Harrison Press-Journal from Harrison, Nebraska • 2

CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAL OEO CANON Editor HARRISON NEBRASKA ROSICKY ARRAIGNS POLICY OF EXPANSION IMPERIALISM AND MILITARISM NEBRASKA NEWS Hebron ie to be lit by electricity Burwell will Boon have telephone con Beetion with the outside world little child of Cheear Corlet of Ord wai bitten by a rattlesnake but prompt medical attention saved its life The Herman Advertiser Is a new can dldate for public favor A Brew ter le the editor It 1b nonpartisan politically Boor of Boone county raised eighty line squashes from seven seeds furnished him by the agricultural It Is estimated by stockmen that at least 25 per cent more cattle will be wintered In Holt county this winter than last There Is yet room for more and cheap lands for new settlers Beck was threshing for Long at his place near Campbell when the grain caught Are from the engine and destroyed Mr separator and about 400 bu of wheat for Mr Long The following article on "Anti-Imperialism Among Citizens of Bohemian Extraction" was prepared for this paper by Hon John Rosicky of Omaha Among our citizens of Bohemian birth or extraction Mr Rosicky has been for years a stalwart character In politics in social affairs and in the world of letters and commerce he been a leading factor In republican circles for the past twenty years John Rosicky has been a man whom the prominent leaders sought out for counsel and advice As a man of great force on the rostrum speaking several languages and as one of the strongest writers his services have always been in urgent demand Personally in politics he has been a of wood and a drawer of water" but his loss to the support of the republican party in its policy of expansion imperialism and militarism constitutes one of the severest reverses which that plan of the campaign has met with in the west John Rosicky was born at Humpolec Bohemia on the 17th day of December 1S46 He attended the public school of his native city and at the age of 12 years was sent to the capital of Bohemia Prague where he attended college for two years In 1861 he emigrated with his parents to this country and for about four ytars lived on a farm In Grant county Wisconsin In 1866 he moved to Milwaukee Wls and later In the same year removed to Chicago For several years he was employed In the grocery flour and feed business establishing himself later on In the same line In 1870 he took the advice of Horace Greeley and went west clear to the Pacific coast where he spent two years In California and Oregon While returning In 1873 with the Intention to settle again in Chicago he stopped In Nebraska and finding the state a land of much promise he settled In Crete since when he bss been a resident of this state In the fall of the same year he established himself In business In Crete which how Miss Meyer living between Edholm and Octavla swallowed a sand burr while endeavoring to pick It from her mitten with her teeth while picking com The burr lodged In her throat but did not hurt much until evening when at supper Next day she was brought to Bellwood and It was with much trouble that Dr Hewit removed teh troublesome burr bodied man for conscription and serv- I Ice In the army of their oppressors to be used In any cause right or wrong This vast army It used against themselves on every occasion to overawe them and uphold the despotism and tyranny of an unjust government ONSIDERINO THE COST The Bohemians notice the alarming growth of the public debt of every European nation caused mainly If not entirely by the Just stop a minute and consider The debt of the United States was Insignificant before the civil war but that terrible struggle caused the same to mount to $3000000000 In spite of the oppressive war taxes which were then levied for war purposes The peace following the war and absence of a large standing army enabled us to abolish the war taxes and reduce the debt to less than $600000000 by 1892 Now In spite of $200000000 annual war tax our debt has assumed In consequence of the war the respectable figure of over $1-000000000 But how Is It In Europe? The public debt has grown as follows: 1860 1898 Austro-Hungary $960000000 $2866000000 France 1638000000 4446000000 Italy 360000000 2234000000 Hr us ala 1700001000 100000000 THE TERRIBLE BURDEN OF TAXATION IN THE OLD WORLD And what about the terrible burden of taxation In the old world? What keeps the people of the old country in poverty and misery? It Is the grinding extortion of the ever unsatisfied Moloch If militarism The "armed costs Europe now over four billion marks over $1000000000 annually a terrible burden for the taxpayers The Bohemians In Austria have to bear more than their share and as much of the burden as any people Bohemia contributes to the Austro-Hungarian budget 150 million florins annually but receives out of the public treasury In return only 20 million florins The country (one-fourth the area of Nebraska) Is being drained at the rate of 1J0 million florins 62 millions dollars annually The people of Bohemia pay annually a per capita of 136 florins