IVlcCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
The most magnificent thing Jay
Gould ever did was to become the
father of Helen
Has it occurred to you that that
40000000 is just about half a dollar
apiece for each of us
If popular songs are a remedy for
insanity the theory that like cures
like may be considered established
It is not true that Mr Kipling is
now writing another poem about
Adam Zad the bear that runs like a
deer
Brazil is so pleased with the sample
battles put up by Peru that it is send
ing out troops to fight a few more of
them
No word has ben heard from the
perfect wife in Pennsylvania as to
whether or not she has that kind of a
husband
The New Jersey judge who has de
sided that boys are worth twice as
much as girls ought to see some of
the girls we know
Boston reads that the Russians at
Mukden are living entirely on beans
and believes that war is not so bad as
it has been painted
Smoke says the Scientific Ameri
can means simply wasted fuel but
the man enjoying the luxury of a
good cigar knows better
It would be like the beef trust to
explain that the worry and expense
of being investigated will necessitate
another increase of prices
London has a hospital where wom
en are trained as nurses for dogs
This is throwing physic to the dogs
literally as well as figuratively
The supreme court has decided that
a man has the right to keep his mother-in-law
out of his house But how
many men will dare to exercise their
right
If some enterprising man could get
the monopoly of furnishing chewing
gum to baseball players it seems as
if he would be right on the road to
wealth
It looks as though the discovery
and publication of Herbert Spencers
letters were going to become quite as
flourishing as the printing of letters
of Carlyle
The noble marquis who recently
became a father at the age of SI is
dead He was probably unable to
stand the strain put upon him by his
heir at night
A farmer in Oregon township Lu
cas county returned for taxation
every cents worth of property he
had He got enormous headlines in
the Toledo papers
Miss Lottie Bodd is now woman
golf champion of England From
Rhona Adair to Lottie Dod is quite a
slump euphonically but heres luck
to Lottie anyway
Clara Morris is talking a good deal
now about the joys of old age as she
finds them in her experience a good
deal more we fancy than she will
when she is really old
Wedded sixty seven years an aged
husband and wife of Bennington Vt
died on the same day and were buried
together Not even Robert G Inger
soil could see a mistake there
A crank journeyed to Miss Helen
M Goulds home to marry her He
was arrested not for his commenda
ble intentions but for not realizing
the obstacles that were to be over
come
King Peter of Servia is preparing
to have himself crowned June 15 He
will do well to have a high fence
built around the place where the
crowning is done with a trusty man
at the gate
The government experts say that
the number of radio active minerals
is much larger than is generally sup
posed Theres the silver dollar for
instance It displays great activity in
getting away
That Pennsylvania man who hunted
two years before finding a woman
who came up to his ideals might have
hard work to show that he came up
to the ideals of all the ladies whom
he failed to approve
Susan B Anthony recently testified
in a will case that married women
know nothing about handling money
Miss Anthony evidently doesnt be
lieve all these stories about women
and the trousers pockets
A London doctor has figured it out
that tall homes such as apartment
houses have caused a reduction in
the size of the heads of children and
made them less intelligent This does
not strike one as a ground floor opin
ion
Probably the young woman of Brad
dock Pa who dislocated her elbow
trying to button her shirtwaists suf
fers more from the notoriety than
from the accident itself The accounts
agree that she was going to wear a
shirtwaist to a recei ticn
THAT GOAL Tfl
INQUIRY OF THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION
THOMAS FIXKPBICE OF COAL
Says He Vould Make Cost More Than
it is if He Could What Fixes the
Price and How Far the Public Are
Willing to Pay the Same
NEW YORK President Thomas of
the Lehigh Valley roafl in his testi
mony before the interstate commerce
commission which is conducting an
inquiry into the alleged coal trust said
that he fixed the price of the coal of
the Lehigh Valley Coal company that
is sold at tidewater Asked if it was
not a fact that according to his an
swers it was quite possible the public
had to pay what all the railroads de
