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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Great Britain Pays the Price

rates, from to 21a per cent. But the
new loans have been and can be float
ed only at much higher rates. The
one being fioated in this country is at
5 per cent. The interest and sinking
fund charges the country must carry
for a generation or more will be the
most grievOus tax burden ever borne
by nation.
Before the beginning of war the
United Kingdom was administered at
an annual eXpediture of $917 1928, 900.
AS government was being run before
the war, expenditure was keeping pace
with revenue. In 1928 expendi-
ture did not fall S1,000,000 below rev.
enue. One obvious duty in such an
emergency will be drastic surgical
economy. Excresences and parasites
must be cut off and out of the body
polite. Sinecures must be abolished
and perquisites wiped out. Even then,
taxes, must be greatly increased, and,
if, as is likely, they are made to fall
mainly on the rich, they may lead to
the breaking up great landed es
tates. The war itself still seems I'M
decisive of anything. But at the end
we may see that it was decisive in
many things.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
est. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat)

(St. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat)
London dispatches announce the fin
al conquest of the German protector
ate of Kamerun by Franco-British
forces, after a years campaign. This
is the third largest colony of Germany,
both in area and population. It's cap
ture completes the conquest of the
great colonial empire Bismarck built
up, against his own judgment, but in
response to German sentiment created
by the universities. There were two
arguments in favor of colonial expan-
sion, one being to prevent the German
emigrants, who numbered 100000
between 1871 and 1901, being lost to
the empire, and the other to find a
source of raw material and also addi-
tiOnal markets. The acquisition Of
the African colonies was made easy
by Gladstone's carelesssness. German
Southwest Africa, German Southeast
Africa and New Guinea were acquired
in 1884 and the Marshall Islands were
got the next year. The "99-year-
lease" on Kioa-Chau was acquired in
1897 and the Caroline, Palaos and Ma
rianne Islands came under the en-
pire in 1899.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
LONELINESS.

[ watch my fire die tonight-alone
Making no moan,
But hands held out to seek your long
ed for face
In empty space.
1 see each glowing ember fade to gray,
Then turn away
To whisper our good night across the
dark,
Lest you should bark
And think me faithless, wheresoe'er
you be,
Thinking of me.
How strange it seems that one short
year ago
[ did not know
Your name, Dear Heart, yet now, when
you're away
One little day,
All Times astray!
Edna Mead in New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst newspapers,
went all the way to Des Moines, and pulled wet
lecture on bunch of prohibition Iowa newspa-
per men. The editors sat around like nice little
boys and listened to Arthur talk and then went
home and proceeded to roast him from stem to
gudgeon. The reverberations haven't ceased to
rumble yet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Who will write the editors obituary? In the
same breath let us ask who will preach the min
ister's funeral sermon and chisel the epitaph on
the tombstone of the monument man. 1t is said
that the preacher, the printer and tombstone
maker, are the greatest prevaricators extant but
that ST. Peter overlooks these little things when
he casts accounts in the big book. The preacher
frequently for policy's sake has to overlook
some things in his sermon, the editor forgets that
his subject owed five years on the paper and the
monument man sagely smiles. and chisels and
pecks away In the last analysis we all love the
golden rule.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Plenty Of Coal and Iron.

The considerations of bituminous
coal, Ignite, and iron ore must be
omitted The resources of these most
valuable of all materials are still mat
tiers Of centuries. The known depos
its of the world are variously estimat-
ed at from 600 to 1,200 years. Yet this
is short compared with the known dur
alton of metal-using man. There are,
of these materials, vast potentialities
still unexplored and undeveloped. But
again l say, mineral deposits do not
grow by sensible increments. And in
the meanwhile, every railroad rail,
car wheel and brake shoe is wearing
away, and wherever man sets his foot
iron is taking off through insidious
friction. And certainly we are not
rich enough to throw away $4O,OOO,-
600 in byproducts of coke ovens. as
the government statistics say we did
in 1914-D. NJ Liddell in Engineering
Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

After a woman has made a success
of grand opera she is likely to be re-
fered to as beautiful, but she has then
passed the stage when such comments
would have been of value to her. A
woman whose fame for a beautiful is
established doesn't care what folks
say about her face.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

What is the answer to the attack on Verdun
We on the far far horizon, can only guess at the
motives behind this titanic struggle for the pos
sion of fortress. Either Germany is making a
tremendous effort to pierce the French line be
fore the slow-moving English get their great
army into the field, or else she hopes to democrat
ize the Allies by decisive victory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

are confronted with an opportunity to
engage our industrial undertakings
and render ourselves independent of
foreign markets, the like of which may
never again be presented in the his
tory of the United States Scientific
American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Is the patriotism Of the present day lesser
thing than that which inspired our fathers and
forefathers to shed their blood for their country?
If there is any lesson to be learned from the Eur
opean war it is that men are just as willing today
to fight for their hearths as they ever were.
France has been derided for years as decadent
and vicious nation and yet even her worst enc
mics concede the splendid valor and deathless
courage of her sons. But France is not alone;
every nation engaged in the great conflict has
shown her willingness to battle unto death for
the great cause her people conceive to be just.
And in his greatest brutality man shows his ut
most divinity, for no man can give more than his
life for All ideal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

