THJ2 COUNT * REPUBLICAN
CUSTER COUNTY REPUBLICAN
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' Many of the ino3t substantial
business men and farmers- the
county favor the levy for rebuild
ing the court house.
May "Rally around the Hag
boys rally once again" be the
battle cry nest Tuesday of every
loyal voter of Cu3ter county.
. , W. J. Bryan , should he come
hbrae by way of Africa , would
tell us the hippopotami and ele
phants , killed by Teddy , really
committed suicide.
Every loyal friend of Custer
county should not only arrange to
go to the polls next Tuesday but
he ahould interest his loyal
neighbor to go with him.
It is still true that some people
will do more from prejudice and
a'pite ' than they will from prin
ciple. By what motive will your
vote be actuated next Tuesday.
There will be no question but
the five mill levy will carry next
Tuesday if those who favor the
proposition will go to the poll
und vote , Do not think your
Vote is not needed.
, According to the Grand Islanc
Free Press , Callaway is "trying'
to make a fight to move the
county seat from Broken Bow to
Callaway since the court house
\v'as burned down.
vVoters she uld not loose sight
of the fact that it takes a majority
vote of all ballots cast to carry
the five mill levy. If you want
the court house rebuilt do not
stay at home with the notion
that your vote is not needed.
Every county divisioaist that
votes for the five mill levy next
Tuesday will be voting a five
'mill levy for the county in which
he resides , if the county is divid
ed. He votes as much for his
own interest as if his own county
had made the levy.
Don't be alarmed at the fellow
who says "let Broken Bow build
hqr own court house. " The fel
low 'who robbed his grandmother
of her burial robe after she had
clothed him for twenty years does
not have very many imitators
neither will the two for a nickel
voter of Custer county.
"Farms ol the United States ,
with , theis buildings , and imple
ments , and live stock , are to-day
w.orth almost $30,000,000,000.
This is 44 per cent more than in
1900. No such increase in agri
cultural values was ever known
in the history of the world in
aqy country. The farm product
of. the year just closed was
worth almost four times as much
as th'e product of 1889. "
Drs. Farnsworth & Beck
Dentists.
Brio ; Home My Saddle.
I have been watching you and
have been watching for you to
bring back my saddle. Maybe
you think I don't know who you
are but you are mistaken. If you
don't bring it back you will suf
fer what the law will give you.
Ernest Thornburg , Broken Bow ,
Neb , 37-21
FAVORS I THIS FIVE MILL LEVY ,
( lie Amount l.illle linough.
Ho much hi3 : been said regard
ing the 5 mill levy and so uiany
people set in to be confused re
garding the matter that I have
decided to ask for space to pres
ent my views While the levy
of 5 mills tfn the assessed valua
tion is up for consideration it
occurs to me that the amount is
little enough to ask of the tax
payers. Remember if you please
how many important records are
stortd ia the county court home.
Jf you biwe a deed mortgag--
other important paper recorded
the record is kept in the county
building. 1 for one- would favot
ven u greater levy than 5 mills
nd wish to say that every voter
who is interested in the welfare ,
of Custer county should go to
heir ruypeclivc voting places
.nd cast their vote for the 5 mill
evy. Remember the dale.
Tuesday , March the first. Win.
Purscll in Mason Git } ' Star.
Additional Pacts About The l.c\y.
It is human nature for us to
ook at any question of a public
matter from tnorc or less a self.
sh motive , whether we are di
rcclly or indirectly interested.
Yet there are occasions when
prejudice prompts the actions of
some people and they loose sight
of their own interests.
This is the fact with the coun
ty divisionista who are opposing
the levy to rebuild the court
house.
Tfiey know that should the
county be divided the property
belonging to the county would
have to be divided equally be
tween the old and new counties
in proportion to the property
valuation ! ,
If by the levy of five mills on
the assessed valuation of the
county the board of supervisors
were enabled to build a fifty
thousand dollar court house. It
would no more belong to Droken
Bow than do the personal prop
erty or fnrms against which the
levy was made. Each portion of
the county set off would get its
proportionate share in cash from
the county retaining the court
house.
Were the county divided into
four equal parts in point of prop
erty valuation the three counties
drawing off would get $12500
from the old county with which
to start in business.
If self interest instead of nrciu-
dice actuated in the voting of
the levy every divibionist would
favor it. lu supporting the levy
they have everything to gain and
nothing to loose.
