ht fxUntine eniecmt
TIOBERT IOOI Kditor and Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
AdverLise uia save the sheriff th
trouble of doing it for you
The Salt Luke Herald prints a poem
entitled It Wasnt Him We suspect
then that it was he
The father of waters is just recover
ing from a prolonged tear he ought to
be confined to his bed now for quite a
while
The telegraphic market reports say
that salted codfish are sluggish and In
active This probably is due to the
way in which they are cut decollete
An 8-year-old girl and a 12-year-old
boy are said to have eloped in West
Virginia They probably may easily
be identified by the dollies they carried
along
A New Tork woman 79 years old got
married the other day because the
spirit told her to do so After this
she should use nothing but rectified
spirits in her business
A Boston paper suggests that the
etrets of Chicago could be cleaned by
turning the Chicago River through
them for flushing purposes Boston
doesnt comprehend the Chicago River
When Simonides offered to teach
Themlstocles the art of memory he
answered Ah rather teach me the
art of forgetting for I often
ber what I would not and cannot
forget what I would
The ancient English prize fighter
Jem Mace has arrived in this country
but it is difficult to see what attracts
him here at this time Mace belongs
to an age long since past when fighting
was not done with the jaw
The attractiveness of the French cap
ital was never better shown than by the
case of a young American lady who
would not take medicine for a cough
She didnt wish to get rid of it she ex
plained because she got it in Paris
Little Greece may be coerced by the
greater European powers but she
seems to have more real pluck and
courage than all of them combined
Bhe has given Europe the greatest ob
ject lesson it has had in modern times
The British Museum is not as sleepy
an institution as might be supposed It
has arranged for the publication of a
portfolio of thirty two facsimiles from
the earliest printed books in its col
lection The rush for such a literary
w r3rise v the
museum trustees
As the ice in the river which no force
can displace melts and floats away un
der the warm and penetrating rays ol
the sun so the cold estrangement
which so often follows an offense and
which is so hard to unseat melts away
almost unconsciously under the benign
influence of candid confession
The Alabama Legislature talks of
confining the carriage of firearms tG
citizens of good moral character and
possessed of a reputation for peace and
quiet who have 20 with which to pay
for a license There might be some
people without the requisite 20 but it
is safe to say that no freeborn
citizen of Alabama would be deprived
of the contents of his pistol pocket by
reason of character or reputation with
out indulging in some unlicensed pistoi
practice
When you are convinced that a papei
Is dishonest and deceitful stop it When
convinced that it is unclean stop it
When it lacks enterprise and fails to
give you the news stop it But dont
stop a paper thatyou believe to be hon
est courageous enterprising and clean
simpy because its editor has written
his own sincere views instead of yours
or somebody elses for if you do you
are putting a premium on insincere
journalism and serving notice on an
editor that the way to succeed is to
write what he thinks will best please
his readers instead of what he honestly
believes to be the truth
The Rock which is the organ of
the ultra Low Church party in the
English Church cordially agrees with
the Popes decision against the validity
of American orders It says that as a
matter of fact the English Church at
the Reformation did reject the sacerdo
tal idea of orders which is taught in
the Roman Catholic Church This
would indicate that the Low Church
men in the English Church intend to
use tft Popes decision as an excuse for
breaking away more completely than
eveif before from the traditions of
Roman Catholicism If so a renewal
of the controversy between the High
and Low Church parties may be looked
for
A story which tries to identify Os
man Pasha with Charles A Crawford
who deserted the Confederate army in
disgrace thirty three years ago is go
ing the rounds of the American press
The story was first started in 1S7S
when Osinan Pasha made his famous
defense at Plevna against the Rus
sians It obtained great currency at
that time and many believe it to this
day There is no ground for this iden
tification Crawford it is true left the
country and is supposed to have taken
service in the East as did several other
Confederates at a later date but it has
been firmly established that Osman
Ghazi was born at Tokat in Asia Minor
in 1832 and that he entered the
tary service in 1855 It would be at
material for the novelist to connect the
cowardly deserter of Bull Run -with
the hero of the matchless defense of
Plevna but unfortunately it cannot bo
done and adhere to the truth
