I. M. RICE .Editor and Proprietor.
MARK ZAKK Foreman.
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THURSDAY , MAliCII 19 , 190S.
The Peoples caucus Monday
night was called to order by G < * > .
Hornby.r. . D. Armstrong was
elected chairman , and \V. A. ljer ,
tycrew secretary. Kev. Connell.
Josh Ilitt and John Yeast were
appointed a committee on rc-.o- .
lutions and declared against sa
loons and opposed to our present
town board and in favor of the
initiative and referendum , Geo.
Tracewell , Charley Anderson and
Joe Yeast were nomiiiakd for
village trustees and they each in
turn indorsed the resolutions and
their determination to carry thijm
out if elected. Rev. Connell \\as
called upon to tell about Gordon's
experience , and he tried to shrm
that Gordon business men \\crc
better satisfied than when they
had a saloon.
He did show that Gordon busi
ness men were more prosperous
now than five years ago ; that there
was more money deposited in
banks now , which is also the r > ; e
with every town in Xebraski and
Kansas at the present time.
But Valentine cannot be com
pared with a town like Gordon.
That Gordon didn't miss her
one saloon in closing it in 190-3 ,
cither in the city treasury or the
school treasury , is not much of a
wonder. Gambling was run wide
open then and Gordon was the
worst hole along the line. It took
radical measures to straighten out
Gordon. Gordon had very little ,
if any , transient trade and the
support of her one saloon took
the vast surplus now accumulated
in their banks , they would have
us believe , and also the prosperity
from every business nnn in town.
Valentine is the county seat.
The U. S. land oiUco' is located
here. People come from every
where and stop a day or a week
in Valentine.
The Rosebud Agency i on tin-
north of us and much of its trade
comes here.
Valentine i.s the shipping point
for numerous country stores sur
rounding and for the vast cattle
industry of the reservation and
the surrounding territory.
Our business men and Valentine
people , consequently , do not sup
port our saloons , but it is the
transient trade that pays into our
city and school treasuries § -iJ > 00
a year and none are the worst- for
it that we know of the past year.
Our saloons are not ! aw-breakinj >
now , and during the past year
have not caused the city or our
county one dollar of expense.
Valentine cannot be cnmpircd
with a town like Gordon. There
aie many differences.Ve have a
water system to re-build and a
dam to construct : a reservoir to
build our water tank i.s decaying
We need greater water pressure ,
and plans are laid for this work
that can best be carried out by
men of experience in calculation
and who have already bi'jiun the
- work. Our piesent , town board
has been kicked in the pa-t , but
they hav < ' settled down to work
and are doing something regard
less of the kickers who show b\
their kicking thai they are noi
satisfied with \\oiking board.
Prices are what
we are talking
Now i
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Our stock is complete. I
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l ay Up.
All subscription accounts due
! the VALINTIXE DEMOCRAT must
be p iid up at once. Some people
may be inconvenienced by the
new luling of the po.stollice de
partment but the small accounts
that are due us should be paid and
( they are easier paid now than
later. Your accounts will be
placed with a collector if not paid
promptly.
Those who are not paid up will
be cut oil' after next week. We
are sorry to do this and hope you
will pay up at once.Vhy riot at
tend to this at once. You want
the paper and we want to send it
to.\ou but there are some who
may forget , others who wait for
-omething to happen and a few
j m-iy probably never get but one
more copy of the VALENTINE
DEMOCRAT.
\Ve dislike to separate from
you but if we must , wo wish you
well. For . \ ears we have travelled
together , if our collector should
be severe in collecting our ac
counts for us , let it not reflect
upon our past friend iip. ' We
want only what is due us and i
you defer payment it may caust
some estrangement but we feel
friendly now to all. We have
tried to tell you the news at Val
entine and in Cherry county. We
might have published a better
paper if everybody had paid
promptly but we are not finding
fault with you. You may hav <
had troubles and misfortunes. If
vou have we sympathize with you
If the world has went well with
you we want to rejoice with yoi. .
if you will let us. But the im
portant topic now is to get settlei
up so that we can send the paper
as in the past.
