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Business and professional Guide j ROBT. P. STARR J. E. SCOTT ' Licensed Einbalmer and Attornev at Law Faaeral uirectOT ZlllUIItL. Wjth Daj|y Furnjtu(.e Cq LOUP city .TT’. NEBRASKA LoupCity. - - - Nebraska R. H. MATHEW C. R. SWEETLAND j Attorney at Law Plumber & Electrician a„h __ For good, clean and neat work And Bonded Abstractor Satisfaction Guaranteed LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA Come and Get My Prices AARON WALL 0. S. MASON Lawyer Plumbing and Heating. - Tinwork. Practices In All Courts _ LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA Loup City, - - . Nebraska LAMONT L. STEPHENS WALTER THORNTON _. Drav and Transfer Lawyer * - * Call Lumber Yards or Taylor’s First National Bank Building Elevator i LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA Phone Brown 43 1 j ROBERT H. MATHEW | Carrie L. Bowman, M. D. I * , —— BOWMAN & BOWMAN Bonded Abstracter - - Physicians and Simmons Only Set of Abstract Books In County * _ LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA LOUP CITY 11-4 NEBRASKA — 0. E. LONGACRE S. A. ALLEN Physician and Surgeon Dentist - Office Upstairs in the New State OFFICE, OVER NEW BANK Bank Building Telephone Call No. 39 LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA ! A. J. KEARNS W. L. MARCY Physician and Surgeon Dentist Phone 30—Office at Residence Office: East Side Public Square Two Doors East of Teiepone Central Phone Brown 116 LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA LOUP CITY - - - - NEBRASKA __________________—___ A. S. MAIN E T bexjsHAUSEN Physician and Surgeon . _ . , - Licensed Lmi aimer LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA Office at Residence j I4 HUP Till T^irPCtOl* Teiepone Connection ! * — ^ ■ - ---^ —1—^ - ■mi mill | BRING YOUR GRAIN [ : TO THE I I Loup City Mill & Light Co. | ! Furnishes all the light and power and also makes the g best of flour. Handled by all Merchants. BUY FLOUR THAT IS MADE IN LOUP CITY I HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS OF Hard and Soft Coal TAYLOR’S ELEVATOR | LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA K ~ . = 50 ONE WAY FARE ~ TO PACIFIC COAST September 24th to October 8th If you expect to go to California during this brief Autumn period of low fares, you should arrange early to join the Bur lington's Personally Conducted Tourist Sleeper Parties to Cali forma via Denver, Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake by day light. Summer Excursion Fares Through September You can get the benefit of the low, Summer vacation fare until September 30th, for Eastern tours, for Scenic Colorado and Estes Park, the beautiful Black Ilills, the Pacific Coast, oi Mountain tours. September is an ideal pleasure-travel month, with resort regions less crowded. If there is yet a chance for Uyou to get away, let me show you what a splendid tour you can take via Burlington through-service routes. J. A. DANIELSON, Ticket Agent. L. W. WAKELEY, GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT. 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska. I Brains and energy make a splendid f team, but in single harness neither is worth a hot dog. If all sinners were suddenly re moved from this world we would still have editors and a few others left. Keep right on telling people this is a good town and in time they will mak you believe it yourself. Occasionally, however, the roar of our political candidates is heard above that of the battle front. HOW ROOSEVELT KEPT PERCE By WILLIAM HARD In METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE It seems to me I once heard a man say: "Now if Roosevelt were presi dent, we would have been plunged into this terrible war straight off.’’ In truth I heard this remark so frequent ! lv that I determined to go over the diplomatic records of the two Roose velt administrations. I find that Roosevelt had many bully opportunities to plunge the United States into foreign conflicts. I find that he was obliged to face and handle three great crises with three of the greatest countries in the world. , 1 find that he was obliged to take a hand, a decisive future-fixing hand, in the affairs of three small countries— small but near-by and turbulent and dangerous to the world's peace. 