyone in moderate circum stances can go—and it’s a wise investment in pleasure and education. Simply sign and mail coupon below, or if you prefer drop a postal asking for Book Number 108 and you will receive free a profusely illustrated 04 page booklet con taining valuable information about hotel and restaurant rates, Exposition admission fees, railroad and pullraan fares. Out lines how to vary your trip by going over one line and returning over another thereby gaining a more comprehensive idea of the great west: describes many free side trips en route as well as stopover points of particular interest; tells how to see both Expositions and practically the whole state of California for a single Exposition fare: in fact it is a guide book giving just the information you require to form complete plans for your Western tour and et a vast saving in cost. You know before starting just what the trip will cost. Begin laying your plans now. Get This Book Today—It’s Free! Return this Coupon Today OERRETT FORT, Passenger Traffic Manager UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY OMAHA, NEBRASKA. 1 would be glad to receive FREE your illustrated ‘ California Exposition Book” No. 108 and other informa tion of assistance in planning a Culifornia trip. Name. Address Let the Northwestern visit your home during 1915. You will like it. THE NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for transmission through the malls as second class matter. Office Phone. Red 138. Residence, - Black 138 i J. W. BURLEIGH.Editor and Pub. J. R. GARDINER Manager Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at the expiration of time paid for, if publishers shall be notified; otherwise the subscription will remain in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between publisher and subscriber. That’s nice. Gov. Morehead recommends that a state printery be established at the penitentiary and to be operated by convict labor. That’s about the biggest insult the governor could offer the printers and newspaper interests ofthe state. Outside of that, the governor has claimed opposition to state convict labor in competition with free labor and in the same breath recommends convict labor in competition with the printers of the state. As there are no convict printers we are to suppose they are to be manufac - tured out of the state criminal classes. Fine, fine. The governor might well take his place at the head of the damphool class. Evidently Morehead is on a par with a certain member of the legislature some years ago who introduced a bill to cut the legal rates for print ing in two, and boastingly proclaimed tl at if he could make it become a law he could be elected to congress in spite of any and all newspaper opposition on earth. He wanted to be returned to legislature later, but wasn’t Billy Sunday has begun the work of taking Phila delphia from its evil ways. His printed talks doesn’t sound much like the sweet words of the gentle Naza rene, but perhaps Philamadelfia is too hardened in sin. to appreciate other than the ribald utterances of Billy as reported in the local papers as follows: “I’ll make this old town turn over in its sleep. Come on, you forces of evil in Philadelphia that have made the church a doormat to wipe .your dirty feet upon. Come on, you triple extract of infamy. Come on* you assassins of character. Come on, you defamers of God and enemies of His church. Come on, you bull-necked, beetle-browed, hog jowled, weasel-eyed fourflushers, false alarms and excess baggage. In the name of Almighty God I challenge and defy you. I'm here for nine weeks. Come on, and I’ll deliver the goods, express prepaid.” In the name of Jesus of Nazareth and Christianity, as we are are taught in the Holy Scriptures, does the world need that sort of billingsgate and braggadocio to evangelize it? Is that the sort ofTOt necessary to build up Christianity and make men better? Faugh! In a speech at Indianapolis, the other day, Presi dent Wilson hinted that he might run for president again. Now how about the Bryan report that the Beer less might resign from the cabinet to again run for chief executive? Just think of the proud moments Brer. Beush would have in remembering he had fed Billy’s face at his festive board as a historical fact, should that perennial get in it again and succeed this time. And, hush, in that case might not Cholly hope to become postmaster general under Billee? H. D. Leggett of the St. Paul Republican has sold the paper to F. L, Carroll, formerly editor of the Ashland (Neb) Gazette. Bro. Leggett, in the short time he has edited the Republican has proved one of the live editorial wires of the state; and the North western trusts he may re-engage in the newspaper , business again in this section of the state. We don’t want to lose him. Success to his successor. All Italians in Switzerland liable for military ser vice, are ordered to report at home for military ex amination. It is said there are 200,000 of them in the Swiss country, and at least 50,000 of them liable for military duty. Don’t that look as if Italy had war on the brain? Omaha wheat prices soared way up last week,go ing to $1.32, the price when Patton in Chicago at tempted to corner all the wheat in the United states in July, 1909. Durum wheat went to $1,46, the top price ever paid in any market west of Chicago. - ' Pctsiafhassentan ultimatum to Turkey which portends that country getting into the eastern mix-up. Persia complains that its territory is being invaded by the Kurds and Turks. FARMER VITALLY CON CERNED IN. RAILROADS What the European War Meais to the American Farmer. That every city of any size in the country is full of idle men at the pre sent moment is a fact well known to every reader of newspapers—for hardly a day passes that the press is not full of comment about the hungry thou sands who stand in the “bread line’’ and patronize the free “soup houses” in every large center