Nov 26 i8q6
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
NEBRASKA' BIGDEFICIT
Tjm tie State's Expenses Are aae
S , To Overlap Its Eev-
enues.
: Problem For Legislators.
Although somewhat late, Attorney
General Churchill seems at last to have
done something to attract attention to
himself aud lead to the inference that no
vacancy exists in the office' of attorney
general. He has waited until his party
is about to be compelled to turn over the
state government to another party to
direct attention to the fact that the
tate has been living beyond its means,
and has been accumulating, without war
rant of law, a choice assortment of
troublesome and threatening debts.
Now that the republican party is to give'
vp the reins of government the attorney
general takes advantage of an excellent
opportunity to call attention to the fact
that the strictest economy is necessary
in public expenditures.
After all these years of republican lib
erality a republican attorney general
seems to have at last discovered that
the taxpayers of the state cannot afford
the beet sugar bounty voted by a repub
lican legislature, and that a republican
legislature has been standing up for the
credit of the state by voting to private
corporations, as a tax upon the people,
bounties which, under the law, the state
ie absolutely unable to pay.
Republicans and republican newspa
pers have howled and harangued the
people at home and abroad about the
great damage it would do the state to
Slace the reins of government in the
ands of the populists, and now a repub
lican state officer comes . forward and
frankly admits that the condition of
affairs cannot be made worse than it
really is at the time - the republican
regime steps down and out.
In his brief before the supreme court,
in which he argues against the validity
of beet sugar bounty warrants drawn
against the general fund, Attorney Gen
oral Churchill says that the legislature
of 1895 "exceeded the amount which it
could legally appropriate, without going
into the matter of the beet sugar boun
ty, by over f 400,000." He shows that
the appropriations of the legislature of
1895 were $2,784,684.60, while the
amount that can be raised on the as
sessed valuation of the taxable property
of the state for the years 1895 and 1896
if all taxes are paid, would be $2,383,
965.78, showing a deficit of $400,718.
2. . - -
The rule governing in the collection of
taxes is that there is on an average only
about 95 per cent of the taxes levied that
are ever collected, the delinquency being
usually about 5 per eent. During the
last few years of hard times the delin
quency has possibly been a little greater
than 5 per cent.but estimating it at that
figure it would add about $100,000 to
t.ho ohnvA mnntioned deficit.
On top of this comes the $52,000 beet
sugar bounties, for which the legislature
made no appropriation but for which
warrants have been . issued against the
general fund. These are the warrants
the validity of which is attacked in the
suit now pending. It is suspected that
these warrants will hardly be invalidat
ed by the supreme court, and the sin
cerity of the litigation is open
to question when it is considered
that the auditor waited until he is about
to retire from office before refusing to
issue a paltry $800 warrant for a bal
ance claimed after having issued war
rants for $52,000 on similar claim
before.
One cannot escape the reflection that if
this action were prompted by a sincere
desire to shield the state there would
have never been a warrant issued for a
single dollar of these claims when the
legislature bad made no appropriation
to meet tbem. This was not a sudden
discovery of an embarrassing emergency
on the part of the state officers. It was
notorious at the time the legislature ad
journed that, while it had enacted a law
Eroviding for the payment of a sugar
ounty, it had made no appropriation
with which to pay that bounty. It
was discussed through the press
ouite freely and for a time it was under
stood that the state auditor would issue
no warrants for the bounty. But the
beet sugar lobby is a powerful engine
and in time it became known that the
auditor had yielded to its importunities
and had concluded to issue warrants for
the amount claimed by it from time to
time as bounties. The indebtedness for
beet sugar bounty is yet to be swelled
considerably by. claims for bounty on
sugar made during the present season.
To add to the above deficit comes the
expense of conducting the election on the
constitutional amendments recently sub
mitted to a vote of the people, estimated
at $30,000, and numerous other items
will probably be found, so that it will be
found that during the past two years of
republican rule the expenditures of the
state government have been about $600,
000 more than it could possibly collect
as revenues under the law.