1 find that he was obliged to have dealings with many other countries in mattars capable of bearing fruit e:ther of friendship or of hatred. I find that I he wrote on a visiting card the terms on which a violent European contro versy was settled. I find that for eigners think of him as a great his torical figure not because of the part he took in railway legislation or in pure-food legislation or in conserva tion legislation or in any other activ ity of domestic politics, but because of the part he took in international poli tics—in the politics of the world at large. I find that Europe and Asia regard him as having been primarily —for good or for ill—a diplomat. This is the Roosevelt least known to Americans. The Alaskan Boundary Question. His first difficulty was with Great Britain. It was acute. It had to do with the Alaskan boundary. The British put forth a claim which, as Roosevelt remarked, was "just as in defensible as If they should now sud denly claim the island of Nantucket.” Alaska is a kite. It has a main body and then, fluttering southward along the Pacific coast toward the state of Washington, a tail. The dimensions of this rail were determined, long be fore Alaska passed from Russia to the United States, by a treaty of the year 1*25 between Russia and Great Bri tain. It provided that the boundary between Alaska and the British pos sessions should run along the crest of the mountain's by which the coast was paralleled. The United States accord ingly occupied the coast region with out resistance. In 1S9v however, there was a dis covery of a considerable quantity of gold in the Klondike. The Canadians immediately insisted on also discover ing a semi-submerged coastal moun tain range which spent a large part of its time under the waters of the Pacific and whh h. when it rose to the surface, rose principally in the form of scattered headlands Here was the boundary, along the crest of this ab surd range. leaping from headland to headland across great bodies of navi gable water! The United States would get a succession of headland tips -snd Canada would get a succcs sion of deep-water inlets, on one of which was situated Skagway. the best entrance to the Klondike goldfields. This line, calculated to fatten the part of any vaudeville rerformer, be came diplomatically serious in the ex mme. Under McKinley a "Joint Commission” was appointed to con shier twelve topics in dispute between the British Empire and the American Republic. One of the twelve was the Alaskan boundary. The representa tives of the Empire refused to come to terms on any of the others until their version of the Alaskan boundary had been conceded to them. It could not he conceded, and the "Joint Com mission” collapsed. At this point Roosevelt became president. Quietly, in the routine of diplomatic intercourse, he refused ab solutely to accept Great Britain's am phibious mountain-range line and re fused also, with equal absoluteness, to arbitrate it. John Hay, as Secretary of State, pointed out "the fatal tendency of arbitrators to compromise.” This matter could not be compromised. As Roosevelt said on another occasion. "Uncle Sam does not intend to wrong any one. but neither does he intend, if his pocket is picked or his face slapped, to ‘arbitrate’ with the wrong ! doer.” What then? A Commission was erected. It was not a Commission with a third-party arbitrator on it. It was a Commission equally divided be tween the two countries. The repre sentatives of the United States were Lodge of Massachusetts and Root of N'ew York and Turner of Washington. The representatives of the British Empire were two Canadians and one Englishman. The Englishman was England's Lord Chief Justice—Alver I stone. This Commission met in London in : 1903. Its purpose was indicated both i by Roosevelt and by Hay. Roosevelt i said (through strictly diplomatic chan i nels): "I wish to make one last effort : to bring about an agreement which will enable the people of both coun tries to say that the result represents the feelings of the representatives of both countries.’’ In the meantime Roosevelt moved United States troops into Alaska. He let It be strictly diplomatically known that those troops, if the Commission should fail, would be used "to reduce i the country to possession.” He paused. On October 20. 1903, the Commis sion uttered its decision. Lord Al verstone voted with the three repre sentatives of the United States against his own two Canadian colleagues. Great Britain bowed to the applause of the world. The Pacifists perceived that the honor of a nation can easily be preserved without the slightest threat of force. Roosevelt withdrew the United States troops from Alaska. The friendship of two great peoples had not suffered one moment’s pub lic interruption. The boundary of the United States in Alaska ran unmo lested along its lawful line. The Dispute With Germany. In the midst of this engagement with Gr£at Britain. Roosevelt had been forced into an engagement with Ger many. Germany had certain “pe cuniary claims” against Venesuela. A It is being suggested that Mexico should be annexed to this country for her own good. Tell it to Carranza. Speaking of strikes reminds us that it is about time for the underpaid news paper publishers to strike for higher subscription rates, increased job print