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4 - uec ,31 1. V 11 TMKS smd UtfCOLM HI BUTT. IZD EVERY THURSDAY nni , , ;dsrjt PnblUhiqg So. At 11S9 X Mrsst, IN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 538. C. :D per Year in Advance i.:f all MraultlMM to, Md make Kisi mmt orders. tc, payable to 14 INDEPENDENT PUB, 00, LaooLi, Nss. After an aire of advancement, "the re. eurrence to the -original type" always tarta with an excess of wealth congre gated in a few families. The patronizing air of a small office holder is the most insufferable thing in all the universe of God. f. Republican county weeklies will still be furnished free plates by the goldite prop . aganda, the same as during the cam- - paign. The Independent offers a prize of one ' ten dollar gold piece to the first bank that bursts -and does not announce that "the depositors will be paid in full." ' ' .. The Advance Agent at last got a move on himself and went to Chicago. The result was: Down went Chicago's great national bank, and a score of other banks and big firms. .. . . Frank D. Eager has sold all of his in terest in the Evening Post to Wm. Schwind. This completely separates the ownership and management of the In dependent and the Post. , I T ... . ' . .. I , If Cuba Js ever free, it will De oy tne I "-i-Iort of the common people of America, lOr IDI moneyeu luwrrwoie are uvoeu every movement for the advancement of humanity, if it seems liable to "disturb business."' ' "From the governor down to janitor from the chief bugler down to the little, insignificant Piper," is the terms in which Ed. Smith of Omaha described at the banquet last evening the size of the clean sweep in Nebraska. :J A stocking is not a very safe place to keep money, but these days it is a good deal safer than some of these big nation al banks. There has not been one cent lost in the old stocking where there has been $100 lost in the national banks. . .-' Senator Allen's resolution asking in vestigation of frauds committed in the late election and the unlawful use of money may yet prove to be loaded. It is a subject about which the people have heard little since election, and yet there ia much to be said sooner or later. .Republicans have rung about all the changes of wit on the number of appli cants for the offices to be given out b the new administration. The Soke is old iow. " The truth is that the number of applicants was not large, and the rivalry ' . .11 d i. : t s HAn:jA as DUli nil uerro, wueu iu 10 vuuBiuercu hat almost'an entire new corps of state Seers and employes was to be supplied, hould the time ever come when , an en tire new republican force were to be Selected, the hotels of Lincoln would not gin to hold the hungry , army that Would assemble in Lincoln, and the ivalry between them would be bitterer han a church war. J Visiting teachers are advised that the latchstring of the city is on the outside, and that if they don't see it they need only to ask for what tbey want. Lin coln people are always grateful '.for an opportunity to welcome to their city the greatest body of personified intelli gence, diligence and patience that con venes within the borders of the state. When they come, Lincoln people are par- ticulaly anxious that they shall feel themselves well treated, and if any thing is overlooked in that respect it is to be hoped that the teachers will realize that it is their own fault, for no one in Lincoln wishes to deny them any privi lege or courtesy. The Tork Couuty Bimetallic union has, by resolution, expressed its request to the proper officers that the retiring state treasurer be required to turn over all money of the state not invested as provided by law, and that he be not permitted to turn over certificates of deposit on various banks. This is sim ply a demand that the retiring treasurer be required to comply with the provis ions of the law. This does not seem to be an unreasonable demand, but any suggestion that a republican be made to iomply with the law naturally alarms the republican press and arouses its bitter resentment They would doubt less like to see Treasurer-elect Meserve fail to fulfill the promises he made to the people who elected him, as it would afford them excellent campaign material r effective service hereafter. THE WORLD'S WORST BLASPHEME, The degeneracy of the great religious press was never so plainly demonstrated as in the issue of the New York Indepec deot of Dec. 17. It gives a leading place to an article from the pen of J. H. Walk er, a member of congress entitled "Christ and the Demagogues," in which men who believe in the political economy taught by If ill, Jevons, Ricardo, Walker An drews and writers of that class are, by im plication, denounced as "demagogues," "anarchists," "sluggards, "dishonest," etc. He says that a belief in the