While a little cautious foresight on the
part of legislators, such as they would
usually be apt to exercise in conducting
their own business affairs, would have
undoubtedly guarded against such a
condition of affairs, legislatures have
not been entirely to blame for it. The
senseless system of assessing property
is partially responsible, and circumstan
ces would seem to indicate that, nonsen
sical as this system seems to be, it has in
this respect stood the paxpayers of Ne
braska in good stead. Under this sys
tem, whereby each property owner seems
to vie with all his neighbors in an effort
to depreciate, for purposes of taxation,
the value of his own possessions, the
assessed valuation of the property of the
state has been decreasing at the rate of
about $10,000,000 a year, and as the
law limits the per centum of taxation
that can be levied, and as in prosperous
times legislatures learned to press the
limit when values were higher and levies
more fruitful, the amount of
revenues that can be realized
half a million, while legislatures have
not seen fit to make provisions for a
corresponding decrease in expenditures.
It is impossible for the legislature to ae
certain .the .taxable valuation of the
state for the years covered by the ap
propriations, for the legislature usually
adjourns several months before the
state board of equalization meets and
fixes the tax- levy for the year. But it
would seem as if the legislature, by a
judicious calculation, could approximate
the probable valuation for the two years
following the session and govern its ap
propriations accordingly.
This inability to raise revenues to
meet appropriations seems to be the
only safeguard the people have agaiust
profligacy on the part of legislatures.
Legislators are prone to wax over zeal
ous iu urging appropriations, and some
times do not hesitate to atttempt to
saddle upon the state liabilities which
they have been unable to squeeze into
the appropriation bills.
The constitution provisos that the
state may, to meet casual deficits or
failures in the revenue, contract debts
never to exceed in the aggregate $100,
000, unless for purposes of repelling in
vasion, suppressing insurrection or de
fending the state in war. As the present
emergency does not come within either
of the three exceptional clauses, the
question arises, how do those who have
been standing up for Nebraska until they
have piled up this great indebtedness ex
pect the state to ever redeem her credit
by paying it?
Investigation develops the fact that
every session of the legislature since that
of 1887, with the exception of the 189S
session, made appropriations exceeding
the revenues possible to be der ved from
the tax levy.
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All Friends of Bimetallism Urged to Con
tinue the Education of the Masses.
Hastings, Neb., Nov. 20. We have
met the enemy in the preliminary skir
mish and while we gained some points of
vantage, we lost the field, but our forces
are not vanquished, simply outnumber
ed. We will submit to the will of the
people and render loyal and patriotic
obedience to the law and give our hearty
and patriotic support to President Mc
Kinley and bis administration when he
assumes the great office to which be has
been called. We would have expected as
much of our political opponents if we
had been successful, instead of they.
My friends and co-workers in the cause
of bimetallism and the other reforms as
outlined in our platform of principles
adopted at St. Louis on the 22d day of
July, 1896, and at Chicago on the 7th of
the same month (I refer to the three
conventions, the populist, silver republi
can and silver, or true democratic con
ventions, because I believe that the
parties back of each of those platforms
are bound together as one man in the
cause of the great common people of this
country), we each individually and as
parties collectively, have in the past sur
rendered a part of our personality in the
hasty coming together in the last cam
paign, but we have not made a
sacrifice worth mentioning when
we consider the great work
in which we were engaged the
cause of humanity. We see with heart
burnings and regret the rapid growth of
the favored classes in this, our beloved
country, and we feel our loyal and patri
otic hearts sink within us as we contem
plate the future in the light of some of
the events which have passed, as a pano
rama, before our eyes in this year of our
Lord 1896.
My friends, of all the political tenets of
faith above referred to, I say again, line
up for 1900. Take the advanced posi
tion of loyalty to country rather than
loyalty ' to party, and get together to
give battle to the common enemy of free
institutions and free men. I for oue am
will to train under any name and banner,
the object of which is the greatest good
to the greatest number. The education
of the masses should be our greatest aim.