ing prices, and better compensation in every way. With printer's supplies up in price from 25 to 100 per cent, about the only profit left the publisher is his experience, and that has never yet satisfied a gnawing stomach. railway, for Instance had been bnfit In venemela at the *"equeet of Ven ezuela by German capital at a cost of 120,000,000. Venezuela had guaran teed the interest on that $26,0o0,000. It was not paying it- When pressed, :t added a moral delinquency to its dnancial delinquency. It not only re fused to pay, but it refused to enter into any effective plan looking toward payment. Germany had a good case and Venezuela had a very poor one. At last, on December 8, 1&02, Ger many broke off diplomatic relations w'th Venezuela, and so aid Great Ri;tain. Already the fleets of Ger many and of Great Britain, and also of Daly, had established a blockade in Venezuelan waters. Certain war ves sels belonging to Venezuela were cap tured and the town of Puerto Cabe'lo was bombarded Roosevelt did not attempt to make the CnDed States take a public pose as '‘sovereign” of the Caribbean. He launcheu no public “fiat.” His inter pretation of the Monroe Doctrine was moderate. It was moderate not only fu its rhetoric but also in its essence. In his message of December 3. 1901. glancing at the Venezuelan disi>ute. he said: “We do not guarantee any state agr-inst punishment if it miscon ducts itself.” Germany had every reason to be pleased with this recog* nition of its rights. At the same time, m order that there might be no misunderstanding of the one vital part of the Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt added 'provided the punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territpry by any non-American power" At first it seemed that Germany was content to abide by this proviso. On December 11, 1901 the German am bassador at Washington stated that his government had ‘‘no gurpose or intention fo make even the smallest acquisition of territory on the South American continent or the islands ad jacent.” It later appeared, however, that “acquisition” ;n this statement meant ‘‘permanent acquisition." Ger many would make no acquisition that was permanent. It did not consider it self bound to make no acquisition that was temporary. In fact, it was look ing forward to such an acquisition. Roosevelt at once objected. He re called the f*ict that in China there were many “temporary" acquisitions of territory by foreign powers and that in all st, :h cases the word “tem porary” seem ed to mean “while time lasts.” Xotei ensued. They contin ued to ensue They threatened to keep Wa.-hington reading and writing til! the Germans had landed on Ven ezuelan soil. Roosevelt laid clown his pen and sent for the German ambas sador and determined to get the mat ter settled personally without one word more on papera Roosevelt to d ’•’on Holleben, the German ambas'ador, that he wanted "assurances.” He told him that Dewey was maneuvering in the Garib bean: that the "assurances*' in question would be expected to arrive from Ber lin within ten days; that if they did not avrive Dew ?y would be ordered to sail southward and “to see that no pos session. even temporary, was taken of any place in Venezuela.” Von Holle ben replied tf'at his government would ertainh retlse to rive the Cnited States the ”>vssurattte" requested. A w« k lsti r yon Hollebc n Tie I the White rouse to speak of another matter. He spoke of it and turned to leave, Roo-ievelt: "Have you heard anything fiom Berlin about Vene zuela?" Voi Holleben: “No.” Roose velt: "It w‘U not be necessary then for me to wale through all the re maining thr*e days. I will wait just twenty-four hours more. Twenty four hours 1 -om now Dewey will sail.” At the end of twelve hours von Hol ieben returned to the White House and said the t he had heard from Ber lin and tha' he now had the honor to rc.quest tbe President of the Cnited States to acf as arbitrator in the set tlement of t »e differences which had uiifortunatel.* arisen between the Ger man governreent and the government of Venezuela The point is not that Germany capitulated. Its position was unten able, and it c ould not avoid capitulat ing The poir.t is that one of the most dangerous at d one of the most de cisive momet is in the history of the international relations of the United States passer by without one public act or one public word to open the slightest rift in the cordial popular friendship be; ween the United States and the foreign nation concerned. “Four L xssons to Europe.” It turned oM, after all. that Roose velt did not do the arbitrating be tween Germary and Venezuela. The Hague Court was in existence. It needed busin ss. Roosevelt had al ready given its first case. That was a dispute between the United States and Mc-cico in the year 1902 i over ‘‘The Plots Fund of the Cali- ; fornias.” It ; mounted to a claim against Mexico by certain American j Roman Catholit bishops. The Hague i Court decided ?hat Mexico was to pay those bishops an immediate lump sum of $1,400.0(Ci and a future annua! sum of $13,000, Mexican money. Roosevelt no V gave The Hague Court the Venezt elan dispute. In so do ing. he won a stecial word of praise 1 from the most distinguished of French Pacifists, Baror d'Estournelles de Constant, who, a few years later, in summing up Rooievelt's greatest con tributions to real’stic Pacifism, said: ‘ President Roosevelt has given four striking lessons to Europe: first, in I having brought tefore the Arbitra- j tion Tribunal at T-Ae Hague the ques tion between Mexiho and the United States over the f'ous Fund claims, i while Europe wa> scoffing at the peace court whict it had created; | second, in obliging Europe to settle the Venezuelan r fair pacifically; third, in proposing a second Peace Conference at The H tgue to complete the work of the first and. fourth, in j now intervening to pilt an end to the ! conflict between Russia and Japan in the Far East.” The decision was made in 1904. In that same year certain powers noti fied Roosevelt that they were about to proceed against thi custom-houses of San Domingo. Roosevelt learned something from Venezuela and he had learned something from The Hague. He had learned that this bom barding and blockauln^ of Caribbean countries was going Ic continuous unless the United States managed U cajole or coerce de in . ient Caribbean countries into some sort of solvency. I The loafer, the kicker and the bluffer are three of a kind, and the bread is not conductive to the welfare of any community. If they could see themselves as others see them they would not be seen at all. “Letting the other fellow do it” may save you a little exertion today and lose you your job tomorrow. Do it yourself. Change of program every night at the opera houee. j He thereupon Invented the poll^ which was denounced by all Pacifist* but which brought peace—the policy of custom-house protectorates. Speaking of Cuba, if Roosevelt had desired bloodshed, he could have had it there in streams. It was under Roosevelt that we were obliged to begin our second oeeupation of Cuban soil. In 190C the Liberals revolted against the Moderates. Our agree ment with Cuba was that we were to “intervene for the maintenance of a government adequate for the pro tection of life, property and individual liberty.” The “Des Moines” hap pened into the harbor of Havana. The president of Cuba. Palma, was powerless and terrified. He asked for marines. The "Des Moines" sent them. It looked as if we were about to take Cuba by force of arms Roosevelt called the marines back to their ship. In place of marines, he sent Taft. It was a great con trast. Taft, unarmed and disarming, proceeded to Havana, and conferred He tried at first to set up a new na tive government. It could not be done. The Cubans could not agree among themselves. Palma resigned. There was then no government at all Ta't stepped into the vacuum and completely filled it. He became “Pro visional Governor.” There was no bat tle. Roosevelt had gone into Cuba, just as he had previously gone into Santo Domingo—by diplomatic seepage. The Question cf Japanese Immigration. In Oe*ober of 1906. the school au thorities of San Francisco excluded all Japanese of all ages from the regular public schools and directed them to attend a special public school in which thev were to be segregated. •Tanan protested proudly and bitterly, both by popular demonstrations in Tokio and by diplomatic representa tions at Washington, appealing to the treaty of 1892. In December, within two months after the issuance of the San Fran cisco school order. Roosevelt said to Congress: "In the matter now before me. affecting the Japanese, every thing that is in my power to do will he done, and all the forces, military and civil, cf the Fnited States which I may lawfully employ, will be so em ployed ... to enforce the rights of aliens under treaties." This sentence pen* trated Asia to its farthest literate regions. In the “Light of India" Baba Bharati re sponded: “The American president has nroved himself to he the one ruler of the modern world who has his finger on the pulse of world polities of the present and of the future." Roosevelt had promised to use the military forces of the United States. H*' lid so. He enlarged the garrison i of United States troops in San Fran cisco and let it be known that all vio lenoe directed against Japanese would be quenched. He believed that Japanese mass imm’'gration was intolerable, and did not hesitate to say so. “The Japan ese would themselves not tolerate the intrusion into their country of a mass of Americans who would displace