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DECEMBER 11, 1901 THE. NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 15 A Definition Defined "Shall we consider" of iV with the help of the Cambridge Catechism? at the tenth page of which you wil find that Mr. Mill's definition of productive labor is "That which produces utili ties fixed and embodied in material objects." "This is very fine indeed, superfinc- English; but I can, perhaps, make the meaning of the Greatest Thinker in England a little more lucid for you by vulgarizing his terms. " 'Object,' you must always remem ber, is fine English for 'thing.' It is a semi-Latin word, and properly means a thing 'thrown in your way;' so that if you put 'ioa' to the end of it, it be comes objection. We will rather say 'thing,' if you have, no objection you and I. A 'material' thing, then.of course, signifies something solid and tangible. It is very necessary for po litical economists always to insert thl word 'material,' lest people should sup pose that there was any use or value in thought or knowledge, and such im material objects. " 'Embodied' is a particularly ele gant word; but. superfl'ious, because you know it would not be possible that a utility should be disembodied, as long as it was in a material ob ject. But when you wish to express yourself as thinking in a great man ner, you may say as, for instance, when you are supping vegetable soup that your power of doing so con veniently and gracefully is 'embodied' in a spoon. " 'Fixed' is, I am afraid, rashly, as well as superfluous, introduced int'; his definition by Mr. Mill. It is con ceivable that some utilities may be al so volatile, or planetary, even when embodied. But at last we come to the great word in the great definition 'utility.' "And this word, I am sorry to say, puzzles me most of all; for I never myself saw a utility, either out of the body, or in it, and should be much embarrassed if ordered to produce one in either state. , "But it is fortunate for us that a-1 this seraphic language, reduced to the vulgar tongue, will become, through fallen in dignity and reduced in di mension, perfectly intelligible. The Greatest Thinker in England mean;; by these beautiful words to tell you that productive labor is labor that pro duces a useful thing. Which, indeed, perhaps, you know or, without the assistance of great thinkers, might have known before now. But if Mr Mill had said so much, simply, you might hve been tempted to ask fur ther 'What things are useful, and what are not?' And as Mr. Mill does not know, nor any other political econ omist going, and as they therefore particularly wish nobody to ask them, it is convenient to say, instead of 'useful things,' 'utilities fixed and em bodied in material objects,' because that sounds so very like complete and satisfactory information,' that one is ashamed, after getting it, to ask for any more." John Ruskin, Vol. L, page 45, "Fors Clavigera" (Merrill & Bak er, N. Y.). There is an effort being made to inaugunte a svstem of pensions for government employes. To such a move as that The Independent is op posed. It thinks that a man who spends his life in hard work outside of government employment and con tributes a very large proportion of the wealth that he creates to the gov ernment in tariff taxes and contribu tions to the trusts, which are char tered and sustained by the govern ment, is much more entitled to a pen sion than a government employe whose rate of wages are far above the average and whose working hours are much shorter. Old age pensions for all or none. Is it the Tariff? The Standard Oil company has re cently declared another quarterly divi dent of $10,000,000, making a total dividend for the past year of $48,000, 000 on a capitalization of $100.000,00r. $100 worth of this stock is now worth $675, with none offered for sale. It would have been just as easy for the company, from its accumulated and undivided profits, to have declared a dividend from 33 1-3 per cent to 50 pr cent as to have made it 10 per cent for the quarter. Every user or crude or refined oil ( gasoline or other products of this company must pay his or hr due proportion of the royalty exacted by this protected industry that a few captains of commerce may literally roll in wealth. A govnrn ni"nt that leaves the necessities of modern life in the greedy grasp of a HocVefeller Invites r.trikes, sociali-rn, and poublv anarchism. A small an nual per cent of profit, say, 2 per cent, would bring this company a yearly for tune within. itself; but, not satisfied with this, it exacts a tribute Irom each of us sufficient to double its wealth every two years. Our children go illy-fed and uneducated that a few men may amass millions. It is not our purpose to array one class against another; but it is evident that the peo ple are getting dissatisfied with a government that allows the railroad