teach ings of Christ "necessarily makes his dis ciples the leaders, as great captains of industry, in every community .and in proportion to their loyalty to his teach ings and their ability." low this creature can lie is shown in the following sentence: The demagogues of the south and north west, and many at home, who had bor rowed the hard-earned savings of wid ows, orphans, and millions of dependent persons, denounced the demand that tbey should return their borrowing to the rightful owners. They said in their pride: "Come, let us eat, drink and be merry" in the sweat of the face of the helpless stranger within our gates." -How much drinking and merry mak- tag has been done by the farmers and their wives for the last ten years, who ha've'worked from dawn until dark, this miserable creature knows full well, lor be has heard1 it all many times on the floor of congress. The vilest creature who links away in the slums of the city be represents, is not half so vile as he, and yet he is presented by this religious pap er as a teacher of religion. The substance of this creature's teaeh ing is this: "No man can attain primacy except ing by great sacrifice in rendering valu able and absolutely necessary service to his fellow-men. Natural law brings such a man into the commanding posi tion announced by the great Teacher in the following words: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he hall have abundance; but from him that hath not even that which he hath shall be taken away." That is, the men that the Master loves the most and to whom he will give the highest seats in heaven, are the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Russell Sages, and the Rockefellers. He says: 'Look at the stewardship of Commo dore Vanderbilt and Jay Gould, who prompted by selfish motives, it may be, made it possible to bring a barrel of flour from Chicago to Boston for a less sum than it cost to carry it from the cars across the street, into the house of the laboring man who buys it. "Since the Great Teacher was hanged on tne cross, yea, since tne blood 01 righteous Abel cried from the ground, whosoever has been great among us by ministering to our needs, and whosoever has become first among us by being ser vant of all, has been vilified and perse cuted, and especially by those to whom his service was greatest." Does this blasphemer suppose that there is a man in the whole country so ignorant as not to know that the "stew ardship of the Goulds and Vanderbilts has always been used to increase the cost of bringing a barrel of flour from Chicago to New York or Boston by watering stocks and in other ways, and that the increased cost over fare, pay for capital and services, has resulted in the accumu lations of their unearned and stolen mil lions, nearly all taken from men whose hands are calloused with toil, working on the farms of the central and western states? He knows that well enough, and yet he would have us to believe that the man who was so poor that he had not where to lay his head, and who directed the man who had "great possessions" to "sell whatsoever thon hast and give to the poor," was the especial protector and friend of the Goulds and Vander bilts. Such a foul-mouthed blasphemer has not appeared since the dark ages. There is no viler man on earth today than this J. H. Walker. But like unto him is the editor who will permit such blasphemy to appear in his columns. The Independent therefore disposes of them as did St. Paul of two men of like character, the record of which will be found I. Tim. I, 80. of the road. He wanted the committee to ascertain the consideration received for it and everything connected with it, in view of the fact that the road was earning its operating expenses, interest on its bonds and a surplus besides. There is going to be a tremendous light ia the senate over the Cnioo Pacific roads. It the populist papers could only get hold of the real facto, the presenta tion of them to the people would go a long ways in convincing every honest man of the necessity of government ownership of the roads, but if we have to rely upon the associated press, we will never get the facts. wipe it out by economy ami common sense business methods. Tiir Independ ent has confidence that the members of the reform legislature will prove them selves equal to the task which confronts them. THE MORGAN AND PETTIGREW. It appears now that both Senators Morgan of Alabama and Pettigrew of S. D., took a firm stand the other day in favor of the government ownership of the Pacific railroads, Morgan denounced the management of the roads as a "sat urnalia of frauds" and said: "The Union Pacific bad enough in its treasury to pay the interest on the first mortgage bonds, and yet it came to con gress as a bankrupt and mendicant, ask for pity- It was not only paying