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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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. !
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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 l<OY
LAND OWNER. M -CiS,CN
THEODORE RUMCFS
sto-kv/.n. Fullerton
CAHl POHOi
TETiu£3 fhvmrn COLUMOUS
JOHN C. ROalCKY
PUBLISHER
J. C. ROTH
INVESTOR. FPCMCNT
John schinoler
STAN TON
W. H. SCHMOLLER
JOBBER
THEODORE H SrRK
STOCKMAN. NELIwH
O. E. SHUKERT
MANUFACTURER
HARRY E SIMAN
WlNSlDE
PAUL F. SKINNER
MANUFACTURER
A. F. SMITH
JOBBER
N. A SPIES0ERGER
WHOLESALER
HON P. F. STAFFORD
NORFOLK
WILLIAM STORK
INVESTMENTS. ARLINGTON
ROBERT C. STHEHLOW
CONTRACTOR
GEORGE 0 TYLLR.
INVt STMCNTS, HASTINGS
A. J VIERLING
PRES. PAXTON a VIERLING
Iron works
THEODORE WIOAMAN
STOCK BUYER. AURORA
C. B. WILLC 1
ATTORNEY. RANDOLPH
S. N. WOLBACH
MERCHANT. GRAND ISLAND
R. M. WOLCOTT
MERCHANT. CENTRAL CITY
HON. OTTO ZUELC.V
MAYOR. SCHUYLER
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Does Prohibition
Prohibit ?
Testimony of Two Reputable
Witnesses of Des Moines, Iowa
The First Witness:
Extract from an editorial which appeared inTbe Des Moines
Evening Tribune of June 6, 1916 :
“The Evening Tribune has asked a
half dozen men recently who ought to
know, and they agree that liquor can
now be bought openly at more places
than when we had saloons
The Second Witness:
Extract from a news article, prominently displayed on the
first page of Tlie Des Moines Capital of February 19, 1916:
“Des Moines banished the saloons a
year ago last Wednesday.
“But Des Moines today is consuming
liquor at the rate of a million dollars*
worth a year—mostly whiskey.
“Des Moines is receiving two car
leads of liquor a day.
“This is at the rate of 750 carloads
a year or fifteen trainloads of fifty cars
each.** * * *
Here we have the testimony of two responsible Iowa newspapers that
Statewide PROHIBITION does not prohibit.
la Kcbraska, under ocr Lena! Option, I’gb License Law, the people of any
community are grunted an opportunity to say whether or not license shall
be issued governing iiie sab c- abohclic beverages.
In future articles we will present evidence proving that Nebraska, under
that law, has made great progress from a moral as well as from an eco
nomic standpoint.
Tlie Nebraska Prosperity League
OPPOSED TO STATE PROHIBITION. IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION, HIGH LICENSE
President, L. F. CROFOOT Treasurer, W. J. GOAD Secretary, J. B. HAYNES
Send for our literature. OMAHA, NEB.
Notice of Hearing on Petition for De
termination of Heirship.
Notice of Hearing.
Estate No. 261 of William Hughes
Deceased, in the County Court ol
Sherman County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska. To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Asa M
Berry has filed his petition alleging
that William Hughes died interstate
in Sherman County on or about 189.'
being a resident and inhabitant ol
Sherman County and the owner of the
following described real estate, to
wit: The Northwest quarter of Sec
tion Fourteen (14), Township Six
teen (16) North Range Twenty-eight
(28) West of the Sixth Principal Meri
dian in Lincoln County, Nebraska,
leaving as his sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Delilah Hughes, his widow,
Mary J. Fostei*, Anna Weaver. Marion
Hughes and Eva Wills, his only living
children and Fannie Hughes and
Sidney Hughes, grandchildren, chil
dren of J. A. Hughes, who was a son
)f Wm. Hughes, hut who died in Janu
ary, 1888, and praying for a decree
barring claims; that said decedent
died intestate; that no application
’or administration has been made and
he estate of said decedent has not
neen administered in the State of Ne
braska, and that the heirs at law of
said decedent as herein set forth shall
ne decreed to be the owners in fee
simple of the above described real
estate, which has been set for hearing
on the 5th day of September A. D.
1916, at one o’clock P. M.
Dated at Loup City, Nebraska, this
IGh day of July, A.. D. 1916.
34-3 E. A. SMITH,
(SEAL) County Judge.
TEN DOLLARS FOR ONE.
If your neighbor offered you a ten
lollar bill for a dollar, and }W>u 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
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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.
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