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THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 26 , 190S.
The advocates of prohibition can
find little consolation in the follow
ing results of the recent election.
They have played their strongest
cards while leading the onslaught
for prohibition or county option
and lost. The liberal element has
been accused of being accomplices
of the saloon and the vices have
been laid at the door of those who
were not outspoken for prohibi
tion. For a time the people gave
way under the stigma of being sa
loon supporters and the sweeping
declarations and charges of fanati
cal prohibitionists that all crimes
were directly or indirectly charge
able to the saloon element , but
they are now resenting the bold
claims of these fanatics and are
awaking to the fact that they have
a defense and will make vigorous
denials to these charges in the fu
ture. Because a man may be shot
down with a gun , are all men who
sell guns criminals or in sympathy
with criminals ?
Temperance Fights In
Various States.
The Milwaukee Sentinel , in a
summary of the results of elections
in states where the temperance
question was more or less of an is
sue , prints the following :
Colorado Xot an issue so far as
government was concerned , but
Anti-Saloon league made bitter
tight to elect a legislature favor
able to county option. Majority
of new legislature opposed to
county option.
Florida General election rati
fied state primary result. Held in
June against state wide prohi
bition , electing a liberal governor
and legislature.
Idaho Not an issue as far as
government was concerned , but
Anti-Saloon league made a bitter
fight to elect a legislature favor
able to county option. Majority
of new legislature opposed to
county option. t
Illinois County option the main
issue for election of members of
legislature. N e x t legislature
strongly opposed to county option ,
75 per cent of members being lib
eral. Prohibition
party has no
representation against three in
last legislature.
Indiana County option main
issue in state campaign. State
went 10,000 for Taft , but Watson ,
republican candidate for governor ,
was beaten on county option is
sue by Marshall , democrat , by
18,000. New legislature demo
cratic as result of Governor Han-
ley calling special session of legis
lature at which he forced county
option through.
Minnesota County option main
issue in election of members of
legislature. New legislature op
posed to county option 3 to 1.
State went republican for Taft by
75,000 , but republican candidate
for governor , Jacobson. who
strongly declared for county op
tion , defeated by 30,000 by Gov
ernor J.ohnson , democrat , vvho
ran for third terra.
Nebraska Not an issue so far
as governship was concerned , but
Anti-Saloon league made bitter j !
light to elect a legislature , favor-
al'ie to county option. Majority !
of npw legislature opposed trc j
county option. j
New Jersey LocJ option onei i
of main issues in election of mem
bers of legislature. , All leading
candidates who favored locil op
tion defeated.
Ohio State gave a republican
plurality of 05,000 , but Harris ,
republican candidate for govern
or , who fathered the Rose county
law and favored state wide pro
hibition , defeated by Harmon ,
democrat , by 20,000.
OklahomaStatedispenaary law
passed by last legislature and sub
mitted for ratification to people
defeated.
Khode Island Entire state voted
ed on question of license or no li
cense. Out of 2. > wet towns and
18 dry ones before election , 30
went wet and 11 small ones dry , a
net loss to prohibitionists of 7.
Aggregate majority for license
was 20,000.
South Dakota Entire state voted
ed under initiative and referendum
on county option law , which was
defeated by 7,000.
Tennessee General election rati
fied action of June primaries by
re-electing Governor Patterson ,
democrat , who is opposed to state
wide prohibition , and electing a
legislature to carry out his views.
Texas Legislature elected which
will pass on question of submitting
to vote of people bill for constitu
tional amendment providing foe-
state prohibition. Result in doubt.
Washington Legislature elect
ed favorable to local option , but
opposed to county option. Not
issue in governorship.
W e s t Virginia Legislature
elected opposed to state prohibi
tion , but favorable to local option.
Wisconsin Legislature elected
is strongly opposed to county op
tion.
4'After The Election. "
We are all much obliged to be
informed that federal government ,
on October 10 , filed suit against
the Sugar trust for § 1,500,000 for
fraudulently withheld customs
duties , and again on October 28 ,
for § 2,000,000 more. But we can't
help but wonder , made through the
Associated Press , that "the filing
of the action was kept from pub
lic knowledge until after the elec
tion. "
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Why was knowledge of the fact
kept from the people till after
election ?
