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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consoiiriai ions—Falls Cll.v Tribune,. Humboldt Enterprise, Rtilo Record, ©rocker’s Educational Journal and Dawson Outlook. Entered as second-class matter at Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12. 1**04, under the Act of Congress on March 3,1879. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year.-..Jl.oO Six months ... .75 Tin lit Its .40 TELEPHONE226. Announcement. 1 hereby announce myself us a can didate for the republtenn nomination for congress in the First District of Nebraska. WILLIAM HAYWARD. Wl have a sample of the kind of paving Falls City would like to have and can’t get, hung up on the public square as an advertisement, to <‘\ cry stranger who enters our gales, of our weakness and servility. * * * The ability to make good must finally determine tin* worthiness of any system to the public confidence. The real badge of success in any work is the delivery* of the goods. The nvornge man will endeavor to measure up to the expectations of his fellows. If we expect mm'ti from our officers we may reasonably hope for miieli. if we expect little wo arc tot likely to lie disappointed. * * * Governor Shellenbcrger is naked to remove County Attorney T. L Haiti anti Mayor llurlburt of Fnlrbury. The county attorney is charged with the grave crime of defending drunks and the mayor with not enforcing the law If the charges as given, offer good grounds for proceeding against the above named officials, the governor would find little difficulty In making out good cases against a variety of delinquents in Falls City. lb * Si It is not the business of the news papo" to aet in the capacityof puhlh prosecutor. Your paper has done Its full duty us a paper when It lias faithful and impartial presented the facts as they are. It Is the busi ness of the proper authorities to act upon the facts produced, and the peo pies’ high privilege and sacred duty to elect officers who will net in the enforcement of law without fear or favor. The officer who dodges, and the citizen who condom's are both alike guilty of malpractice and de serves to he ousted, the one from ids office, the other from ids etttzen lp * • » SUICIDE. The saloon is committing suicide. hang himself," is being proven true by the saloon itself. No one tiling is doing so much to promote temperance and arouse anti-saloon sentiment, as the brazen affrontery and arrogance of the saloon. When the liquor inter ests of Chicago, by the rankest In justice succeeded in squashing the pe tition to call an election, they pre cipitated a storm which will wreck the whiskey trust in Illinois before it has passed. A great convention re cently met at Springfield to protest against the outrage, and take steps to retaliate. The hottest campaign ever waged in Illinois is now on, and when the smoke of battle clears again, many saloons in Illinois will have c losed their doors. The people are awakening, the old methods of brow beating the people are not going to he tolerated. * * * IN A NUT SHELL. x ou can make what is essentially bad. good by legislation. The only way to get right is by being right. Then' is only one effective remedy for the chronic ills of Falls City and that Is a thorough house cleaning. The proper place for each man to begin is at his own fireside. The people are the city and the city is neither more nor less than wlmt the people make it. When the individ ual citizen awakens to his personal responsibility in relation to existing abuses; when each man does his duty by his fellows, there will be quick and radical changes in local affairs. Its the citizenship that de termines the status of the city. Let us have a better class of citizens and we will have a better city. If each man will deal honestly and se verely with himself we will have a better citizenship. But, a cynical brother exclaims, impractical, you don’t know the people. It may be impartial, but it is the Gospel of de liverance from municipal misrule and boss domination. Its the way out. Possible or Impossible. Make the most of it. CONSISTENCY. Itev. W. A. Wasson, a Christian minister of Hiverhead. Long Island, resigned his pastorate and lias engag ed »o help the liquor people fight temperance. A great cry lias gone up over tin- land against Mr. Wasson as a eon sequence. The people look upon ills act as a sacrilege, and hold up their hands in holy horror. The very idea of a preacher fighting for the saloon, it Is unthinkable, fmpos sible! Hut. why? If the saloon is a good tiling in the community; if It is all right for Christian men to go into the saloon; and if it is right for a Christian community to take the sa loon money to pay its taxes, and if it is rigid for Christians to vote for the saloon, what can be wrong in a preacher's fighting for the rights and protection of the saloon. The preach er is one of the people. He is on the whole, just like the people from among whom he comes forth. His duties ami responsibilities apart from thus of his peculiar office, are the same as those of his relatives mid friends. What is rigid, for the people, is rigid for (he minister, and what is wrong for the minister js wrong for the people. If It’s wrong for your pas