Indirect and 227 florins direct government about $1050 per exclusive of local taxation a burden which In consideration of the condition of the people wages etc Is well-nigh unbearable And yet the gov ernment must constantly scheme for some new tax to be levied to meet the demands of that monster militarism THEY CAME WITH MINGLED JOY AND SORROW The naturalized citizen has fled not with Joy but with sorrow from the country of his birth which he loved as dearly as anybody loves his country to avoid the oppression of despotism and evil results of Its tool the militarism In order to enjoy the blessings of freedom and liberty and secure them for his descendants He has learned In this free land to appreciate fully these blessings He knows from and by his own experience the difference between a free government and one dominated by military power and knows what conditions either generates THE QUESTION WHICH CONFRONTS US Ckn he sympathize with a policy which will lead to militarism Is pregnant with danger to our liberties and In all probability will bring upon thlB land of his choice which he has learned to love as dearly as he loved his own country of birth which Is now the land of the birth of his children and will be the cherished land of hts descendants the same unfortunate conditions which forced him to abandon his own old country? Shall he help to bring upon his children and future generations the evils from which he had to flee? To all such questions when thoroughly considered he must reply emphatically And thus we And among the Bohemian as well as the German and other naturalized citizens an overwhelming anti-expansion and antl-lmperlallsttc sentiment of it In it for The residents of the land which was overflowed last spring In Dakota county by the lake spreading out over their land are talking of digging a ditch from the north end of Crystal lake to the Missouri river for the purpose of draining off the water and redeeming the land for farming Hundreds of acres of fine farming land are at present under water while If the ditch were dug the water would disappear HON SILAS ALEXANDER HOLCOMB Colonel Cody Is expected home at North Platte next week for a few visit From there he will go directly to the Big Horn basin where he Intends to spend several weekB hunting General Nelson Miles and several other distinguished men will be his guests during the hunt ANTI-IMPERIALISM AM0N6 CITIZENS OF BOHEMIAN EXTRACTION BT JOHN ROSICKY Fire totally destroyed the college building belonging to the Norfolk College association The loss Is about $4-000 insured for $2000 in the North American and Connecticut Fire Insurance companies The building was originally built and used for a hotel and was known first as the Tlllenburg and later as the Reno Four years ago It was partially burned and was purchased by the college people and moved out a mile and repaired year ago the college closed its doors and since then the building has been occupied by fam-S lea The origin of the fire Is unknown destructive fire was narrowly averted at Gretna Sunday at noon during a violent windstorm The fire occurred in a summer kitchen just south of the livery barn which was entirely destroyed together with the contents The structure belonged to John Hickey and was occupied by George Gross The origin of the fire was unknown but is supposed to have caught from matches In the hands of children Immense forest fires miles In extent re raging In the mountains near Parana Va Millions of feet of lumber have been destroyed and other property is In Imminent danger Residents have to fight to keep the fire out of Hendricks and It looks as If the rame would have to be done at Par-jomu Smoke like dense fog overran the own HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS SAVED The reform forces headed by Governor Holcomb from 1895 to 1895 maintained the same state Institutions in better shape with more Inmates tor about $370000 less than the republicans would have spent had they been In power This splendid record for businesslike management begun under Silas A Holcomb Is being continued by Governor Poynter and the other state officers In the same admirable way WHAT HURTS THE RINGSTERS But why dwell al length on facts that thinking people understand thoroughly? Populists democrats sliver republicans all know these facts So do the republicans themselves Everybody who reads knows that both terms of Governor Holcomb were marked by a strict adherence to but not parsimonious conduct of the state's business He was Just are careful In spending the state's money us In expending his and this Irritate the ring republicans who had always made It a rule to spend every dollar the legislature would appropriate for them and pile up a lot of deficiency claims beside HOLCOMB SET THE PACE It Is because Holcomb really guarded every state Interest with Jealous care that ring republican mak vicious and unwarranted attacks upon him He has established a precedent in state government which the people will Insist upon having followed by all succeeding and that would be mighty awkward for the ring republicans If they should ever