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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1897)
I -- 1 h IV K ft XS P In t -4 A r r THE IOWA CAMPAIGN The Iowa Republican Stale conven tion was ruled from first to last by the machine aud gang which has long con xrolled the politics of the State But by Ihe strategy which a political gang al ways employs the candidates having -the gang brand and certificate were de feated They were defeated by gang tactics The most conspicuous fact in Iowa politics is that the men closely con nected with the administration for the last four years of Republican rule have brought reproach to the State and have been denounced as unavailable for re nomination This was their reward for continuous and humiliating obedience to the dictates of the machine in mat ters of corrupt legislation and bad ad jninistrative management Governor Frank D Jackson elected in 1S93 was a swift and willing agent of the machine in aiding its efforts to make the legislation of the State ac cord with the designs of the great mo nopolies and of corrupt interests of Tarious description in all parts of the v State lie became so odious to the peo f pie that he was compelled to withdraw in lSOo as a candidate for reuomination The Republican party did not dare to go into the campaign of that year with Iiim as its leader When Jackson was forced out of the field as a candidate for reuomination in ISJo Francis M Drake was nominated as the Republican candidate for Gov ernor and was elected His administra tion was such that he feared the result if he should again ask the verdict of the people at the polls and he drew out The Republican candidate for Gov ernor of Iowa this year is Leslie M Shaw described as a lawyer and local banker without a political record of jiny kind and acceptable only because nobody knows enough about him to say anything against him But Jackson was nominated for Governor in lS9o and Drake was nominated in 1S93 for precisely the same reason Neither dared to appear as a candidate for re nomination Probably the same fate If he shall be elected awaits Mr Shaw t lu no other State in the Union is there a more rotten condition of politics than that which has existed in Iowa since the Republican restoration in 1S94 For the previous four years un- dcr the Democratic administration of Governor Ilorace Boies there had been -economy honesty and thrift in the management of State affairs Taxes 1iad ho roduood in proportion to the increase in the value or properly The State was more prosperous from 1S90 -to 1S04 than it ever was before or has been since A Democratic restoration is needed for the best interests ot the State and its people Chicago Chron acle Surar Trust and Farmers Providence has given the farmer a glimpse of prosperity by providing a large crop of wheat in the United rStates and a short crop everywhere else The Republican party has given the Sugar Trust prosperity by passing the iniquitous Dingley tariff bill Next year the worlds crop of wheat may be large all over the world then the farm ers of this country will discover that the Republican party has done nothing lor them and their wheat will be hard -to sell at HO cents a bushel But the Sugar Trust will go right on reaping a liarvest of unearned gold Last March before McKinleys ex traordinary session of Congress met Sugar Trust stock was worth some thinglike U3 to day it is worth about 130 This gives the Sugar Trust a tidy little profit of 2S000000 Tiie farmer cannot make his wheat -grow nature must provide the proper conditions and he cannot sell it at a good price unless the demand is good But the Sugar Trust protected by Re publican legislation can raise a crop of dollars amounting to millions for every -eighth of a cent increase to the pound on sugar The farmers along with all other consumers will have the priv ilege of contributing to this fund for the benefit of the trust Statements that Do Not Ajirec We are told in one breath by the Re publican organs that the effect of the Dingley tariff will be to restrict im portations and thus insure a favorable lalance of trade and in the next breath that the Dingley tariff will also in crease the revenues and keep the treas ury full of gold Unless there shall be large importations there cannot be a large revenue collected from importa lions If the Dingley law shall stop im portations it will stop revenue Phila delphia Record Phlebotomy on the New Plan It used to be thought necessary when anyone got sick to bleed the suf ferer as a preliminary to the restoration of health We now know that this was a delusion and a mistake But there are thousands of credulous per sons who think that the passage of a law increasing federal taxation and bleeding the pockets of the people will cure the business