THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
L M BICE , I'ub Ifther.
TALENTINE , NEBRASKA.
if people wore as wise as they think
they are the unexpected would never
happen.
It is suggested that if Andrew Car
negie really fears to die rich he might
hold a world's fair.
The physician who discovers the
first case of perityphlitis in his patients
Is sure of five advertising.
There is no limit to the possibilities
of a country that can have snowstorms
In June and sunstrokes in January.
It may be better to give than to re
ceive. but the girl who is trying on hei
engagement ring doesn't look at it that
way.
Many a man thinks the world has i
spite against him , when the work
doesn't know that there is "any such a
person. "
Noah probably was the first captain
of industry. At least it is only fair to
suppose that he saw to the watering of
the stock.
Uncle Russell Sage says he has been
working for nearly seventy years. He
has also put in about the same amount
of time in omitting to be worked by
others.
America is supposed to be the place
where the Almighty Dollar is wor
sniped , but Americans do not bet
money on the life or death of a sick
man who is official head of the nation
A statute representing a firecracker
boy has been raised in one of the Chi
cago parks. It shows him as he is 01
the glorious Fourth. Now let the old
maids and old bachelors raise a fund
for a statue showing the firecracker
boy as he appears on the Fifth.
Another woman has shot the man
who refused to marry her. Just why
shooting a man should make him more
willing to marry , provided he survives ,
is not easy to understand. The man
who will not wed with-a whole skin is
hardly likely to yearn for the woman
who perforates it.
, Young Alfonso's matrimonial iuten
tions offer possibilities to our ambitious
young women whose papas have made
a pile in pork or sugar or steel. Consid
ering the state of Alfonso's bank ac
count , he should come as cheap as a
French marquis and at a great deal
lower figure than an English duke.
Sealed bids should be sent in at once.
"Buffalo and Boston day nurseries are
training young girls to' be nurse
maids. The course in the P.oston insti
tution , occupying .six months , qualifies
a girl to feed and wash the baby.7g.pok
and sew for him. amuse him in various
ways , and tench him morals and man
ners aftei the method of the kinder
garten. The demand for these knowl
edgeable maidens groatly exceeds the
supply , it is said. Yet it can hardly
be maintained that the business of
baby-tending is "a new profession for
The onlj flar ever .allowed to float
above the Stars awl .Stripes on the ves
sels of our navy is the rhurch flag , a
broad wli'ije streamer with 'a blue
cross , fts presence marks one of the.
most imp'ressive sights on shipboard
the sacred service held every Sunday
moruinir. attended by all ollicers and
men. Nearly all the denominations , in
their national assemblies , have lately
protested ajrfin : * t the growing seculari |
zation-of the Lord's day. In at least
on'e branch of the government service ,
the navy. Sunday has gained , rather
than lost with the years in tokens of
respect.
Most old saws are nutshells full of
ancient and accepted errors and one ot
the most.ancient , the most generally
accepted and the most erroneous of
all is the saying that a rolling stoue
jrathers no moss. The saying has
blocked many a young man's first step
to fortune and a career. Unless a man
doc-s a moderate amount of rolling lie
will .settle in a rut and go on , forever ,
never rising and never improving. Op
portunity must be sought. It may be
lhat all things come to him who waits ,
nut it conies much more quickly to him
\vho goes out looking * for it. ( Tpportu-
uity , like a woman , yields more readily
to an ardentoocr. . :
.
Perhaps no missionary ever preached
in more parts of the world than the late
P.ishop William Taylor of the Mctho-
ilist Church , whose death has been
noted recently. He went to California
ns a missionary along with the "forty- i
niners ; " then he preached in Canada. :
Thence he went to England and the
rontinent. visiting Egypt and the Jloly
hand , holding evangelistic services
wherever it was possible. Later he
worked in Australia , Tasmania , New
calami , India. South Africa , the Congo
pgion , the West Indies , and in various
ountries in South and Central Amer- :
2a. thus covering every continent and
he islands of the sea. He literally went
nto all the world , preaching the gospel.
