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IMIE NORFOLK WKKICLY NEWS JOUUNAI , : FRIDAY , NOVEMBER 80 , 1906 , The NorfoiK Weekly News-Journal The 1877. THE HUSE PUULISHINQ COMPANY W. N. lll'Ki : N. A. Him : I'nwlilcnt , Sivri'lnrj Krldny. 1 y mnil I'pr > ' ' " [ in- Unloroil nt llu' pimtnllloo i t Norfnllc , Noli. , n jxHMiml claim niuttur. Killtorlnt DopiirliwmL No. St. lliiHlnmM Olllco ami Jol ) lloomn , No. II ZZ , _ _ _ _ _ There will bo a record linllilny trade NllH 80IIHOII , HUlOMI Mil HlKUH Ml Al tliu close of u ROIIWIII of bountiful erop , with all lalior employed ul. high WI\KO , ami with u reign of prosperity BproadliiB generally over the country. there IH every roamm to bollovo Hint the holiday bimlnomi Hits HIWHOII will liroak all paHl high water marliH. Any morclmnt who has woods worth lookIng - Ing at , will soil a largo uuunllty. That niorohant who take * tlmo by the forelock - lock and presents hlH artU'lo to the public In attrai'llvu newspaper ndvcr- tlHlug , ( him reaching the gteatowt mini- lior at the lowest coat , will Hull a larger - or iiuanllly and IIH ! hank nut-omit alter Christmas , as well IIH hlH empty shelves , will toll the Htory. Till ? GRAVEL EXPERIMENT. The gravel being hanlcd to South Knurl h Htrcct will ho watched with in terest. by Norfolk people. If the ma- torlal now being placed on the Hlreet Htands the test of rain and mill makes a good roadbed , the problem of build- Inn a permanent highway from the business portion of the city to the Junction , and for that matter out In other directions from Norfolk , will he Kolvcd ; If this gravel falls , then the pity will fare a serious and expensive Holutlon of the question. Now that inoro gravel has been hauled Into the street , there seems to he a great deal of encouragement that It will do thu business and answer the purpose In wood shape. Norfolk will hold Its breath and watch the experiment. A good road to the Junction will mo.au much to Norfolk In a business way , as will a good main road leading out in every direction through the farming area. A TAH1KK RESOLUTION. The grange , at a meotlng In Denver , adopted resolutions against u tariff which allows a manufacturer to sell goods at homo at higher rates than ho can got abroad for his wares. Tills resolution , while apparently reason able , Is not logical. There will , of course , always bo room for honest differences of opinion In regard to the tariff question. Yet a tariff which al lows a manufacturer to sell at homo at a certain price and sell abroad at a loss price , has its advantages. A manufacturer of hats , for instance - stance , might turn out a product and sell It In this country at a fair margin of proIH. The tariff protects him and allows him to make a protlt. Hut for the tariff ho would bo unable to com pete with the cheaper labor of other countries. Now In supplying the homo market he gives work to a certain number of men , and no more. Without extra markets ho can not employ oxtramen. In a foreign country the prlco on his product , due to lower wages paid In a foreign land , Is lower than Ingots gets hero. Ho can not send hats to that country and sell them at the pric es provident ( hero. He can not make a prollt , because of the high wages he pays , by selling them for less. Hut ho can sell them in a foreign land at. for example the very bedrock cost price. This compotes with for eign manufacturers In lands where no tariff protects them. Uy selling over there at cost , ho gets an added market. Ho must produce more hats. Ho must hire inoro men. And so , though making llttlo or no prollt out of the venture , ho is acting as a middleman between foreign hat buyers and local hat buyers , and Is giving employment to Americans that they could not have otherwise secured , bringing money into American circu lation that would not otherwise have been brought here. He makes his living off the product that ho sells at home at a reasonable profit. He makes the living for the laboring man by selling surplus pro ducts abroad at foreign prices which help keep the wheels of his factory going , though not bringing In a prollt , to speak of , for the institution. GUILTY SHOULD BE' FOUND. Senator Tillman , whoso life had been threatened by Chicago negroes because he stated that ho would dis cuss the race question In a lecture In that city , hoo-hoood the idea of being afraid and declared that ho was not afraid of any negro on earth. Ho also emphatically stated that he would give his views on the race question because he considers this a paramount topic. "I will lead