sickness which af flicts the country In due season this delusion will also pass away Phila delnhia Record Half a Million Daily Deficit The tariff for revenue does not seem to be filling requirements The receipts from customs under the new law continue small averaging about 4S20OOOO a day while it will take an SK average of 500000 a day to wipe out the deficit The whole of the govern ment revenue collected for this month amounts to about 910000000 while the expenditures are over 18000000 Pros perity cannot stand such inequality be tween expenditure and income tery long Indianapolis News Silver Sentiment Growinc Those who flatter themselves that the free silver sentiment of this country is dying out are lacking in powers of ob servation or are guilty of shutting their ejes in order that they may not see Colonel Dlenri Watterson is an experi enced politician and yet in a recent speech he made the following reckless assertion As a political issue the free and independent coinage of silver at a ratio of 10 to 1 or at any other ratio is as dead as the institution of African slavery It is worthy of note that the New York World a strong advocate of the monometallic gold standard takes oc casion to criticise the opinion expressed by Colonel Watterson In discussing this matter the World says From this statement we must dissent It does not correctly state the actual situation We wish it did But no good and much harm may come from deceiving our selves with such an optimistic but un fortunately untrue view of existing po litical conditions It is best always to see and recog nize the truth even though we would prefer it were not so And the sober undeniable truth is that the free silver issue is neither dead nor sleeping Our esteemed contemporary is emi nently right in its view of the situation The sentiment in favor of free silver was never as strong in the United States as it is to day Aside from the fact that logic and reason are all on the side of free silver the corruption and of the Republican party tend to destroy its influence and to strengthen the Democracy The World concludes its comment on the situation by saying There is in fact grave danger of a popular reaction against the national verdict of 1S90 which may enable the free silver coali tion to cany some very important elec tions this year and perhaps the next House and at the same time gain con trol of the almost evenly balanced Sen ate next year It is evident that the advocates of gold are beginning to see the handwrit ing on the wall The enemies of the people have been weighed in the bal anc and found wanting The downfall of the party of trusts and taxes is ap proaching Chicago Dispatch McKinley and the Stump It is hardly possible the report that President McKinley is going to stump Ohio during the State campaign can be true The assertion that the President of the United States will descend to the squabble of a party campaign is made with a good degree of particularity by the New York Sun as follows Presi dent McKinley will make a railroad tour of the State not as a stump speak er but in a modest fashion talking for the ticket from the platform of his rail road car Surely the Sun must have been misinformed President McKin ley has too high an appreciation of the dignity of the office which he holds to imitate Andrew Johnson the only chief executive who ever stooped to such a course Mark Hanna it is true did a great deal for Major McKinley during the Presidential campaign and Mark Han na will need all the help he can get this autumn in his Ohio canvass but while the junior Senator from Ohio knows the exigencies of the occasion he also knows the game of politics too well to put his friend the President in such a light before the people of the United States The Sun is unusually correct in matters of fact but in this instance it appears as though its careful and clev er editor had been shamefully victim ized Chicago Dispatch Great Time for the Farmer This has been a marvelous month for the farmers Farmer Joseph Leiter has made 300000 Farmer Charles Pillsbury has made 500000 Farmer William T Baker has made 330000 Farmer D R Francis has made 300000 Farmer George B French has made 200000 Farmer J Tierpont Morgan has made 1000000 Saved by Dinjrey United States wheat shipments are 5218000 bushels for the week as against 2992000 for the same period last year This enormous increase is of itself an exposition of the cause of higher prices But what a fortunate j thing it is that the Dingley bill poses a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat and of 20 cents a bushel on corn If it were not for that the farmer would have to meet the competition of the for eigner in the home market Last year all of 4000 buhsels of corn were import ed and of course they played the deuce