One reason why there is apprehension
In Enylam1 over the possible death of
King Edward is that there is little con
fidence in the heir apparent. The Duke
of York may have king timber in him , )
hut ho has not shown it. lie is an uu-
s .Vial sort of man and disposed to like
books better than sports. He doesn't
seem to have any red.blood.In his veins
along with his blue blodd. The aver-
age P.ritisher likes his king to be dig
nified , all right , but he wants him to
be democratic also. That is one rea
son why Edward is popular. As Prince
of Wales he was unconventional , so
cial , hearty , democratic. Edward is
not only democratic in his manners and
tastes but in his views of things. In
politics he is liberal and broadininded.-
He was an intense admirer of our
Elaine in the latter's day and was a
sympathetic follower and friend of
Gladstone even when that great Eng
lishman was unpopular at his mother's
court. Ills vote in the ilouse of Lords
was always on the liberal side and
there is no doubt he greatly aided the
Boer peace negotiat'ions. The king has
been considerable of a sport in his time , ,
*
but that has not hurt him much In the
estimation of the English. Much is for
given to royalty where royalty is the
fashion. England's king has not given
to the royal house that veneration and
deep respect which Victoria command
ed. It was not in him "to do that. His ,
career as prince did not fit him for'
playing such a part. But he has made
the most of himself since he came to'
the throne and few kings have been
more popular.
Probably the recent train robbery
will set some undoubtedly brave men
to declaring what they would havfr
done if they had been on the engine or
in the express car. They think they
would have made a fight of it. History
shows that they would not. No matter !
how brave a man Is , he succumbs tO
(
"the drop" when it is held on him by
a man who has every reason to shoot
at the slightest sign of resistance. The ;
records of far Western stage robberies ,
show that hundreds of ttfe coolest ;
bravest men on this continent or in1'
the world , for that matter have
ranged themselves at the side of a road/ /
while a single highwayman "wentS
through" them. Given an even chance
and any one of them would have made
a battle of it. Given only a fighting
chance , probably half of them would
have accepted it. But to invite practi
cally certain death is a height of bra
very that is not reached in resisting
highwaymen. It is attained only by
soldiers in the performance of their
duty , by life savers inspired by the
grandest of motives and by enthusiasts
religious , political or social who are
willing to die that the cause which
they advocate shall prosper. The man
who is "held up" by a robber is not a
coward by any means. He declines to
stake his life against his valuables , for
that is really the issue. Shall I risk
my life for a few dollars ? is the que
tion he has to answer. There is no
great principle at stake. He can
achieve no great glory if he comes out
of the conflict victorious ; he loses his
life if he suffers defeat. In such a
position most men will do what the1
trainmen did hold up their hands. A
man can recoup his financial fortunes ,
but he can't rekindle the vital spark'
once it has been snuffed out.
One of the strangest divorce cases on ,
record deals with Mrs. Margaret Hud
son Thomas , of Brooklyn. She sued
Frank L. Thomas , The * meat in the
case is that Frank "got mad' ' about
something and stopped talking. They
lived together , ate together , and not a
word passed his lips. At table ho
would pull out a little tab and write :
"Pass the butter. " or "The meat is
rare. " or some other bit of informa
tion , and solemnly hand it to his wife ,
She stood two ye.-irs of it and then lefrj
him. A good woman will suffer much
to avoid scandal. She will hide shanu !
iind tears , and suffer mental and .sVnno-
times physical torture , sooner than
spread her sorrow before the rude eyes
of : i public that sometimes , smile * !
when it should be sympathetic. The
man who punishes "his woman" by
refusing to speak to her is generally a
) otulant. spoiled child in man's clothes ,
nnd no more fit to 'be at the head of a
household UK-MI a baby. lie plans to
train up his wife , to discipline her oc
casionally , when the chances are that
> lic has forgotten as much as he knows.
Sometimes he punishes her by failing
to give the good-by kiss at the door.
It cuts her like a knife thrust , and ho
Consults-his vanity and learns that "a
svoman should not be allowed her own
ivay too much. Or he refuses
to speak to her. - for a day , or
ii week , or for a period calcu
lated to bring her to an adequate un
derstanding , of her sins and his dig
nity. Yes , these things really happen :
Don't think because love rules in your' '
lion 10 , and happiness is yours , that nlU
jf the men are good and all of the
ivomensweet. . If a man can't rule
ivithout becoming a stubborn ass and" !
icting like a fool , if he can't maintain
-espect and affection by deserving it.
10 wilhnever make his point by a sys-
.0111 of dumb torture , which is more t < /
> e dreaded than blows.
AVearing Hats in Church.