a mob at any time to lynch a negro who has attacked a woman , whether she he white or black , " ho declared. The recent Atlanta riots , the crimes by the race all over the country and the riot at Brownsville , Tox. , for which the negro troops were dishonorably discharged , have all tended to make the solution of the race question one \ ofllnl Intercut thioughont the Unit- i il States , Some of the neurons have shown HOIIHO by upholding the president In his dlHi-hargo and by condemning Hume KoldliTM who , hiding bohlnd their follow-troopi'i'M , have made the Inno- fill suffer with the guilty. Homo nth- II-H. however , have tended to hurt tholr ( anne In the eyoH of the nation by condemning ( ho president's action and by Hinting that there \\lll this week ho held a big mooting In Now York for the purpose of iiioiiHltig fooling that will hack a demand for congressional Investigation of the president's dis charge. There l 0110 particularly unsatisfac tory foil I lira lo the discharge , and dis charge only , made by the president. In discharging the eullro three com panies , ho IIIIH como no m-aror the punishment deserved l/y / the guilty par lies than ho was In the beginning. A dlHchargo Is not snlllcU > nt punishment for the crimes committed. The gov ernment should hunt out the guilty Individuals anil see that they get real genuine punishment and plenty of It , for shooting up Brownsville. Merely discharging the men from the ranks anil Inking away the soldier uniform Is nothing. It Is selling a bad prcce dent. In the futtiro a company which desires to ho freed from the service may ta'ho ' this as an example , go out and kill a citizen , conceal the .guilty ones and all gel discharged. The guilty should ljo placed and a more seven- punishment than has been meted out , Indicted. LET HER SPEND IT. Mrs. Hose Pastor Stokes , once a cigar maker and now wife of the Now York millionaire socialist , has como out with caustic words against the habit of .Miss ( ilullii Mnroslnt , banker's daughter In Now York , who spends JliOO.OOO per year upon her gowns. Mrs. Stokes voices a vicious sentiment when she yays : "Women thus wasteful and extrava gant do not til-servo to bo happy. " Would the socialist decree that the rich should hoard tholr gold ? . Is It not much better for society that the wealthy should thus spend their sav ings , 'that the laborer may get the bonollt ? In striking contrast with this dan- gorouH and utterly Illogical sentiment as expressed by Mrs. Stokes , Is the sentiment of Dr. Do Grand I'owors wht ) says : " 1'eoplo are spending mon ey nowadays and they are spending It fast. Our prosperity depends upon our spending. If everybody hoarded what ho earned , prosperity would cease. We would fry in our own fat. " From the tone of Mrs. Stokes' words It seems apparent that this former cigar maker and now millionaire's wife , Is striking out more for noto- rloty than for the good of society. She has fallen into a common habit that has taken hold of the country of late , that of condemning the wealthy , re gardless of circumstances. The un reasonable position of this socialist view Is made more striking by contrast - trast with expressions a few months ago upon the death of Hussel Sage , llussel Sago hoarded his money. He was not extravagant and wasteful , as Miss Moroslnl Is painted , but was a miser and withal saved some eighty millions of coins worth a dollar before his working days came to an cud. Then there went up a cry from this same hysterical sort of throat against the hoarding of Sago. Ho was de nounced as a weed In the social Held ; an enemy of all progress and a man worse than the penitentiary convict. Ho should have spent his money , was the complaint on every hand. And hero Is another New York fi nancier trying to spend his money on his daughter's gown at the rate of $200.000 per year , for which effort there Is bitter denunciation from the socialistic lips. It wore better to spend one's money than to give it away. Charity Is a noble thing and gifts are glorious and heroic , but the man who works foi his bread is a better citizen than ho who gets It as a donation. Therefore let Miss Moroslnl spend her allowance In peace. There Is too much of nonsense uttered against tht man who has made money , and too llttlo honest effort among the com plalnants to exorcise faculties and bj persistent work earn their own th ings. ings.Tho The world Is a pretty good place after all , and in the long run people generally get about what Is to thorn. SYMPATHY NOT IN ORDER. The negroes of New York City Washington and other