may 31. 1000.
H Out necessities
j
Are few but our wants are endless.
If you are in need of . '
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Etc.,
We'll j-ave you an endless amount
of money, in vour buying if vou
come to u for them-.
Our Mail Order Man
Is waiting for your order. Cata
" logne already stamped ready for
your address. Want one I
Omaha, Neb.
Mention the Nebraska Independent When Writing
SkzAU She-p. of Idaho, is thus
is the Chicaaro l.eoffd: "Unaer
tie Ilariiaoa a4suairatia wten our
Wit im protected by the McKinley
tariff Idaho -hep were worth from
tii to rilJ ahead. When Cleveland
was inaugurated they began to go down
asd down, ucTii when the Wiion tariff
tQ u pwwd, they were worth 11.27 a
Lea-i."
Now tht U hjq4 more of the "queer"
republican wntitg- Kteryoc knows
that fall ia the jre of wool and sheep
wa the direct reu!t of the pafr of
the McKm.ey a-Ti. asi wa foretold by
ery Riac who had acy eort of krowl
exlr f t she efTrt of tariff legislation.
The eitjr of the Iryieyendent then a
wnwr oo the World Herald, frequently
ioioti it t?.t the" uataediate effect !
a the M-KiL b.l! would be upon the j
in--- of wi whirh asy & can aee by
W.,ifcsw the t of that paper. The j
j r-;-t a ich atreosesdooa tariff cc !
i.-.f-a-! the :sp.sr?a:oo f encugh j
a,,, in iar.-e cf it tta-&t U !at
tLr j 4 a, U c.ted hv far three
year as-i dfi ett the pre. CJrorer j
t v m.A 'j .r.- tft iv wirh th i
fall in the j-rioe of wool acd fehep than
lis rs i a
The McKinley
Uil u in iur-cm i x nearly eighx-n
ta-thj. afier Li electee and that was j
hat the chatter ith wool ad
f 'u-p- It i queer ict it, tit the ef
A L MeKity bill should be a 1
rn-J to that oki political tcoundrel, '
Cirvw OreUrd? Lut that is hat j
S-'-vr ish'up c-m. j
i
Will the H!ate Journal in the coairg !
tx.jura os tc re rely on the cow I
ca l S-ck. the Wr black pig. the re j
et. hzj oa th catoi ground, and
-;.'ffrx to puJ them through? ;
ILr- tire the La- tri the thins
ax. : Ui.L but there U to telling what ! he cannot repeal it
SSMSWSWBWMHBSSMI
a iuit bed will do. '" ' " " - .
The "queerness of republican edi-
. .. , ,. torials is not conSned to the rural press
Grt tci-cr-ajcs i- espreNed a.lover . . x. , ,
.... , . ... by any means. Now here is the St.
ti. eat at Meivtcj earpet bgth:ee ; . .J . . . , ,
. ,, -t , r, Louis Globe-Democrat which remarks:
in Cut. Bat ti CuUi rr ubacaii . , , v .
. . ., . , . .: iOfcoun roost of the populists are
th.irJ. ca l h.--i a t; to tie g-cu -j UkeSy to rot(9 for Barker instead of
r; u'!s xht of NebrSkka. I liryan. True, Bryan is himself a popu
T -v4e, so ttev aT, aiiit f iCO.- i lit rather than a democrat.
IOk 'liartW as.-d hL chuas got a ay i The ticket which was nominated at Cin-
. .. ciccaU last week, and not the one at
w,ih rar.r a If you wast the . Skux .m the bulk of the
gr. djed is -th -mool republican ; Tote of the populist party. To call
thief. c;ut ea-e to Nebraska. j thatrfortof editorial writing "queer" is
to put it mild. It could be more cor
An i pu'at fcatded the Icdepecd- j rectly named partisan lunacy. Yet it
i;t . cr&p h.m.&. is which the owner appears in one of the great republican
hii j r--er--i cf the abu. slang, dailies. Of course . it was not written
foul ta, 'ir. bIicggate and for th benefit of reasonable men, but
ici&aati&c. nxifnfrjzir Bryan which ; for mullet head consumption.
J. H. STUCKEY, j
AT i$7 O STREET.
f
I- n'iV r-j;ir;il to furnish ;
Ic- Crt-aru for Pienio. Scial. j
e :.. :A lot vbi-al- rate, j
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Vlvue 47- Lincoln.
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Dept.0. LIKSOLN. NEBB.
Bee
hare appeared la the State Journal and
Be during the laat three or four years.
