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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
useless Contention.

1t is waste of words for Edward
Atkinson, the New York Journal OF
Commerce, and other worshipers at
the shrine of Richard Golden to en-.
force the contention that unrestrict
ed commercial intercourse between
the States and Territories of the
American Union has been of great
advantage to the people of the United
States. OF course it has. Nobody
disputes the proposition. But does
1t follow that because free trade
among our own people has been a
good thing, therefore free trade with
all the world would be as good a thing
for Americans? Far from it. Produc.
ton in any part Of the United States
necessitates the employment of Amer.
lean labor, the payment of wages to
Americans and the distribution of
these wages among Americans. When
free trade opens the gate and admits
to our markets competitive produc.
tions from abroad, precisely the re-
verse is true, Foreign labor Is EN-.
ployed, wages are paid to foreigners,
and the money of Americans goes
abroad instead Of being kept at home.
That is the difference between free
trade between our own people and
free trade with foreigners.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
RUSsIAS SINK Two SHIPS.
Discover an Attempt Of Japanese to
Enter the Harbor.

ST. PETERSBURG.-A few nights
ago Admiral Togo attempted to re-
peat the Japanese exploit with tor
pedo boats at Wei Hale VIE during
the Chinese-Japanese war by sending
torpedo boat destroyers into the har-
Dor of Port Arthur for the purpose of
sinking ships at their anchorage, but
the attempt ended in disastrous fail
ure. Four torpedo boat destroyers
succeeded in creeping into the harbor,
which was not protected by booms,
but only one escaped. Two were sunk
by the shore batteries and one Grip
pied. The reckless bravery of the
Japanese in going to almost
destruction excites nothing but adj
miration here. The channel at Port
Arthur is so tortuous and strewn with
wrecks without, that evidently 1t was
regarded as unnecessary to use
boom. On account of the difficulty
in getting into the harbor the feat is
looked upon in naval circles to be fully
as daring as that of the Japanese at
Wei Hal Wei, where Japanese torpedo
boats in a storm and covered with ice,
were jumped over the booms protect
ing the harbor and destroyed Chinese
warships. So far as known the Jap
anese torpedo boat destroyers did not
even succeed in launching torpedoes.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
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When the wind came there was
rain of maple leaves, weary and with.
cred souls swept from the grayed
branches, falling to swift currents
near the ground where they swirled
in yellow hosts, raising upon the ARA
long sound of cracking cries, curl
Gus interminable noise of dismay at
death, of fear of this implacable sweep.
ing force that came from the red
western sky which flared like an army
with lurid banners.
A girl came slowly down the path
that led through the naples. She
walked in dreamy way, following
unconsciously the mere indication OF
a road, that summer path that had
been swallowed in the merciless hail
OF the dead leaves. Finally, man
stepped from the shadows. He was
smiling as he put forth his hand.
Hello" he said.
When their hands clasped, she be-
landscape, turning her face from him.
well" he said at last, studying the
immobile face, still holding her hand,
''are you glad to see me? l just re-
turned yesterday on the New York.
Very breezy trip. l thought I had
better" then suddenly he threw
away all that and spoke quickly: And
your husband"
She made gesture towards where
three brick chimneys appeared in the
distance, looming above rim Of tree
tops. They both steadily regarded
these as il they were three person.
ages, three facts, emblematic exactly
of a certain situation. He, with his
cigarette now in his mouth, his hat
still tilted, clasping his hands, said:
1.-THE internal IDIOT"
She looked at him with a swift, re-
sentful glance, but he answered at
once, making a gesture or irritation
which was sort of defiant outburst.
"Oh, l am tired of treating him with
magnificent respect, when, as a mat
ter of truth, he is to me the most
stupid and dense beast in the universe
for not being dead"
She was lifting her chin in battle
full way and waving her fingers toward
his mouth. But he is my"
"The devil" interrupted the young
man, violently. do you think that
am not aware of it," He glared at
her with sullen rage.
Upon her face as she looked at him
there was vague, indescribable smile
and in her eyes there were two faint
points of mellow light. Eyes. you do
know it," she said.
He answered her attitude, the light
in her eyes. you love me-" he cried
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

