THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE!
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post office. Janu
ary 12. 1*114. under the Act of Congress
on March 3,1879.
Published everyKriday.it Falls City,
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
W h WYLER.
Editor and Manager.
One year 11.50
Si* months .75
Three months .40
TELEPHONE 226.
THE CALL OF THE PUBLIC.
Win it a majority of the free-hnhl
ors of any community by their sut
fras<- rights elevate a fellow citizen
to an office of trust and responsihil
11y il Implies a measurable degree, of
confidence in bis ability to fill
the position acceptably, and the be
lief that lie will do so conscientious
ly. For any man so honored, to de
liberately betray the confidence of
his friends and use the prestige of
his office for exploiting liis person
nl interests, is most contemptible
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PUBLIC OFFICE.
A public office is a public trust.
An officer is the servant of tin1
public All bis official considerations
should incline him to serve the public
acceptably when possible, and hon
estly and faithful always. The chron
ic office seeker is a hi product of
American fret' institutions, and as
such should be avoided as one would
avoid a plague, lie Is a grafter and
a pest. The duties of office are too
Important to tie handed round to
our good friends ns a means of ex
pressing our appreciation and good
Will. The office ought to seek the
man because of his fitness for meet
lug its duties and functions
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RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Oili* pilgrim fathers and mothers
sought in America an asylum for
the oppressed officially oppressed
They were in a position to estimate
the value of suffrage privileges at
their true worth. To them the
right of representation was more
precious than life Itself, ami they
fought ami died willingly rather than
have their privileges abridged. Ltut
times have changed. Ho have men.
Few men regard their voting right as
a profoundly sacred heritage, to be
cherished and exercised with judg
ment and serious deliberation. A
drinlt. a job. a threat a few paltry
dollars, the fear of business depres
sion, the tax rate, the chance of offi
ce. and a thousand and one eiimilly
low and mean motives determine the
casting of probably the majority of
the votes in America today Our
free institutions supported by such
principles cannot long continue free.
A day of retribution must come -it is
here now The public conscience is
becoming aroused. The people, the
voters are threatening to strike.
In places they have already struck,
and with such good effect as to put
the hoodlers and ringsters to rout.
l.et the men who accept office in
Falls City look to their records and
their balance sheets.
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CITIZENSHIP.
To in- an American citizen invoh
os more than the enjoyment and ex
ercise of the privileges and rights of
citizenship. It also implies duties
and responsibilities. The rights
we enjoy are not accidents They
are blood-bought commodities. 10 \
cry man has a duty to vote And a
duty to vote right Ever\ freeholder
who traffics in his tote, or who
does not vote at all because of in
difference, or indecision, should at
once in- disfranchised. lhe right
to vote is a sacred right and every
voter is responsible to his God and
his fellowmnn for the careful exer
cise of the right. Fellow voters, do
you take your ballot seriously? Do
you realize that the future of “The
Greater Falls City” is hanging in the
balance, and that your vote will la
the deciding vote? lias it ever oc
curred to you that conditions are as
they art- in Falls City not primarily
because of the men now In office or
who were in office in the near past,
hut conditions are as they are be
cause you voted as you did. Your
vote decided for these conditions and
you pot them. Your vote next Tues
day will decide again, cither to con
tinue them or to change them and it
will be so. Your vote my friend is
the deciding factor and as you vote.
bo shall it be. The good people
are still in the majority and when
all the pood people in Falls City
sensibly vote for pood men and good
issues the good ticket will be elect
ed. The Fails City of the past is
just what the better class of her citi
zens have permitted her to be. And
the Falls City of 3910 will be just
what you determine it shall be in the
casting of your ballot. The exercise
of a little horse-sense and of mother
wit in the mailer of elections would
at once turn the city face about
GEORGE NORRIS.
George Norris represents the Fifth
Nebraska district in Congress. Next
fall lie must stand for re-election,and
already the tip lias been passed
around quietly that the machine pro
poses lo def< at him. Now, since
lodge Norris is an honest man, a
resourceful fighter, and, as all the
house insurgents know, a construct
ive statesman of proved ability, the
opposition must naturally be directed
pretty adroitly. So far, the principal
weapon has been the lie, it is not
our business to inquire into the orig
inal authority for tills lie. Hut we
owe it io von, our readers, and parli
eularly to those who live in the,
Fifth Nebraska district, to expose1
this sort of campaigning with the
hope, not only of helping you to
recognize (tie truth when you see it,
but also of pushing along the cause
of George Norris. Ii is important
that he lie re-elected HeXI fall The
country needs him.