with the priceof the 2000000000 bushels that were produced here Thanks to Dingley we shall have no more of this ruthless slaughter The farmer is protected now Chicago Journal Consumers Will Pay as Usual The average advance of S2 a ton m the price of structural steel reported from Cleveland will go into the cost of new buildings and thus into rents Not a cent of it will go iuto the United States treasury and unless foreigners are encouraged by the Dingley bill to move to the United States Americans will have to pay it aud as much more as the structural steel combination feels able to add to it New York World The Kxodus from the Farm The policy that makes agriculture un profitable shows a vital defect Men will leave the farm so long as protec tion takes from agriculture aud gives to industry They will run for office so long as official salaries and perquisites so greatly exceed the average earnings in private life An honest frugal gov ernment bestowing equal and exact justice to all and grautiug special piiv ileges to none would so ennoble the farm that the present exodus avouIU cease Dallas Tex News For Lincoln and for Hanna Strange as it may seem there are men still living who voted for Lincoln and who expect to vote for the election of Mark Hanna to the Senate Since the creation of the world no two men in the same or in opposition parties have been less like than Abraham Lincoln and Marcus A Hanna It scarcely seems possible that they could belong to the same race Columbus O Press Trusts or Government Must Fall As monopolistic combinations profit ing by oppression aud by the abuse of governmental powers the trusts as sault the bulwarks of just government One or the other must fall If the trusts XXOCXCOCCXC2CXC FALL IN THE PRICE of SILVER Loss to the United States on Bullion Purchased QUI C IT 2 I This Is What Makes Republicans Happy COCCX0CCCXOCXC are to survive as useful agents of socie ty they must be the servants and not attempt to be the masters of the people St Louis Post Dispatch Brief Comment What a wonderful thing the tariff is to force up the price of wheat so In dianapolis News Senator Foraker of Ohio is not talk ing much these days This is equiva lent to saying he is working and Mark Hanna had better keep his eyes on him Peoria Journal The Dingley newspapers are telling of a return of the wages of 1S92 But the wages in 1S92 were no higher than the wages in 1S90 before the passage of the McKinley tariff The sponsor of the law never responded to the Demo cratic challenge to point to an increase of wages in a single protected industry as a result of the heavy increase of du ties which he engineered New York World The theory of the new feudalism dif fers little from the old except that its scope has been enlarged and that It substitutes the rule of cunning for the rule of might and just as before a hammer will be found large enough this time not only to break but to shat ter the new feudalism even though to fashion that hammer notions respect ing many matters must be revised The thought of the world is even now forg ing that hammer Des Moines Leader Wheat is going up in price because of a foreign demand due to exceptional but logical causes Woolen clothing for man woman and child blankets and carpets are advancing in price becauso of the tariff Thisredounds to the ben efit of Dingley and other manufactur ers who imported vast quantities o wool in anticipation of increased du ties The treasury gets no benefit from it but the trusts do Pittsburg -Post The farmer is the blood of life to pro tection Once let him find out that he is a poor deluded wight that it is not the 57 per cent tariff but his wheat and corn and hay and cotton that make this country rich and prosperous and he will refuse any longer to tax himself in order that the manufacturers may make money enough to build fine houses and draw big checks to the or der of the treasurer of the Republican National Committee New York Times Oxygen Gas as a Healer A hospital has been opened in Lon don for the treatment of wounds ul cers and kindred ailments by oxygen gas The new method of treatment was suggested by the Zulus When they are wounded they climb an eminence and expose their wounds to the pure air of the mountain tops After the Turco Russian war it was noticed also that the invalids sat with their wound ed limbs bare on the deck Scientifical ly developed and with the addition of oxygen one part of oxygen to one part of purified air that is the principle now adopted at the oxygen home Between a womans yes and no a man could stick a pin A NOTES ON EDUCATION MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PLN PIL AND TEACHER The Teacher Should Be Particular About His Personal Appearance Total Attendance in All the Schools of the United States The