tor to go into the saloon, drink, dance and carouse, then it is wrong for you. also. Are you a Chrictlnn in form or In at? He honest, play fair! * * * The friends of .1. W. Crabtree of Peru will see to it that he is put In nomination for the office of super intendent of public instructions va cated by the resignation of Supt. Bishop. Mr. Crabtree will, no doubt, prove as capable in this office as lie did in flic president's chair of llu Peru Normal. Nebraska can not af ford to retire men of Mr. Crabtree's calibre merely to satisfy personal anlmostyt. We have, too, a few of ids kind. It will be small comfort, how ever, to ids enemies to realize that in their effort, to kick him down and otd they have really “kicked him up higher." THE DEVIL'S GAME. Much is In ing said avid written these days coneernlng "a sane Fourth,” It's the devil’s game to turn every noble and Inspiring seuti ni"nt into it bargain counter, to tempt and debauch the people. The Amer icanized Santa Claus is the most successful advertising agent ever In vented In order that vile men may sell their worthless wares to big advantage, the sacred memories of "Indepeiid nee Day" have been drag ged into the lime light of publicity. Sensible people are awakening to a realization of the fact that the in sane practice of tlie American peo ple at burning up fireworks, and in i cidentnlly maiming and killing scores of their kind, Is not patriotism, hut a miserable delusion perpetrated up on the credulity of the masses by the makers of this truck in order to get rid of their wares. No wonder they are agitating for a sane Fourth. Hut while we are agitating the noisy devil plays his stunt and pockets the spoil. When will the American peo ple come to their senses and do away with tills senseless mummery. Our hoys are being taught to be lieve and understand that American ism is most perfectly represented in letting loose all tiie forces of riot and destruction. The greater tlijj racket and the bigger the amount Af truck burned up, the greater the dis play of patriotism. No wonder we nru breeding rascalities and anarchies by wholesale. We are teaching our children to make sport of the most sacred memories of our National ex istence. The Fourth of July is a great big fool's day, and everybody is a fool except the manufacturer and dealer of fireworks, who has work ed up the fever, sold his junk and re tired from the scene before the fun has begun. There is nothing suffi ciently sacred in this country to es cape being made traffic of for the enrichment of the money-mad. There is no escape from the toils of these unscrupulous ponderers to public vices, except by legislation. We need laws suppressing the whole business, and a sensible agitation for a more enlightened sentiment along these line s. * ft ft IMPOSSIBLE. Vague rumors are circulating in certain quarters to the effect that the city officials are contemplating raiding the “nigger quarters.” and making an example of a few inoffen sive blacks, in order to shield tlu rascals higher up. It is argued that in this way the officials could put up a strong bluff and at thesame time divert the peoples attention from the issues that are now clamoring solu tion We venture the rumor was hatched in the fevered brain of some disgruntled aspirant to public favor. But be that as it may, the scheme is too villanous to be given a moments consideration. Favoritism is the bane of good government. And we have had too much of it already. What we need at present is an im partial application of old-fashioned justice in the enforcement of the law. Whether a man’s skin is white or black, whether he is rich or poor, he is alike amenable to the law. Anil if he persists in defy ing it, I'-t him suffi-i the penalty. Let our officers enforce the law vigorously and impartially, against big and little alike. U*t every man feel that he has no special privileges which every other man does not en joy to an equal degree before the law. The man who persists in break ing the laiv, is a law-breaker, and in that sense has incriminated himself before the bar of justice. Whether la* lie tin* most prominent personage in Falls CJty, or a dispised “nigger” I of tlie tenements. It makes absolute ly no difference. The law of simple justice is no respecter of persons and knows no favorites. There are ugly sores upon our body politic, and noth ing will bring about a healthy condi tion of local affairs excepting a vlg orou ? and impartial application of simple justice. • * * Out For State Superintendent. Peru, Neb., June 23, 19in. To the People of Nebraska: In response to an urgent demand from educators and from other eit # izons throughout the state I have decided to present my name before tin* republican primaries for the state siiporintendeney. . I desire to say that the efficiency of tli* State Department of Education is such that.no one can hope to im prove greatly upon it. Having hewn in close touch with the work of tin* department during the past twelve years, understanding and approving of tlie leading policies of the administra tions of Jackson, Fowler, .McBrien and Bishop, together with my know' Icdg of public school conditions in (lie -late 1 feel that I ought to be able if elected to continue the pres ent efficiency of