THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
March 23 1899
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Th populist prima without a single ex
ception I commending Gov. Poynter lor
vetoing the court commissioners bill.
All men admire a manirtth backbone,
The republican have descended to tbe
point that tbey deify Mark Haima real
ly make god out of him. At any rate
they are all the tltne saying that "God
directs Mclvlnley."
The great protection dallies do not
seem to be firmly convince! that "tlio
foreigner piiyi tlto tuz" all the time.
They am inclined to trinke an ezeepliou
la regard to the white mnr,
If there ever mud Micawber president
that man I Murk Hanna McKlnlcy. He
baa no policy, but sits around waiting
for something to turn up. Tho mult
will be t hut he will b turned down at
the next election, '
If the World-Herald had wanted to
maintain a purity In it editorial, when
the bouse voted to Investigate the su
preme judges it would bare bad a
double loudf d, double column editorial
tbe nest day demanding that they all
roeiga forthwith, Hut It didn't.
The Omaha platform declare that
"wealth belongs to blm wbo create It'
and to that this writer ! going to stick
until tbe laet shot U fired. And all tbe
dreamers may go on talking and declar
ing that wealth should belong to tbe
community If they get any satisfaction
out of that sort of thing, but here is one
that will stick to tbe Omaba platform.
There Is no doubt at all of tbe fact
that if you pick out your men, asoclalls-
, tie colony can do wonders while they
remain in tbe prime of life. When they
get old and cannot work and the youoger
generation bas not yet arrived at the
age of full discretion or full productive
power, there will not be eucb good times.
These colonies generally last through
one generation, seldom through two
generations.
Some of ths ball baked populist that
bare been talking middle-of-the-road
half of tbe time and the other half de
nouncing fusion and attempting to
organise a new party, have now come to
the conclusion that they are willing to
fuse if a new name Is adopted, with tbe
democrats or any body elee. The (union
under a new name would be all right but
under the old name it will be all wrong.
Before they write any more they had
better go and lie In tbt sun until they
are dry behind the ears,
Tbe State Journal had a very amus
ing article on tbe exposure of the nepo
tism of tbe supreme Judges. It says
that it Is a long established custom. It
did not think so when it claimed that
Judge Greene had committed an awful
offense because he had appointed his
son In-law lis private secretary, or
when it came down on Cornell fur ap
pointing nephew to an unimportant
olDoe, Hut seriously, didu't commis
sioner It j an a little overdo the custom
when be appointed a nephew, (C, W.
Winters) a brother-in-law, (J. W, IV-
Wrrsr) and son offiea?
Rome of the papers are talking about
the great stBMtlo nueartbed by ths
World-llrratd la rgar4 to the dist-li
area printed ia it euaeeralsg tbe supreme
eonrl. All that w wall known to ths
iHipaltala gt lb slate, II having bn
trial! la ths Utile political kaJ Uuk
seat oat by ths poptt'lel alatseom Willi
two yr as, elM Ntrs n-
l-aJ. wha a wmurrle pair
ohms ob tu the popuM etaudpolat
tsumn a'tevaar l. It Ural aa
Ilwa 1 4wral nut 4at, bat sol
ssa- of He f ih aha r tke
I he (Hipaitsl ww-klwe.
llerpsr we Us ihm h.artW, pi.
Itwtalw pabitahsag ho im tlm I'siisJ
ats isl Aswra-, i:a in llt pirJt
Ir nWirtta"-f wkal thy
rts sUy r ewettaaaity
Ikraaiisg kf s'Ur Vw sa l si
k tattsf tr4tt thsfuwMttia
Faulk ia ww 4 Ike Ul ul
! -4m1 amk'y, lhy lt !,
tk thfi 4 iIm -rJh ta r
ywalh'al i-mJbf atiasl m'.) t'gsl4
tabus by smIisI ssaa eh lrik
ait a tat ta asm wv U-t lktt
wee l ap.Ntf ta V a titi 4 Ik
ritkUfl. Tfcta way i4 - atisg
JatMrf b lie vtVst 4 alt was.
MO "HOLD Vr." ,
Brother Eboeeou of the St Paul Phon
ograph has the following kindly criticism
nf t.ha Indenendent:
The Independent is a paper loyal and
faithful fn h nonulist party and its
IUHUIUI iw f f
officers. In this spirit it defends Mr.