Teachers Appearance An untidy slouchy eccentric sloven ly person should never stand before a class as a teacher in the schoolroom Such as have contracted the habits of squinting the eyes puckering and twisting and sticking out the lips wrinkling the forehead arching the eyebrows looking wise at nothing parting the feet while waiting for an swer to a question or any other indica tion of displeasure or indifference to the work in hand will be weak and un even In holding or instructing pupils A neat but homely person whose mind is active whose actions and manner are always considerate whose heart is kind whose sympathies are broad and deep will always beget in the hearts of the children love and respect A com bination of ugliness ill nature sloven liness and mental deformity united with disagreeable physical habits is enough to disgust the children Sun shine should always be brought into the schoolroom not offensive odors or loathsome objects Children as well as grown people reverence knowledge which the teacher has in hand So do they like those bodily traits and intel lectual and moral qualities which mark so clearly the man or the woman from those of lower aims and purposes in life They know at once the difference between garlic and a bunch of roses They feel more comfortable when they see white cuffs and a white collar than a few scattered samples of the last meal on the shirt front or vest In the circulars sent out by the teacL ers agencies these questions are usual ly inserted What is the applicants personal appearance Any peculiari ties Any physical defects I would be the last person to inveigh against the misfortunes of others but ugly teachers as well as good looking teach ers should possess a good education scholarly tastes and instincts gentle and refined manners a kind and sym pathetic heart in the closest touch with each pupil a will that guides rather than drives and controls easily and naturally without an apparent effort Since children are influenced much by example inwardly as well as out wardly the personal appearance of the teacher is one of the silent yet most po tent influences of the schoolroom Clean rooms desks and books clean neat and tidy teachers and pupils tasteful pictures elegant language noble thoughts and actions tend to make character firm strong and beautiful The very school atmosphere moves the school A disgruntled cynical teacher snarling and snapping at this thing and that will turn a schoolroom into a pris on from which the children will break out into open rebellion upon the slight est provocation And a principal of the same misanthropic doleful counte nance who is continually descanting on the failures of the human race is miasmatic enough to infect all tho teachers and pupils of a large school A good natured intelligent sympathet ic genial neat and tidy teacher should be in every room Pupils must be properly prepared for the schoolroom and the same law ex cept in a higher sense applies to those who teach Kansas City School Re port Lesson in Verse If you can spell every word correctly in the following rhymes all legitimate expressions you may consider yourself qualified to enter a spelling bee Stand up ye spellers now and spell Spell phenakistescope and knell Or take some simple word as chilly Or gauger or the garden lily To spell such words as syllogism And lachrymose and synchronism And Pentateuch and saccharine Apocrypha and celadine Lactiferous and cecity Jejune and homeopathy Paralysis and chloroform Phinoceros and pachyderm Metempsychosis gherkins basque Is certainly no easy task Kaleidoscope and Tennessee Kanitchatka and dispensary Diphthong and erysipelas And etiquette and sassafras Infallible and ptyalism Allopathy and rheumatism And cataclysm and beleaguer Twelfth eighteenth rendezvous intriguer And hosts of other words all found On English and on classic ground Thus Behring Straits and Michaelmas Thermopylae Cordilleras Suit hemorrhage jalap Havana Clinquefoil and ipecacuanha And Rappahannock Shenandoah And Schuylkill and a thousand more Are words some prime good spellers misa In dictionary lands like this Nor need one think himself a scroyle If some of these his efforts foil Nor deem himself undone forever To miss the name of either river The Dnieper Seine or Guadalquivir New Orleans Times Democrat Enrollment in the Fchools The report of the United States Com missioner of Education Dr William T Harris for the year ended July 1 1S96 has been completed It brings the edu cational progress of the country up to that date and embraces the latest sta tistics the bureau had gathered The report showjya total enrollment in that year in the schools and colleges both public and private of 15997197 pupils This is an increase of 30S575 Tka number in public institutions was 14 405371 and