The way the average reporter writes
up a wedding one would think the
poor man in the case got a wonderful
bargainn for his money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

A clever woman who gets a medi-
OGRE husband has the sympathy of all
the gossips. Why is it that they over
look the clever man who marries a sill
" woman? Perhaps it is because the
latter is so common as to attract lit
tie notice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

"DO you use slang?"
mo. I've quit. I'm speaking plain
English. To have your slang correct
and up-to-date requires altogether too
much Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Men, don't forget that meeting, Thursday
night at the Elite hotel. Important matters will
be discussed on Lancaster and its future. Don't
hang back, but come!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

One very good reason for a commercial organ
ization in town is the opportunity it gives each
business man for protecting himself from the
srnooth-tongued and oily stranger who comes
along with this and that advertising proposition.
One thing we have in mind is the so-caled "pony
contest. The S. t. and o. S. comes into the lead
ing merchants store and by every imaginable
artifce, beguiles the hapless business man into
his scheme Then armed with his first order, he
goes 70 the next man who reasons that it Smith
over in the big front considers it good scheme
it must be so, and takes the bait. The contest
man goes the rounds and after signing up n1er-
chant in each line, leaves town. The results are
frequently disastrous and in every case the prop
osition costs two three times its actual value.
Where a commercial organization exists it is a
very easy matter to form a committee which will
act on every form of town advertising, outside Of
the regular and legitimate medium. When the
slick contest or lottery salesman comes in Mr..
Merchant politely tells him that he considers it d
very good scheme, but is bound to refer the prop
osition to the executive committee of the COM
mercial or community club. That is the last you
ever hear of the matter, for the salesman knows
right off the bat his jig is up. Business men can
protect themselves from innumerable forms OF
hold-ups, by having live local organization.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

The time will come in this country when the
acid test of every mans Americanism will be his
love and respect for our flag. Not his ancestry,
condition or creed but his conception of patriot
ISM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

The big corporations despite the legislation
some of it necessary and some of it harmful, the
distrust and slurs and the evils within and with
out, have been getting steadily bigger and more
efficient. Railroads merge and girdle the contin-
ent, affording excellent service and interlocking
train schedules, no matter where one wants to go.
Steel ships made from the iron deposits of Mesa
ba, take ore to smelters owned by the same mas
tiers, and later factories weld, white and turn
the ingots into big guns battleships, sewing ma
chimes, typewriters and whatnot used by man.
Organization, combination, efficiency are the re
suit of business brains acting through the media
of the corporation. Back Of all the machines, all
the mighty cities, all the devices of civilization
is man as primitive without his clothes and ven
eer, as his pastoral ancestor. Careful must he be
lest his brain children ensave and ruin him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

One of the funny things of life is the solemn
man who goes around endeavoring to "uplift''
people who don't want to be uplifted. We are all
fanatics on our particular hobbies, and "uplift''
is not the least of these.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

What man can say he bears better than anoth-
err the bloodroyal title to the word American"
Most of us from the old Yankee stock feel way
down in our hearts that we represent the ideals
of our forefathers to greater extent than the
peoples more recently come from Europe, but
does our patriotism exceed to any extent that of
the man whose sres came from the mountains of
Norway, the valley of the Rhine, the Steppes of
Russian or the plains of France and italy? AS
these newer brothers have come in the past, SO
they will come in the future. Let us meet them
with the hand Of true democracy and friendship
showing them the way to the uplands of free
dom, and spreading forth on the banquet table
for them the blessings guaranteed by the con-
stitution of free land!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

We all have a sneaEing envy for people whose
birthday occurs on Feb. &c. July A, and Christ
mas Day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

'EstabrOOk for President" is the burden of
loads of boiler plate being sent the publishers
throughout the country in the interest of this
blushing gentleman. So far not many of the
publishers have fallen for Mr.. Estabroozs press
agent and the only people profting are the plate
manufacturers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Many are signs of spring. New automobiles
in the garages, new suits in the shop windows,
painters and paperhangers smiling, rugs on the
line and many other things considered almost
certain signs, but the surest, most certain har-
binger is the small boy on the back lot with his
marble bag. That DOES mean Spring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
LURE OF THE ROAD.

