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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT May 26, 1898 Bf Nebraska 3nicptntent Ctnielidatlon if THE WEALTH MAKERS m LINCOLN INDEPENDENT, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY II V TH IndEpeidBijt Publishing Go. At 1120 K Itrwt, LINCOLN. - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. $1.00 per Yeah in Advance, Addrra ill uuiiuanliilMiif uikf ll Jt. niowy ril. le., parll to Hi H llKI'KIWNT I'UB, CO., i,inni,, War in not an unmlxedevll, The eropof prio if poetry ) very short this year. Kvery time a thunder shower come up the New York paper hear bmry can nonading off the New Knglaud coast. According to the dally paper Hpanish war vessels are thicker along the Atlan tic coast than sea serpcnls worn last summer. Th board of Hlrategy at Washington ha been aptly described a a board of Legurthy and the last name seem to state the case without prejudice. The pre censorship In very lux. Jtu mors of awful battles which never oc curred, continue to gut through the line and k''p tho people awuko at night. Admiral iJewey ha been nominated or president by (ho Iowa Htate Ibtglster, HumpMon and Hchlcy are hoilely out of the race unless they do something 0011. Where is that new battleship, the O'HIgglns? The name is all right but the crew I surely not Irish or it would havo been cracking Hpaiilsb btad before thi. (Jrave fear are entertained in some quarters that the supply of majors and colonel will soon be exhausted. Thorn are still a large number of citizen who are willing to go a private. Kvery time one of our war veel doe little practice shoot ing the newspaper correspondent announce that a big battle has owurred and about a dozen Hpanish ship have lxm sunk. How would ft do for omo of the re publican editor In thht elate to raise a volunteer company or join Mr, liryan'e regiment a privates? That would m a good way to practice what they preach. The manager of eaide summer re HorU will have to come out to the Kx po rtion to make a living tlii year. The fear of Hpunish gunboat overcome the deniro to watch for sea serpent just now. The report eamoycsterdny that Hump Hou'e and Hehluy' fleet hud met I tin enemy ami that our entire Mipiudron wan loet. The report i true except that they did not find the Spanish fleet. Hum 1 mo 11 In evidently loet in the Kea of Doubt while Schley i wandering about in the Ocean of Uncertainty. When the rumor came a lew day ago of a terrible battle near Cuba in which Hpain' entire fleet hud been sunk, a number of Nebraska town had wild demouetratiouii. Itonflrv were kimlliHl, band played, cannon were fired ami the people ehouted theiiiNelvtw bourne, Their Fourth of July celebration w neatritle t arly but we'll let it go at that, Rtireeeutative wright. d NuekoilN county, a a visitor In thie city Wed Uiwduy, lie wae one of the modi!, yet nfftH'tive lliemlere of the huit hotle. He report the people of hi county w ithout regard to previou Milile al nililiiitlun, a well pliaed with th eliunu in ad lululefering vlnte affair and will give ' gtNid mnjority for the puu!it (jiket thi fall. Ilr. ItriaiiU being loirMy irititUil by ii'publii'aue lor flit-lug lo rii a ri'KlllieUt id Voluuleer. M iur he wtpet te Id go Ha ri'liiltel, liliiat tin u do htl raUHi rnuto uU. til bit t tit ileeire to l M robot! I not wu.iiu'd to auy on ptiliteal prlj, It eviiiatu lt ipiiiw prevalent put at prtwiit, ronniohj the iiMal n I r l cIhmm (or Aral ltu, It aiay hne ! pra l by the ret ramy . in N.l.nk Atututiig thiuit tm'pa ntim In ani td pi. Turlty lw. rpti t o. A, I bird NlrV ol. hMmm, it tmwuee ! feat th rvaiite U tmly a polUU al eUwa nfiaere4 by t'obiael W, J. Iirjaw. II nlbatly iibMk4 tkal mIh ka k 111 batbii( b. tke taptalavy, but a to rjf ouii aahwtity gradnaU Imi UI pfwl'ibly lonn kougl ta l4 nut Itu UuW atttatioa k attract, 4 MrBMl l"" Wlal tall ii "' """' uta,W ntdaalwr II UklnVd kalt"'l, t 4aeaii MmI ad part.l th iimi t k ar ttitwiv ! al iat tklag ta da Hk kit tudibai 4ir hi