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auwttapMijff THE FALLS Cl I V TUIBUIS'B. FRIDAY , APRILS , l ! > 07 THE LIBRARY CONTEST A number of business firms In Falls City , including The Tribune , Imvo ar ranged for a voting contest to bo entered into by KioburtUon county schools , churches , Sunday schools , soci eties , lodges , literary u-.soclutlon $ , or uny other regularly organized bodies , the prlx.es to be an excellent library of 2VJ volumes , valued at $050.00. The library will be absolutely free of cost to the winners , and It doesn't cost the voters anythliiL' to vote. When you make a purchase for cash , or pay a bill , the firm with which you are tran sacting business will give you a ticket , tilled out with the number of votes to which you are entitled. You write in the name of the organization for which you desire to vote , sign the ticket , and deposit it in the ballot box , according to a plan outlined below. Tin : LIST or HOOKS The following publications constitute the library : 10 vol. consolidated Ency. Library , } morocco. 10 volumes World's best orations , J mo. 10 volumes World's best orations , S cloth. lf > volume ? Dickens works , cloth. b volumes [ rvins worKs , cloth. N volumes Hlliots works , cloth. volumes Hugo's works , cloth. > - volumes Shnkespenr'b works , cloth. 4 volumes Great Republic , J morocco 10 volumes Classic Fiction , i leather. 12 volumes Classic Fiction , cloth. 10 volumes Historic Novels , cloth. 11 volumes Famous Novels , cloth. 1 volume Japan Novels , cloth. . . volumes Presoott's Historic , cloth. 2o volumes Home Library , cloth. 107 volumes Copyright Fiction. 25 ! ) , Total Volumes. This beautiful library will be award ed at the close of the contest , to the institution receiving the largest num- ocr of votes. * * * * * * * * # # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # 5r-- > K * JWXKXXyrtT * * f LIBRARY VOTING TICKET 1 f * f This coupon entitles the holder to ONE vote tlmt can be cnst * f ? for nny inetitution competing for the beautiful library when u V properly filled out , signed nnd returned to this office. > < * - N j [ * * Name of Institution * Name of7oter * * 1 THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ) > ( * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * President's Endorsement. DICAK Mu. PoL.LAun : I feel that it is due not only to you but to the other western Con gressmen. the Congressmen from the interior who voted for the ship subsidy bill , that I should express to you , not only for you but for all of them also , the reasons why I think you bave rendered a great and patriotic service. At the outset let me empha- sv.e the fact that the presnt proposed ship subsidy bill has nothing whatever in common with certain previous measures of the same name. There were vell founded objections to cer tain features oi these previous measures ; but in the present measure all these objectionable features have been eliminated. I should heartily favor the present measure in any event' but the experiences of Secretary Ik Hoot on his trip to South America , and the course of events on the Pacific , seem to me to render it of the utmost consequence to pass the pro posed bill. As a matter of fact , uiy only objection to it is that it does not go far enough. I personally , for instance , would like to see a line to South America from one of our Gulf ports. I feel that you men from the West who stood by the cause of American shipping in support ing the ship subsidy bill deserve the same praise that should be accorded to those men of the seacoast regions who voted for , and by their votes succeeded in establishing , our present system of national irrigation in the States trom Kansas , Nebraska and the Dakotas westward to California. Oregon and Wash ington. At that time the argu ment was made to me by many men representing the country east of the Mississippi that it jl was not fair to ask their support * V/ for a measure purely to benefit the States of the Great Plains and the Rockies. My answer The Tribune will , besides receiving j the votes cut from the paper , Issue one vote for every 10 cents paid on sub scription at Its olllceclther for arrears or for now subscription , or for job work or advertising The rules of the contest provide that each merchant shall carefully make a record of his votes on Tuesday night of each week , sending a duplicate of same over his s-Ignature to Tribune olllco before noon Wednesday , the merchant retaining his tickets with record , carcfullj Illlnir them away to bo delivered to committee on awards , appointed at the close of the contest. VOTING TICKETS Voting tickets can be secured from the following merchants : Samuel Wahl Dry Goods , Clothing , Boots and Shoes , Ladles' and Metis' Furnishings. H. M. Jcnnc Shoes that satisfy Lot us fit you. Perd M. Harlow The Cash Groccrman , The Citv Pharmacy Drugs , Toilet Articles , Sundries , Paint and Wall paper ; also Stock Food at McMillan's1 Reiser & Nosiman The Falls Citv meat market. Deal ers in Live Stock of all kinds. Reavis & Abbev Furniture , Carpets , Mattings and Elastic Book Cases. Paul Messier Harness. Saddles and repairing. Opera House Bsx.kery Bread , PieH , Cakes and Candy , Lunches , etc. 0. P. Heck Flour. Feed , Baled Hay and Straw , Coal and Wood , Produce. Oswald's Studio High grade Photography. to them was that anything that benefited a part of this country ultimately benefited all of it , and that we were in honor bound to support any such measure even if our particular locality was not affected. The same argument applies now in reference to this shipping bill. It is deeply discreditable to us as a natian that our shipping should be driven from the high seas , and it has thus been driven partly because our steam ship lines are quite unable to compete with foreign steam ship lines , English , German , Japanese , French , which are heavily subsidized by their governments , and partly be cause the