LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loup City Postoffice for transmission through the mails as second class matter. _ CHtPMAN & HARTMAN, Publishers. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Every subscription is 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. MORE SLIPSHOD METHODS. (Washington Special Correspondence) Some time ago the war department advertised for bids for furnishing the government with about 4,000,000 yards \ of khaki duck, cotton cloth and mel ton. Quite a number of manufactu rers sharpened their pencils and pro ceeded to make estimates of prices at which they could supply the United States quartermaster with these goods. Conformable to regulations each bidder had to furnish a guar anty bond. There is considerable work required in submitting pro posals to the government for supplies. The bids for these cloths were opened the latter part of July at the Schuy kill Arsenal. Now it develops that all bids have been rejected because con gress had mad 3 no appropriation available for entering into the con tracts. This is just a little sample of the slipshod methods with which the democratic administration handles government business. —O— The Worcester Pressed Steel Com pany is assured of full capacity opera tion for the next five months. The company has a war order from the Russian government for 1,000.000 one pound shell cases, and from the British government for 100,000 howi tzer shell cases. The one-pound cases are for use in rapid-fire guns of American make. Democratic pros perity. June 1916 importations reached the highest figure ever recorded in the trade history of the United States. The average rate of duty on those im ports was the lowest ever recorded in our history. We imported $246,009, 000 worth of foreign goods, which paid a duty of $19,915,393, or an average rate of 8.1 per cent. At this rate the democratic party will have to devise 57 varieties of taxation to pay for the •pork” consumption of the southern, states and to meet a preparedness pro gram which absolutely disregards the ciuestion of government source of in come. But there is always internal taxation to fall back upon. and. as a democratic representative from the south remarked to Uncle Joe Can non: “Well, it does not make any difference how we vote for expendi tures. You fellows north have got to pay them." And to the southern con gressman the north and the west are all of a piece. —O— The only instance in which the de mocratic party has subscribed to the doctrine, “America first,” is in the levying of higher taxes on the folks at home. —O— Sixty-eight per cent of the total im ports into the United States entered free of duty during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, as compared with 54 per cent during the fiscal year 1913, with the republican tariff law in force. This is an increase of 22 per cent of duty free goods over 1913. Our total imports fell just short of $2,200,000 or $3S7,000.000 greater than the total for the fast fiscal year under the republican tariff law, 1913. But, whereas $1,813,000,000 worth of imports in 1913 yielded $318,000,000 of customs revenue, the total imports for 1910 yielded but $212,000,000 of cus toms revenue. In other words, our foreign competitors got an additional slice of our market worth nearly $400, 000,000, and for the privilege of doing business in our market they paid $106,000,000 less, and this license paid by the foreigners to compete in the American market, which is in the shape of a tariff tax, lessens the amount of internal taxation to which our own people must be subjected in order to carry on the functions of government—within certain limits. —fl Our total ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year 1913 were $684,000,000 for which customs revenues, under the republican law. provided 47 per cent. The total ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year 1916 were $716,000,000, lor which customs revenues, under the democratic law, provided 30 per cent. A vote for the democrats means a vote to increase domestic taxation and to lower the license to foreigners per mitting them to compete with goods ‘Made in America.” —o— The rural credits bill, which the president signed with so much eclat, was drafted chiefly by Mr. W. \Y. Flannagan of Montclair, New Jersey, he being a banker of wide experience and much good sense—which he ex ercised to the marked advantage of the bill as against the wild and silly notions of the joint committee of which he was secretary and which took the credit for the measure. In the natural order of things and under an administration capable of reeogni zing merit and of rewarding