Trade got around to the farmer. Fin
ally the lack of employment reduced
the farmers market and farm prod
ucts went down in price because the
American farmer was depending en-
tirely upon the foreign market for the
sale Of his largely increased surplus.
For a time the farmer smiled at the
manufacturer under the Cleveland adj
ministration. Everything he bought
went down in price and the effect not
having reached him, he concluded that
the ideal condition Of trade for the
Free Trader had arrived. He conclid-
ed that his life was to be one long
sweet song. But finally the paralysis
of business in manufacturing indus
tries reached him and he concluded
that it was not all that had been paint
ed He began to study the question.
He finally decided that his home mar
ket was best, and that his home mar
ket depended on the full employ
ment of the workingman. And he con-
Guided that the full employment of the
workingman depended on Tariff
high enough to keep out foreign made
goods.
During the last Cleveland admins
tration everything was PROSTATE.
Since that time every railway bridge,
every railway track, every railway
station, every viaduct, nearly every
public building, nearly every college
and church, nearly every court house,
nearly every school house, has been
rebuilt. The rotten ties have been
taken out OF the railway tracks.
Grades have been lowered, long lines
have been Strengthened. The farms
have been equipped with new houses
and barns, new scales and new ele'
vators. Every city has had new sew
ers and new sidewalks. Practically,
during the past eight years, every
thing in the United States has been
rebuilt.
Yet there are people who want to
change all this. They want to stop
1t all. They want to rip everything
up. They want lower prices. They
are revengeful They want to strike
the steel trust and to hit the Standard
oil monopoly. Many of them do not
know what they want but they simply
/ want to destroy. They want to stop
the saw mills and the rolling mills
They want to turn the wofkingmen
! out on the streets for the lack of some
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
AS TO STANDING PAT
WHY NOT, If 1T is THE BEST
THING TO Dor
The Main Point to BE Kept In Mind
ls That There Shall Continue to Be
Sure Market for Als Products Of
American Labor and Industry.

A lowering Of import duties on man
Aactured goods means surrender of
an American market, or a large part
OF 1t, to the people of other lands. The
surrender of the American market
would mean less employment and low
er wages and that the workingman
would not have sufficient wages to en-.
able him to buy the best products of
the farm. With low wages he would
cease to be a consumer OF beef. With
lower wages he could not purchase
chickens, butter and eggs. Lower
schedules in the American Tariff
would be Observation-Disclosures the
lower schedule were introduced by
the Republican party or the Demo
cratic party.
There is nothing the American man
ufacturer so much needs as a Gus
toner. He can manufacture all he
pleases, and If he does not have some
one to buy his product he will so into
bankruptcy. The beauty of the Ding
ley Tariff is that it assures the Ameri-
can manufacturer OF consumer.
Manufacturers do not have sufficient
capital to take the risk Of making
goods without knowing in advance
that somebody is going to have the
means with which to buy.
The Dingley law has made the stock
and corn growers of Iowa rich. 1t has
furnished these producers with a
thrifty class of workingmen, in the
manufacturing centers. to buy the sur
plus products OF the farm. The work
ingman out of job is of no sort OF
help to the farmer. This was illus
trated during the last Cleveland ad-
ministration. There were plenty Of
men to work, but no work to do.
Cleveland had been in office nearly
4 year before the evil effects of Free
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

thing to do. They cannot give a solir
tary reason for any of these except
they want to be doing something
create some sort of sensation. They
want to talk loudly and receive APP
plause from unthiniing men.
Why not let we'll enough alonei
Business has been so good that Wall
Street could not throw the country
into panic. The land never expert.
enced anything like It before. Iowa
was never SO prosperous. Her farms
are glowing. Her, factories are run.
ming. Her railroads are busy. Her
schools and colleges are booming. Why
stop 1t all by new policies and uncer
tainties? Give old Iowa chance
We ought to have as much sense in
prosperity as we had in adversely,
When our people were in adversely
they all knew what was the matter.
They know that they simply needed
somebody to buy In order to put men
to work. Why struggle for a change?
--Des Moines Capital.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
WEALTHY MEN OF OLD.
Their Fortunes Make Even Rookie
feller's Millions Seem Small.