manded and not what any one railroad
demanded Mr Thomas said
You dont balieve that any more
than I do nobody believes that in a
country of free men a necessary com
modity would be kept from them by
unfair prices
Mr Thomas said that he conferred
with President Baer of the Reading
and other railroad officials before is
suing the circular of prices to prevail
beginning April 1 but denied that any
agreement was made regarding prices
I made no concealment of what I
was going to do he said Nor did
they conceal anything
Would you raise the Lehigh Val
leys price if you thought you could
get the increase he was asked
Yes sir I would
Do you think you could maintain
an advanced price if your competitors
did not follow suit
No sir I do not
In reply to questions by Commis
sioner Prouty Mr Thomas said it
would be impossible arbitrarily to fix
the price of coal
What determines the price if the
railroads do not fix it Commis
sioner Prouty asked
The willingness of the public to
pay the price and the ability of the
railroad to produce it at that price
President Thomas said there could
be no reduction from present prices
because of commercial conditions and
when Commissioner Prouty asked him
to define those conditions he said that
interference of politicians caused the
big strike the arbitration commis
sion imediately imposed obligations
upon producing interests the mines
were growing deeper and more ex
pensive to operate and maintain all
grades of labor were at higher wages
These were but a few of the general
conditions
Local conditions he said in the ag
gregate seem to have increased the
expense of operating To Commis
sioner Clements Mr Thomas said
there had been no change by any rail
road from the circular prices because
the conditions of trade had not war
ranted it He said that reduction in
tidewater prices would mean a reduc
tion in miners wage3 according to
the terms of the decision of tie arbi
tration commission
OVER A QUARTER OF MILLION
Number of Persons in the Employ of
the Government
WASHINGTON A bulletin was is
sued by the census bureau Wednes
day which gives the total number of
employes in the executive and civil
service of the United States as 150
3S3 These figures include only those
employes who are required to take an
examination- About 85000 postmas
ters are excluded as are about 15000
employes at small salaries in the field
branches of the war department about
10000 employes at navy yards who
are classified but appointed under
navy yard regulations and a few thou
sand in other parts of the service
Of the 1503S3 given 25G75 are em
ployed in the District of Columbia
137010 are males 135575 are native
born and 102431 are engaged in cleri
cal work
RUSSIANS MASSING TROOPS
Armies
Are Beinq Concentrated
Around liao Yang
LONDON The New Chwang corre
spondent of the Daily Mail in a dis
patch dated May 23 says that coinci
dent with the Japanese advance in
the direction of Liao Yang there has
been a concentration of all the avail
able Russian troops between Liao
Yang and Mo Tien pass and that the
fortifications of Liao Yaung are being
feverishly hurried The railway be
tween Tatschitsia and Liao Yang is
still intact but every preparation has
been made for its immediate destruc
tion in the event of the necessity for
a retreat to Mukden
The correspondent says that under
cover of a continuous naval patrol
secret landings are in progress on the
coast of the Liao Tung peninsula
Upon Conclusion of the War
PARIS The St Petersburg corre
spondent of the Echo de Paris says
I am able to affirm that Russia is
preparing to mobilize 2000000 sol-
war with Japan foreign Minister
Lamsdorf has informed several mem
bers of the diplomatic corps that he
was uneasy on the subject of China
Russia he said had adhered unre
servedly to the terms of Secretary
Hays note but if China should vio
late or permit the violation of neu
trality Russia would act
P
JAPS CAPTURE KIN CHOU
Said to
Have Stormed the Place to
Get Possession
LONDON A dispatch to the Cen
tral News from Tokia says the Japan
ese have stormed and captured the
town of Kin Chou about thirty two
miles north of Port Arthur
In an earlier message the Tokio
correspondent of the Central News
cabled that Japanese spies had ascer
tained that the Russians had thirty
guns at Kin Chcu and numerous mines
and wire entanglements at all points
where a Japanese attack was expect
ed
The correspondent of the Central
News at Tokio cables that the Japan
ese attacked Nan Qwan Ling on the
narrowest path of the Kwan Tung
peninsula yesterday and drove back
the Russians by main force
The attack on Kin Chou the dis