by any combination of circumstances gain control of the executive offices AS A MAN AND AN OFFICIAL Silas A ability as a lawyer Is unquestioned He has been tried as a district Judge and his record la clear He has been tried two terms as governor and the splendid record made Is tritely summed up In th phrase "The best governor Nebraska ever He Is a man of exemplary habits pure In hi private life and with a record In public life untarnished In the slightest degree He is broadminded clear-headed a deep thinker and an earnest student at all times believes In allowing every man the fullest enjoyment of personal liberty that every man has the unalienable right to liberty and the pursuit of bap-pines He 1 a strong opponent of Imperialism and militarism which now seem to be gaining a strong foothold In what was once "Free America" Is opposed to government by Injunction Silas A Holcomb has the judicial mind careful deliberate and painstaking he must have all the facts before him and all of the law bearing upon the question: then he decides deliberately conservatively and Justly He will be supreme judge for all the people WHO OWNS THE COURT Behind the curtains It Is said the Nebraska supreme court as at present constituted has one representative of the railroad one representative of tbe railroad and one representative of the people After January of next year with Holcomb to sit with Sullivan the people of Nebraska may congratulate themselves upon having two representatives upon the supreme two Judges who will perform their duties fearlessly earnestly and Justly keeping ever tn mind the maxim rights to all special privileges to none" It Is a little like carrying coals to Newcastle to tell the Intelligent voters of Nebraska anything about Governor Silas A Holcomb and the grand record he made as governor of this state The people of Nebraska were not long In learning his worth as chief executive of Nebraska They soon began to call him beet governor Nebraska ever and to show that they believed what they said they reflected him by over 21000 plurality In 1896 HOLCOMB ELECTED GOVERNOR Six years ago Holcomb was selected by the populists as their standard-bearer In the campaign for supreme judge That was before the days of fusion wjlth the democratc and the division of the votes between the nominee of the democrats for supreme judge naturally resulted In the election the republican candidate But the populists were determined to secure the services of Holcomb as a state officer and the following year they nominated him for governor He was even then serving as district judge out in the Twelfth judicial district and the people that district knew his sterling hon-rsty straightforwardness and undoubted ability Populist from all over the state had become acquainted with him during the canvass of 1893 and they recognized In him a man who would make himself felt In the world So he was nominated for governor The democrats were then willing to Join hands with the populists and help rescue the state from republican misrule Governor Crounse the best republican governor who had sat In the gubernatorial chair In years was not good standing with the manipulators his party and they turned him down Thomas Majors a notorious for the railroad corporations Rosewater of the Omaha Bee had been sat down upon by the republican ring on several occasions and thirsting for revenge he fought the republican nominee and supported Holcomb GOV HOLCOMBS PREDICAMENT Holcomb was the only one of the fusion nominees who pulled through and early In January 1895 he took his seat as governor with six republican executive state officers These republican officers began a systematic effort to cripple Holcomb's administration Every conceivable mean thing was done The state legislature an Intensely partisan republican body that year went partisan mad In their efforts to the pop governor In the But through It all Governor Holcomb pursued a dignified course and came out unscathed IT WAS SCHOOL MONEY The independent (populist) party had demanded In Its platform that the uninvested permanent educational funds be Inverted so far as possible In state general fund warrants The republican state officers kept on hand upward of a half million dollars uninvested year after year although the supreme court had already decided that state warrants are within the meaning of the henee a proper avenue for Investment of the Idle educational funds But the republican ring wanted a lot of state money to speculate with for their private gain At every meeting of the board of educational lands and funds Governor Holcomb presented a resolution requiring the state treasurer to Invest certain sums In state warrants but the republican members of that board were In the majority and voted down the resolution every time The then attorney general even went so far as to render an opinion for the board tn which he reversed the supreme court of Nebraska and decided that state warrants are not state securities within the meaning of the constitution GOV HOLCOMB PARTLY IN Several people who were husking on John farm one and one-half miles