Nebraska Newspapers

    Aug. 10, 1899
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
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and a few pages devoted to itemsthat will interest
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of 'em. Don't expect us to send you one unless
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PLEASE MENTION
OVB $50,000 TBIBSTTB.
Wherever the republicans rale the re
eult is the eame. It is debt and interest
without end. The city of Lincoln is
paying annually $53,467.50 interest.
For a small city like this that is a bar-
den that cannot long be borne Without
destroying the Talue of property in the
whole corporate limits. Much of the
real estate is now taxed fully up to the
income from it and the owner is 1 not the
real owner bat simply a name which the
bondholders use to collect their annual
tribute.; This is the republican policy,
national, state and municipal. It is
' bonds, bonds, bonds. - : ' '
' Lincoln has become only a spot to fat
ten bondholders. . Everything above
the bare subsistence of the population
must go to the bondholder. It is a full
demonstration of Ricardo's iron law of
wages, only it is extended beyond wage
workers to the whole population. Over
$50,000 a year must be earned and con
tributed to the bondholders before a
morsel of food can be put in our mouths
or a srarment upon our backs. That is
not the worst of it. The debt is increas
ing and the tribute grows greater year
by year. The majority has -become so
besotted so ruled by prejudice that
he man who proposes to change this
policy, reduce expenses, - pay off these
debts and stop the interest is called "a
lunatic a wild eyed and long haired
pop." " ; ' '
' . AIDING TBB FILIPINOS. '
Some of the regular army officers out
at San Francisco are urging McKinley
to punish the Americans who have given
aid and comfort to the Filipinos. If
McKinley is to punish all - the persons
who have given aid and comfort to the
Filiplnoswin fact the only ones who ever
did aid them he will have to begin with
Thomas Jefferson, ' Patrick Henry,
George Washington old Israel Putnam
and all the men who had anything to do
with promulgating the Declaration of
Independence and the constitution of
the United States. As these men are all
dead, we don't see how McKinley is
going to get at them, unless he issues an
order that all the copies of these docu
ments in existence shall be gathered and
burned. Intact that would not stop the
aid and comfort, for the documents
exist not only in printed forms, but they
are perpetuated in the hearts and mem
ories of all those who love liberty and
by all races of men all over the earth.
These recently appointed regular army
officers might as well give it np. Jeffer
son and his compeers 'did the mischief
and to all appearances it is irreperabie.
THE LOVB THEY BEAR US.
Present conditions cannet be more
truely or concisely described than by
the words Shakespeare puts into the
mouth of Coriolanus, who, speaking of
the government, said:
"Care for us! True indeed! They've
never cared for us yet. Suffer us to
famish, and their storehouses crammed
with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any whole
some' act established against the rich,
and provide more' piercing statutes
daily to chain np and restrain the poor.
If the wars eat ns not np, they will; and
there is all the love they bear us."
They have had a great deal of talk
about anarchy in New York during the
last few days and they say that they
have caught a genuine dynamiter. An
archy in that gold bag town is no new
thing. The seat and center of it is in the
Clearing house. For more than three
months the clearing house banks bay
biwnjsetUing their balanoes with cert i ft
cates as well as moneyTn any man in"this
state should try to passanything for
all L 1 if"L.I.IJ 1 L
soon hub uiuiovii irouiuu jiriouu vara.
But these men defy all law and run on
anarchy while Griggi "can't do any
thing," and McKinley is so bosy keeping
his eye on Miles that he hasn't attended
to anything else except to read hlslet
ten from Mark Ilanna.
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THE INDKPKNDEHT
What made the money run out when
the committee got to the supreme court?
Did they pay it all to one witness?
The pops of Harlan county will hold
their primaries August 16th and their
convention on the 19th. There'seems
to be more enthusiasm 'out there than
there has been for years. Every pop
has his war paint on. .Perhaps it is be
cause there are so many copies of the
Independent taken in the connty. Keep
whooping it up, boys.