Hlut, t'ONT OF if. kill Hniiiiiarde. Ho tar we have killed perlmim 400 of them To do thi bo coet 150.000,(100 epeelal nrnMt vntaA hv coiiure ufUir milking the Maine-all of which ha been epent IJeelde thm there I a general deficiency of 135,000,000 and a naval deficiency of 123,000,000 both of which arlee iroin the war oxneime. Thi mnke a total of 1107,000,000 njicnt and only 400 Hnanieh mother, eieter, or wive made 1 M Al.llf deeolate. Thi I at the rnwoi o, GOO per Spaniard which certainly I a very cotly figure to pay ami one at which rnoet American In their right mind would not care to keep on tran- acting biieinee. It may beeald Uiatthee figure are unfair and th ipiotatlon of tle cur. rent price for Hpanieh corpee onreaeoi able biKiamw we have pent thi amount of money In getting our plant eetab. liehedand In operation and that from now on we ehall l able to neuure real barKaln in dead Coetillan an d.'fu ruled grief and wo at cut rate for th home of the common iieople of Hpain whoee on are fighting in th Hpanieh ervlce. Noteo, We hare not got our killing machine Into oiieration a yet. We have only gathered aomeof our material to gether, and for xpene we have only Jut entered upon It. The war I already otlng u one million dollar a day. Heuator Allmon, chairman of thoeenate flnanii wxnmlttee announced on the floor of the enaU chamUr Monday of loet week that thecommlt tee hayl injured careful rmtlrnate from both the army and navy department and that It would require a total of at leuet f')7'J(l W.000 to pay the cxpeiiee of the war from the prent time until the f)rt of July, J ', not faking Into account any emergency exjmee that might ariee at any mo ment. The total amount, Mr, Allmon though f, would be rather above than below the um be hud indicated. The eetlmnte of the war department I baaed upon the call for 125,000 vol unteer now being filled. Ami already the wire from Waehington are freighted with new that preident McKinley I wriouely coneldering another call for troop. If fhl I done the exeno ol the war will be enormouely Increased. And all thi for the purpoee of adding to the Importanije of military chief who have had no o.;cupation In the I'nited Htate for the laet thirty year, for the purpoee of fuMtening great military and naval imf abliehmcnt upon the peo ple of thi country, the purpoee of mak ing a bonded debt to match the military and Incidentally making a few tliouaud widow and orphan among the poor people of Hpain who are already emaeh- Ing window to get bread which they are unable to buy, Thi I written in no unpatriotic Npirit. Uod grant It be written and received in the trueet epirit of American palriotlm the epirit that believe America ha a better dentlny than running nn Inter national daughter Iioumc or eeltiug her feet in the foot print ol Rome and liaby- Ion, There I ; danger In the time, in the glory of loreign coii(iit, in the opening uo of colonial empire, in the meaeurrd tramp of men away from the walk of production to the tented camp id idlenee and ilcHt ructiou, in t he crea tion of new national Ideal which like the picture of the decrt have beckoned na tion on and on from one field of fume to another until their bone were left. blenching on the Hand. Already the word i trougly prenHw that we muet take not only the Philippine, but Hawaii and the Caroline group a a war iiienmiru for ''couling Nlullon." Thi I a good tun to miuimon people who have eober eiie Ihk k to their t ill A I eemei. llie purpinei oi mi war, ine only purpose, I the treeing id the Cubiiii from intolerable oiiirii nml tarvatlon. It I a mouth Hlnee we Lurted on thimilou. Cuba U eevuuty- five Jin ile from our lior. While we are pbiiiniug eiedltiou to the I'lilll- pluee the Cuban ret'ouceiitradiMNi, the very Miopl for whoee live we are to kIhmI our own blood mid ud our own mean, are ntarving. Itellable (nielli, gene) Irmn llnviiiin i that inot ol thine ltierible red I " ai'oiiud that city are already dad, Havana i blockaded and t liretilenml with laiiiiue. ThHMiuk army hn