the office anil to continue tin* growth and importance of this department, iti its relations to tli*' common and higher schools of tin* -tat ■ l regret that Superintendent Bishop is not. to remain in tlie to re main to work out more fully the excel lent movements started during his administration. It would be my de sire to maintain the general policy of tin present administration with reference to the teaching of agricul ture and other industrial work in the schools. I would earnestly desire to lay special emphasis on the practical and essential phasi s of all subjects taught in public schools. It would be my aim to impress upon the schools of the state the necessity of giving a more thorough knowledge of the common school branches, not only as a basis for further study but more especially for the benefit of the many whose education ends with j the completion of the common school studies. I( would be my aim to continue the present harmonious relation between the normal schools, colleges and uni versity, and to antke the articulation even more perfect between them. 1 would exalt in every possible way the worthy profession of teaching, hut above all I would promote the educational interests and welfare of the youth of Nebraska. Very Cordially yours, .1. W. CRABTREE. Putting Corn Through Its Paces. The National Corn show, which holds its session In December of each year at Omaha, is about the most worth while thing for thegeneral farmer on the convention map. Men who have grown grain all their lives can be heard to say every day as they study its exhibits-that they have learned more In a week there than in all the rest of their lives. Corn is shown there being put through its paces. Ev ery experiment station exhibits its favorite trick of cereal. One shows just how much it takes the tuck out of corn to he moved a few miles; and rhe farmer looking at the exhibit comes to see that corn is aplant that does best where it is wonted to the climate and soil. Everywhere, the ef fect of heredity is shown, the loss of vigor when the silk gets no pol len except from its own stalk, the breeding for a larger germ which give oil or for a small one which gives starch. In one field we see corn bred for a low ear beside the same variety seven generations removed which carries its ears higher than a tall man’s head. Over yonder is show a kind with ears standing erect along the stalk, and beside it a variety bred from the same seed only a few wears back the ears of which hang down. This is good for the farmer to guow, for it teaches him that corn can be taught to do about what the breeder wishes. It is the most biddable of grains. It responds to treatment. It will give good yields if bred correct-, ly. One variety will yield as much as forty bushels more to the acre than another under the same conditions. We know a great deal of this, but to see it before our eyes, sends us back to the farm with renewedfaith in pure bred plants, either of corn or other grain. If all the farmers went to the Omaha show who would be paid for the trip, the town would not hold them next year. NEBRASKA. — So m* Farts That All Nebraskans Should Know. Nebraska was admitted into the Union on March 1. 1867. On that date the state contained less tiiari 100,000 inhabitants and these were confined to a comparatively narrow strip bordering on the Missouri river. Then the territoy now known as Ne-j braska was known as “The Great; American Desera ” Today, Nebraska i has 1,250,000 inhabitants, the "Great' American Desert” is a fast, fading memory, and no where in all the worl is presented such a spectacle of pros perity and development as that pre sent'd by the giant young state carv ed out of the heart of the “desert.” In tin short space of tiie forty-three years there has been budded within the confines of Nebraska an agricul tural and industral empire that is at once the wonder and the admira tion rf the world. One hundred and sixty thousand farms. Fom thousand industrial plants. Six thousand miles of railroad, Th ' third largest packing center in the world. Th • second largest smelter in tin world. Th > largest creamery in the world. Th > largest permanent school fund of any state in the Union. Th-* seventh largest state universi ty. These are some of the big things possessed by Nebraska—a state less than a half-century old, and which less than a half century ago was designated upon the maps of the worl 1 as “The Great American Des ert.” The total agricultural, dairy and industrial products of Nebraska in 1909 were worth $650,000,000. K I load 'd into standard freight ears the j products of Nebraska in 1909 would make a freight train 10,000 miles long No one state or territory in the union produced in 1909 enough gold and silver to buy the butter that was made in Nebraska in the same year. No one state or territory in the Union in 1909 produced enough gold to buy the egg crop of Nebraska in the ' same year. The total gold and silver j output of the nation in 1909 would j scarcely pay for the butter, eggs and poultry output of Nebraska in the same year. The lotnl tobacco crop of the nation in 1999 lacked $22,000,000 of being worth as much as Nebraska’s 1909 ! corn crop. Nebraska’s 1909 crop of corn, wheat oats and hay was worth $22,000,000 