(6y LUCILLE .. CdmpD0ll.J
Have you felt the lure of the
long, white road?
1t is haunting me day and night,
Like a phantom thing,
1t seems to sing
And dance before my sight.
Have you spent a day in the open
air,
For whole day long,
Just on your way
Pursuing your silent call,
Do you know the road to the
happy land,
Where the time is marked
by miles?
Oh, the path is white,
The sun is bright, Z
And the world is full of smiles.
Are you thrilled with a
strange delight
When you ride in the dewy morn?
In the western skies
A pale moon dies,
While a joyous day is born.
Do you count the time til
the silent snow
Melts into whispering spring?
Cup, UP and away"
It seems to say,
''The lure of the road I bring"
CHARGE OF CLIMB" BRIGADE.
Half an inch, half an inch,
Half an inch shorter
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller the ripple now,
While whisking glimpses show,
More than oughter.
Forward the dress parade,
Is there q man dismayed?
No-from the sight displayed
None could be sundered.
Theirs not to remark,
Clergyman, clubman. clerk,
Gaping from noon til dark
At the Four Hundred.
Short skirts to right of them
Shorter to left of them,
FIaunted and f1irted-
In hose of stripe and plaid
Hued most exceeding glad,
Sporting in spats run mad,
Come the shOrt-skirted.
Flashed all their ankles there,
Flashed as they turned in air
What will not women dare?
Though the exhibits show
Some of them blundered).
All sorts and shapes of pegs,
Broomsticks, piano legs;
Here and there fairy shapes;
Just built to walk on eggs,
Come by the hundred
When can their glory fade
the wild show they made,
All the world wondered,
Grande dame and demoiselle,
Shop girl and Bowery belle
Four hundred Hm-oh, we'll,
Any old hundred.
-Sllis Burnett in the Montgomery
advertiser.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Now is the time for the good citizen to get out
with his cinders and literally sprinkle the side
walks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

You can just bet that if the worst comes to the
worst the true blue Americans are going to stand
together and present united front to the world.
Until that time comes we doubt the wisdom of
refusing to discuss grave matters intelligently
just for the sake of standing by the president .
Billy Sunday is quoted as saying that if this
nation goes to war, he wants to be Colonel That
would be a real sacrifice from financial stand
point-stepping from the position of the worlds
best paid evangelist to the meager salary of an
army officer. Billy, however, can probably afford
it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Young Orpet seems to have dropped out Of
sight as the seven days wonder of hectic modern
journalism, our ever mercurial daily press having
evidently rushed to newer topics. Not without
having universally called the young man cad.
which he undoubtedly is, or contributing in the
slightest degree to the problem of thousands of
other young Orpets and Marion Lamberts, now
and to be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Don't worry over the cold weather these early
March days Every day of continued frost
means Just that much more insurance against
crop failure next summer. Come on Jack Frost
for at least thirty days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Twelve pages this week of live reading and
clean-cut attractive advertising. Nothing put in
'.iust to fI'' but everything selected with the
purpose in view of making an interesting paper.
Read the Herald carefully and if it pleases you,
tell your friends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Bishop Quayle divides humanity into two clas-
ses, namely, the bald heads and the red heads
says the others don't count. Most of us can't be
redheaded and none of us want to be baldheaded,
so 2nediocre we VIII have to remain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

That was a pretty good-sized lemon the Chip
pewa Falls asylum people tried to slip over on
Mr.. Burris of the Grant county farm. M. v,
however, is a pretty good judge of fruit and the
C. T. A. people will have to guess again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Did you know that man said to be the oldest
Free Mason in the world died at the age of sc
years, in Spokane, Washington, two weeks ago?
He was Arson A. Pike and he the hauling
down Of the Mexican flag at Los Angeles in 1916.
Mr.. Pike was mason by trade and built the
Bloomington, Illinois school house where Abra-
ham Lincoln was acting as superintendent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

Senator La Toilette repeatedly assures his
audiences that he gave up his legal career to
fight the peoples battles, and how his whole soul
is In the combat to save his state from the forces
of corruption. Has it ever occurred to the SEN
ior senator that the surest way to convince the
people of his sincerity and to regain his place
in their affections, would be to resign his seat,
cast aside his presidential aspirations, and come
back to Wisconsin as Citizen La Follette'-a
soldier of the common good.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

(per year, $1.5O
The Delta independent., 1916-11-03
Charles E. Blaine, Candidate
IIfor Office of County Judge