A republican ' editor in speaking of
Holcomb's statement in regard to toe
rent money says: "He eyidently forgot
to mention that Governor Crounse re
fused to touch a single dollar of the ap-
propiation." Governor Holcombdid
mention it, bnt that editor forgot to
mention that Governor Crounse refused
to conform to the constitution which re
quires the governor to establish a reel
dence at the capitol. Governor Crounse
never had a residence in Lincoln and so
he had no claim for money to pay the
rent for one. When it comes to forgot
ten, it seems that ' the g. o. p. editor
has about the most efficient one in the
whole state.
A BAKING ABYSS.
. The attack of.the Bee, first upon the
editor of the Independent, and then u
on Dr. Hall, the bank commissionerof
the state of Nebraska, stirred np the
bankers oil over the state. The attack
on Dr. Hall was absolutely senseless.
The article was a sophism from the be
ginning to the end. . It talked about the
discouragement that came to the pops
because there was so much money in the
banks. The accusation was that then
was very little money in the banks and
the bank statement showed it.
A banker who has been in business in
this state for a groat many yean, who
has never failed, gone into "liquidation,"
or cheated a depositor out of a cent,
sends to the Independent the following
letter in defense of the position taken by
editor of this paper. It is a document
that it will be well to cut out and paste
in your scrap book and is as follows:
D?hat class of papen that furnish
pabulam to the mullet heads who think
they an in favor of a sound money
system, protend to draw a great deal of
consolation from Bank Commissioner
Halt's report of the condition of state
banks In rsebraska. They refer to the
twenty-one millions of deposits as clinch
ing evidence that prosperity is really
here and the mullet heads swallow the
pabulum with a gusto that is amazing.
The -writer does not deny that the
twenty-one millions represent what the
people think they have in the banks, but
which they have not. Grant that every
dollar of the millions set forth was
placed in the banks iu good, hard mon
ey; tne fact remains that but two mil
lions of the twenty-one millions as shown
in the reports to be in the vaults of the
banks, the balance of the twenty-one
millions is either loaned out and repre
sented by the item of eighteen millions
of loans and discounts, or loaned 'to
other banks called correspondents at
2 per cent. That is what we an trying
to get the mullet heads to see.
'Ohr savs our broadcloth Omaha
Clearing house financier; "there an
seven millions in other banks subject to
calL" Yes. bu t su ppose the ban ks sailed
as they did in 1893, would the result
not be the same as then, or worse? When
the "Call" was made in 1803 for these
so called reserves, did the correspon
dents have tne money7 Nit. The New
York banks were forced to refuse pay
Bent to repudiation and issue L O. Li's
called clearing bouse certificates violat
ing the United states statutes and com
mitting a breach of the law that would
have sent a Nebaska farmer to the peni
tentiary. . ,
What we are trying to set the mullet
heads to see is, that it is impossible for
the state banks of Nebraska to pay
twenty-one millions of deposits with two
millions of money, Carry the matter
still further and suppose that the depos
itors of Nebraskaa bauks demanded
their money in sold which the mallet
heads an made to believe Is the only
real money. What thenl Why 8eoretary
iiairs report shows that twenty-one
millions would have to be paid with 691
thousand dollars, the amount of orold
shown by the report to be in the banks.
Ana this condition does not only ap
ply to Nebraska. Go to New York City,
financial heart of tne country, and
, .... . ' . ....
the condition is the same.
The Financier, the leading financial
paper of New York City, Bbows that on
July 22, 1899, the total deposits of the
banks of that city were 874 million dol
lars with cash in vaults to pay them of
a little over 200 millions. Ou that day
the banks of that city if called to pay
their depositors, could only pay about
twenty cents on the dollar, and as a
matter of fact these banks have for
weeks been compelled to resort to clear
ing house certificates to meet current
demands just as they did in 1893; and
the banks of Chicago have within a few
days been compelled to do the same
thing. They are short on money, bat a
studied effort has been made to keep a
knowledgof the conditions from the
public. The fact is, and nobody but a
mullet head can fail to see it, that today
the financial affaire of this country are
banging over an abyss of disaster the
depths of which an awful to contemp
late. And the deplorable fact is, that
the machinery to plunge the people of
this country headlong into that abyss,
is in the hands of a class of people who
would sell their souls for a chance to
make a per cent. V
Call the writer of this an alarmist; an
anarchist if you will,, but these are cold
clammy facts which cannot be denied
and the gold standard banker who has
intelligence enough to read figures,
knows it only too well. Fear is in the
minds of idle holders of idle capital to
day and the mad rush to invest in state
warrants and other stable securities at
unheard of low rates of interest, is be
cause these idle holders have not forgot
ten the experience of 1893. They know
only too well that only a breath of sus
picion would be required to precipitate a
panic that would beggar description.
