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I'nb'.liUeil onry Thursday lit theCouuty Sent.
. til. AaiHIlURUV , 1 cWor
fA-Offlco to Cotter block , Fourth Ayc.-
Kntmlat the pottofflcest Urokcti Uoiv , Meb. ,
ti * ccond-clMtiaUtr | ) for tr n mlftlou tin uugh
tbe U.S. Malls.
SUUBCmiTlON i'UIOE :
one Vc r , In adrnuce , $1.10
T1IUKSDAY , ,1UN1 14 , 1000
UEl'UHLU'AN TICKET.
Vet Qovernor.
OIJAS II DIETK1CII , AdeniH.
Her Lieut. Qovern.r ,
K P SAVAGE , Cutter ,
For Secretary oftjlatc.
Q VV MAKSH , Richardson ,
for Auditor.
OUA6 WESTON , Sheridan.
Hot Trcauurer.
WAI STKUFFKU , Cuming.
For Attorney General.
FRANK N PKOUT , GAGE.
for Com Pub Lund * and Uldgs.
G D FOLLMEU , Thaycr.
KorSupt Pub Initruction.
W K FOVVLEK , Washington.
MObKS P. KINKAID. .
f JOHN v. "NKSHITT
It. . WINUI1AM *
JKDWAHD HOYSH.
rrc ldoiitl IKltctorn < I , . II. IIAUU .
I H. I1. DAVDinsO.S ,
JACUl ) JAUOI1SON.
JOHN L. KKNKDV.
OJOHEPU L. LANO.
Civilization and commerce always
go toguthor. It was HO in Hawaii
It will bo HO iu tliu PhilippineH and
Porto Itioo.
Etpirlu of agricultural prod nuts
have increased 117 per ocut iu the
last thiity years. Wlio says tlio
foreign market in of no vatuu to the
farmer ?
Two great measures arc luft over
for action at thu uliort session ol
Congress the passage of the shipp
ing bill and the Nicaragua Canal
bill.
Cotton , provisions and mineral
oils show larger export valued dur
ing the ten months of this lineal
year ending April aoth hint than at
any time ainou 1802 ,
The total amount of- money in
ciioulaiion IIUH incruaHud by 182 per
cent in the last thirty yearn , and the
deposits in navings brinks by 1127
per cunt.
Exports of lii'd have iuoro asod ii
vtluo by $0,000,000 since the last
democratic Administration , with
its free tradu tariil. liepublioau
poli/ioa tire bout for the farmers.
TLo republican party has poi-
Histonlly endeavored to , slronglher
and upbuild the American Navy
The democratic party has just ah
' persistently opposed such a polio )
at evcrj posniblo opportunity.
The prosecution of Ncoley and
his associates for the Cuban poata
frauds in being vigorously contin <
ued by the Administration , and will
not cease till sentence has been pro
nounced on the guilty.
In 1805 wo couldn't afford to buy
oven cheap foreign goods , and the
democratic revenue , under its
low-tariff , only amounted to $131-
818,530. Lattl year tl.u republican
protective lurid realized § 200,128 , <
481.
The United States now has a do
main nearly three times greater ii
are ? than it possessed when it be
came a nation. We have been ex
panding all the lime , and most of it
was added by the party now oppos
ing.
The Waya and Means committee
very properly sat down upon Re-
prcBoutativo' Richardson's ( Demo
crat ) proposition to admit sugar
and molasses free of duty from
Cuba and Porto Rico. Its effect
would have boon to make a present
ojf $14,000,000 to the Sugar Trust
The policy of oxpaiibion , which
gives us a foothold iu the East ,
which will open a now market iu
the Philippines , and enable us to
increase our commerce with China ,
will bo of great benefit to all our
people , and more especially to far
'inert * and wage-earners.
The Arbucklc Sugar Refining
people have beaten the Sugar Trust
in a lognl battle in Ohio. A.buok
les held stock in the Trust's coffee
factory and wanted to inspect its
books , a right to which they are
entitled under a recent decision.