The American people when they know the
right are quick to act. As a whole they
are loyal and true to the best interests
of their community.
The cause for which the Hon. William
Jennings Bryan and his faithful follow
ers stand is as eternal as truth and is
sure to grow and increase in popularity
as the months roll by. When these
truths are exposed to the rays of the
light, necessarily accompanying educa
tion along these lines, large nembers of
those of our opponents in the late elec
tion who failed or refused' to be enlight
ened upon the all important question in
the campaign just closed, will flock to
our standard, and by the opening of the
campaign of 1900 we will be ready to
give battle to the foes of good govern
ment and American institutions. '
With our 70,000,000 of people we
should and ought to be the leaders in all
reforms. We should and ought to be
able to proclaim to the world that our
people are loyal, patriotic, independent
and intelligent enough to legislate for
themselves, without the aid or consent
of any other nation on the globe; look
ing for guidance, to no power less potent
than the great heavenly Father of the
universe. J. M. Doyle.
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COMING LEGISLATION.
What Will Be Needed In State and Na
. tion, snd What Not Needed. C
To the, Editor:
: We shall be greatly disappointed if
there is not some wise legislation in the
state of Nebraska this coming wiuter.
On the other hand we shall be happily
disappointed if we get any in Washing
ton. ..
The sugar bounty law will be repealed.
It is not just to tax ten cent corn to
help five cent sugar.. Tariff and bounty
both, is one too much. Five years trial
is time enough to decide whether the
beet sagar business will pay better than
corn and hogs. .
More safe guards should be thrown
around the ballot box and around pub
lic officers. The briber is the dangerous
man, rather than the bribed. As the
law now stands both are equally pun
ished. The law should clear the less
guilty one, providing he informs on the
greater criminal, and if necessary give a
reward for conviction.
The English law, requiring candidates
to publish an itemized statement of all
moneys spent in his canvass, would not
be an unsafe measure. If, after election,
it was proven that more money was
used than was reported, the candidate's
election to be invalid. It certainly seems
unjust for railroad companies to give
passes to influence elections and then
raise the freight on farm products to
make the loss good. Every man should
pay for bis own ride, just as every one
pays the postage on his own letters.
Twelve or fifteen thousand dollars for
the support of the fish commission is al
most as bad as thrown away. Planting
foreign fish in our sluggish streams is
like planting Shorthorn calves in the
wilds of New Mexico, thinking to reap a
return profit in due season of marketable
beef.
Office holders should be reduced in
numbers and salaries cut down in most
cases. Why should office holders re
ceive more money than any farmer can
make who owns bis own farm and works
early and late from one year's end to an
other? The prices of farm produce have
been reduced to a gold standard, but
salaries of officers have not.
There needs to be an overhauling of
our laws relating to public treasuries,
city, county and state. It should be
made harder to get away with public
money and easier to walk straight.
Dit iding public money into funds should
be done away with. If affords a screen
for embezzlement. If there is a dollar in
the treasury it should be paid on the
first warrant presented, but as it is now,
the fund is sure to be "exhausted." Of
course the permanent school fund is to be
invested in county, state or United
States securities. As every warrant must
be paid it matters little which is paid
first or whicu waits. Any scheme that
keeps the treasury depleted would be
better, so there couia be no temptation
to use money for gambling or specula
tion. Our cities, towns, counties and
state have lost more than a million of
dollars by the present system within the
last thirty years.
Then another check can be brought
into use by allowing each political party
to elect a man from city, county and
state who shall be authorized, without
pay, to look over the treasurer's report
whenever he pleases and publicly report.
These bond security companies have
such men and they do not play the fool
as our bank examiners do, either.
