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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Feb. n, 1897.
NO. 39.
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OCR NEXT PRESIDENT
Electoral Vote is Canvassed and
McKrnley and Hobart are De
clared Elected.
WHAT THE COUJST DISCLOSED.
Electors for McKinley 271, Bryan
176, Hobart 271, Bewail 149,
Watson 27. .
William and Garrett.
Washington, Feb. 10. The first pub
lic exercises connected with the incoming
administration occurred today, when
both houses ot congress in joint session
in the hall of the house of representa
tives, counted the electoral votes of the
, various states and listened to Vice Pres-
idev ': Stevenson formally promulgate the
election of William McKinley as presi
dent and Garrett A. Hobart as vice
president of the United States. The
spectators constituted a most JdiBtin-
guished assemblage. The galleries
were packed to the doors and many
ladies were present in gay toilet.
Exactly at noon Speaker Reed called
' the house to order. At 12:50 the house
took a five minute recess. Shortly be
fore 1 o'clock the members of the senate
left their chamber and walked across to
the hall of the representatives, Yice
Presideut Stevenson took Jhis place
beside Speaker Reed and assumed the
. duties of presiding officer. Senators
Lodge and Blackburn and Representa
tives Grosvenor and Richardson a cora
. mittee for that purpose, ascended the
clerk's desk and prepared to count the
votes. The vice-president unlocked the
box and broke the seal of ;the returns
from each state as it was reached and
the tellers, after ascertaining that ;tthe
certificates were in due form, announced
the results. .
South Carolina's vote was counted
without interruption. Representative
Murray, who had talki of challengine
the vote made no attem to do so. At
1:40 p. m., the vice-presidentstated that
the count was closed and directed the
tellers to announce the result. There
was a hasty consultation by,tbe tellers,
then in a strong voice, Lodge announced
the result as follows:
For president, McKinley, 271; Bryan,
176; for vice-president, Hobart 271;
Sew all, 149; Watson 27.
. Lodge Handed the result to, the vice
president, who repeated the detailed vote
adding the constitutional announcement
that William McKinley and Garret A.
Hobart were elected president and vice
president, respectively, for the term be
ginning March 4. ' This closed the pro
ceedings, which lasted just fifty minutes
and were devoid of incident or applause.
The senators marched back to the cham-
be. and the house adjourned.
1 SpanlHh Blood-Letting.
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 10. News has
been received by steamer that left the
Phillipine islands January 6 to the effect
that on the 2d the Spanish troops in a
serious engagement with the rebels killed
eleven hundred, including, the greater
part of the active soldiers who deserted
the Spanish cause. The Spanish loss was
twenty-four killed and sixty-eight
wounded. On the 4th, in another engage
ment, thirty-two dead rebels were
counted. The Spanish loss was ten killed
and eighteen wounded.
Another Protest.
The farmers and taxpayers of Ne
braska should speak out, as did the cor
respondent from Central City, against
the present legislature putting a heavier
load of debt on an already overburdened
and taxridden people, by voting any ap
propriation whatever to the Omaha Ex
position. The state is now so deeply in debt it
will take years of prosperity (if per
chance we should be blessed with them)
to pay out. The counties are in debt.
The cities and villages are in debt, and
last but not least, the people in their
private business are in debt, with their
homes mortgaged, many of them unable
even to pay the interest on the principal,
under the present gold standard prices.
Under this condition of affairs, and
with the assurance from the present
members of the legislature that they, if
elected, would not vote to sink the state
still deeper in debt, the people of Ne
braska took them at their word and
elected them.
The people, by whose suffrage they
were elected, believe that it is unjust to
tax a part of the people to enrich and
build up the business interests of others
(even if it were prosperous times.) On
this ground, they were elected with the
understanding that they would repeal
the sugar bounty law, a law which taxes
the people of the wholeetate for the ben
efit of certain localities and classes and
this, to their credit, they have repealed.
It is safe to say that ninety per cent of
the people of Nebraska would not re
ceive one iota of benefit, either finan
cially or otherwise from the Omaha Ex
position, althongh they would have to
pay their share of the appropriation.
Can not the sugar bounty supporters
truthfully bring the charge of insincer
ity or partiality against the supporters
of an Omaha Exposition appropriation
who voted against the sugar bounty?
