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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1905)
; VALENTINE DEMDUR/ / I. M RICE EDITC . January 5. I9O5. RnterwJ at tte ro t-offlce at Valentine , Chtrry . Htbnika , M Bwxiad-elau matter. . TERM * 8orCTHk > n f 1.00 p r y ar IB ad van w ; 9' in Wben not paid to advance. Hlntfe copies 8C- Display advertising 1 Inch single column .5- Issue or tG.OO a year. Local NotlMi , Obituaries , Lodge Resolution ? Md SoclaU ( or Screnue tc per line per issue. Brands , l U Intl s-4.oo per year in advance id < litlo&Al pacaiti * pr Inch par year ; engr T d Mocks extra : $1.00 tadi , FarCM Iltlng'outslde Cherry county not p r ooaUy known are requested to par la advance 10 per cent additional to above rates if overs KOBtb * IB arrears. Notices of losses of stock free to brand adver- The coming legislature should get up another bill for a constitu tional amendment this winter so as to have some more printing for their pets at full legal rates. We must have some way of spending the state money. The last bill cost something like $10,000 for printing alone. We'ra running a newspaper and wouldn't refuse a legal notice from the state or any individual at full legal rates , but we'd not like to defend the action ef the legislature in being so ex travagant as to spend $10,000 or more a year for advertising a con stitutional amendment with no hope of passing it. RooscTclt and the Railroads. President Roosevelt's attitude npon the question of amending the interstate commerce law as as to compel the railroads to obey the rates fixed by the commission un til its findings are reversed by the courts , is creating a great deal of speculation everywhere. No student of the railroad prob lem , from the standpoint of indi vidual ownership , Jvill deny that with the law so amended , and an interstate commerce commission strong enough to stand for right , great relief could be realized from it for the. people. But a large per cent of the people , and practically all the most profound students of of this tfreat question , have long ago concluded that the railroad question will never be settled this side of government ownership. Government ownership of rail roads will do more than to simply settle the transportation question. The railroadswith their strong power , today form the center of the greatest octopus of corporate power the world has ever known. Around the railroad trust , woven into and a part of it , are tho steel trust , the oil trust , the meat trust , the harvester trust and many oth ers. These could not live without the friendly support of the rail roads. The people are groaning under the burdens they impose. The groans have reached the White House. This week the traveling men and Jobber's association pre sented the case in person to the president. They see the stealthy coils of the trust boa encircling and squeezing the life out of them , and at last they seek the powers of the government for relief. That the "people have the ear and heart of the president there is little room to doubt , but there is room to doubt the power of the government directed toward the theory of control. If it is a fact , and there is little reason to doubt it , that three great trusts today are stronger than the government * tsulf , then there is little hope of control. Why quibble over trifles ? The same authority that condemn- * od our land and sold it for a right of way , < can condemn the railroads , appraise them and take them for the people. Like the slavery question of 1861 , compromise only means delay. A question is never settled until it is settled right. The people must arise , not as poli ticians , but as patriots , and strike the fatal blow at the trust domi nation , by owning the railroads. It vvould bring a crisis it is true , but not so great a one as it would bring after ten years more of or ganization and spoliation. West- , ern Rancher. D ni General Stoessell wrote a letter to General Nogi offering to capitu late Port Arthur , asking for terms and the appointment of commis sioners to confer with the same appointed by him. General tfogi accepted the proposal to surrend er after terms were arranged whereby the officers return to Russia on parole , retaining their side arms while the rank and file of the garrison go to Japan as prisoners according to the capitu lation terms. The following from the World-Herald will give a bet ter idea of the conditions existing : LETTERS OF SURRENDER. Tokio , Jan. 2. General Nogi reports as follows : 4'At 5 in the afternoon "of Jan uary 1 , the enemy's bearer of a flag of truce came into the first line of our position south of Shuishiying and handed a letter to our officers. The same reached me at 9 o'clock at night. The let ter is as follows : uJudging by the general con dition of the whole line of hostile positions held by you , I find fur ther resistance at Port Arthur useless , and for the purpose of preventing needless sacrifice of lives , I propose to hold negotia tions with reference to capitula tion. Should you consent to the same you will please appoint com missioners for discussing the order and conditions regarding capitnh- tion , and als' > appoint a plnce for such commisioners to meet the same appointed by me. I take this opportunity to convey to your excellency assurances of my re spect. STOESSEL. " Shortly after dawn today I will dispatch our bearer of a flag of truce with the following reply ad dressed to Stoessel : " 'I have the honor to reply to your proposal to hold negotiations regarding the conditions and order of capitulation. For this purpose I have appointed as commissioner Major General Ijichi , chief of staff of our army. He will be accom panied by some staff officers and civil officials. They will meet your commissioners January 2 , noon , at Shuishiying. The com missioners of both parties will be empowered to sign a convention for the capitulation without wait ing for ratification , and cause the same to take immediate effect. Authorization for such plenary powers shall be signed by the highest officer of both negotiating parties and the same shall be ex changed by the respective com missioners. I avail myself of this opportunity to convey to your ex cellency assurances of ray respect. " ' ' " 'NOGI. A MEMORABLE SIEGE. The siege and the defense of Russia's stronghold in the far east have been marked by bravery , gallantry and desperation unequal- ed in modern warfare and hardly excelled in military history. The story of the operations around