service, Mr. Flannagan would have been named a member of the rural credits board—as, indeed, he hoped to be. But he evidently does not possess file requisite political backing, or else New Jersey must consider its quota filled by having the president from that state, or something. At any rate. Mr. Flannagan was not named, and the gentlemen wTho wrere appointed, if we may judge by the press notices which Tumulty gave out with their names, will probably be soon trying to get him to act as secretary of their board so that somebody in the outfit may have some knowledge of what is attempting to be done. —O— There is nothing niggardly in the support which the progressives of Ne braska are giving to the republican cause. Not only have they substi tuted the names of the republican can didates for those of their own party on the state and national ticket, bm their state convention adopted a plat form in which a whole-hearted and ungrudging measure of co-operation was pledged to the united party’s ticket. “We declare,” says this ster ling document, “the election of Hughes the vital need of the hour for reasons of the truest Americanism, the broad est nationalism, the security of our national dignity and the perpetuity of our governmental ideals, and w'e pledge the earnest co-operation of the progressives here assembled and our persnal influence among our felhv citizens to the success of his cam paign.” "Europe has reached the point in the war where it refuses to count the cost, is the latest from over yonder. Possibly on the theory that it is easier to forget to count than it is to pay. JUDGE HOWARD’S DECREE. Judge Edgar Howard, editor of the Columbus Telegram recently published the following editorial on the question of business ethics: HARDLY FAIR. If a dealer in lumber should be asked to supply material for the erection of a platform for the ac commodation of a political speaker, certainly those who asked would expect to pay for the lumber. If a bandmaster should be asked to furnish music for a political rally, certainly those who asked would axepect to pay for the music. But when it comes to asking the country editor for the use of his goods in the promoton of a political program everybody seems to take it for granted that there wll be ne charge. Just now many country editors in Nebraska are being severely criticised because they refuse to turn their newspapers over to one side or the other, for or against the pending constitutional amend ment. .In the judgment of The Telegram it is not fair for the “wet" side or the “dry” side to demand that the country editor shall turn his newspaper over to its cause, without money and without price. The newspaper man’s advertising space is the same to him as goods on the shelves of the merchant. If he gives away his goods then he must look elsewhere for a means of taking care of his family. But some of the “wet” advocates say to the country editor who is op posed to the amendment that it is his duty to print all kinds of argu ment furnished by the “wet” com* mitte, and the “dry” advocates question the loyalty of a country editor who favors the amendment if he refuses to turn his entire news paper over to the “dry” commit tee. Surely it is not fair on the part of either of the two commit tees to make fish out of the country editor and fowl out of all other classes of merchants. But aside from the manifestly unfair discrim ination against the country editor by the advocates and the opponents of the amendment, it strikes us that the average dope furnished by the committees in the present cam paign might better go unpublished. One day a so-called “Prosperity League” in Omaha sends the editor for free publication a vast volume of figures to prove that prohibition in Kanses has been a failure, and the next day the other side sends him as many more figures to prove that prohibition in Kansas has been a success. If the poor edtor re fuses to publish the “wet” dope, then he is complained against by the home-town “wets,” and if he refuses to publish the “dry” dope, then the local “drys” tell him he is in the pay of the “wets.” It is a sad situation for the editor, choose whatever course he may. There is only one way out of the dilemma, and we are glad to note that many country editors are now taking that way. This way points toward dig nity and honor always, and it leads I the editor to become absolutely master of his own newspaper space, both advertising and editorial, ac cepting all acceptable advertising at regular rates, and holding his I editorial space as above all price. ! _ STOCK RAISERS HEAVY SELLERS Nebraska. Iowa and other terri tories shipping live stock into Omaha are blessed with greater