The close shave and big scare may de
ter the republican party .from doing all
they intended to with our financial and
revenue systems at Washington. The
greenbacks and treasury notes may or
may not be burned and inter
est bearing bonds issued in their
places and banks allowed td issue
all the paper money, but we can
not see how this will inspire confidence
or bring prosperity. Then . the silver
dollar may be made legal tender up to
$5 only, which may be termed the sec
ond twist of the confidence game. The
next twist may be made by way 01 doub
ling the tariff, which will enable the east
to feed more ravenously upon the earn
ing of the west. Paying a higher price
for everything we buy, without getting a
cent more for anything we sell, you see,
is republican prosperity. Then they
have another recipe for prosperity
that whenever you bless the east by spe
cial law, you bless the wuoie country.
H. W. Habdy.
Two More Suits Derided.
Mrs. Bertha Zeruecke, administratrix,
was awarded a judgment of $1,500 in
her case against the Rock Island road
for the death of E. II. Zeruecke, the same
having occurred on the eventful night of
August 9, 1894, when George Washing
ton Davis, the negro now in the peniten
tiary, is said to have misplaced the rails
which caused the wreck.
The case was heard before Judge W.
G. Hastings aud has attracted great
crowds and inteuse interest for a num
ber of days past.
lliecour' is said to have held that
railroad companies are held responsi ble
for the safety of its passengersjso loug as
they do nothing in violation of the rules
of the company, and as it was not
proven that Zernecke had disregarded
the rules m any way; his instructions
were given accordingly.
Messrs, Billingsley & Greene, who rep
resented the railroad company, state
that of the whole batch of depositions
taken in the trial of Davis and which
they desired to have introduced the
material parts were ruled outaltogether,
thus crippling their case very materially.
shortly after the verdict in the above
case was handed in the jury In a similar
case brought by Webb Eaton, adminis
trator of the estate of the late John K.
Matthews, returned a verdict for $1,500
in favor of the plaintiff. Matthews, it
will be remembered, was a traveling man
for C. B. Haven A Co., and made his
headquarters in Omaha. He was one of
the eleven victims of the wreck referred
to.- .
When asked why there was so great a
difference in the amount of damages in
the two cases, Mr. Greene replied that bo
didn't know. "The jury was simply a
little more lenient with us," that s all.
It will be remembered that in the case
brought before Judge Hall a number of
months ago byH. C. Young.administra
tor for the estate of Ellsworth H. Morse
of Ohio, another victim of the wreck, the
court. Judge Hall, instructed the jury to
bring in a verdict for plaintiff and the
jury fixed the amount of damages at
something like $2,250. The only testi
mony permitted at this trial was that
Morse was a passenger on the train, that
be had violated none of the rules of the
company ;that the train was wrecked and
Morse was killed. At the trial Attorney
Greene moved to non suit, but the court
overruled the motion.
It is now thought highly probable that
other suits against the Rock Island will
follow, inasmuch as there seems to be a
unanimity of opinion among the courts
before whom the cases mentioned have
been tried. The Morse case, however,
was appealed to the supreme court where
it is now pending.
The verdict in the Zernecke case was
hailed with great joy by the friends of
Mrs. Zeruecke in this city. She baa sev
eral children depending upon her for sup
port. -
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she was a preacher iu this locality. She
is also well versed in medicine. Although
she never took out a license as a phy
sician, her advice has long been sought
in preference to that of the regular prac
titioner. For these accounts she is as
well known as she is highly respected by
a large circle. Mrs. Andrew recently
gave a reporter the following interesting
interview: . ;
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for the two years next following grew
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of the leading physicians of the locality.
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People and from the first began to im
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BRYAN IN DEMAND.
Will Reap Handsome Returns In Lector
. Ing and Publishing a Book. .
Hon. W. J. Bryan entered into two im
portant business contracts before be left
home for his hunting trip to the Ozark
mountains. One of them was with the
W. B. Conkey Publishing company of
Chicago for the publication of a book
that will embody his speeches made dur
ing the campaign. It will also contain a
history of the campaign, written by Mr.
Bryan, and a sketch of bis former work
in behalf of bimetallism. It will also con
tain a biographical sketch of Mr. Bryan,
which is to be prepared by Mrs. Bryan.
