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please Mihe
big cattlemen. 'fis6 , I cite the first "where'a'sf and the
t V latter part of section 2 , to show the inconsistency dfcec-
tion 3 , and ask if you do not think that some items in this
bill were intended to escape the weary eye. Again , I
call your attention to the latter part of section 1. ( line 18
page 3 , and lines 1 and 2 page 4 of original bill ) giving
preference to "present occupants of the range who own
improved ranches. " This doesn't look like encourage
ment to homesteaders or establishing homes as mentioned
in the eighth "whereas. "
Section 4 permits another one-man-law graft by
withdrawing , public lands from settlement in an irregu
lar manner , for an imaginary purpose , to stand or remain
idle for years like our forest reserves , the heritage or
special privileges being enjoyed by some friendly cor
poration for the payment of a nominal sum as rental and
resting secure in the enjoyment of a subsidy without fear
of molestion.
Section 5 should be read again and again. Is this
the friendly spirit that ought to exist in our land ?
Where families must go miles into the country , far from
town or school , where churches arc unknown , there to
settle down on a homestead on the prairies , endure the
hardships and privations of frontier life and be jerked
up , fined and imprisoned , branded as a felon , all because
his cow or horse grazed on the public domain ? In many
instances the new homesteader has barely enough money
to pay his filing fee and not enough to build him a house.
A "soddy" must answer the purpose. Sometimes wages
and earnings are consumed in fuel , food and clothing
and most of the poor and needy but worthy homestead
ers have no money to pay lease rental for the few blades
of grass their stock might eat from tlie vast government
domain that was never yet denied the pioneer home
steader , who , from the Appalachian mountains to the
Pacific coast , and from the earliest days to the present
time has been allowed the use of the surrounding hills to
his home as an inducement to settle upon Uncle Sam's
domain to cultivate and subdue the wilderness.
Never before was a lease bill asked until the g reed
of recent years and the fear of settlement by those who
own big herds have impelled them to stem the tide of
settlement , meanwhile occupying and controlling all the
land around them and fearing encroachment from set
tlers who are often bought off with what they termed
"blood money. " Each new settler is looked upon as
seeking "blood money" rather than a share in Uncle
Sam's domain and large land holders with no rights to
government land are in constant touch with our land
offices , making frequent visits and examinations of land
office records.
It is these large land holders who are seeking lease
bills , anything that will stop the small settlers and leave
the country in their hands to manipulate. The small
cattlemen are often spoken of as being in favor of a lease
bill. But if they own 100 to 400 head of cattle they are
called "small cattlemen. " The homesteader often owns
less than the rental amounts to on the land -that one of
these so-called "small cattle men" would expect to lease.
Do we want more laws to protect and help the al
ready well-to-do in holding from the poor homesteader
who is expected to settle the country , or do we want just
and equitable laws that will aid tlie poor man to secure a
home ?
Did you know that our
Coffees and Teas
are the FINEST in town ?
'Nuff Said.
T. C. Hornby.
We
Sell
Lumber
BISHOP & YOUNG
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Get your property insured by 1.
M. Kice and you will be safe. His
companies pay losses promptly.
Contitv Teachers
High School Bldg. 1:30 : p. m. Feb. 9
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PROGRAM
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Putman's Psychology , chapters -
| ters 7 and 8 , - Lulu Kortz
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Primary Plans - Bertha Gordon
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, Current Topics , W. H. Katzenbach
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Normal Training as a Prepa
ration for Teaching
Stella .Newman
Essentials of Teaching Read
ing , chapters 7 and S
R. H. Watson
NOTICE
Beginning Tuesday , Jan. 29 ,
1907 , the skating rink floor' will
be reserved on Tuesday and Fri
day nights for 'ladies , and for
gentlemen who are accompanied
by ladies. The object of this is to
give the ladies an opportunity to
Jearn to skate and to avoid the
danger of accidents. Children , 16
years of age and under , will be
allowed to skate for loc from the
closing of school until six o'clock
Ten dollars reward will be paia
for the apprehension of any person -
; son maliciously or mischievously
' throwing deleterious substances
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' upon the skating rink floor. 2-2
Shaw Fears Surplus Products
Will Swamp Prosperity.