naturally Inken poM"Rlnli of U loud. The t II I. ii in., the women and ehiMrvti to whom Nbruka h given a train load of u il"ii, are li.it tn ii ih I hUwar ouuht not to lat uly (bit longer, Wehiui- niough triHip uiobr arm no to drive th Hoaiiiard out of Culm in llnrty dav. I ht ho le vir Imu a time In two loin ir't ) wr wloHMiMier ot the Viigln- moM ru' b ' not lirimt nuldier id ll. H.iii.li rw ith I'.l'Wiit lior ut the Utter Ih lh M V li wwr we liiet the nine tin td UifU n I do ttieiu mil id ltfi in l.int'Ml to r lh) out HiiiiiUivl u 10(001111, Wwntudtltt fVWf hOHhlrtid out ! Ctiba btdr III till id Jul! Ihwtlt wliwl w aait thi wwr lur hd wh-a Vat dew il ought In U r1y t jmi, eoitt kviwie and gn In farttilng, 1 k Mtra ko probity tt.le war n4 pH p b bt wad firiH jMrtoH lur'tHHfua nr tioteg taia Ihm k AmrWa i plw weal ta Uwal Mt II 1M I Mt II IHMIIU in auhtlM mhMm a4 mmmn 4tioiftftiM pra nl frvaii tinnUaa amiaal ul ktilal hlp of France for Hpain. The women are not only reluelng to buy good bear ing a French brand but they are notify ing merchant that they cannot expect their trade If the etore continue to Im port ntuff from France. The French manufacturer will be given ft practical leon In thi way which will hav morn effect f ban any (amount of long-winded argument. IN JTAIIi MKIIHANKA, While the buy wire are bringing new of deirut battle on the ea, and o famine and bread riot In other land about the world, let u epnre an hour at leat and look for t hat abort time upon the waving field of grain, the orchard decked In bloom, the meadow rich with emerald green, th fattening herd upon atboiiMaud hill, the pence and plenty everywhere In fair Nebraka. A in the olden time all road led to Rome o now all road lead to Nebraska, eave only thowhh!h erve to carry hur tremen dou crop to all th needy nation of the earth, Nebraka farmer are not going back f o vlwit her folk in thi year of grace; the whlta topped prairie ehoouer are no longer headed for fhe hunt, ller folk now come toleuraka and fenet upon the fatne of a land who Hmlllng Ihm I crowned with nature' beet endeavor, Emigration I coming wet otm more and I Mtoppiug ehort of Colorado, The dnaerteij farm are tilled again and bounteou crop re ward the careful hnbandmun, Fven away out on the high prairie laud the one lonely houe how igu of life and hope and love, Merry children play about the door yard and the Muuhinv Mtrcam through cheery window and plnhiM wall and floor with ruddy gold. The field give promie of abund ant harvHt and the plowman wing at hi tok from out the fullne of hi heart. The prodigal have all returned and eaten of the fatted calve and adorned themelve with new rug. They have girded up their loin and started once more to build anew their ehalterod fortune In aland where na ture' laviNU hand can blot out with one grand weep the memory of failure and mlefortuiie. Where I the tnte whoee un-kiNcd hill and valley ofltimc yield a crop that pay In one eeaeou for the land on which It I grown? For thee thing come to pa In fair Ne braska. MMVAHU JIM, 1. 1 Ml, The dentil hmt Hnidny in hi Man- hi himel t home of Kdwud liclhuny in hi -tiilh yeur I an event that claim the attention and sincere grief of every true popullitt and leciul reform. er. Ten year it go thf eprlng the Ury, f,iediiig liiickwitrd," appeared from nn cfmU'i it publlhiiig bonne i'crlup ft I too much to ay the book created nu era in our uatiouul life. It wo (tart of an era and part of the advance guard. Ten year ago thi spring the republican party wa firmly en I reached In Nebraska, KaiiNii, Colorado and all the Traue Mmeourl states, That very spring Juy Harrow founded 1 ha Farmer Alliance newspajier, prmleifessor ol the Imiiki'KMi h.ht. That year John II. Cowers and the early pioneer of the Alliance move- , liiei.t were busy etublishing its IikIk' in t he school district of Nebraska, lint th Alliance had not gone into politic. Most of it memU'i' were st ill republi cans, a strong social unrest si irren not depth of the American heart east and west and from the abyss issued the farm er alliance la the west and "Looking Hack w ard" in the east the one an idea equipped lor buttle, the other an army organised to flu lit for the idea. For it must olwn.vs he remembered that the underlying idea In the farmer alliance movement its not the free coinage of silver, nor t goverumeiit bank and paper money. Thesu were mere d. 