The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, July 22, 1897, Image 2
X I y 3 Wt Wdhntim fBemocrxt JiOIKUT Cocm Kditor and Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA Even llio owls around Boston hoot To whom I inst end of To whoo as they do in the West 1 MI1BBIIWIIIIM1II Prosperity is on the jump up in Xorth Takotn The Suite has offered a homi ly of 50 cents a bushel for grasshop pers Au uncontrollable force remarks the New York Tribune is out of place In a crowded city street Why not abolish the Gotham police force then David B Hill takes occasion to sneer ntpolitical women without husbands This comes with decidedly poor grace from i man whose entire family con sists of one The announcement that Barney Bar natos immense fortune has practically been swept away is bound to exert a very powerful influence upon the sea Eons crop of Barnato widows Senator Vest in a tariff speech ths other day referred to cider as a bev erage which cheers but not inbrintes All of which proves that the Senaor Js not thoroughly familiar with the jnysteries of applejack Professor John Lawrence Sullivan llie eminent Boston masseur believes that inside of eighteen minutes by the watch he can convince Colonel Fitz Bimmons iat the hitters notions con cerning scientilic assault and battery -are wrong -The Fort Worth Herald remarks that a New York woman who committed suicide in a church selected an inop portune time and place for self-destruction True By the way what would lie an opportune time and place for a woman to kill herself The story that the lightning during a -recent Kentucky thunderstorm resem bled a corkscrew may be true The in dignation of the colonels over the cor ner in bourbon had perhaps been drawn up as a vapor which naturally developed a wrathful thunderbolt Discussing the possibility that the Prince of Wales may be called to the Ihrone the Savannah Press asserts that all talk about the queens abduc tion at this time however is bosh We are pleased to be assured of that fact it certainly would be the height of cruelty to abduct the old lady at lier time of life Not all the puritauism of the world is concentrated in and around Boston and leveled at the rejected Bacchante JNews comes from Geneva a place which should certainly be liberal and cosmopolitan in its ideas of art that one of the masterpieces of the great sculptor Rodin probably the greatest worker in that line of art since Michael Angelo himself has been rejected as unfit for public exhibition In the -meanwhile the work of MacMonnies lies in the basement of the Boston pub lic library reviled and cast out by the Philistines but still wearing upon its face that inscrutable smile embodying the paganism of the old world and the liberalism of the new Another merchant and importer has been stopped at the New York custom liouse with goods in his possession -which he was attempting to bring in without paying the customary duty Xike the St Louis man lie too says that the articles were intended as pres ents for his family and friends lie says I am allowed to bring in a cer tain amount of perfumery and such ar ticles and if there should happen to be n few- more articles of that kind in my trunks than the law allows it may have been owing to a slight mistake in the orders given to the storekeeper The few more articles which- got into his trunks consisted of lifty six pairs of e French kid gloves a large num ber of silk dresses and a great deal of perfumery and mens furnishings ai rujim Those who when they read the sprightly The Prisoner of Zemin were inclined to leok upon the incidents as belonging to the realm of the impossi ble romance will find that recent events in Bulgaria prove that the deeds of Ru dolph and Rupert Michael aud the re doubtable Sapt can be duplicated al most any day in the Balkan countries A captain a prefect of police and a fendarme have been arrested at Fhil ippopolis on the charge of murdering an opera singer a beautiful girl named Anna Szhnon The captain became tired of her and hired the other two to help put her out of the wav She was chloroformed and drowned in the river The prefect of police has con fessed and says that the captain and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria ordered liim to kill the woman The captain was a cadet in the palace and was one -of the men who kidnaped Prince Alex ander of Bulgaria and drove off with him to the sea coast This he did at Perdinands request in order that the latter might succeed to the throne He recently made a rich marriage upon which he threw the opera singer over If these details wore in the hands of Anthony Hope he might give us some thing beside which the romance of Zenda would appear pale The carelessness of a Xew York phy sician subjected him to a distressing humiliation but revealed a form of fa vial enbellislimeut of which hitherto little I as been known An upper set -of teoh was mislaid and lost but the -novel Vature of the iucident is the re- ported fact that the upper set was of the winning smile