THE NORTHWESTERN
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The United States has formerly
notified both England and Ger
many that the general use of the
American flag by British vessels
would be viewed with grave con
cern here and that the destruction
of any American vessel by Ger
many in the newly prescribed war
zone would lead to serious com
plications. In other words,
Johnny Bull must discontinue
floating the stars and strips over
any of its vessels, while Germany
h made to understand that it can
not take the Lusitania incident I to
excuse itself if an American ves
sels is lost in the zone of the sub
marine mines, etc. Go to it,
l' nele.
The Ord Journal last week
copied the O’Bryan article and
our answer almost in their entire
ty, but for some reason failed to
use common editorial courtesy.
Had tne Journal neglected proper
credit, as is often the case, noth
ing would have been thought of
it, but the Journal gave credit to
“one of last week's Loup City pa
pers,” while the articles and
answer in question were published
only in the Northwestern.* Davis’
paper is noted for quoting only
from its democratic contemporary
here, and evidently lost its head
when finding something it could
not quote from that paper, hence
come as near as it could to it.
The claim is made by certain
authorities that there is untold
quantities of wheat stored in ele
vators over the country and there
is absolutely no reason for present
high prices. So evident is that
fact, and so clearly has it been
made to holders of surplus, that
disgorgement is beginning and
last week wheat slipped down
seven and a half cents in Chicago.
It is a shame that foodstuffs should
be held so high,if there is nothing
but speculation holding them up.
As per schedule, this section
was visited with another and
third spasm of blizzardy weather
last Saturday, beginning Friday
with rain and sleet and ending
with some snow and high winds,
which so blockaded the railroads
that the morning passenger from
Sargent Monday waited for a
snow plow to clear the way for it
and failed to come through until
about five o’clock that afternoon.
The U. I*, snow plow came up
abouto’clock Sunday night, ami
the motor made it usual trips
Monday. However, the weather
cleared away some time Sunday
night and Old Sol came forth in
resplendent glory Monday morn
ing. Now let the billious old
weather granny get decent once
more.
A British vessel, following the
example set by the Lusitania, the
other day put up the Dutch flag,
when hailed by a German sub
marine vessel, but with the for
mer incident fresh in the Teuton
mind, they tried to torpedo the
British craft, which only escaped
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I, ha'Le °" hand * quantiry of the Council Bluffs I
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Q spring supply or Stock Remedy. All of the big feeders Q
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by adroit maneuvering and fast
sailing. So, you see, what comes
of the first-named incident, which
cannot but be wrong in principle
and very dangerous to neutral
countries in their shipping inter
ests.
The finance ministers of Eng
land, France and Russia face an
acknowledged war cost of ten bil
lion dollars for the current year.
And England’s chancellor says
Great Britain could finance the
war for five years at that rate out
of the proceeds of its investments
abroad, France claims to be able
to do the same for two or
three years, with something to
spare. Great Britain also claimed
to be spending more money to
keep up tne war than both the
others combined. And yet, with
all their bluff of immense wealth
to use, America is supplicated to
and does furnish foodstuffs to the
poor and destitute, made so by the
war carried on by those and other
countries.
The Omaha preachers have
tackled about the toughest job in
their existence. They have made
up a prayer list of 10,000 whom
they will select for conversion,
when Sunday comes, and headed
the list with dim Dahlman. We
once heard an evangelist figura
tive hold sinners over hellfire by
the hairs of their head, as he pro
claimed. Had Omaha’s mayor
been there he could have called
his bluff.
Germany’s reply to the United
States regarding the planting of
the sea with mines, is friendly,
but gives it out that it will go
ahead and ships will navigate
the waters around England at
their own peril. Wonder what
“Prince of Peace,” will say to
that? The great Chautauqua
secretary of state is getting this
country into a bigger muddle all
the time. As a theorist he was
great, but as a practical doer of
things he is proving a monument
al failure.
About the meanest and most de
spicable man is the one who open
ly gives you his word to do one
thing and then does the exact op
posite—makes himself a dishonor
able man and a veritable liar, and
all for a few dollars to be gained
thereby. And when such a fellow
hides behind church and society
robes to do his dishonorable acts
he can only be classed with the
Judases and Benedict Arnolds.
Shame on such a two legged char
acter.
Iowa has come out for equal
suffrage and prohibition. Last
Friday the senate went on record
by a vote of 38 to 11 in favor of
granting votes to women, and by
a vote of 27 to 32 favored the re
peal of the mulct law. The senate
also by a vote of 39 to 10 agreed
to submit to the people a constitu
tional amendment providing for
statewide prohibition.
