THE REAL ISSUE.
3n our eagerness out here hi the middle west to herald t<>
the world the magnitude of our corn and wheat crops, the sup
eriority of our beef cattle and thorougnhrcd swine, and the
tremendous productiveness of our do m stic lien, we are prone to
lose sight of the real issue, namely, the splendid crop of strong
sous and fair daughters that the country is producing. In their
joyous natures we behold at once the bright sunlight of hope
and the beautiful how of promise our future greatness and
glory. Drought and deluges may destroy our growing crops, dis
ease and degeneration may play havoc among our cattle on a
thousand hills and our treasured porkers in the alfalfa fields; yea.
our boasted domestic hen may even occasionally cease her pro
ductive labors all these calamities might conceivably conic upon
us in its turn, and yet our glory not he dimmed, provided, that our
hoys and girls he so safeguarded and trained in the home, so edu
cated and disciplined in school, church and other institutions of
the country, that they will develop into well rounded, magnifi
cent specimens of manhood and womanhood. I’rof. .MeKeover.
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THE CAMPAIGN.
The lines are truly falling in must happy places for the pro
gressives. Everywhere the people an1 arising and asserting
their might and shaking themselves free from the grafter and the
boss. Nebraska is falling into line rapidly. A clear cut issue is
before the people this fall. No one but a fool can possibly err in
taking sides. It is a challenge to men to assert their manhood
and stand its men for the things that make for home, peace and
intelligent prosperity. The Tribune will throw its whole strength
into the contest. We have right on our side. For the right we
can afford to fight. The issue must he presented to the intelli
gence of every voter in Kiehardson county. Not as a party ad
vertisement but as a mattei" of right and wrong. Men’s consci
ences must be appealed to. No father, can honestly vote against
the pleading eyes and pure hearts of his babies. Our people are
human. They are also prejudiced. The truth will make them
free and as free men they will break the yoke of the oppressor
and proclaim themselves to he men by voting for men.
JAMES C. DAH L MAN.
On tlu* face of tlie official re
turns of tlie primary election,
•lim Dtihlman is nominated as tlie
democratic candidate for gover
nor over Shellcnherger by a
majority of about. 70 votes. Bar
ring the possibility that in a re-'
count that lead will lie wiped out,
that makes the issue in Nebras
ka this fall a plain one of wet or
dry. .Mr. Dalilman stands for a
wide open state, the so called
rights of the saloon, and the
rule of the bosses. It will he a
light for decency, self respect ami
popular control in the state. All
party lines will disappear and
men will vote as they eat and
drink, and aspire or conspire.
f «b >b ib »>.
(ioviTiior Kliallonborger has
asked for a recount of the prim
ary ballots. Daldman expresses
himself as heartily in sympathy
with the plan. It was a clever
move of Slmllenherger. as the
logical head of Nebraska demo
cracy to claim for himself the
full deuTocratie vote and to attri
bute 20,000 of Dahlman’s votes
to wet repuhlicans. Naturally,
the democrats will take very
kindly to this easy way of salv
ing over their defection, and the
wet repuhlicans who were so
eager to he identified with the
new democracy, now find them
selves east off without so much
GOV. A. C. SHALLEN BERGER.
as a t lunik you. W hatevc*r may be the result of the recount, the
general effeet of tlu* result growing out of the primary election
- will be overwhelming in favor of the republicans. If Dalilman was
wise in the wisdom that is really worth while, he would have with
draw n at this time, with all liis honors. But is he thus wise’
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C. H. ALDRICH.
i
Senator Aldrich of David
City, the republican nominee,
stands serenely above and away
from the storm that is agitating
the opposite camp. 11 is lead on
Cady was so large and .so sub
stantially classified as to fix him
firmly in the public mind as the
logical representative of the
sober thinking people of Nebras
ka. Before the curtain drops on
the Shallenhorger-Dahlman med
ley, Mr. Aldrich will have fully
vindicated his claim to be the peo
pels candidate as against the al
lied interests. Men will vote
their convections. It is a fight
for decency and selfrespect. Only
one result is thinkable. Nebras
kans cannot deny themselves. Ne
braska will go dry in 1910.