Was it perchance , kept from
the Sugar trust as well ? Is it pos
sible the administration was collec
ting sugared contributions for Taft
with the one hand and filing suits
against the 'contributor with the
other , while it successfuly essayed
to prevent the one hand from
knowing what the other was doing ?
However that may be , it is hard
to see why the people were not
permitted to know "until after
election. " We cannot think things
have come to such a pass that Mr.
Roosevelt and his advisers would
decide that Taft would be injured
by the fact that the administration
was prosecuting a trust.
It seems the people are to be
permitted to know just as much as
is good for them , and to know even
that much only on the installment
plan. "Practical men" " are in the
ascendency , and publicity has to
take a back seat--"until after the
election. " World Herald.
It is now reported that Gov.
Sheldon will hurry the appoint
ment of the supreme court judges
and that he intends to do the ap
pointing himself before Gov-elect
Shallenberger steps in. This will ! i
insure the appointment of three j j
rcpublican.judges and possibly one i
democrat. This means a republi
can supreme court. Why not be
fair and make it two and two or
let Gov. Shallenberger appoint
them ? This court should be as
non-partisan as possible.
Anonymous letters1 are being
written and sent to Laporte , Ind. ,
that Ray Lampherc was not guilty
of burning Mrs. Guinness ; that
she is still alive , the writer having
seen her , and that it was Mrs.
Guinness herself who set fire to
the house. These stories should
have no effect on the court unless
substantiated by other evidence.
Anyone interested may write an
anonymous letter and possibly a
natural sympathy for Lamphere
in ridding the country of Mrs.
Guinness prompted the writer. It
is also evident that Lamphere was
seeking private gain and revenue
in burning Mrs. Guinness and her
children in her home and that his
motive was similar to hers and
that after she had murdered and
robbed the innocent that he fath
ered the whole crime by acquiring
the profits in her murder and rob
bery and also the murder of inno
cent children. Let him pay the
penalty of his crimes.
Not 83' 5ts Enemies.
If the democratic party is to be
revised the revising will be done
by its t'riends , not by its enemies.
This is the thought that the east
ern newspapers , which ara print
ing endless columns of conjecture ,
demands and fulminations directed
against the present leadership of
the democratic party , would do
well to bear in mind before they
proceed to the extremity where
they will be obliged again to dis
close their own impotence.
An alleged interview with Mr.
Bryan in Texas is the occasion for
the latest outcry. Mr. Bryan is
quoted as saying that , while he
hopes it will not be necessary for
him again to be a candidate for
the democratic nomination , cir
cumstances might compel it. In
saying this , if he did say it , he
spoke nothing but the truth , and
men of clear vision must reconize it.
The circumstiucc that might
make it necessary for Mr. Bryan
to be chosen as the democratic can
didate is one not far to seek. It is
simply this : The rank and file of
the. democracy might force that
duty upon Mr. Bryan if there ap
peared to be no other way to save
the party from'being "reorganiz
ed" into an assistant republican
party.
It will be wise to face the situa
tion squarely. The democratic
party is made up of progressive
voters. At the very least 75 per
cent of its membership is in hearty
sympathy with the principles and
policies which Mr. Bryan repre
sents. They will not consent to
execute a rightabout face , no mat
ter how vociferous the command
that comes from the newspaper
sanctums of New York and else
" "
where. "
Mr. Bryan is strong because of
the things he stands for. His in
fluence in the democratic party
and in the nation cannot be killed
until the things he stands for are
killed. And this is an undertak
ing , we fancy , beyond the capaci
ty of the New York World , the
Times , the Sun , the Evening Post
and the other "molders of public
sentiment" that just now are most
active.
The democratic party is not go
ing to be revised , reorganized , re
constructed , from the outside. It
is not going to have its leaders
chosen for it by the enemies of
fundamental democracy. What
ever change may be made , in plans
of campaign , in leadership , in the
einphasi/.inur of policies , will be
made br democrats , by men who
are democrats because they have
ideals and settled convictions- .