Cornell, and thinks it performs a party
tntbv so doing. It finds that Mr.
Cornell has taken no money belonging
to the state, thot while it may be true
' ... ts
that bis examiners have "neia up in
surance companies, these examlnere
were democrats, and tbe companies were
tblood-sucking concerns in the east who
can pay their officers a bundrea inou
sand dollars a year and then have bun
dreds of thousands to contribute to a
fund to down Bryan."
Now if a sinirlo insurancecompony had
ever ben "held up" that crlticiem would
be just. But there never was a company
held up. The companies all deny that
they were and tbe committee of repub'l-
cans if they could have by any means
found or manufactured any evidence to
sustain such a charge would not nave
fulled to do so. The trouble with Cor-
null's democratic examiners, onide from
their silly Kb tti promising to make
the auditor a present and then saying
that they could not do it, was that they
did not have sense enough to charge the
regular fees, They chargwd; less than
one half the amount that any qualim d
accountant would charge. If Cornell
bud "hold up" any insurance companies,
as much as they deserve to be scalped,
the Independent would have been the
first to denounco blm. But he never
'held up" a company and not one of
his examiners ever "held up" one. If
tbe Independent bad denounced Cornell
it would have committed n crime against
good morals and common deceucy.
INMURANCK HOLD DPS.
Borne people In Nebraska have boon
weeping over the hold upa of tbe insur
once compunles until their eyes are nd
and they can't sleep nights any more,
but they have never given a thought to
the manner in which the insurance com
panics have been holding up whole United
States year after year. They have no
tears to shed over tbe woes of an over
taxed people. But the poor insurance
companies! Old that is awful. When
an insurance company starts out on tbe
bold up budness they make it tell. All
tbey have to do is to call on tbe judges
to resign. When tbe news came that
the courts bad enjoined the state of
Texas from collecting tbe taxes on for
eign insurance companies there were no
tears shed and tbe democratic papers
did not demand tbe resignation of any
body. Tbe insurance companies had
held up tbe state of Texas. But that
was all right. One insuranoe company
bus beld up tbe people of Lincoln until
It owns a large slice of the town. That
Is all right too, Nobody weeps over
that. Tbey don't appoint any Invest!
gating committees to look into it.
Havn't a few people In this state been
.flaking everlasting fools of themselves?
Fancy how the insurance magnates get
into a oorner and laugh until their sides
ache.
AHARUJOB.
The demand made by tbe republican
leaders upon their members who were
upon the committee to inveetigate
whether any of the state oiltcers rode on
posses and then charged milage to the
state, required em amount of cheek tbat
none but a machine republican evr
possessed. Tbe two gentlemen upon
whom the duty fell almost failed at tbe
lost moment. To write a report and
say that not a fusion state officer
had been proved guilty and then
argue tbat because llolcomb and
Kdmlsten had refused to answer ques
tions which tbey bad no authority ak,
was evideuce that tbey "might" have
been gnilty was a pretty bard duty.
Rut when they came to reflect that tbe
vouchers for their milage at ten cents a
mile each way had been presented and
mid and were on Ola In the auditor's
office, and whilsthey knew that every
man la the bnUlature believed that they
stu b bad ridden to Lincoln and back on
paaaea theniselvea aud tbat it eould be
proven beyond contradiction tbat they
were just Irom the eara where they bad
ridden on posses and charged all ths
milaga that the law would allow, ws
aliiust too murk va lor them, Bui
they Dually came up to I lis ralfc and
did II. "Mala a rbukig aiaN ws on
vrv man's tongue, and they knw it.
It r4Qtrw aa afut atnonut of cheek
bal l Key iaat(ei ta g ihnMigh with
ll alter a fashion. Su woaiUr thai Ihstr
rptl Ml fat. Ttwr vowM not Hmi
bly l aar other lata fur il, 11 waol
"rUlaw, rvbeklttal aia." ll waa tUtse
ataU'loaaiy mat galea" hwt
4 MfckUtV tUtfttt NR.
If at id lanw ptre witU aiady
Ikvlr t-'hWa a Mil lt4 of eptndtsg
(hir ti la Na liag Ih Maadaf neaa-
iaifi lhv tmMhsj airl Wal
wf IHaa lh) d A plaltwratMJ tr
won that waa raril ia Ntw Vtik
last MeaJsy If a I I'M" )'
.rkf elii, that ka ta a kakltag of
Ik aaiMla lralkaariatJby Jaa.