Another blow for nn octopus.
Exports of American manufact
ures compare thus :
1895-Freo Tradi-1000-Protection.
180,005,7-13 * 4 00,000,000.
The increase of more than 100
nor cent ohows that the tariff wall
of protection has not stopped the
sale of our goods in foreign coun-
iries.
The record of President McKin-
Icy's first term will not be complete
until provision has been made for
trie upbuilding of our merchant
marine in the foreign trade , a ques
tion to which Congress will give
its attention as soon as ll'o 'session
begins next December.
The prosperity upon which the
Republican parly mainly relies for
victory is the genuine article. It
is unexampled in the history of this
or any other country. It is so
great and allpcrvading ( hat the
calamity howlers of 1800 have lap
sed inlo silence. Washington
Pont.
In 1800 , President McKinley
said : "I hope thai the time will
not be far distant when oyery workingman -
ingman in this country can get
work , and get it , lee , at fair and
remunerative wages. " The time
was not far distant , and it is mill
with us.
The txporioncn of the United
Stales in Hie purchase of vessel's '
during the war with Spain nhows
the nation just what cnu bu expect
ed if wo were lo rely upou foreign
shipping will ) which to build up an
American ( ? ) merchant marine.
An American merchant marine , to
bo the real thing , must bu American-
built.
Hinoo 1870 , the population of tha
United Stales has increased 100 per
cent and the p'od notion of cot Ion
! 100 per cent. With 200 per cent
more increase iu production than in
population , the decrease iu price
has been loss than 100 per cent , and
the quantity used by American
mills has increased : iOO per cent.
This indicates the growth and
value of the homo market.
During thirty-four years of free
trade , the English savings banks in.
creased thuir deposila by $350,000-
000. During thirty-three years of
protection in the United States
(1800 ( lo 1803) ) deposils in our sav
ings banks increased by $1,035-
873,403 , and down to , 1800 they had
increased by fc2,225OCO,000 , , includ
ing Iho three Wilson bill free Irade
years , when money was withdrawn
from tie savirgs banks.
Nebraska's live slock affords an
interesting object lesson lo the far
mers of that Stale. Compare Iho
Jan. 1 , 1805 , Jan. 1 , 1000.
Horses. . . $17,715,202 $28,120,512
Mules 1,704,240 2,384,007
Cows 0,474,974 24,327,400
Other oallle.l 0,333,781 40,220,2-10
Sheep 339.783 1,000,807
Tolal.$46,057,890 $102,145,734
An increase of 125 per cenl in the
value of Nebraska's live sleek is
good evidence to the people of Mr.
Hryan's State that they can got
along pretty well without either 10
to 1 or a Domoratic President.
It is to bo expected , of course ,
that Democratic Congressmen and
politicians should be loud in their
denunciation of lion. II. Clay
Evans , President McKinioy's Com-
miseioner of Pensions , whom they
assort is unfriendly to the old Bold ,
ier , and the soldier's widow , for
the reason that they are desirous of
semiring the veterans' votes Ii
may , however , bo of inlerosl to
thubo eelf-oonatilulod champions of
the old soldier , as well as to the
veterans themselves , to know that
during the first throii years of Com
missioner Evans' administration of
the Pension Bureau , ho allowed
nearly five thousand more widows'
claims than were allowed during
Iho corresponding three years of
his Democratic predecessor. Dur.
ing the fiscal jcnrs 189) ) , 1805 and
1800 , widows' allowances were 62-
058 against 67,848 during 1807 ,
1508 and 1800. This , lee , in ppito
of the fact that the decrease Ihrougb
death of widows of soldiers of the
Civil War is rapidly incroafing from
year to year.
Exports of butter were worth
1806 8915.533.
1800 $3,203,061.
'I he firnt was a democratic free
tradeoar. The Eccond was a re
publican protection year.