St. Paul voters last week snow
ed under the municipal lighting
bonds by a vote of 212 to 93.
Broken Bow defeated sewer
bonds last Tuesday by a vote of
284 against to 142 for.
To prove that black is white
would be difficult, but not more
difficult than for George Barr Mc
Cutcheon to write an uninterest
ing story. From the opening
chapter to the very end. “Black
Is White,” the next serial that
will run in this paper possesses
the best qualities of a story. The
scenes are laid for the most part
in New York City, and the plot
centers around the strange career
of James Brood, an American
millionaire. Readers of this paper
will be sure to find this an unusu
ally interesting story. The open
ing chapter will appear soon.
Don’t naira &
WANTS NO “DEADHEADS” ON
LIST OF EMPLOYES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers’ Union
The farmer is the paymaster of
industry and a3 such he must meet
the nation’s payroll. When Industry
pays its oill it must make a sight
draft upon agriculture for the amount,
■which the farmer is compelled to
honor without protest This check
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highways of com
merce; may build cities; girdle the
globe with bands of steel; may search
bidden treasures in the earth or
traverse the skies, but in the end :it
will rest upon the soil. No dollar
will remain suspended in midair; it is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from a tree.
When a farmer buys a plow he pays
the man who mined the metal, the
woodman who felled the tree, the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped it into an ar
ticle of usefulness, the railroad that
transported it and the dealer who
sold him the goods. He pays the
wages of labor and capital employed
in the transaction as well as pays
for the tools, machinery, buildings,
etc., used in the construction of the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles of use and diet of him
self and those engaged in the sub
sidiary lines of industry.
There is no payroll in civilization
that does not rest upon the back
of the farmer. He must pay the bills
—all of them.
The total value of the nation's
annual agricultural products is around
$12,000,000,000, and it is safe to esti
mate that 95 cents on every dollar
goes to meeting the expenses of sub
sidiary industries The farmer does
not work more than thirty minutes
per day for himself: the remaining
thirteen hours of the day’s toil he
devotes to meeting the payroll of the
hired hands of agriculture, such as
the manufacturer, railroad, commer
cial and other servants.
The Farmer’s Payroll and How He
Meets It.
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The annua) payroll of agriculture
approximates $12,00(1,000,000 A por
tion of the amount is shifted to for
eign countries in exports, but the
total payroll of industries working for
the farmer divides substantially as
follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000;
manufacturers, $4,365,000,000; mining,
$655,000,000; banks, $200,000,000;
mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes the
remainder.
It takes the corn crop, the most
valuable in agriculture, which sold
last year for $1,692,000,000, to pay off
the employes of the railroads: the
money derived from our annua, sales
of livestock of approximately $2,000,
000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued
at $920,000,000; the wheat crop,
which is worth $610,000,000. and the
oat crop, that is worth $140,000,000.
are required to .meat the annual pay
roll cf the manufacturers. The
money derived from the remaining
staple crops is used in meeting the
payroll of the bankers, merchants,
etc. After these obligations are paid,
the farmer has only a few bunches of
vegetables, some fruit and poultry
which he can sell and call the pro
ceeds his own.
When the farmer pays ofT his help
he has very little left and to meet
these tremendous payrolls he has
been forced to mortgage homes, work
women in the field and increase the
hours of his labor We are, there
fore, compelled to call upon all in
dustries dependent upon the farmers
for subsistence to retrench in their
expenditures and to cut off all un
necessary expenses This course is
absolutely necessary in order to avoid
a reduction in wages, and we wart.
If possible, to retain the present wage
scale paid railroad and all other in
dustrlal employes
we win devote tnis article to a
discussion of unnecessary expenses
and whether required by law or per
mitted by the managements of tile
concerns, is wholly immaterial VVe
want all waste labor and extrava
gance. of whatever character, cut out
We will mention the full crew bill as
illustrating the character of unneces
sary expenses to which we refer
Union Opposes “Full Crew” Bill.
The Texas Farmers' Union regis
tered Us opposition to this character
of legislation at the last annual meet
ing held in Fort Worth, Tex., August
4, 1914, Jby resolution, which we quote,
as follows:
"The matter of prime importance
to the farmers of this state is tin ade
quate and efficient marketing system:
and we recognize that such a system
is impossible without adequate rail
road facilities, embracing the greatest
amount Qt the .least .apjfc
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the farmers ana producers in the end
pay approximately 95 per ceut of the
expenses of operating the railroads,
and it is therefore to the interest of
the producers that the expenses of
the common carriers be as small as
is possible, consistent with good ser
vice and safety We, therefore, call
upon our lav.- makers, courts and
juries to bear the foregoing :ncts in
mind v. lien dealing with the common
carriers of this state, and we do espe
cially reaiiirm the declarations of
the last annual convention of our
State I'nion, opposing the passage of
the so-called ‘full-crew’ bill before
the thirty-third legislature of Texas.”
