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ahange in the address, subscribers should be rare
to give their old aa well as their new address.
Jim Dahlman has gone to Excelsior
Springs to get into training for his
fight against Shallenberger and the
prohibitionists.
Governor Marshall of Indiana went
into office on the liquor issue, and
now wants to stay in office by exclud
ing the liquor issue from the next
campaign. Nothing like playing them
both wavs. Omaha Bee.
The editor of the Ainsworth Star
Journal believes that insurgency
should be "tempered with judgment
and discretion and not run mad."
Evidently the Star-Journal man is not
numbered among the frenzied reform
ers who refuse to cross the bridge with
Taft. He prefers good company to
remaining jon the opposite side with
Whedon and the other anti-Taft and
anti Burkett shouters.
The officers of the democratic state
central committee have called a mass
meeting of the party to gather at Lin
coln on Februar 14th to participate
in a dollar banquet. Evidently the
writer of the call had in mind the
Whedon gathering at Lincoln a few
days ago when he said: "A republican
administration finds itself repudiated
and condemned by multitudes of re
publicans because it has departed still
further from democratic principles."
And then the writer of the call adds:
"The country is hungry for democ
racy," and "the future of the republic,
as dependingon political and industrial
liberty, is involved." The call has the
same old sound that the platform of a
democratic convention annually rings
out for the public ear. The future
of the republic does not depend alone
on any political party. The republic
will exist whether the democratic
party is successful or not, and the
claim that the life of the republic
depends upon democratic success
sounds silly extremely so. The
republic has passed through some
critical periods in its history periods
in which had the democratic party
been in power would have resulted in
turning back the dial of time to mid
night gloom. But the republic would
have survived even if the calamity of
a democratic victory had delayed its
onward march. The democratic party
is not the republic The intelligent,
law abiding and patriotic people, and
the spirit of patriotism and fairness
which dominate them is the rock on
which this republic is built, and a
democratic defeat and a republican
victory will not undermine and cause
it to crumble.
UNCERTAINTIES OF HISTORY.
When we consider that Hudson did
not discover New York bay, but that
Verrazzano did; when we consider
that Fulton did not invent the steam
boat, but that Fitch did; when we
consider that Bell did not invent the
telephone; that Morse did not invent
the telegraph; Gutenberg did not in
vent the printing press; that Morton
did not discover anaeatheia; that
Darwin did not discover evolution;
that Shakespeare did not write "Ham
let;" that Homer did not write the
"Iliad;" that Galileo did not say, "And
6till it moves;" that Wellington did
not say, "Up, guards, and at them;"
that Washington did not win the bat
tles of the Revolution; that Robes
pierre did not create the Reign of
Terror; that Nero was not a nmnster;
that Cleopatra was not beautiful
when we reflect that history is embla
zoned with the titles of usurpers and
that true merit lies unchronicled in
the grave, let us address a word or
two of apology to that much berated
enemy ef truth, the newspaper. If
history, with a thousand years' leisure
at her disposal, cannot find out just
who set up a new throne or pulled
down an old one, let us forgive the
reporter if he misspells the Christian
name of the prominent citizen who was
thrown from his automobile at 2:30 a.
m. New York Evening Post.
BEEF RAISERS AND BEEF CON
SUMERS. Stock raisers of the country, who
have just been in convention in Den
ver, have expressed little sympathy
with those phases of agitation against
the high cost of living that are most
frequently featured in the newspapers.
Their reasons for withholding their
sympathy may be simply and briefly
stated. We export $2,000,000 worth
of beef annually, and we do not im
port any. There is a great demand
for our beef abroad, and among people
generally speaking who are less able
than we are to meet high prices. The
reason why the foreign consumer can
afford to pay the prevailing high prices
for beef and if he did not pay them
the beef would not be imported by for
eign countries is that he buys with
an eje to economy. He does not, as
we do in this country, select the porter
house and the sirloin the fine rib
roaste and the fancy cuts and let the
rest go. It is the waste caused by our
system of housekeeping, say the stock
raisers are not any combination or
conspiracy to "boost" prices, that is
mainly responsible for our high cost of
living. Good housekeeping, which
includes good cooking, they say, will
solve the problem better than agitation
or legislation and in a manner more
satisfactory to them. If the product
of the animal could be disposed of more
uniformly the stock raiser would make
more from moderate prices than thoy
do now from prices that are high.
