Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-06


icy of our party, which in seven years of
! operative republican administration ex-
pressed in laws passed by a republican
congress and approved by a republican
president, has lifted the blight of poverty,
stagnation and business depression from
our common country and placed us as
nation, and particularly as a county, up
on high and prosperous business, agri-
cultural, stock raising and commercial
basis, furnishing work for all who desire
it and money to pay the Iaborer his hire.
| We expressly and completely endorse
| the policy of our lawmakers, whose wis
dom and craftsmanship have brought to
us prosperity at home, prestige abroad,
and furnished us with staple and sound
currency to carry on the every day trans
actions of business, without thought as
to the kind, because, under our policy,
every dollar of our money is as good as
any other dollar and every dollar equiva-
lent to the best.
We emphatically endorse the princi-
pal of protection, woven and interviewer
into the fabrics of our national policy,
and hereby declair that we believe the
principal of protection to be one of the
cardinal bulworks of our present splen-
did and magnificent era of prosperity and
business development.
We believe that the large corporations
commonly called trusts should be regula-
ted or controlled by state or national
laws and we endorse the principles ex-
pressed in the national Antitrust Law"
the product of the genius and statesman
ship of John Sherman, and the energy
and force with which its provisions have
been carried out by President Roosevelt,
and we rely upon our congressman and
senators to give to this law and to such
laws as may be amendatory to it such
support as will make the spirit of that
law complete and operative to the end
that every business, whether that of la
Dor or capital, shall meet with even
handed justice.
We endorse the acts of our senator and
representative in the last legislature, and
believe that the passage of new revenue
law by that body will correct common
abuse in the matter of assessments and
taxation, and require each part of our
county and state to bear its equal and
Just proportion of taxes and while it is ex-
pected that under the new law the revenu-
es of the county andstatewillbe increased
we demand of our public officers who
collect and distribute our taxes, the most
| rigid economy in the expenditure of pub
| lie monies.
We endorse the administration of our
county officers, believing that they have
| been faithful to the trust reposed in them
and that the methods of conducting the
business of the office to which each one
of them was elected has been honorable,
fair, economical and just, and while our
county officers have turned over to the
county some $4,455.oo in fees in excess
of their salary we demand of them the
same labor and economy in the future as
in the past, to the end that the burden of
taxation may be 1essened.
| We hereby express a desire for good
public roaes in our county leading to
and from our business and shipping
points, and we hereby ask that the
present policy of our supervisors in
charging road damage claims to the road
district in which the road may be locat-
ed and the damages accrue, be modified
and changed and when in the discretion
of the board of supervisors the road petit
toned for is public necessity, the claims
for damages when allowed, be a charged
against the county and not against the
road district tn which the same occurs.
During all the years of business de-
preston, Custer county maintained a
high standard of public schools. In the
present prosperous era, the standard OF
education and the efficiency of our
schools must be advanced. To this end
we recommend that our superintendent
advise the school district officers to strict
ly enforce the compulsory school attend
ance law.
The republicans of Custer county es-
pecially desire to greet in fraternal fell
lowship those democrats and populists,
who in 1899, answering the echoes of the
dastardly blowing up of the Maine in
Havana Harbor, lined up with the adj
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