monopolies. The Standard Oil, beef and sugar trusts, or any other of th vast corporations to absorb the great er per cent of the wealth of the coun try. Dow Busenbark, in Eskridge Star. The Independent admits that the Standard Oil trust is a "protected" in dustry, but would not define the term protection to mean the tariff on im ports alone. The kind of "protection'' that :as built up the Standard Oil. trust and which now enables it to de clare dividends of 4 per -cent a month is an advantage in freight rates which no independent oil refiner can get If it were the Dingley bill alone, why dc not the smaller fry wax great? No conventions have been held, no petitions have been presented to con gress and no demand irom the people of any section of the country has been made that the silver dollar shall be made redeemable in gold and no one has asked that the sovereign right of issuing all the money of the country save gold should be given to the na tional banks, but the Wall street agent who holds the position of secre tary of the treasury advises that it be done. So congress will proceed to do it The government of this country is by the banks, trusts and corpora tions. There is no necessity of con sulting the people. The mullet heads like that kind of government "A Nation of Land Owners I have described England as owned by the few. France is owned by the many. There are 5,500,000 land own ers among the 38,500,000 people which make up the French republic, or al most a landholder in every family. The average holding is less than six acres, and thousands own little tracts upon which they live, working a part of the year for some one else. The French love their land, and it is this common ownership that keeps them at home. They are not an emi grating nation like the Germans, and Italians, or the English. More strang ers come into France every year than Frenchmen leave, and notwithstand ing this the people are about the rich est on the face of the globe. Thej were able to pay the enormous Franco-Prussian war debt without feeling it, and they have now hundreds of millions of dollars stored away in their woolen 3tockings under the rafters. They are prosperous although they have the largest debt of any nation. They pay in interest alone a quarter of a billion dollars a year, or almost $7 per head, to say nothing of the taxes required for the necessary ex penses of the government Frank G. Carpenter. The price of hard coal on board ship in Boston harbor last week was S10.25. Soft coal is higher than ev;r before. There is said to be much suf fering in the city for want of fuel. This is what the political economy of the republican party has done for tte people of the old commonwealth. Jt is no wonder that the thousands of people down there are voting the so cialist ticket Some thousands of de positors have lost their all through the failure of that national bank and have no money to buy coal, even if they could get it at the ordinary pric-. The price of board has been raised $1 a week all ovft the city. Wages, ex cept in a few instances, remain sta tionary. There they are getting the full force of this era of prosperity for the trusts &nd corporations. Cut Away the Prop 1 It is safe to assume that four-fifths of the people of the United States are in favor of government ownership of the railroads and the populists of the nation were the pioneers whose advoc acy of the question caused such a un ity of opinion. In 1001 the revenue derived by the Gnrman government from its railways was over $20,000,000. If this nation owned the railroads the profits of the roads, after deducting all cost of runninfr, would be five times tlm amount Germany secured. Strike would be unVnown, equality of wages obtained and just and reasonable rates secured. It is the one great oppor tunity to destroy the trusts, for if rate discrimination was unknown one of the mainstavs of the trusts would dis appear. 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THREE MONTHS' FREE TRIAL $irZlZZfi,&V wonderful price offerings ever made, our iheral terms, pay afu-r received offer and .hree months' rrine ma mil mm a A i free trial plan, cut thu ad. out and mail to dCMrid nUEDUll-V U VlUsf CHICAGO. - , -,r.. j( - n,T,,( mr, , fll MiWMi mm mt IIWI i-lllaW.M-W-Bjl.MLLJ.MI.MMMIUU V2 Holiday Bates to points on B. Jc M. R, R. not over 200 miles distant Ticket on sale Dec. 24th and 25th for Christmas and Dec. 31st and Jan. 1st for New Years. Return limit January 2nd; 19C3. Call and get full infor A, & Jt & Jt Jt Jt jt jt JX jt Jt CITY TICKET OFFICE Jt & Cor. 10th and O Sts. J jt Telephone 235. . fcC 5 J BURLINGTON DEPOT Jt Jt 7th St.. Bet. P & Q. Jt Jt Tel. Burlington No. 1290. Jt m Imi tsr at a 9 An Error A correspondent of the Auburn (Neb.) Granger says: "Since the 9th and 10th amendments to the national constitution give all rights and pow ers to the national government, save such as are