eastern cities who are attempting to arouse public enthusiasm In the cause of the three discharged companies at Brownsville and who will parade the dismissed sol dlers as martyrs , would well consider tholr acts before going too far. They will got llttlo sympathy from the Unit ed States government , either the ad ministration or the congress , In tholr pleas against the action of the presi dent , and they might as well bo taught now as later that the president Is the president and that government Is gov ernment ; they might as well bo Im pressed ilt-opl ) with the fact , that when they will luluup arms against a com munity of while people and "shoot up" the town , killing and wounding , and then shield the guilty ones against the law , withholding Information which would lead In the detection of those who did ( ho wiong , they will have to suffer for the misdemeanor. For cltlt-H of tin- east or for the gov ernment now lo lend a sympathetic or a pitiful voice to those thrco com panies of colored soldiers , who have icon discharged by the president , In nursing In these colored breasts a uplr- It which must lead to inoro harm than good for the race an a whole. It has boon found In the south that the sympathy or the pity extended to negroes lynched , only creates In the minds of the balance of the race nn Idea that tholr faults and crimes aio being applauded and more trouble en sues. sues.Not Not only will the action of the pres ident In this case become a much needed lesson to the colored troops , who are said to bo noted for shielding their guilty against the law , but It will alst ) bo a lesson for the army. Soldiers , If an army Is to ho main tained , must learn that discipline Is the first law for them to obey and when they disregard the orders of tholr superior olllcers , It Is time for them to bo dropped from the ranks and give up tholr mnskols. The case In question Is not one for tbo display of nn exaggerated senti ment on the part of the American pee ple. A crime was committed and the three companies who bccamo guilty by shielding the offenders , have been punished. Tholr punishment has not been so harsh as it might have been had the guilty Individuals been given over to tbo state of Texas. It Is no occasion for the north to Interfere with its unreasonable sym pathy and pity where pity anil sym pathy are undesorved. It Is well to Impress these soldiers and the rest ol the country with the fact that the president , responsible for the acts of the army , must have discipline at any cost and must , when ho issues an or der , bo ondorsotr by the American na tion rather than assailed wlth-snlllllng appeals and whining demands that ho set aside bis tirst determination and put the punished parties on pedestals ) f the hero. NEBRASKA BANKERS. The Nebraska bankers , despite pres sure brought to bear by bankers of Now York City and other largo con ers which would benefit by the pro posed currency reform , had the cour Tgo to stand up anil vote against the plan that has boon put forth from N6'\\ York by the committee of the Nation al association , and for that action the people of Nebraska and of the wcs ( will pat the financiers of the goldei rod state on the back. The first state association to take action upon the plan as proposed In Now York the ether day , the Nebrns- leans were placed In the limelight on their action and it required .courage to come out In a sharp and decisive stand against the action of the committee from the national association and the New York Chamber of Commerce. But the Nebraska bankers will bo up held by their own state without a dis senting vote , and It Is to bo hoped that their view of the situation will be come so prevalent that the currency reform will die n natural death before over It reaches the halls of congress. As n Tllden banker -In the Omaha convention put it , "Why not float sil ver , If you wish to expand your cur rency ? That would do some good for somebody , at least , while this making of paper money without anything to back It , and merely for the sake of the New York speculators , does no body any good , outside those few who get the loans without security. " Mr. Bryan In 18SH5 proposed Just such a plan as the currency reform people now put forth , by floating silver worth fifty-six cents and calling it a dollar. Mr. Bryan's plan had the advantage of at least giving work to the silver miners , while the newly projected scheme gives nothing of good to any body .but the government print shop and the speculators who are allowed to borrow with which to further play the stock exchange. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts spoke In Norfolk during 1S9C. Ho was talking about the absurdity of trying to float a sliver cartwheel worth fifty- six cents and calling It a dollar. He was telling of the danger In this sort of thing to the country's commercial Interests , and pointed out how , with less confidence In the money , all prices would go skyward. Pat Roonoy , from over In the rear of the tent , called out , "Any money that Undo Sam says Is good , Is good enough for me. " "Yes , " answered Hoar , quick as a Hash , "but you are trying to to make him lie about It. " And so In this case , although the government might say that the newly printed currency , behind which was nothing hut the promise of the bank ers to pay hack , were gobd as gold but the government , in that case , would bo lying about It. The currency reform committee talks about making the tax on the now uoiicy HO high that It would be used mly In cases of extreme strain. That tax Is about four percent. , according to reports. Now York people will pay twenty percent , for money with which to speculate. To make It high enough to keep down the gambling spirit In Now York , the government would innlto this now money prohibitive so far IIH the west IH concerned The went Is getting along nicely now. and Is loaning money to the oast. When the west got In a pinch In IS'.Cl the cant had no IIHO for nn clastic cur rency. Now things have changed. The east borrows money from the west In the Hummer tlmo and invests. In the fall wo ask our own money back. The east then wants to borrow more money , without security. In order - dor to repay the west. It would bo borrowing from Peter to pay Paul , ami there Is not much dllllculty In seeing how these borrowed dollars might sooner or Inter find their way Into such deep holes that the emergency would bo even more strained than be fore. Through all the ages of society men have been trying to work out some sort of an elastic currency reform , but ono that was snfo has never been found. The west Is not satisfied that elasticity Is needed. Ono banker says that the business of this country could bo dtmo on n quarter of the currency that Is now In circulation. The west Is not ready to tamper with the currency system. The financial , world will have to sit up and take notice of Nebraska hankers today. Their vote against the elas ticity is based on sound logic. The reform proposed Is a popullstlc mons- irenjid more dangerous than that of free silver , which was decried as an awful thing ten years ago by these same Now York-bankers who now are bringing pressure to bear for congres sional action. IS HEARST UNRELIABLE ? ' That. William Randolph Hearst Is not dead politically , though defeated , Is shown by the Interest which Is still taken In his personality and his meth ods by the public at large. A rural subscriber to The News , living several miles out of Norfolk , telephones in to this paper and says : "You have had a good deal to say about Hearst. You say he Is unreliable. Is that true ? Wo would like to'have you print some thing to show us that he Is unre liable. " Is Hearst unreliable ? That Is the question. Let us call to the witness stand Mr. Hearst and his papers. Mr. Hearst wants to be president of the United States. He owns news papers In Now York , Boston. Chicago , Los Angeles and San Francisco , all of which are aiding in his fight for the presidency. He claims to be nn honorable man , worthy that high of fice. Perhaps nn Incident at the time of the assassination of President Me- Klnley will show the Hearst tendency. Ho was a candidate for the presiden cy. He hoped to tear down McKlnley ivnd hoist himself to the white house. Hearst's newspaper in New York , the Journal , had printed many things of a violent nahiro concerning McKlnley. On one occasion it snld , "It ( the bullet that killed Goebcl In Kentucky ) Is speeding here ( to Washington ) to lay McKlnley on his bier. " It said. "If had men and bad Institutions can not bo gotten rid of without killing them , then killing must he done. " The very week In which the assassination oc curred , Hearst's paper cartooned Mc Klnley as a dancing negro figure in a trust minstrel show led by Mark Hanna. Czolgosn , the assassin , de clared that ho had been induced to kill McKinley by reading articles In Hearst papers. On the day of the funeral there was sanctimoniously printed on the front page of a Hearst paper the favorite hymn of the dead president , "Lead , Kindly Light. " This was done because public wrath almost destroyed Hearst papers. Is that sort of a man reliable ? Mr. Hearst In ono of his speeches declared ho was opposed to the use of money in politics. His own state- moiit atfer the campaign shows that ho spent more than a quarter of a million dollars In his race for the gov ernorship. Does that appear to make him re liable ? Mr. Hearst suppressed the Import ant parts of the speeches of Mr. Hughes and twisted the other parts into prominence , making It appear that ho was reporting the entire speech of his opponent. 