Wool wan imported inlo ihe Un
ited States as follows :
1800 230,011,473 pounds.
18'JO 70,730,200 pounds.
The difference was 104,175,204
pounds , which represents the quan
tity , for one year , ( old in the Amer
ican market by foreign wool-grow
ers instead of by American wool-
growers. The democratic free
trade tariff robbed the American
farmer of his market for 154,175 , .
204 pounds of wool in a single year
What It Would Mean.
The election of Mr. Bryan would
mean a popular indorement of
silver. lie would with perfect
reason demand that the will of the
people should becarried out , : ir.d if
blocked by a republican majority
iu the sonulo ho would take the
adminislralion influence inlo Legis
latures and seek to remodel the
Senate. Even if 'he failled in
securing the passage ot a free silver
bill or of one repealing the gold
standard law , the attempt alone
would bring upon IIH bussiius
depression lhat would soon Leuome
panic. Nothing worse would hap
pen to the trade and commerce of
the United States in November
thnn the election of a Pjesideulial
candidate pledged to free silver who
has announced that if elected he
will endeavor to carry his couvic-
lions into legislation and who
swears eternal hatre.l to the gold
standard. All surli dangers can bo
averted by the ro-olcotion of Pr si-
dent McKlnloy. Boston "Trans-
ript. "
$100,000 Per Day.
There is an expcrlor of American
products who gets each twenty-four
hours moro than a hundred thciiH-
and dollars in gold from the /blarsl-
ed foreigners. " Th > s American
liold-geller iu Europe is exceed
ingly well equipped ior business
and has been growing more and
more otliciunl as a home-bringor of
gold for Ion years. During lhat
term of years thic grabber of Eng
lish , German , French and other
alien gold has , no doubt , average a
hundred thousand dollars a day.
It has ships by the score , and earn
and tanks by the hundreds , and
thus it has assullod the oil trade of
all the woild , and driven Russia
and other oil products from the
markets by selling oil of botlor
quality and al lower rates lhan any
body else.
This is Iho standard oil Company.
'I his is a combiualiou of energy ,
brains and caplial which the at
torney-General of Nebraska is try
ing to drive out of the stale so an lo
make an opportunity for a candle
factory The crime of brains ,
intelligent management and captial
combined , to made an article of
common use among plain people
cheaper , must bo punished. Put
out the oil and light the candle !
Ccniorvutivo.
Far IteacliiiiK Prosper ty.
Even "tho heathon" profit from
the rchabiliation of the policy of
Protection in this couulry. At the
General Assomombly of the Pres
byterian Church of the United
States which has just been hold at
St. Louis , the Board of Foreign
Missions reported lhat it
has raised funds during the year
just passed sufficient to pay appro
priations amounting to $035,351 42 ,
and that it had a balance of $11-
307.00 on hand , Iho total amount
which was received during the year
hoing $040,730,32. The statement
was made thai this was vtho third
year In Miocesaion that the board
had closed its fiscal year free from
dept. The third your that is that
for each year since the election of
MoKinloy and the restoration of the
policy of Protection the Board had
received enough money in gifls lo
muel its enormous expenditures.
For the years just previous to these
ast three years Iho Board had been
obliged to report a deficit. But
thai was when Cleveland and Freo.
Trade ruled Iho country , and to
the logical student of history and
cconomicH was only what might
ii&ve been expected. The Free-
Traders may sneer at the making
of inquires into the relative
amounts of ohurch collections and
mission funds under Free-Trade
and under * Protection , but they
can't change the fact that all
Ue returns which come in go
toward swelling up Iho account
against Free Trade. Economist.
The Cu e of the Nebraska Fanner ,
borne txoUont reasons why the
electoral vote of Nebraska should
be recorded this yaar for the ro-
lection of President McKinley are
given by congressman , David II.