A dollar a year in advance i
easier to pay tlvin several dollars
at the rate of $1.50. If you don't
like to pay every year , send tw <
or three dollars to pay in advance
Some prefer to do this and it i-
less trouble for you and us. The
dollar rate is lower than.mo . > i
papers charge , ma'ny of tlem
charging § 2 00 per year arid most
home papers charge more than
one dollar a year.
We have no choice in this mat
ter but to comply with postal
regulations. We would do mosi
in.\ thing to suit your convenience
if ue could but if you are as will
ing as we , there will be no hesita
tion. If youvhappen our wa.\
come in and see us. We're al
ways glad to meet old friends
It is nece-sary to pay up in ad
vance for your paper now and we
mu'-t insist upon payment or
-et'tle in some way. Those \\ho
have not responded to our state
ments , sent out in January should
now pay up and remember that
we are not to blame for tlip new
ruling of the postofliee depart
ment. If . \ our piper is not settled
for we must stop sending it to
you.
I. M. Rice
Nature has instilled in man an
ppefite for a stimulent. Sii ce
die beginning of time imn l > as
used some kind of a stimulating
! ie\crago. Today we use cofl'ie ,
'ea , beer and ardent spirits. From
'very reasonable standpoint then-
is no denying the fact that pun
baer is tl e most desirable of all
It is fie only beverage that has l'oo <
value and contains such a small
amount of alcohol as to make it
helpful instead of dangerous to
the human system. Thinking pen
pie are beginning to advocate ra > re
liberal laws governing the sale of
beer as being the only solution o
the temperance question. Good
beer ( Storz l > lue Ribbon Beer ) is a
better stimulating beverage thai
ie-i or coil'ee. ls ! moderate us -
will assist instead of hindering you
> n building up a robust constitu
tion. 10 1
Judge Walcott returned from
Omaha
APPEALS TO PEOPLE
NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS ADOPT
STRONG PLATFORM.
PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY
Return to Government of , by , and for
the People Is the Keynote of Dec
laration All Democrats
Will Indorse.
The platform adopted by the Ne
braska Democrats assembled in state
convention at Omaha , March 5 , 1908 ,
is as follows :
We , the representatives of the De
mocracy of Nebraska , in delegate coi-
vention assembled , reaffirm our faith
in , and pledge our loyalty to , the
principles of our party.
\Ye rejoice at the increasing signs
of an awakening in the United State ? .
The various investigations have traced
graft and political corruption to the
representatives of predatory wealth
and laid bare the nuscrupulous meth
ods by which they have debauched
elections and preyed upon a defense
less public through the subservient of
ficials whom they have raised to place
and power.
The conscience of the nation is now
aroused and will , if honestly appealed
to , free the government from the grip
of those who have made it a business
asset of the favor-seeking corpora
tions ; it must become again "a gov
ernment of the people , by the people
and for the people ; " and be adminis
tered in all its departments according
to the Jeffersonian maxim , "equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none. "
none.Ve
\Ve heartily approve of the laws pro
hibiting the pass and the rebate , and
insist upon further legislation , stat"1
and national , making it unlawful for
any corporation to contribute to cam
paign funds and providing for publica
tion , before the election , of all indi
vidual contributions above a reason
able minimum.
Believing , with Jefferson , in "the
support of the state governments in
all their rights as the most compe
tent administrations for our domestic
concerns and the surest bulwark
against anti-republican tendencies ; "
and in "the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional
vigor , as the sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad , " we are
opposed to the centralization implied
in trie suggestions , now frequently
made , that the powers of the general
government should be extended by
judicial construction.
We insist upon the recognition of
the distinction between the natural
man and the artificial person , called a
corporation , and we favpr the enact
ment of such laus as may be neces
sary to compel foreign corporations to
submit their legal disputes to the
courts of the states in which they do 1
business , and thus place themselves
upon the same footing as domestic cor
porations.
We favor the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people , and regard this reform as the
gateway to all other national reforms
A private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerable. We , therefore , favor
the vigorous enforcement of the crim
inal law against trusts and trust mag
nates , and demand the enactment of
such additional legislation as may Ix-
necessary to make it impossible for a
private monopoly to exist in the
United States.
