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Now is the time for vou to visit t lie Hlg Horn H.istn mill travel through
fc over tliii lliirllngton'.s now Wyoming
ho railroad tlmt h going to increase
rigtited lunnes' cutis, lucrt'iiso the population of towns and increase html
values gonei-nlly.
Why tin you till the soil of nuutlior, getting nowheio towards land
wnci'bliin for your family, wlion with
Sovorntncnt Irrigated farm with a reliable and permanont water supply on a
0-year en-ay puyinent plan with no luturost that malies it almost a gift to you.
The North Pintle Valley Heio Is another heotion ealleil by many,
Amorlei's Valley of the Nile." It is, also, on the Darlington' new Wyoming
lalulitt', Today you nan get an Inig'itod farm in that Valley wliObo vulue iu
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Farmer Vitally
Concerned in Railroads
What the European War
Means to the American
Farmer
I'hnt I'vcrv eity of any "-'.ai In tlie
country Is full of thousands of Idle
111111 lit Hit) piesent moment 1h ii fuel
well lnmn to every muler of iii-w.v
papem for linrilly a iluy pn"us tluit
tht pi ess is not, full of eutiinifti t about
tint liuiiyry thou-aiuls- wliostiinil In tho
"hroiid lint1" mill pittt'iiiil." tin ff-
"soup lii'ii.tjs" in cveiy large triuitt'r of
population. Xnr is this state tif nf
fulls due to Him pulluy of ntiy paitieu
In l politic! jui'-tv. tint iiitlp'r Hit- on'
growth of ('.million, wliioli have t iMi
slowly but sinHy erysttliing for n
liuililit'r of yi'ius In tin1 (list p'tiee,
llit Corn ISi-lt -t lie gieat lirrittl b.isliot
of tlif Nation luis- Iniil u si'i it's of slim
crops in iiuis Bret ions, mill this nut
uiiilly Iihs Inn ii di-pi-ibsing uilVi't
iijn it tuibiiii'ss romlitions. A k it i 1 1 . hi1
have ln'i'ii iis-ing through ii pi'rloil ill
industrial loinljustiiieiit- of ohanging
t i' ' '"eii.o.i- vi..ei. p...
vitlled n tlu.fU or mi oiii h ittfoover to
a policy of Htrict government font nil
of public si'ivifo cot por.it ions mid a
Hlititp inquiry into tlio coiiduet of nil
other largo eorpoiatlons anil, iu try
ing to .stamp out thoiibmoso'' tlie past
tho pendulum has .swung so fur in thu
oilier direction tint so far as I ho i ail
roads are concerned, at least, it
tlneati'iis to precipitate the most of
them which are not already in the
hands of ieci'lvers upon thu lochs of
lltianclal vwvoU mid ruin.
That thu depiessed iinancial condi
tion of the railroads is hugely respon
sible for the great at my of unem
ployed was vividly demonstrated by a
prominent St.. Louis newspaper io
ceiitly when it. showed th.it nine
St, Louis manufacturing establishment-
which deal inrailioad supplies
employed ll.di.'l nun one year ago.
whereas now they employ only l.fiO.'J
witli a i eduction iu their pay rolls
amounting to g.i8,700 per month, or
over seven milliuii ilollais a year. Il
the ell'uet upon only nine eii'erprises
is as far reaching as thix, what would
the llgun'sshow if tln-y weie available
or similiar iudiistiit's mid the liuii
dreds ot other entei pi iss affected in a
greater or lis-t degree tliioughout tin
ooiiuti'3 ? Ne.ii ly all of these concerns
have on hand hundreds ot thousands
of dollars' wot Hi ot tiiii-hed equipment
vthieli whs oido'ed by the imlro.ids a
year or so ago, but which they have
not been abn to p ty fin ; iu the iileiill
time, not tiulug utile to pay for goods
ali-eud,', ordi'it'tl, the railioads ale not
lilaemg nnj u-iv I'liuiiaels, and unless
they iLCeive spi-ody ansistaiieu fiom a
Nation wide standpoint the tendency
will bo fur I.ibor conditions lo glow
worse .-lit her than better.
Iu last weeW's article we refmtctl to
the fmg that the lailroads me the
largest einplojeis of labor in the
United Slates and that, dm lug the last
llst-al year they paid out over thirteen
bundled million dollars in wages to
thu army of men anil women who con
duct their business. Wo also lefeiied
to thu fact, that they paid out almost
a thousand million ilollais for steel,
Oo.il, lumtiur and other supplies ol
which they me tho hit gust consumers
in tlie country, ami therefoic the chief
support of tho hundreds of thousands
om.iloyeil in then great intlustiies.
I u view of these facts, is il not plain
to (am a reasonable income if thu
ml.iious tif American laboring men me
t be Kept proli'ably employed?
Does not any man hiiotv that, if the
thnu-iiinds who me this moment hunt
ing fur work in Chicago, St. Louis,
Now York, Pittsburg, Cleveland anil
other l.ugu cities were protltably em
ployed that it would mean a hlghei
prlco for what the farmer has to soil
and that it would bo rellected In the
iccelpts of evoiy merchant mid the
output of every factory in the Nation?