below Lorton near Nebraska City found the remains of a man who had been dead fqr some time They were supposed to be those of a young fellow who had worked for several fanners In that vicinity and who was addicted to drink The fac was so badly decomposed that It was Impossible to Identify him It It thought he came to bis death by ex posure Coroner Karsten held an In quest Howard Greeley IT years old attend ig the High school at Atkinson It i Hissing He was last seen on Sunday tctober 15 when he left his boarding house without notice taking none of his effects with him He left his room in an untidy condition which was not In harmony with his usual custom His home is twenty miles northeast of Atkinson where his parents are now living and they were promptly notified Every possible effort is being made to locate the youth by telegraph and oth- all that makes life worth living when subjected In the two following centuries to the most cruel serfdom but little short of the slavery of the black man the sense for liberty and equal rights for all was not suppressed but the hatred of despotism Its principal tool militarism and other Institutions of oppression were only Intensified The most celebrated Bohemian poet of the first quarter of the present century John Kolar expressed well the prevailing sentiment of the people In the sentence: who Is worthy of liberty readily grant the same to all The history of Bohemian people proves beyond a doubt that It was Wot lack of valor but the sense of liberty and Justice to all which made them so considerate for the rights of others and prevented them from being conquerors OUR BOHEMIAN CITIZENS The Bohemian Immigration to this country dates from the year 1848 That memorable year marks an epoch In the history of most continental nations It was a year of awakening from the evils of oppression and to the blessings of liberty and freedom The people Were however soon overwhelmed Dy the power of despotism and It was the love of liberty which caused the emi gratlon from Bohemia to the land of the brave and the free The abolition question was then the burning political question In this country and the Bo hetnlans almost without exception al lied themselves with the anti-slavery party The first Bohemian newspapers In this country Slovan Amerlcky established at Racine Wla In I860 Na rodnl Novlny at 8t Louis In the same year and Slavle at Racine Wls In 1863 were all anti-slavery and union papers UPHOLDS DECLARATION OF INDE PENDENCE Bohemians have always rejoiced at the liberation of every people and sympathized with all who are oppressed There is no people on earth that have endorsed more heartily than the Bohemians the self-evident truths of the declaration of American Independence that all persons were created equal and that governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed It Is therefore not surprising to find among the naturalized citizens of Bohemian extraction an almost unanimous sentiment that It Is wrong that these glorious United States of America the pride and hope of th liberty-loving people of all climes the home of the brave and free should wage a war for conquest for subjugation of a people on another hemisphere people of an entirely different race and civilisation which can never assimilate with us and is Intended to be subject to our authority and prey of our even If this war is carried on under the cloak of civilization THE BITTER FRUIT OF EX PERI ENCB But there are other reasons besides nrliy the sentiment of the Bohemians Is against the policy of aggression and Imperialism They have tasted them selves of the bitter fruit of such a policy Their experience and the history of every other European nation teach es that expansion cannot be upheld without a large standing army and a powerful navy and that these cause unbearable burdens They apprehend that expansion Into the other hemisphere will bring us near the constant danger of complications with the other great foreign powers and to the condition of "armed which ts the bane of the people of Europe They know tbat a large standing army Is a menace to the rights and liberties of the people leading always ultimately to the fall of republics overthrow of freedom and establishment of despotic governments THE EVILS OF MILITARISM There Is no other people that has suffered more through the evil of militarism than tbe Bohemian people Militarism requires not alone a tax In dollars and cents but also a tax In life and blood To be a defender of the rights and liberties of a country Is an entirely different proposition from being conscripted tool of military power to be used as Its plans and schemes require The former means patriotism the latter servitude Tbe Bohemians in their old country had and have to None of the newspapers published In the Bohemian language In this country are supporting the policy of expansion and Imperialism carried out by the present administration which Is an indication that the course of the administration does not find favor among naturalized citizens of that birth or extraction Per-that the course pursued at present by our administration