CANNON. IS FIRED.
The question Congressman
Longworth has answered is not
the question whether Joseph 0.
Cannon shall be speaker of the
j next house. Mr. Cannon was not
to he speaker again, no matter,
what Longworth or the presi-|
dent did. What the administra-(
tjon had to decide was whether
the next speaker should In* a
republican other than Mr. Can
non, or else a democrat.
That is, to have let it be un
derstood that Mr. Cannon would
have the republican support for
speaker would have been equiva
lent to having no republican
speakership to fill. The country
is done with Uncle Joe, and will
not elect a congress that promises
to keep him in tin* speakership.
The republican party could not
win with Cannon on its back.
Cannon shows himself incapable
of quitting his party for his par
ty's good, so a surgical operat
ion becomes necessary. “Del'ore
the campaign is over more than
a majority of the republican can-,
didntrs for the house will have
taken I iongworth’s hint and
thrown off the Cannon handicap.
I Xnuville is out of it.
II is distressing to Si e the old
man go down fighting in Mind
fury. To have a long public; ca
reer end in defeat and discredit
ns so many have in the past half
dozen years is always unpleasant,'
but that is tin* common fate of
I lie man who stops learning half
of a lifetime before he stops
working, or whose eminence was
built on a false foundation. And
Speaker Cannon now joins the
caravan of Fornkers, Depews
and Aldrichos who are dead
yet living. politically Imried
though physically alive.
Mr. Cannon would have done
better to follow the course of Al
drich. and retire iu advance of.
the foreseen kick. The fight
that seems so brave and stirring
when there is a chance to win be
comes ludicrous when it is mere
ly an obstinate butting of the
bead against stone walls. State
• Journal.
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THE COUNTRY'S CALL.
Tile country is calling loudly
today for honest, law respecting
and patriotic citizens to get to
the front and take charge of af
fairs. In the political field es
pecially is there demand for such
men. Craft, bribery, corruption
and demagoguery have gained a'
footing in our polities which can
be dislodged only by the com
bined efforts of good and trust
worthy citizens in all parts of
t lie country.
In Nebraska, as in every other
state, tile call is for men who
bold manhood and honor above'
pelf and dishonor, to fill the1
places of trust and honor at the!
disposal of the electorate, and
to this end no effort should be
spared to warn the electorate of
the dangers that confront tli&m.
Cruft in the industrial and com
mercial fields is bad enough, un-j
settling confidence, which is the
basis of all legitimate business,I
but when graft invades our poli-J
ties and seeks with its slimy hand!
to defile our lawmakers, it strikes'
at the foundation of the govern
ment and imperils the entire gov-!
eminent fabric. Political graft,;
boodlerism, bribery and eorrup-j
ti(,m have shown their hydra
beads in unseemly plans, even iiii
the highest legislative tribunal in’
the land, and the time has come
for prompt and decisive action*
easting out the grafters, handlers1
and corruptionists and placing in
their stead men worthy of trust
and confidence.
I he representative government
does not mean government by
ami lor spoilsmen or govern
rinent by ami lor grafters, hood
lers and per.jun ^s. It means
government by and for all the
people and is supposed to reflect
the wishes, sentiments, hopes
and needs of all the people.
Now tlie sovereign people are
intelligent, honest and patriotic,
and in this free country of ours,
are in favor of equal and exact
.justice to all men: they want
equal rights extended to all men
and special privileges to none:
they want business competition1
to regulate prices rather than!
speculative manipulation of stock ’
they are opposed to monopolies
ami trusts of every description,!
and lmld that all corporations do
ing an interstate business should
be subject more or less to gov
ernmental supervision and con
trol; they want a tariff that is
.just and fair to all. the consumer!
as well as tin* manufacturer orj
dealer, whose schedules are bas
ed upon the difference in cost ofi
manufacture of foreign and home!
made articles of the same class.!
with a reasonable profit added
for the home dealer or maker:
they are eternally opposed to a1
tariff whose arbitrary schedules!
open the door to corporate greed
and rapacity, whereby the peo
ple are despoiled.