In view of biich a suiious statu to
any thinking man that it is of tre
mendous importance to tho whole
country that tho railroads bo permit
ted affairs, can tho uvciage farmer or
business man ull'ord to oppot-o the
small increase in rates which is neo
essary to once more put tho railroads
upon a sound basis? Is not the amount
of pa&songer faro or fi eight which tho
average farmer or other uilicu pays
out during tho year a mere bagatelle
when measured against the luorativo
employment and tho buying power of
the millions of American laboilug
men?
Another Scrletis Phase
lnipottant as Is tlie employment of
labor, there is another very i.erious
phase of this problem which anil, for
profound thought at the hands of all
thinking' cltuen-, and euppcially the
farmer. In hut week's attlolo we
cited the fact that In their- desfyerate
efforts lo make both otids meet, many
vaIIi-uuiIh are' "burning the cmikIIo at
both ends"-that iu order to bolt lev up
their secmltiiw and keop out of thu
hands of receiver the rolling atouk
and roadliods of many Hues havo been
deteriorating rapidly for a numbor of
years and hence are in mi position to
handle a big Reason's tonnge, should
the strain of a heavy crop year su '
tlcnly descend upon tl o ti. That the
gieat foiclk'ii war will produce Hi"
highest price ever known for thu
foods-nil's piii'luc'd liy the ftiriu M' Is
a liiilltetl on all hiiiiits, and if then
ever whs a time when he w'll need
a l q uite and clllch nl shipping laclli
ties it will tic dining th ne.t two or
ihreo years-iilul ,et we me actually
facing perhaps the most prosperous
peiiod the American lamier lias ever
Kiiowi: with many Aun-iicau railioads
iu a dilapidated physical condition.
No sooner had the great Duropean war
buistupon the world than Congress
icitlixed that our mei chant matine was
Utterly Weill! and inellleietit Steps
ivcio at once lulled to iniilio the be-t
oT the situation mid to repair us speed
ily us possible our neglected shiiipirg
facilities iq. im iIih high m'.ih ami tli..t
tliu handicaji has aiie.ily cost the
American p oplo million-, of ilollnrs
iluiiii),' the last few in uiths Issopitent
that, it icipiiiim no eMeuded eoinmeiit.
Ilia one thing In hnv uiarkets iu a 1
parts of the world w Ii eh have ho e'o
fore been supplied by the gr-at wnrring
nations begging for Aini'ilean good
and fnodstiilVs -but it Is quite another
thing lo hive American ships in which
lo deliver these t ilgnes.
Will we now iid.l to the neglect or
mi adeipiate nicreli nit iiiariiie tlie fur
ther folly of pennitting our lailroads
to get into such a weakened phjsical
condition tlmt they will break down
under tho strain of delivering the pro
ducts of the fanner mid the iiianufac
liner at our ocean ports ami thus
Inrgolv waste tlie gieat oppiutiinlly
for profit which tlie foreign war will
unquestionably bring to us'.' This Is a
phase of the piesont situation vrliieli
commands t'm serious thought of every
fanner iu Kansas mid the Corn licit
generall.v for hero is where the lion's
sliaiu of the nation's foods! all's are
piodtu'diind here is where fanners
cannot airord to bo hampcieil by inade
quate transportation facilities if they
are to uiiiko the most of favorable
market opportunities.
There is not a single malinger of n
C-ntral or Western lailtoad who will
not admit that the present supply of
Hi st class freight locomotives mid box
o. us could not successfully ino-t the
requirements (f s.'veral bintitifiil
crop years and jet they haven t the
funds with which to supply thin equip
iiieut ami thus be prepared for the
emergency when it comes as it un
doubtedly will
Farmi'.r.s Mil Profit
In this connection, it is oppoituue
t j say tlmt tho American farmer is cer
tain to ictip u larger profit ftum the
chaotic ooiiditiniis which exist iu
ICui'-ipc than any other cl iss of tin les
ineii or citi.i'ii. So fur as our inaiiu
factuieis mo ciinerucd, while invv
markets are undoubtedly beckoning
to the United States, yot. mi tho other
hand, lor uveuil years to come, tlie
splendid tiade which we enjoyed In
tiHiniany. Ihiglaud, Fiance, Austila
and Russia on our manufactiiied piod
nets is cei tain to remain demoiall.od
and thus wc will bo fortunate if we
do not lose more tint n we can hope lo
gain in iidvv Ileitis, with who'o needs
vvn urn not yet familiar, and to which
it is certain to nqaiio some years to
adjust ourselves.
It is tlie American farmer, however,
who lias no complications ahead ol
him, and whose dour, pork, beef, mut
ton mill other foodstuffs must be de
pended upon to iniike up the shortage,
which is already looming big in the
distance because the harvest fields of
the most feitilo sections of Europe
have bieii converted into u shambles
for tho eontetiging armies. Dxports
of biuad stud's from tho United States
ill November Wclt valued at !? UVJ.'.O,
ul'o, or almost lour times as much as
In November of last j ear, while meat
mill cattle e.ports amounted to neiiily
1 1,000,0(0 or a gain of over CO per
cent over last year, and this despite
our nii-erablo shipping facilities on
the high seas.