It is not only at this juncture that
the household waste, the kitchen waste,
the table waste of this country has been
pointed out and commented upon by
observant visitors and economists.
We have been all over this question
before. The only difference now is
that it appears in a more aggravated
form to ourselves. The American
garbage can has long told a story cal
culated to astound the prudent and
competent European housewife. It
has been by no means lost either, up
on the prudent and competent house
wives of our own country.
Beef is only one of the articles with
which we are extravagant and waste
ful, as it is only one of the articles en
tering into the present controversy;
all other articles of food are affected
relatively. There are, ofcourse, other
causes of the advance in prices.
But when all is said, the blame for
the conditions that cause the present
high prices rests largely with the con
sumer, as the remedy lies mainly in his
hands. Christian Science Monitor.
BLIND BANKING AND DUMMY
DIRECTORS.
When the banks of the whole coun
try in 1907 gave us clearing house
certificates instead of cash, private in
vestigations showed an alarming lax
ity of bank directors in the manage
ment of their institutions a carlefs
ness in the matter of collateral securi
ties and a fictitious and ineffectual
manner of maintaining their reserves.
These discoveries were at that time
generally withheld from the public
for fear of increasing the financial
alarm. The implied negligence
of bank directors has up to this
time met no public exposure or rebuke.
But now comes Mr. Lawrence O.
Murry, National Comptroller of the
Currency, with his statistical exhibit of
the ignorance and incompetence of the
directors of national banks throughout
the country. It is sensational news.
It should raise up an irresistible popu
lar demand that the incompetents
shall be weeded out. The national
bank directorates are in an important
sense, public offices, and the public has
a right to demand that they shall be
filled by men who will attend to busi
ness. Mr. Murry shows that half the direc
tors now in office have never so much
as read the National Bank Act
which apprises them of their legal
duties! He shows that in nearly half
the national bankBitis the habit of the
directors to have nothing to say about
the making of loans. And in fully
half no particular attention is paid by
the directorate to the condition of the
reserve.
Now that the strong pulse of busi
ness has given us stiength and confid
ence to peer into the dark closets of
finance, the time is ripe for a whole
some housecleaning. Chicago Exami
ner. THE MUTUAL BOYCOTT.
It was to be expected that the farm
ers would finally get into the game of
boycott. The first sign of rural inter
est was a rumor from Kansas that the
farmers were going to refuse to buy
any of the product of city labor in
reprisal for the activity of the city
laborers in boycotting a farm product.
It can be seen with half an eye that
the successful culmination of the two
boycotts together would settle the cost
of living probably for all time.
The cost of living is due to two main
lines of necessities, food and shelter.
The food is furnished by the farmer;
the shelter, including raiment, lumber
and the tools wherewith to produce
them is furnished mainly by the rest.
Now it is plain that if the city people
refuse to eat the farmers' product-and
the farmer refuses to use the city's
product an excessive cost of living will
be utterly impossible. To begin with,
everybody will have cut his purchases
in two. In the second place each
person will use only his own products,
and so being both producer and con
sumer the cost is a matter of total in
difference to him. It may be admitted
that the city people will find certain
disadvantages in going without food.
So too, the farmers, especially in this
climate, will feel somewhat the lack of
shelter. But as each side has volun
tarily entered upon this step we must
presume that they know what they are
about r
It is a matter of extreme interest and
gratification to note the spirit of co
operation which the farmers have
manifested toward their boycotters.
