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VOLUME XXXV._LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1916 , NUMBER 45
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Built Panama Canal Out of Cur
rent Revenues, Patriotically
Hoarding Bonds in Treasury
Which Democrats Filch
to Hide a Deficit.
CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY
* IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
Senator Penrose Eelieves the Looted
Condition of the Treasury Will
) Necessitate the Withholding of
Contracts for Battleships and De
lay the Whole Scheme of Prepared
ness — Nation’s Money Frittered
Av.ay to Finance Hare-Brained and
III Advised Projects.
William R. Willcox. Chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
has received from Senator Penrose a
brief hut positive summing up of the
ex ravagances of the Wilson Adminis
tration during the session of Congress
just about to close. The Senator
says:
“When the country realizes what
this Congress has done in the way of
appropriations it will tie dumfounded.
Already, it has been shown that over
a billion, seven or eight hundred mil
lion dollars have been appropriated—
more money than was ever appropri
ated in any one year in the history
of the American government. The to
tal will reach nearly two billion dol
lars before the end of this carnival
of debauchery in public expenditures
is reached, beeause no account has
been taken of the twenty-five millions
for the Danish islands, the thirty mil
lions which the government will prob
ably have to refund as a result of
the five per cent rebate allowed on
importations brought across the seas
in American bottoms, and other mat
% ters which are likely to come up.
It is only too evident that this bill
which is expected to bring in some
two hundred million dollars will ab
solutely fail to meet even the require
ments for the ill-advised and certainly
not urgent projects authorized by the
present Congress.
“It is now claimed that these pro
Jects are to be financed by the issu
ance of Panama Canal bonds. The
American people will regard such a
proceeding as a very queer one be
cause the issuing of bonds by the
Cleveland Administration largely helje
ed to bring about the downfall of the
Democratic party in is;Hi. A bond
issue has ever since been viewed with
abhorrence by the Democracy; now,
we find the party leaders compelled,
tty reason of their extravagance and
inefficiency, to resort to it.
“To defray the expenses of a nitrate
plant and of a shipping board and
many other needless projects by the
issuing of Panama bonds will be in
the last analysis equivalent to paying
for them by bond issues. These bonds
are lying in the treasury unissued as
the result of the thrift and economy
i and wise administration of the Repuo
lican party.
“Only about S130.000.000 of bonds
were put out in the construction of the
Panama Canal. The balance of the
cost of that stupendous undertaking
was paid out of current revenues;
and now, to advance the novel doc
trine that these bonds which repre
sent the thrift of preceding years
j shall be issued for these questionable
projects is. to my mind, preposterous.
In fact, it was expressly provided in
the Spooner Act that Panama Canal
i bonds should not be issued for any
! other purpose than that of the con
j struction of the Canal, and the in
j genious theory that they can be is
| sued now to repay the treasury and
that then the money can be squan
dered by the parry in power to finance
| doubtful projects and to make good a
deficit will not alter the fact that
i such a deficit exists.
“No amount of reasoning on the
part of the Chairman of the Commit
tee on Finance will alter the fact
that outside of preparedness there has
been at least $200,000,000 of wasteful
appropriations and expenditures by
the present Congress. That condition
of the treasury will absolutely neces
sitate the withholding of contracts
for battleships and delay the whole
j scheme of preparedness.
“The figures of the Secretary of
the Treasury may be juggled as they
may. but when the Secretary is up
against the brute fact of not having
j money to pay for these projects he
will then fiad that figures will not
make a surplus in the treasury.”
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, . SACRIFICED COUNTRY’S
HONOR AND INTEREST J
Mr. Wilson’s defenders say he
, j “has kept us out of war.” As
' I a matter of fact his policy in !
Mexico has combined all the
I. evils of feeble peace with all the f
i evils of feeble war. He has se
, cured none of the benefits of •
jfl war; but he has not avoided jj
Iij war. He has sacrificed the hon- \\
iJJ or and the interests of the coun
(({ try; but he has not received the
‘Jj thirty pieces of silver.—From
j the speech of Col. Theodore '
! Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, )
Maine, in behalf of Charles E. (
Hug ies.
.
Tes, and the same policies that have |
filled .Tudgp Hughes and others with
“a deep sense of shame,” have sent
many other Americans to their graves.
The President has changed his mind
about sending more troops to the bor
der, thus running true to form.
When Tom Taggart talks economy
to them, it is time the Democrats
stopped their extravagance.
The Hughes smile Is beginning to
attract favorable attention.
President Entertains Five Progres
sives.—Headline. Others he simply
amuses.
Democratic papers chide Hughes be
cause he sav* he is “100 per cent, a
candidate.” The Wilson papers nat
urally prefer a fifty-fifty candidate.
JOHN L. KENNEDY.
CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATE8 8ENATOR.