Here is liis record as an insur
gent. May 10, 1908, introduced
the original resolutions to change
(lie rules so as to debar tin1 speaker
from serving on the committee on
iiilcs, and to appoint all standing
commiltees by a committee selected
by geographical divisions. This was1
Hie resolution that caused Hie back
bone of the insurgent movement and
that, was afterwards advocated by
Success Magazine.
March Hi, 1909 Voted for Cannon
for speaker after the insurgents had
definitely agreed in caucus that morn
ing not to attempt to prevent Ids
reelection, but to concentrate their
attack upon Hie rules.
Turriff lievision Voted against ev
ery special rule and every previous
question for every opportunity to
amend the bill. Made the motion Ilia
put petroleum, crude and refined, on
the free list and helped overrule th
chair and adopt the motion. Voted,
against the previous question to adopt
the conference report, and voted
to recommit the hill, but after all ef
forts to lower the tariff were ex
hausted, voted for the Conference re
port. July 9. 1909, fought motion to
go into conference and offered a
resolution to agree to the senate |
amendments, where they lowered
duties, and to go into conference and
disagree where the senate amend
ments raised rale.
January 7, 1910 introduced the
original resolution to enable tic
House to elect llio House members of
the joint committee to investigate tie*
Ballinger -I’inchot matter. This was
the test resolution which took the
naming of ilmt important committee
out of the speaker’s hands, and
which lias made It possible for the
insurgents to win a series of victories
this winter and spring, and really to
tiring about the end of Cnnnonism.
Now for the lie
it is simply this. Certain inter
ested persons -we do not know exact
ly who they are, but we have re
cently been able to recognize all the
familiar indications that a skillfull
campaign is under way are calling
the attention of the citizens of south
ern Nebraska to the fact that Nor
ris voted for Cannon and for-the tar
rtff hill. So far. the truth, lie did
both. Hut woven into and around
these statements of fact there con
stantly appears an interesting web I
of insinuation to the effect that Nor
ris is deceiving ids people, Unit in
is a Cannon man in disguise, that in
is pretty well known about Wash
ington io lie a traitor to tin- insur-!
gent cause.
What is taking place today in No-1
liraska is taking place in every oth
er insurgent state. The machine
which manages tin- political business!
of (lie trusts has received some
heavy blows during tile past year, i
It is growing desperate The insur-1
gents, in house and souate are lead |
ing tile campaign for representative;
government. Representative govern !
numt is the one menace above all!
others to the very existence of the j
machine and the system behind it.
Therefore the insugents must be
defeated tins year, if the machine,
is to live. And every means, fair or
foul, is going to bo used in the at
tempt.
Norris is in danger. So are many
others among the house insurgents.
So are the senate progressives, men
like LaFollette and lteveridge. Un
official announcement lias lately
been made that President Taft him
self proposes to take a hand in the
attempt to crush Dolliver in Iowa.
Vote as you will, good friends, but
don't, allow yourselves to be fooled.
And don't let a strong man go until
you are certain, on the facts, that
you want him to go. There are
some good reasons for believing that
the fight of honesty and progress
must win a few real victories next
fall or suffer a grave setback. And
it seems to us highly important that
the Insurgent movemeut should go on
next year without serious change of
personnel. It is none too early to
begin thinking and talking about it.
The machine is already busy Suc
cess Magazine.
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There has been some agitation,
looking towards tb<- putting of a com
promise ticket in tlie field. It is very
plain that the high license ticket is
any tiling but satisfactory to many
of the so called “wets.” There are
a considerable number of highly res
pectable people in Falls City, who.
because of conscientious though we
believe mistaken, scruples, are tin
able to support a strictly anti-saloon
ticket, hut who would throw ail their
strength to elect a capable corps of
city officers, if run on merit and
not cm tin* wet and dry issue. Tin*
Tribune recommended this plan in
the beginning, as the only available
way out of the difficulty at this time
Wo are only sorry that a want of
confidence' between the “drys" and J
the compromise brethren lias block
ed the success of the effort. There I
is little question but that a strong
and unbiased ticket would have been;
elected. it its to be deplored that
Falls City must be subject to another
year ol misrule for no other reason
than because the better classes of
our citizens have not had confidence
enough in one another to confer to
gether and approach this important
matter intelligently.