The writer knows that it is claimed by
the supporters of an appropriation that
"the bread cast upon the waters will re
turn after many days" and help the
whole state, but even if it were so, we
need the bread now. But the writer
does not believe it will return. The
readers will remember that the same ar
gument was brought out in support of
appropriations from state and nation
for the World's Fair. What have the
people received in return for the nation
al and state appropriations? Can any
one point out even one benefit received
by the people as a whole to reward them
for their extra burden of taxes? Did it
not even work an injury to the people
outside of Chicago and vicinity? It
looks to the writer more like, "if we sow
to the wind we will reap the whirlwind.
Let the present legislature remember
what they were sent to Lincoln for, and
that their constituents are watching
their every act, and let them beware of
falling into the habits and practices of
their republican predecessors, of extrav
agance in office and voting unnecessary
appropriations and running the state
still deeper in debt, but let them speedily
pass those needed laws for which tbey
were Bent there, voting no apppropria
tions but those absolutely necessary,
and then adjourn; 'that their light may
so shine before men that they may see
their good works and return them again
in due season.'
The people are making a big black
mark in their note books after the name
of any member of the legislature who
votes for any unnecessary expenditures
during the present distressing times.
Some may in their thoughtlessness for
get the people, but if they do, the peo
ple will not forget them.
0. E. Harris.
The Wheeler county Independent has
absorbed its republican contemporary,
the Wheeler County News. It is published
by Chester J. Brown at Bartlett, Ne
braska, and is one of the leading county
papers of the state. This is a plain case
of the survival of the gttest. Success to
the Independent. ' j 'S
"Middle of the Koaders.'
The "editor of the Beatrice Tribune
sizes up these so-called "middle of the
roaders" correctly and pertinently asks:
"who are they?" and iu his own incisive
way au6wers the question. "In this
state a political corruptionist, who poses
as president of the Reform Press asso
ciationman who has no standing in
the councils of the populist party in his
own district a man, by the way, who
has been virtually drummed out from
the party on account of his treachery,
rottenness and perfidy: Paul Van der
Voort, who professed to be a populist
but fights in the1 interest of the Philis
tines. This jealous man evidently sup
poses that all the populietic wisdom of
Nebraska is embodied in his egotistical
self. Another is Matthews, late editor
of the Nonconformist, who prostituted
his paper to the service of Mark Hanna
for the consideration of $125 per week
during the late campaign. Dunning,
who formerly edited theational Watch
man, and failing to get any funds from
the populist congressmen and senators,
opened his battery on them and during
the campaign was the hired tool ol cor
ruptionists and boodlers and doing all
he could for the success of the goldite
ticket. Such are the men who have been
embraced as true blue reformers by many
of our southern brethren. But we may
be pardoned for suggesting that no re
form organization will ever prosper when
manipulated by such political prosti
tutes. Bad, unprincipled men are no
good any where. Wahoo New Era.
The attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement in this issue on last
page, of Crete Nurseries, managed for
twenty-five years by E. F. Stephens.pres
ident of the Nebraska State Horticul
tural society. Their stock is carefully
grown and particularly well rooted.
Care is taken to send all trees to name
and In thetbest possible condition to
to grow.
TooFrigldforI.il.
. Washington, D. C.Feb. 10. Ex-Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii, who has been
confined to her room with influenza for
several days, has suffered a relapse.
Physicians say she will not be able to
remain in this climate during the winter.
Official Call.
Aurora, Neb., Fnb. 8, '97.
To the Nebraska Independent Press
association:
A meeting of the Nebraska Indepen
dent Press association is hereby culled to
meet at the Palmer House, Grand Inland,
Feb. 15, 1897, at 7 o'clock p. 111.
The purpose of this meeting is to take
such steps as may be necessary to i-end
delegates to the National Reform Press
association and to consider important
business matters which inean dollars
and cents in every day workings in the
populist papers of Nebraska.
We would urge all editors of People'
Independent Party papers as a matter
of business as well as a matter of
politics and pleasure to be on the
ground at an early hour the day named.
We would also earnestly request that
you write a few letters to your intimate
newspaper co-laborers and press upon
them the importance of attending this
meeting.
Fraternally, t
' Geo. L. Burr, President.
D. R. Carpenter, Secretary.
When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret
candy cathartic.cure guaranteed, 0c25
HARDY'S COLUMN.
City Charters, Good and Bad Ksilroads
and Stock Yards.
