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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1899)
gutter ( to , in TheiHriUult ( r 'ps nu-t vitli & t * ri < u * r v re in nli nttai k eng g the 10 li ipit. Their murk lluu 000 killed and Thn lJo M for d a re gent. It it repotted that , 51. li. Subnet iMKi-r , treamire rlcct hss appointed . B. Paor , the pruRent incumbanl duf lit/ . If true the ploice is & ii1 oil * , iiolwtlurfUiuting ttio vutr , lb " ( Um ruioit ti > tm ) contrary. Tin * rvoords of Uiu MaU treannr- ' * office show , that tlio debt of din tula of Nebfjckn U apprcxitnatolj * l,766obo The pi.tsUnding reg- arrant * amount to 41,071- 2 03 , the uiirogiflterHl warrant r ab'uuk ' $35,000 * fid li # sf to boudt U -iiS.obo. tlio unpiid mooni to il,8uouco . ' " . ' " ' " fIn / ' ' ' ' ' ! i. In order to rnk < i pau botweti , At I tut Add llitclioouk , Uuv. Poyutor j rtp.rraen'ed AN uning Ira .man G n. K rry , in AH uffort to AUsit id * ! thdraw from th * ranMorul ooubfll co liu ran appoint IttUh'cOcli. iiin-iil.l lie nu ud in tli > l L Jluljird lu ijir , tbw HUppOll ijl botb in rt'turiujr hid o u r - If J , ) i. IMio run , Co. cleik ; l , ftdcti the HiuiM tniitiits in ttdiwtiitg hi * ( Inputy n hay Mr. Suho ritf er tur f ) pl 'trrtaurtr , he will liw ib ! to > jiv \h \ county lU'iuh biittur Hiivioa lh.tii lie IIAII by Ki'luf-tinir KU Ittuipttiiinecd deputy. Tlio prelim iiiuuinliiint ilf W , Sillivtri ia 4not only oompi- U nt bat in a Worthy man for the piitilion. J oing n cripple and hav > n.-g had czprricuuo fn tha tllion lor Vtfo yuou h oi'ituiuly in tlio log- ; tai t'Hudiilate Hut AH neither the K' | > ubioan'n ! uilvico nor the best in- Urrat of the j-ul > lie have any Vu'g11 with a pop officer , wo ilia ! ! r-'ftpoui to sro norna incxpurieqaed t ud UBB conijiotaut man ajipoiutud OVi < r him. The oatVanning board of Knntuo ky oouM tind no f y to do dlffuri-nt ftod bold tluir rotpett a honorable hiftu iban 10 iesuo tn-rtilloatcs of fdcotion to Taylor and the republi bin OJudidAto * on the tualu ticket. WhfthiT the Hi hi iii bo carried ft the IrgisUtiiro ia net diflinilely d ( crtuincd. Hut whether it is or not or whether the decision of the ost-T Biirg. board it ! upheld by the legislature tha mombora of tha oau- va > iDg board who signed tha oertU tioatei of election of Gbreroor Taylor and hu colleague ! will b highly etteened by tha public. Men. who ri above party pre- jddiof and award tluir politiual appontnts their juit rights prove tbemselTca worthy of the rtipiot of all .man. GOT. Poynter will neither "rhoot OF giy up the gan. " lie has gona to hi > farm to get out of the way of the popoomtio candidates for enator. Hv M afraid tu appoiat Hituhuock and doca not want to aff int AUd . The appointment of either will lou * him the friend * hip of the other , and p atibly def f t bU ranomination in 1000. But l > d ha bean a man who desired to aorvetha ptopla before party ha would not baya been in his present diiema. Tha question of whether * rtpubliottn or demo-pop xlinuld aucfMd banalor AHen wa- < voted 11,011 last fail fcuJ the verlioC was verwllelniiu.ily favor of sending a mpiil lie ti to tli nmVr. Nt > * muco dvalh lisa removal the Hrat chuioa of the peoplf , tliu only fair way for Gov Poynter to do is to fc iumbe ! the 1-gis'Murj uc.d let it ( luti-rii ) in i' who Mull 'iiajwl Sena tor IfnywBrd. But lie will not do it lie IIAH nuilhur the uoura o nor hunojy of purpose td liubmil to | idpultir vote of thu penpd | w ey rufi O td yao ( with hid party 'JliO ' ittciefti6 ol intllistrit4 111 shy noliifiinlity IK ft in alti i- r { ' Hi-hbntl it ! tllitf ' ( ilittiiUbity iheru . A liH-i.ltuf of hiduntriea thai Would ptnvo hot Only { trolUablo to thn money In- V8itJ , tilt would lucrorfie tha do- Baud for Lbor and laborer * . The man who oan plan to give Kn men work where but one is now em ployed would bo a great bunofautor to this tifjinruinky. .Instead of Broken How being a town qf barely 9,000 population , with proper man agement there is no rearon why that ia three jcars thi < ro should IK t b * 4,000. There i * | tl ) nly of cap ital i it-king Investment , if properly employed in manu'suturing raw material , to give employment to ten where but one 5n