Solon made a law forbidding men to
speak evil of the dead for it is pious to
think the deceased sacred and just
not to meddle with those that are gone
and politic to prevent the perpetuity of
discord He likewise forbade them to
speak evil in the temples in courts of
justice the public offices or at the
games or else to pay three drachmas
to the person and two to the public
For never to be able to control passion
shows a weak nature and ill breeding
and always to moderate it is very
hard and to some impossible And
laws must look to possibilities if the
maker designs to punish few in order
to their amendment and not manj to
no purpose
It has been commented upon as some
what strange that in the year of mas
sacre in Armenia no man of that coun
try has risen to the stature of a hero
gathered around him a band of his
countrymen and if nothing better died
fighting There is much to account for
the submissiveness of the Armenians
and if their men have given no con
spicuous evidence of valor the Ar
menian women have afforded ample
proof of heroism On several occasions
when resistance was hopeless and
when confronted by the alternative of
Islam and worse or death they have
welcomed the latter by throwing them
selves from lofty rocks or into rivers
There have been and there are heroines
among the Armenian women
A sailorman or marine who cointa
aboard his ship drunk is let alone if h6
minds his business goes forward and
goes to sleep The quiet man will prob
ably receive no further punishment
than to have his liberty restricted for
a time But if he announces as soon
as he gets to the top of the gangway
ladder that he is able willing and
even eager to massacre and to do up
all hands on the ship he immediately
finds himself in a peck of trouble No
where can a man who Is hunting for
fight find it so quickly as on the spar
deck of a man-of-war Marines who
have no manual work to do on a ship
like an occasional stint of violent ex
ercise and they gloat over a chance
like this The drunken sailorman is
man handled with a swiftness that
makes his head swim although he will
often etay with the game until he has
knocked out the whole first attacking
party of marines A few welts over the
head with the shank of a bayonet do
the work for him however and he is
carried howling and struggling to the
brig up in the eyes of the ship on the
berth deck If he is particularly vio
lent he is chained to a stanchion
It would be well for the public to
keep cool about Cuba and commit some
useful data concerning the island to
memory The greatest length of Cuba
from east to west is 760 miles and its
greatest width is 135 miles Its area
Including dependencies is only a little
less than that of England Cuba had
in 189i 1631096 inhabitants 65 per
cent of whom were white The cap
ital must have a population of more
than 200000 since ten years ago its
feahabitants were estimated at 198000
It is a powerfully fortified city Next
In population to Havana comes San
tiago de Cuba with more than 70000
Puerto Principle has nearly 50000
Here is a country which would afford
scope for many campaigns to an army
better organized and led than that of
Spain more especially as the island has
a mountain chain which affords innu
merable fastnesses for guerrilla bands
These facts and figures should be borne
in mind by those who wonder at the
duration of the war and the tremendous
exertions Spain is making to get at
close quarters with the elusive insur
gents who know far too much to risk
a pitched batle in the open Each side
has a literary bureau that manufac
tures fakes in quantities to answer ths
demand for news from Cuba As a
matter of fact it is difficult and dan
gerous for business men in this
try with interests In Cuba to learn the
state of affairs otherwise1 than by word
of mouth from somebody recently from
the scene of action the censorship of
the Spaniards making it perilous to in
trust to the mail anything relating to
the operations in the field unless it be
eulogistic of the Spanish side
Large Enough
A foot traveler through one of the
hilly regions of Ireland came one daj
to a curious little cabin so small as to
seem hardly fit for human habitation
While she was whimsically considering
as to whether it anight be the abode of
the famous good people about whom
so many loving superstitions cling the
figure of a short stout old man emerg
ed from the cabin and stood confront-
ing her in smiling silence After salu
tations had been exchanged the travel
er laughingly told the old man that she
had half fancied his dwelling the home
of the good fairies
No indade maam but its a good
warm place God bless it replied the
old man with a genial smile
But surely you cannot stand up it
it the traveler said
An fwhat nade to sthand maam
returned the owner of the tiny house
Shure an Oi can come outside to do
that same an whin Oim inside its one
self that can aither go to bed or lie
down maam