Thai Hakvf tkiaka lkrU ni t.t-
tUt.!a Im biadiKat aU I eia-a .l t
k-iy la aa tnibrhMd, that a part id
!) Iir va UHUa ltlf akd thai ln
tlMM It In ha an. Thai pta?ktr
tuM tar rl h tai ikat
saj; aa vl a Hrlh li hlH,
and no man dietb to himself." Further
more that preacher eould not think, or
when be sat down to eat after that
great intellectual effort and took up a
piece of bread, be would bave seen In
ihat niece of bread a refutation of bis
whole sermon. He would bave reflected
upon the long colaboratlon of all kinds
of men whose efforts at production were
reoresented in that piece of bread. The
baker, the railroad, tbe ailler, the rail
road again, the farmer, and still back of
the farmer the tool maker, tbe miner,
tbe rolling mill, the forge, and an indefi
nite number of other classes of society
all bound together as It were in tbat
piece of bread. A plutocratic preacher
is about as raeasley a creature as God
ever permitted to live.
TAX1NU MOBTOAOKS.
The logic of the plutocrats and the de
fenders of tbe extortioners it often ex
ceedingly amusing. It is a sort of cheat.
Ing in itself, for it Is not worth the
money paid for It. The money lender
ought to get something better for the
price be pays than what Is us ially put
out In bis defence. There was an ex
ample of tbat kind of writing the other
day In the Btate Journal, It undertook
to assault the taxing of mortgages aiid
this I the way it did it.
"Ho tbe mortagagor Is the man most
njured. First, in the killing of the com
petition of outside money louuers wbo
have retired from the biddlnor, giving
the local capitalists a monopoly of the
business, Thus the local capitalist are
able to nut their actual interist up to
from 10 to 12 pr cent. To this actual
interest they add the taxes, raising it
according to the annual assessments to
13 per cent or higher and compel the
borrower to renew the mortgage annu
ally so as to meet every assersmcnt with
a corresponding rise In the rate of inter
est."
According to that logic the local money
loaners are the biggest lot of fools to be
found in the state. Every one knows
that every one of tbem not only fight
the taxing of mortgages but are always
bandy with a lobby to defeat any such
legislation. Those money lending fools
actually spent time and money to de
feat legislation tbat would Increase their
rates of Interest hum six to seven per
cent I Could a bigger lot of fools be
found any where? Tbe truth is tbat
they are not that sort of Idiots. They
know that In working for the defeat of a
law to tax mortgages they are workirg
to escape their share of taxation. The
State Journal logic would not fool an In
tellgent kitten.
DIRECT TAXATION,
If some man will organize a society to
press the doctrine of direct toxation, be
will do an equal or greater bem fit to tbe
people of this country than those wbo
have been agitating for direct legislation.
Indirect taxation is wholesale robbery,
and tbe awful drain would never be sub.
mitted to if the same amount of money
was demanded from each tax payer and
hs waa forced to pay It over as ha does
some of the taxes which be now pays,
Even a small raise in direct taxation
always produces a protest and tbe law
makers never attempt to except when a
dire neceaslty exists. But when they
raise money by indirect taxation they
will pile it on, million upon million with'
out hesitation.
If tbe 11,500,000 of money appropri
ated by tbe last congress was to have
been raised by direct taxation no snch
suturnalia of extravagance would have
been indulged. Dr. Lyman Abbott ban
figured cut that each family will bave to
contribute on tbe average $180.00 to
pay that amount. But when it is con
sidered that thousands of families are
exempted by law bond holders, owners
of franchises and many others it will be
seen tbat tbe average to tbe family of
those wbo do pay is very much greater.
It simply grinds tbs life out of tbe pro
duolng classes, none of whom can escape
the heavy burden.
Under our constitution direct taxation
can never be enforced. Tbe first thing
to be done is to agitate for an amend
ment of that Instrument and li ought
to be begun at once. A plank on tbat
subject should b added to tbs national
platform of the populist party.