Mercer of the state , 'I hose reasons
apply to every tgrioultural State
in the Middle West thai four years
? go joined Mr * Br > an in his crusade
for ihe free coinage of a 50 cent
silver dollarr Nebraska has abun
dant occasion to rejoice at the in
tcrveuing demonstration of cause
and effect. In the past four years
the people of the stale have
had Ihurst upon them a greal
object lesson. They now know
lhat it is was not " 10 to 1" that
was needed to bring prosperity to
them. Nebraska farmers have
been selling their crops at much
better prices under Protection and
the gold slaudard than they did
when the free silver agitation was
al ils height. Better wages are
being paid now than were then paid ,
and no body who wants work has
any difficulty iu finding il iu Ne
braska. F rmeis have born fatt
ing Iheir bank accounts , and ihe
total deposits in the state last year
$23,000,000 less than $14,000,000
iu 1894
Corn is no longer used as fuel ,
and wheat is no longer fed to hogs
iu Nebraska , tfivo years ago says
congressman Mercer , "when Grovei
Cleveland was President , and when
free coinage of silver waa [ being
widley agitated , the value of all the
live stock in Nebraska was $45,058-
000. At the beginning of this year
our live slock was worth , exclud
ing ho s. as much as $102:000,000.
This alone added $50,000,000 of
wealth to the farmers in the slale
which I have Ihe honor lo represent.
An increase like this of consider
ably more than 100 per cent , in
value , while cowf and other cattle
have increased nearly 200 per cent ,
iu value. The number of sheep in
Nebraska is not largo but they are
worth just three times as much
money this year as they wore in
1895 , wh < > u American wool had no
protection. Tno wages of the
laboring man have increased in
protection , and ho always has a
Here is a partial statement of the
extent to which Nebraska farmers
having increased incomes since
Proteolion and sound money won
the day over Free Trade and free
silver ;
MUM 1'UIOKS IN ISM.
1,000 bnphclfl of wheat at 60 cents $5d.0i )
1,000 bnoliela ot corn at lUcenta 100.00
l.OUO bu > boU oala at Klceiita 130,00
3,000 pounds ot hogs ut.fc5 ! par 100
pounds 85.50
10,010 pounds of ateere at $3 per 10D |
louiule 300.00
Total „ 81,175.50
rAiw nucEs IN 1000.
1,000 busticU \\acatat50ceiita $ .WO.OO
1,000 bushels corn at 30 cents 303.00
1,000bushels outs nt23c < mti BJOOO
0,000 ponnda of hoga a $ t,05 per 100
rounds . . . . ,
10,000 pounds of alters at $5 per 100
I'ouna ' * 50J.OOO
Total . $ .1,078.5
Several sources of increased
revenue to the Nebraska farmer
ere omitted from this showing. IIu
has got heller prices foa has sheep
his wool , histha- , his barley , his
rye , his buckwheat , his potatoes.
Add theno itoliu to Ihobo above
enumerated and it will bo found
that in 1000 ihe income of the
Nebraska farmer was vary nearly
double what it was in 1600. Con
gressman Mercer puts the ease thvs :
The ( . -am in the farmer's income rep
resents such to him and to our
stale. Enables him lo pay off his
mortage , or at least pay off a part
of it. Ho can moreover , borrow
money now at a lower rate of inter
est. Ho has boon able also to improve
his property and to add very mate
rially to the comforts of Inn home ,
besidoH having money to spar ) for
the bolter oJuation of his children.
All these thing are facts which the
Nebraska farmer has experienced ,
and it will take mi silmighly lot of
talking and theorizing lo offfet thp
benefils lhat have- been derived
under the results of practical ex
perience *
Can Mr. Bryan make headway
against all these fruitful facts ?
Can ho woau the farmers of Ne
braska away from the good tHngs
they have to the bad things ho
proposes to give them. It seems
incredible.
WHAT A SUNDAY SCHOOL HEAL-
LV IS.
Head at the County Sunday School Convention
Jnue Ctu 1WO , IJyV. . H. Clay.