Japanese in the business of the land. The people of California are right in insisting that the Japanese shall not come thither in mass.” He entered into negotiations with the Japanese government. Again there was no public int rnational con troversy That porcupine, the pub lished diplomatic note, armed with a thousand quills and every one of them poisoned, was allowed to hibernate Personally, in conference. where phrases may be unguarded and also unregarded, the representatives of the T'nited States and the representatives of Japan agreed that thereafter no passports would be issued to Japanese coolies entitling them to leave Japan for United States ports This agree ment has been kept honorably and with a scientific strictness by the ac curate gentlemen of Japan. The material difficulties were ad justed. A psychological one arose. Because Roosevelt was so ready to use garrisons and law-courts to pro tect the .Japanese in California, it be gan to be thought in Japan that the; United States feared Japan. There fore in November the United States fleet started for Japan. It was Roose velt’s greatest service to peace. He got the Nobel Peace Prize for dcuig a thing which, by comparison, was a j parlor trick. He got it for interven-! ing between two spent duellists. He in- j trodueed a physically groggy Russia to a financially trembling Japan at Ports- 1 mouth. New Hampshire. Pacificism gave him $40,000 and a diploma for do ing that. The time when he was a real peacemaker and not a mere peace usher was when he himself was a pos sible combatant and when, instead of waiting for the explosion, he walked up to the burning fuses of war in SaD Francisep and Japan and snuffed them out with his own hand. In the harbor of Yokohama the Japanese saw sixteen American bat tleships. doing a globe-cireumnavlga tion which many European critics had declared impossible. They saw; they admired; like the men Roosevelt knew them to be. they were thrilled to re spect. Roosevelt did not “avoid” war. He saw it coming and went out to meet it and fetched it a watchful wallop across its brow and left it dead. A taenius for Uiplomacy. The foundation of all Roosevelt's di plomacy was that he kept the fleet at the top-notch of fighting efficiency. When he said to von HAlleben. "Wha* I say goes; but, if it doesn't, the fleet does,” he said it clearly and promptly and changelessly; and von Holleben, looking straight at him, knew that h* meant it; but that was not enough What produced enough was that von Holleben also knew that at that very moment the fleet wras where Roose velt delighted to keep it — in battle color doing battle maneuvers in th* open sea His domestic policies rose out o. active study—and counsel. His for eign policies rose out of active study— and instinct. History will surely say that if he had a genius it was for diplomacy. History will also surely say that hii liplomacy of 1916 was merely th« publication, in private life, of th» method by which, from 1901 to 190S he destroyed every cause of war tha* raised its head against the United States, and so gained the prestig* enabling him to become the worldh most acclaimed—not Pacifist—but Pa cificator. Soldiers who have families depend ent upon them are being discharged from the regiments on the border. In time, no doubt, unless something “breaks loose,” the dependent families will multiply many fold. Plowing corn on a hot day is no sinecure, but it is a paradise compared to patroling the border with no immediate scrap in sight. I still have a few good Duroc Jer-' sey boars for sale at $10 each if! sold soon.—Charles fiiehl. "VN hen looking for a good luneli or short order drop in at the IDEAL BAKERY LUNCHES AND SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS "W e carry a full line of Bakery Goods. Careful atten i tion given to all special orders. I F. J. SCHOLZ & SON manufacturers of MONUMENTS AND MAUSOLEUMS JACOB TtlTZ. Rockville, Nebr. SWAT THE FLY Or better yet keep them out of the house. Now is the time to fix up those screen doors and windows, replacing those that have outlived their usefulness with our white pine screens. 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S. A 1819 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. The fellow who trades at home never has to do his kicking by mail. And then, on second thought, he has no reason to kick. Funny, isn’t it. how the sensational correspondents have suddenly put a quietus on their wild stories of border hardships and incompency that never existed? The fellow who considers himself the wise man of town is generally rated by others as the biggest fool. The Washington government has is sued a “White Book" on the war in Europe and its diplomatic angles. And. government like, has forgotten our ex istence in the distribution of free copies. Keep 'em!