This is best manifested in the move
ment reported from Minneapolis
wherein stockmen are said to be pledg
ing themselves to ship no stock in the
next sixty days. While the intention
of this is ostensibly to embarrass the
middlemen who are supposed to take
too large a share of the meat as it
goes to market, ii really helps out the
cities. If the stockmen ship no meat
to the city the city boycott of meat
becomes automatic and so an unques
tioned success. If the railroads could
be induced to stop moving trains and
nature to blockade the wagon road
permanently with snow, the boycott on
both sides would be perfect and the
millennium at last realized. State
Journal.
TARIFF BILL BEST THAT
COULD GET.
HE
Senator Burkett Makes Plain
Exact Position in Reference
the Payne-AIdrich Law.
His
to
Washington, D. C, Jan. 18, 1910.
Mr. If. T. Dobbins, Editor of The
News, Lincoln, Neb.:
"Dear Sir: I have read with inter
est your comments recently printed
criticizing inv work in congress. Of
course, no man in public life can hope
to escape criticism or to please every
body. No man ever has and no man
ever will. However, it has been my
greatest ambition to merit the appro
val of the good-thinking people of
Nebraska, who have honored me as
their public servant, and to that end I
have worked diligently and conscien
tiously. I have now been in congress
almost eleven years, and from what I
observe the only criticism of all those
eleven years is that I voted for the
tariff bill. In fact, all republicans do
not agree upon the details, although
all do agree that it should be a protec
tive tariff rather than a free trade or
revenue tariff law.
"I am frank to say, as I have said
several times in Nebraska during the
summer, that I did not agree with the
last bill in all its details. It seemed to
me that in many particulars the rates
might have been less and still have
been properly protective. Upon this
theory I made the fight as best I could
and voted against the original bill as
it passed the senate. These differences
of opinion, with men in congress as
elsewhere, varied all the way from
those who were willing to have the
rates prohibitive, to those who wanted
absolute free trade. Of course, I
sympathized with neither of these two
extremes. I tried to get the fairer
rate somewhere between the extreme
high protectionist and the impossible
free trader. We worked almost five
months on that bill, reconciling differ
ences and fighting out those things
that could not be more harmoniously
adjusted. Then came the final vote
upon the bill as reported by the con
ference committee, and, as I said, even
then it did not suit me, although I
was convinced then and am now that
it was a great improvement over the
Dingley law in the interests of our
producers and consumers of Nebraska,
and was the very best bill that we
could get from our standpoint It did
reduce leather, shoes, etc. It did
reduce lumber, steel products, coal and
many other things. .
"The president, who for the time
being is the leader of our great party
organization and who himself had been
an early tariff revisionist thought the
bill should be passed. The republican
state convention of Nebraska was
held just at this time, and the dele
gates there assembled passed a resolu
tion instructing their delegation in
congress to vote for the bill. After
this the entire Nebraska republican
delegation, from both the senate and
the house held a conference, and de
cided that it was our duty to vote for
the bill whatever our individual opin
ion should be as to the bill as a whole
or as to its details.
"I notice also that my vote on the
sugar schedule is criticised. Of course,
I cannot tell all about the sugar ques
tion within the proper limits of a letter.
I must say that to no other schedule of
the bill did I devote more earnest
attention. The sugar question is the
most difficult one that every nation has
to handle. In America it is particu
larly so because we have both cane
and beet sdgar production hexe at
home, and in addition we have insular
possessions whose future prosperity is
almost wholly dependent upon the
sugar industry. In addition to this it is
the thing upon which we have always
relied for a large part of our revenue.
As I said upon the floor of the senate
at the time, no other country had so
successfully handled its sugar question
as America.
"No people on earth buy sugar as
cheaply as the American except the
English; and no country except ours
has been able, so far as I can learn, to
develop successfully a beat sugar in
dustry without paying a bounty out of
their public treasury. Our beet sugar
industry has multiplied ten times in
the last ten years without a bounty,
which is a source of some public pride
and a fact not to Ik treated lightly.