The wearing of hats in church was ,
sore point with the clergy of the six- >
eenth and seventeenth centuries. Sanii
jel Pepys went to church one Sunday"
U the reign of diaries II. . and duly
loted ( lie fact in his diary , adding ;
vith reference to the sermon , that hej
icard "a sjmple fellow on the praise-
if church music and exclaiming
igainst the men wearing their hats in
he church. * ' It seems probable that
nen took off their hats throughout the
service , but put them on again during
he sermon. Early in the seventeenth
ontury many of the clergy began to-
ittack the custom and pleaded foil
pore refined and becoming behavior !
n church. Dr. Donne , dean of St. ;
haul's , spoke out sternly against this
ractice.
Nearly every person you meet is ,
ookiug for'"encouragement. " But thei
nost successful men'have ' found It nee- *
issary to encourage themselves.
. .iu.vaa < n
There are 244 establishments , * em
ploying 9.SS9 glove makers , in the
United States.
A crew Of Italians employed on rail-
, road work north of Marinette , Wis. ,
struck recently on amount of the mos-
quitoes.
Increases hjve been made by the Il
linois Central railroad in the wages of
telegraphers at certa/ stations and
overtime granted unc zr certain condi
tions.
Absolutely the newest thing in or
ganized labor is the Greater New York
Shoe Polishers' Union. No. 1 , which has
just been formed , with the object of
regulating prices and hours. It has
a membership of 800.
This is a remarkable story which
comes from Massachusetts of the man
who , in order to take his wife abroad
to finish the training of her voice , has
closed his factory and thrown 1,200
employes out of work.
A report issued by the Census Bu
reau on the textile industry of the
United States shows that the capital
invested in cotton manufacturing in
the Southern States increased from
$20,413,414 in 1880 to $ ( > 2.i23.729 ( in
1890 and to $137,172,501 in 1900.
There is trouble brewing between
the Allied Metal Mechanics and the
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths. The former want to claim
jurisdiction over the blacksmiths' help
ers , but the brotherhood officials re
fuse to look at the matter in that light
Secretary Bramwood of the Inter
national Typographical Union , paid
per capita tax on 42,144 members to
the American Federation of Labor for-
the month of May this year. This is'
the largest number of members the or
ganization has had since its foundation
50 years ago.
A feature of the new scale signed by
'the Republic Iron and Steel company
of Pittsburg , which has not as yet
gained prominence , is that the com
pany agreed to establish an eight-hour
day in its mills wherever practicable.
The officials of the Amalgamated asso
ciation recognize this as a victory.
R. II. Alley of Seattle , Wash. , has re
turned from Australia * , where he says
he secured $1,500.000 capital to erect
and operate a woolen mill in Seattle.
The wool growers of Australia and
New Zealand are interested in having
a market for their product in the rap
idly developing northwest. Plans in
clude a regular line of steamships be
tween Seattle and Australia.
An agitation for a labor temple in
Chicago was launched at the last meet
ing of the Chicago Federation of La
bor. Chicago has nearly 500 unions.
Excepting the Bricklayers and Stone
Masons' Union , all rent halls for their
meetings and headquarters for the of
ficials. It is estimated that a quarter
of a million dollars is paid out an
nually in Chicago for hall rents and
meeting places.
The recent convention of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
decided to submit to referendum vote
of the members a proposition for the
payment of a death benefit. It also
appointed a committee on a book
' " " after the
binders' "home. patterned
Printers' home at Colorado Springs.
Already $20.000 has been subscribed
for the project. It is likely the insti
tution will be situated at Colorado
Springs. E.'W. Tatum was re-elected
international president.
Smile that Saved a lAl'o.
Some time ago a delicate though ar
tistic girl of Naples , Ida Kizzi by name ,
saw a photograph of Queen Helena in
which her majesty was represented in
a thoughtful mood. Straightway she
conceived the idea o ! ' painting a por
trait of her sovereign and of beautify
ing it with a smile , which was wholly-
lacking in the photograph.