One of the conditions imposed by Mr.Bry
an is that the book, which will possibly
run to 600 pages, shall be sold at not to
exceed $1 when ordered in lots of twenty
five or more, and that it shall not be al
lowed to be sofd by agents travelling
from bouse to house. Another condition
is that half of the royalties received from
the sale of the book wiil go to the
purchase of silver literature for dis
tribution during the next four years.
and other work in behalf of the free silver
cause. The preparation of the work is
already under way and will be pushed
to an early completion.
The other contract is one entered into
with V. E. Mclleeof Norfolk, Va., presi
dent of th" Seaboard Air Line Railroad
company, and Alexander. Comstock of
New lork city, whereby Mr. Uryan is to
deliver a course of lectures on political
economics. The first one will be delivered
at Atlanta, Ua., December 5, followed
immediately by a 'tour through the
south. Mr. Bryan has had many offers
from lecture bureaus, several of which
have offered him immense sums for
lecture courses. One offered him $30,
000 for 200 lectures, or $150 anight,
and others involved still larger sums for
much less work. It is said that under
the terms of his contract with McBee
and Comstock he is to receive a guaran
teed sum and a share of all receipts over
a specified sum, and it is claimed that
his compensation will run to ix.uuu a
night or more.
DEPUTY STATE TREASURER.
Young Sam Patterson of Plattamouth
V Preparing to Move to Lincoln.
Sam Patterson ot Plattsmouth is pre
paring to move to Lincoln to become
deputy under Stats Treasurer Meserve.
Sam Patterson Is a son of Hon. J. M.
Patterson, the well known Cats county
banker. The selection ol a deputy treas
urer appears to have been left to Frank
Morgan of Plattsmouth, member of the
democratic state central committee, who
secured the place for Hon. J. M. Patter
son, who will fill it in the person of bis
son.
Hon. J. M. Patterson is ons of the
pioneers of Nebraska, having lived in
Cass county when Rock Bluffs, now al
most forgotten, was its metropolis and
one of the leading cities of the state.
He has served his county in the state
senate. During the early struggles be
tween the silver and administration
forces in this stats, Mr. Patterson was
inclined to be partial to the Cleveland
faction, but during the recent campaign
he and his family were strong adherents
of the Bryan cause. , Young Sam Patter
son is a chip off the old block, and a
young man who will win friends for him
self and bis party in the position to
which, it is reported, he has been ap
pointed. Bis Nerve Was Artificial.
Deb Moines. Ia.. Nov. 19. The death
of E. W. Curry, obairmau of the free sil
ver democratic state central committee, j
at the Savery house early yeseerday
morning, has brought to light a decided
ly sensational story as to the cause of
his death. He has been sick for over
two months. Mr. Curry's death Is re
ported to have been the result of injuries
received while being initiated into a Des
Moines lodge of Elks. Blood poisoning
resulted from the injuries and this caused
death.
As part of the initiatory ceremony, he
was seated in a chair with a thin iron
seat and a large lighted lamp placed
under it. The object was to secure some
amusement, the candidate being ex
pected to Jump out of the chair when the
beat became unbearable. But he didn't
jump. With some friends he had been
out in the afternoon, and when be went
into the hall he was somewhat under the
influence of liquor. The presumption is
that when he was placed in the chair,
blindfolded, his sensibilities were so far
benumbed that he was severely burned
without knowing it or being able to
move. The on-lookers saw him fairly
cook for some time, wondering at his
nerve, till they discovered smoke rising
from the chair. Then he was taken out
of it and found to be badly burned.
His trousers were burned away and his
flesh almost crisp. He was taken to his
hotel and cared for by the best physi
cians. At his own request it was given
out that he was suffering from another
trouble and the true story did not leak
out till today. Even yet there is much
mystery about it.