There was such a warmth in thp
smile with which this cheerful philoso
phy was propounded that the traveler
was not disposed to pick flaws in it
and smiled in acceptance of its truth
Young man stay with your mother as
long as you can you cannot deceive
anyone else
V
TIS A GREAT CURSE I
PROTECTIVE SYSTEM ARRAIGN
ED BY FRANKLIN PIERCE
tampers and Enervates Industries
and Debauches Politics With Free
Raw Materials Our Machine Made
Goods Would Soon Capture the World
At Free Trade League Dinner
The priucipal speaker at the annual
dinner of the New England Free Trade
league hold on May 8 was Mr Frank
lin Pierce of New York He handled
his subject without gloves He said in
part as follows
Not only are the farmers beginning
to appreciate the truth that protection
robs them and their families but our
manufacturers as the products of their
looms exceed the demand of the home
market are understanding that a pro
tective tariff especially upon their raw
material is against their interests
The present population of the world
is about 1400000000 and only 400-
000000 use machinery at all The rest
do their work by rude tools guided by
the hands and we the Yankee nation
who have revolutionized the world by
our inventions who use machinery to a
greater extent than any other people
wo refuse to allow the raw material
which these 1000000000 of nonina
chine usine people create to enter our
ports in exchange for machine made
products except upon the payment of
excessive duties while the more intelli
gent of our manufacturers are clamor
ing for free raw material and saying
Give us free raw material and we
will conquer the markets of the world
Instead of seeking the markets of
the world employing millions of men
now lying idle making the margin of
profits less but the output several times
greator than at present getting thereby
a steady market and continued service
for our laboring classes our trusts and
combinations are hiring their competi
tors to close their factories and throw
tens of thousands of laboring men out
of employment
Wo havo only to get freedom of
trade and we can capture the markets
of the world in many lines What the
Englishman is to the German the
American is to the Englishman and
just as the German is crying out against
competition with the machine made
goods and high priced labor of England
just so would England cry out against
competition with the machine made
goods aud the high priced labor of
America were duties upon all raw ma
terials removed
Wo Americans walk faster talk
faster work faster do everything fast
er than any other people on the face
of the earth A people of the greatest
natural vigor and the greatest enter
prise in tho world we have pampered
our life and emasculated our strength
and largely impaired the virility of our
national life by a protective tariff
Manliness asserts its mastery in the
same way in manufacturing as it does
in every walk of life The men in pro
fessions who ask no favors but get out
upon the dusty arena and fight for a
lead are the men who gain strength by
eveiy effort Give us 10 years of free
trade and wo would capture from Eng
land one fourth of her vast trade Give
us 20 years of freo trade and we will
lead the world as exporters
The protective system has debauch
ed public men and corrupted public
life Give any body of men however
pure the power to take 100000000
from the pockets of tho millions and
transfer it to the pockets of a few men
through an act of legislation and yon
have created a corrupting power which
will destroy the virtue and the patriot
ism of that body of men
4 We shall never get rid of the evils
which I have described until every dol
lar raised by taxation is paid into the
national treasury until wo stop entire
ly this practice of allowing the right of
government to tax property to bo used
for the purpose of allowing the manu
facturer to prohibit importations form
trusts and rob our people of hundreds
of millions of dollars each year
The remedy is in direct taxation
Every man has a right to know exactly
what he pays toward the expenses of
government and direct taxation is the
only means of stopping the lavish ex
penditure of public money
4 For a period of ten years between
1791 and 1800 inclusive with a tariff
of 83 per cent upon foreign imports
and at the very time when we were go
ing to the great expense of establishing
our government the cost of government
was only 1868 per capita for the ten
years From 1851 to I860 inclusive un
der a tariff for levenue only the cost of
government was only 2188 per capita
for the ten years From 1S71 to 18S0
inclusive the actual running expenses of
government had risen to 13041 per
capita more than six times the amount
required under a tariff for revenue only
and during the last ten years the cost
of government has been increasing
4 As a nation we can stand this lavish
expenditure of the peoples money but
We can never stand the luxuries the