001IDITION DUE TO STA1TD PATTE28
Foreig-u Nations Retaliate A.Insl
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Our Triiht I'rotcctlns ; Syxteni I > .v
Raising Their Tariff \VallH lieu ac
tion of the Tariff So an to Aiiolixh
Trust r Ioibioly the Only Solution.
Secretary Shaw has two mouths
more to serve as secretary of the Treas
ury in which to urge his peculiar aad
generally harmful ideas ou those will
ing to listen to him. As soon as he re
tires to private life he will be as harm
less as a sucking dove or a cooing
pigeon , but while he is secretary of the
treasury he is certain of an audience
to some extent , so his utterances have1
to be noticed and , when likely to do
harm , criticised. In a speech the other
day at the commercial congress at
Kansas City he expressed hi ? anxiety
lest while we delay in getting ace-ess
to expanding foreign markets our surplus -
plus of products will "set back upon
us like a belated tide , to the inundation
and swamping of our prosperity which
is uow our boast. "
Dread of plenty and a reduction of
trust high prices seem to weigh upon
the heart of Shaw , for his only idea is
to get rid of our products by exporting
them. He cannot see that reduced
prices will lead to greater home con
sumption. Shaw in his economic cogi
tations has no place for imports. lie
wants the pauper of Europe to buy ,
but thinks it is an impertinence for
him to sell to us. But fortunately the
Shaw school of economics is scorned
by the world's traders , and reciprocity
of trade is a necessity , except for such
raw products as arc needed that are
not natural products of the importing
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nation or that are not-raised in sum- *
cieut quantity to supply the home ne
cessities. Those necessities , like cot
ton , corn and wheat , must be bought
by the nation needing them , and pro
tective tariffs play but little part in
their general world distribution.
The Shaw cry is "Export , export ! "
but he would prevent imports. Tie
I pays no attention to the fact that Eng
land , the greatest trauing nation , is
always importing more than she is ex
porting and has become the richest
country in the world by the profits on
this trade. Xo tariff Avail is raised by
her to prevent free ingress or ogress of
goods or persons except a low tariff
on a few articles for revenue purposes.
The Shaw school , who have not yet
passed through the kindergarten stage
of political economy , would raise our
tariff wall still higher by the imposi
tion of maximum rates of tariff duties
to force other nations to lower their
barriers against our imports.
Shaw would consider a tariff for rev
enue , which would vastly increase our
foreign trade , a device of the evil one.
For our people to be able to buy cheap I
woolen goods instead of mercerized cot
ton and shoddy from the tariff protect
ed woolen trust would be ruinous to
producers and consumers alike. accordIng -
Ing to the perverted theories of Shaw.
To allow iron and stool and tools and
agricultural implements and building
material to be imported under reduced
duties would strike down the profits of
those gigantic corporations , the steel
trust , the harvester trust and the lum
ber trust , so that their magnate would
be unable , without a measure of self
sacrifice , to respond to the call of the
Republican campaign fund collector
for boodle to save the country and
"the party. " The specter of gaunt
hunger of the corporations , if the spoils
of the trusts are reduced by tariff re
vision , haunts the waking and sleeping
moments of trust guardians such as
Shaw when they think of what the
wicked Democrats would do to ' 4the
great protected interests of .the coun
try' ' if installed in powe.- . The sugar
trust would dissolve , and its luscious
contributions would no longer sweeten
the path of the politicians , but it would
be sweeter to the people in the form
of cheaper sugar. The Standard Oil
trust , which Shaw erroneously has de
clared is not protected by the tariff ,
would find its enormous dividends of
10 per cent go up in smoke incense to
those who have compelled its profits
to be reasonable-instead of to be plun
dered by it.
And so the list of trusts might be
gone over and the Shaw heart riven by
the tales of woe of trust magnates and
Republican campaign leaders alike , of
the evil days that will succeed the fat
and prosperous years for the protected
trusts. The stand patters may stand
aghast at our surplus of products , but
the consumers will regard such plenty
with equanimity as the club that will
beat down monopoly.