This she did , and when her work was
finished she sent it to the queen , with
these words' : "May her majesty smile
in this manner all her life. "
A few days later the child became se
riously ill and the physicians decided
to perform an operation on her. Mean
while the queen had learned who had
sent the painting , and the result was
that a few hours before the fixed time
for the operation Dr. Quirico , the court
physician , entered Ida Kizzi's home-
with instructions from the Queen to
take the best possible care of her. Soon
after him came the Countess Guicciar-
dini. one of the Queen's ladies in wait
ing , with a large box full of beautiful-
presents , among them being boxes of
choice paints , brushes , engravings , a'
jeweled brooch and a fine portrait of lit- '
tie Princess Yolande. below which were
written some kindly words by the queen
herself. .
*
An fillioieiit Oflieer.
A man who was "wajnted" in Uu ia
had been photographed in six different
po.Mtions and the pictures were duly
circulated among the police depart
ments. The chief of one of these wrote *
to headquarters a few days after the
issue of the set of portraits and stated :
"Sir. 1 have duly received the portrait
of the six miscreants whose capture
is desired. I have arrested five of
them and the sixth is under observa
tion and will be. secured shortly. "
Ever remark how people admire a
polite , sensible , well-behaved , indus
trious boy ? Why not be that kind ,
boys ? Boys never lack , appreciation
when they behave themselves. And it
is easier to behave than it is to act tho
Nebraska Politics.
Excerpts From The Nebraska Independent , Lincoln , Nebraska , Made by
Direction of the Populist State Central Committee
A CHALLENGE
Chairman TTober and Vice Chairman Scott
Iiaue a Challenge to Chairman Lind
say for a Serles'of Joint Debates
Betiyoen M. F. Harrington
and J. > . Baldwin
The following letter was mailed to
Chairman Lindsay of republican state
central committee Monday , but to date
no answer has been received. Doubt
less Mr. Baldwin is a very busy man
and thirty meetings might encroach
upon his time. However , within the *
past few months he"has been acting
attorney general , acting governor , act
ing mayor of North Platte , manager of
Dave Mercer's campaign , to say noth
ing of his duties as attorney for the
Union Pacific and side assistance ren
dered Colonel Brown and the tax bu
reau , and , being as the Omaha Bee
says , a non-resident he might with
propriety give less of his time toward
performing purely ministerial duties
and help enlighten the people of Ne
braska upon the question of taxation.
Omaha , Neb. , Aug. 25 , 1902. Hon.
H. C. Lindsay , Chairman Republican
State Committee , Lincoln , Neb. Dear-
Sir : The paramount issue in the
present state campaign is that of rail
road taxation. The matter is being
very generally discussed in the press
of the state and thereby coming to be
better understood. Our' committees
desire to have this question thorough
ly presented to the people and to ob
tain their verdict thereon. We declare
that the assessment made by the re
publican state administration is entire
ly too low and it is a flagrant injus
tice upon the people of this state. Your
state administration contends that the
railroads are taxed high enough. We
know of no way in which the merits
of the matter can he so well brought
out , and the people have so good an
opportunity to get at the truth , as by
a series of joint debates. In mere
newspaper controversy many things
may be said on either side which over
state the facts and would not be * said
in a joint debate. Where both sides
are represented the statements are
more likely to be accurate. We have
entire confldenc in our position and be
lieve that we can convince the people |
of the state that on this great issue I
alone the republican state ticket ought
to be defeated.
Of course the most acceptable way
would be to arrange for a series of
joint debates between our candidate
for governor , Hon. W. H. Thompson ,
and your candidate for governor , Hon.
John H. Mickey. ( Our information
however , is that Mr. ' Mickey does not
profess to be a public speaker and that
he was nominated with the under
standing that he should make a quiet
campaign and we suppose your com
mittee would think it unfair to have
him pitted against so well qualified a
public speaker as Mr. Thompson. Hav
ing th'is in view we offer another sug
gestion : ) Hon. M. F. Harrington was
chairman of the committee in the
people's independent Convention that
wrote the populist platform and he
urged the nomination of Mr. Thomp
son upon that platform.
Mr. Harrington went before the su
preme court to assist in compelling
the railroads to pay more taxes. It is
generally recognized that he made an
effective presentation of the people's
side in that case. Your side of the
contest was led by Hon. John N. Bald
win , the general attorney for the U.
P. Railway company , who played the
dual part of "friend of the court" and
Acting Attorney General , conducting
the case in behalf of the railroads and
state officers as against the people. In
addition to performing Mr. Front's
duties Mr. Baldwin was also present
at the conference wherein it was de
cided that Mr. Mickey sh " 1he ! nomi
nated and he should. pfore , be
competent to represent.ir side of
this controversy. AVn take it then
that no other man will typify more
clearly the platform upon which your
ticket asks election than Hon. John N.