Their Fortunes Make Even Rookie
feller's Millions Seem Small.
A writer in a Jewish magazine hal
Of the Talmud, and believes thai
there were richer men before the
Christian era than there are now. We
know that Croesus was rich, and tina,
there were huge Roman fortunes IL
the times Of the empire. The Talmuo
stories go back further still. The
great corner in corn that Joseph man
aged was fabulously profitable. Ira
dition says that Joseph, acting fol
Pharaoh, got his hands on pretty
much all the ready money there was
In his day, and buried three enor
nous treasures, one Of which was
found by Korah, whose fortune esti'
mated according to the modern stand.
ards Of value, is rated by the maya.
zine at three billion dollars. Solo.
mons stable, with it's horses, chariots
and horsemen, is said to have repre-.
sented a sum the modern equivalent
of which would be three or four hun.
dred millions, and he spent two hun,
dred and fifty millions on his temple.
Herod's temple cost more still. In
Jerusalem in Roman times there were
three Jews, who between them, fell
able to face an expenditure of hun
dred millions year for twenty
years. They offered to feed the mil
lion inhabitants of Jerusalem for that
length of time rather than surrender
the city. One of these Jews, Nike
demon, gave his daughter a dowry OF
$425, 100000. There we're other Jews
of whose enormous wealth the Agadic
history makes record.-Harper's
Weekly.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Tho international Trust.

Under the free trade policy, which
Democrats favor the only survivors
among our American industries would
be those powerful would-be monopo-
lists which usually control the most
profitable plants. These would then
be in a position to safely unite with
their brethren in other lands in the
creation of a universal trust to domi.
nate the affairs of mankind. That this
Is no idle dream is shown by the fact
the wires transmitted a synopsis OF
the speech o. Senator Deliver they
brought also the news of a secret
meeting in London or the great steel
manufacturers of the world to form.
in the steel trade new trust of ex.
actly that kind.-Clinton Qnd.) CliD
tonjan.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Tho Farmers ProsnerltX.

For the American farmer to con.
tinue his prosperity by continuing the
market at home, where he must sell
his products II they are to be sold
at his advantage, the American fac.
tories, which take so per cent. of their
raw material from the American farm.
must be kept open and the 100000
operatives in those factories whom
the American farmer feeds must be
kept employed. SO for all the Amer
lean people to continue their prosper
ity the American home market must
be maintained. 1t can be maintained
and always will be, when we keep
our own wage earners at work, giving
them the money with which to buy
American articles OF commerce in the
home market. 1t cannot be main
tanned IL this country takes the prod.
uct of foreign wage earners, the tariff
barrier being leveled, in place Of that
of our own wage earners, who must
quit their employment when the
cheaper made output OF the foreigners
may come here to undersell the Amer.
ican-made output Of our own mills and
factories and shops.
The American people will determine
this choice for themselves when they
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Church Pews as investments.

At Kirkham (Eng) Parish church
the greater portion of the pew rents,
instead of swelling the exchequer Of
the church, go into the pockets of pri.
vate individuals, who, for the most
part, do not attend the church or even
reside in the district. The peculiar
situation originated in 1923, when, to
meet the expenses Of rebuilding the
church, about forty pews and few
organ seats were put up for auction
and realized amounts varying from
SITS TO $500. The church wardenf
are endeayoring to cone to an ar
rangement with the pew owners witt
view to securing larger share o.
the rents fof ne benefit Of the church
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

John Sharp Williams, temporary
chairman of the Democratic national
convention. is the Democratic leader
In Congress. He is now serving his
sixth term in the House from the
Eighth Mississippi district and is an
eloquent speaker and a keen debater.
Mr.. Williams was born at Memphis,
Tenn, July 80. 1854. and after the
battle of Shiloh, where his father,
confederate captain, was killed. the
family moved to Yazoo county, Mis-
sissippi Young Williams was educat-
ed in the Kentucky Military Institute.
the University of the South, the Uni
versity of Virginia and at Heidelberg.
Germany, and after studying law was
admitted to the bar in 1877. He also
has extensive interests as cotton
planter.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
M aranda.

crescent moon fingers to greet the
MORN
The star of beauty smiling in it's rays:
The birds sing low-as wooing their own
lays;
The young May-blossoms freshened
ZephyrS warn,
Lest closer touching win, not bud, but
thorn;
The air breathes lovers breath on
fainting haze;
While Silence, eloquent with voiceless
praise.
born.
The poets soul saw type of this fair
hour
I'm sacred recess OF a living heart:
Its peerless melody, its bloom, its flower,
Its beauty. and its mystery are part
Of hymnic music. telling of sunrise
In the soft shadows of a maldens eyes.
Mary Nj. Adams, from THE Song at
Midnight"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
BETROTHED