in private institutions 1 531S25 In addition to all these there were 41S000 pupils in the various spe cial schools and institutions including business colleges music conservatories Indian and reform schools making the grand total enrollment for the whole country 1G415197 y f BABOON A SOUTH AFRICAN PEST Prey on Valuable Stock and Delight In MischicvouH Deeds The South African colonists have got rid of their lions and elephants but they have not yet been able to get the better of the baboons A baboon al though somewhat like a dog has all the mischlevousness of a man It is the ugliest animal in all creation The Boers call him Adonis and never des ignate him under the official name that has been given to him by science Now this creature is the curse of tho Cape colony He commits depredations for the love of the thing Any impru dent tomcat that ventures too faraway from home is sure to be captured and strangled for fun by a baboon Nearly all the Angoras the choices and most costly animals imported by the colon ists have been destroyed by these huge monkeys Even the dogs share the same fate The bravest and most pug nacious of the English canine breeds are unable to cope with adversaries armed with just as powerful jaws and with the immense advantage of having four hands instead of four paws With a dexterity that conspicuously exhibits his surgical aptitudes the baboon bleeds his enemy in the throat and in less than a minute the duel ends in the death of the dog When the shepherd is away and the dog has been disposed of the flock is left without defense Although the baboon generally feeds upon lizards an beetles he does not despise a few mouthfuls of mutton which he de vours seated on the back of his living victim Unfortunate are the goats and sheep that are attacked by these cyno cephali When Adonis finds his appe tite fully satisfied he enjoys at a little distance the contortions of his victim He frequently attacks cows but never atempts to get into close quarters -with a bull The ostrich thanks to its extra ordinary speed can easily get away from the baboon but it is very much afraid of him and immediately runs off on hearing his bark It is note worthy that nature has given the ba boon not only the head of a dog but also the voice of a dog All birds that are not remarkable for their intelli gence have an insurmountable dread of the C3nocephalus One of the principal amusements oi these big monkeys is to gambol around the wire fences that protect the tame ostriches just to terrify them The pan ic among them is so great that they often break their legs in their wild rushes This is a pastime which the monkeys seem to enjoy hugely It is known that a broken leg for an ostrich means a death sentence Paris Figaro Dying Words oi Famous Persons It is well Washington I must sleep now Byron Head of the anny Napoleon Dont give up the ship Lawrence Let the light enter Goethe Independence forever Adams Is this your fidelity Nero Give Dayrolles a chair Lord Ches terfield It is the last of earth J Q Adama God preserve the emperor Haydn A dying man does nothing well Franklin Let not poor Nelly starve Charles II What ds there no bribing death Cardinal Beaufort All my possessions for a moment of time Queen Elizabeth It matters little now the head lietih Sir Waiter Raleigh Clasp my hand my dear friend 1 die Alfieri I feel as if I wore to be myself again Sir Walter Scott Let me die to the sound of delicious music Mirabeau I have loved God my father and liberty Mme de Stael It is small very small indeedr clasping her neck Anne BoJeyn I pray you see me safe up and for my coming down let me shift for my self ascending the scaffold Sii Thomas More Dont let that awkward squad fire over my grave Burns I resign my soul to God and mj daughter to my country Thomas Jefferson I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government I wash them carried out I ask nothing more Harrison I have endeavored to do my duty Taylor You spoke of refreshment my Em ilie take my last notes sit down to my piano here sing them with the hymn of 5our sainted mother let me hear once more those notes wliicli have so long been my solacement and delight Mozart God bless you my dear Dr John son God bless you Is that you Dora Wordsworth Now it is come John Knox Dying dying Hood How grand those rays they seem to beckon earth to heaven the sun was shining brilliantly into the room ic which he was laying Humboldt Treasure Ships that Have Snnlc Some of the famous treasure ships which lie at the bottom of the sea in clude LOrient sunk by Nelson at the battle of the Nile with 300000C aboard the Latune sunk in the Zuydei Zee with 7000000 in her hold the De Brake lost off Delaware bay witt Spanish bullion and the ship Goldei Gate which went down off Capp Hafe teras while returning