Baldwin. He is an accomplished and
eloquent orator ; the debate between
Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Harrington would
he between two gentlemen who are
well qualified to discuss the questions
and who would discuss it from a broad
and intelligent standpoint. Each will
represent the views of hisparty in this
most important reform and probably
no two gentlemen could he selected in
the state whose personal views would
more clearly portray the actual posi
tion of our respective tickets in the
matter of railroad taxation.
We propose to you then that you
unite with us in arranging a series of
five joint debates between these gen
tlemen in each congressional district.
This would make thirty meetings in
all and no doubt such a discussion
would bring out the p'eople of the/state
very generally for the purpose of
learning the right and wrong of the
matter now uppermost in the public
mind. Yours respectfully ,
B. R. B. WEBER ,
Chairman People's Independent Party
State Central Committee
C. B. SCOTT.
Vice Chairman Democratic State Cen
tral Committee.
An Illusion
Seated In a passenger coach in a
train standing at the depot , one some
times imagines his train has started ,
when , in fact , it is the train on the
other track an optical illusion most
persons have experienced. It is the
same with waires paid railroad em
ployes. , The engineman who averaged ;
$3.48 a day in 1900 got only 4 cents
Trust Prices
c
Protection to our infant industries
makes it possible for the trust manu
facturer of rakes , malleable iron
shanks , to sell a dozen of the ten-
inch size to the foreigner for $1.18
and the manufacturer gets a profit at
that price , because he is not doing
business for his health. But how does
he treat the American buyer ? Well ,
foreign made rakes are kept out by
.he protective tariff , so the manufac
turer makes the home buyer pay $1.50 . '
a dozen for them. That is 27 per cent
greater than the price he makes to
more than he did in 1893 ; hut in 1900
he succeeded in moving the equiva
lent of a ton of freight 3,305,534 miles ,
while in 1893 his ton-mileage was 2- ,
413,246 miles. Accordingly , for some
thing less than $15 additional wages
for the year , he pulled the equivalent
of a ton of freight 892,288 miles. In
other words , he did 37 per cent more
work. The wage figures given are
averages for the United States , and are
too low for Nebraska , where the aver
age daily wage of an engineman was
$3.83 in 1893 and $3.90 in 1900.
The average traffic movement ac
complished by railroad employes was
139.143 ton-miles per employe in 1900
as against 107,129 in 1893. Her.e the
average increase in efficiency is nearly
30 per cent greater than in 1893. But
there is no increase of 30 per cent in
the wages. Hence , the seemingly for
ward movement of wages is an optical
illusion after all. One gets an in
crease of 10 per cent and is obliged to
do 30 per cent more work for it. And
worse still , he is obliged to pay 20
to 40 per cent more for living ex
penses.
ARE THEY DECEIVERS ?
Some Discrepancies in the Statements
Made by the Railroad Tax Burrau.-
Bulletin * do Not Square With
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Keport * .
It will he remembered that The In
dependent has until lately held to the
opinion that the facts and figures
stated by the railroad tax bureau
would be correctly stated in the-bulle-
tins "issued under authority of the
railroads of Nebraska , " and that the
only thing to he guarded against would
he the effect which large figures have
on the average man. But a number of
things have arisen recently which
have caused The Independent to be
lieve that Colonel Brown and his asso
ciates do not hesitate to make state
ments which are purposely intended
to deceive. "I am not taking much in
terest in those tax bulletins any
more , " said a Lincoln newspaper man
to The Independent the other day ,
"since Frank Harrison and Colonel
Brown are doing most of the work.
I know Harrison and I know Brown
and I have but little confidence in what
they print"
Some weeks ago a bulletin was pub
lished in the dailies and afterward in
the Western Newspaper Union ready
prints , the opening line being : "Paid
Highest Railroad Tax in the United
States. K. C. & 0. Railway , Now a
Branch of the Burlington Route , Last
Year Paid Taxes Equal to Nearly 3
Per Cent of its Full Cash Value. "
Then followed a statement of taxes
paid in each county through wnich the
ine runs. We quote the amounts in
order that our readers may verify
hem , if they care to do so :
County Taxes paid.