Birect legislation is sound In principle
audhasiu It tboae(uiidrrlylug truths
upon which our govvrumeul la founded
But the adoption of it will not brli g
nay revolution la society, akot h
it but it will ant bring rlif from tt
ilia that hava athln the peoplp
there ia a sudden way. The money poaer
will still grind and at Ihsmd of each
jrarine irmer win n.tve (ogive up
hmmI td Ike wrwlik thai taa rreateii
Iti the uaan-r, the let nalherr, I ha rail
Mad rtMrporaaUiae aul Ilia truata, ll
will U just a It wa t frv.
ll la rvlale-t thai a Mk d tie pr
ia IWt cttuaty alaea, inw lUttead
to I ha Mea ta a raa whra a ruaa
aas axi'SMNl 4 alsallsg a hog. Tk
sitifr-na, gK. a4 traaeura thai I key
Ike ruaa twl tka ktitf, Tbatousg
Uaise paia tkasrasd i ilia ku
atue putal Mask that lky Ull ul aw
tka toa lal the hog, The iM-ed
!ar? that tka UM tf i..a.e wa
on tk Ma ul Ike arv4 ae4 dUekarm)
Mm. mw a ura kal tk dita'
9 kiat tl aad naly tbsv Ikal tkry
J l J, TkatUtkewe, kal the l. k'a
Us ap re nl IkastM -- i Ike rultva
Ktl taqairy., fcrny man thai lky
al Im aaer kal hi M a'l s Ik rt
k a. . .i. a
t m t ti in siaa i, t ikisw
kt ar Ikal lkt dlj ara ak
r.i attttal ol akaun-r.
DISINTER K3TED ADVICE.
If Bryan would only stay at home and
carefully read every morning the editor
ials in the State Journal be would learn
just how be could so manage tbe next
campaign so as to completely down Mark
Hanna and tbe republican party. Ths
Journal out of tbe kindness of its heart
is all the time giving blm good advice
upon tbat subject. Tbe trouble is tbat
Bryan is away so much be don't get to
see it. The Journal bos been very much
troubled over that telegram tbat Bryan
sent to Perry Belmont asking bim If be
had come back into the democratic
party. It thinks that was a very unwise
thing lor Bryan to do and tbat it will
injure bis project of throwing the repub
lican party out of power for which the
Journal is very sorry indeed. The Jour
nal thinks that Bryan i ruining bis
chances to defeat the republicans because
be will not fraternize with the gold bug
democrats. ;It advises Bryan to so
manage things as to keep the gold bug
democrats In the party and not dive
them away. It thinks tbat if Bryan will
only do tbat, he will surely down the
party to which the state Journal belongs.
Now it Is very unfortunate that Bryan
is away and does not see this good ad
vice this disinterested solicitude of the
Journal and Is thereby losing bis
chance to.'destroy tbe republican party,
Mark Hanna and the whole outfit.
A HTIUSOK IUKA.
In several of the populist papers dur
ing the lust week there bas appeared this
sentence; "Vve ore not defending the
state officers," If you ere not what tire
you publishing a populist paper for A
populist officer is constantly assaulted
day in and day out the whole year
through by the plutocratic press, and in
our ignorance of the duty of a populist
newspaper man, we bave always thought
tbat one of the duties of a populist pa
per was to stand up aud defend the men
that we have selected as office bolders,
No set of men have been so lied about,
maligned and defamed as have these
men wbo have given tbe state of Nebras
ka tbe purest, best aud most economical
state government that It ever bad. It
is a strange Idea Indeed that it is not tbe
duty of a populist paper to defend the
populist state officers. If some of these
editors really believe that It Is not their
duty which is very much to be doubtod,
tbey having written without due consid
eration of tbe effect of their words tbey
bad better sell out to some one wbo bas
different ideas on thai subject.
TUB SILVER DOLLAR,
Sometimes a fellow is very badly mis
taken wben be feels sure be Is right.
Tbat is what happened to this writer
once. lie used to argue with the econo
mists wbo assembled at Washington In
193 to tbe effect tbat if tbe Sherman
act was repealed and silver fell to 50 or
60 cents an ounce, that tbe disparity
between tbe market value of tbe silver
dollar and its legal tender value wouid
be such a demonstration to every . roan
that all the value money bad was a law
made value, tbat it would be a great
assistance in educating tbe people.