inter est on its own bonds, but was paying dividends to British bondholders." Senator Fottigrew declared his belief that the Union Pacific was not and is not insolvent, and that the floating debt was created for the express purpose of complicating and embarrassing the government liens.' Mr. Pettigrew pointed out that in 1891, while the Union Paci fic road had $28,000,000 of the stock of the branch roads in its possession, with earnings sufficient to pay expenses, pay interest on the first mortgage bonds and furnish a surplus, a floating debt of 18,000,000 was created, and evidences of that debt were all held by the officers ROTHCHILD'S JUMPING JACKS. There was a time when "the business men" of this country had some patriot ism, some love of liberty', some sym pathy for men struggling to be free, but in these days they are only jumping jacks that hop up whenever Rothschilds pulls the string. Look at the "Board of Trade" all over the country working like machines under the order of Spain's bond holders. Everywhere they are de nouncing the recognition of Cuba. That would destroy the security of about 1300,000,000 of Spanish 'bonds held by the Rothchild's syndicate. Cleveland de clares himself a Czar to aid bis friend, and Rothchilds pulls the string and up jump the boards of trade and declare it would lower the prios of cotton and re duce our exports. There was a time when business men thought more of lib erty than they did of exports and cot ton, but that was before they aurren dered their manhood and the control of the government to the foreign 'money lords. No more disgraceful thing was ever seen in the world than the action of these boards of trade, in assigning as their only reason for declaring that Cleveland has a constitutional right to ignore a law of congress passed by a two thirds majority recognizing Cuban inde pendence, that it might hurt trade, Rather than risk the prospect of making a few dollars they would consign a whole nation of patriotic men to slavery, to prison and to death. There is manhood for you. It is the manhood of the money power. ECONOMY. . The incoming legislature will be con fronted by a condition as grave as any in the history of the state. A million and a half of debt has been left as the legacy of former republican extravag ance. Under the past regime the state has been going deeper in debt each year. This must be changed. Tne incoming legislature must so arrange the financial affairs of the state that we will be climb ing out of the, hole instead of going deeper down. The appropriations must no longer exceed the tax levy. The busi ness of the state must be conducted in a business like manner. The promises of economy made upon the stump must be kept in the letter and in the spirit. In the first place there should be no needless employes in the legislature. The members of the majority in each of the houses should agree in caucus upon the number of places to be filled before any appointments are made; and there should be no more of these places than are really needful. In the second place economy should be used in making appropriations for the various . state institutions. Gov. Hoi- comb's administration has shown that hundreds of thousands of dollars can be saved in this way. At the same time no institution should be crippled. .The greatest care should be exercised in find ing exactly what is needed for the proper administration of each institution. , This much should be given no more, no less. No state charity, or public work, should be crippled; on the other band no mar gin should be left for the steals that have disgraced the past. Exact justice should be done to all. Economy, not parsim ony, should be the watchword. In the third place, the beet sugar boun ty should be ended once and for all; The last republican legislature made of this subject a farce. It has come very nearly being an expensive one, however, and times are too hard and the state too much in debt to carry it on longer. Let us relieve our struggling tax payers and pay our honest obligations, then it will be time enough to talk about bounties. :, In the fourth place, taxes should be equalized and the wealthy corporations should be made to pay their just propor tion. The methods of assessment in the state are very lax and frequently work injustice. Property in many instances is assessed at one-tenth and even one twentieth of its real value. In other in stances it runs as high as one-fourth or one-fifth. A uniform rate of assessment should be made in every part of the state, and on the poor and rich alike. That rate of assessment should be nearer the actual value of the property. This would enable the tax levy to be in creased so as to furnish a fund adequate to meet the current expenses of the state economically administered and to pay off the debt. At the same time it would place no heavier burden on the average tax payer, but -only upon the wealthier corporations that are able to bear it; and that in many instances have evaded their just proportion of taxes in the past.'