We welcome the belated promise oT
tariff reform , now offered by a part
of the Republican party , as a tardy
recognition of the righteousness of the
Democratic position on this question
but the people can not safely entrust
the execution of this important work
to a party which is so obligated to the
highly protected interests that it
postpones relief until * after the elec
tion.
tion.We
We favor an immediate revision of
the tariff by the reduction of import
duties. Articles entering into compe
tition with articles controlled by trusts
should be placed' upon the free list ;
material reductions should be made in
the tariff upon the necessaries of life ,
and reductions should be made in
such other schedules as may be neces
sary to restore the tariff to a revenue
basis.
We favor an income tax as part ol
our revenue system , and we urge the
submission ot a constitutional amend
ment specifically authorizing congress
to levy and collect a tax upon individ
ual and corporate incomes , to the end
that wealth may bear its proportion
ate share of the burdens of the federal
government. We favor a national in
heritance tax to reach the "swollen
fortunes" already in existence , but
we believe that it is better to per
manently prevent "swollen fortunes'
by abolishing the privileges and favor
itism upon which they are based.
We assert the right of congress to
exercise complete control over inter
state commerce , and we assert the
right of each state to exercise just as
complete control over commerce with
in its borders. We demand such an
enlargement of the powers of national
and state railway commissions as may
be necessary to give full protection to
persons and places from discrimina
tion and extortion. We believe that
both the nation and the various states ,
should , first , ascertain the * present
value of the railroads , measured ! > ;
the cost .of reproduction ; second , pro
hibit the issue of any more wateret
stock or fictitious capitalization ; third ,
prohibit the railroads from engaging
in any business which brings them
into competition with their shippers :
and fourth , reduce transportation
rutos unti-l t-frey rfeaob a point wlwrv
they will vield only a ic aonnble re
turn on the present value of the roads
such reasonable return being de
fined as a return sufficient to keep the
stock of the roads at par when such
roads are honestly capitalized.
The injury done by issues of wa
tered stock is more clearly seen and
better understood since the shrinkagp
in the market value of such stock has
precipitated a widespread panic and
brought enormous loss to the coun
try. '
The present financial stringency
furnishes additional progf that the Re
publican leaders -are either unwilling
or incompetent to protect the inter
ests of the general public.
We favor the postal savings bank
and , in addition thereto , insist upon
the passage of laws , state and nation
al , for the better regulation of banks
and for the protection of bank de
posits. The government demands se
curity when it deposits public money
in a bank , and we believe that the se
curity of the individual depositor who
intrusts his earnings to a bank should
be as perfect as the government's se
curity.
We oppose both the Aldrich bil
and the Fowler bill , and believe that
insofar as the needs of commerce re
quire an emergency currency , such
currency should be issued and con
trolled by the federal government , and
that it should be loaned upon adequate
security and at a rate of interest
which will compel its retirement
when the emergency is passed.
We demand , further , that favoritism
in the deposit of treasury funds shal
be abolished and that surplus rev
enues shall be deposited atx competi
tive rates upon sufficient security and
fairly distributed throughout the coun
try.
try.We
We favor the eight hour day.
We believe in the conciliation of
capital and labor and favor every le
gitimate means for the adjustment
of disputes between corporate employ
ers and their employes , to the end
that justice may be done to those who
toil and society may be relieved fron :
the embarrassment occasioned by pro
longed strikes and lockouts.
We favor such a modification of the
law relating to injunctions as will
first , prevent the issuing of the writ
in industrial disputes except after no
tice to defendants and full hearing ;
second , permit trial before a judge
other than the one who issued the
writ , and , third , allow a jury to be
summoned in all cases where the al
leged contempt is committed outside
the presence of the court.
We favor an emploj'cr's liability
law , applicable to both nrivate and
public employers.
We favor full protection , by both
national and state governments with
in their respective spheres , of all for
eigners residing in the United States
under treaty , but we are opposed to
the admission of Asiatic emigrant
who can not be amalgamated with our
population , or whose presence among
us would raise a race issue and in-
volve us in diplomatic controversies
with oriental powers , and we demand
a stricter enforcement of the immi
gration laws against any immigrant
who advocates assassination as a
means of reforming our government.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister
hood of states and heartily congratu
late her upon the auspicious beginning
of a great career.
We favor separate statehood for
Arizona and New Mexico and demand
for the people of Porto Rico the full
enjoyment of the rights and privi
leges of a territorial form of govern
ment.