Conservation of Boys.
The first man I ever married was
a farm hand, and I was always proud
of the- job. lie was under twenty,
however, and at. first I hesti fated. Ilis
father objected, (because the old
man was accustomed to collect the
boy's wages. He preferred to have
the money rather titan that the soil
have a wife. Hut 1 made the girl’s
father consult a lawyer, add we went
ahead, married them, and rescued
I lie hoy from his exploiting father.
The result demonstrated that the
evils of early marriage were less
than those of "skifining" the boy
of liis personal rights. He had to
become a woman's husband to es
cape from being his father’s prop
erty.
Boys are "natural resources,"
They can he "worked out" as soil
can lie Impoverished by forever ex
acting tin- same tiling of them
and never fertilizing them wit 11 play.
Country hoys need rotation ol' ex
perience as fields need rotation of
crops, lioys are exploited, like a
timbered hill when the nobility that
crowns them is cut off and turned
into money. And when the crop of
boys is exhausted in the country
town the community produces less
of everything else.
Hoys leave the farm because
they are made work cattle. They
sleep in the house, but they "work
like horses." When a boy feels most
at home in the ham, liis father ought
to ask the question, "What am I do
ing to make him at home with me
instead of the hired man?”
When a hoy smells tiki* a cow ev
ery time he comes into a closed
room his mother, instead of scolding
him. should help him to find associa
tes among ladies rather than bovines.
That hoy is in danger of leaving the
farm for hatred of it, of sinking to
an animal level and ceasing to c a re.
In the former'* case the farm loses
him. In the latter case the church
loses him; the school, the grange
and the social gathering lost' him,
and the stable gets him. in both
eases tlie community lost's him.
The great men at Washington say
that all classes must work together
for tin' conservation of natural re
sources. The boy is a natural re
source for whom the church should
summon all kinds of people to work
together in order fha this soul may
he saved for the heavenly city and
his body saved from the earthly city.
His mind should bb conserved by a
knowledge of the world about him.
The country Hi bool should teach him
the mysteries of the soil, the habits
ami value of birds, and the marvelous
wealth of the vegetable world about
him. Unfortunately the country
school in America has wasted more
boy property than all predatory cor
porations have wasted in the way of
timber and water power.
I lie country church amt school
should make the < ommunity enjoyable
for the boy. My first and most, val
ued words of praise as a minister
came to me from the father of a big
family who thanked me for giving his
sons an opportunity for wholesome
recreation and happy social life 1
had no difficulty converting the
souls of his family, because their
minds and hearts were starved for
social enjoyment and healthy hu
man company.
Profit-sharing, too, is good on the
farm as in the steel industry. liv
ery father's son should have an allow
ance, even if the farm has to be
mortgaged to pay it to him. If he
were a laborer you would be obliged
to pay him, and as he is both your
son and your farm hand, he has
rights of ownership as well as wages
to his own credit, if you do not
give him a square deal in t.ho way of
money, he will desert you when you
need him most, and go out to prac
tice upon the rest of the world the
same unfair closeness which he learn
ed on the farm where he was born
and brought up.—Farm Magazine.
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The Missouri is running wild.
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Mount Ktna, in Sicily, is in violent
eruption.
Kansas City has succeeded in sub
scribing the $1,000,000 fiver improve-!
meat fund.
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North Bend had a $2.>,000 fire last J
week. '
Mount Hope, \V\ Va., practically
wiped out by fire. Only two build
ings standing.
lotto attended the first Cleveland
mass meeting in the interest of the
preservation of school-children’s teeth
The second reading of the French
Old Age Pensions bill will be taken
in the senate tills week. An expen
diture of $28,200,000 a yi ar is in
involved by the scheme.
Of 1750 men who registered them-1
selves as unemployed in New South
Wales, ovi r 000 made no response
when offered work of the most suit
aid. character available. At a time
when workers were wanted on farm
and ranch at pood wages, says the
lUrertor of Labor, numbers of men
Were idling about the streets of Syd
ney complaining that they could not
find anything to do.