iniquities the lack of patriotism which
great wealth quickly acquired is sure
to bring
We can be robbed by a protective
tariff and still live but when the rob
ber takes the money and buys special
legislation aud turns it over to cam
paign committees to buy votes with
the very life of free government is as
sailed Nations do not go down to death
in the momentous sweep of battle They
rather die from the poison which the
lobbyist and the vote buyer infuse into
the body politic
The mad riot of protection will soon
fce over The evidences of the revolution
which shall destroy it are upon every
hand Its growth has been an evidence
of what self interest and audacity and
effrontery can accomplish as against the
people not united by any bonds save
those of the public welfare
Dinrleyisni in the Days of Tacitus
A wise man named Tacitus lived in
AMERICAS CZAR FORMULATING LEGISLATION
-St Paul Globe
Rome something less than two thou
sand years ago He watched how taxes
were increased and his observations
caused him to remark that when a
public is drained by corruption and ex
travagance it must be filled by oppres
sion and crime The Dingley law
framers would do well to remember
this precept It is applicable now as
when its utterer was in the flesh Des
Moines Leader
The New Sugar Scandal
Is the country to bo afflicted with a
second sugar scandal Are the senators
from Havemey er ex officio members of
the finance committee and are they to
be permitted to dictate the important
sugar schedule Chicago Evening Post
Ind Rep
The senate committees bill whether
designed to do so or not will give the
trust a great advantage should it be
come law For that reason the country
is bitterly opposed to the senate sugar
schedule and if the senate will heed
the voice of the people that schedule
will not bo embraced ia the new tariff
Indianapolis Journal Rep
The storm over the sugar schedule is
steadily increasing All tho examina
tions which havo been mado since its
report instead of clearing it up only
make it look the blacker It has appar
ently been made of a very complicated
character to baffle analysis and to dis
guise a job but intricate as it is it
does not conceal the fact that it em
braces a very large differential fur the
benefit of the trust This conviction is
universal and it is aggravated by tho
stories of personal profit in connection
with it Philadelphia Press Rep
The specific charge by a responsible
newspaper in Chicago that three mem
bers of the senate speculated in the se
crets of the committee room after the
sugar schedule on tho senate tariff bill
had been framed and profited 80000
by the transaction is altogether too seri
ous to bo treated by the senate with
contempt or indifference
The peculiar influence which the
magnates of the Sugar trust have exerted
in the framing of the new sugar sched
ule has already created suspicions as to
the integrity of the framers of the bill
If tho charge against the alleged specu
lators shall not bo investigated it will
serve to strengthen if not confirm
this suspicion Philadelphia Bulletin
Rep
Revising the Sagar Schedule
MWssm
This cartoon is from the New York
Press one of the most partisan of Re
publican newspapers which always ad
vocates protection to any and every in
dustry Like hundreds of other Repub
lican papers its disgust at the action of
Aldrich in writing the sugar schedule
at the dictation of the trust is so great
that it is daily denouncing the sugar
schedule and the senato committees
method of doing business
Six and Half a Dozen
If the whole truth and not a part of
it morel were to be brought to light
the fact would be disclosed that on the
average the civil service has improved
at least 40 per cent in economy and ef
ficiency under the reform rules It
would be proved also that the evasions
the false pretenses the open or secret
violations partisan removals under the
pretense of the good of the service
but really in obedience to the cry
Turn the rascals out have been just
about the same in proportion under one
administration and another and with
no difference worth mentioning in that
respect between Republican and Dem
ocrat Boston Advertiser
Anarchy Bred 13 Corruption
There is no condition more conducive
to disorder and revolution than that in
which crime triumphs through the cor
rupting use of money When money can
secure immunity from merited punish
ment or privilege under the laws the
plain people are made to feel that jus
tice is impossible There is more anar
chism in the exhibition of the power of
money to purchase immunity from pun
ishment under the law and to buy spe
cial privileges in legislation than in all
the mouthiugs of anarchistic cranks
St Louis Republic
The Elicht of Protectionism
There could be no finer object lesson
for the iniquitiesof protection than the
results it produces In armor plate
making protection leads to the proposi
tion for confiscation In ship building