If the county divides they have
accumulated a nice little nest
egg , with which to begin
business. If the county should
not divide they have their inter
est in the county the same as
have every antid-ivi&iouist , be
sides a property that would be a
credit to the entire county as
well as every citizen iu it.
Ooutell on the Tariff and Prices.
We quote the following from a
recent speech of Representative
Boutell , of Illinois.
"The Payne tariff act must just
ify itself or the Republican par
ty must go out of power. ( Ap
plause. ) The satisfaction in
the applauding of that sentiment
by those who hope to succeed us
is as near as they will come to
the joymeiieut of the succession
( laughter and applause ) , because
the Payne tariff act ha justified
itself , is justifying itself , and
will continue to justify itself.
When it had been in operation
about six weeks the president of
the United States said that it
was the best tariff act that had
ever been enacted in this coun
try. That statement met with
criticism , but most of the critic
isms were profitless , owing to the
ignorance of political prejudice-
even descending to partisou bi
gotry or the self-intereat of
those who differed with the pres
ident. Some of these critics
claimed that the president was
rash and was indulging in proph
ecy as to the cflt-ct of the
schedule * ; but let me call your
attention to the fact that Presi
dent Tnft had in mind much
more than the schedules of the
l ayne tariff act. In the Payne
tariff act there arc 42 sections ,
arid only the first section deals
with the schedules. In the other
sections arc found legislation im
proving the administration oi
the customs , the maximum and
minimum provision enabling us
to deal on an equality with other
nations , an amplification of the
present drawback provision , freer
trade relations with the Philip
pines , the provision of the Pana
ma bonds , improvement in many
of the internal revenue laws , the
creation of a customs court
located here iu Washington , re
moved from the distracting in
fluences of the port of entry , and
the establishment of a commis
sion ur board of tariff experts.
"All these matters were iu the
mind of President Taft when he
said that this was the best tariff
law that had ever been enacted.
And whoever voted against the
Payne tariff law not only voted
against the general reductions in
the schedules of the Dingley law ,
but voted against all these acts
of progressive legislation.
"President Taft , in his expres
sion concerning the Payne tariff ,
has howns that same breadth of
vision , that same lofty states
manship , that healthy common
sense and sagacity which augur
so well for the success of this
administration and foretell the
triumphant re-election of Presi
dent Taft in 1912. ( Applause
on the republican side )
"We shall have to meet the
charge that the Payne tariff has
raised prices. This'charge , as I
stated , has its origin in three
causes ignorance , political pre
judice degenerating into partisan
bigorty , and pecuniary self-inter
est.
"Let me give you three illus
trations of self-interest. A few
weeks ago some lumber dealers
met in a western city and said
they regretfully must raise the
price of common boards on ac
count of the Payne tariff. Think
of it , Mr. Chairman and gentle
men ! They must raise the price
from 50 cents to SI a thousand
on account of the Payne tariff !
Why , we reduced the tariff on
common boards 75 cents a thous
and , and these meu meet in con
vention and attempt to decieve
und bunco and hoodwink the
people and tell them that on ac
count of the Payne tariff they
have got to raise the price of
common boards $1 a thousand.
When any man puts that up to
you , ask him this conundrum : If
the lumber dealers have to raise
the price a dollar a thousand
when we reduce the duties 75
cents a thousand , how much vill
they have to raise the price when
we put lumber on tnc free list ?
( Applause and laughter on the
republican side. )
"Mr. Chairman , it was the
same way in reference to hides.
We were told that the price of
hides would come down if we
would put hides on the free list
and that then the price of shoes
would be reduced. I have here
Dun's Review of last week , giv
ing the wholesale prices in Ne\y
York of all staple commodities
and all kinds of shoes have gone
up in the wholesale market no
one reduction quoted in Dun's
( Due of the ablest writers in the
United States on economic sut
jects , in his letter to the Record
Herald and other paper * * las
September , said that the Payne
tariff law was the best and mos
scientifically adjusted tariff law
that had ever been passed ,
"Then he calls attention to
the fact that the woolen dealer
had got together and said they
must raise the price of wool on
account of the Payne tariff.
"He then goes on to say tha
is a trick that was atteuiptcc
under the McKiuley law in th
same way. There ia not in the
Payne act one change made in
The "Stay Satisfa.ctory"R&ftge
iJl.
Furniture , Carpets , Rugs.
I Hardware , Stoves , Tinware. 1.
rware ,
Largest Assortment and Lowest Prices
Custer County
Land Man
If you have a snap in a
larm , or ranch for sale list
with me. If you want to
buy a snap in a farm or
ranch , come and see me.