'lulls, The fundamental principle wa indu trial eipiality th very thing set forth lit llttllamy ' book. It I one of the re markable evidence of the unit) ul a grout popular nioveiniit that without any pre-iu ritiineiiii iit or plan the book should appear iu Hostouund the ortfttui iittloa on the plain of Kaiisa and Ne braska at the Mitme time, Th sinre of "Looking Hni kwitrd" a intmi titiintiii and t'otupletti. It old oir hall n million copes in I nulinh and wa IruiiMUt'd tutu nearly ad lite htiiguiiije of Cttro, Sim Hint (line tlum have Imvh si'ore mid hlllolled of llldllt Hill) Itlllphh U tlpllll t ll M MH'lal i I u it 1 1 ' mi in. In. vd in thi iiitiiilrt -IIUIIlV Id tin HI riiloi'li iioii tor ulillity and hr Yt ll may h liutliLillt tl I that nous ol tin in hate tlipei lh lit 1 1 Hilton of I Uttrd II. IUun, Hrl H Ol.) n till Idea Th . ttit tin abolition id oilt iin l ioliiu- IllltUt Hilt lh.' 11 it I it nt i ol ltlillltv III limit Kl i'.Uillt o , t i ; 1 1 1 t h t.bl wtll lodi.j It I lh loUM.IrtMolt lllOUrtht If Hl rl tlHtlll til It Ml thnt 'it i-ti-H liiiia lit limriva bit lh itllte pollte itl iht rr nlhif lnii n he lioiil.l hat lli miii wmli-r-Ul pttMMiitii at prit il-'", lhl all ihtitthl work Itif lb umiiiihih gotHl la lf4 td vwfh lor kiutavlf. Tu mhhi IhU till aptM)ira tlrwiM, Imi "Ik dfmti Ikwl aaibikt tlrvata hiii IruV and tha two b man ali j pa! Iruai kt tarta id rm a4 46kit la I Kuaday varrM lu kl Im run. Ioh lb tf taiel at kil4 I Ik grwaUal U lr U ttwlal rvvuhlltta huw itdng an. KCIIOOI.M AND MCHOOL FIKANCKH. Wage iu Kansa school have been going down for a number of year. In the country district which ten year ago paid 40 to $50 per month the range i now from $20 to $35, with a few only paying $40, Hevaral cause are assigned for thi decline, The really potent cause I the law of competition acting in hard time. The operation of competition a a wage-reducing force i very easily observed iu a country school district. Most of our reader are entire ly familiar with it proccc. Here I a district with twenty-five or thirty schol ar. A capable, experienced teachor will require $40 or $50 per month to take hold of it. Rut a young man who need money to carry him through college or a law course will teach it for $30 and a girl wbone borne I near by ami will not have to pay for her board I willing to lake It for $26, With bard tlmo pres sing th district, a ha been the case in most western tnte the pat ton year, the result uniformly I that whoever get that school doe no by scaling wag down toward the bottom figure. It I plain that good ability cannot bo had In the school teacher's chair at $U5 orevfn $.')5 pur month hardly as good pay it a farm hand receives with all the additional expense of book, cloth ing, etc, that the teacher must moot. The best teacher punli out of the conn try school district to the town where they can get $50 to $100 per month, or into other culling. Numerou remedie are proposed for bettering the condition of the country schools. One way Is to abolish the com petitive system under which one man bid for the privilege of taking away another man Job, A good many rend er of the Iniiki'KNIiicnt are enlisted iu that movement. It fulfillment ccm sometimes like a star of hope ufar off and sometime almost at hand. A yet, however, It I not here. One present way of securing better country schools 1 by consolidating three or four districts into on and providing for the expense of transporting scholar from the dis til lit parts of the new district. A law passed by the last Nebraska legislature provide for thi plan when adopted by the district in tenmted. Thi give the district