We ought not to do anything that
would destroy it Those states that
produce largely of beet sugar were
very solicitous lest their great indus
try should be injured. I received peti
tions from two thousand of our Nebr
aska people, protesting against any re
duction in the sugar schedule. We
did reduce the tariff' on all sugar
schedules five points and on those com
ing from Cuba twenty per cent, and
admitted sugar from the Philippine
Islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii free,
I voted against further reduction, as
did also as much of a revisionist as
Senitor Cummins and other senators.
I do not know that I did right, but
thought I did, and only today in talk
ing with Senator Cummins he said we
were absolutely right in not reducing
it further.
"Now the Dutch standard. Some
time I hope to have an opportunity to
explain to our good people just what
fraud would be perpetrated upon them
by striking out the Dutch standard
test in our customs house. I think the
recent developments at New York de
monstrate that the government needs
every test possibly to guard against
fraud and deception. The best auth
ority I could get at the time told me
so, a man who has been on the board
of customs appeals for many years
told me the Dutch standard test ought
not to be disturbed. It was struck out
about twenty years ago, and at the be
ginning of the very next congress, the
secretary of the treasury addressed a
letter to congress reciting reasons why
the Dutch standard test should be re
enacted into law. It was put back
and has remained ever since.
"The man who conceived the plan
to strike out the Dutch standard test
was Mr. W. L. Bass, of Santo Domin
go. He is a well known sugar planter
of that island, with 9,500 acres of plan
tation. He has been here almost con
stantly for the last ten years trying to
get his sugar into our market on a le
vel with our American-produced su-
W . . WT
gar. His was a great lobbyist ana l
spent an evening with him in his. rooms
listening to his arguments as why the
Dutch standard should be eliminated.
But in the end I concluded that he
was looking at it from a selfish stand
point and that if he succeeded in
knocking out the Dutch standard that
it would open up the door for the per
petration of the most gigantic frauds
upon the American people and would
permit the sale to them of bleached
dirt and sugar. To my personal
knowledge Mr. Bass presented his case
to the president and the president
thought as I did, that it was a humbug.
"I am not criticising anyone who
voted to strike it out. They voted just
as conscientiously as I did. The thing
that appealed to me did not appeal to
them. But I was satisfied that I was
right then, and the more I have studi
ed the question, the more I am satified
still that I am right. I realized that
it was not a popular vote because there
was a press bureau here organized to
promulgate the doctrine of knocking
out the Dutch standard, and the people
would not have presented to them as
fully the argument on the other side.
I have not replied to all this heretofore
but have trusted to the good judge
ment of the people to work out the
problem in their own way, realizing
that when I came up for re-election
whatever doubts and difficulties there
were in the people's mind I would try
to meet I may have made mistakes
in my eleven years in congress, but I
have never dodged a vote and have
never cast a vote that I did not hon
estly believe was right, after every pos
sible effort to find out what the right
was. I have never equivocated, and
everybody knows, who wants to know
where I stand on every public ques
tion.
"It is some gratification to me not to
be assaulted on more than a single
point after eleven years of public ser
vice. I doubt if there are very many
men who have gone so long with so
little criticism. I have voted always
for progressive legislation, I stood with
President Roosevelt in every syllable
of the progressive legislation which he
advocated. I supported his conserva
tion policy, the pore food law, the em
ployers' liability law, the meat inspec
tion bill, the rate bill, and I even went
farther than he was recommending
and voted for two or three things even
more progressive than he recommend
ed, such as the valuation of railroads,
which was offered by Senator La
Follette. "I think President Taa's Tecent
messages must convince the people who
read them carefully that he is adher
ing strictly to these policies. In fact
he has even gone further in his con
servation policy than President Roose
velt did and this morning's press has
an interview with Mr. Pinchot endors
ing the Taft message. He has gone
further in some particulars with re
ference to corporation control than did
President Roosevelt I regret that I
did not agree with President Taft for a
ship subsidy. But with all these pro
gressive ideas I am in strict accord.