variey By means of this work of deuta art it appears that an otherwise morose de meanor and possibly repelling mien were transformed into a captivating expression so essential to the success of a physician It is not to bo suppos ed that upper sets are limited to the production of winning smiles If the science of dentistry has reached the smile stage it is jiot too much to believe that all the other varipties of human facial expression can be simu lated But speculation on this inter esting subject must wait until a fuller investigation of all the facts is made In the meantime there will be a gen eral desire to know whether the fa mous smile of Theodore Roosevelt is real or of this manufactured variety What might be termed the latest fea ture of scientific kindergarten training is the proposition to eliminate baby talk from the nursery in fact to sweep it off the face of babyland The reform is based on the fact that par ents are largely responsible for the idiosyncrasies of baby language and that it would be about as easy to teach the rising generation the proper pro nunciation of words at the beginning as to wait until they reach an advanc ed stage in youth This drill in pure phonics as it is called may be able to accomplish in time what its advo cates claim for it but what practical advantage will have been obtained Xo one seriously asserts that the lan guage of babyland retards the childs learning when greater maturity has been reached nor that there is any suggestion of permanent effect The most that can be accomplished there fore is to train the baby to avoid the cooing preliminaries in language learning and to make the change ab ruptly from a fascinating creature that expresses all emotions by protracted howls to a digniiied infant that prides itself in its perfection in articulation A suggestion of what might be possi ble in this respect has come through the allegedly funny periodicals in sketches of life in Boston nurseries The imagination can picture the pre cocious baby calling distinptly for its lacteal fluid But the picture is far from alluring and few people would care to have it reproduced at their own hearthstones There are few mem ories more dear than the memories of the caressing syllables of baby talk There are few lives which would not suffer a distinct and grievous loss if those memories were ruthlessly cut off Are there not enough serious import ant things in life to engage the energies of people without making attacks on a harmless source of universal de iff lit A London schoolboy committed sui cide last month leaving behind a pa thetic letter saying that he could not stand the abuse to which he was sub jected by his fellows at school There was practically no investigation of the mattT except that which elicited the remark of the master that the youth was of a very sensitive nature and the jury brought in a verdict of death while temporarily insane Youth of all natiouUiLics is proverbially cruel but the crudest of all are the boys of the Anglo Saxon race Since the begin nings of education the schools of En gland have been the scene of a long series of petty tyrannies calculated tc develop bullies or to result as this un fortunate case did in suicide Anyone who has read Tom Browns School Days will remember the miserable servitude which the younger and more timid boys were obiiged to live in and the brutal treatment to which tJiey svere subjected This custom of fag ging Is upheld by the English people and even the gentle Thomas Hughes excused it It is supposed to develop maaliiess in youth At least that is the English urge in its defense Bt it does nothing of the kind Where it does not break the spirit of the boy is in the case of the unfortunate youth alluded to it is apt to create bullies of the worst kind In America schools and colleges are by no means so free from cruelty of this sort that England can be condemned unsparingly but the fag svstem has never obtained here and never could It would be impossible for a to be hounded to death in this country for the reasons which led the English lad to take his life It was his advocacy of the Greek cause which got him into such disrepute with his fellows The partisanship of the sires is not transmitted in this degree to the sons in this country The curious tiring about the English cae is that the par cuts seem to take tl e death of their boy as a matter of course Darwinian Theory in China As in everything else the Chicu se have their ownaaul original Dnrwiiiiau theory Exphtinintr the moveuients of winds rams clouds and of the earth itself in a uncque way they go cci to trace the descent of the human kind Wheal the earth became lifted to sustain life small herbs were the first to put iu an appeaiunee Them uno stranrr shrubs and trees As the body of man u awash oil for years breeds vermin so the mountains unJaved by the ceas bred worms and insects greater creatures always developing from the lesser J11 the course of un told aires beetles became turtles became serpents and insects became birds