enough money to maintain a good school with strong teacher for eight or nine month lu the yeur. The Kuiisa statistics show that the average number of month taught lu country districts is five and that, it coet $1.. '10 per mouth for each scholar to maintain the school. In town the aver age number of month school I eight and the cost per month for each pupil Is f I. Ho that in spite of the lower wuges paid in country school it costs more money to run the country schools than the town school. The country school are tlie sheet anchor of the republic. The condition surrounding the life of the child there are more natural, more attractive, more helpful than those in town. The most noted scholars, statesmen, mechanics and soldier of America have received their early t raining iu the country school house. It i plain to any observing man of today, however, that the country school must progress with the ugn or it will lose it power. Thi is a sieiiliflc uk. Applied science make the difference lictwccn the civilized man and the sav ane, The country school must be made the nursery of scientific scholars. The great world of natural science camps all ubontit, HotMiiy spread her carpet ia the front yard, chemistry doe her duily work in the adjoining fields. Kcl"gy (ism her record iu the rock of the hill ide and in the revelation of the spade and well-auger, the beet In and the butter lly tempt the child-mind to fathom th mystery ol their creation, Mother Nature in usters her inliiu te-ineii at the doorway ami invite the child to enlist. Hut the drill master must be there iu the rson of the trained teacher and equipment mut be present in the form of labora tories, microcoH and tool or the young soldier will never be dincipllniid. The country school inuxt be eijuip'd with these mid that reipitre mure money than the evernue country dit net can afford. Ther iuut !' a eouolidation of school district, ieriiiaueut toucher by the year nlld tntlinort!loli of the children to school Iroin ibtainv too great to li lritni'd on lout. One thin inure the country vuler of Nebraska run wnllK I ir their m honU ut ll sunn u tin t mil mud tlm rl,ht ini'ii to the . ULlaturn Mid noiitf h ot Iheiit thai I an ipial tlit iloa ot Ho' line, Iicfm itud railroad h! tttte of I'm Ii iHiilItt V anioUrf th" t'oiiiitr wlim l diatrnl. lite pri'lil ein id lurioiiit over llil he laud lil lh town Slid it If lot Innate diatrit ( itUm th ludioad ttutk I at letl) oppo! I'terjr popttii! pt I III' I pi It It I In pHtli Mild l'olilllllt n llm pri ill Nid'rttkn i'oiililit lout ptetlili I'm wll Hi mid Iknmiih tmlt an In Ik tin-ii itUu lh futility wlo rv Iki jr riM. ll d mil prow-It-jtlml tin t hall i f no lttiily to lh low, N.t wilk Hi iwilrtiwl ! Th itii-W td all Ik ttiuttii tir ut ttppttil lh radrowd. Vkaur nu boy py lor w ktttd pari him!4 rvUra a svarly a HtMtM li alHU nt(ilK II r ar lo iMiptniAttl iimam td latprovti rut. Iff kiml for Ik it Wgylur, Mkail iy U art? tlll!Mim l. HIIMWU CHti AM Pu.Jr mi dhri4, Tk iUalf kit aikhtkH atajr a4 i Ivttra Mln uprvata aknra lk bugle's musio and the rattle of sabre and musket rang out upon the air. The tent are gone; no more the sentry's challenge breaks the stillne; no more the flag unfurls it fold to greet the ris ing sun, or floats upon the gentle breeze. The sparrow bop about the beaton ground and sassy blue jays lend the only bit of color to the ceue. And yet the place is not so lonely as it seems. The aslio of the camp fire, the piles of straw where stood the tents, are mute reminders of the boys so lately there, and seem to beckon silently and check our listless foosteps while memory bring back the moving flguro and aguln we hear their laughter undjlight- huarted jest. Who knows how long 'twill bo before we clasp their bunds again and bid them welcome home. 