The discovery of a fragment of a
euueifond tablet believed to be of
the period 2100 B. bearing an ac
count of the deluge described in the
l.Mbl • and agre, ing with the narrative
in; (ienesis. was reported in Phila
delphia on March IN, by Prof. II. V.
Hilprecht at a gathering of friends of
the University of Pennsylvania sit the
home of Provost Harrison. This frag
ment. which lias just been decipher
ed. was one of those excavated from
the lowest strata of the oldest part
of the ruins of the Temple library of
Nippur and was brought to this city
by the expedition sent out by the
University of Pennsylvania in 18h!L
It is of unbaked clay and measures
two and three-fourtlis inches at its
greatest width and two and three
eigthth inches at its greatest length.
As translated by Prof. Hilprecht the
narrative contained on the tablets is
as follows: "il declare unto) thee
that the confines of heaven I will
loosen, a deluge 1 will make and it
shall sweep away all men together;
but. thou (the Babylonian Noah) seek
life before the deluge cometh forth;
for to all living beings, as many as
there are 1 will bring overthrow, des
truction, annihilation.... build a great
ship and a. total height shall be
its structure. It shall be a houseboat
carrying what has been saved of
life....With a strong deck cover it.
The ship which thou shalt make in
to it bring the beasts of the fields,
the birds of the heaven and the
creeping things, two of everything
instead of a number... .and the fam
ily....” The oldest tablet heretofore
known containing an account of the
flood is the "Bayard deluge tablet,”
now in the British museum, but the
latter only dater from 050 B. C. The
"Laynard tablet” agreed with the de-1
(ails of the bibilical narrative in only i
a few particulars,
MARKET LETTER.
Letter From our Regular Correspond-j
ent at Kansas City.
Kansas City, March 29. 1910 —
Cattle arrived to the number of 38,
000 head here last week, which was
a good increase over the previous
week, and about a normal supply
for this season of the year. The lib
eral receipts, compared with the
rather slim runs we have been hav
ing, did not point to any shortage
in the country, although the air is
still full of rumors that supplies will
be light from April to June. The mar
ket made a gain of 10 to 13 cents on
all kinds, after some change from
day to day, the general tendency be
ing upward. Three or four lots of
steers sold at ?8.05 today, which
was the top in native division, al
though some choice quarantine cat
Lie sold at $8.30 today. More than
naif the steers sell at $7.50 and up
wards, and not many sell under
57.00, and cows and heifers bring
jurprising prices, bulk at $4.75 to
56.50, top heifers $7.25, steers and
leifers mixed last week Op to $8.30,
mils $4.50 to $6.25, calves a little
•heaper than a week ago, best $9.00.
N'ative feeders sold at $7.00 today,
ibout the record on feeders here, and
hin light stockers brought $6.00 this
morning. Supply of Colorados is not
is large as usual today, for Monday,
sugar mill steers at $7.00 to $7.95,
tnd hay feed st -ers $6.25 to $7.20.
Hogs continue to run very light,
ibout half as many as were coining
it this time last year, and the mar
ket gained about 15 cents last week,
after more resistance from lot;
ers than usual. Run is 7,000 today,
market 10 to 15 higher, at highest fig
ure yet reached, top $10.95, hulk tt
$10.80 to $10.95, and top light weights
at $10.85. Hxcept for the reluctant*
of buyers to inaugurate a new front
figure, the top today would have been
$11.00 here. Government figure
show a decrease of five million in
the number of head of all kinds >f
live stock suitable for slaughter into
past ten years. Hogs show the hu
gest loss, a decrease of Hi per coo
In 1901 lard was worth less than
cents per pound, now it sells at R
cents. The increase in total vain
of live stock is 22 per cent in tt- ■
last ten years .1. A. RICKART.
Live Stock Correspondent
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I THIS AMD THAT j
IVlfHERE oneman gets rich
■* through hazardous
speculation, a hundred get
poor.
lfifHERE one man stays |
■■ poor through the slow I
methods of saving, a hund- |
red get rich.
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1 he wise man saves a part of his earnings and places his mon
ey in the bank to use when needed. Start an account now no
matter how small or how large: it will get bigger after while.
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