There seems to be some kicking in the
lobby against the reduction of salaries
which our legislature is trying to accom
plish. A horizontal cut may be an in
justice to some, but there has been a
horizontal cut in prices of property, pro
ducts and labor. When everything else
is down half, why should not taxes go
down? Of course the interest on our in
debtedness stands the same, but our
e very-day expenses can and should be
cut.
The constitution fixes the salaries of
the seven state officers and the supreme
and district judges, but the salaries of
those men are not the highest. 80 me of
the district court clerks get five or six
times as much as the governor. Some
years, in some cases their salaries moun
ted up to fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars.. Then, the superintendents of
our asylums, reform schools, and peni
tentiary warden, all get much higher
salaries than the state officers. They
not only receive their salaries, but they
and their families are housed, fed and
warmed in the best of style. They have
horses, carriages and drivers at their
command, to come and go and receive
company.. They also have stewards,
bookkeepers and waiters.
Still another exception should be made
to a horizontal cut, and that is the wo
men employed by the state. As a rule
they receive about one-third the salary
of the men for doing the same work. The
superintendent of the Milford home for
women is an exception.
The legislature has indefinitely post
poned several worthy bills that ought
to have been prassed. Ihree of them
were for more severe punishment for. the
theft of chickens, hogs and bicycles. To
day a man may steal a five-dollar horse
and be sent to the penitentiary five years
for it, but he may steal thirty dollars
worth of chickens, hogs or bicyles and
can only be sent to jail a few days or
fined a few dollars. Peopledonot count
their chickens or bogs the first thing in
the morning, and it may be a week be
fore the theft is discovered. Not so
when a horse is stolen. Then a horse is
more easily identified. They are not
killed and dressed as chickens or hogs
are. Hogs yield a good profit in Nebras
ka and should have the strongest arm
of the law protecting them. And certain
ly poultry should be protected, for it
yields double the profit of the hog. The
ben Jeedft Lall of tie time- on actual
pests grasshoppers, bugs and worms.
Then there have been several bills in
definitely postponed, which action was
right and proper. The state as well as
individuals must take in financial sale
before a storm. There are many things
we would like to do 11 we bad the money.
Additional buildings for the use of our
university, normal schools, reform
schools, soldier's homes, and asylums
would all be very nice, but the condition
of our treasurery demands that we wait
at least two years. Upon a pinch we
can stand a $50,000 debt for a display
at the Omaha exposition, but that
should be the extreme limit. A system
of circulating libraries would be a grand
thing, but we have not got the money
now. it is not best to run in debt for a
Lincoln statute, rain tests, railroad
schemes or immigrant agency.
The amendment count and judge seat
ing bill was carried, 71 to 26, in the
house, but it has been hung up by several
amendments in the senate. Whether it
will go through in time and in form to
do any good isaquestion. It is thought
to seat two more supreme judges, both
populists. That fact alone would not
worry the republicans as long hh they
had three, but they expect the pops will
carry the state next fall and then the
pops will have a majority of the court.
There is were the shoe pinches.
The Union Pacific railroad has got an
earnest hard working attorney in Sena
tor Thurston. He works as he should
hardest for the party that pays him the
highest price. As loug as the railroad
company pays him ten thousand dollars
a year he ought to work just as hard as
he has been working and then put in his
odd time for Uncle Sam for the small
pittance he pays.
Any member of this legislature who
votes against limiting the charges at the
South Omaha stock yard deserves to be
kicked by John Thurston or some other
corporation lawyer. Other markets are
ruled by law, mixed with a little justice
and why not try it on South Omaha?
There are two flag bills before the leg
islature: One to make it unlawful to
print letters or faces or in any way to
disfigure the old flag. The other to com
pel every school district to tax itself and
buy a flag of certain size and staff of
certain length and raise the flag over the
school house. The whole cost would be
eight or ten dollars and would need to
be renewed once or twice a year to keep
i l looking decent. So far as we are con
cerned we take no pride in seeing the
stars and.'stripes floating over a saloon
or over any institution supported by
saloon money. We need things worse
than flags just now. A voluntary rais
ing of a liberty pole and flag on the
Fourth of July will breed more patriot
ism than flag taxes.
One by one the gold standard roses
fall. Banks, manufacturing and bus
iness firms continue to fail, and the
banks that do stand up, instead of
handing out dividends are forced to
make assessment after assessment on
the stock holders. Property ' of almost
every kind continues to decline or what
is absolutely true the gold dollar con
tinues to raise in value. Mexico has no
such trouble. Her labor and property
stand just about as they have ever since
the republic was started. Money bears
just about the same relation to prop
erty. Debts and taxes can be paid just
as easily. Her money will buy as much
outside, excepting her gold, and that
will buy twice as much. The double de
mand for gold has doubled its value.