'Twos so in '01. The old veteran who went out to see thern march away did not smile at jest and gay good bye, The scone brought back too vividly the mem ories of other days when other Jcom panic were marched away with cheer and music ringing in their oar and promise of quick return uponjf their laughing lip, How like thi sceno to that of other days, The hope that cheered the boys of 'C I faded away be fore the grim front of battle and wua lost In cloud of fire and smoke upon a hundred bloody fields, Home of them did come back but not In day or week or month. Four long ycnrft them with a tattered remnant of the companies that started for the front, the missing scattered over hill and valley fur away lu that long sleep that know no waking till the judgment day. I Thou sand of them lie in unknown graves from Vlcksburg to Mew Orleans, from Gettysburg to Appomattox, from At lanta to the sea. For such is war and when once the gnge of battle Is accepted who cun tell what the end may be. The boy who heard their couutry' calljlu '01 were not more bravo than those who answered to their name lu '1)H, Now us then they gathered from the hillside and the plain, the counting lu use and farm, the factory and the plantation, from east and west, from north ami south. They have answered from the mansion iu the city and from the old logcutnu iu the clearing, and I mother's prayer or sweetheart's tear will alike be unavailing to cull them hack until the wur is over and it shrill alarm are past, "'I'teni blow Mi horn t. llm uhl liitcli dour Tel I hp wi'hoii nil IiiiIIiio, Ami llm ilillilrii KiHlmm Iioiii mi't nuirn, ,i.t it lliny il ft, (In: lllow dtr Tap tl lm Ih.hi mill i iiiiibii, With Toiiip unit Kill!, tor,, A miin hln' homo, with thu Urn mid drum And tliv nld Kml, Wliltiiuiid ill mi." A KKIKMISII ATKICII I.Oi;i. Red ('loud is in the throe of a new pujtor war. Kditor Walsh of the Nation fisilingly refer to abated rival as follow: "The patent medicine gimlet down the street milled by that stood-oii-cnd tape worm who ha never written nu editorial since he came in possession of the plant seems to be terribly elated over the mum- pension of tlm publication of the Morn lug Nation." Mr. Walsh further depone and say that his con temporary is a "poor pusil- luuimout pup" mid a "sneak eyed liz r.urd." If the rival editor can beat this he is a genius. .Meuutiuiu tun people ol the state are waiting with ill-concealed anx iety for the outcome of this bloodies battle on the hunks of the Republican. l'ostage stump for the I'uitod States will ! printed at the bureau ol engrav ing and printing of the treasury depart ment Instead ol by private contract during the next twelve months. The government can and doe print them clieitHir uud better thmi thu contractor. The total value ol those to be printed the coining year i $it'J,5oOll)()t. The or dinary postage stamp will be furninhed nt . cent a thouHiind, potage-due stump at 11.1 cent a thouaud, new- pitH.r uud Hiriodicitl stamp at tl.03 cent it thoiiHitud and hh'UI deliviry Mtitinp at 1 1. 1 cent a Mmuaud. The contract contemplate a totul of "I,-iHl.'l.il.M.'I.M-i.l ordinary tanii. I,.'I4V .Tin special delivery taiiiMt, Vtll.'J'.'U newpitHr ti!iiit uud I l,.'i "ll, 1 pot- St;dle tultlMt, The largiHit uuuibur of any ou do liolllllllltloll lo lm printed will U llt- rent ittuii, th toiitl Miiri'j,7uit,iiul. ut III otie-eent titlnp, 1,'tll,' I'i'.'ll.li.'ill will be printed. 1 1 lli,llel iiiuiiU r ol any ton vnrtvty will be 1,1'Jo I'll) ljtu which are tid bir ls upon iiw)iitir in. iile l in bulk. Th ioiiiiU r ul lo t iiip lnl piinltid will U I J CI '. till .'HI ittfii lh" iUliitl trtlil III ...ni,ji cljlii prllileil ttJ'.M, III it III Ihr eul . lu.irx Ih.ttt bow, I tin lm i .iiitiuu I i ll Ih4l lb fowl tun. lit intuitu! fun r Hilm l or do Imsoti) iiiai In tW a not ul lh ki- ,1,11 llt4p Iillll, 4.oul tin' liiti r btnit ttul t Inntit em l i--rwl fotl In wUfti I sill lii nt i t lumue In lutt li h, wivritl htlltiwl il'llMrM. Th tlttiy WM I.iuIiIuhI al Ik lint, aw l lh MUtwl,j from Ik Ton ll,l-l "ut In tttfy Ik duttbl. il mwiu a) at Hal lrdbkj Ihwl ritf 'tiaUlMM Ik wllli a4 l 111 gu lu fctaa I la I ktu kttuli kai al Ik k4 i4 tMRwttmtal vwta ntiliM ia lk ttly il Juka I'wwtsr. Iimi hr tot i w l-l n Ikrww ikars id ataislmlaat aaatbli'! 