Mice velop Ml into wildcats and the wildcats into tigeiN The mantis was by some method transformed into an ape and some of the apes wore finally born ihairiess A hmirless ape playing- with two Hints accidentally kindled a lire by strikajr them together With tJie firl tluis obtained he cooked food and the eating of food thus prepared made him more strong and intellectual than his fellow ape The less energy a man has the easier he drift into matrimony It is fitting that Ohio should be the battle ground of a gigantic struggle be tween the forces of gold and silver for it is to Ohio statesmen that this nation owes the oppression of the gold monop oly Secretary Sherman came to an under standing with the gold monometallists of Europe in 1817 and since that date has labored with Uu craft and malevo lence of a Mephistoplmles to fasten on the people the golden fetters Sherman liiil HL M i II li f 111 TI - 1 j I I I I I I T 111 III- lllll 1 II7II1 llflll BI II 1 - u l llMUi ti llt V retary of the Treasury he recognized The right of option to pay in either gold or silver but when Foster took charge I of the treasury and Austria wan red SKlOonoOCO in gold Foster ordered the sub treasury to pay out the yellow metal j Thus it came about That the treasury of the Inited States supinely yielded 1 to the domination of the gold i11iti iiifl tln it li 1 11 tn ill llint fix I Republican Falsehood The voices of a million men women and children are heard in the land to day protesting against the Republican party and denouncing the false prom ises of that partys leaders Ten months ago the wage earners of the- United States were promised that the mills would be opened and the wages raised if these toilers would give their suffrages to the Republican party The glittering bait was accept ed and as a result the gold standard is practicahy 111 operation a high protec tive tariff is about ready for signature but the mills are not open On the contrary the iron mills and the tin plate mills are ordered to shut down and lioOdu workmen are made idle Moreover the Hint glass manu facturers instead of raising wajres un der a proposed increase of protection announce a reduction which means r0JU more skilled laborers reduced to starvation pay Add to this the distress which has iorceu tin- coal miners to i strike and J the wicked folly of Republic 11 conduct j in national legislation 1 1 nil 1 resiled With a quarter of a million men thrown out of employment there are at least one million mouths crying for bread The situation is appalling The indictment against the Republican party is crushing If there ever was a party that deserv ed to be stamped out of existence that party is the breaker of promises the backer of trusts the assassin of silver the advocate of gold the betrayer of 1 ne people tlie misnamed Republican party of the United States Tariff for Trnsts The work of the Senate on the tariff Mil has resulted in creating- a Franken stein that will destroy the party respon sible for it The law will establish a tariff for trusts and a deficit It will aid the rich to become richer and through its outrageous taxes upon the necessities of life it will force the poor to become poorer The sugar trust gets i present of half a hundred million of ftollars and the people get a tax on ev erything they eat and wear A feeble ittompt was made to throw a sop to the farmers of the West by a proposed bounty on beet sugar but the attempt vVas half heart ineffectual and soon made inoperative As a levenue getter the tariff is the worst failure ever made by legislation iy giving notice to the importers that the retroactive clause would be strick en out any chance of securing revenue within the next twelve months was ef fectually destroyed and the measure made an act for the m oteetinn en richment of trusts The only benefit rna - tarnf nation was ncirnyeu iy me fives of Ohio That llus yielding was I entirely unnecessary is proved by the course- taken by the Bank of France1 Xo conspiracy of speculators can force a raid for gold on the French treasury Whenever it becomes evident That a wise policy demands the protection of the state from the gold robbers the Bank of France takes advantage of its option and pays out silver There is no panic there is no raid and France has a silver currency amounting in vol ume to 700JU which is easily and continuouMv maintained at par with gold Ohio men taught the United States the lesson of poltroonery and folly and the State of Ohio now has an opportuni ty to wipe this stain from her escut cheon The great representative of plu tocracy and trusts Mark Ilanna has thrown down the gage of battle to the silver forces of the Buckeve State That gage has been accepted The struggle is one of momentous interest It is al leged that Ilanna has S2000JO lofi from the SKi000000 fund poured into the treasury of the Republican Nation al Campaign Committee by the repre sentatives of Wall and Bombard streets during the late Presidential campaign That fund will be doubled if Ilanna thinks it