of population. Nor is this state of affairs due to the policy of any one political party, but rather the outgrowth of conditions which have been slowly' but surely crystalizing for a number of years. In the first place,the Corn Belt—the great bread basket of the Nation—has had a series of slim crops in most sections, and this naturally has had a depress ing effect upon the business condi tions. Again we have been passing through a period of industrial read justment—of changing from the loose methods which prevailed a dozen or so years over to a policy of strict gov ernment control of public service cor porations and sharp inquiry into con duct of another large coraporations— and. in trying to stamp outthe abuses of the past, the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that so far as the railroads are concerned,at least, it threatens to precipitate the most of them which are not already in the hands of the receivers upon the rocks of financial wreck and ruin. That the depressed financial condi tionsof the railroads is largely respon sible for the great army of unemploy ed was vividly demonstrated by a prom, inent St. Lonis newspaper recently when it showed that nine St. Louis manufacturing establishments which deal in railroad supplies employed 14, 073 men one year ago, whereas now they employ only 4,503, with a reduc tion in their pay role amounting to $588,700 per month, or over seven mil dollars a year. If the effect upon only nine enterprises is so far reach ing as this, what would the figures show if they were available for simi lar industries and the hundreds of other enterprises affected in a greater or less degree throughout the coun try? Nearly all these concerns have on hand hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of finished equipment which was ordered by railroads a year or so ago, but which they have not been able to pay for; in the meantime not being able to pay for goods already ordered, the railroads are not placing any new contracts, and unless they receive speedy assist ance from a Nation-wide standpoint the tendency will be for labor condi tions to grow worse rather than better. In last week’s article we referred to the fact that the railroads are the largest employers of labor in the United States and that during the last fiscal year they paid over thirteen hundred million dollars in wages to the army of men and women who conduct their business. We also re ferred to the fact that they paid out almost a thousand million dollars for steel, coal, lumber and other supplies of which they are the largestconsum ers in the country, and tharefore the chief supportof hundreds of thousands employed in these great industries. In veiw of these facts, is it not plain to any thinking man that it is of tremendous importance to the whole country that the railroads be permitted to earn a reasonable in come if the millions of American la boring men are to be kept profitably employed? Does not any man know that if the thousands who are at this moment hunting for work in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Pittsburg. Cleve land and other large cities were profit ably employed it would mean a high-i er price for what the farmer has to * sell and that it would be reflected in the receipts of every merchant and the output of every factory in the Nation? In view of such a serious state of affairs, can the average farmer or busi ness man afford to oppose the small increase in rates which is necessary to put the railroads upon a sound basis? Is not the amount of passen ger fare or freight which the average farmer or citizen pays out during the year a mere bagatelle when measured against the lucrative employment and buyinsr power of the millions of American laboring men? Another Serious Phrase Important as is the employment of labor, there is another serious phrase or tliis problem which calls for pro found thought at the hands of all < thinking citizens, and especially the farmer. In last week’s article we cited the fact that in their desperate effort to make both ends meet, many railroads are “burning the candle at both ends”—that in order to bolster up their securities and keep out of the hands of the receivers the rolling stock and roadbeds of many lines have been deteriorating rapidly for a num ber of years and henoe are in no posi tion to handle a big season’s tonnage, should the strain of a heavy crop year suddenly descend upon them. That the great foreign war will produce the highest prices ever known for the food stuffs produced by the farmer is admitted on all hands, and if there ever was a time when he will need adequate and efficient shipping facil ities it will be during the next two or three years—and yet we are actual ly facing perhaps the most prosperous period the American farmer has ever known with many American railroads in a dilapidated physical condition. No sooner had the great European war burst upon the world than Con gress realized that our merchant ma rine was utterly weak and ineiHcient. Steps were at once taken to make the best of the situation and to repair as speedily as possible our neglected ship ping facilities upon :the high seas— and that the handicap has already cost the American people millions of dollars during the last few months is so patent that it requires no extend ed comment. It is one thing to have markets in all parts of the world which have heretofore been supplied by the great warring nations begging for American goods and foodstuffs— but it is quite another thing to have American ships in which to deliver these cargoes. We will now add to the neglect of an adequate merchant marine the further folly of permitting our rail roads to get into such a weakened physical condition that they will break down under the strain of delivering the products of the farmer and the manufacturer at our ocean ports and thus largely waste the great opportu nity for profits which the foreign