LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loup City Postoffice for transmission through the mails as second class matter. CHIPMAN * HARTMAN, Publishers. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Every subscription la regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly removed from our mail ing 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 con tract between publisher and subscriber. DEMOCRATIC REVENUE LAW A FAILURE. Washington, June 7. (Special Cor respondence). Democratic leaders in Washington are much chagrined at the speech delivered recently by Senator Furnifold Simmons, before the democratic state committee at Raleigh, North Carolina. Senator Simmons’ speech was looked forward to with a great deal of confidence by the democrats, be cause It was expected to be the only t genuine simon-pule keynote speech of the party for the 1916 campaign. There will be a so-called keynote speech delivered at St. Louis by Mart Glynn, but remembering his futile at-, tempt to answer Elihu Root, the demo crats had pinned small confidence on Glynn’e St. Louis peroration. With the faint hope of stirring in their bosoms that the democratic party will fatten at the public trough for the next four years, and realizing the fact that the Hon. Furnifold Simmons might continue as the chairman of the finance committee, the committee which, when it comes to a showdown, dictates the fiscal policy of this coun try, the democrats had faith that Mr. Simmons’ speech vyould so manipulate statistics and languages that the country would feel sufficiently as sured to place one more bet on the disciples of Woodrow Wilson. Little consolation do they find in the Raliegh speech. Simmons is as uncompromising a free trader as ever. The panorama of future trade offers no terrors for Furnifold. Wilson has relented to the extent of espousing a tariff commission, because of "chang ing conditions;” the democrats, gene rally, believe that a revision of the tariff, on the plea of "additional reve nue,” is advisable, but Simmons, hav ing swatted business with an axe, pleads “guilty” and looks to the coun try for vindication. This uncompro mising attitude of the chairman of the finance committee will embarrass Woodrow Wilson in making conces sions to the November voters. How can the leader of the party declare for a new tariff bill, when the chair man of the senate committee who is largely responsible for the present law, presents a brief in its favor? One of the worst breaks of Senator Simmons, in presenting his tariff ar gument to the North Caroline demo cratic state convention, is to be found in the following contradiction. “You cannot revise the tariff in the interest of the people unless you lower the wall enough to let the foreigner over, unless you write it low enough to allow competition from abroad, when the price here is above the level of a fair and just profit. That is what we aimed to do, and I think have done.” Then, flying to the defense of the present law, he says: “There was some increase in our total imports during the year immediately pre ceding the war, just as there had been a constantly continuing increase in our imports both under the Dingley tariff, and the Payne-Aldrich tariff, but the ratio of increase in our total, as of our free imports under the demo cratic tariff, were, during that period, no greater, indeed, not so great, as the average annual increase under the Payne-Aldrich tariff during its whole life. Indeed, our imports for that year were 1120,000,000 less than I estimated when I, as chairman of the finance committee, reported the bill to the senate in 1913.” Democrats point out that this is a further confession of failure of the Underwood-Simmons law. If the bill did not encourage imports, as Sim mons declares it did not, then the democratic tariff theory goes to the discard, and what is the use of giving publicity to its failure? The people know that the law was a failure as a revenue producer, that it did cause business depression, and now Sim mons has robbed the free traders of their last argument in favor of the democratic law by declaring it was not an encourager of imports, a false hood which the party is estopped to deny. Altogether, Senator Simmons i has got himself in “Dutch.” and will probably keep quiet the rest of the year. - That resident Wilson will draft the St. Louis platform is the word passed about among democrats. As a phrase maker the president is at his best. Judging by the way democrats have mutilated their platform of 1812, these quadrennial democratic profes sions of principle need be nothing more than an attractive collection of phrases. In this capacity then tne i Presdent can serve his party well. Then the President has had literary | experience that comes to few authors through - the heavy demands made on his pen in notes in Germany. More over, there is a striking parallel be tween notes to Germany and demo cratic platforms. Both documents i must look, first upon inspection, to be courageous declarations of principle with ultimatums tacked on the end. Then there must be a second and milder interpretation, hovering in be tween the lines, available for use if it becomes inexpedient to stand on the first grounds. Finally, it must be pos sible to surrender on every point with honor and dignity, that is, gracefully. Surely President Wilsons’ success with “strict accountability” notes and similar documents gives him some considerable standing among the phrase makers ambition to pen that St. Louis platform. Colonel Roosevelt says that if the next political campaign is waged on the tariff issue such an appeal would be an appeal to the belly and not to the soul of this nation. But a man with an empty belly is mighty likely % to smash one of the ten command ments and thereby imperil his soul. The Lord employed the miracle of the loaves and fishes to feed the multi | tude. After they had been fed he gave them spiritual advice. Successive republican primaries furnish conclusive evidence that there is no overwhelming spirit of stam HERE YOU ARE!.BY DART , REPUBLICAN HhTl ^CONVEMTIOW" LADIES ANO GENTLEMEN AlLOW ME to Introduce the candidates for president AND VICE PRESIDENT ; of the united STatesf ICACO ME T. 916 : ASBESTOS CURTAIL. z sTl '=■ pede at work among the rank and file of the party, who are going on carefully to select good men to repre sent them at Chicago with the confi dent expectation that wise counsels will prevail in the national conven tion and that the nominee will be a man upon whom all the anti-demo cratic voters can unite. STOVES FOR SALE. One base burner, one soft coal heat er, and one coal oil stove for sale. In quire at Schoening’s blacksmith shop or at house.—W. A. COON. 24-2 ROUTE 2, LOUP CITY Glen Cash is about the same. John Paulson it at Ravenna now. Alfred Hapka is working for Bauma. Wesley Fowler has had a phone put in. Mike Mendyk has planted a lot of seed corn. Geo. McFadden’s new garage is completed. Childrens’ Day program one week from Sunday. Henry Bichel was hauling lumber the past week. Alfalfa cutting s general all over the entire route. Henry Obermiller is hauling out lumber this week. Clark Hile helped C. R. Spencer load hs car Monday. The high school had a picnic down at the river Friday. John Schmidt, of Rockville, is work ing for Henry Kuhl. Rufas Gosnell is not working for Chris Oltjenbrums now. Tom McFadden was hauling wheat to Loup City last week. Mike Mendyk is building a kitchen to his house this week. Doctor Main had several calls on route two the past week. W. G. Tucker has been doing some breaking the past week. W. T. Draper had some breaking done on his farm of late. E. Tucker helped his brother, Fred, with his alfalfa this week. Geo. Wagner hauled a cow from west of Roushe’s la§t week. Robert Dinsdale put up a new wind mill and dug a new cistern. the opera house. \j Chase’s for fresh groceries.