"I want to be in harmony with our
president, the leader of our party. I
shall try to stay in harmony with him
as long as he stands for the progres
sive ideas that are calculated to keep
our legislation up with the develop
ment of our industries, and our com
merce and with the elevating standard
of our social and moral affairs I shall
stand with him. And while I am
here working hard for what I believe
is right I hope the good people of Ne
braska who have stood by me in the
years that are passed, who known
what my career has b?en, and who
know that for twelve years I have
fought the battle of progressive re
publicanism in state and congressional
conventions will stay with me during
the coming battle. It seems to me
that my record for a dozen years en
titles me to the support for a second
term of all unprejudiced and good
minded people.
"Very truly yours,
"E.J.BURK17TT."
LANDES SHEPHERDS.
French Peasants Who Are Experts
In
Walking on Stilts.
There Is a vast district iu France
where the entire community goes
about and transacts its business on
stilts. This district is called "Les
Landes."
The inhabitants, who arc among the
poorest peasants in France, gain their
subsistence by fishing, by snch little
agriculture as Is possible and by keep
ing cows and sheep. The shepherds
make use of their stilts for two pur
posesfirst, because walking is quite
impossible on account of the sage and
undergrowth of brush, and, second,
because the height of their stilts gives
them a greater range of vision.
Thestllts generally are about six or
seven 'feet high. Near the top there is
a support for the foot, which has a
strong stirrup and strap, and still
nearer the top a band of leather fas
tens the stilt firmly to the leg just be
low the knee. Some stilts, especially
those made for fancy walking and for
tricks, are even higher than seven
feet and the man who uses these
and he must be an expert can travel
as fast as ten miles an hour. The
lower end of this kind of stilt is
capped with a sheep bone to prevent
its splitting.
Some of these Landes shepherds are
wonderfully clever in the management
of their stilts. They run races, step
or jump over brooks, clear fences and
walls and are able to keep their bal
ance and equilibrium while stooping
to the ground to pick up pebbles or to
gather wild flowers. They rail prone
upon their faces and assume their
perpendicular without an effort and
in a single moment after they have
thus prostrated themselves. Technical
World Magazine.
A VICTIM OF WORRY.
The Man Who Is Always Expecting
Some Kind of Trouble.
There is always a cloud on his face
because he is constantly expecting that
something unfavorable is going to Imp
pen. There is going to be a slump in
business, or be Is going to have a loss,
or somebody Is trying to undermine
him, or he is worried about his health,
or fears bis children .will be sick or
go wrong or be killed.
In other words, although he has
achieved quite a remarkable success,
yet he has never really had u huppy
day in his life. AH his life this man
has been chasing rainbows, thinking
if he could only get a little farther on,
a little higher up, he would be happy,
but he is just as far from it as when
a boy.
I believe this condition has all come
from the habit of un happiness which
he formed during his hard boyhood
and which he has never been able to
overcome. He has learned to look for
trouble, to expect It, and he gets it.
I have been his guest many a time.
He has a beautiful home, a very
charming wife, a most delightful fam
ily, but there Is always the same cloud
on his face, the same expression of
anxiety, of unhapplness, of forebod
ing. A little properly directed training in
bis boyhood would have changed his
whole career, and he would have been
a happy, Joyous, harmonious man in
stead of being discordant and unhappy.
There is everything in starting right.
What is put Into the first of life is put
into the whole of life. Success Maga
zine. No Panic.
"We had a bad fire scare In church
today."
"Good gracious! Was there a panic?"
"Not to notice. The minister preach
ed on the infernal regions." New York
Journal.
Prodigal,
fellow seems to
That
be extrava-
gant."
"Hopelessly. He spends his own
money just as if it were the govern
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Bell 188
Made His Ideas Row.
I used to write for a medical peri
odical. On returning home one day
after a very heavy day's work at th
hospital and feeling completely ex
hausted I found a note from the ed
itor, "Please let me have an article on
such and such a subject tonight" 1
sat down with pen and paper before
me, but not a word could I write.