I have uhoBon for my subject a
rory broad one. It is broad enough
o give me a wide field for my
bought so that I can wander and
still not bo accused of gelling off
the subject.
The Sunday school , Is a School.
And ns such we have a right to ex-
) ecl : .
a-Sludy.
b-Discipli.no.
c-Good methods of instruction.
STUDY.
It is held by a large number of
teachers iu the day schools that Ihe
tact of a failure on the part of the
scholars to study is largely laid al
the door of ihe teacher , and the
leacher really has much to i.o iu
inspiring ihe child wilh a desire for
sludy. Oiie has said lhat ktThu
leachor who cannot iu some way
induce the scholars to sludy , ou lit
to cxamiuo his credentials to see
whether ho is really called lo teach. '
What is true of the leacher is rlso
Iruo iu part of every officer of the
Sunday school : Wo must all be
leaders. Wo must do and not
wait to be pushed into doing. A
Sunday school thai does not study
is not living up to its pnvelages
and Us duty. The prime object of
the Sunday school ja lo study well
the word of God , and the success
of the school may be measured by
the way aud the earnestness wilh
which it studies Iho JJible.
DISCIPLINE.
A school that is poorly disciplin
ed will not bo able to reach the
best results and the superintendent
who canuot tecuro order m the
school aud is iut able lo enforce
proper discipline , ought to ponder
well the question au to whether ho
is iu the right place , for there is
more involved in good order than
simply having quietude in the
school.
Order is a matter that involves
broader issues lhan Iho Sunday
school and ihey are wider lhan Ihe
day school aud broader lhan the
homo , for disobedient , disorderly
scholars either in secular or Sunday
school usually make turbulent citi
zens who do no reverence law and
order iu society and who are very
hard to reach with the claims of
and obedience to Iho kingdom of
God , so lhat good order iu a Sun
day school is not a mere gratifica
tion to Iho superintoudeul , but ita
lines run oul in many directions
and lake hold upon the deepest laws
ot society. It it said lhat order is
heaven's first law , and HO it must be
the first law of a day school , or a
community , or a Sunday school.
GOOD MKTIIODS OF INSTRUCTION.
In this day of molhods ibis busy ,
aolivo , earnest day of progress ,
there is no excuse for lack of me
thods. The parents who are in
terested in the good of their chil
dren have a right to expect good
methods at our hands and if we are
deeply in earnest in the work it in
easy to find the very best. There
are multitude ? of helps Iheso
m ihe way of written helps ,
semblies , conventions , institutes ,
normal classes , etc. and any wide
awake worker can aoon gather a
vabt amount of help in this wjy.
TUKBUNDAV SCHOOL IS A. IlKUQIOUS
SCHOOL ,
In Ihe work of our secular schools
there is constantly a definite aim in
view. This aim is to educate to
the highest possible standard in the
least possible timo. To do this
ellioiontly , they are organized wilh
this definite aim in
view , and every
effort of iho enliio field of labor in
concentrated toward the accom
plishment of this purpoco iu the
most advantageous way. Some
schools may fail in this but the
failure is not duo
to the great sys
tem or its origanizition , but it in
due to the teacher who lacks re
quisite knowledge or interest in the
work
The Sunday school partakes
largely of the nature of the day
school , but it has for its aim the
roligioim training of our youth ;
honoo there are turoo priiflo es
sentials iu Sunday school work.
a-Dovout study of iho word of
God ,
b.-A spirit of siuccro worship , - *
c-Thc unsaved should be conver
ted in it.
DliVOUT STUDY 01' GODS * WOKO.
Not long since in i town in this
blale Home one found a class of
ihirloon year old girls ( bright girls
too ) who did not know that the
Sunday school IcsHons as wo use
them , arc taken from iho Bible.
Wo have grown inlo an easy way
of html ) ing our lebsous by using
nothing bul Ihe lesson loaves. Wo
use them al iho homo and at the
Sunday school aud neglect the
bblo | and its UBO. No child can
ever learn to love the bible by not
using it It must bo used and
sludicd iu Iho Sunday school.