more than Pennsylvania’s 1909 crop of anthracite coal. The nation's output of crude petrol eum-in 1900 was worth $97,000,000, N': bin ska's 1909 corn crop was worth ■ mil'ion dollars more. Fif'eon years ago dairying was practically unknown in Nebraska. A •cw liitle creameries were scattered iiore and there, but they afforded no inducement to the farmers to en gage in the dairying industry. With the development of modern methods Nebiaska steps into the front rank I of dairying states. In 1909 there were over 22,500 hand separators in Ne braska, separating the milk from 540,000 milch cows. From the cream | thus separated was manufactured up wards of 50,000,000 pounds of the fin I est butter in the world. Nebraska is the greatest alfalfa ; field in the world. To the homoseeker, Nebraska of i fers unparralleled advantages and op ; portr.nities. Fertile farm lands in the west-central and northwestern and western parts of the state may be bought for from $20 to $50 an acre, on the most liberal terms ofpayment. Land in the older settled parts of the state sells for more, of course, but if is a bargain at any price. This land will raise corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets— or any other crop that can be raised in the temperate zone—and produce an average yield greater than the av erage yield of the United Saes. Nebraska waits with a welcome foi all who come to her to make home within her borders. The best gifts that any state can bestow she waits to bestow upon those who come o her—the finest climate in the world. th<* most fertile soil in the world, the finest school system in the world, the most prosperous and the happiest people in the world to associate with a future that is as unbounded as space, and possibilities that the mind of finite man can, not measure. “And Nathaniel said unto him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazar eth?” And Philip said unto him, “Come and see!” Quotation Frof Dr. Hargreaves. The annual consumption of dis tilled spirits is 75,000,000 gallons. It is estimated that this quantity of liquor would fill a reservoir large enough, and deep enough to support a fleet of eleven of our first-class battle ships, two armoured cruisers, and then have room enough to mocr twenty-eight or thirty torpedo boats. —liv Dr. H. Hargreaves of Philadel phia, acknowledged authority of our nation on alcohol traffic. BURLINGTON ROUTE. All Through Trains to Be Electric Lighted. In the history of American rail roading no such extensive and costly improvements of coach lighting lias ever been attempted up to this time as that which will he made effective by the Burlington Route the first of June. On that date ail of its through trains will be electric lighted from locomotive headlight to observation platform. The most efficient electric lighting system yet devised has been adapted, namely, the dynamo system With this system there is installed in the baggage ear of eacli train a high-power dynamo which supplies the current for the entire train. Or dinarily, when the dynamo c ar is de tached, there is a distinct dimming of the lights, but under the dynamo system not only is enough current generated to light the train when it is in motion or standing still, but • enough surplus current is stored in each individual car to brilliantly light it for several hours without any dir ect current from the dynamo. This in itself is a big improvement over other systems of car lighting. With this great improvement, the Burl'ngton Route, which already is unexcelled ip its equipment, dining car servfce, regularity with which its trains run "on time,” and complete block signal equipment will have pas senger service as nearly perfect in all details as it is possible to make it. Virtue and Cash. Most women think they would ra ihey have good husbands than rich ones, but few of them turn down chances to get the money. Don’t Use It. Every knock is a boost, but that’s no reason why you should use that method to boost a man. A Fresh Egg Drink i at our fountain is nutritious, whole some and perfectly delicious. Made in All Flavors—Try One Only pure fruit juices and syrups used. Ours -the most SANITARY FOUNTAIN in town. The Candy Kitchen P. C. BACAKOS, Prop. Cold Coin Flour has the Purity to survive every prac tical and scientific test. > I BELOIT, KANSAS. « Lbe. GOLD COIN i RICHEST PATENT RLOL'R X 1 / \ Use this Flour and get better results in baking. You won’t have to try nearly so hard. ASK YOUR DEALER TO SEND YOU A SACK j HAYWARD ENLiGIITENS NEW YORKERS STANDS UP FOR NEBRASKA. Declares Progressive Republicans To Be Vital Force of All National Progress. William Hayward, secretary of the republican national committee, was among ihoso who went down the bay on the Androscoggin on June 18th to greet Colonel Roosevelt, says the New York Sun. Mr. Hayward came on partly to pay hia respects to the colonel and at the same time to try to get the latter to eo out to Ne braska in August for the conventions of the Union Veterans’ republican clubs and the Epw.irth League, and was disappointed to P irn that Colonel Roosevelt had decided not to make any western apitoin.mints before the John Brown celebration in Kansas in September. Mr. Hayward is out for the repub lican nomination for