high standard of wages and of living which we exact for our seamen puts our shipmasters at a disadvantage when forced to compete even with unsubsidized ships of foreign powers. This difference in standards , and the subsida- tion of our foreign competitors , taken together , have created an obstacle to the development of our shipping which is insur mountable except by a subsidy , and this obstacle must be clear ed away as we would clear away - way a bar from the mouth of a river. I felt that the loss of the ship sudsidy bill at the last session of Congress was a real blow to our country , and that it was particularly to be regretted be cause it has tended to dampen some of the enthusiasm for closer relations with this coun try which Secretary Eoot's visit aroused in South America- The following cable from our Minister to Uruguay shows how the failure to pass this bill is regretted in some of the most prosperous and progressive of the great commonwealths of South America : Montevideo , March 12 , 1007. Root ; Washington. Great disappointment felt in River Plate countries over fail ure ot shipping bill to become a law. The desire is so great for a direct commutiidation with United States that I believe agreement could be inside in ad vance which would insure sub. stantial cooperation on the part of River Plato countries. O'Brien- ; my message at the npiMiiiiy of the last session ol Congress I spoke on this matter - ter as tollows : ' Let me once again call the attention of the Congress to two subjects concerning which 1 have frequently before com munication \ \ ith them. One is the question o f developing American shipping. I trust that a law embodying in sub stance the views , or a major part ot the views , expressed in the report on this subject mabe be fore the House at its last session will be past. Jam well aware that in former years objection able measures have been pro posed in reference to the en couragement of American ship ping ; but it seems to me that the proposed measure is as nearly unobjectionable as any can be. It will of course bene- iit primarily our seaboard States , such as Maine , Lonsiana and Washington : but what benefits part of our people in the end benefits all : just as Government aid to irrigation and forestry in the \ \ est is really of benefit , not only to the Rocky Mountain States , but to all our country. If it prove impracticable to enact a law for the encouragement of ship ping generally , then at least provision should be made for communication with South America , notably for fast mail lines to the chief South Ameri can ports. It is discreditable to us that our business people , for lack of 'direct communication in the shape of lines of steamers with South America , should in that great sister continent be at a disadvantage compared to the business people of Europe. On January 23rd I followed this up with a special message ruuuing as tollows : To the Senate and House of Representatives : "I call your attention to the great desirability of enacting legislation to help American shipping and American trade by encouraging the building and running of lines of large and swift steamers of Soutli America and the Orient. The urgent need of our coun try's making an effort to do something like its share of its own carrying trade on the ocean has been called to our attention in striking fashion by the ex periences of Secretary Root on his recent South American tour. The result of these experiences he has set forth in his address befon1 the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress , at Kansas City , Mo. , on November 20th last , an address so important that it deserves the careful study of all public men. The facts set forth by Mr. Root are striking , and they can not but arrest the attention of our people. The great conti nent to the south of us , which should be knit to us by the closest commercial ties , is hard ly in direct commercial commu nication with us at all , its com mercial relations being almost exclusive with Europe. Be tween all the principal South American ports and Europe lines ol swift and commodious steamers , subsidized by their home governments , > ly regular ly. There is no such line of steamers between tln e ports and the United Slate * . In consequence , our shipping in South American ports is almost a negigible quantity ; f r instance , in the year ending June 30 , 1905. there . -ntered the port of Uio de .Janeiro over 3,000 steamers aiU uiliny ves sels from Europe , but irorn the United States no steamers and only seven sailing vessels , two ol which were in distress. One prime reason for tu : state of Complies wi'li nil 1' of tKi National Pure Food Law , Guarantee No. 2041 , filed at Washington. / $ > > . - - . - * fa & i -f \ , _ . . . _ pw ? . Advice of the largest coffee dealers in the world is always to buy die old- fashioned Arbucklcs' ARIOSA Coffee in _ _ the scaled packages. Don't ask for a pound of Mocha and Java , or buyjjy thejprice. for Colfcc fluctuates and you cannot get the same coffee for ( he same priccall ( he time unless you pay too much for it. Most of the so-called Mocha nnd Java Coffee ii simply mnjqucrading , and is not nearly as good coffee for you as Arbucklcs' ARIOSA , the blend of the Brazilian Coffees most suitable to the taste and health of American people. By the looks there 13 no difference between roasted Java nnd Brazilian Coffees ; many people drink Brazilian but pay for Java. The principal difference is that Arbucklcs * costs you less. It is n mistake to believe that n high price guarantees quality. Wlicn you buy AtbucUcs' ARIOSA Ccffcc , yen rjct a full one pound package of ihe leading Coffee of the world. Its sales for 37 " < "K arc greater tKn t' ' o comM.U'd sales of all uV other packaged coffee1 ; . By Riving better Coffee for ll\c money , ' ! .v M.ll : up a ltu . .r ' " "ed'Y.g ; llv combined bncincws of the four next largest coffee firms in the whole wotld. If your dealer > vl ! J.rj ; ' lie p.cnuiw , write to AUBUCKLC LRO , INCW Y k Oy. things is the lact that those who now do business on the sea do business in a world not of national competition , but of subsidized competition. State aid to steamship lines is as much a part of the commercial system of today as state employ ment of consuls to promote business , Our commercial com petitors in Europe pay in the aggregate some twenty-five millions a year to their steam ship lines Great Britain pay ing nearly seven million , Japan pays between three and four millions. By the proposed legis lation the United States will still pay relatively less than any one of our competitors pays. Three years ago the Trans-Mississippi Congress for mally set forth as axiomatic the statement that every ship is a missionary of trade , that steamship lines work for their own countries just as railroad lines work lor their terminal points , and that it is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its products as it would be for a department store to depend upon wogons of a competing house to deliver its goods. This statement is the literal truth. Moreover , it must be remem bered that American ships do not have to contend merely against the subsidization of their foreign competitors. The higher wages and the greater cost of maintenance of Ameri can officers and crews make it almost impossible for our people who do business on the ocean to compete on equal terms with foreign ships unless they are protected somewhat as their fellow countryman who do busi ness on land are protected.Ve cannot as a country afford to have the wages and the manner of life of our seamen cut down ; and the only alternative , ii we are to have seamen at all , is to offset the expense by giving some advantage to the ship it self. self.The The proposed law which has been introduced in Congress is in no sense experimental. It is based on the best and most successful precedents , as , for instance , on the recent Cunard contract with the British Gov ernment. As far as South Amer ica is concerned , its aim is to provide from the Atlantic and Pacific coa-ts better American lines to the great ports of South America than the present Eu ropean lines. The South Amer ican Republics now see only our warships. Under this bill our trade friendship wi'l ' beevi. dent to them. The bill proposes to build large-sized steamers of 10-knot speed. There are near , ly 200 such ships already in the world's foreign trade , and over three-fourths of them now draw subsidies-postal or admiralty or both. The bill will encourage our shipyards , which arc almost as necessary to the national de fense as battleships , and the efficiency ol which depends in a large measure upon their steady employment in large construc tion. The proposed bill is of importance to our Navy , because it gives a considerable licet of auxiliary steamships , such as now almost wholly lacking , and also provides for an effective naval reserve. The bill provides for fourteen steamships , subsidized to the extent of over a million and a half , from the Atlantic coast all to run to South American ports. It provides on the Pacific coast for 22 steamers subsidized to the extent of two million and a quarter , sqme of these to run to South America , most of them to Manila , Australia and Asia. Be it remembered that while the ships will be owned on the coasts , the cargoes will largely be supplied by the interior , and that the bill will benefit the Mississippi Valley as mucn as it benefits the seaboard. 1 have laid stress upon the benefit to the expected from our trade with South America. The lines to the Orient are also of vital importance. The commer cial possibilities of the Pacific are unlimited , and for national reasons it is imparalive that we should have direct and ade quate communication byAmeri- can lines with Hawaii and the Philippines. The existence of our present steamship lines on the Pacific is seriously threaten ed by the foreign subsidized lines. Our communication with the markets of Asia and with our own possessions in the Philippines , no less than our communications with Australia should depend not upon foreign , but upon our own steamships. The Southwest and the North west should alike be served by these lines , and if this is done they will also give totheMissis- sippi Valley throughout its en tire length the. advantage of all transcontinetial railways run ning to the Pacific coast. To fail to establish adequate lines on the Pacific is equivalent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability not the disposition to contend for our rightful share of the com merce ot the Orient ; not yet to protect our interests in the Philippines. It would surely be discreditable for us to surrender - render to our commercial rivals the commerce of the Orient , the great commerce we should have with South America , and even our own communications with Hawaii and the Philippines. I earnestly hope for the enact ment of some law like the one in question , " For the reason given above I feel tlmt the whole country owes a debt of gratitude for the entirely - tirely disinterested support which you and those who felt like you have given to this measure , and it will be a mis fortune to the nation it it does not become a law. 1 append Secretary Root's address to the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress.in , . which he discusses the matter at length and gives what I deem unanswerable ar guments in favor ot the pro posed law. Sincerely yours , ( Signed ) TlIKOUOKK ROOSKVKLT. HON. EllNHST M. POUiAUI ) . "Provontlcs" will promptly check a cold or tliu Grippe when taken early or ut the "fince/e. Bingo" Prevcntlcs euro seated colds 119 well. ! ? revontlca are little candy cold cure tablets , nnd Dr. Snoop , Uaclne , Wia , will gladly mail you samples and u book on colds free , if you will write him. The samples prove their merit. 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