- : ':" , ' , ' ;' The Independent offers these sugges tions in good faith, believing that they indicate about e ouly way out. Re publican extrav ance, if not something worse has lojt us this debt. We must ADVANCE AGENT OF PROS PERITY. The gold bug dailies proclaim McKin ley as the "Advance agent of Prosper ity," and predicted that in a week after his election there would be a revival of business all over the country. Not only have their predictions failed to be veri fied, but there have been an increasing number of failures ever since election. A number of manufacturing concerns have gone to the wall, and a few days ago the Illinois National Bank of Chicago and one of the leading banks of St. Paul, Minn., went to the wall Now to cap the climax, on last Tuesday the firm of Van Nortwick Bros., manufacturers of Bata via, III., the Columbia National Bank, of Minneapolis, Minn., and the Commercial National Bank, of Roanoke, Va., all were forced to close their doors VICTORY BRINGS RESPONSIBILITY. In one week from today the state gov ernment of Nebraska passes -under the complete control of the populists aud their allies in the late campaign. We are no longer the party of the outs to criticise, but the party of the ins ' to build and administer. This brings re sponsibility. The business of the state is in the hands of the incoming legisla ture and administration. More than that the future of the Peoples' Party is in their hands as well. The record of this administration should be so good, that the people of the state will never turn back to the flesh pots of republican dishonesty and incompetence. Gentlemen of the legislature and ad ministration, the future of this; move ment, in Nebraska at least, is largely with you. Consider well your course. As for Gov. Holcomb he has been test ed. We all know where he stands we all have confidence In him. The other state officers-elect may well be guided by bis example. They should all be as care ful and painstaking, as high-minded In the discharge of duty, as honest and as faithful to the interests of the state, as he has been. '':;: Next to the governor, the state treas urer probably holds the most important office. At least it is so at this particular juncture. In the late campaign the state treasurer-elect pledged himself to the people to see that every dollar is turned over. , The people expect that pledge to be kept to the letter. They will not look with kindness upon any failure to keep that promise for any reason whatsoever. Tha state board of transportation has duty to perform. The People's Party stands pledged to a reasonable reduction of freight rates. We must keep that pledge. There should be no faltering ar wavering now.- We feel certain that there will be none. The state board of public lands and buildings is pledged to economy and to a careful scrutiny of all the state institutions. The people also expect this pledge to be kept. But after all most depends on tne leg islature. It makes all appropriations, frames all laws. The interviews of Seu. Allen and Gov. Holcomb should be stud ied by each member of the incoming leg islature. These men are experienced, they are the leaders' of the party in Ne braska. They have outlived a policy that will help the state and will streng then the party for all future contests. s There is danger in unlimited power un less used with moderation. The reform forces have unlimited power for the com ing two years. Let us be careful not to letlt run away with us. Strong common sense, fairness to all, a desire to do what is best .for the state, these should be the governing principles of action. The republican legislature of two years ago, with an overwhelming majority, made a bully of itself, piled more debt on the state and literally ran mad. Let us profit by its mistakes. WE LOVE HIM IN DEFEAT, . The banquet given to Win. J. Bryan in this city the other evening was a bril liant success. Every toast was a tribute to Bryan as the leader of the people. Almost every one spoke of him as the standard bearer for 1900. This ban- quet seems but to reflect the sentiment of the entire silver forces. Everywhere that Mr. Bryan goes he is greeted with enthusiasm similar to that which blazed around him before election. It is some thing remarkable in American Dolitics. Beaten yet victorious. The people love mm in defeat. ?. TERRIBLY WORRIED. It is decidedly amusing to note the in tense concern being manifested by repub lican papers in Mr. Bryan's lecture course. The State Journal has not joined the agitated push It was the starter, and the push has joined it Columns