patch adds was begun at dawn today
and by noon Kin Chou was in the
hands of the Japanese who occupied
the castle
The fighting continued during the
afternoon and was of the most desper
ate character
BRYAN SAYS NO COMPROMISE
Emphasizes the Fact that There is No
Middle Ground
DALLAS Tex In an interview giv
en aboard the train between Parsons
Kan and Dennison Tex William J
Bryan stated to a staff correspondent
of the News that there was no middle
ground on which the opposing factions
of the democratic party couuld com
promise He emphasized the- state
ment
They cannot go together saying
You might as well start two men
out from the same point in opposite
directions and expect them to go to
gether
Asked as to whether he would abide
the result at St Louis he said
Things have not developed far
enough to tell No one can answer
such a question intelligently until a
platform and a candidate are known
He also criticised Judge Parkers si
lence
COME WEST FOR CHANCELLOR
Takes President of Coe College at Ce
dar Rapids Iowa
PITTSBURG Pa Dr Samuel
Black McCormick president of Coe
college Cedar Rapids la has been
elected chancellor of the Western uni
versity of Pennsylvania Dr McCor
mick is a trustee of Bellevue college
Omaha and president of the board of
trustees of the Theological Seminary
of Nebraska at Omaha He was born
at Irwing Pa in 185S and received
his education in western Pennsylva
nia He was admitted to the bar in
Allegheny county and practiced law
here Later he studied theology It
is believed he will accept the position
here as he had been advised by the
trustees that he would be elected
Four Men Killed in Storm
SPALDING Neb Four deaths have
resulted from a storm in this vicinity
Tuesday John Pollard 30 years of
age and Edward Eenhamton aged 20
Inst their IHPS hv infn n u ncli
out in Freeman creek The body of
the latter has been recovered but
search continues for the former Pol
lard was a married man and came
here from Schuyler two years ago
having purchased the Charles Mee
han place His companion was at
tending school in Spaulding Ben
hamton have a mother living in
Omaha
Looks Into Cattle Rates
DENVER Colo The cattle grow
ers interstate executive committee
received word that the interstate
commerce commission had issued an
order to proceed of its own motion to
investigate the freight rate situation
and the service of railroads in live
stock shipments in the west and
northwest The hearing will be held
in Denver but the exact date has not
been fixed
Nuncio Ready to Go
PARIS According to reliable in
formation the Vatican authorities
have instructed Monsignor Lorenzelli
the nuncio at Paris to leave Paris if
he is able to foresee from the discus
sion in the chamber of deputies of
the difficulties between the Vatican
and France that it is the intention of
the government to give him Lis pass
ports
Came Near Being Serious
BEATRICE While rowing on the
Elue river three boys went over the
dam south of Court street The boat
became unmanageable Ajhen withip a
few feet of the dam and turned spill
ing the boys into the water abcit
nine feet below No injuries result
ed
Racing News is Barred
At some of the public libraries in
London the racing news is carefully
blacked out of the newspapers be
fore they are put upon the files for
reading
Sun Worship Fast is Fatal
CHICAGO Miss Eloise Reusse of
St Paul Minn who became insane
here while undergoing the ordeal of
the so called sun worship fast is
diers in Europe on conclusion of the I dead in the State Hospital for the In
sane at Elgin Dr Frank S Whitman
superintendent of the hospital says
death was due to acute mania induced
by starvation During the fast which
is said to have last forty one dajs
deceased is said by the hospital au
thorities to have been subjected to
torture by means of needles and the
application of lotus oil
IMFORTA
MOVE
SAID TO ABOUT TO BE MADE BY
GENERAL KUROPATKIN
THE RUSSIANS ARE EXCITED
After Engagement with Korean Troops
They Burn the Shrines Telegraphic
Communication with New Chwang
fnterruoted
ST PETERSBURG There are in
dications that General Kuropatkin is
preparing to make a very important
move against the enemy
One of the reasons for this belief
is the suddenly increased restrictions
upon the war correspondents at the
front
The prevailing belief here is that
General Kurois army is in difficulties
SEOUL Korea A telegram has
been received here from Gen San on
the east coast of Korea saying that
the Russians after the engagement
with Korean troops at Ham Heung on
May 19 burned the shrines and the
royal mausoleum which were erected
there by the founder of the present