MAKER OF PRESIDENTS
g Hughes Sympathetic With De- ft
ft mands of Labor Which Are ft
S Proved to Be Just.
ft “I am sympathetic with every ft
.8 demand to improve the condi- p
ft tions of labor, to secure reason- v
V able compensation for labor. I ft
ft. am in sympathy with every ef- V
fort to better human conditions, ft
ft and particularly the condition of g
;? those who toil in industrial pur- ft;
ft suits, in railroad pursuits, in all X
ft these great activities that are ft
5 essential to our prosperity. But ft!
ft when you have a proposition to V.
ft change the scale of wage you ft;
O have a vital proposition which ft
8 requires examination. You must ft
6 at least know whether the de- 8
8 mand is a just one.
ft “Labor, of course, should not X
X desire anything but what is just, ft
ft I do not believe labor intends to X
X ask for anything but what is ft
ft jusL What is just can be ex- ft;
X amined and will survive inves- ft
8 tigation. Nothing is lost by hav- X
ft ing the process of reason applied 8
8 if only that which is just is ft
O required.”—Mr. Hughes in His 8
8 Speech at Portland, Maine. ft
I SURRENDER TO FORCE p
WOULD TEND TO
DISASTER. ft
"That kind of virus in our ft
life—surrender to force—would 8
bring us no end of disaster. If ft
we let capitalists or working- X
men, any interest, learn that the ft
way to get what is wanted is by X
applying pressure and if we con- ft
tinue in that course for a few ft
years, democracy will be a fail- ft
ure, and we might as well give ft
up our form of government.”— ft
Mr. Hughes in His Speech at ft
Portland, Maine. 8
—
| PUBLIC OFFICER SHOULD £
3 STAND LIKE A ROCK o
t “Government under pressure O
3 is not American Government. X
2 Whenever pressure is applied to C>
g any public officer he ought to 2
2 stand like a rock and say: ‘Here O
o I stand until we substitute rea- X
X son for force. It is not an §
$ American doctrine to legislate IX
§ first and investigate afterward.’ " X;
§ —Mr. Hughes in His Speech at £
§ Portland, Maine.
I DEMAND WAS NOT FOR O
EIGHT-HOUR DAY. «]
“It is said that the judgment S
of society has made the demand 2
for the eight-hour day. This was Oj
not an eight-hour day, and the 2
judgment of society had nothing Oj
to do with the proposition laid 2
before Congress and passed by Q
Congress. The proof of this is 2
found in the bill itself, which X
proposes an investigation to find d
out whether Congress had any 3
business to do the thing which 5
it was asked to do, and which 3
it did do.”—Mr. Hughes in His O
Speech at Portland, Maine.
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Mrs. Jennie Conner, of Canada, ar
rived here last Saturday for an ex
tended visit with her sister. Mrs. F.
G. Casteel.
CHARLES W FAIRBANKS.
; DECLINED TO PERMIT A "
SQUADRON TO DEFEND
AMERICANS.
At Tampico there was a gen
eral movement of attack by the
Mexicans on Americans and
other foreigners. We had a
squadron of American warships
in the neighborhood. The Wil
son Administration declined to
permit this squadron to be used
to defend the lives of American
j men and the honor of American
j women, and the commanders of
J the German and English ships
[ at Tampico had to step in and
j perform the task our represen
j tative had so basely abandoned.
( At the very time that the Mexi
) can mob had surrounded the
I' building in which the Americans
had taken refuge, and was howl
ing for their blood, the Ameri
can fleet, in spite of the pro
tests of the American naval
commander, and in accordance
with wireless orders from Wash
ington, was forced to steam out
of the harbor and leave the Am
ericans to be massacred by the
Mexicans, or rescued by the
Germans and English.—From
the speech of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered at Lewis
ton, Maine, in behalf of Charles
E. Hughes.
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| Political Jottings
If plans “to get Villa” are aban
doned Villa should reciprocate and
refrain from organizing expeditions
“to get” American citizens.
The fact that Mr. Wilson could
endorse this Pork Congress shows
that he isn’t seasick, anyway.
WE SHOULD CONSIDER X
WHAT IS RIGHT {3
X THEN DO IT §
y 5
X “Our Government is based on §
C' the idea that we have Legisla §
X tures to investigate, to consider $
O what is right and to do what §
Y is right. It is based on the idea C‘
y that public opinion is formed §
X from discussion of questions. 0
y and that we can come possibly X
X to right solutions. It is not 0
Y based on the idea that the Gov- §
X ernment must act without know- O
X ing the justice and merits of the o
O cause in which it acts.”—Mr. 5
9 Hughes in His Speech at Port- X
v land, Maine.
Daily sells for less.
Will Prohibition Increase Taxes?
The Nebraska Prosperity League is en
deavoring to prove to the voters that pro
hibition will mean higher taxes.
How About It?