necessary to carry Ohio for the Republicans The tactics of the last campaign will be revived Banks will hold the giving of credits contingent on the voting of Republican ballots Manufacturers will threaten their employes and flatter them with false hopes to secure their support for Ilanna and his friends There can be no doubt that the com bined efforts of all the elements in Ohio favoring silver can defeat Ilanna the only question is Avhether briberv browbeating intimidation and fraud shall defeat their labors Chicago Dis patch 1 1 i WHAT THE OHIO 1FIGHT v V nr uVe Irom tllls mmt v JS tjle jesson lt nvov 4 ih lmntf a iiuiivt voter to work for Democratic success in ISJS and Democratic victory in 1000 The Financial Situation Mr Secretary of the Treasury C Jage or some subordinate acting under in structions sent out at the close of the fiscal year a hilarious and triumphal statement that the advance of pros perity was at last in sight because the receipts of money into Uncle Sams Treasury during the last six months I have exceeded the expenditures It is nhir inli ir wiioti shn - s i Ilot tIt hc condition of the masses of the population has improved that furnishes ground for this otiicial ulation it is because so much the more of the peoples money has been taken from them by tariff and orher tax legis lation Tin treasury h rrown richer in tin last six months but there is no evidence that the pockets of the com mon people have been any better tilled These millions oi course have come from tlio tariff taxes levied under the of 1MJ4 that bit of legislation which the AHison Dingloy Republicans are laboring to repeal in Congress and the repeal of which they had vainly hoped to present to McKinley for his signature before this Their own squabbles and disagreements have de layed their bill so long in the Senate Fruits prvd jiicsl20 per cent Raisins Currants Other Prunes ITps Dates trapes and peaches Pineapples Almonds shelled Other nuts shelled Poultry live IHsc per pound Icr pound Free Vfy per pound lc per pound 120 per cent 120 per cent 120 per cent e per pound 20 per cent 2e per pound that importers alarmed at threatened increase of duties have hurried up their importations and thus swelled the Custom House receipts Last Wed- 1 nesday saw the largest amount of I ties paid of which there is record j These anticipatory importations have willed out any hopes that the new tariff rates when they go into effect will produce any surplus On the contrary the markets being stocked the new duties are likely to fall short of the government needs Xew York Xews Another Republican Farce The anti trust talk in the Senate on the part of the Republican members and the pronunciamento of Secretary Sherman recently delivered in Xew York indicate that Republicans are be coming alarmed at the public condem nation of their friends the trusts It is alleged that the Judicial Com mittee of the Senate is now engsiged in devising an anti trust amendment to the tariff bill The task is didicult and if not cleverly done will throw a stum bling block in the way of the gresit rob ber game calied the tariff If the amendment is of such a nature is to be any real restriction on the op erations of the trusts there are Sena tors who may be depended upon to hang- up the tariff until a measure so obnoxious to their patrons shall be abandoned On the other hand unless pearanco of sincerity the people will not be pacified and the whole object of the juggle will be defeated There is not the least sincerity in the protestations of Republican leaders to the effect that they are opposed to trusts There is no more sincerity in that claim than there is in the claim that they desire to secure international action in favor of bimetallism The farce of Republican friendship for bimetallism has been played through and the participants are laughing at those who took the thing seriously But now there is another farce on the boards and that is the side splitting absurdity called Republican Animos ity to Trusts In the meantime- the Senate Judiciary Committee is having a hard time to contrive an amendment that shall placate the people and be ab solutely harmless to the trusts Ob in Democrncv The Deniociscy of Ohio have follow ed their felofw partisans of Xew Jer sey Iowa Kentucky and other States in straightforward declarations of their Democracy and in consolidating all the elements which adhere to their princi ples in advance ef this falls campaign Ohio as being the Presidents own State and as having been so shameful ly bullied and deceived in last years campaign will be a center of interest this fall Ilanna the owner of the President is determined to ge to the Senate if possible To get a foothold there he was obliged to retire old John Sherman overcome Bushnell with Fed- oral patronage and conciliate Foraker He has conquered all his own party and now to get a full Senatorial term he has to fight the Democrat The battle will be hot and heavy all through the rural districts of Ohio Barge expenditures of money in the