it is driving our vessels from the seas
In other lines of industries the protec
tionists are fighting tooth and nail tc
preserve their business interests from
Mr Dingley s blighting protectionist
measure to encourage the industries
of the United States Utica Observer
In the tptisrar Barrel
Ill G53ftGOl
An unpleasant predicament Senatoiv
will try to avoid
failintr Under False Colors
Every citizen knows that the general
government must have sufficient rev
enue to administer the affairs of gov
ernment economically and all citizens
would agree to the passage of a rev
enue tariff bill But citizens are fast
finding out that under the guise of a bill
to produce revenue President McKin
ley and Mr Dingley are trying to foist
upon the people a measure reducing
trade and increasing taxes Nashville
American
The South Naturally Democratic
Republican methods and ideas of
government are hostile to the Southern
sentiment and while there may be
Democrats who for one cause or an
other drift away from the party in the
long run they invariably come back to
Democracy weary of their new com
pany admitting their mistake and ac
knowledging Democratic government
in the South to be one which best car
ries into effect the wishes of the people
Nashville Tenn American
Political Notes
The new Senator from Ketnucky
says he doesnt know anything about
the tariff question Well the sugar
trust can teach him all he needs to
learn about it in half an hour Mem
phis Commercial Appea 1
It makes a difference whose ox is
gored The partisan papers which
could not restrain their indignation
when President Cleveland sent Com
missioner Blount to Hawaii to learn
the exact situation have nothing to say
regarding the presence of Mr Calhoun
in Cuba as President McKinleys per
sonal representative Des Moines
Leader
Russia wants more armor plate from
the Carnegie trust and will probably
be able to get it at the old price of 22
per ton The Czar has a most favored
nation treaty with the trust and lias
made money by it As a buyer of
American armor plate it would be cash
in Uncle Sams pocket to go to Europe
and be naturalized San Francisco
Chronicle
Why waste time on tariffs and rev
enue ourronry commerce and such
like trifles when the galleries can be
stirred by speeches about Cuba Con
gress has not done one thing for the
United States but it has passed some
ineffective resolutions on foreign af
fairs and if that will not bring prosper
ity why prosperity will have to wait
Philadelphia Times
Unlike Rienzi Mason has come here
to talk and mighty breezy and re
freshing talk he gives us every uow and
then lie doesnt seem to care a con
tinental about the dignity or the
length of service or the propiietary
claims of his seniors He is just plain
unassuming free-and-easy Billy Ma
son with lots to say for himself and a
great facility for saying it Washing
ton Post
COOL FOR THE CROPS
Farmers in the Lake Kccion and Cen
tral Valleys Complain
Reports from the several climate and
crop sections say that last week was gen
erally favorable for farm work but cool
nights throughout the States of the cen
tral valley lake regions and middle At
lantic coast have proved unfavorable for
some crops while the x d of rain is be
ginning to be felt in the middle Missis
sippi and lower Missouri valleys and in
the south Atlantic States In Indiana
and Ohio where corn planting has- been
much retarded rapid progress in planting
has been made during the week Plant
ing is well advanced in Michigan and
continues in Wisconsin Minnesota and
North Dakota- Cultivation has begun n
southern Illinois Iowa and Nebraska
where planting is practically completed
Considerable replanting is necessary m
Nebraska Missouri Illinois Kentucky
and portions of Kansas owing to poor
stands The promising condition of win
ter wheat previously reported in the mid
dle Atlantic States and Tennessee con
tinues but an Kentucky the outlook is less
favorable than in the previous week In
Kansas the crop is much improved Com
plaints of chinch bugs are reported fronx
Missouri and in Illinois the crop is unim
proved and some fields are still being
plowed up for corn Spring wheat has
made favorable progress in Iowa Wis
consin Minnesota and South Dakota
State reports follow
Illinois The temperature averaged from
normal In extreme south to about 3 degrees
above in central counties and rainfall from
a sprinkle in southwest to more than an inch
of rain in northwest The week was gener
ally favorable for work and much was done
corn is mostly planted and early fields are
up with good stand cultivation has begun
In southern counties Oats spring wheat
rye and the little remaining winter wheat
are growing slowly and some are still plow
ing up small grain to plant corn chinch bugs
are numerous Gardens and potatoes did
fairly well
Wisconsin Liberal rains in all parts of
State except southern counties Frosts on
Friday and Saturday mornings did some