4vw a4 saiWf Iwdwlmtal lot kia a iaiabhi4 KliM," WHO GETS ITT The annual production for American labor is $230 for each man, woman and child according to Mulball's statbtics ascpiotedin this pojier last week com paring the United States and Hpain. Heckoning the average family at Are person this i $1150 per family produced each year. Who got it? Certainly not the producer. lt us try the proposition exporlmon tally. Nlue-teuths and more of the In dki'kndknt readers are producers, most of them producing material things that are eaten and worn, tho necessaries of lire. IM thoo who are deeply Interested (a most of our readers are) In tostlng the Justice or Injustice of our presont system of distribution take an Invon-. tory of their income the past year or the present year and write us the result. Names will not 'bo ued if the request is made not to use them. What we desire is facts free from bias and gathered at first sourons regardlug tho actuul in comes of tho wealth -producer in the western Uultod Htate. Let thoso who desire to aid in the Investigation make a statement of their family, the number who are producers and who ure not. Let them credit themselves, If living up on a farm, with the farm product eaten upon the family table and produced by the family, Letu find out in short whether Mulhull toll the truth when he say the American people produce $1 150 per family each year uud if it i the truth who get It. Lies are said by a student of the sub ject to be divided into three classes, lies, lie and statitic. Kvery man who ha had an occasion to make original investigation himself lu tho field of poli tic and social science ha discovered doctored statistics. The figure of the circulation of currency in tho United Htate gravely handed down from tho treasury department at Washington year after year a though they were the tablet of stone from the summit of Mount Kinal ure known to be utterly false lu certain particulars and ure iu fact admitted to on by those responsible for them. It may be that the figure on the product! ve capacity of America a figured by Mulhull have been tampered with by u real estate agent. There I certainly room for analyzing uud Inven- tlgutlng them. Tho Inihoi-knuknt prom !)!( readers an early investigation uud account of the sources ol Mulhull's figure and ask it reader lu turn to make imlividuul investigations uud send iu the result. One thing is certain. The income of the uverage family within our knowledge is u great deal lest than $ 1 1 50 per year. It Is a great deul less than $1000 per yeur. If Mr. Mulhull is lying ton wo oiiKht to expose him. If he is telling u the truth if we actually do produce $1150 jsr family each year who get it? TIIK K.XI'OHITION OI'KMNU In the mldrt of war' aturm it should not be forgotten that the TranHMissis- sippi exposition opens June 1st. Oov- eruor Ilolcomb has requested that thi day be made a holiday for the stuto and that the exposition be given such a send off by our people as tonHsure its success. It i generally conceded that it will be second only to the world's liiir at Chi cago and the exhibit uml people from nil parts of the world will lie eiiuul in educational value to two or three years ol travel. As the various rail ronds have announced a rule of one cent isir mile for the opening day the Imu 1'I.nhknt would be glad to see an Immense crowd take advantage of the favorable condi tions. An elaborate program has been prepared which includes siieeches by (iovernor llolcoiuhuud other prominent citi.eus; a monster parade; n grand il lumination and decoration of Omuliu and the exposition ground and build ing; uud a telephone niiissuKc from Mo- Mu ley formally uuuouuciug the owning and congratulating the peo ple of tho West upon their euterpriu uud proKrtwt. The preent war should have no effi-ct uiou the Iran-Xliiiiii i;poition, lt U unite to ll i it U it u plelidld lic et'. 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