In the light of these facts, was there
ever u tiniu when tho farmeis of No
brasko and other Corn Kelt states can
view the futuio with as much nssur
nice, or whoa they can so well afford
lot i cat fairly every other great In
dustry In the nation as now'.'
Putting It iu thu terms nf sound
business policy, was there ever ti time
when they should do tholr part to thu
end tlmt American labor may be profit
ably employed In all thu great chan
nels of Industry, and that our trans
pollution Fystuin may bo kept up to a
high point of elllclcncy, so that it may
adequately ilischargo the heavy ship
ping burdens which will undoubtedly
descend upon it in llio not distant
ftltllli?
fr!or !ailroai!s Needed
No o'hor single agency In the Nation
has had more to do with tho udvmn.e
itient of land value) than have the
railioads, and as evidence of this fuel
tho proximity of a farm to the tnaiket
almost Invariably fixes Its sellli g
value Ntbrinka mid every other t n
tr.il or Western .state is still in dire
ntel of hunched of miles of addi
tional railroad mileage, and tlict,o new
lines will not be built until American
railroad securities are rtfustabliblied
as a pajliig Investment and this, on
the Inisis or present railroad carnlnga,
is out of tho quoition. Noarly all our
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QUALITY
ON THIS WE HAVE BUILT OUR
PRESENT BUSINESS
WHEN wc began our
business career in
in Red Cloud we look as
our motto the one word
Quality and we believe
all our patrons will agree
with us that it lias truly
been our slogan all this
time. Our reputation for
high-grade Groceries is
well known. We are fully
prepared to supply all
your wants in our line.
P. A. Wullbrandt
THE HOME GROCERY
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piC'ctit lilies were built years ago.
when railrotd investments weie looked
upon with favor at home and abroad,
and hence, if theie is a class of citiens
iu tin; land who should be vitally in
terested in rescuing the railioids from
tho pitiable plight in which they Hud
themselves at the present moment It
is thu farmer As a tuat'er of fact,
were It not so tremendously far reach
ing iu its effect, the controversy over a
slight increase in railroad rates iu any
gicatagiicultural statu would hirirely
resemble a temptest in u tea pot a
matter which should be settled in the
biief space of time required to apply
the remedy. When a private industry
great or small, advances the price of
its commodities we take It ns a matter,
of course and say nothing about it
ami iu the past we have opposed a
square deal for railroads largely be
cause the people ditl not understand
their liiiporta'iiL-o to the nation, be-
eiuse they were angered at occasional
abuses which sti let governmental reg
ulation has forever eliminated and be
cause for some years designing politi
cal opportunists have found abuse of
the railroads an easy road to public
prefeimcnt. That public sentiment,
however, is changing rapidly, and that
wo will soon reach a sane understand
lug between the people mid tho rail
road", which me so vitally essential to
the agricultural ami commercial pio
gress of every community in the na
tion, is becoming more and mure up
pin cut every day. (Paid adv. To bo
continued )
SOUTH INAVALE
A little sou of Ilriino Sneiver's has
been quite sick tho last few days.
Walt (liiruer and family sperit New
Year's at the Then. Hawkiii's homo.
lioy Stevens and wife were guests at
tho O. M. Stevens homo last Sunday.
Geo. .lanseii returned home last
weelt from tho western part of tho
state.
.Mil roll and Claud Kamiusky have
been hauling corn to McC'all's the past
week.
Win. Noble and wife o Yuma, Colo ,
ariived Sunday for a few days visit
with relatives.
II. I Points shipped a car "load of
cattle to tnaiket Sunday and accoin-
pauied thu shipment.
G. N. Dlaiiktnb.iker and wife, duo.
Mitcliel and wife mid Uobt. Mltcliel
and wife and son, Evo'ett spent New
Year's with relatives a Wotnor,
Ivausiis.
Standing o? Contestants
The following is tint standing of the
Contestants in Tin- Chief's hikI Cook's
Drug Store Kieo Tiip to thu l'uiiiuna
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VETERINARY QLWGEON
Gi initiate Chicago Vetotinary College
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THE ALARM is a dreiiitful tiling
OF" FIRE for the man without
insurance. Every time he sees the
engines racing along his heart comes
up lu his throat If the fire is nnywhero
near his place. What folly, what mis
tikeii economy. ,
THE COST OF is so small that it
INSURANCE need hardly be
onsidered. Tlie freedom from worry
alone is worth it uiiiiiy times ovor
Have us insure you to-day.
Reliable Insurance.
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BE5T REPAIRING!?
UI4U.KR THE SON !-J
Invisible Patches
Neat workmanlike repairing
is a branch of our business
which is given especial atten
tion. Send Your Torn Garments To U3
We will clean press and re
pair them so that they will
give you much satisfactory
wear. You are accustomed to
having your shoes and watch
' repaired. Why not your
' clothes?
G. Jlassingei?
Cleaner and Dyer
Doth Phonos
Dr. Nicholson
vs DENTIST
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IN Mri'llTON O.N .MO.NDAY
Red Cloud.
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