Mr. Blaine is a young man of some
what retiring disposition with an in
clination to hide his light under n
hushel basket, rather than indulge in
campaign rhetoric such as is more
commonly associated with the ordi-
nary type of office seekers.
With regard to his fitness for the
office of County Judge for which he is
at present an honorable aspirant. no
legitimate objection can be adducee.
With a trained legal mind. and per
sonality both pleasing and promising.
the voters OF Delta County need have
no fears as to the safeguarding of
their interests in the County court
should Mr. Charles +. Blaine succeed
in achieving his honorable ambitions
on Election day.
The Delta independent., 1916-11-03

assessors office to the county was
S.6l7 per tax schedule.
In the year 1913, my first year in
office. the change in assessment was
made. in this state, from one-third to
fun valuation. On the old basis a
very small percentage of taxpayers
we're taxed with personal property in
excess of the statutory exemption so
the new basis greatly increased the
field work of the deputies and prac-
tically doubled the office work in re-
quiring the listing and valuation of
personal property.
In the same year, 1913. after assess
ment had been made on what seemed
to the assessors office and the county
commissioners a fair valuation, the
state tax commission raised our coun-
ty assessment s2,5O0.o00. / went to
Denver to make a personal appeal be
fore the tax commission and board
of Equalization against the injustice
of the raise: But the Tax Commission
TtIuStu TtuttSS anu Was SuStdlhtd "
the Court. so all the office records
had to be made over again for the
higher valuation. In the year 1919,
with all this extra labor and expense.
the cost of my office to the county
was SGT per tax schedule
For the past three years in making
t,,s
been required to obtain and tabulate
for the State Agricultural college d
list of agricultural statistics. which
requires more time in the field than
obtaining the regular tax schedules,
and yet the cost to the county of my
office for the year 1914 was s.622 per
tax schedule and in 1915. s.62 per
schedule-in each case only small
fraction of a cent greater than the
cost under the former assessor who
procured no agricultural statistics and
had very few personal property sched-
ules.
employ about ten field deputies
while my predecessor employed five.
This results in no increase of expense
to the county. more prompt returns,
and enables me to have local men in
every community who have better
knowledge of conditions. and can
therefore make more equitable assess
ments.
believe / am the only assessor OF
The Delta independent., 1916-11-03
Robert w. Curtis
for Commissioner

No candidate in the field has made
a more strenuous campaign for his
candidacy and for his ticket. than Bob
Curtis. and with the result that vic
tory seems assuredly in sight for him.
with satisfactory If not rousing
majority.
Mr. Curtis was the appointee of
Governor Carlson, to fill vacancy
n year ago. During his service he
pleased many and displeased some,
which is proof of forward, determined
action. A fight was made against him
in the Assembly and Primary. but in
the latter was overcome in it's strong.
est precincts. The friends of Mr.. Cur
tis rallied to his support. even many
Democrats. II is said. declaring to vote
for him both in the primary as well
as in the general election, in order
that man might be elected county
commissioner whose good work they
felt they could help to secure.
And ever since that. Curtis stock
has been going up. and mp, and up.
The Delta independent., 1916-11-03
Floyd j. Harding
for County Clerk

In the subject of this sketch every
voter in the county should find it easv
to make a choice.
Floyd Harding is a Delta boy. raised
here, and is clean and capable in ev-
cry particular There can be no bett "
in character and capability in the
county. That is saying lot, but IL
is not exaggerating the truth.
Equipped by education and practice
as an expert accountant and book
keeper. honest. courteous, and at al.
times a worker. Independent has no
hesitancy in recommending Mr.. Hard
ing for your votes, and no man or
woman in Delta county will regret
having done so.
Mr.. Harding is also stenographer.
which will prove an additional ad-
vantage and an economic feature to
the office and to the county.
The Delta independent., 1916-11-03
DELTA COLORADO FRIDAY NOVEMBER g. 1916
Chas. L. Keller, Republican
Choice for County Assessor

trouble to check over the records of
the L. S. Land Office at Montrose to
discover what land was escaping as
sessment, and by this means | have
listed $500 acres of assessable land
which had escaped assessment, and
it is now bearing its proportionate
burden of taxation.
This year, after a conference with
the County Commissioners, it was de-
cided not to mail to taxpayers the
post card announcement of valuation
as heretofore, for the reason that the
expense of approximately S10O did not
appear TO be justified, except in case
OF a change of valuation from that
given in to the assessor, in which
the only county in the state sending
notice to all.
Permit me to add that the man who
is loudest in his criticisms against me
has been the hardest fighter against
paying what appeared to me to be
his fair proportion of taxes,
and the board of County Commits
isoners have sustained my valuation.
In particular. he opposed most strenu-
ously an $500 valuation on certain
lots owned by him in the city of Delta,
claiming that they were worthless,
yet he has subsequently demanded
1920 damages from the City of Delta
for an easement for road running
across a part of them.
Upon this record I believe I am en-
titled to consideration from the voters
of this county for reelection as County
Assessor.
Respectfully submitted
CHAS. L. KELLER.