damage to fruit Corn plantiug retarded by
rains Oats spring wheat and rye doing
well Warm weather needed
Michigan Most of week favorable for field
work although considerable low and clay
ground is too wot for plowing Oats seeding
nearly finished corn and potato planting
well advanced Oats growing slowly but
winter wheat rye meadows and new clover
doing very well In southern counties rye Is
heading and some corn up Frosts did very
little damage
Indiana Warm days but cool nights
rains less frequent favorable to growing
crops Corn planting progressing rapidly
wheat and rjk heading clover and timothy
blooming tobacco plants growing well
Ohio Light frosts on three nights did no
general harm Nights mo3t too cool for
corn but all other cereals especially wheat
made good growth Corn planting retarded
somewhat by rain but is nearlng comple
tion Grass meadows and pastures flourish
ing Fruit and berry prospect remains gen
erally good
Nebraska Very favorable week Corn
planting well advanced in northern and
about completed in southern counties Early
planted corn coming up general complaint
of thin stand and considerable replanting
willjje necessary Cultivation of corn com
menced in southern counties
Iowa Corn planting nearly completed and
cultivation begun in early planted fields
Usual amount of replanting necessitated by
defective seed and worms Wheat oats and
grass thrifty except In southern districts
where rains are needed to soften surface
South Dakota Fair to copious showers In
mosteountes greatly benefited all vegeta i
tion especially late sown grain but scat
tered localities still need rain Heavy frost
one night In some central and northern
counties but damage not known
Missouri Weather generally dry except
scattered showers Saturday Italn needed
in most sections Corn Is a poor stand In
some counties In others stand good and
crop doing well planting about completed
Wheat heading in north Much complaint of
chinch bugs Grasses potatoes and small
fruits generally good Oats fair
SAYS IT WILL HELP FARMERS
New Xork Man Has an Original Fi
nancial Plan
Mr John R Dos Passes of New York
will ask Congress to give its sanction to a
plan which he thinks will put an end to
the discontent in the agricultural regiana
of the South and West He intends to
secure the introduction of a bill charter
ing the Loan and Mortgage Company of
the United States modelled after the
Credit Foncier of France and similar in
stitutions which have been tried with suc
cess in other European countries Mr Dos
Passos after three months of work has
just completed the measure containing tie
charter
Mr Dos Passos explained that the pur
pose of the company was to enable farm
ers to borrow money at low rates of inr
terest It is proposed to establish the
company under a special capital of 100
000000 in shares of 10 each IT possi
ble the whole amount will be sold in such
a manner that no one person shall hold
more than 1000 The Government
shall have the right to appoint its presi
dent and two directors and an auditor
who shall make monthly reports
The company will be authorized to make
loans on improved real estate and agri
cultural staples not exceeding fifty per
cent of the value determined by apprais
ers for terms not exceeding fifteen years
repayable in full at the end of that time or
for periods of from fifteen to seventy five
years repayable in quarterly payments
including principal and interest The
rate of interest on long term loans will
be 550 per cent winch will wipe out the
debt at maturity in the case of seventy
five year loans The actual interest pay
ment is 4G5 per cent
The company shall have power to issue
2000000000 in 3G5 per cent bonds in
denominations as low as 10 These may
be issued to borrowers in lieu of money
and are expected to circulate as freely as
money A reserve fund of 25000000
shaH be retained The company shall
have power to do a general banking and
trust business to own and operate ware
houses and grain elevators Mr Dos Pas
sos thinks that the effect of these powers
would he to supply needed currency en
hance and fix values and encourage thrift
News of 3Iinor Note
The plumbers strike at Chicago has
been settled by an arbitration committee
Almost daily new wells are being open
ed in the newly discovered Indiana oil
fields
The sugar industry in Argentine is
threatened with a severe crisis owing to
over production
The present of the Sultan of Turkey
to Emperor William a large collection of
costly ancient Turkish weapons has
been placed on view in the royal arsenal
of Berlin
Lightning struck a high school at Den
ver A number of pupils were shocked
and a panic resulted- but no one was seri
ously injured Damage to the building
was slight
The board of managers of the national
soldiers homes will not hereafter permit
members of the homes to use treatment
for inebriety except under the direction
of the chief surgeons
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