'efferson $ 1,476.60
Clay 5,085.11
Adams 4,232.28
Kearney 4,743.55
* HGlpS e DO.O J
riciriclH 4 , boo. J.
* * * * * * * * i
Fillmore 4,176.94
York 6,626.10
Polk 580.2S
'
Saline . 1.331.10
Total , 193.38 miles . $32,843.99
Per mile . 164.62
It will be noted that no year is defi
nitely stated , but the inference intend
ed is that the K. C. & 0. paid $32-
$43.99 in taxes in the year 1901 , pre
sumably taxes for that year , in the
absence of other testimony. However ,
the same figures are given in a former
bulletin which says that the amount
was taxes for the year 1900 , but paid
in 1901. Accordingly , if this bulletin
is correct , the K. C. & O. taxes for the
year 1900 were"nearly $33.000.
Now let us examine the report of the
interstate commerce commission for
the year ending Jnue30 , 1900. At
pages 510 and 511 we find a statement
of fixed charges paid by roads in
Group VII. , and Among the roans
mentioned is the K. C. & O. The
amount of taxes paid , according to this
report , was $14,760 undoubtedly be
ing for the tax levy of 1899. Rather
queer , isn't it , lhat the taxes the very
next year should increase more than
$18,000 ? The assessed valuation was
exactly the same both in 1899 and 1900
$3.500 per milp. and the levy for state
purposes was substantially the same
both" years. It hardly looks reasonable
that the county and school districts
levies in the ten counties should be in
creased so heavily that the taxes for
1900 would be 122 per cent higher than
they were in 1899.
What is the explanation ? Probably
the K. C. & O. paid its 1899 taxes ear
ly in 1900 , and its 1900 taxes in De
cember of that year. The road may
have paid $32.843.99 taxes during the
year 1900 but they were not all 1900
taxps. What are we to think did
Colonel Brown and his co-workers pur
posely publish the erroneous state
ment with malicious intent to deceive ,
or did they fall into a grievous error ?
It is evident ' ' .hat they did one or the
athor.
The assessed valuation of the K. C.
& O. for 1899 a.ifl 1900 was $676,830.
An average Ic r of ? 2.18 on each hun
dred dollars of valt-ation would raise
Hie $14,760 tlK road paid for 1899
but it would require an aver
age levy of $4.85 to the hundred dol
lars valuation to produce $32,843.99
ind that would he above the legal limit
in most of the districts through which
he road runs. i
Will some reader of The Independent
Perhaps you like to play high-five
3r euchre. A pack of cards doesn't
: ost much. Many of the railroads sell
ijreat quantities of them for a very 1
iow price just for the supposed adver-
: ising it gives them. But did you
enow , cheap and all as playing cards
rre. that a resident of Hong Kong
: an buy a pack of Bicycle cards at
about one-half the p'rice you pay ?
rhe Hong Kong dealer can buy from :
: he U. S. Playing Card Co. ( trust ) a
; ross of packs Bicycle playing cards :
'or $12.35. Your dealer has to pay
F25V65. That is 108 per cen thigher.
ttrhy ? Oh. because of the republican :
arotective tariff.
i
In each : these ten counties go to the
county clerk's office and get an accur
ate statement of the tax levy against
this road for the years 1899,1900,1901 ,
and 1902 , if the last year iscomploted ,
and send to this office ? See how this
tallies with Colonel Brown's tax bul
letin.
ANOTHER TAX BULLETIN
Trenmor Cone , In Smnmders Cen ty New-
Era , Tells About the New "Railroad
Tax on Grain Milpments.
* Since the United States court at
Chicago issued the injunction .that ,
checked the corner of July oats and
dropped the price of oats 25c per
bushel in six hours there have been
eighteen injunctions issued in the Chi
cago United States courts against spec
ulators who were trying to corner
grain or trying to force collections of
profits won in corners.
This is good as long as it lasts , for
if a winner cannot force the loser to
pay , if the loser can go into court
and settle his gamblings by an in
junction the game will stop for want
of players. We shall see what we
shall see.
On August 11 the South Nebraska
Millers' club met in Lincoln and de
cided that the wheat crop of eastern
Nebraska could not safely be handled
by the mills. This means that all low
grade wheat must be ground Into feed
for * coal miners , exaort trade or pigs.