production this year than last. For the first seven months of the year 94,707 head of cattle more than last year have been shipped into the Omaha market. Even a greater increase is shown in hogs.211,370 more head have come into the market, showing that live stock raisers are getting more money, both in amount and in volume of live stock. The same general increases main tain in all lines of business, con tinued evidence of the wonderful pros perity which this territory is enjoying. Suffering in silence is commend able, but it is a dinged hard job to pull off. NEBRASKA PROSPERITY LEA6UE A Statewide, Nonpartisan Organization of Tax payers VICE-PRESIDENTS j WESLEY P. ADKINS SOUTH OMAHA JOHN ALBERTCON MERCHANT PENDER DR. C. C. ALLISON SURGEON GEORGE ANTIL INVESTMENTS. BLAIR Z. M. BAIRD HARTINOTON J. L. BAKER MANUFACTURER J. W. BENDER FARMER. HUMPHREY ALFRED BRATT INVESTMENTS. GENOA CHAS. H. BROWN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS W. J. BURGESS INVESTMENTS HARRY V. BURKLEY PRINTER W. M. BUSHMAN STORAGE ALBERT CAHN MANUFACTURER LOUIS S DEETS STOCKMAN.KEARNEY E. M FAIRFIELD REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS JOHN N FRENZER REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS OR R. GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON T. V. GOLDEN CAPITALIST. O NEILL FERDINAND HAARMANN MANUFACTURER J. J. HANIGHEN CONTRACTOR FRED D. HUNKER ATTORNEY, WEST POINT FRANK B JOHNSON OMAHA PRINTING CO. C. J. KARBACH INVESTMENTS HON. J. T. KEELEY VALENTINS P. J. KELLY MERCHANT. NIOBRARA PRANK B. KENNAR3 CAPITALIST JACOB KLEIN MERCHANT. BEATRICE BUD LATTA RANCH OWNER. TEKAMAN If. M. F. LEFLANG CAPITALIST G. W. MEGEATH COAL OPFRATOR , JOHN A MOHRBAChLR IN.'LSTMtNIS. W V MORE SOPHUS F. NEBLE PUBLISHER FRANK A NIMS FkliaCD FARMER. FALLS CITT J. J. NOVAK DANKER. WILBER J. J. O'CONNOR ATTORNEY GEORGE PARR MERCHANT. F. SR A SKA CITY HON. WATSON L PL lu knew it to be perfectly good money, you break all sorts of speed records to grab it. So would we. In the subscription price of this paper we are offering you just that— :en dollars for one. For every dollar vou spend for this paper you are re ceiving at least ten^ dollars worth of valuable information. In many cases he information it sends out to you s worth vastly more to you. Keep this fact in mind, and if you tappen to owe us a dollar or two just enjember that we have earned It ten imes over—and we ought to have it ■vithout the asking. Doesn’t this appeal to you as being ust about the truth. C. E. WATKINS Veterinarian Calls attended night and day. Resi dence Phone Black 5. Office at Wood's livery barn. Loup City, Neb. For Light and Heavy Hauling Call BERT FIEBIG L3RAY AND TRANSFER LINE Loup City, Nebraska MAKES EVERY ROOM IN YOUF HOUSE A MODERN BATHROOM Solves bathing problem; nc plumbing; nc water works needed; folds in roll; rivals ex pensive bathroom; guaranteed for 10 years. Write today. OTTO SCHULZE, Agents wanted. Loup City, Neb SCRAWNY CALVES. What makes a calf scrawny—off its feed? Germs—parasites—in the intestines. Why not free them of this trouble? If you will give the calf eome B. A. Thomas Stock Rem edy in its feed, within a week you will see it brighten up and in four or five weeks you wont know the calf. Costs you but a few cents and we will refund that if it doesn’t do as we say.—J. J. Slominski. FOR SALE. My eight room house. Good barn and outbuildings with twelve lots in cherry and plum trees. Also 4% acres of land and another tract of 3% acres all in alfalfa and fenced chicken tight, j Nearly new two seated spring wagon and a Jersey red sow with six pigs.— Alfred Anderson. Change of program every night at the opera house. 200,000 ACRES OF MONDELL LANDS (FOR FREE HOMESTEAD ENTRY) SPECIAL EXCURSION TO DOUGLAS, WYO., AUGUST 15th, 1916. J will conduct a special homeseekers’ excursion leaving Oma ha on our train 9-43, at 12:20 A. M. Wednesday, August llith, and from Lincoln at 2:15 A. M. With me will be several from Iowa and Missouri. We will all be together the morning of the 16th, arriving Douglas that evening. GO WITH ME to see these grass-covered lands now open to favorable entry by the Burlington’s new passenger service to Douglas, Wyo. They are- very desirable for the live stock grower and dairy farmer. 320 acres may be homesteaded and 160 acres purchased at not less than $1.25 per acre. Lands 7 to 10 miles of the railroad. Take this early chance to secure a Mondell home stead so near to this progressive city of Douglas, Wyo. Ask me tor folders, maps and information,* My services are free. J. A. DANIELSON, Ticket Agent. S. B. HOWARD, Immigration Agent, 100£ Farnam St., Omaha. v I _I try the northwestern ad service—it pays ^