Port Arthur is one of re peated fighting , both by land and sea , and of the most desperate and thrilling character. Isolated instances of heroism that . .would have set the world ringing under less overwhelming circum stances have been dwarfed by the generally magnificent conduct of both forces. By sea there have been torpedo boat dashes of superb recklessness and big ships have plowed through mine fields with heroic disregard to give battle or in wild efforts to escape. By land the Japanese have hurl ed themselves against positions de clared to be impregnable. They have faced and scaled rocky heights crowned with batteries and crowd ed with defenders , suffering losses that , military experts say would have appalled an European array. In the doomed fortress its peo- rpl have lived under i : 'levastating rain of shell and shrupnel. On scanty rations , besieged on every side , knowing that hope or succor or escape was vain , the garrison has fought with a stubbornp.ss that has evoked the a irai cation of the v world. They met the untiring assaults of the Japanese with a grim valor that won even the praise of their foe , and the fighting has been waged with a relentlessness that often refused truces to bury the dead and collect the wounded. Over corpse-filled trenches men have fought hand-to-hand with cold steel and clubbed guns , and at short range have hurled at each other hand grenades filled with high explosives. The whole story is one of un daunted courage and subliraf bravery. What Port Arthur has cost in human life and money is not esti mated and even approximate cor rectness cannot be made. Th losses have been app tiling It h i been reported that in some engag < ments leading up to the recen' of 203-Metre Hill the capture - at tacking force lost as high as 4 < ! per cent of the force engaged whil- the garrison's losses , of which n- word has come , must have been frightful. The defense of the position which fell to her as a heritage af ter tho Chine-uj-J-ipinose war , ha cost Russia practically her entire fleet in those waters. Her ship- lie from Port Arthur's inner ba in to Chemulpo , in Korea. .in < I al' n fin Shantung peninsular , bitten * hulks of once proud vessels , o ignominously dismantled are in terned in neutral Chinese harbors Save the three or four cruiser- , and some leaser craft that lie ii- the ice-bound refuge of Vladivo- tok , not a warship now flies tho Russian cross in the waters of th < - northern orient. And Japan too , has had her lo. ses in the long drawn out opera tions. Mines have struck from Admiral Togo's fleet list many fin- ships add smaller vessels since tin morning of February 8 , when In hurled his fleet at the Rus iai ships in Port Arthur's roadstead AT THE BIG EAGLE's NEST. Che Foo , Jan. 3. Noon. The fon where the negotiations for the surrender of Port Arthur were hold is called the Big Eigle's Nest and it is near Rihlung mountain. According to the reports of tho negotiations received here , Gener al Stoes ePs proposal that the Rus sian sick and wounded should re main under Russian medical sup ervision and that the Jepanese transfer the non-combatants was acceptable to General Nogi , but the Russian proposal that the Rus sians should march out under arms caused some controversy. Midshipman Klisorich , com manding a launch'which left Port Arthur last night , said today : "No shot has been fired at Port Arthur for two days. That which Chinese heard last night was the Russians blowing up forts , ships , magazines , warehouses , docks and everything valuable. When I left- Port Arthur the fortress and town v/ere almost completely wrecked. The warship > > died hard. Several explosions were necessary to com plete the wrecking of them. The Sevastopol caught fire and explod ed and turned turtle. Tho harbor entrance is blocked with sunken ships. The only navigable craft now at Port Arthur are. the hospi. tal ships Kassan and Mongolia. "You need expect no more ships from Port Arthur as these are un able to leave on account of the blocking of the harbor. "Colonel Reiss represented Gen eral Stoissel in the negotiations for surrender. A table was spread with wine and food at the Eagle's Nest and the envoys treated each other with great courtesy , which quickly melted into informal good fellowship. Each complimented the other on the bravery of their forces. "The statern at that there re mained 5,000 1 jilting men at Port Arthur is misleading , bpc iu e a majority of the o aresickor slight ly wounded. There have be.eri for some time no proper bandages and wound * * have been dressed with hemp "The news that , General Stoe < - < cwa prepared to treat for sur- runder was received by the soldiers vit-h the feel g of utmost relief. For the past month severe wounds have been gladly received by the soldiers because they were allowed to rest. When the men were not fighting they were tunneling on half rations. "The bombardment of the last lay or so was terrific. Every body remarked that even General Stoessel must see the futility of further resistance when our guns were unable to reply. "We might have surrendered a nonth ago with the highest honor. That resistance has continued ef- ctivel.v since is scarcely l sthan i miracle. "It is a mere handful of broken nen who surrender and a debris 'rewn desert which the Japanese .fain. No one of Port Arthur's Magnificent public works remain. "The feeling created when Gen- iral Stoessel took the unwelcome te.p was generally one of relief. "The soldiers for whom one nonth's service has coun ted for a year are rejoicing that they will see their families. " After all is over and I'ort Ar thur is in the hands of the Japan ese it mean but little if Russia de- < ii < les to retake the country. The nc'or.v is similar to to tint of Na- { > > lean at Moscow which had been burned prior to his occupancy. Vll public buildings and other ira- > roveraents which made Port Ar- nhur of value as a city and a port * ave been destroyed by the Rus- -ian army. Japan has paid dear- l.v for the harbor but she succeed- el in her purpose , according to instructions from England that she must take Port Arthur. What will be the next step ? Democratic Opportunity , Mr. Bryan has announced through the columns of his paper , The Commoner , that the principal cause of democratic defeat this year was that the men who seen red control of the party organization at St. Louis sounded a retreat when a charge should have been ordered all along the line. 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