Is not for the best Interests and ultimate benefit of our Country A tffilEP-SEATED PRINCIPLE This sentiment la by no means accidental bus la characteristic of the people and perfectly natural In conse-quence of the experience which they have had The Bohemian people were not an aggressive people While their history notes very many atruggles too many for their good and benefit these were not struggles for conquest but of defense They have not sought any aggrandizement at the cost of their neighbors being peace-loving as well as liberty-loving but bravely defending their country and homes when necessary Historian Maurice is bis Story of Bohemia published by Sons In their collection of say NO STORX OP ROBBER DENS the earliest traditions show tbat long before tbe introduction of Christianity the Bohemian Ideal of national life had been totally different from that of the surrounding nations The poem of Judgment of Ll-busa' which seems to embody the ear-lieet picture of Bohemian life Is no Iliad or Ntebelungen Lied no story of robber dens or rapes of the Sabines but the representation of a peace-loving nation trying to uphold traditions of communal ownership of land and the gentle guidance of the wisest In Judicial affairs modified by an organized expression of popular opinion" PRESERVED SPIRIT OF LIBERTY While peaceable and of good will to all the Bohemians were always brave defenders of their country Being tbe most western tribe of tbe Slavs wedged between warlike and aggressive Germans they have successfully maintained tbelr existence and were not subjected by tbem In struggles without number they have proven their bravery and valor When the Tartars In the thirteenth century overwhelmed Russia defeated and laid waste Hungary and swept over Poland Into Moravia bringing terror to western Europe the brave Bohemians met them at Olmutz In Moravia and all but annihilated them How terrible foes the Tartars wree can be seen from the following passage of story of Bohemia: "The terror-struck descriptions of the writers of the period teem to combine tbe memories of Gothic and Hunnlsh Invasion with the Imagery or the Apocalypse Like so many conquerors Genghis Khan seems to have bad a conception of a special mission to destroy Imposed on him by some Invisible power and he and his follower were looked on for a time as When the blind Bohemian King John fighting with the French at Cresey waa Informed that the battle was going against them and urged to seek safety in time It is said that he replied: forbid that a Bohemian king should flee from a battlefield" And selecting two of his best and bravest knights he had his own horse fastened between them and plunging Into the thickest of the fight perished on the field When the people of Bohemia arose in the fifteenth century to detend the reformation of Hus and oppose the claims to the Bohemian throne of the German Emperor who had betrayed them and allowed in spite of hie guaranty the taking of the life of Reformer Hus the pope preached crusade against Bohemians but they have held their ground against the whole German Empire and allied powers for fifteen years Their military hero of that struggle Zlska never lost a battle though often fighting against terrible odds LOVE FOR LIBERTY COULD NOT BE SUPPRESSED When finally overwhelmed during the Thirty War and all but annihilated when deprived of their faith education intelligence literature property and Greeley took part In helping out a program given last week by a traveling hypnotist company It New Skirt Helps Shoplifters Fashion has become an accessory of crime and misery has been added thereby to the burden of responsibility on the shoulders of store detectives during the holiday season George Ostrelcher of New York one of the oldest private detectives in the business made the discovery when he caught Amelia Levy alias Amelia In the act of dropping a package of silk through the opening at the side of her dress skirt Underneath was one of the biggest bags ever found on a pickpocket Amelia is one of the cleverest pickpockets and shoplifters In the profession and has so long a record against her that ex -Chief of Police Byrnes says he can give only a brief bit of It In his book where she figures as No 282 Whether Amelia is the discoverer of the adaptability of the newk skirt to the needs of her criminal calling or only an humble follower of Ideas she Is the first to be caught employing It When Ostrelcher discovered "Black" Amelia she was finely attired In one of th gorgeous new skirts of heavy cloth closing on the side of the front with a scalloped edge and row of buttons "Black" Amelia with a companion was at the silk counter holding a piece of silk up for examination The silk was in its atiff paper case in which it la alwaya kept Heretofore ahopllftera have taken the silk from these cases In order to fold It Into the smallest possible parcel for concealment The new fashion requires the stiff paper To amazement the whole paper and lid through the side closing of fashionable new skirt It was a revelation to the detective who had never thought of watching women