They are seeking safety for the principal.
Intrest is a secondary matter. " They
realize the danger.
The writer is not attacking the indi
vidual Nebraska banker. He is doubt
lees UBing every endeavor to protect the
money of his depositore. It is the per
nicious,v vicious financial system that
has been built up in this country, stand
ing day and night as a menance to the
earnings of the people, that we want to
call the attention of the people to. We
want the readers of the Independent to
understand the situation. We want
them to know that no matter what the
ability or integrity of the local banker
may be, he is an integral part, whether
he wills it or not, of a financial system
resting largely upon wind. Mark Hanna
and his gang call it confidence. , In New
York it is 20 per cent of the real thing
and 80 per cent wind. Months ago the
writer called , attentien to these condi
tions and at once the mallet heads
raised a howl that he was trying to
produce a panic. A short time after
ward Lyman J. Gage, the secretary of
the United States treasury, addressed
a letter to the New York banken point
ing out the fact that then was a supera
bundance of wind in the New York banks
and that trouble would follow If they
would not increase their money reserves.
He was at once pointed to as a far see
ing financier. He had evidently nad
our article. Today the money reserves
in the same New York banks an from
10 to 15 per cent lower than when Gage
told them months ago they were in dan
ger. - -- ' ... .. ..
The financial reviews that have ap
peared in the Independent have shown
an accurate knowledge of banking as
well as a thorough understanding of our
whole financial system. , f
Hardy's Column.
Fighting for Homes Wtnen and Boys
If the Republicans Had Fool Pop
From Where Came Our Constitution
Our Postal System Self-GovernmentThieving
Bepublicans West-
. ern Boys Sixty Years.
The Filipinos an fighting
for their
for them
homes. We are also fighting
too. .
If we succeed in murdering off all 'the
present brave, patriotic Filipino men,
the women will turn in as the Spartan
and Sabine women did and as soon as
the boys grow up they will take a band.
The Cuban boys and women fought
bravely.
If the republicans bad spent half the
wind over house rent of republican gov
ernors, the state treasury would now be
several thousand ahead.
Another fool pop. the man who refused
water to our visiting campers. State
employees an better able to pay their
way than the rest of us. such foolish
ness all tends to jam our party into the
srround. It will go all over the state.
The excuse that our visitors wen using
poor water, wnicn was not tue case,
was a strong argument against the fool
ishness of cutting on the state water.
The Journal thinks it a terrible thins
to assert that the people an above the
constitution. The Journal may think
that all constitutions drop down from
Heaven, through some expounded thun
der cloud, but they don't. The people
make them and at any time they can
trample the old one under foot and
make a new one. That same thing has
been done many a time in other states.
The reason the republicans do not dare
to call a constitutional convention is
because the woman suffrage and saloon
questions will come to the front and
they do not dare to let the people han
dle edge tools any more.
We are apt to refer to our postal sys
tem as one of economy and prudence
but there is much stealing all under
cover of law. It is stealing to draw un
earned salaries and pay for unearned
services. As a rule the salaried post
masters do not work, surely not when
their salary approaches the two thou
sand line. One told me he conld not af
ford to give his time for two thousand
so be kept right on with his private bus
iness. The government pays much
more, nearly double, for railroad serv
ices than do express and transportation
companies. But when you get down to
tne common cieri or mall deliverer every
penny is earned.
There an no divorces among the Cu
bans. The censure and condemnation
A MILL. END SAL.E
Is a sale in which factory ends as well as all
remnants, odd lots and broken lines left over
from the season's selling are offered for
ACTUAL HILL COST.