Phones , office 42 , resi
dence 129.
CHAS. W. BOWMAN
BROKEN Bow , NEB.
the wool or woolen schedule ex
cept two minor ones , and both of
hose were reductions. I give
hese three illustrations of how
men who had pecuniary self-
interests at stake are going to
attempt to discredit the Payne
tariff law , and 1 say to you
gentlemen and I am very sure
that I am facing men on the
other side of the House who will
agree with me that that sort of
critizism , that attempt to dis
credit a statute law of our com
mon country for base , selfish ,
pecuniary gain is little short of
moral treason. ( Applause on
the republican side. )
"Mr. Chairman , I said that
there was a second clause vf
the charge that the Payne tariff
had been "the cause of rising
prices , and that was political
prejudice , ' often degenerating
into partisan bitterness or eveu
partisan bigority. I hope , I
sincerely trust , that in the dis
cussions of this tariff act there
will be none of that feeling ex
hibited upon the other side of
the House.
' My friends , do not join these
selfish traders in trying to make
the county believe that the
Payne tariff law is responsible
for that'which the Payne tariff
is no more responsible than the
changes of the uiooo. As I have
said I hope' to discuss the rela
tion of the tariff to prices some
what fully at a later date , now I
will ask the gentleman from
Texas ( Mr. Henry/1) ) on this sub
ject of prices , how are you going
to have high-priced cotton and
low-priced prints ; how are you
going to have high-priced wheat
and low-priced flour ; how are
you going to have high-priced
oats and low-priced porridge ,
how are you going to have high-
priced corn and low-priced
j hnnycake ; how are you going
to have high-priced wool and
low-priced woolens ; how are you
going to have high-priced catie
and low-priced sugar ; how are
you going to have high-priced
cattle and low-priced beef ; how
are you going to have high-
priced hogs and low-priced hams ?
You gentlemen who attack the
"Payne tariff law and say that it
has raised prices have got to pick
out the articles affected by the
tariff that have raised in price
owing to increases of duty before
you can show that any alteration
in the price is made by the tariff ,
and then you have got to be sure
iu complaining of nigh prices
that you do not coudem the very
DR' GEO''P- BARTHOLOMEW
Physician , Surgeon
and Occulist M
Prices as reasonable as are consistent -
tent with ff ° ° d work- Phone 61.
° ffice at HosPitah
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Send Your Abstract Orders to
J. Gr. Leonard , Bonded Abstractor
Office in Security State Bank Building
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General Building. Supplies
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The Big Horn Basin. The Yellowstone Valley and the large Dry Farming
vnlley in Wyoming along the Burlington , offer exceptional opportunities fur
farmer1' , merchants , mecbnnicn and professional men to locate near and in
the new towns now springing up along the
Burlington's Rflain Lines to the fiSJorthwest
All of these rich farming valleys are Surrounded by valuable pasture lands
containing timber for the settlers and in most cases , coal and valuable build
ing stone.
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Government Irrigated Homesteads. Homesteads under the Carey Act.
Deeded lauds smd 32O-acre free Homesteads under the Mondell law.
Go wirh me on our personally conducted I/md Seekers' excursions first and
third Tuesdays of each month. Cheap rates on those dates.
Don't Pay Rent , but seut for our free folders with maps telling all about tbw-.e
lands. State which proposition you are most interested in. Write today.
D. CLEM DEAVBR , GENERAL AGENT ,
Land Seekers Information Bureau ,
ROOM 7 , "Q" BUILDING , Omaha , Nebr.
high prices on which your pros
perity depends. "
SAVE your seed coru if you
have any. The Iowa coru pro
phets say that seed corn will sell
for $10 a bushel nest spring and
may go a great deal higher.
Owing to the early frost and the
wet freeze which set in therefore
not more than 25 per cent of the
Iowa crop in the best corn grow
ing sections shows a good germi-
uating average. Experiments
at the Ames agricultural college
indicate the same state of affairs.
The long headed fanner who
gathered his seed corn in the old-
fashioned way , picking the best
ears by hand in the field and
hanging them up in the loft to
dry stands a good chance of get
ting his own price next spring.
State Journal.
No Dirt. No CHnkoro All 8
Coal The Good Kind. 8
S For Sale. Both Wholesale
j5 and Retail. Highest Market w
> Prloo for AH Kinds of Grain 3
I 8
I West Elevator i \
S F. J. BAHR , prop. I'lione 62
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