The early JOY OF young man and maid,
Who stand upon the threshold of LIES
Hand linked in hand, while all for them
Is fair
with rosy promise of a day TO be;
Who know how each to each is all in all,
So each to each is OF the other sure.
Come veal or woe. the sunshine or the
rain.
This thing is good. For even tho it be
That the full promise of dawn Is un-
And winds arise the landscape fair to mar
BY mists and shadows no man may fore
see,
The perfect vision OF the opening day
Remains for them a blessed memory
Thro' all the day, until all light is gone.
Closed by the last chime of the curfew.
Yet
To have known that glory Of dawn still
makes the day
More beautiful than tho it had not been.
Most happy they fol whom this time shall
prove
The first sweet moments of an ample
TO those for whom. until the morning
Life had been but a twilight-time where
in
Each had moved solitary amid the crowd,
Lonely. IN spirit, lonely in heart and
The coming of this dawn makes all
things new.
For them the world is as another world:
They are themselves. yet not their for
And half-forgetful of all former hours,
With Love arisen they live alone no
more.
&C. NJ. Paine.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
STRENGTH OF THE GARRISON.
Russians Have 10000 Men at Port
Arthur

ITEM TSIN-Three Frenchmen who
arrived at Taku Thursday from Port
Arthur, having come over in a Chi
nese junk, report that 10000 soldiers
and 10000 marines compose the gar
rison of the Russian stronghold and
that the Russians have mounted 700
guns on the heights north of Port
Arthur.
They say also that the Russian toy
pedo boat destroyer Lieutenant Burr
fioff has made in all TOUR trips from
Port Arthur to New Chwang.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

When she replied her voice had a
subtle quality of monotony in it as il
she were speaking a lesson, uttering
some sentiment in which she had reso-
lutely schooled herself. "Ah, the sin.
You would never be happy with a bad
woman"
1t seemed to make him furious. He
gazed at heS blackly. "A bad woman!
What rot! YOU"
Then she suddenly acknowledged the
falsity of her speech. "No-no-no, I
didn't mean that, l didn't mean it, l
meant that IL could never be happy
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

Martin W. Littleton. who made the
speech at the Democratic national
convention in st. Louis nominating
Judge Alton B. Parker was elected
president of the borough Of Brooklyn
in 1908. He has been power in poll
tics in New York for many years and
has strong following. His personal
ity is striking and he is an orator Of
no mean ability.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Looming Above a Rim of Treetops

in discontinued muttering, "and yet
you spend all your time in guarding
the peace of that duffer"-indicating
the three red chimneys with a con-
temptuous wave of his hand-"as If he
were sacred white elephant of Siam;
and, as for me, am to be held of with
spears for fear l might kiss the tip Of
your little finger. And yet you love
me. You are incomprs hensihCe. I
could kill him. And yet-you- why
won't you run away with met"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

vote as between the Republican party
Of protection, with Mr.. Roosevelt its
candidate for President, and the
Democratic party, with Judge Parker
or any other man it may nominate
New York Press.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

her head back and as she did--their
lips met in one long kiss.
The following morning the man
awakened with song upon the lips
that she had kissed. AS he dressed
he strutted as a self.satisfled cock
might strut while he plumed himself
In the barnyard. They we're to leave
that night. OF course nothing could
prevent her going, now-"nothing but
DEATH" she had said. All the morning
he was busy arranging his affairs for
long absence.
l. At noon came a messenger with o
note. II was from her. How well he
knew the gray paper and the dainty
writing! He caressed the envelope be-
fore he opened 1t. why am getting
aloud. laughingly. Then he tore the
note open and this is what it said:
Forgive. forgive me, my beloved. ]
have chosen death. | could not leave
him and after yesterday there is nc
peace for me but in death. Forgive
me, for have loved you more thar
life"
The woman killed herself on Octo
Der the 9th. Her husband died OF q
long, lingering illness on october 10th
Under the NAPLES the man walked
and the little leaves of brown and
| yellow and those with the crimson
blots danced about him The mar
had grown old in two days, frost had
touched his temples and his face was
gray and drawn. He looked at the
red chimneys above the tree tops; he
held out his arms towards them, yearn
ingly, with a half-stifed moan. The
little leaves danced and flew in clouds
before his eyes, they beat him upor
the face; they seemed to run ano
jump before his sight, binding him
singing him, as he held his arms to
wards the red chimneys.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-07
MARINE NEWS.