'Mr. Hearst denounced Murphy , Tam many's boss , as a "crook" and car tooned him as a penitentiary convict , yet accepted the nomination for gov ernor with Murphy's aid , and could not have secured the nomination ex cept for Murphy and Tammany , llo had tied up for personal advancement , despite his preconvontlon declarations. He was Murphy's candidate. Hearst declares that but for him , the Jews would be persecuted In Amer ica as they are In Russia. He prints frequently on his front page a picture of the pope sent to Hearst with a mes sage underneath from the pope , "Blessings to Hearst. " Ho had col lected funds for Vesuvius sufferers mil he believes In letting the left hand know what the right hand docs. Mr. Hearst denounces corporation methods ; yet ho Is nt the head of many corporations every ono of his newspapers Is incorporated In order that he may oncnpo liability for damage - ago done to people and In order to escape - capo payment of his Hharo of the tax es. Ills papers do not pay tholr share of taxes , though they denounce other corporations for shirking. During the recent campaign false hood without end was employed by Hearst's papers to create votes. It Is Impossible In a brief space to give oven a comprehensive list of things that brand Hearst ns unreli able. These few are Indicative. Pres ident Roosevelt meant Hearst when ho snld : ' "Tho liar Is no whit better than the thief , and If his mendacity takes the form of slander ho may bo worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an hon est man or oven with hysterical exag geration. An epidemic of Indiscrim inate assault upon character does no good , but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened when ever an honest man Is assaulted , or even when a scoundrel Is untruthfully assailed. " AROUND TOWN. Cold air goes to the feet. New policemen like to show their authority. Ono family have gone to so many parties this woolc that their children are inviting them in for Sunday din ner. A policeman can bo so Invisible when on duty that he isn't missed for many days after ho has left town by the general public. Carl Ott , who has lived in Norfolk these many years without ever a touch of stomach trouble , follows a rule laid down by his father : "When the food begins to taste good , quit eating. " Neither Carl Ott nor any of his family have ever had so much as a headache , ho says , because of this rule and Its application. The negro troops in Teaxs have been blacklisted , so to speak. The trouble with a bad habit Is that it is bard to break just at the critical ; lme. A small boy is willing ; to be sick on a school day , but it comes hard during vacation. The Sunday schools are being over crowded. The Christmas tree season Is approaching. They say that as you grow older , It becomes more dilllcult to get up In the morning. That's a gloomy pros pect. Ministers' wives keep their eyes open for excuses that will allow them to stay awoy from church. They bard ly dare stay away without an excuse A Norfolk woman who had to walk to an early train just before dawn carried a pair of scissors with whlcl to make gun bluff in case she were held up. People who take advantage o "cinches" generally got caught. A bluff works now and then , but It gets "called" In the long run. It pays to deliver the goods. A theatrical company that passei through Norfolk on the Bonestee train kept talking about skates. "Wo will all have our skates on , " they said Now what did they mean ? Exit Ice cream sodas ; enter buck wheat cakes. People nt Nellgh are congratulating a football player over the fact that he may possibly recover without ninputn tion of the arm. Until Norfolk learns that It is to see n show worth n dollar when the tickets cost $1 , the theater attendance will not be overwhelming. When thl city learns that it can depend upoi getting Its money's worth , the seat will go like hot cakes. Down at Fre mont seats for all good shows are soli several days in advance. Hero In Nor folk we so seldom have a good show that when ono does come along 1 takes us