Russia has just reduced the amount of
gold in her roubles so as to make them
equal to the paper and silver rouble.
What next?
HARDY IS FOR IT.
He Believes in the Commissioner System
of City Government.
"There is bound to be a hard scrap
over the Lincoln charter," says ex-Mayor
Hardy. "Whether we shall be governed
in part by commissioners appointed by
the; governor or stick to our present cor
rupt and corrupting system is the ques
tion, Omaha and most of the larger
cities of the country have been forced to
accept thecommissioner system. The cor
rupt classes of Omaha are fighting the
system, while the better classes are plead
ing for it. In Lincoln every corrupt,
vicious and immoral person is bound to
defeat the charter before the legislature
if possible. The boodlers and leg-pullers
are the fiercest enemies the system has.
"We feel like humiliating ourselves in
sack cloth and ashes when we realize
that the city of Lincoln is not capable of
self government, that is, not in a man
ner as such a cit.r should be governed.
The corrupt, vicious and criminal classes
seem to wad up in cities as they do not
in the country districts. Then these
classes have no party politics; they . at
tach themselves to the dominating
party. If the city is republican, they are
republican; if democratic, then they are
democrats. In the country not more
than one in ten belongs to these classes,
while in cities not less than four in teu
"and these four-tenths are alwaystogether;
as one votes, so they all vote. They
secure all the party nominations they
can. Then there are always good people,
church members enough standing ready
to vote their own party ticket, yellow
dog and all, to carry the election.
'Two years ago it was advertised that
if we elected the republican ticket we
would get a wide open administration,
and that ticket was elected by the largest
majority for years. The professional
boodlers constituted the tail end of the
kite. Not less than $20,000 of boodle
sweetened one single contract, that of
lighting our streets. We have been
plunged into debt and our taxes in
creased until much of our city property
cannot be sold for the taxes. Lap-over
after lap-over has followed as often as
th years roll around. It would make
thVgoverning politicians sick if expenses
were kept within the levy.
"It has been objected that the new
charter removed the option of license or
prohibition one step further from the
people. But our option could be made
to count in the election of our city coun
cil. They could pass an ordinance for
or against license."
Nebraska Threatens Vs.
The anarchists, repudiationists, bomb
throwers and bewhiskered hayseeds who
compose Nebraska's populistic legisla
ture have designs on Chicago.
They threaten us.
Having read in the public prints of the
general distress here which local capital
is alleviating only in part, these con
spirators have concluded that now is a
good time for attack. Their generalship
to say the least, is commendable, and
stamps them as strategists of the first
order. Last summer we might have
been able to resist, for so many good
citizens were suspecting that the Goths
and vandals of the prairies were about
to march on us that we were prepared.
Now we are merely cold and hungry.
The chief conspirator seems to be one
Senator Canaday of Kearney county,
who yesterday introduced a joint and
concurrent resolution in the state legis
lature calling upon the people of Ne
braska to load with expedition and
hurry to Chicago with dispatch a train
load f provisions.
Gentle and coufiding reader this train
load of provisions is not to be a com
missariat for the sustenance of an invad
ing army, as you might suspect.
It is intended for ourselves for our
poor and as we understand it, it is not
to bo tied at either end with red tape.
The resolution provides that the pro
visions be consigned to the custody of
"the patriot and friend of the people
John P. Altgeld." It asks the railroads
to transport the contributions, and in
the preamble sets out that the existing
condition of distress has been brought
about by operations of the infamous
financial policy inaugurated in this
country by fraud and treachery, and
Cerpetrated through fraud, treachery,
ribery, intimidation and mierepresnta
tion. The resolution is expected to
meet with ready response.as many farm
ers are unable to dispose of their enor.
mous corn supply. Many are burning
great stacks of it for fuel, while others
are leaving it in the field, being unable
find cover for so great a yield.
Why this paradox?
Because an appreciated dollar and
fixed railroad tariffs forbid the farmer
to saek a market. Havibg no market.
he has no cash, and cannot therefore
buy the products that steadily employed
city folk would send him. He keeps his
corn, burning it or letting it rot in the
field. The nrban artisan is thrown out
of work and famine in the midst of
plenty results.
Meantime, however, let us don our
hats to the noble 1 sons of Nebraska.