legislative districts will be necessary The Democratic papers say That Ilanna is prepared for this ami that a portion of the immense contributions which were lodged in his hands for the Presi dential canvass of 1SJXI were not ex pended at the time simply because all was spent that could possibly be need ed He is therefore regarded as heel ed for the encounter The Democratic Stafe convention contrary to usage did not name a Senatorial candidate The Republican State convention named Hanna Our friends in Ohio feel confident of redeeming their State and leading back the Northwest to Democracy New York News Not Built That Way If the United States Senate was half as much interested in the welfare of the country as it has shown itself to be in that of the mi gar trust and other spe cial interests it has had to deal with there would be no trouble about pass ing a resolution to create a currency conimisMon while the Conference Com mittee is completing the tarifl bill Bit the Senate is not constituted that way The welfare or the country is the last thing a Senator thinks of before he retires at night and by morning he has forgotten it again Pittsburg Dispatch A Giiic o Grnh The whole Tariff question has now seemingly degenerated to a high-handed game of grab between various interests each striving to get as much OOOOOQOOW o 3 o o o o o t o o o HOW THE SENATE WOULD TAX A POOR MANS FOOD Article Cheese iiitter Milk fresh lie ins 1irkles inl sauces ililijes Cider KKS II1V Honey Hops Onions Potatoes Linseed 5arden seed Straw Vegetables Fish in cans other tkh Apples green or ripe Preserved apples Cinder Iresjit rate 4e per pound -le per pound Free per cent ro per cent Free Free He per doen - per ton 10c per gal Se per pound 2iU per Imshel le per liushel 120c per bushel 10 per cent l per cent 10 per cent JO per cent 121 per cent 120 per cent SO per cent SO per cent Senate rate fie per pound Oe per pound 2t per srai per bushel per cent c each ne per railon oe per dozen S0 per ton 120c per gallon Increase in dutv S 12112iH 1000 OMK MlOOO tjooo soai v llDDO 40001 Ml iono 112c per pound linnoi 40c per bushel 120c per bushel 2e per bushel 12 per cent S10 per ton 12 per cent So per cent SO per cciir 12 per cent per cent per cent per cent 12c per pound 12c per pound 12c per pound 12c per pound 12c per pound c per p uiid 120c per cubic foot ic per cubic foot 7c per pound lc per pound ic per pound 120010 0000 srooo roio 7000 40000 4000 120101 1S000 sooo 2000 1000 r 1000 10000 iOO000 n000 00000 ltOOO K 10 110000 s1000 10000 4000 Y TtI 22S0X O o as possible from the other and each seeking to shift the reasonable burden of taxation that belongs to it The chief purpose of the bill appears to have bees lost sijrht of in this scramble and the question of filling the r cy gup has really become i secondary 1 -- one Boston Traveler False to hir Pledges With sin eye single to the completion of the tariff bill and the liquidation of campaign debts the Republicans have thrust aside one after the other of the anti trust amendments offered to them Always they promised that in -rood tipie they the worshipful majority in the Senate would prepare a fit amend ment to the tariff bill pass it and see the trusts vanish like a punctured sfap bubble And now the tariff bill has gone to the conference bereft of any anti trust sections and Congress stands ready to adjourn leaving the people helpless in the grasp of the moucwo lists Xew York Journal The TariiT Iin IK an Imposition Xot only is the bill an ouiraxeous im position upon the consumers of the country bur there is grave reason to fear that as a yielder of revenue it will prove sadly inadequate Hut its en actment cannot be averted and the country must make the best of it It has come to stay for at least four years business nion tii the amendment has least the an 1 - -111 i 1 1 1 - 1 i tin ili i 1 urniMi 1 it 1 r tl in- 1 v i u n 1 visions without delay We do not be lieve it will bring prosperity but pros perity may and we sincerely hope it will come in spite of it Rocheier Herald Patience Mnst He Near an Kud We do not believe the intelligent peo ple of this country will Jong remain content with a system of taxation made not for the primary purpose of putting money into the treasury for the common uses of the country but for the purpose of taking money from some of the people aud puttingit into the purses of other people These will never we believe be content with any such system of privilege and advantage as high protection creates Indianapo lis Xews 3Ionoolys 1 Idict i 4h r Aw3 J j Yy SENATE AND HOUSE WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW MAKERS A Wccko Proceed injes in the Halls of Congress Important Measures Dis cussed and Acted Upon An Impar tial Resume of the Uusiness The National Solons A discussion of Union Pacific Railroad affairs occupied the attention of the Sen ate Monday The deficiency appropria tion bill ais taken up early in the day and Mr Morgan proposed an amendment slesiirned to prevent the eonstniiination of an