When tbe people saw that a silver dollar
was always worth just as many cents as
a gold dollar, although tbe value of the
silver in it was only 40 or 50 cents, it
would be such a"convincer" tbat tbe
whole people would begin to see tbe
truth. The economists all said "no,"
whereat be waa prone to upbraid th m.
But tbey were right. Any number Of
mullet headed republicans still go around
claiming tbat tbe silver dollar Is at par
because it is redeemable In gold.
TAKE IN TURSWAU
When a national bank breaks, then
tbe Washington cormorants swoopdown
upon It followed by a host of lawyers
and toe result Is if there Is anything left
or tbs stock holders ara worth anything,
they bave a rich thing of It. Not long
since the national bank of Illinois shut
It doors and a receiver was appointed.
The receiver got $ 10,000 a year and his
assistant $1,000. That waa the Wash
lugton part of the swag. One firm of
lawyera were paid $T:J,((0 for one yenr'a
service and have In a bill for Ity.ono
mora. Mill lctklea' brother, who ua
Cleveland's comptroller, bad his hand In
lor a nice slii of th boodle and there
waa aot money enough Ml to settle up.
Then the Washington end took hold
again aud IsvWd an mmwsiuii on th
um khol-lera of of loo r tent on their
stork, That order will prtkluea 1.100,001)
mora of swag, Obf ye. Title la (ha
In si banking system tka wor'4 rr saw,
Another aw parly U lu b wuanl!,
ll hoa l'iarwr ta dowaia Hoatoa.
Tble party wlvt-ats th taking all
lace ttf ul Uul. Tkay say Ikal aa la ad
la sol rrwatad by hbor thai ll la aul ta
any walth a4 shual-l ar l
tt4, Tky dw-Ur thai laia n lall
wImosI kltrly apoa lal. Thai oa
est uf laip?f altar aauthsf bfl lhif
tairawaiilatl! hy all rl npou
Uuvl. Tkty larlksf thai U I U U
nan all wvalib by th ai4lMa
uf labor aa4 lal li li lat4wlr
Ier4 the thlatiia 4 altk. Ike la
d.!! ats Ikat tk afcap
nil with, Ik ltr iUra- sm aa III
P a pMy, Ikat wa bat pe
la Ik false,
Wk U'MI waa laa'aa v jmaiia
loer i4 Kaasa, wvpl4 Ik
raialtua la Ik t's fnspaW
KftMtfct Alito lirasil 44 la
Nebraska. McNoll went after the insur
ance companies with a red hot poker
from the day hs took office. lie instruc
ted bis examiners to charge those cor
morants $25 a -day, railroad fare and
hotel bills from the time tbey left home
until they got back. lie shut some of
tbem out of Kansas altogether and
made others pay op losses tbat they bad
refused to pay and in fact made It awful
ly hot for them. Now there Is a univer
sal demand from both the democratic
and populist parties that Web. McNall
shall be the next fusion candidate for
governor. Those Kansas democrats
and pops seem to bave some snap In
tbem. Tbey don't lay down and wblne
whenever one of their discharged em
ployeesand they bave bad several of
them begins to bowl, and tbey don't
re echo every charge that the repnbilcao
press makes against one of tbolr .offlc
holders.
Utah aud Beleware both failed to elect
senators and will have to get along with
one each for the next two years. As far
as the party Is concerned It Is a stand
off. California and Pennsylvania are
still balloting away without result and
they may fail to elect, Nebraska lias
two railroad attorneys to represent
her, neither of whom could come within
10,000 of an election If t he people had
the deciding of It. It makes one tired to
even think of the way the United States
senate is gotten together. When popu
lism gets In power tho whoto thing will
be changed pretty quick. ,
Since ths above was written (he Cali
fornia iegMaturs bas adjurwed without
electing.
There Is a fellow up In Chicago organ
izing a party to establish what he colls
'self executory laws" whatever that
may be; there Is another set who are or
ganizing a party in Indiana called the
farmers party, there ors the men wbo
want party to take evil taxation of!
land; there are the Wharton Barker toll
coders trying to steal the populist name
aud a score of others all dissatisfied with
this Mark Hanna McKlnley administra
tion, every one of them for organizing
a new party. All that is to Mai k'llan
na's liking. Anything will suit him tbat
will keep the dissatisfied and poverty
stricken from voting tbe populist ticket.