A Mill End Sale is in progress at this store now, as you
- are no doubt aware, and the aisles are filled with shop
pers every day and all day long. Mo one can afford to
miss this sale. ' , '
tor abasing a wife is most severe, and
to nght a duel in vindication of a wife s
honor is no uncommon thing. ,
The expanded republicans still persist
in publishing the silly statement that
their party was beaten in Nebraska just
because there was a partial crop failure
in the state. But it wasn't that at all,
it was the long row of republican thieves
in ofiioe that did the work. It is not
safe (or any party to let their leaders
steal great chunks of half a million, out
of the taxpayen pockets. .
Thnrn in rhnan vhn still nnntunl tHat
the Filipinos are not capable of self-government.
Their army discipline and
sharp fighting indicates intelligence and
Eatriotism. Then the fact that Spain
ad to kill off and banish a hnndred or
two of the smartest and richest every
year in order to keep them under, indi
cates a people more than a match for
the Spaniards. The Cubans too have
traits of character that Americans
would do well to imitate.
Western boys have done no better in
the army than we expected. They more
than meet expectations wherever they
tarn up. Even in the east a western
boy is prefered ior a position of respon
sibility and care. As compared with the
Yankee boys they are far ahead. The
wooden natured youth is nowhere. It
would surprise the state authorities to
know how many dog scalps they had
paid bounty on. One species of dog so
nearly resembles the wolf it is hard to
distinguish them. Go in boys ws rather
you would have the money than the
politicians. '
Sixty yean ago we landed in Chicago,
from a sail vessel, seventeen days from
Buffalo. A steam whistle had sot been
heard in the city. The locomotive had
halted at the lower end of the lakes.
The Mississippi and Missouri were al
most, unknown quantities above St
Louis. All west of Wisconsin and Illinois
wai a bowling prairie. As late as 1850
there was bat one shanty in Omaha and
that stood upon the bank of the river
id was occupied by a ferryman. At
Kearney was the next white man's
home and then came Salt Lake. The
buflalo then drank from salt creek.
They had their paths across the present
city site of Lincoln. The antelope ca
pered over the state house ground. The
wolf gnawed the bones of the dead but-
falo when our childnn now play. The
council house and wigwam occupied the
state university ground. Red men were
here and every one claimed a million
acres of our rich corn fields as his hunt
ing ground. As well might he claim all
the air between the river and the moun
tains. The pack pony has given place
to the locomotive, the signal fires to the
telegraph, and the sharp stick to the
plow share and who will say it is not a
higher order of things. The Filipinos
have all these things so the rule does
not apply there. .
2 MTIB
WAR ON IN SAN 10 DOMINGO.
teTolatloaUU Take Up Arms la Favor of
General Jlwlnez.
CAPE HAYTIEN. Hayti Aug. 8.
Generals Pablo Reyes, Ramon Pacheco,
Ciena Lavaro, Jose Polo and Jose Jim
Inez has taken up arms in Santo Do
mingo in favor of Don Juan Isldro
Jixlnei and occupy the plains of Cha
guei and Curaboa as far as Jose de
las Matas, as well as the towns of
Guayabin, Sablneta. Manzanlllo and
Dajabon, abandoned by the troops of
the government of, Santo Domingo.
More than half these troops are said
to have gone over to the camp of Gen
ral Pacheco, who is reported to have
more than 800 well-armed men under
bis command. 0
General Guelllto, governor of Monte
Crlste, who, it is claimed, has already
lost half of his troops, who have gpne
over to the enemy, is in a desperate
position and unable to attack the rev
olutionists. It is added, that he will
be obliged to capitulate. '
Numbers of Dominicans are arrlv
Ing in Haytl by sea, in order to Join
by crossings the front.er the camp of
General Pacheco.
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"hipping a Steel Bridge to ladla.
ILvbbisbubo, Pa., , Aug. ft. The
Pennsylvania Steel company hat
shipped about 4,000 tons of material
to be need in the construction of the
great bridge at Gaklelk, India. Sixty
three carloads of steel have .thus far
been forwarded and eighteen more
will go this week with the remainder
of the structural material The com
pany is three months ahead of its con
tract 030&fi QU.1
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IT KILLS FOUR
LIVE WIRE ELECTROCUTES
OMAHA FIREMEN. ,
P our Firemen Btrlrkm With the Deadly
Fluid While Battling with the Fir,
Fiend Crank on Truck Which They
Held Act as Conductor.