And in whatever is done along
these lines Mr. Bryan will be one
who must be reckoned with. ;
World-Herald. !
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Andrew Carnegie . Con =
f esses.
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Since Governor Cleveland's first j
historic message to the American '
congress on the tariff question no
such blow has baen struck at high
tariff robbery as is administered by
Andrew Carnegie in his notable ar
ticle in December Century.
The full significance of Carnegie's
frank admissions can only be un
derstood when it is remembered that
he is the greatest single beneficiary
of special privilege legislation who
has appeared in history ; that he is
the head of the Steel trust , the larg
est manufacturer of iron and steel
products in the world ; that the
Tteel trust has for more than a third
of a century constituted the most
powerful force to compel high tariff
law ? , and that the steel schedules
are at once the foundation stone and
the keystone of the entire protective
system.
This is the the man who speaks ,
and these are his credentials to give
expert testimony.
\Vhat he now frankly admits is
identnaily what the democratic par
ty has been asserting in every one
of the last seven or cghfc : national
campaigns. He , admits that our
great trust , like steel and oil , are no
longer infant industries needing
protection. He admits that , not
withstanding the higher wages of
labor here , as compared with foreign
countries , the American manufac
turer caa produce his article cheap
er than it can be produced in any
other country. He boasts , truthfully
that we have become the greatest
of manufacturing nations , and can
defy the competition of the world.
He admits that a tariff for protec
tion is no longer needed. He de
clares that what we should have ,
hereafter , is a tariff for revenue
purposes only , except in occasional
instances. That tariff , he declares ,
to produce the maximum of revenue
-with , the niininiu.in . of burden ,
should be levied chiefly on articles
consumed by the wealthy.
Here is the lie , given by Andrew
Carnegie himself , the foremost be
neficiary of the tariff , to every tariff
argument made by the republican
leaders and by the republican press
during all these recent years.
Here is the admission that the
tariff is not needed to protect Amer -
ican labor ; that it is not needed to
protect our great American indust
ries : that it is not needed to estab
lish and maintain a home maiket.
What is there left ? Who , and
what , does need the tariff ? What
is its present purpose ? What does
itactully accomplish ?
It is trusts that need the tariff
the trusts , and they alone. They
need it , not for protection in any
honest enterprise , but solely to pro
tect them in their dishonest enter
prise , of pillaging the entire Amer
ican public. They need it to enable
them to enter every home in this
land and lay their heavy hand on
the articles that go into that home ;
they need it to enable them to levy
a constant tax on business , on en
terprise , on the upbuilding of the
nation. They need it to enable
them to charge the extra price ( hat
represents unearned and exorbitant
profit , and that is. in effect , nothing
but robbery under the forms of the
law.
Andrew Carnegie confesses. He
has so many hundreds of millions ;
his income from the steel trust and
other tariff-protected investments is
so enormous that he cannot give it
away as fast as it comes in. He is
tired , evidently , and ashamed , of be
ing a public plunderer. Perhaps he
is conscience-smitten as well. So he
frankly tells the truth , takes his
stand boldly for a tariff for revenue
only , and admits that his business
can .flourish and prosper and pay
American wages without requiring
a penny's worth of tariff protection.
It is too early yet to attempt to
estimate the effect of this bombshell
on the high tariff stronghold. That
it will be great and far-reaching is
certain. That it will make it im
possible for the next congress to
face the people unless ifc gives this
country genuine tariff reform there
is good reason to believe. It is dif
ficult , indeed , to see how , after Carj j
negie's statement , even the Joe Cannons - !
rT
nons , the Paynes and Dalzells of
congress can have the hardihood to
ljc keep uu their flight for greedy spe
cial privilege.
Andrew Carnegie's Century article
is j worth more than a thousand pub
lic j libraries to the plain people of
these United States.
Taken Up.
Taken up by the underFJ ? ' e" " '
my residence on the Eale > f : rm
south of Valentine Nebr. one stray
2 year old red and while spotted
heifer notched under right ear. No
other viFible marks or brands. Has
been here since last May. Owner
can have same by paying costs.
C.B BACHELOR.
' Valentine , Nehr.
Dated Oct. 28 , 1908.
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