So it comes to this the Republican
party has created conditions that it
fears to face , for the tariff taxed people
ple are unable to pay high trust prices
for more goods than they are now con
suming and foreign nations have raised
a rival tariff wall against our surplus
products. To reform the tariff would
result in reducing trust profits , and not
to revise the tariff will prevent our
"getting access to expanding foreign
markets. "
" \Vhat a dilemma for the stand pat
ters ! It never seems to occur to these
worshipers of protectionism that to
lower the tariff will reduce prices and
thus allow millions of our people to
buy more. They prate of "our home
market , " but the result of the trust
fostering tariff is to limit consumption
by high prices , and the surplus created
by the promise of enormous profits tis
becoming a menace to the system they
have built up. . .
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when the best can be had at
THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE ?
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Editor and Proprietor of
The Valentine Democrat
Published Thursdays. § 1.00 a Year in Advance.
ggBa JASEgt
Talk of the Town.
J. R. Wallingforcl was in town
Monday.
Hal McCain , the hide dealer , is
in the city today.
J. R. Lee of Brownlee was in
town yesterday on business. .
Mrs. ReVI Magill of Croolrston
visited Rev. ' Connell's this week.
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Geo.Y. . Keller , a prominent
ranchman of Cascade , is in town
t/day. *
Mr. Chaloud and Mr. Larson
of Brownlee were in town the first
of the week.
Miss Sarah Simpson has return-
pel from her visit with friends at
Lead , S. D.
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Mass will Ije said at the Catholic
church Sunday , Ja'n. 2Tafc : 7:00 :
and 10:30 : a. m.
C. H. Cornel ! has been ill the
past week but we notice him up
and around again.
Max E. 'Viertel , YYm. Epke and
Will Shepkrd were down'"from
Crookston last Saturday.
Misses Anna and Maggie Boltz
have again returned to the city af
ter several 'weeks visit home.
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Charles Thompson came up
from Simeon Tuesday and left us
the chalnpioriship at checkers.
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Liness Gheens i of , Simeon was in
the city a couple b'f daysmen busi
ness. He has a good Kinkaid
homestead.
. j - . . ' -if
Wm--tE.i'-Searby , a merchant of
Crookston made a business trip to
Valentine "Monday and returned
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on the early passenger.
Four room house to rent ; also ,
3 rooms 'bver the Democrat Office
for rent as an office or light house
keeping. . I. M. RICE.
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Mrs. Sol Morey and children
returned last week with Mrs. Len
Bivens from Crawford and is vis
iting relatives and friends it town.
J. 0. Beatty moved the building
on the northeast corner of Chath-
prine and Cherry streets Monday
back north across the alley. It
was like a magic transformation
to those going to dinner Monday
noon.
August Epke went down to
York county the first of the week
for a short visit with relatives and
to return with his wife who had
gone down two weeks before.
Dr. G. D. Shipherd , dentist of
Ainsworth will be in Valentine
Tuesday and Wednesday , Jan. 29
and 30 , at the Donoher hotel , pre
pared to do all kinds of dental
work. 1-2
E. R. Barnes and Geo. Beau-
champ of Lake were in town yes
terday , the latter going from here
t : > Omaha and goes from there to
\Vashington , D. C. , to see about
a patent on an invention.
Clarence Sageser has sold his
barber shop to Mr. DeBolt of
Ainsworth who takes charge the
1st of the month. Mr. Sageser's
friends will regret that he is to
leave Valentine but wish him suc
cess where he may decide to lo
cate , where he hopes to benefit
Mrs. Sageser's health.
U. § . Weather Unreaa Report
tor week Emiiug Jan. 23.
The daily mean temperature
shows up 11 ° above the normal. (
The highest temperature was !
56 ° on the 23 ; lowest -5 ° on the
IT.
The precipitation consisted of
snow flurries amounting to a trace
only.
The windstorm of the 19th was
the worst of the. season , a maxi
mum velocity of oi miles per
hour from the northwest.
Notice to Creditors.
THK STATK OK > .15RA.SKA , le .