congress in the First district of Nebraska, which is now represented by John Maguire, democrat, and which was once guilty of sending William Jennings Bryan to Washington, it includes Lincoln, the capital, and it is Mr. Hayward’s proud boast that it contains less il literacy than any other congressional district in the United States. Mr. Hayward is more than hopeful of winning in the direct primary and in the election as well. He makes his home in Nebraska City. Nebraska Republicans Progressive. “How about the insurgents out in Nebraska?” Mr. Hayward was asked at the Hotel Belmont. “I don't know that I believe in any kind of adjectives or qualifying words for republicans.” was the reply. “I have no apology to make for the re publican party either in Nebraska or anywhere. But out there we prefer the term 'progressive' to ‘insurgent.’ ” “What is a progressive?" “One who takes advanced ground, in the first place on Roosevelt poli cies; who sticks unalterably on Mr. Roosevelt's main proposition that the most powerful corporation is under the same obligation to obey the laws as the most humble private citizen. That is. after all, all that Roosevelt has said, and that is what Nebraska republicans believe in. Progressives Enacted All Reform Legislation. “In our state,” Mr. Hayward con tinued, warming up to this theme, "those men are known as progressives who in the face of ridicule, of calum ny and threatened political annihila tion advocated and fought for the 2 cent passenger law, a law providing for a railroad commission ,a measure for terminal taxation, the pure food law and the direct primary law in the convention of 1306, which nomin ated for the governorship George L. Sheldon and for the United States senate Norris Brown, ^ “That is the situation In Nebraska. The thinking republicans are pro gressives. not insurgents, in the sense of revolting against President Taft or the republican party. They simply fol low th eexaniple of one Theodore Roosevelt, who always did his insur ing within the reservation. Nebraska Opposed to Cannonism. “I feel safe in saying, however, that with nine-tenths of the republicans of Nebraska there is a feeling against the re-election of Speaker Cannon, who is regarded as an obstacle to the growth of the republican party. They know of no reason why Can non in his position should be held sacred by the republican party or by any member of it. “As for the tariff, the republicans of Nebraska are not entirely satisfied with the tariff bill; nor, on the other hand, are they ready to conlemn it In its entirety. There are certain schedules, such as that of wool, which they believe should have been low ered. Personally I believe in a tariff commission to gather facts sci entifically and accurately on which to base future reduction in such a way as to comply exactly with the requirements of ihe Chicago platform, to cover the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad, and yet in such a way as to do as little violence as possible to estab lished business. bounty option. "The liquor fight on in Nebraska is a fight primarily.for county option; in other words, making the county ihe unit of lo cal option Instead of the municipality. The only bearing it could have on the congress situation would be in regard te the federal law. Personally I am in favor of a federal law to prevent the. ship ment of liquor into a dry territory under any cover or shield such as the inter state commerce law. Hut In my opinion every right thinking person would be glad to see the liquor question settled and free from the machination of poli* tics. It ought not to be determined by and under the conditions that surround politics any more than is absolutely nec essary. "I think the republican party In its principles and performance is so far su perior to anything the democratic party has ever offered or done that It will hold together and remain the great vital force underlying .the progress of the nation even though each individual may not find In the party platform or in the laws en acted by the republicans exactly what lie wants in every particular. As for the democratic prospects, they are as they always are six months before an election, brighter than at any other time. For the lust forty years the.,- nave been able to carry the country In June and lose It In November. Democrats Opposed to Farmers' Prosperity. « “As for things out In Nebraska, well, it hardly seems reasonable to elect a democrat to congress from a republican district In Massachusetts lit cause of high prices for farm products in Nebraska and also elect a democrat in a republican dis trict In Nebraska because of the high prices of manufactured articles in Mas sachusetts. 1 was born a republican and expec t to remain one. 1 was born in Ne braska. educated there. All my social, business nnd family relations are m Ne braska. nii.l,” added Mr. Hayward, "I am for Nebraska against the world." Mr, Hayward is a‘son of the Tate United States Senator Monroe 1. Hay ward. He was state chairman in throe political campaigns. During the Spanlsh American war he was captain in the Second Nebraska Volunteer Infantry and he has been colonel of the Second Regi ment of tile Nebraska National Heard He is thirty-three years old and married.