war will undoubtenly bring to us? This is a phase of the present situation which commands the serious thought of every farmer in Kansas and the Corn Beltgenerally—for here is where the lion’s share of the nation s food stuffs are produced and here is where the farmers cannot afford to be ham pered by inadequate transportation facilities if they are to make the most of favorable market opportuni ties. There is not a single manager of a Central or Western railroad who will not admit that the present supply of first-class freight locomotives and box cars could not successfully meet the requirments of several bountiful crop years—and yet they haven't the funds with which to supply this equipment and thus be prepared for emergency when it comes—as it undoubtedly will. Farmers Will Profit In this connection, it is opportune to say that the American farmer is certain to reap a larger profit from the chaotic conditions which exist in Eu rope than any other class of trades men or citizen. So far as our manu facturers are concerned, while new markets are undoubtedly beckoningto the United States, yet on the other hand, for several years to come, the splendid trade which we enjoyed In Germany, England, France, Austria and Bussia on our manufactured pro ducts is certain to remain demoralized and thus we will be fortunate if we do not lose more than we gain in new’ fields, with whose needs we are not yet familiar, and to which it is certain to require some years to adjust our selves. It is the American farmer, however who has no complications ahead of him, and whose Hour,pork, beef, mut ton and other foodstuffs must be de pended upon to make up the shortage which is already looming big in the distance because the harvest fields of the most fertile sections of Europe have been converted into a shambles for the contending armies. Exports of breadstutt's from the United States in November were valued at *40.:>‘ 000, or almost four times as much is in November of last year, while ana and cattle exports amounted to near ly $14,000,000 or a pain of 20 per ceii over last year, and this despite u.ir miserable shipping facilities of tin high seas. In view of these facts, was there ever a time wh'en the farmers of Ne braska and other Corn Belt states can view the future with as much a>-ui ance, or when they can so well afford to treat fairly every other great in dustry in the nation as now? Putting in terms of sound business policy, was there ever a time when they should do their part to the end that American labor may be profitably employed in all great channels of in dustry, and that it may adequately discharge the heavy shipping burden' which will Undoubtedly descend upon it in the not distant future. More Railroads Needed No other single agency in the Na tion has had more to do with the ad vancement of laDd values than have the railroads, and as evidtnce of this fact, the proximity of a farm to the market almost invaribaly fixes its selling value. Nebraska and every other Central or Western state is still in dire need of hundreds of miles of additional railroad mileage, and these new lines will not be b .i t until American railroad securities are re-# established as a paying investment and this, on the basis of present rai road earnings is out of the quest k n Nearly all our present lines were built years ago. when railroad inv- - merits wrere looked upon with favc r at home and abroad, and hence, if there is a class of citizens in the lard who should be vitally interested in rescuing the railroads from the phi able plight in which they tind then - selves at the present moment it is the farmer. As a matter of fact, were it not so extremely far reaching in it' effect, the controversy over a slight increase in railroad rates in any great agricultural state would largely resem ble a tempest in a tea pot—a matter which should be settled ia the brief space of time required to appiv the remedy. When a private industry, great or small, advances the price of its commodities we take it as a matter of course and say nothing about it and in the past we have opposed .1 square deal for the railroads large y because the people did not under stand their importance to the nation, beca use they were angered at the oc casional abuses which strict govern mental regulation has forever e!i .1 nated and because for some years de signing political opportunists haw found abuse of the railroads an easy road to public preferment. The pub lic sentiment, however, is changing rapidly and that we will soon reach a sane understanding between the pt - pie and the railroads, which are so vitally essential to the agrigricuitural and commercial progress of every I community in the nation, is becoming more and more apparent every da\ (Paid adv. To be continued ) Altogether Out of Place. James Payn once told the story of a visiting parson who was «tarting the prayer for rain when the elerk pulled his coat tails. “You musn’t read that, sir,” he said. “But it’s a prayer for a good harvest, my man,” expostulated the preacher. "That’s just it, sir,' ex plained the clerk; “the visitors are our harvest, and we want none of your rain.” Bowels clogged, sick headache, no fun is it? Why not have that happy face, red cheeks that come with good digestion. Hollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea makes thi bowels work regu lar, natural, makes you feel like new. Take it tonight. Swanson & Lofhoim. KEYSTONE LUMBER CO. Get the best fence anchor from The Keystone Lumber Co., for 5 cents. * Yards at Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps and Arcadia Notice THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW At the New Opera House Will Run Every Other Night In Week Hereafter , A 4-Reel Show Every Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday Change of Program Nothing but the best pictures will be shown here. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. THOMAS DADDOW