They're all right. Chicago Dispatch.
Long Will Be In It.
Canton, Feb. 10 It may be stated that
McKinley has determined onEx-Governor
Long of Massachusetts, for a portfolio,
probably the navy. It is believed that
there is no doubt he will accept.
The Omaha Exposition.
It looks to the writer very mnch as
though the state has an elephant on its
hands in the matter of the proposed ex
position. The state, through its repre
sentatives in congress has asked and
obtained aid from the general govern
ment in support of the proposed show
and is therefore before, in a degree at
least, to give both its countenance and
material aid in support of theexposition.
But the whole thing at this time seems
far, far less defensible than New York's
Bradley-Martin ball. The New York
show will result in a considerable sum
of money being expended by a limited
number of presumably rich people and
distributed among a comparatively
large number of shop-keepers and work
ing people, while au appropriation for
the Omaha hyppodrome will take from
the many for the benefit of a few. I
think the whole scheme is untimely and
ill-advised and the state would do well
to let it drop with any kind of a thud
were it in a position to do so honor
ably. But as we are in a measure already
obliged in the matter, how much, under
the circumstances, should the state ap
propriate? v
It would be extremely gratifying to
state pride, very pleasing to, every resi
dent of the state as citizens, to make a
handsome gift to the enterprise in the
shape of an appropriation of a half mil
lion dollars or more.
But gratified state pride and pleasure
to individual citizens will not pay the
half million dollars. For that a major
ity of our citizens must look to the pro
ceeds from sales of six to ten cent corn
and oats, forty-cent wheat and two and
one-half cent pork. '
Under such circumstances I feel that
an appropriation exceeding $100,000
ought not to be considered. The talked
of benefits to the state at large will
never materialize. It is doubtful if five
per cent of the population of the state
will receive any benefit from the expo
sition. It is a time for rare economy
and not for prodigal expenditure, for
carefulness and saving and not for os
tentatious display.
The treatment of the exposition as an
Omaha institution is naturally enough
objected to by its promoters who will
continue to strenuously contend that it
is for the entire trans-Mississippi region.
M. B. Slocum.
CHENEY VIGILANTES.
Resent the Charge That They Are
Persecuting the Grossma as.
Cheney, Feb., Feb. 10. To a recent
article published in the Lincoln News
we wish to make a brief reply. The ar
ticle referred to was one criticizing the
vigilantes' committee at this place be
cause of their objections to the parole of
Fred Grossman, now serving time in the
state prison for stealing hogs. The ar
ticle insinuated that this organization
is "possessed with more of a spirit of
persecution than of prosecution," and
that instead of lifting up a "fallen one"
we were inclined to keep him
down, to all of which we
plead "not guilty." To substantiate
our plea we will cite the writer of the ar
ticle in question to the tact that we
have never molested anyone but thieves,
and when we got up a petition with al
most 200 names attached thereto, to
keep the Grossmans in the penitentiary,
the citizens for miles around approved
our action, because the reputations of
these Grossmans are as well known in
this vicinity as that of the prairie coy
ote, and considered somewhat in the
same light. When we announced
that we were promised by the
'authorities in power" that our
petition would be respected
and that the Grossmans would have to
serve their respective terms in prison,
the satisfaction expressed was general
in all directions, and when we learned
that Fred had been parol led and that
our own petition and the promises we
had received had been ignored, the dis
approval expressed was as general as
the previous satisfaction, and we would
also call attention to the fact that when
the Grossmans tried to get up a petition
for a pardon or parole they had to go
miles out of their neighborhood for the
few names they did secure, and since
Fred has been returned to the prison
(almost as quietly as he was let out)
we hope the authorities are getting:
as well acquainted with them as we
think we are. We would like to ask their
sympathetic friend what excuse he can
offer for the old man who scarcely tasted
the pure air of freedom when he, with
other members of his family, were caught
concealing an escaped convict, and by
the way.we would like to ask the author
ities if such business is a crime, and if it
is, why isn t someone prosecuted.and last
ly, if the riter of the aforesaid article
can explain how there are any "mitigat
ing circumstances when a man, posses
sed of all the necessities of life, goes out
in the night and steals and sells his
neighbors' property? Then we
will acknowledge that we are
wrong, but until he can do that
in a satisfactory manner we brand his
statements as false and maintain that
we have a right to see that the law is
enforced and we have a right to object
when it is not enforced.
