The Norfolk weekly news., 1900-10-25
Baneful Fusion Tactics.

In Its zeal to present trust issue to
the people of Nebraska the World
Herald recently undertook to show the
influences of the trusts at Kearney and
in so doing appears to have slandered
that city insomuch that the Hub has
called it to time rather severely. 1t
recites that about nine manufacturing
institutions of that city have been
closed by the trusts and that the cotton
mill is allowed to run but spasmodically.
There is one institution that the Hub
admits was closed by the trusts, all
others, except those still running We're
boom affairs and failed naturally, like
Norfolk's electric railway line. not
because trust had squeezed them out
of existence, but because the demand
for such institutions was not a paying
one. The following is one of the facts
used by the World Herald and the Hub s
answer:
From the site of the ruined woolen
mills let the citizens of Kearney take
Mr.. Hanna to the beautiful cemetery on
the high bluffs overlooking the city and
gather around the grave of a man who
was once one Of kearney's leading and
most progressive citizens. Upon the
headstone is carved the name OF
''Hecht" BY unceasing toll and rigid
| economy Hecht acquired considerable
sum Of money. Being butcher by
trade, he conceived the idea of establish.
ing packing industry in Kearney. He
bought land, erected packing plant
and went to work. The packers trnst
squeezed the kearney packing industry
to death. Hecht lost every dollar he
had and became raving maniac. He
was confined in an asylum, and after a
few months of misery untold committed
suicide-murdered by trust.
1.-The reference to Mr.. Hecht touches
kearney people in tender spot. His
end was a tragedy following close on o
a succession of bad ventures, fire that
destroyed his packing house, and finally
at a vital moment placing his trust in a
man who accomplished his financial
ruin mt one fell stroke. He became a
raving maniac and rs such he died.
Peace be to his ashes Shame on the
bastard who prostitutes his editorial
calling to 60 into the grave to bring
forth falsehood -
Closing its Article the Hub says $50
far as the political side of the World.
Herald's trust article is concerned,
neither the Hub nor any citizen of
kearney cares rap. Distortion of
fact could be CLOSED over in such a
case. But in this instance, the World
Herald has in Its eagerness to say some
thing mean about trusts struck blow
at one of the fairest communities of
this state, which has prospered even
beneath the heavy hand of providence,
is building still Oh the lines of long ago.
and is again nearly at the point where
manufacturing can be invited in a
better way than by indiscrimination
subsidy to financial weaklings and un-
scrupulous promoters. Except in the
one instance Of the cracker trust, as
stated in the beginning, the trust influ.
enoe has had nothing to do with the
failure OF the enterprises referred to.
The World Herald's article is mass of
clever falsehood, of ungrounded state
ments that are calculated to do this city
an injury. Not even political exigency,
not even the bolstering up of lost
cause, not even the pretense of partisan
expediency, can justify anything SO
gross, and if the Hub knows the temper
of the people of this city, it can guaranty
the author Of these dirty diatribes that
the republican majority that will be
polled in Kearney at the coming cleo
tion will be good and sufficient indica.
tion that they have read and pondered
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