As a result of the injuries blood poison
ing set in very soon and from that time
on there was almost no hope of saving
his life. He grew worse steadily, and
for a large part of the last month of his
life was unconscious. He manifested
wonderful vitality, and lived a week af
ter the doctors pronounced bis death
only a matter of a few hours. The story
of how his injuries came about was given
out today by members of the Elks
lodge, after an evening paper had pub
lished a much more sensational story.
The Elks met last night, but after their
session had nothing to say except to re
peat their earlier version. There has
been no disposition on the part of Mr.
Curry's family to blame the members of
the order, who have done all in their
Bower for him during the illness. Mrs.
urry 'and her daughter, the only mem
bers of the family, earnestly desired that
Mr. Curry's frequently expressed wish
that the truth should never be made
public should be carried out. Mr. Curry
lived at Leon, la., and was a lawyer. He
was 48 years old and had been a leader
in state politics for several years.
" Requisition Is Issued.
Governor Holcomb yesterday issued
his requisition to the governor ot Iowa
for the return to this state of George
Elliott to answer to the charge of mur
der. Elliott, who is under arrest at
Cedar Rapids, la., is wanted on the
charge of killing his roommate, Gay
Hutsonpiller, at the Windsor hotel in
Omaha on the afternoon of last Tues
day. :
A. G. Wolfenbarger was yesterday re
elected president of the state irrlgatio
association at Lexington.
The Nebraska Telephone company
completed its Bancroft line from Blair
to Lyons yesterday. This gives it a line
of fifty miles from Blair and ninety from
Omaha. This line was tested yesterday
afternoon and worked perfectly. The
company expects to have the line com'
pleted to Bancroft some time next week.
Work will begin on the extension from
Elmira to Tecumseh, a distance of forty
miles, as soon as the Bancroft extension
is completed.
The following young men have passed
successful examinations for admission to
the bar: Charles P. Gable. Plainview;
J. H. Lindale, West Point; James J. Rob
erts, Lincoln; J. W. Reece. Falls City: A.
W. Gross. Madison; T. E. McKillip, Cam
bridge. They were formally admitted
to the bar yesterday and given their
commissions. The examining board
comprised E. J. ' Clements of Ord, Rosco
Pound of Lincoln, William D. Beckett of
Omaha, F. Martin of Falls City and F.
r, Wlgton of Norfolk.
line up roa 1800.
An Adams County EimetaJIist Seas lZzz"i
1 hat is Eoconrsjiri j.
Hastings, Neb., Nov. 18. The tat,!
of the ballots Is over and the itncla cf
battle has been wafted to the north pcU
and we still live, move and have our te
ing.' - ;-
In looking backwards we are arajuri
when we contemplate the fearful clli
against which our matchless lea;r t; I
to contend. His fight was against a . "5
organized force, thoroughly er. , 7 1
and safely entrenched behind the be! a.
of gold, armed with the weerri cf
greed and backed by the power cf I
Cleveland administration and &ost i
dized press of the country. His was i t
cause ot tha common people asaistt tl s
favored few and their millions of follow
ers, a large number of whom were loJ ty
no higher motfve than party prejii.v,
and equally as large a number who be
lieved either from . personal interest or
through a lack 01 the proper informa
tion along the line of financial education,
that their country's honor was in pit
peril, and that other divide cf tte
army of coercion, which wis cy t:r tis
most powerful by reason ot tie f: "i t.-t
the motive power wbieh coviJ tl:v
was strictly of a selfish nature, pro ;:;t 1
by the greed of avarice. TL.!s lit r en
vision of the elements which nil J r?
the great force with which rt were e: j.
frosted furnished all the slzrra cf v r
and directed ail the movesczts ca t:i
political chess board.
On the other hand our kx?T V V
brave, fearless, Mraevericj n J f 1 -. ; .
was backed by forces ia t: :
poorly organized, ineompCy ci!, y.l
and strangers as it were to tizi c'?r.
We had democrats, pepi&atv tlttt i
publicans and a few proh!Lit!3ji 3
were willing to make the sacriloe cf
principles they love so well and i
they have fought so long and so fli
fully to establish in this country.