Korean dynastv in the year 1365 and
which were regarded by the Koreans
as sacred This apparent wanton des
ecration of tombs in a land imbued
with the spirit of ancestor worship
has caused excited denunciation of
the Russians on the part of the Seoul
officials Ham Heung is on the coast
of Korea and about fifty miles north
of Qen San
The Cossacks which are believed to
be at Kyong Song have according to
Korean reports about twenty guns
with them If this is true this artil
lery probably is composed of trans
Baikal horse batteries several of
vhich were attached to the First corps
at Vladivostok before the Avar
A Japanese who has returned here
from Yongampho reports that there
are only a few Japanese troops there
The people are quiet but they do not
welcome the Japanese occupation be
cause of the severity of the military
authorities The Russians left many
thousand feet of useful timber at
Yongampho
There are not more than S000 sol
diers in the garrison at Seoul Bar
racks which heretofore were filled are
now vacant the troops having gone
north to Anju The local gendarmes
are being transferred to Yongampho
Wiju and An Tung
ST PETERSBURG Telegraphic
communication with New Chwang is
interrupted and private messages for
points south of Liao Yang are refused
here at the telegraph office
The nature of the interruption with
New Chwang is not known but the
cause for refusing messages south of
Liao Yang is the complete absorption
of the lines for military purposes
SLAUCHTER IN THE PHILIPPINES
Fifty three Men Women and Children
Are Massacred
MANILA A report has been re
ceived here from Camp Overton on
the island of Mindanao dated May 15
stating that a massacre had taken
place on the 12th inst near Mala
bang on the southern coast of Minda
nao
Fifty three Filipino men women
and children employes of the United
States military government at Mala
bang and their families were sur
prised at midnight while asleep by
the Datto Alis and a band of Moros
from the Rio Grande valley and
slaughtered
The chief and his followers es
caped before the alarm could be
given
Details of the massacre are meager
Major General Wood has been in the
interior of Mindanao since May 12
Cable communication between Manila
and Mindanao is interrupted and the
wires are down in the interior of the
island The report of the massacre
was received by mail from a corre
spondent at Camp Overton
WHEN FRANCE MAY MIX IN
If China Gets Aggressive There Will
Be Trouble
PARIS The Soir claims thta it has
learned from a trustworthy source
that Lieutenant General Baron Freder
icks had another member of the Rus
sian court who recqntly visited Paris
came on a secret mission which had
for its purpose the seeking of the in
tervention and effective support of
the French government in the event of
China adopting an aggressive attitude
toward the Russians in Mnachuria
The paper alleges that the government
gave formal promise of compliance
with Russias request
Russian Story is Not Conlrmed
ST PETERSBURG The report ca
bled to the Associated Press that tne
foreign office had received a telegram
from the Russian consul at Che Foo
reporting that the Japanese had made
a land attack on Port Arthur and had
lost 15000 men killed and wounded
and that the Russians had lost 3000
men is true but as nothing conlrma
tory has been received from any other
source the report is not given cre
dence The consul in his telegram
said his information was obtained
from Chinese sources
i mill in 1
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AS AFFECTING LABOK
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION AL
WAYS FOR WAGE EARNERS
It Began by Freeing Four Million
Slaves and Has Constantly Con
tributed to the Welfare of Many
More Millions of American White
Toilers
In the History of the Republican
Party just issued by G P Putnams
Sons the author Francis Curtis con
fines himself to a purely historical re
view of legislation in the different
congresses and the nominating con
ventions of the party and their pro
ceedings He concludes this histori
cal narrative however with a chapter
which we believe will be found to be
one of the most interesting portions
of the work In this chapter he enum
erates the various defections from the
party with their causes and result
analyzing very emphatically but most
respectfully the Liberals of 1872 the
Mugwumps of 1884 and the antis of
the present day While Mr Curtis
concedes that many of these men who
have left the party and who endeav
ored to thwart its success have been
men of character who may have been
actuated by the purest motives yet