A DIRTY TRICK,
Speaker Clark held the resolution to
investigate the supreme court four days
before he obeyed the order of ths house
to appoint a committee and when he did
appoint it be violated every rule of par
liamentary law and common decency by
leaving tbe mover of tbe motion, Mr.
Hturgis, off tbe committee altogether.
dud iue neignt oi impropriety was
r a a a t t i m .
reached when Speaker Clark appointed
two lawyers who practice before the
judges wbo are to be Investigated, and
wbo were opposed to making any In
vestigation at an. un the word of a
discharged employee, tbe whole republl-
can party reared up on end and demand
ed tbe investigation of tbe auditor's
office, but when It comes to investigat
ing the republican wing of tbe state gov
ernment they don't want any of it.
Such a set of hypocrites never disgraced
this world before.
THE JENSEN HILL.
If that Jensen bill passes tbe people
will wish tbat tbey had never bad a leg
islature at all. There Is more poesibill
tu of hood's In It than was ever con
talned in one act since legislation waa
first invented. Conservative estimates
of tbs amount of money tbat can be
taken out of ths people by Its provis
ions place It at not loss than a million
dollars. As a protsctor of trusts it
would maka old Ilockllnr smile. As
an inquisitional proceeding It would
give pointers to ths Czar's chief of polios.
As a hold-up process it would beat ths
old Jesse James gang two to one,
Whatever the legislature may do It Is
safa to say that such a law will never
ha able to pass the present governor's
scrutiny.
FRANK IAMS
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TAILEXDEKM.
. If the republicans can succeed in their
plans tbey will keep tbe United State
forever trailing at the tail end of civili
zation. There is not a civilized nation
on earth today that does not own in
wbolo or in partite railroads, telegraphs,
its telephones or provide for savings
banks where tbe poor can deposit tbelr
little accumulations. Tlie republican
party, fifty years behind tbe timet in
everything that affects the public good
under the new modern conditions that
have arisen, fights every one of these
things with the same bitterness that bas
distinguished mossbacks ever since his
tory began, Tbe other day tbe English
parliament appropriated $10,000,000
to establish a system of telephones for
the benefit of the British people. This
they did, although the charge lor tele
phone In London is only $H5.00 a year,
while In New York it Is $240,00, Parti
san prejudice and not common sens
seems to be ths distinguished uhiiracter
Istla of republican leaders as well as of
the motley hoard of Ignorance that
makes up the majority of their voting
force. They all seem to be satisfied to
be tho (alhmdors of clvlllzntion,
MeftALL ALL IIICillT,
The Kiica News, one of the leadlnir
populist papers of Kansas, since the re.
publwnn governor coma In stands no
t'tr Web. McNall after the following fwb.
Ion;
Webb McNall has been removed tt
give place to a hungry Incompetent.
MCiiuii was one 01 trie best ofjlcers Kan
sus ever had. and was a niouev unvi r t.n
wry man who carries fiisuriines. War
den Laadls of tb penitentiary is also on
wienst lor dismissal, Jn total disre
gard of fairness or Justice, Governor
Stanley acts as judge Jury and execu
tioner. News.of the Week
f The foreign war that McKlnley Is car
rying on resulted in a long list of killed
and woundsd-averaglng about twenty
each day. In the Philippines It is con
tinual fighting all tbe time. The result
appears to be, after ths most gallant
cooduct by our brave boys, tbat tbe
Filipinos bave been driven back soma
twenty miles, suffering much heavier
losses than tbey were able to inflict up -on
our troops. Private letters begin to
arrive describing tbs first fight which
occurred mors than a month ago ia '
which th First Nebraska and it gal
lant colonel bore such a conspicuous
part. Th regiment covered itself with
glory that day, Th colonel wo in th
front all tbetlms and personally directed
very movement. Everything bad been
prepaied before hand and every man
and officer knew bis place and took it on
th first sound of tbe bugle, Ths medi
cal department was at th firing lin
and prepared to attend Immediately to
tbe wounded. There was no Santiago
business about tbat fight
Great disturbances bav broken out
in Cuba In and around Havana. There
has been something that resembled very
much a pitched battle In the street of
"He That is Warm
' Thinks All So."
Thousands are cold ' ' in
that they do not understand
the glow of health Thisim
plies disordered kidneys,
liver, bowels, blood or brain,
Hood's Sarsaparilla makes
warm" because it gives
all who take it perfect health.
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