Is it any wonder that we were i: V
ed? The organization ot the torn 1-3
by W. J. Bryan was ia embryo tti Li t
the 22nd of July 1833, TfcitJc cf c:r -into
harmonious action such a tcit ci
people, all having views eonceralr r t-
welfare and perpetuity of our t )?:1
country varying to quite a ta ca
some lines, and widely CZatinx Cz'z
other policies.
At that date the battle was i'.rt-'r
on, the picket lines had been aivan:. J
and the forces massed, the weak poiii
fortified and the orders from (kjrti'i
Hannahad been gives and t be
call to advance all along the line tx I
been heard. All these arraeaezti tr 3
been made before W. J. Bryan fcxl t 1
selected to lead the forces of refom, 1
as the above stated, were yet i.-.z.l
the shadow of organisation or tv.i ti ,
agreement upon a plan of or;::'
Friends of bimetallism and .;!:? r
forms which we hold dear, take oocr:
and from the temporary defeat which
have sustained in a national wry, we
have great consolation in the fact that
our champion carried twenty-one states,
each one of which has a state, govern
ment that is friendly to his and our
cause; and the tims is comin, and not
far distant, when the great principles for
which we stand will prevail.
"Truth mashed to earth will rise seals, .
The eternal ysars of Ood are hers.
Bat error, foinded, writhes with Pain;
Asd dies among-his worshipers." v ,
I would say for the encouragement cf
the advocates of the principles enunciat
ed in the two conventions that met la
the city of St. Louis on ths 224 of .-kit
July, and the one that met in Q.L.--9
on the 7th of the same month, that s
should renew our eSorte and bu Lie cp
our armor one notch tighter, bu'.ld er jt
our oampfires and enroll all those who
believe with ne that the American stat.i
are able to legislate for themselves aoi
that our people are loyal and patriotic
enough to at all times and under all cir
cumstances uphold the honor, dignity
and traditions of our forefathers, and
maintain with dignity our finances and
compel! all nations to respect our dollars
as well as our flag upon every sea and in
every land, line up for 1900. Let each
friend of bimetallism and all other neces
sary reforms join in the great work of
perfecting a more thorough organiza
tion for the purpose of disseminating the
correctness and truthfulness of our po
sition. Truly yours in the faith.
J. M. UOYLI.
nEDICALUJISDOLl
The Dreaded OonsuniT
tion Can Do Cured.
T. A. Blocum, M. C, the Great Chemist and
Scientist, Offers to Send Free to the
Afflicted, Three Bottles of His
Xewlv DlsooveSed Remedies
to Cure Consumption and
all Lang Troubles.
Nothing could be fairer, more philan
thropic cr carry mora joy in its wake
than the offer of T. A. Slocum, M. C., of
183 Pearl street, New York City.
Confident that he has discovered an
absolute cure for consumption and all
pulmonary complaints, and to make its
great merits known, he will send, free,
three bottles to any reader of Nebraska
I ndk pen dent who is suffering from chest,
bronchial, throat and lung troubles or
consumption.
Already this "new scientific course of
medicine" has permanently cured thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religions
duty a duty which he owes to human
ityto donate his infallible cure.
Offered freely, apart from ite inherent
strength, is enough to commend it, and
more so is the perfect confidence of the
great chemist making the proposition.
Ho has proved consumption to be a
curable disease beyond any doubt.
There will be no mistake in sending
the mistake will be in overlooking the
generous invitation. He has on file in
his American and European Labratories
testimonials of experience from those
cured, in all parts of the world. .
Delays are dangerous. Address T. A.
Slocum, M. C, J 83 Pearl street. New
York, and when writing the Doctor,
please give express and postoffice ad
dress, and mention reading this article
in the Nebraska Independent.
W. F, Porter, who will be secretary of
state after January 7, passed through
Lincoln yesterday on bis way to Illinois.
The secretary-elect and his wife will vieft
their old home at . Champlain tor tea
days or two weeks. v