by surprise. SENTENCE SERMONS. Revenge gives birth to remorse. Idle words are by no means Idle after tor they aic uttered. Fear more the foes In your hear than these In the open. No man Is ordained of God until he Is ready to servo men. It Is easy to sneer at the goodness you cannot acquire. To get oven with the wrongdoer yoi must drop to his level. Show your faith In your prayers bj your follow up system. People who easily boll over do little toward washing the world. The man who never looks aheat with patience always ovens up b > ooklng bnck with n good deal of pain Chicago Tribune. It's the man whose weights are short vho wants to hold the scale of Justice That prayer rises highest that onion from those who bend lowest In ervlco for others. People who take trouble by the fore- tick never get more than a hindsight of happiness. Letting your light shlno does not noan turning a searchlight on your lelghhor's weak spots. Most of us are more anxious to vln- llcato our opinions than to get opln- ons that , need no vindication. The fact that your creed fits yon Ike a coat does not warrant yon in imftlng it a uniform for all men. There is no reason to think that the udgnient will accept a correct phil osophy In lieu of a right practice. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The rattle of dry bones Is heard In the dice cup. After being sworn In , most office- lolders are sworn nt. A man never knows what love Is tin- .11 he has smelled powder. No man ever got n pain In his back 'rom carrying his neighbor's burden. It's a still wind that blows nobody harm. A man seldom prays'that his friends may bo saved from him. Struggling to get rich quick keeps many a man poor. Tlmo Is money to the woman who has n mania for shopping. One cook In the kitchen Is worth a dozen in the intelligence olllce. Destiny dopes a man and then pro ceeds to hand him a gold brick. I A girl hopes that the veil of the fu ture will prove to be a bridal veil. Genius never amounts to much un less It Is backed by common sense. An author's brightness Isn't always duo to the burning of midnight oil. The camel must be all right , other wise nature wouldn't have backed him up. Many a conservative man loses his money on a sure thing because he Is afraid to take chances. Schools for scandal seem to be bad ly overcrowded. Some men are so mean that they even refuse to let their wives. have the last word. There may be sufficient money in circulation , but It's sometimes dlfllcult to induce it to circulate our way. Chicago cage News. Men who think they know It all get a lot more satisfaction out of life than those who actually knowf all that is necessary for them to kno'w. Chicago News , PROPERTY CONTROLLED BY WELL KNOWN NORFOLK MEN. NORTHWESTERN INVESTIGATES Assistant General Manager Frank Wal ters , Accompanied by Dr. Holden and C. S. Hayes of Norfolk , Make Trip to Coal Field In Wyoming. A special dispatch from Manvllle , Wyo. , to the Omaha Bee , says regard ing the opening up of a coal mine owned by Norfolk men : F. Walters , assistant general manager - ager of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad , has just left Lost Springs , the first station west of here , on the Northwestern railroad. He had just returned In company with other North western officials and mining and en gineering experts from a trip of in spection to the property of the Rosin Coal company. Tholr mine is located \ nine miles north of Lost Springs. With him were Dr. Holden , C. S. Hayes and other business men of Norfolk - Si folk , Neb. , who own a controlling interest - * v terest In the mine. Dr. Holden , who Is the president of the Rosin Coal company , expressed himself ns delighted - ed with the report of the Northwest ern coal mining expert. Ho reports that there are millions of tons of coal on the company's property , and that it Is a commercial coal superior to that shipped from other mines located along the line of the Northwestern. The visit of the railroad officials was made to Inspect the property with a view to putting In a spur to tap the country north orl st Springs. There nro great beds of coal with four or five veins from six to twelve feet in depth , extending from n few miles north of Lost Springs to the other side \ of the Cheyenne river. This action of the Northwestern Is of especial Inter est in view of the fact that last week the Douglas land ofllco received orders " withdrawing 78000 acres In the Platte district from entry. This order only applies , however , to coal land west of Orin Junction , which Is twenty miles \ from Lost Springs.