We are different from the writer of said
article, in that we are not afraid to sign
our names to our article, and if he, she
or it will do the same the public may be
pleased to know the friend who takes
such an interest in the Grossman family.
v-HAS. M. KINO,
P. Murray Jr.,
E. S. Cumminos,
Committee.
AN ANTI-OPTION BILL
Is Recommended by the Committee
on Agriculture in the Mis
souri Legislature.
ITS MAIN PROVISIONS.
Prevent all but Actual Deals in
Grain and Provisions Under
Heavy Penalties.
A Railroad BUI,
Jefferson Crrr, Mo., Feb. 10. The
house committee on agriculture has
agreed to recommend the passage of
the most stringent law against dealing
in futures that the lawyers of the
house can devise.
The bill provides In the first two
sections that no person shall buy or
sell grain or farm products that art
not actually in his possession. The
third section says: "Any person who
shall violate the provisions of this act
and shall sell or offer to sell any such
wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, cotton or
other farm products which he has not la
his actual possession at the time, or who
shall buy or offer or pretend to
buy any such wheat, corn, oats, rye,
barley, cotton or other farm product
without having the same actually de
livered at the time, shall be deemed
guilty of a felony, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by imprison
ment in the penitentiary not less than
two nor more than five years."
The Democrats of the committee
voted for the bill and the Republicans
against it. but a minority rnort ia not
expected.
Organ of Dent introduced a bill thta
morning to prevent railroads from
cliartrinir mora than a mnti a. mil-, f r
passenger fares under any circum-
ouiuces. un'Bome Drancn lines tne
rates are 4 cents and sometimes
higher.
CIVIL SERVICE REPORT.
IteU of All Government Positions Kow
ClBWlfleri.
WASHrsoTOK, Feb. 10. The thir
teenth annual report of the civil serv
ice commission, covering the past fiscal
year, has been submitted to the Presi
dent s It- reviews the growth of -the -government's
civil service, the efforts
of the commission to eradicate parti
sanship in federal offices, and import
ant civil service reforms and extensions
contemplated.
The total approximate number of .
positions in the civil service branch of
the government is 178,717. Of these
87,107 are in the classified service and
01,010 unclassified. Of those -not yet
classified 66,725 are postmasters of the
fourth class. Of those remaining in
the classifiable, but unclassified group,
many will be transferred to the class
ified service by the action of the rules.
As to the tenure of office, the report
says, our administrative system now
presents the anomaly of filling certain
inferior positions by the test of merit
and changing every four years the
higher positions, like collectors of cus
toms and internal revenue, postmast
ers and chiefs of bureaus, in which
the largest capacity and longest ex
perience are required, and thus fre
quently subjecting subordinates to in
experienced and incompetent supe- .
riors, to the demoralization of the
public service.
The gradual increase in the number
of presidential offices, it is asserted, Is
bound to force a change in the method
of filling them. There are now nearly
10,000 persons in the public service
commissioned by the President, and
this number is growing every year.
At this rate of increase, says the re
port, in a few years it will be physio
ally impossible for the President and
cabinet officers to examine the papers
and hear arguments and complaints
referring to the large number of per
sons to be commissioned, and the re
peal of the four years' tenure laws will
be absolutely necessary.
From Illinois.
Strout, Pike County, 111., Jan. 25, 1897
Ed Independent: As has been said,
legislatures don't think of everything. I
am not a citizen of your state, but as I
have served as assessor in your state,
also here, I should like to see an amend
ment to the revenue law that would en
able the assessor to find more credits
and place more of the burden of taxa
tion where it belongs. Tnereiore l call
your attention to this plan: First
amend the law so when the assessor
goes to list mortgaged property he will
list what capital the owner has in it to
such owner and the mortgage to the
owner of the mortgage; Second, I would
have the assessor furnished with a stamp
or seal, and have all notes that were out
at the time Jfor listing property, void if
they did not bear the assessors seal.
We could not get such a law in this gold-
bug state, but thought it might be pos
sible in your state, where I hope justice
will reign. lours respectfully,
A. Shufelt.
P. S. We did all we could for Hon.
W. J. Br; an here. This township gave
him 298 to McKinlev 88. The county
gave him 2,200' majority- and would
have done better if it bad not been lor
our thieving democratic ring which stole
over $42,000 off the county in , twelve
years; but the bottom fell out when a
populist got on the committee to settle
with the county officers. A. 8.
Rlpans Tabules: one gives relief.
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