Let every farmer bear in mind that
if he sells his poor wheat before It has ?
hecome fit to handle he must pay the
other fellow for.putting it through
"the sweat , " besides other sundry
profits. Why not cure it yourself in
your own bins and then get what it1 is
worth on the market.
I have this week sent samples of
new wheat to Kansas City , asking
what it would grade in that market
None sent will grade No. 2 hard. Most
graded No. 3 hard. Two samples grad
ed No. 4. One "no grade ; " too badly
damaged.
The railways , by the press , now pro
pose to raise the freight rates on grain
to Chicago 2/z cents per hundred Ibs.
and to reduce them on live stock. All
for the benefit of the farmer we pre
sume.
But as the farmer will this year have
much grain and little stock to ship he
will of course receive his customary .
benefits.
Estimating that Wahoo will ship
500.000 bushes of grain this year , the
additional railway tax upon Wahocr
farmers would be $6,000. That's all.
There are twenty other towns in
Saunders county that will ship as much
grain as Wahoo. This makes the
small item of $120,000 tax additional
levied by the railways upon the Saun-
ders county grain farmers this year
if our crop prospects materialize.
All this tax can be levied without
consulting : the men who must pay it or
without the persons making the levy
showing any reason to anyone why it
was necessary or just to levy it
If a politician or a party would lay
a tax of $120,000 upon the grain farm
ers of this county without their con
sent or consultation , we would damij .
his soul for the next world
him out of this one. Lr
But the above is different
To raise the freight on grain and to
lower them on live stock means the
eastern cities shall do the slaughter-
itof stock. It means that the west
must keep up" the east w'th did farmer
.Tonps paving the freight. Trpumor
Cone , in Saunders County New Era.
Freight Reductions.
If the reform forces elect the gov
ernor and a majoiity of the state 'sen
ators and representatives they prom
ised to reduce freights in this state
15 per cent on hogs , cattle , sheep , hay.
corn and other grain , and also flour
and bran. Here is a sample of the
amount that such a law would save to
the people of Holt county on every
shipment made from here to Omaha :
On hay , 30 cents per ton ; on hogs , S5.2S
per car ; on cattle , $5.69 per car ; on
sheep , $3.46 for a single deck car and
$6.75 on a double derj ; car ; en corn.
$5.76 per car ; on wheat , $6.48 per carl
Will you vote to save this money
and keep it home , or will you vote to
send it to the railroad stockholders
in New York , New England and Eu-
ropp ? It's up to you. E. S. Eves , in
Holt County Independent
Trust .Prices
Did you ever get that new Disstor.
& Sons hand saw you needed in your
work about the barn and sheds ? Do
you remember what it cost you ? Well ,
the jobber today has to pay the trust
$18.04 a dozen for the No. 12 , 24-inch
size , if he expects to sell them in
America. But if they are wanted to sell
to subjects of the Akoond of Swat or
to the Kaffirs of South Africa , the trust
will sell them for $14.82 a dozen. The
American dealer has to pay 22 per cent
more than the foreigner pays. Why ?
Simply because the republican protec
tive tariff enables the trust to ask it.
There isn't any way of dodging , be
cause a foreign-made saw , after the
tariff was paid , would cost more than
the Disston saw , even at $18.04 a dozen.
Of Course He Would.
Some time ago we pointed out that
McCormick binders could be bought
cheaper in Sweden than the , farmers
here could buy them , whereupon the
Center Outlook uses the usual re
publican argument that if the farmers
don't like the tariff rohbing laws let
them go back to Sweden. Isn't that
pretty argument for unjust laws0 We
believe Bro. Linn would uphold the
highway tariff robbery if it was ten
times higher. Why wouldn't he ?
When he is advocating the re-election
of State Auditor Weston who lowered
the railroad valuation three millions of
rlollars just to get the railroads to
help elect the republican ticket M
M. Warner , in Lyons Mirror.
Trust Prices
Axle grease maybe you use stale
lard or talow , but the chances are . :
rou don't Snowflake axle grease In
gallon cans costs your dealer at the
iactory $5.40 a dozen , but the trust
sells it to the native of Greenland and
rimbuctoo at ? 4.50 a dozen. No the
rust is not engaged by the American
missionary society to help educate
he heathen by furnishing them axle
jrease at less than cost ; but the re-
Dublican protective tariff explains why
he American must pay 20 per cent
nore than the foreigner.