now employed in Broken Bow. Take for illustra tion the uucbanioit in cur oily who * nltnitt work in trou ; we hive six blaukffuiith and wagon repair thopa Not one of tl.m < mat nfauturo wag- ono , buggiffl , or plow ? , or any other firm mauhinnry. Thuy oauh make a oomforiabla living , and poanibU accumulate Mometitng | aun nlly for "a rainy d 7 , " , by repair work. Mono of them employ over two men , and so in a only one. There tn annually hundreds of thousBtids of dollar * paid out by people of Ouster county for eastern manufactured goods that could jut > t as well btf uianufaoturitd in Broken How , and the money kept in uiroti- Ittion at homo. No loss than two hundred men could b kept i in pluyud uteadiiy the yn r round at miuufauluruiu plow * , tpring , cultivatais , dido- , ujowtri , binders , ulo , that in now [ laid to ra-Uru lubornra. This wou'd nqirrd iuoreased capital fui enlarged fornea , foundry , shop * , dlu , _ but thu increased business would provu u ptoli'Bblu iuvastmetit and the projectors woud ! not only have increased accumulatiuni * , bin .wonld benutit tnany othurs by fin- niahiug thim employment , and ibua create a greater demand for the produols of the farm , and also pn - vide a hotter mar.-.ut and inako the town better from A Commercial view. An raw material for manu- 'aottuiug purposes oan be shipped here cheaper than the manufactured the difference in tha freight would overcome-tho high rate * e have to > ay for fuel , and place tfio manu facturer in Broken Bow upon an equal footing with fastern cities that havu to t-hip their manufactured goods hero to Bud a market. Then theio uro other iudustrl.m whioh would furuwh employment for wood mvcbauius in the manufac turing of window flash , mouldings , door * , cornice , etc , that now are shipped by tamem factories. A starch factory , oat meal factory , paper factory an-.t such .industries for which wo produce the raw ma terial , might bit. estcblibhed in Bro ken Bow with profit to the pro jectors and the city , and euuh in stitutions would give ua an ii.- creastd population who would be ielf supporting , bisides they would make an increased demand for butter - tor , eggs , venetatyea. corn , Hour , groceries and dry i > oed * . More land would have to ba farmedmore oows milked , more hands employed , more stores built , more clerks em ployed , more houses demanded , more livery tiarus needed , more hotels required , more railroadit to import and export our products enlarged printing and job offices , more business for lawy m , dootorx and preachers. In f ut all linen of business wculd be iacreased and uvrrybodv would be more prosper ous. ' 0n thsra net be cornu j-lan "f notion insujfurtto.l HO we may mslite tiis | rnnflh.deilred condition ? l.tt IIA uot wait longer fur somu thing ttt "turn up" IK fora we launch out ; but with the genuine spirit of wrstrrn < Mitrrpr e , let us organize for bu8inf end help to bring about th t which we nil so much d i ire tn be the leading oily of western N-braeki. HOW IT A Trotpctlve Trrlff Jucroaso the Home DriuRiul fur Agricultural I'rvducts. A oorrispondent , A .1 Johnson , writing to ttio "Tribupe" from North Hakotn , nj > kn : t4\Vtll y. > u kindly Inll IIIK what bftiDt thu wheat hiislui ; rainier of North Dakota linn from thu Ui jxiblioin party Tariff hystom ? As , the price of whent is tegulated only by supply and detmutl , why couldn't wu get thu name pricu for wheat undbr thu Krue-Tradu ny tcm an wo do now ? " Mr. Johnson's rtecond query nnsvorhm \ lirBt. AH the pnoo of wheat IH rogulatud liy the supply and demand , anything tlnU inoroaaos the demand will help the pricu. Lot UH nsk him how it would be if there were no manufacturing ius- tituttotiH in the county and thu vast irmy < > f IIUMI now employed iti in- duAtri l pursuits were engaged in farming or , Hupouing they wo.o uot In the county and our population wai ICHH of the extent of their num ber while the amount of wheat rain ing reintuing the samt- ? If the oonftuuptou of when ! wis le B in tliirf country , or if more \vhcnt van tatsed , wo hhould have a larger amount for export than l-uv ? tio'-v. " Would not thu txcvkt- dumped nprn foreign miukr-tB hive tbtidcucy to lower the price H'ill furlhcj ? We nv i xporl a co'Tiparativoly small pi-icunlago of thu wh" t ralti il in th'H ' country , eoin'1 L'00,000- COO buhflrt out of a oioj > avurug- i al ) nt 000,000,000 Yi t tlm ( 'Sport rtiiipliH ( jiH \vhnt HSPH llu- . -rii e of tlio \slr l crop. Thu ptifc id virtually lix d in Liverpool , iiir b' gest markctt. If tlio . homo "ui.sumption cf , Kay , 400,000,000 i ii-l eld 111 this contjtiyern. . leduc- il to , hiy : , 200,00001)0 ) , uml wt- houl.l liavu100,01 [ I.Oliu liiisIjtsU ' ( i i spoil instead of I'ou.ooo.OOO Mi.