Where it is used a reverence is soon
cultivated for it among children a
something lhat seems to bo needed
in this day of church work.
Wo can never leach children to
lovp and cherish God's word by
never using the bible They must
see it and become familiar with it
to know its beauties , and no other
-ork in the church affords such
pporlunity for this as the Suud'av
ohool.Vo can never loach chifj -
en lo love aud cherish God's woj/ !
y using nothing bul the lesson
lelps which are usually tossed
about the room and thrown a < vay
is soon as used , We cannot re-
eronco Ged's word too much or
told it too sacred and as Sunday
ohool workers wo slnuld use the
bible and it only while m the Sun
day school. Helps were only m-
euded for use in the preparation of
he lesson in the homo. Shall I
not emphasise this for if you areau
observer you have noticed the
endoncy among children to bd
rroveront in the Sunday school aud
to look upon the lesson as rather au
inholy thing. The lesson should
bo read m the school and taught
there from the bible aud from it
alone.
SPIIUT OF SINCEUE WOKSI11P.
TLo Sunday school session is a
: > art of Iho regular church service
aud is a time of worship as much
as any ether service of the church
and it ought lo carry wilh it Iho
gravity ot the servioi that belongs
to God's house. We make a mis-
lake when wo allow any thing but
true God-liko service to enter. If
wo allow our young people to
whisper or talk or do any other
unseemly thing that is unbecoming
to God'ii house wo will soon find
it more and more difficult to reach
them with iho saving power of
gospel.
It is safe to say that the disorder
ly scholar becorneb disorderly m the
church services. Therefore it is of
the utmost importance that we preserve -
servo a spirit of sincere worship in
the Sunday bchool.
THE UNSAVJCD SHOULD UK CONVEtt-
TKD IN IT.
All Sunday school workers who
enjoy the vital experience of relig
ion , will deep down in their hoartt" " ,
deMre to see the scholars converted
above every thing el-ie. Wo need
have no fear of getting our schools
to religious. Wo want appliances
that are suitable and noworker will
slop ahorl of every means available
lo help him iu ihis direction. As
one has said , "Wo have iho most
teachable and tender of all the
congregation , and wu surely bhould
take advantage of the proper time |
offered for dra-ving iho
- young near
er lo Christ aud inlo the church.
Any lower motive as an ultimate
end to our work is unworthy of our . * " ,
work in the kingdom of God. " -
IT IS A CIIimCH SCHOOL. Vi
As a church we hav j a right to " ' i
look for. i
a-Loyalty to the Church.
b-Study of Ils History and Po-
' " .Vc - L
c Subject to Its Laws and Or
dinances.
LOYALTY TO THE CHU11CH. 1
Loyally is a crowning virtue not- -t
withstanding wo hear once in a J
while some one decrying it as
though wo had a right to override
law and ordir. What is a homo
without the staying qualities of
loyalily ? What are the rights of
thu individuals of a community
without it ? Of what use could our
army bo withoul il ? Of whal mo
is any person who is disloyal lo his
country's 11 ig or its officers of its
laws ? Who
values a disloyal ,
jriend ? Without loyalty any where
hero is auaichy everywhere.
The fiuporinlondeut must bo
loyal to his church , us' its lilora- '
lure and obey ils rules. He should
bo loyal lo his pastor and attend
the church services and bo a nouroo
of help in every way he can. Every
teacher and ofliuer should bo loyal
to the superintendent and every
scholar should bo loyal to iho
teachers and officers. When per-
feet loyalty obtains in a Sunday
school Ihero is Christian progress in
that school. It must bo so and can
not bo otherwise.
Any officer or teacher who thinks
that ho can be at Sunday school
when ho.pleases and bo elsewhere
when ho ploaees , is disloyal aud
Coutinned on last