wearing such skirts When Amelia was Investigated the smoothness with which the scheme works was disclosed The biggest black cambric shoplifter's bag ever seen was tied around her waist The long slit in the outside of It waa fastened to the opening seam of the dress skirt which closed with real buttonholes and buttons its entire length Tbe piece of silk was upright and perfectly flat In the bag Heretofore women have ripped dress earns made dress pockets in which are cut silts or cut their skirts near the walst-band In order to drop the proceeds of their thefts into tbe under bags Is thought by some tbat the influence brought to bear upon him has turned Ms mind His people stand high In this community and they are nearly brokenhearted over the young disappearance Sheriff Cble at Auburn received a tel gram from the sheriff of Hancock county Iowa stating that he bad ar-- ested and was holding George Roy for whom the state of Nebraska had offered a reward of 1200 as the slayer of Chessmon at Brownvllle last February The prisoner admits he Is the man wanted and offers to return to Nemaha county without requisition Sheriff Cole left on the next train to bring him to Auburn Roy It will remembered Is the man who was found at the residence of Chessmon in company with the latter's wife and succeeded In making his escape after shooting Chessmon through the body and Inflicting a wound from which the Injured man died a few hours later Chessmon brother offered a reward of $150 for Roy arrest and the state offered the usual reward of $200 but all effort to learn his whereabout have been unavailing until the telegram was received from Garner Three large elevators have been de stroyed by Are In Platte county within a week In each Instance the origin of the Are could not be explained and Incendiarism Is strongly suspected The first Are occurred st Monroe on the srlght of October when the Urge elevator belonging to the Monroe Grain company was entirely destroyed together with contents entailing a loss of about $4000 On the night of October 12 the elevator of the Crowell Lumber and Grate company at Lindsay was burned to the ground together with much other property valued at over Monday night of this week the Urge elevator and feed mill of Cole at Monroe was destroyed also the Union depot all the records being lost only by hard work that the part of tbe town was saved CHAPLAINS ARE NEEDED Washington Secretary Root has ordered all the available chaplains In the army to the Philippine When congress increased the strength of the army from 26000 to 100006 men temporarily at tbe last session it failed to make provision for any chaplains overlooking the claua limiting them to 80 Of this number at least ten of those holding commissions are superannuated and altogether unfit for active service at domestic posts so th service has been rather short of spiritual advisers of late Eight of the regular chaplains are already In General Otis' army corps With tbelr denominations they are: Captains Henry Swift Episcopalian Charles Pierce Episcopalian Walter Marvlne Episcopalian Charles reeland Episcopalian Patrick Hart Roman Catholic Edward Fitzgerald Roman Catholic Joseph Sutherland Presbyterian A Randolph Methodist Tbe chaplains ordered all of tbem having volunteered for duty In tbe Philippines are: Captains John 8 Si-bold Episcopalian Newell Pilchard Episcopalian Charles 8 Walkley Episcopalian Orville Nave Methodist David Shields Methodist Hslzy Cavltt Methodist Ruter Springer Methodist Leslie Groves Presby-terian James Hillman Presbyterian Cephas Bateman Baptist Th people's Independent party bad also demanded an economical administration of state affairs By virtue of hts office six penal and charitable institutions esme under the control of Governor Holcomb and his appointee and seven Institutions remained In control of the republicans Governoi Crounse management of these same six institutions had shown a marked decrease In cost over previous administrations yet notwithstanding this fact these six Institutions under Governor Holcomb's careful and business-like management during the years 1IM and 1666 showed a saving of nearly $100606 over Oovernor management In and 1864 A similar comparison for the seven Institution under republican control In 1865 and 1166 showed a saving of only about $4000 And under complete fusion management during Governor second term the cost warn greatly reduced Beekeeping Is an expensive enjoyment at Bath England Miss Kerley an Inhabitant of that bsautiful city sued her next door neighbor for $250 damages caused by defendant's bees She was badly stung twice and tbe beet frequented her garden to such an extent that ehe had to let It go practically ont of cultivation The jury awarded her $50 and the judge granted an injunction with costs on the higher Th statistic of th Chinn mission connected with the Episcopal church show that for the year ending July 19M there were 166 congregations 2861 money tn maintaining the stats lnstl sbureh members $61 com- I tutlona its and demonstrated that the republicans from U61 to 1164 needlessly wasted about of the people.