At 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
a fire occurred in the cruder drug room
of the Mercer Chemical company, oc
cupying the rear of the fifth floor of
the Mercer block at Eleventh and How
ard streets, Omaha. , ' "
The room is In the northwest end of
the block. The fire was practically
under control when four firemen were
electrocuted in the alley back -of the
building. They were endeavoring to
lower the ladder on truck No. 1, whioh
had been in nse at the rear, when it
came in contaot with a live wire, and
in an instant 2,000 volts of electricity
shot through them and they gripped
the crank of the truck , with a death
grip that-held them until they fell to
the pavement limp and lifeless.
Tne Ktllodt :
Otto Gieseke, 1123 Harney street,
truckman, hose and ladder company
No. 1. r
James Adams, 1025 South Eightieth
street, lieutenant of hose company No,
8.
Charles A. Hopper, , 2416 Bancroft
street, pipeman, hose company No. 3.
George Bensen, Twenty-fifth and
Jones streets, pipeman, hose "company
No. 8. ' ;
The Injured. "
Albert L. Livingston, 1016 Howard
street, truckman, hose and ladder com
pany No. 1. f .
G. a Farmer, 017 South Thirteenth
Street, substitute truckman, hook and
ladder company No. 1.
A BOY IS HELD, RESPONSIBLE
Accident at Tekanah Laid at the Doer
of a Youthful Switch Tender. "
The responsibility for the disastrous
collision which occurred on the Chica
go, St Paul, Minneapolis A Omaha
foad at the" gravel pit near Tekamah
the other day, in which a fireman was
killed, two engines badly smashed,
and numerous passengers badly shak
en np, is placed with a boy whom the
company employed to attend to the
switch a the gravel pit It is claimed
that the dead fireman closed the switch
tfter his train entered tbe pit, bnt the
oy stationed there and whose duty it
was to attend to the switch, when he
paw the passenger train rounding the
gcurve, remembered that he had sot
filosed the switch and thinking it still
open, tan and threw it over, thus turn
ing the passenger in onto the ether
train which was standing in the pit
TEARS HIS FOOT VERY BADLY,
Webraska City Maa Hat a Close Call from
a Horrible Besth.
Frank Humphrey, an employe of tbe
flng Press Drill company of Nebraska
City, had a narrow escape from losing
Ma life. He is in charge of a machine
called the "rattler" which removes the
Bigh edges from castings. , He bad
ed the machine and climbed up on a
ider for the purpose of adjusting a
Urge belt and bad Just got the ma
chine in motion when he slipped, his
right foot getting between the rattler
land the wood work. He was thrown
down but fortunately struck the belt
as he felL knocking it off and stopping
the machine. The front part of the
foot was badly torn and will have to
be amputated back as far as the instep.
The flesh between the ankle and knee
is also badly torn, but no bones werr
broken.
: She Waited teDle.
( Eighteen-year-old Delma Thorp, col
ored, committed suicide at her home,
220 North Twelfth street, Omaha, by
taking a large dose of rough on rats.
There seems to be no doubt that the
poison was taken with suicidal intent,
The girl had lived in the city about a
year, having come from Georgia last
summer daring the exposition. She
was aa anoommonly pretty girl, at
tracting attention wherever she went
on that account She is said to have
been suffering from an insurable dis
ease, and few that reason determined'
to end hew UH, - .
Fatroaizi oar advtim. '
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.
Quotations From Chicago, Kansas Olty
and Booth Omaha
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK,
KANSAS CITY, Aug. .-Cattle
Market steady; native and western
cattle met with aulck sales at price
about unchanged; heavy steers, I5.40Q
S.76; light, 4.505.70; Blockers and
feedere, I3.704.80; butcher cows and
heifers, I3.265.00; canners, $2,609
8.25; western steers, $3.905.25; Tex
ans, 13.864.15. Hogs Receipts, 9,000
head; light, active and strong; pack
ing grades slow, 6c lower; heavy, $4.40
4.60; mixed, $4.354.60; light, $4,450
4-65; pigs, $4.354.45. Sheep Receipts,
8,100 head; market strong and active;
lambs, $5.005.85; muttons. $4.00
4.40; stackers and feeders, $3.003.5;
culls, $2.003.00. ,
. SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK.