later events have proven that they
have been entirely unwarranted in
their actions and that every defec
tion of the party has been unwise un
called for and unjust
Mr Curtis claims that in only one
instance if indeed in any have the
Mugwumps had any influence upon
the action of the Republican party or
upon the history of the country Con
cluding this point he says
It may or may not be that the
Mugwumps elected Grover Cleveland
in 1SS4 If they did then they precipi
tated the tariff fight which ended in
the Wilson German tariff and which
according to the Republican conten
tion brought untold misery to our
people If they crave credit for that
they are certainly welcome to it
In discussing the negro question
the author says
The coming generation cf South
erners must in time acknowledge the
mistake their fathers are making just
as the present generation are free to
acknowledge the errors cf the ances
tors of a generation or two ago Cal
houn Hayne and McDuffie were mis
taken in believing that the South
would be always an agricultural sec
tion of the country and that a low
tariff would be necessary to their
prosperity in order that they might
sell in the dearest and buy in the
cheapest markets The Democratic
leaders of to day in the South are
mistaken in believing that they must
constantly vote the Democratic ticket
at all times against their own commer
cial interests simply for fear of be
ing outvoted by the negro to whom
they are not ready to grant the ad
vantages guaranteed by the Fifteenth
amendment
Speaking of the effect of Republican
legislation in connection with our la
boring classes the author says
Nowhere is the beneficient result
of Republican legislation more con
spicuously seen than in its relation to
the so called laboring classes of our
country It began at the outset by
freeing four million slaves and giving
them the opportunity to labor to ac
quire and to enjoy the rewards of
their own exertions Coming clown
through the decades after the war
from 1S70 to 1SS0 from 1880 to 1890
and from 1S90 to the present time it
has through its various tariff laws
given opportunity to the workingmen
of the United States such as is en
joyel by the laboring classes of no
other country on the face of the globe
It has by its legislation concerning
immigration given to millions from
foreign lands an equal opportunity for
advancement in their standard of liv
ing through high wages and constant
employment increasing our home
market which is the
envy of the en
tire commercial world This home
market has awakened and maintained
competition to such an extent in all
lines of industry that our people in
large measure have done their own
work and reaped the consequent fruits
of their toil There need be no proofs
given of the assertion that the work
ingmen of the United States are far
better off than the laborers of any
other country The
statement is un
questioned and universally accepted
both at home and abroad The whole
situation can be briefly put in the
words of the eminent French scientist
Prof Emile Levasseur in his work on
LOuvrier Americain In summing up
tne conditions ot tne American work
ingmen as compared with those of
Europe he says
Wages in the United States are
about double the wages in Europe
objects of ordinary consumption by
working pepole excepting dwelling
houses cost less in the cities of the
United States than in those of Eu
rope the American workingman lives
better than the European he eats
more substantially dresses better is
more comfortably housed and more
often owns his dwelling spends more
for life insurance and various social
and beneficial associations and in
short has a much higher standard of
life than the European workman
Not only has the Republican party
given the workingman the chance to
work not only has it given him the
highest wages paid on earth for that
work but it has seen to it that this
wage money is paid in dollars of full
value equal in every case to one hun
dred cents
While the author announces in his
preface that for the most part facts
only have been related in the plain
est of language it is hoped clearly
and without ambiguity yet there
ar narar in the book which we
iMMKM
Asw1 nnf
IipHovo will bo widely quuwu
only for their style but the thoughts
therein advanced such a passage for
example as the following
has been a
The Republican party
throughout its career
consistent party
and it stands to day for the three
it stood at its
great policies for which
of existence
birth and during its every year
istence since Those three policies
nQ Tihprfv Honor and Progress
Equal liberty for every man woman