The sovereign people are
lion- st, and their combined judg
ment on any or all public ques
tions can be depended upon, and
the representative who listens to
this judgment and is governed by
it, is the true representative of
all the people. l>ut too often
the people have been deceived in
the character of the men called
to represent them. Uy false
pretenses, sophistry and other
means employed, men unworthy
the public confidence have found
their way to places of trust and
honor, and thus the high stand
ards of trust and honor of true
representative government have
been lowrd until grafters, bood
lers. perjurers and “jaekpotters”
have gained a strong footing and
have in some instances made a
fane of popular government.
The call is loud and imperative
for honest and trustworthy men
to serve as representatives in
every legislative district, every
congressional district, in every
state, and every good citizen will
heed tlie call.
The great issue today is to
save the government, in its leg
islative branch particularly, from
the demonstration and destruct
ive effects which follow on the
trail of graft, greed, demag
oguery and dishonesty. This is a
sad commentary on American in
stitutions. and will seem surpris
ingly strange to those who point
to ours as the model republic,but
the facts fully justify the state
ment, and thoughtful citizens ev
erywhere will recognize its truth
It follows that if we get reliable,
true and honest representative
government, the good citizens of
the country must take the mat
ter in hand and make their power
felt at the polls. There should
he no dallying with smooth and
oily-tongued politicians, no gum
shoe or pussy-footed crusade
against those who have been tried
and found wanting, hut a straight
out. stand up, manly fight in the
open against the faithless and in
behalf of men of known integ
rity iind trustworthiness. The
crisis is here, and every good cit
izen should buckle on his armour.
Lincoln Star.
Cannot Support Dahtman.
Stromsburg. August lit Since
the indications are flint Mayor
Dalilman of Omaha will hr nomi
nated the headlight, one of the
county papers, that has always
been populist and democrat, lias
come out and absolutely refused
to support him for governor, and
plainly states that while its influ
ence may not he the greatest in
the state, it is of such'a quality
that the editor cannot afford to
lend it to men of Dahlman s class,
and will either he silent on the
governorship or else openly sup
port 11. Aldrich.
Victor Wilson, who figures that
lie lids the democratic and popu
list nomination for railway com
missioner, says he will he great
ly handicapped with Dahlman on
the ticket.
• * *
It is hinted. Xo rumored, yes
ami out loud too. that there will
lie a Mayhray scandal unearthed
in Richardson county polities,
compared with which the original
Mayhray swindle was a mere bag
atelle. Watch for developments.
* * *
2,2(30,000 Unmarried Women.
When the census man was at
work in 1000 lie went about and
counted 2,200,000 American wo
men who were more than twenty
five years old and who were still
unmarried.
It: is getting worse (or better)
with every passing decade, and
out of it is emerging a new ideal
of education which seems certain
to penetrate the whole education
al system of the I'nited States,
all the way from the elementary
school to the universities.
Tin* census man groups us into
age periods. The period from
twenty-five to twenty-nine is the
most important matrimonially,
because it is the one in which
im^st of us get pretty well fixed
into our life work. Out of ev
ery 1,000 women in that period,
in the year 1890, the census man
found 254 who were still un
married. In 1900, only ten
years later, he found 275.
Poor Jack! Poor Jill! They
get lectured at all the time about
the postponement of marriage,
and they can no more control it
than they can control the size of
the city of New York. Theoreti
cally, everybody on Manhattan
Island could get up and go away
and leave the island vacant. Ac
tually, it can’t and won't be
done. Theoretically, we should
all of us get married young. We
fall in love young enough. But,
actually, we can't get married
young, and don't. * Th* reasons;
are given iater. Meanwhile, - just*
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notice, and just ponder, the fol
lowing facts.
It was in the United States as
a whole that the census man
found 275 out of every 1,000
women in the twenty-five to
twenty-nine age period unmarried
But the United Stats consists of
development and undevelopment.
Look at the cities:
In Chicogo, out of every 1000
women in the age period from
twenty-five to twenty-nine, there
were 314 who were unmarried. In
Denver there were 331. In .Man
hattan and the Bronx there were
35(5. In -Minneapolis there were
300. In Philadelphia there were
387.