-lii'l , fori-i n ciiHlciiuM would minediutuly lover lher , liu's. On the olher band , ifvu iouhl : inertasc the homo conBunipli'ni ho that thu \hole 000,000,000 huslio'tt ' rould hid - d in tlnn coniHry , Llvor could no longer lix piic.i > M fur U * , RL(1 the price would lie higher it lt < at t to the extent of ihu oicun Tuiuhld and hindling charge- * . 'Ilu-rofc-ro > vc may nxy broadly thai anything which tend * to do- vulop the induhlries tf ihin oouulrj ind increase the number of mouths to feed of thofio uot engaged in ligricultural pursuits must necessar ily help the farmer by t'lilarying tits homo market. That the re publican tariff policy > ! oea this can bo dumuuHlrated by facts and lif > - , rc . Tl o Tr.bune publiolipd y p- .teiday % nummary ihowing that iliuro has been e gain of nearly 40 pur cent in the amount of American labor employed uinoe thu Dinglcy tariff W&B substituted for t'ne Wil son.Gorman tanII , and an increase at the Hamu time in wagon. This makes more mouths to feed and increases the purchasing power of the workers. It is already estimat ed by exports that the consumption of wheat pr capita in thia country will increase a considerable fraction per capita owing to the fact that the missus of the people are BO much better oil thau ( hey wore n few ycaia ago. Every man who has traveled around any knowa from hia i > " ; u ob crvatton that the tires have boon lighted in many mills and factork'H wheninti.ey were exu-.p .u-bed a few joars a o , and that tew nnnu- faotorti's have been starte.1. J.et UH ark Mr. Johnson if ho woulit not uot suit r it a beuitit to hs : to.vu of Uivo'poit if a new enterprise could bo cslablishi'il llu-ro that would rmploy a thoutiand in.'ii _ , thus adding from 'JOOO to 5000 people to the population of the vil'age ? \Vonl 1 not euch an accession of population bonetit every farmer within the radiun of tie ! villai ti'd Activities ? So of the country ui lafgo. Every addition to il'i imliia tries helps overyboby in it farmers and all. American Economic. Thu Hurgulii Counter Theory Otic of the arguments mo > t criillurgtd npaiiiKt thu ptoteclivt * tarlf : system by its opponents is that American products nio fre quently Hold to foreign consumers for lees than they are sold nt lionu- . The same objection might bo urged against the bargain counter s.iles of the American merchani. lit : hi : * n surplus and cannot hold it over until the next ncnflnn , to bo pui up In competition with new mid f refill goodt ? , c-ven of thu Hamc mauiifncturc. The bargain day ealca of the merchant do not alfect thn nalnrcs of Ins employee , they are of uome bent'lit to theRe who buy , and al though they may not add U the ptolil Hide of the merchant's account they nt least Hive him from lors. The manufacturer cannot exactly estimate the quantity of goods lit can Hell during the t canon , but ho known ho imiht have enough , and ho furthermore knows that bo is in duty bound to furniJt IUB cmploycn full employment , and therefore ieta his milh go full time. If ho I'm t\ surplu" nnd can dispose cf it : .l cost in a foreign country it Haven him from loss , helps thu jiurohaper to the extent of reduction in price , , ind above all , enables him to giyc his labor full employment. 1.