and child under the shelter of our
flasr liberty to live liberty to toil
that in ether ways
What they do dread is domestic
competition meeting them in the
home market and keeping up wages
ard able to do these things because
it is protected from foreign competition
by the tariff And furthermore they
disliko the president because he has
insisted that no man or body of men
can be or become so great as to bo
above the laws of the American peo
ple
The heads of the great trusts real
ize that political platforms count for
nothing and that laws count for very
little unless the men elected to office
on those platforms are resolved to en
force those laws What they want is fe
not different laws but a different man 1
in the White House a man who is
not merely rigidly fair to them but
is complaisantly friendly to them
That is why the Democratic party
if it will but give the trusts the man
they want no matter what its
form
will
Republican
not lack for camnfc Ti
umus it remains tn io c i
ever whether the American people
can be fooled by the Democratic trust
alliance now visibly forming
The Pivotal States
Judge Parker now has instructed
delegations from New York Indiana
aim Connecticut and the New Jersey
delegation though uninstructed is ad
verse to Hearst Taking the fou
states that we have named together
it would seem that their action must
be definite as regards Hearst sine
they are the old pivotal states With
out them no Democrat can possiblv
win This is so well understood that
their course will exert an enormous
influence in the South and it has the
sympathy of the Democrats of the Re
publican states of the East The
Massachusetts delegation which is in
structed for OIney will not go to
Hearst under any circumstances His
support must come principally from
Mr Bryans old
populistic following in
the est Its
convention
strength is
thus very clearly limited and is in
fluence will be lessened because of the
li fihe WGSt iS
Effective Brevity
The last word has not
been spo
ken rpnlino tu - -
0 0 L1 uunents
and adv
tages of the protection SI
policv
Kep
sentative Pnmoii T
American farmn u
an-
re-
that something newnd ot Ihe
whenfinnhdenEei fSCt AeValS
SPe6Ch
clarcd
ervehdG PrteCtin has
tne American
mark of r i
Products of American maiueacture hce
and American manufacturers iTve
made mark-of- nae
- - Liit TirrtriiAi
have establisheTthriSr
The case has seldom
been
so effect
ively stated in so few words I teUt
a great stonrJnajC space3
What Interests the Peoole
The last Democratic
national
istration added 3202000000 To th t
terest bearing debt
and
none of the
money went into any e
sre if v
work Mr Cleveland en tu
ins how It was done but thP a
are
repe
jnore interested in
tition of the feat preventing a
i i
h
anl liberty to acquire Honor in a
standard of value and money of re
demption equal to the highest known
among nations honor to pay in full
every obligation honor to redeem
every promise implied spoken or
written Progress not only of our
own people as has been shown in an KA
elevation of the masses to the high
est standard of living attained by any
people of the human race as shown
in the development of our public
school system of our literature and
its distribution of our labor laws and
financial undertakings
of our industrial and
takings throughout the length and
breadth of the land progress not
alone in the elevation or tho people
of the United States but in the ad
vancement of every people and every
country where our influence is felt
progress not only in material up
building but in a mental and moral
elevation as well
The Democrats and the Trusts
The tariff is the mother of trusts
will undoubtedly bo the Democratic
war cry in the national campaign
And with any conservative Democrat
as presidential candidate the party
will not lack a campaign fund The
trusts which it professes to attack will
see to that
Such is the seemingly impossible
paradox which the political situation
now presents Organizations of capi
tal are preparing if it will give them
the man they want to support a party
professing to be filled with zeal to
destroy them Yet when a few facts
are remembered it is seen that tho
trusts will be taking only the line of
self preservation and self-aggrandizement
Tho men at the head of the great
typical combinations such as the
United States Steel and Standard Oil
companies feel that they no longer
need the tariff in their business
They believe that they have reached
such a position that they need not
fear foreign competition They arc
confident of their ability to deal with
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