We sympathize with the efforts put
forth for the reclamation of the arid
lands of , the west and urge the larg
est possible use of irrigation in" the
development of the country. We also
favor the reclamation of swamp lands
upon the same principle.
We favor the preservation of the
forests still remaining , and the re
planting of the denuded districts in all
our mountain ranges , as well as the
forestation of the western plains.
We believe that the Panama canal
will prove of great value to our coun
try and favor its speedy completion.
We urge liberal appropriations for
the improvement and development of
the interior waterways , believing that
such expenditures will return a large
dividend in lessened cost of transpor
tation.
We , favor a generous psnsion policy ,
both as a matter of justice to the sur
viving veterans and their dependents
and because it relieves the country of
the necessity of maintaining a large
standing army.
We condemn the experiment in im-
perialljm as an inexcusable blunder
which has involved us in an enor
mous expense , brought us weakness
instead of strength , and laid our na
tion open to the charge of abandoning
the fundamental doctrine of self-gov-
prnment. We favor an immediate dec-
laation of the nation's purpose to
recognize the independence of the
Philippine islands as soon as a stable
government can be established , such
independence to be guaranteed by ns
as we guarantee the independence of
Cuba , until the neutralization of the
islands can be secured by treaty with
other powers. In recognizing the in
dependence of the Philippines our gov
ernment should retain such land as
may be necessary for coaling stations
and naval bases.
Desiring the prevention of war ,
wherever possible , we believe that our
nation should announce its determina
tion not to use our navy for the col
lection of private debts , and itsT will
ingness to enter into agreements with
other nations , providing for the inves
tigation by an impartial international
tribunal , bbiorc any declaration of
war or commencement of hostilities , i
of every dispute which defies diplo-
e
aumann & Bachelor
MEAT MARKET
Fresh Salt and Cured Meats , Fish , Oysters ,
. Vegetables , Pickles , Lard. We buy poultry ,
'biitter and eorffs and all kinds of live stock.
Call or Phone 88.
BAUMANN & BACHELOR ,
Valentine = Nebraska
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Lump / i D U per ton
7 on
Nut I i L U per ton
At last a Wvoming coal has been f < , jud which in all respects , for
domestic u.--e , equals Hock Springs district coal and excels it in some.
Rock Springshas for years been unbeatable , hut hundred * cf'custom
ers in the western part of the state now put HUDSON ahead of it
on account of purity , cleanliness and lasting qualities. For cooking
and heating stoves HUDSON cannot be excelled.
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Dealer in Hardware , Furniture and Coal.
S I2 S S 2 SS : S2S '
? s The only genuine and absolutely I
reliable substitute for tea
and coffee is
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the new food beverage gives life , health , vigor , joy ,
comfort and beauty , aiicl is highly recommended
for nerve endurance , and building up the constitu-
tion. It is a pleasant beverage and contain ? great
nutritive and invigorating qualities. Has the refreshing -
freshing properties of fine tea , the nourishment of
the best cocoas , a tonic and recuperative force possessed -
sessed by neither , and can be used in all cases
v. where tea and coffee are prohibited. i.
Eggo's Fruit Halt is a great health reviver.
A laxative and thirst quencher. Effervescent and
so delicious to drink that a child likes it. Has all
the properties of a Sedlitz Powder and more , and
is recommended in all cases of indigestion , consti
pation and headache. Removes impurities from the
blood and can be used freely without causing injury
Manufactured by
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The above preparations may be had from all
Grocery and Drug Stores.
2Z2 2iVS2f3
ore Liouor Center V
\\iblic \ \ opinion is unerring , public confidence sel
dom misplaced. The true worth of every business
concern to the community in which it operates is
fixed by its clientele , the value-giving1 power of ev
ery commercial institution may be determined by
the amount of patronage it receives. The people
have unmistakably proclaimed their confidence in
lock Exchange ,
and its methods , by bestowing upon it a far greater
patronage than that accorded any other place in
\ralentiue. Where the major portion of the fair ,
the impartial , discriminating public buys its Liquor
and Beer , must be a good place for You , the in
dividual , to trade. Visit The Stock
you need anything in our line.
. F. A. MELTENDORFF
Paxson liornback has resigned
ds position with the Great North-
rn and is home.
The South Dakota Band was
much appreciated by a crowded
house Tuesday night ,