The United States census report on “Municipal Revenue and Public
Property for 1913’ shows that the nearer a state conies to prohibition
the less its per capita becomes. The table which follows is for 1913:
Prohibition States.$10.12
States over 50 per cent dry. 11.08
States from 25 to 50 per cent dry 14.32
License States . 16.98
It is tine that the liquor interests pay revenue to the local and national
governments—but when it is taken into consideration that fifty per cent
of the crime of the country is due to the liquor business, it can readily
be seen that the costs of prosecution and punishment in these cases far
exceeds the revenue receivd by the government from the saloon.
Perhaps These Figures May Be Enlightening:
State Tax Rate State Tax Rate
1880 — Nebraska, wet.3.9 Mills Kansas, wet.5.5 Mill*
1881 — Nebraska, wet.6.1 Mills Kansas, dry.5.0 Mills
1882 — Nebraska, wet.6.7 Mills Kansas, dry.4.5 Mill*
1883 — Nebraska, wet.7.8 Mills Kansas, dry.4.3 Mills
1885 — Nebraska, wet.7.7 Mills Kansas, dry.3.9 Mills
1914 — Nebraska, wet.7.8 Mills Kansas, dry.1.2 Mills
If There is Anything to Tax Argnment it is in Favor of a Dry State
Vote Nebraska Dry
|W. C. T. U.
WHO IS THE* REAL
FRIEND OF LABOR?
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What Wilson Said About Unions and
Workmen When He Did not
Want Their Votes.
—
I am a fierce partisan of the open
shop and of everything that makes
for individual liberty.—Speech at open
shop banquet. Jan. 12. 1909.
The labor unions reward the shy
sters and incompetent at the expense
of the able and industrious.—Speech
People's Forum, New Rochelle, Feb.
25. 1905.
We speak too exclusively of the cap
italistic class. There is another as
formidable an enemy to equality and
freedom of opportunity as it is and
that is the class formed by the labor
organizations and leaders of this coun
try.—Speech, Waldorf Hotel, New
York, March 16, 1907.
Tou know what the usual standard
of the employe is in our day. It is
to give as little as he may for his
wages. Labor is standardized by the
trade unions, and this is the standard
to which it is made to conform.
one is suffered to do more than the
average workman can do.—Addross u>
graduating class, Princeton University,
June 3, 1909.
The objections I have to lahor un
ions is that they drag the highest
man to the level of the lowest. 1
must demur with the labor unions
when they say “you must award the
dull the same as you award those
with speciul gifts.”—Speech in Peo
ple’s Forum, New Rochelle, Feb. 25,
1905.
The Chinese were more to be de
isred as workmen, if not as citizens,
than the coarse crew ttiat came crowd
ing in every year at Fastern ports.—
History of American People.
What Hughe* Paid About Union* and
Workmen.
There are some who regard organ
ized labor as a source of strife and
menace of difficulty. I regard It as
a fine opportunity for the amelioration
of the condition of men working with
no ether purpose than to make the
most of themselves and to achieve
something for their families.—Speech
at dedication of Tuberculosis Pavilion,
Albany, New York, Aug. 29, 1908.
—
The mission of labor organizations5
is one of the finest that any assoda-i
tion of men could guard. Today we)
have a realization of what can be ac
complished.—Speech at Dedication of
Tuberculosis Pavilion Aug. 29, 1908.
It Is a shocking thought that the!
wage earners of the country, who by)
their daily toil make possible the In
dustrial prestige of which we boast'
should be subjected through Ignorance'
or indifference to unnecessary peril.,
The Interests of labor are the inter-'
ests oi all the people, and the protec
tion 9t the wage earner in the security
of his life and health by every prac
tical means Is one of the most sacred
trusts of society.—Speech, Exposition
of Safety Devices and Industrial Hy
giene, Jan. 28, 1907.
1 believe in a six-day working week.
So do you. But do you know that
the men who are making a six-day
week a possibility and an eventual1
fixture, are these men (labor repre
sentatives) and their associates? I
long ago came to the conclusion that!
the labor unions are going to solve)
the Sunday labor question to the belt
interest of the country. Join hands
with them and you will double your
results, while halving your labor.—
Address to preachers and labor repre
sentatives in Executive Chamber,
Albany, 1908.
Bringing Back Oid Times.
My lit tic <iau;;iiier. one dark, rainy
day, came indoors with a wet halt
starved kitten and on remonstrating
with her to .ake it out a* once she De
eame indignant and said “You don't
be-memt.ei mamma w’hen you war a
little cold cat yourseit.’’—Exchange.
Change of program every night at
the opera house.
In the Depths.
"Years ago Dobson told me that he
wanted to lead a life of obscurity?”
“Well, his dream has come true.”
“How so?’ “He is now the husband of
a famous woman.”—Birmingham Age
Herald.
Henry M. Eisner for glasses.
Daily sells for less.