SOUTH OMAHA, Aug. 9. Cattle
The cattle trade was entirely to the,
liking of sellers; every kind of cattle
was in good demand and buyers warn
out early and were not long in clear
ing the yards of everything in sight;
prices were strong all around, the mar
ket active and entirely satisfactory;
stocken and feeders were In active
demand and changed hands at good,
strong prices; speculators were the
principal buyers.; Hogs The large
packers wanted to buy their hogs at
$4.30 4.35; salesmen, on the other
hand, all wanted the morning prices,
that is, $4.3504.40; then came one of
those disagreeable deadlocks, when
neither side is willing to give in; buy
ers sought an easy seat on the fence
and the market came almost to a
standstill. Sheep Prime native weth
ers, $3.8004.10; good to choice grass
wethers, $3.804.OO; fair to good grass
wethers, $3.6003.80; good to choice
grass ewes, $3.603.76; good to choice
spring lambs, $5.255.60; fair to good
spring lambs . $5.0005.25; common
spring lambs, $4.0004.60; feeder weth
ers, $3.5008.89..
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET. '
CHICAGO, Aug. V The weak cash
situation and a sharp drop In foreign
markets pushed wheat to a saw low
level, September dosing waak at
He decline from yesterday. Corn was
steadied by good hipping inquiry and
closed slightly higher. - Wheat Np. t
ipring, 6S06Sc; No. I red, 970c.
Corn No. 3, 82c; No, 2 yellow, 82c.
OatsNo. X, 2030tto; No. I white,
21)4924. Rye No. J, 3, Barley
No. 1, 84085.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO, Aug. . CattleOood to
fancy cattle sold at $5.4006.10, com
mon grades bringing $4.1006.85.
Stockers and feeders brought $8.26
4.80; bolls, cows and heifers, $2,350
6.10; Texas steers, $8.900150; calves,
$4.0007.10. Calves were active in de
mand. Hogs Offerings of hogs were
large, but the demand was good and
prices ruled steeady. Heavy hogs sold
at $4.0004.65; mixed lota, $4.85 4.75;
light, $4.6004.65; pigs. $16004.76;
culls, $2.0004.00. EheepOSsrlnrs of
sheep and lambs war somewhat light
and with an activs darn and prtosn took
an upward torn.
Success with poultry depends on a
good many little things. The writer
has had better success this year than
at any time previous, due almost en
tirely to the fact that little things hare
been taken care of. The lice were de
stroyed as soon as they put In an ap
pearance on the chicks. The pens for
the chicks and hens were cat-proof,
dog-proof and rat-proof. As a result
the prowlers did not find out that there
was any chicken meat within their
reach in the neighborhood of the poul
try yard. For ths first time In the
experience of the writer not a chick
has been lost after being got safely
out from under the hens. Only one
chick showed any appearance of being
weak, and it was found on investiga
tion that the only thing that ailed this
chick was lice. These were disposed
of by a few applications 0! grease, and
the chick regained its vigor.. The use
of better foods, including a liberal ra
tion of meat, seemed to give the little
creatures power to resist all adverse
conditions. Much perhaps was due to
the fact that the chicks were kept
penned In four-foot square pens till
more than a month old, as It is prob-.
ably detrimental to the welfare of little
chicks to be dragged about in all kinds
of grass and all kinds of weather by
an ambitious old hen. 1
Bo Bhoote Stepfather.
Gbkensbcbo, lad., Aug. 1 .
Yesterday William Randolph, it
years ' eld, residing near Clarks
burg, ten miles northwest of
this city, shot his stepfather,
Wesley Ueckover, in the left breast
Yonng Randolph then plaeed the mus
cle of the revolver to his temple and
fired a bullet into his brain. He died
instantly. Mr. Beckover's condition
is critical.