The farmers of Missouri in the last
election, by an overwhelming ma
jority, swept this law off the statute
book of that s'ate, and it should
come off of all statute books where
it appears and no legislature of this
nation should pass such a law or
similar legislation which requires un
necessary expenditures.
The same rule applies to all regu
latory measures which increase the
expenses of industry without giving
corresponding benefits to the public.
There is ofttimes a body of men as
sembled at legislatures—and they
have a right to be there—who, in
their zeal for rendering their fellow
associates a service, sometimes favor
an increase in the expenses of in
dustry without due regard for the men
who bow their backs to the summer’s
sun to meet the payroll, but these
committees, while making a record
tor themselves, rub the skin ot the
shoulders of the farmer by urgiug the
legislature to lay another burden
upon his heavy load and under the
lash of “be it enacted” goad him on
to pull and surge at the traces of civil
ization, no matter how he may sweat,
foam and gall at the task. When
legislatures "cut a melon" for labor
they hand the farmer a lemon.
The larmers of the United States
are not financially able to carry “dead
heads” on their payrolls. Our own
hired hands are not paid unless we
have something for them to do and
we are not willing to carry the hired
help of dependent industries unless
there is work for them. We must
therefore insist upon the most rigid
economy.
Legislative House-Cleaning Needed. I
While the war is on and there is a
lull in business, we want all legisla
tive bodies to take an inventory of
the statute books and wipe off all
extravagant and useless laws. A good
house-cleaning is needed and econo
mies can be instituted here and there
that will patch the clothes of indigent
children, rest tired mothers and lift
mortgages from despondent homes.
Unnecessary workmen taken off and
useless expenses chopped down all
along the line will add to the pros
perity of the farmer and encourage
him in his mighty effort to feed and
clothe the world.
If any of these industries have sur
plus employes we can use them on
the farm. We have no regular
schedule of wages, but we pay good
farm hands on an average of $1.50
per day of thirteen hours when they
board themselves; work usually runs
about nine months of the year and the
three months dead time, they can do
the chores for their board. Ii they
prefer to farm on their own account,
there are more than 14,000,000,000
acres of idle land on the earth’s sur
face awaiting the magic touch of the
plow- The compensation is easily ob
tainable from Federal Agricultural
Department statistics. The total
average annual sales of a farm in
the continental United States amounts
to $516.00; the cost of operation is
$:!40.00; leaving the farmer $176 per
annum to live on and educate his
family.
There is no occasion for the legis
latures making a position for surplus
employes of industry. I^t them come
'back to the soil'' and share with us
the prosperity of the farm.
When honesty is merely a good
policy it is a poor virtue.
Lazy farmers are just as useless as
dead ones and take up more room.
When the soul communes with the
spirit of nature the back to the farm
movement prevails
There are two kinds of farmers.
One tries to take all the advice he
hears and the other won’t take any
at all
FAHMER RADFORD ON
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
The home is the greatest contribu
tion of women to the world, and the
hearthstone is her throne. Our so
cial structure is built around her. and
social righteousness is in her charga
Her beautiful life lights the skies ol 1
hope and her refinement Is the charm
of twentieth century civilization. Her
graces and her power are the cumu
lative products of generations of
queenly conquest, and her crown ol
exalted womanhood is jeweled with
the wisdom of saintly mothers. She
has been a great factor in the glory
of our country, and her noble achieve
ments should not be marred or her
hallowed influence blighted by the
coarser duties of citizenship. Ameri
can chivalry should never permit her
to bear the burdens of defending and
maintaining government, but should
preserve her unsullied from the allied
influences of politics, and protect her
from the weighty responsibilities ol
the sordid affairs of life that will
crush her ideals and lower her stand
ards. The motherhood of the farm
is our inspiration, she is the guardian
of our domestic welfare and a guide
to a higher life, but directing the af
fairs of government is not within wo
man’s sphere, and political gossip
would cause her to neglect the home
forget to mend our clothes and burr
the biscuits.
When you arewearied from. over
work, feel listless or languid, can’t
slsep or eat>, as you should, take Hol
lister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Makes
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l’leaso do not lx1 impatient
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We have a car of hard coal on
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