Then I lay bark lazily and began to
speculate as to the cause of my want
of ideas. 1 thought: "The brain is thi
same as it was yesterday, but yester
day I was not tired. Perhaps It is the
feebler circulation that prevents the
brain from acting. If the blood does
not go up to the brain I may bring the
brain down to the blood." I therefore
placed my head fiat on the table, look
ing sideways at the paper, and began
to write easily. On raising my bead
again every Idea fled, so 1 placed my
head again down on the table and fin
ished the article with my bead in that
position. Sir T. Lauder Brunton in
Practitioner.
Tricks of Short Sight.
Not only the inanimate but the ani
mate world presents itself In strange
forms to the myopic. Humanity, for
instance. Is often revealed in some
what inhuman guise. Thus, so far as
ocular demonstration goes, the world
to the shortsighted is peopled by men
and women as faceless, sometimes
even as headless, as the horseman of
legendary fame. Indoors myopic per
sons get quite accustomed to talking
with persons who have neither eyes
nor nose. Out of doors the phenome
non is more striking because oftener
repeated. At quite a short distance
the face melts into the atmosphere
and becomes either a cloud or. like H.
G. Wells invisible man, a nothingness.
"I see the bat and the figure, some
times the beard. I see the walking
stick. If the hand is ungloved this
stick is waving miraculously a little
way from the sleeve edge, for the
hand. like the face, has vanished.
Strand Magazine.
A New Line
To The Northwest
Through The Big Horn Basin
The Big Horn Basin is fast settling up and offers the
greatest opportunities for farmers, and especially FARM
RENTERS to secure fine government irrigated farms at the
mere cost of the water, and often A SINGLE CROP CAN BE
MADE TO PAY FOR THE FARM. Ten yearly payments
without interest. This is cheaper than paying rent in any
locality.
With the completion of the new line this promises to be
come a great wealth producing region.
The oil, gas and irrigation of the Big Horn Basin will
make that country a combination of farm and industrial
prosperity.
Write me for full descriptive literature.
Go with me to the Basin and let me help you select a new
home.
DOLLARS PAID FOR RENT ARE LOST.
D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent,
Magazine
Old Books
Rebound
In fact, for anything in the book
binding line bring your work to
Journal Office
Phone 160
Ind. 206
Masquerading In the Past.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries Venire set the fasbiou in all
matters of amusement and wns a sort
of combination of our Monte Carlo and
Paris. Throughout the eighteenth cen
tury the Venetlaus were seized with a
perfect mania for masqueradiug aud
gambling. Paris and London follow-.!
snit. and the two most popular amuse
ments, both public aud private, were
masquerades and gambling snloout
People uot only wore their masks or
visors at balls, but in the mall ami the
parks ami the theaters. At leugtli
matters got to such a pass that when
a police raid was made on a certain
low dam-ing place in So ho and an or
der was given for every one to unmask
what was the amazement of the police
to find that at least a third of the com
pany cousisted of ladles aud gentle
meu of the highest aristocracy, some
of whom bad even brought their
daughters. London Saturday Keview.
Bread and Pipe Baker.
The lecturer at the cooking scho.il
sometimes enlivened her remarks with
an anecdote.
"The eighteenth century baker,"" she
said, "was a pipe cleaner as well, just
as the barber a little earlier was a
surgeon. Everybody In those, days
smoked clay pipes, provided the same
as cups or spoons by the coffee houses
Well, each morning a waiter carrie.l
his master's stock of pipes, some hun
dred perhaps, to the nearest bakery.
The baker would boil them, then dip
them In liquid lime, then bake them
dry. They came out of the oven as
sweet and white as new." Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Degrees of Hunger.
"I'm simply starving'."- cried the
short story writer at the Hungry Club.
"I wish they'd begin dinner."
"I never saw you when you weren't
tarvlng," said the poet.
"I'm never as hungry as you arc.
though," the short story writer declar
ed, "because I write prose." New
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