from Calirornis in the 0s loaded with gold Official statistics show that 2000 vessels art sunk annually the vessels and cargcci being valued at 5100000000 The At lantic and Pacific coasts are strewn with old and new wrecks many lader with valuable cargoes Most persons think their trade is so vaiuable that merchants would fail should they patronize other stores Keep Away from Street Cars The Idiot who rides through the norm or west side tunnel during the busy hours says a Chicago paper Is fit com panion for the fool who gets In front ol a street car on the level and grinningly keeps there until forced to vacate Next in aslninlty come those who race along side of or follow the cars How so many of them escape broken bones is a mystery In riding close to a car eith er beside or in the rear the rider cannot be too careful There is no telling when a passenger may jump off or when some other cyclist may cut directly in front of the car or cross directly In the rear Then again the car may come to sudden stop when the rider Is wholly unprepared The most dangerous rid ing of any is to follow a car between the tracks It is true that on some streets this part of the highway is ther most desirable for cyclists yei another car Is apt to come up suddenly and thet rider will find himself in a ment It is a fools exploit to ride be 1 tween the pace when two cars aret passing in opposite directions Tho slight swerve of the wheel is apt to mean a serious injury perhaps a fatal- ity and in no circumstances are the conditions such as to warrant such a feat It takes a steady head and aj steadj hand to steer a machine through such a tight place There is no need of giving such a performance and the best thing is to let it alone Dont Wear Noisy Clothes The deplorable lack of taste shown by wheelmen in selecting their suits iS matter of frequent comment In no particular is this more conspicuous than as to sweaters Recently two young fellows were seen in sweatersj calculated to make the observer bil i Ious One was of sickly green the other of Chinese yellow Either one alone would have been a horror in it- self but seen together the effect was so shocking as almost to provoke in the spectator Occasionally too a woman is seen in costume indi j eating total lack of good judgment Af woman looks well on the wheel provid ed she Is careful to dress in quiet colors with clothes that fit her Quiet clothes are essential and the leggings should come somewhat near matching the cloth The hat should be a plain Alpine or Derby or golf without ornamenta tion so that there is nothing conspicu ous about it With these things and a fair control of the bicycle any woman will look well while enjoying the most invigorating exercise Dismounting in a Hurry A wheelman may ride for years without getting into a position where an emergency dismount is necessary but when the necessity self lie needs the knowledge quite asj much as a Texan under certain circum j stances needs his gun The surest and safest way to dismount safely Is to grasp the handle bars firmly and spring with both from the pedals off the seat backward so as to land in the positionr one would be in when about to mount from the step Hold fast to the handlej bars It is amazing how quickly one can stop in this way after a little prac j tice It possesses the advantage ofl bringing the wheel between one and anj obstacle in front Another dismount which one should practice is the right side dismount It is often impossible to dismount from the left side when an obstacle comes suddenly from that side and when one can dismount from the right as well as the left side it is a great advantage The First Attempt Rather a Tall Story A New York paper says that several members of the Bushwick Vheelmen while riding through Newark had am odd experience One rider rode over ai horseshoe with half a dozen ugly nails sticking up throwing it to one side an other rider caught it and passing over it also threw it to one side where an- other rider did the same thing and so on until six of the party had ridden over the shoe Not one of the cyclists had his tires punctured or even scratched Cyclometers Are you the new girl asked Mr Wheeler coming down to breakfasts Yes sir replied the maid Whatr make of wheel do you ride Yonkersr Statesman Hobson How are you getting on with your bicycle Dobson Samej way as usual I havent learned the pedal mount yet New York cial Advertiser Mamma what is the bicycle indus try Well it must be the way we allj have to hop around and wait on your father when he takes a notion to cleani his wheel Detroit Free Press First wheelman Who is that oldj fellow I see him riding quite fre quently Second wheelman TbatisJ Dr Bolus who wrote a pamphlet a fewj years ago to prove that bicycling is In j jurious Brooklyn Life