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COUNTY OK CIIEUKV. )
In the Countv Court :
in the mutter of the estate of William Bingh-
ham , deceased :
To the creditors of said estate :
You are her * ny notified , that I will sit at the
County Court Iloom m Valentine in said county
on truIGth daof February. 1907. at 10 o'clock
n m. lo receive * nd examine all claims giinsr :
s id estate with a vitw t their adjustment and
allowance. The limeimit d for tli pre enri
tiou o' claims auainst said estate is tht ? iG'h
riav of February , A. . D. 1907. and the time Hunted - i
ed for payment f debts is ona yrar from said
IGth day day of March. 19X ( > .
Witness my hand and seal of j-aid County
Court , this 23 day of January , 1907.
SEAL W. K. To\VNB ,
. 2 4 County Judge.
Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of an order of sale issued bv the
clerk of the nistrict court of Cherry county , Ne
braska , January 11 , under a decree of tax
lipti loreclosure , vhereIu .John Sholtes is ulain-
tiff. and Luizi Rehbein , impVaded with the
SKJi of section S , township 33n , range 32w.
Cherry county , Nebraska , defendant ,
I will sell at th- front door of ihe court hou e in
Valentine. Ch rryjj , unty. Nebraska , that beiiic
the building wherein the Ia-t term 01 said court
was held , ou tlie 23rrt ! day of February. 1007 , ar
10 o'clock a. in. t * satis'y judsrmynt of SS0.50
and interest at 7per "ntfrnindat of j idpnent
Novembe 12.19oc ani co-rs tixed at $37 95 ; ind
sts HC pu > 1ie.i'icTi m. dm-hi
bidder , for ' cash , the f lowing desi-ri ipd pr > p
erty to-w'U : The SE 4 of sections , towrship
33n. raupe sz\v. Cberrjcounty. . Nebraska ,
D : ed tins 2Uh dty or January. 1907
K P. SIMONS
Sheriff of Cherry County.
Valeott & lorris ey. Ally's for Pltf , 25
Calling : 'the Chickens.
In England the calls chuck , chuck ,
or coop , coop , prevail ; In Virginia ,
coo-che , coo-che ; In Pennsylvania , pee.
pee. This latter call is widely em
ployed , being reported from Germany.
Spain ( as pi. pi ) . Bulgaria , Hungary ,
Bavaria and the Tyrol. In the Austri
an province the term is used in com
bination thus : Pulla , pi. pi. The call
pullele. pul. pul , also occurs there.
In some parts of Germany the poul
try are called with tick , tick ; in Prus
sia , put , put , and young chickens -with
tuk. tuk ( Grimm ) , and schip , schip , the
latter being an imitation of their own
cry. In eastern Prussia hens are
called with kluckschen , kluck , kluck ;
also tippchen , tipp , tipp. Grimm re
cords also pi. pi , and tiet , tiet. Wein-
liold reports from Bavaria bibi. bibeli ,
bidli ; pi , pi , and pul , pul. In Denmark
the call Is pootle ; in Holland , kip.'kip ;
in Bohemia , tyoo : In Bulgaria , tirl , tlri.
Scott's Narrow Escape.
The world had n narrow escape of'
never having known a Sir Walter
Scott When a tinv babe lie was left-
in charge of a maid , but the gsrVs.hea'i :
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was in Edinburgh , whither .she" wanted
to go to rejoin her lover.
however , compelled to stay and lopk
after the infant at Sandy Know65rTffe
girl regarded her charge as an obstacle'
to be removed and afterward confess
ed that she curried young Scott up to
the Craigs ( mirier a strong temptation
of the devil , a : > she expressed it ) , fully
Intending to cut his throat with her
scissors and bury him under the moss.
Dr. Shipherd , the dentist from
Ainsworth , uses the new English
method of extracting teeth , which :
does it practically without pain to
the patient. See him Jan. ' 29 ot"
' 50 at the Doi.o\er hotel. 1-2- ' -
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Keep the feet warm.
Keep the chest warm.
Keep the back warm. I
Eelieve pain and. con
gestion.
We offer a splendid
brand new best quality
rubber 2 quart I
HOT WATER BOTTLE
FOR 850.
You can -"buy cheaper
ones , but not this qaul-
ity for less.
VALENTINE. NEB