are devoted in news and editor ial departments to discussions of Mr. Bryan's private business affairs. These republican space-fillers seem .to imagine tbat tbey bear a great deal of grumbling aoout tne price of admission to Mr. Brv an'a lectures. Nobody else hears sny grumbling, and nobody eou'd even guess where republicans hear it, for they do not hear ft These fault-finders do not give the public credit for ordinary common sense. They seem to think that the peo ple will overlook the fact that while he is delivering these lectures Mr. Bryan's time la uot his own, and that has he ab solutely nothing to do with fixing the prices of admission. Possibly if the peo ple oould overlook tbat fact, and the further fact that Mr. Bryan has been heard by many of them when it need not have cost them a cent, then some of them might comply with the anxious wishes of republican fault-finders and get real mad about it The truth is that the republican oa- per uave grown so accustomed to unfav orable critioism of Mr. Brian that it would be something like euscendise nnb- ncation were they to turn their attention to other subjects, '.Nothing that Mr. Bryan could do could possibly nleaas these fellows. If be talks he is ridiculed for talking too much. If he were to re frain Irom talking be would be ridiculed for not talking. If it cost fifty cent to near bim, these fellows would consider it much too cheap. ' If It coat a dollar or two they would deem it too much. If he walks he is viciously and dangerously active, It he rides be is pluto cratic. If he (stands he is too long, and if he sits down be is too short If be ia grave he is stuck up or discour aged, and if he is gay or enthusiastic he is ludicrously boyish and giddy. What a miserable life this would be for Mr. Bryan if he were sensltivs to criti- cisra, but the drivelling of these shame less, small-souled critics has no more effect upon his serenity than the breath or the serpent has upon the baehiu moon., The barbarism of wealth bearins to show itself even in the delettanti literarv circles of New York. Jn one of the "high class" periodicals of that city we find this sentence: "Better? I had better have said worse," and a little further along thatabominal phrase "a realizing sense." Tbs worship of mammon dee- troys everything verile, noble and beautiful. CUBA LIBRE. Th's gold-bugs are opposing the cause of Cuba. Graver Cleveland expresses it in his evasive message, Secretary Olney expresses it in his interview openly defy ing congress, Ambassador Bayard, toady-in-chief, expresses it in his me-too attitude, and the various boards of trade and bankers' associations express it when they adopt resolutions, as they are doing, criticising the Cameron reso lutions, as liable to "disturb business." If Jesus Christ were to return to the earth, he would'probably be crucified by the dollar-gatherers of this age for "disturbing ; business." STAND CP FOR NEBRASKA. That is what Senator Allen did Stood up like a man and answered the calumnies and misrepresentations of the goldbug press of the east "by a dignified statement of facts. It was time. When the attempt is made to traduce a state and injure its business because of the political opinions of the citizens of that state, whatever tbey may be, it is time to call a halt and . silence the traducers. This is America and the right of iree speech is still guaranteed. The Independent is proud of Senator Allen and wilt stand by him to the end. He dares to speak. He dares to stand by bis own people. He is a man. We are proud of Wm. V, Allen. Congressman W. L. Stark has selected ueo. U Burr for his private secretary. A better selection could not have been made. Mr. Burr is capable, honest, and a warrior in the cause of reform. More Fusion. ' Last Wednesday evenins. December 23, at Broken" Bow, our friend Emerson R. Purcell made public desertion of his benedictine position, taking unto him self in marriage Miss Grace G. Cox. ' We extend our congratulations and recom mend as an indispensable com nan ion to weded bliss the Nebraska Independent. Simply Matter of Organisation. Beatrice, Dec. 30. The recent an nouncement of General L. W. Colby tbat he could take 10,000 armed Americans and drive the Spanish army from Cuba seems to have attracted favorable atten tion from Cuban sympathizers. He has been deluged with correspondence from all parts of the country, the communica tions coming chiefly from men who desire to join him in such an expedition. Gen era! Colby will leave in a few days to comer wren tuoan sympathizers in Chi cago and New York, and may take a abort trip to Cuba. Speaking of the work being done toward organization General Colby says: "The organization is progressing, Companies have been formed and en listed in many states and territories and there is no question about