Southern New England, how
ever. is the most industrially de
veloped part of the United States,
the part in which social condi
tions like those of the older coun
tries of the world are most near
ly reached.
In Fall River, out of every 1000
women in tin* twenty-five to
twenty-nine period, the unmarried
were 301. In New Ilaven they
were 393. In Boston they were
454.
In view of such facts, how
can anybody object to the steps
which have been taken recently
toward giving the women in the
manufacturing trades, as well as
the women in the commercial
trad's, some little preparation
for the work in which they are
likely to spend so many years’
Everybody’s Magazine for Aug.
A Pioneers's Experience.
A young preacher in a wild
mountain region, several years
ago, improved what he counted a
comfortable opportunity for the
delivery of a temperance sermon
which lie preached in several of
| the log school houses in his eir
I political campaign, with cnadi
! cuit.
It was tin' midst of a heated
dates riding about with saddle
bags filled with flasks of moon
i shine whiskey, and many men
i who were ordinarily sober had
; accepted the free hospitality of
the politicians. Against this
, practice the young preacher’s
words were unswiring. and he
angered both the'.candidates and
the men who lud partaken of
i their liquor.
As In* mounted bis horse at the
close of the service, \ic saw about
him angry faces, some of them
still bloated with the liquor he
had been denouncing, for one or
two candidates had siezed upon
th(> meeting as a good time to be
present and to see a number of
men together.
A few days afterward lie re
ceived a, message in the round
about manner of the region —a
message emanating from no one
and delivered by no one—inform
ing him that if he ever preached
again at Brimstone Creek he
would be tied to a tree and whip
ped.
Once a month, on the third
Sabbath, was the time of his
Brimstone appointment, and
there was a time for some quiet
inquiry, which confirmed the
young preacher's suspicion as
to the leader of the gang that in
tended to whip him.
Somewhat earlier than usual on
tie- third Sabbath of the next
month lie rode up Brimstone and
made a detour to take him past
the house of his leading enemy.
‘ Hello!” he shouted at the
felloe.
I lie master of the house came
to the door, called off the dogs
and made a surely response.
‘‘Are you going to meeting to
day” asked the preacher.
Hon't know. Like as not I
will and like as not 1 won’t.”
“Well. I rode round this way
to say that I will stop and take
dinner with you today. I hope
you will come. I’ll ride hack
with you.”
‘‘I don't hardly reckon 1" g<‘t
thar,” said the mountaineer.
“One of the chaps was sick all
night, and he's mighty triflin’
this moruin. ”
‘‘Let me sec* him,” said the min
ister, who carried with him a
few simple* remedies.
After an explanation of the
sick child. In* said t * * the mother,
“Here, give him this once an hour
and I think lie will he better by
the time we get back to dinner.”
The anxious mother was in
stantly grateful, and even the
father was molified a little.
“If you 'll wait till I get my
saddle on, I’ll ride to meet in’
with you,” said he.
The sermon that day gave bet
ter satisfaction. There was a
certain prejudice to overcome,
but partly it was overcome al
ready in admiration of the young
man's courage, and in astonish
ment that lie rode in under pro
tect inn of his recent enemy.
Of course there was no at
tempt at whipping, and at the
close of tin* service many greeted
the! young man with sheepish
cordiality.
\\ lien they returned to the
house the little hoy had improved
and the preacher sat down to a
good dinner of hot biscuit and
fried chicken, the food of preach
ers in that region, and at the
dose of tile meal lu1 rode off in
sa fety.
There was a meeting in the
school house a few days after
wards and a letter was written,
not without great labor, and sent
to tlm young preacher. Not very
long ago, in an overhauling of
old papers, that letter came to
light:
“We want you to keep on
preaching on brimstone, and as
peter sed to Christ though all for
sake you yet will not wee. hut
we think it would be well to
preach the gospel insted of tem
prance and for the presint give
us something mor cimple.”
The spelling was not quite lie- ’
yond reproach, but the Brimstone
appointment continued.—Ex.
W. C. T. U.
The traffic in intoxicating liq
uors is at war with every inter
est of society, is in deadly hos
tility to every man, woman and
child to all eternity.- Neal Dow.
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ist, 1912, are offered for sale this week
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FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
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