agreement made sonic time since for the settlement of the Governments claims gainst the road Mr Morgan spoke throughout the day severely ar raigning the Pacific railroad managers Late in the day the entire subject was disposed of by the withdrawal of the paragraph to which Mr Morgan had of fered his The deficiency appropriation hill was not completed up to the time of adjournment The price to he paid for armor plate for the three new hattic hipt now in course of construction was the theme of extended and at times lively debate in the Senate Tuesday Late iu the day an amendment to the deficiency appro priation bill was agreed to restricting the price of armor plate to ifllin ptr ton or SlU ess than the amendment reported by the committee and recommended by the miry department as the minimum rate acceptable to the armor contractors Another amendment inserted in tkel 11 directed the Secretary of the Navy toln vestigate as to the establishment of a government armor factory and to report to the next session of Congn s Then he deficiency appropriation bill the last of tilt- great supply measures was passed The House took a recess for one Say without transacting any business The Senate was in a deadlock for sev eral hoir AVednesday with business at 1 standstill while calls of the Senate roll -alls other parliamentary expedients were resorted to It was due t the ef fort to si cure action on the resolutions of Mr Harris of Kansas design- to pre vent the disposal of the Government lien on the Lnion Paeilic Railway under the terms of an alleged agreement Xo final vote 011 the motion was secured It finally went over In the Mr Henderson of Iowa asked unanimous con sent for the eonsidoiution of a joint res olution t permit the erection of a tem porary studio on the future site of the statue of Gen Sherman for the erection of which a contract has been made The resolution was adopted Mr Gannon moved iioii concurrence in the Senate amendment to the genera defieiency bill The motion prevailed and Messrs Can non Xorthway and Sayers were appoint ed conferees Mr Stewart moved in the Senate Thursday a reconsideration of the action of the Senate in passing the resolution directing the Secretary of War to pro ceed in the construction of a breakwater at San Pedro Cal It reopened the I standing controversy over of a deep Vi iter harbor on the Pa and led to an exciting deb tN coist between - j Mr Stev urt and Mr Whin of GaTiforiiia The motion to reconsider to -Air Ihurston chairman f Cjk i mittee on International Exp iloii cured the passage of the resolution accepting the invitation of ii- French republic to take part in the interna iiial exposition at Paris in IlKJO dr Tiiimau secured the passage of the bin relation to the interstate transportation of dis tilled spirits and declaring such spirits to bo subject to State laws to the same extent as spirits distilled in the State The House did nothing In the Senate Friday the Harris reso lution relating to the Union Pacific Rail road was further discussed Th confer ence report on the deficiency appropria tion biM was considered Mr Hale said the price of armor plate wa te t included in the n port Nothing had been done n that subject except that the Se nate r onfeives had stated positively that tin Senate would not consider any sum over KJ0 for aimor The report was agreed to and a further conference ordered Mr Morgan m cured the adoption of a resolu tion requesting the President for informa tion as to the arrest of Alfred O II Iltig net a citizen of the United State- by the Spanish authorities at Havana Sept 1SIMI On motion of Mr Ifttignnv of South 1akota the bill was parsed to give the consent of Congress to a compact en tered into between the Stat of South akota and Nebraska repcting the noundary between said State The House agreed to the partial conference report on the general deSci ny hill and then concurred in the Senate amend ment iixing the limit of cxt of armor date rr the three battle ships now btiild ng at per ton How Fast This sounds as if it came from the variety stage Rut as a matter of fact it is history for occasionally funuy things do happen in the courts besides the lawyers It was in a negligence case recently and a good humored Irishman was a witness The Judge lawyers and everybody else were trying their best to extract from the Irishman something about the speed of a train Was it going fast asked the Judge Aw vis it were answered the wit ness How fast Oh purty fasht jer Honor Well how fast A iv purty fasht Was it as fast as a man can rtani Aw vis said the Irishman glad that the basis for ttn analogy was sup plied As fasht as two niin kin rtm Buffalo Enquirer A Bill to Match The Jersey Boniface Did that fellowr pay for his room in advance The Clerk Yes bnt he lacked at the size of the bill said it was out of all proportion The Jersey Boniface Then unchain my pet mosquito Truth Feminine Repartee She Of course you all talked about me as soon as I left Her Xo dear we thought you had attended to that sufficiently Tit Bits