obtaining from ten to twenty thousand able-bodied volunteer soldiers.' The work of pro viding the necessary funds for arming and equipping and obtaining the re quired quarter-master aud comtnissary-j supplies has just been commenced, ij can say, however, that the prospect is good. And let me tell you when once an armed legion of from ten to twenty thousand American volunteers lands in Cuba with the necessary subsistence for thirty days, a public sentiment will be crested that will place fifty thousand re-' inforcement in condition to follow iu a 1 few weeks. It is simply a matter of or- ganization, and success is certain.' Those doeiring to give active aid to Cuban liberty and independence should organize into companies in the different localities, and) write to me at Beatrice, Neb:,Jor enlistment papers and lnstruc tionsT vLet-imorican sentiment and patriotism be pnee crystallized into or ganization and' action and Cuban liberty will be an easily accomplished fact'" Insuoco G:: Cosdsetes r J. Y. M. EwV-J. : ANNUAL MBETir-. r Wednesday Jan. 3, tli will convene at 10 a. m ti T One hour will be devote J t J , and getting acquainted. L' president, S. Lichty. Y What Benefit can we C Mutual Insurance Assoc' ' J. Y. M. 8wigar& Reports from officers c! 1 panlesand others prate.. Appointment of come.:: 1:80 p. m: A qneetic.3 . provided. !' If property is damaged 41 ' of one-ball the value anJ W! two-thirds the value, fcr?" should the company sti" H. Den her, L. Carey, Deloa I M. Boone. Discussion. SI p. ra. The advantar ( 5 I rods, if any and what Liz 1 used. M.(J. Dill, J. W, I" Crannell. Discussion. 8:80. Spontaneous ear' P. Teagarden, J. 8. Hblbrook. Discussion. Value in policy law. C the mutual. The prr-:xi 1 not We will try to t'-t the incoming auditor s--i ( era).-' General d!acu;o5oa, r easements bemiij, r losses occur?. Cfc. f : Y D. W.' Burd, J. M. Lit . Are there any e5n-- t B resent farm law, if S3, v avis, M. Daily, A. Gz ' Lathrop. - Discussion. How era t oal company get vtls f " of its delegates to a tr soeiation. J. Wiley, C A. , Billing, F. W. Brfehtn Discussion. A ma 1 ' 100 on horses wor 1 liability on horses (1. ued at C1C0 ia kilUi f I the company riy D. Stoner, J. T. KL 7, . C T. MuSy. Discussion. Can a mutuxJ ests z y their DMntsrt &xt u: 1 I cost them aot to er' amount in five yc,rs. L. . Isman, IL Wfaliars.H. ,L Discussion Can eoitr school hoc:ts ka-iJ:r mutual iutrtl-Tf C . W. Bennett, Jf"i Discussion V. 1 1 1 1 report to tie fLizr U; Atj. Print F. trc: -' ' Discussion 1 to ti:. property to Ux$ """ stand a crcxtcr trr. 1 1 . than the otter cr f.r Izj P. C Funk, J. A. tzli ; W. A. Nettys. Discussion Town h ' How to organist tri ' ' nee ted tbsrewli. . Jc.a I Plymesser, C. J. M DiMuseed-Chocli X property (state x.l'.z carry Its own iczarr" - Smith, O. A. Eevtn, WY Discussion Woe'. J tt wise for the state the stats throu: state? AU expeosss t : paid for by the stats suranee fond to re it' ' B. Conaway, C T. JIs. H. Dundaa, I We hope to sat every . state represented. I We would like to tecrjV named In the program. ; come please write a pape ) allotted to you, (or on t iect) and send to the aset1! The meeting will profct' Thursday evening, as wl J range at that time to bar,' auditor, and several na1 House and seaate, who f,f ' suranee in mumat com) Take a receipt from your, and if possible we will sav fare for you.- We would like to have; suranee written this year,' insured, (approximate), 1 es this year, amount of t 91000, from every count' as soon as possible, as 1 able to go before the Inst tees of the legislature to 1 exact status of the cans, suranee, and give them we" the insurance lobby that r I hope every company will t terest this winter and seei t . at ire to the meeting. I In this column we will trl t i ' posted on insurance matte V like to know that every 0: w c mutual in the state was aV&L this paper. , I ; ' We hope the secretaries ii'.l t the name and post ofHce til of every officer as we want w sec ' 4 pie copies to them, We want X i read this department during the I Inn mnA it will fintv Atat-. tK.m ?1 ' Wot'.Jftl itet3" C o- -1 Fred's Place, 146 South 11: for hot lunch every morning t 12 to 1; cold lunch a la carte. Postmaster Harley reports t Christmas rush is over at the f aud business quieted down I anticipates that business ... when the lawmakers come to t week. ' Are the Telegraph System of the body, e. from the brain to every part ot the syi Nerve are fed by the blood, and are, fore, like it weak and tired L . blood Is thin, pale, impure Nerves sre strong and steady, there t neuralgia, brain is unclouded C blood Is rich, red and pure. Nerves And a true friend In Hood's f rilla, because it makes rich, red : gives good appetite and digeC. rui ! e oaroaparii Is the One True Blood FuriSer. ill i , cure tl Hood's Pir tckL