- " there anything wrong in the ( ritmisUo- ? The thinking man will nay no. The fact of the mat. I ! , I'owover , that American ) > ro- Im-'H nro i-evcr sold .JD foreign markets lor lees than they are tit Mn . That they are sold , bow- ( Vt-rnt Icb-i pi ice I ban thy foreign tiitiu.f.icturur can produce thorn fcr , is an acknowledged fact. This in ihi > misfortune ct the foreigner. Tin * snpeiionty of our fikilled 1'iboj1 and unproved labor saving michinory cnablea us to do this , iinl wo do it. ( Jan anyone lind f.uilt with ua for doing eo ? St. Louin Star. A San Francisco merchant who lun jni-t. leturued from a business tornof eastern manufacturing con- lui'rt reporiH thot manufacturers are hf > overcrowded that they 'havo been forced totop taking orders. Their worka are running to their full capacity , wi es of employes an1 In ing advanced and there nro no nnemployoJ spinnera and weav- ern to be had at any price. Thin ra of prosperity is recoguiKod every whrra as the direct' result of the domestic and foreign policy of the McKinlcy administration San Francisco Ohroniclo. "I know thousands of Southern men , Bourbon democrats like ny -elf , who are getting restive aq re gards Colonel Bryan. " comp'airs Judge L F. Davidso.i iof Georgia. \Wo are gutting tired of his atti tude at a chronic candidate. But , worse than that , wo are getting out ofjpaliunuu vrilh the idea of choos ing a candidate ul.'oeo defeat seems inevitable. It eeems to be that it is about limo to cast about for a candidate that might stand vsamo show of winning , instead of bang ing to ono foredoomed to lose. ' The Conservative. After an interesting dcbato ol three hours ia the house , the reso lution olforod by Taylor of Ohio providing for a cpccial committee to investigate the charges against Hrighnm 11. lioborts , the Mormon repreFon < alive of Utah , was adopted by ; v vo'te of flOSJ to 80. The rcso lit1 ion prevents Roberts from being sworn in and excludes him from a S' ru in the house. Of the thirty who voted against the resolution n.11 worn ( limocra's but two. lleditor of the True American that "three years ngo thcro was no free trule. " Three years ngo Uuro wan mighty little trade of anj hind , but the point to bo borne ir mind in that at that time thn price of printing paper was higher than it in today in spi'c of the allcgoi "trust. " Trenton ( N..T. ) Gazette \Vo will export about $1,300- 000,000 worth of United Statofa piotlue.lH this year , thn largest ot if-conl. The 1roe-Trade * nrgumen hap always boon that Protection kills our foreign trade. Knots dis. prove the theory but facts do not count wi h Democratic politicians. Bviiton ( III ) Hopublioan. " Now id a good titno for ttov Poyntrr to protect his part ) principles in selecting a United States Senator , by referring the t'liouo to the legislature whom , the people elected for that purprso. That would bo "referendum1 which is part of the populist creed. . P. 0. WOKAAT.Ti.1 > > l(1etit. J.A. \URI3 . . . . r ( ( . . . , A. J , UOIIRIIT60N , Vlco-t'rcs , W. I ) . HLACKWEM. , ABC't Oi slilcr Parmers Bank of Ouster Comity , IJKOKEN BOW , NEB , a General Binking Bu incss. County Claims and Warrants Bought. Hap.n full Hue of 'Drugs , Paints and Wall Paper. Also a [ 'mo Line rf Bookn , Stationery , Toilet Arliolos , otc. Store on corner of Fifth nvonuo and Main btreot , Broken I3ow , Neb r S. II. HUIINIIAM , President , Llucoln , Neb II. 0,110(1 ( EK3 , Oaflhlor , Krokcn Uow. .1. M. KIMIIKIIL1NG , Vico-1'rcB , Broken IJow. 8 II. HO T , As 't Ca'lilor STATE BANK BROKEN liOW , NEB. GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. umucToits : S. H.Uurnham , J. M. Klmbcrllng. S. II. llnyt. H. Q. Rogers. l. ' States Nntloinl llnnl : , Oranhn. Pbculx Nfttlonal Hank , Now York. First Nntloral linnlr , Lincoln , Nobrn-lta m ' ftii' : % * " * § a fe : SvTi B 1 i I iI K.i . I * < * Si-'i" J. a. HAEBEHLE. ' i Jc g jt = jf = , . ' iir = iI c3i vrtniinrrtn'i7rmuirT.'K7nyr ; / = cnl 111 1 itr r 11 : i Storm Sash , I ? I M Yellow © White Pine Lumber. W. L , RULE , Mgr. Tclcphono No. 79. LOTUS All New , and of the Latest Pattern , AT g ififl a iLlin VLJ ytH Ws - Wo IIA 'O the finest line of Gents' Euriiishing Goods , Trunks , Yalises , Etc. t | Wo bought thesn { jooda < lircct from the factories , and aroj nblo 10 nell thorn as im ap as any liouso in the county. ThoS advantage wo liavo over our oompotitord is that our Flock is Mill new , and wn have no shelf won DIKceond hand Rtock. Allf I iheso goods are up to Uato in Btyioand qualitv second to nono.U Wo are lonatcd in tbn Jlealty block , south side pquare. Call J uncl sen us. Wo are prepared to lead our comjiotitors , ; , Duality and priccn. A" Broken Bow , Nebraska.