reserved to the states re spectively, or to the people," etc. Thi3 is surely a curious construction to place upon these two amendments, which read as follows: "Article IX. The enumeration, in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or dis parage others retained by the people. "Article X. The powers not dele gated to the United States by the con stitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states re spectively or to the people." Article IX. simply means that-the constitution does not pretend to enum erate all the rights retained by the people. Because the right of fre speech is mentioned, it does not fol low that some other right not men tioned does not exist Article X. clearly shows that the na tional constitution is a grant of pow ers, and necessarily limited to those enumerated exactly the opposite of what the Granger's correspondent s-ays. All enumerated powers, except those specifically prohibited, arc, there fore, reserved to the states or the people. daily at 9:15 a. m. and 10:05 p. m. for Nebrptka City, Falls City, Auburn, Atchison, Kansas City and other p 'r.ts with chair cars, sleepers, etc. Full information at city ticket office, 1039 O street, or depot, 9th and S. F. D. CORNELL, P. & T. A. Fred Schmidt & Bro. offer some at tractive holiday bargains in this is sue. Examine the ad. carefully and make your selection while the assort ment is large. Fred Schmidt & Bro. have been in business for thirty years and every year have enioved an in crease in the number of their natrons and the volume of their trade. They anticipate the largest holiday selling this fall they have ever had and are prepared for it in every wav. Call and see them or write for what you want. You II always get your money's worth at that store. J. C. Mo .Verney, Attorney at Law NOTICE. C. T. Blanlte, Tea and CofTee ComDnnv. a ror- pomtion organized under the law of thn tU of Missouri. 8 nd Cl.nrles Spies and Vii tor M. pp.Her co-partner as ( tiarles spies & ( o., will taVenotic that on the 2!'t!i Hay of Novrmbfir, 1902, Fritz Waterman a jutic of th T"ca in and for tne city or i.nicoln precinct, lancatr County. Nebraska, issued an rdr of attach ment for the a u m of -1 14.10 in an action pending before him. wherein Frank D. Fa(rr in plintiti' and O. F. Blauke, Tea and CofTee Oomnan. a corporation organized under the laws of the ritate of Missouri, and ( harles Spiesand Victor M. Seiter eo-parfnars as Charles Spies A Co.. are defendants, property consisting of money and credit" due and to become doe said defendants has been attached nnder sai. order in the hands of the following persons and in the following amounts, viz: ftporgo M. Beach $14 13 Kdward L. McLaughlin 2i 77 Amo 8. harr 22 OH Jon S Bowers 7 51) Said action was by said justice continued to the 10th day of January, iwi: at 9 o'clock a. m., at which time said defendants are required to appear, FRANK D. EOTCR, Plaintiff, Bv J. C. McV'erney. his Attorney. Hall Rales For The Holidays Via the Missouri Pacific. On De cenib'n 21. 25. 31, and January 1 th Missouri Pacific will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip to all point n.ui.: OAft .:ir. 1 l . 1 . wiunr iiui'-a, Kii;u LU It? Ill in lilll januniy . Two passenger trains leave Lincoln j Illinois Central R. R. Chicago and New Orleans Lim ited Eidasivefy a P.IIimo Train from Chicago Faster Time Effective December 7, the Chicago and New Orleans limited, fat vestibule train, will besi lit out of Chicago, running Irom Chicago to Mem phis as a Put man car tram only. Train No. 3 the Iimitt d, carrying only Pullman le-ping cars, dining car and bnffet-iibrary rar will leave Chicago dai y at 7:00 p. m. for Munph 8, Hot Spiings, Nashville, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and arriving at New Orleans at 7:40 p. m. the next day. No coach passengers will be taken on it, they being carried to the alove poinis on new train No. 25 having coaches only and leavng Chicago at 5:25 p. ni. daily and arriving at New Orleans at 7-40 p. m. the next day. This e ach train will also carry rvrry Wednesday out of Chicago the San I-'rancisco Excursion bleeping Car running via New Orleans. In addition, the New Orleans Special, fast day train, with through sleeping and buffet-library cars, and serving all mials in dining car, will leave Chicago daily at 10:00 a.m. and arrive at New Oilcan at 10:55 n1 morning, connecting with the Sunset 1,1m. ted of the Southern Pacific for Houston, San Antonio and San Francisco, the Sunset Limited leaving New Orleans daily at 11:55 a.m. Tickets and further information of railroad ticket agents. A. A. HANSON, Gen'l Pass'r Agent. Holiday Rates One Fare for Round Trip ON UNION PACIFIC Within 200 Miles of Lincoln December 24, 25, 31 and January 1st. Return limit January 2d, 1900. For tickets call at city office 1044 O St. or Depot O and 5th. E. B. Slosson, Gen'l Agent. J. T. Mastin, C. T. A. c