KEY WEST-AIrived. steamer Shinnec"CH' CI, Rowland Miami and returned Arrived, OIi- vette, Turner, Port Tampa and sailed tor lia- vana; tug MassasoIt. ituFas n,
 PORT TAMPA--Arrtved. steamer FeIt beI' Parod, Philadelphia Mascotte. Allen' Havana via Key, West. -1,,,,,t. r,--,rt fFrS Kendau, Yokohama; Frey CNor.), Ras- mussen, ,ss, Tempico; sydenham (swed.). Pager lund. Bridgeton .,,, .,,a. uoncu,l tNor Danielyon. Bordeaux; Coronado tBT.l AIesanteir eBtterlos Ayres
 ENHAGEN-Arrived- Hehogolv' Ne" Yit c.,t cant,v
 uAVpEsSSaiinI Au ania New York.
 uHNNNIHI-RCs-Arrived. Assyria. Philadelphia; ,dia,IS',-is : Calvesten; Pailauza, Bal imore
 GHSGON-Airived, Hibern an Portlan1
 ' ivcERPOOI-Arrived, Parisian, HaAtax A9T, 91To,NsSynoN-A sS rived, Columbia Boston
 MkNC,fIEsTER-ATrived. Iberlan. Boston
 ITzNRD-Passed. Belgiavia, New York, foi EsIEsNSsToWN-Arrived, Ssxona. Boston.
 SoI-TH THANGPTON-Saile1, Deutschland. New NEW YoRK-Arrived, Gernsey Rotterdam vids,ia. Cardenas. Sailed Maje tic Liverpool NEW ORLEANS-Cleared, steamer ob,nil ftir Elliott, Bordeaux.
 AT9fT FADS-ArTived. steamers Brewster | fc,~T i. Korff. Port Limon; Southgate CBr) | Thompson Rio de Janeiro; Belveinon (Nor.) Olsen. Bocas del TOro' tug F. L, Russell
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-07
4 SPACIOUS MULE.
Animal Discovered Former Owner in
 Jail


 List to this tale of animal sagacity.
 mule there was a long cared, brush tailed, regulation brown beast of burden. For many months he browsed over @ pds- ture of a little farm. when he was off duty from using his strength pulling q blow.
 His master was q negro. His master loved rot work. The mule and the mas ter agreed on this proposition. But hatred of toll brought evil days on the master and the mule. The master wanted some thing for nothing. The mule got some thing for nothing. A corpulent deputy sheriff with much mustache and many pistols got the master. A young and astute attorney, who promised to get the master out of the tolls of the deputy for consideration, got the mule.
 The young and astute attorney sold the mule to livery stable.
 Yesterday the mule, along with many others. was taken out for exercise. There was much popping of whips and shout Ing of whoa Small boys were amused at this procedure. The mule was not,
 As he galloped behind the others he looked around. To his left was rcd brick building. red brick with iron bars. Behind one of these bars he beheld the countcnance of his former master. 1t was the county jail.
 The mule did some animal thinking. He recalled the days of idle rest in the pas lures green, while his master got some | thing for nothing instead of blowing. With a shudder the mule thought of the stuffy stable stall. the dry hay, and the popping of whips.
 Breaking from the line of mules he charged toward the Jail gate The other | mules. astounded at the action, stopped. The muleteers popped their whips and yelled whoa many times. The mules l refused to bulge.
 The mule dashed for the gate as though | seeking his master but the jailer Is paid | to allow none to pass from the Jail ex- 1 cept by order of the court. The mule received rude rebuff with a hickory sta::.
 | He would not be thwarted. He would appeal. Straight across the street he dashed for the stone steps of the white court house The janitlr refused admis- sion to the judges presence.
 .Desoately and with a parting bray 10 | the amused master the mule rejoineu the ranks and trctted off complacently, as the whips popped.