He remarked: "Take into consideration
the standing that Bryan has among the
acholara, thinkers, writers, and states
men of the whole world, and ihen reflect
that two scurry sheets located in his
own state, wrote and printed such
things about him! Does it not show the
character of the men who run them
better than anything elr
-Hitch your wagon to a 6 tar," is a
metaphor which some one wrote down
under a fine poetic frenzy." It seems
to be the motto of some men in politics.
They want to make a platform and in
sist on a policy as far away from the
comprehension of the people as the stars
froa the earth, and then hitch their
political fortunes to it and ait for it to
pull them along. Now the evrry day old
pop don't beliere in that at alL He
rather hitch his wagon to a pair
5 mule that he knows can
do otue pulling than to waste his life
trying to rope a star to which he might
attach it.
The nation that does not rule in right-
eoujacet shall periih from the face of
the earth- That ia a law as inexorable
as any other law of nature. All history
bears testimony to the truthfulness of
the statement. Erery nation Tiolating
the law of righteousness has perished.
Their crowns and their glory and their
armies and their office holders, robed in
in scarlet and purple, hare all perished.
Not only that, the people they ruled
Perished. Others hare inherited their
i- McKinley may think that he, by
the aid of Mark Hanna, can escape the
lthj for the violation of this law.
1 But Mark Hanna did not enact it and
.HYPNOTISM.
Learn tohypootize
and Cost aoi, the
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VALUATION i EABXIXGS V TAXATION
a .
What is the true value .'of Nebraska
railroads? Edgar Howard says: $250,
000,000. He evidently, obtained his
figures from the twelfth annual report
of the Nebraska Board of Transporta
tion, (1898) table XI, in which it is shown
that the cost of 5,542.7 miles of Nebraska
roads, in bonds, stocks and other evi
dences of indebtedness was, to January
30, 1898, $253 J71, 665.19, or an average of
$45,786.71 per mile. These figures are
made from reports of the railroad man
agers to the board.
The board, commenting oa this method
of determining the value, says:
"Railroads are usually built on credit.
Mortgage bonds are issued and sold often
at a large discount to raise money to pay
for construction. Stock is issued and
disposed of in similar manner to pur
chase equipments. Hence, the amount
of bonds and stock issued and sold bears
no very definite relation to the cost of
construction." v '
In reply to an inujarllSythe
board to : f cir'ebraska ; railroad,. the
Chicago rck Island , and Pacific rail
way company furnished a table showing
that its line ' in Nebraska cost for con
struction and equipment all told $6,160,
191.13, or $25081.21 per mile. It must
be conceded that this road is a fair aver
age Nebraska ; railroad. Hence, all the
roads do not eiteed in value about $110,
000,000, and th assessment of 1900 is
nearly 19 per cent of the true value in
stead of 10 as Holt County Indepen-
...
dent avers. -
" It should not be forgotten that the
question of what is the true value of
Nebraska railroad? is one which affects
the matter of what constitute fair freight
and passenger rates.;, ! ,L ,
The populist party has ' always con
tended that the railroads have placed a
fictitious valuation -upon their property
in order to justify hierh freight rates. It
has denied that Nebraska' railroads are
worth $15,000 per mile, but said, that
they are not worth to exceed $25,000 per
mile on the average. And that the roads
should charze for freight on about that
valuation. v
Consistency is a rare jewel. It will
hardly do for the populist party to say
that the roads are worth $45,000, to
$50,000 per mile for purposes of taxation,
but that they are worth not to exceed
$25,000 a mile for purposes of. charging
freight and passenger rates.v. The Inde
pendent believes in making the railroads.
pay taxes upon as high a valuation as
can be made in accordance with justice.
But it believes in investigating before
indulging in explosions against the
board. And it further believes in mak
ing demands consistent in everything.
The railroads are undoubtedly assessed
at very nearly one-sixth of their true
value. And a general average of - all
other property will probably showtiat
it is assessed at about one-seventh or
one eighth of true value.
The amount of money credited to in
terest on state warrants held by the
school" fund, contained in the last ap
portionment, does not indicate that the
investment is of abnormal proporti6ns.
I If the 1200,000 which has been lying idle
and uninvested in the banks had been
thus invested the report would show
several times the $2,847.18 which is now
credited to this source of revenue. The
lerge amount of money which the treas
urer is enabled to distribute, as shown
by his own statement, is not due to any
good management on the part of him
self ox other state officers, but to the
fact that better times have enabled those
who lease or have purchased school
lands to pay what they owe. Omaha
Bee.
The ignorance displayed by the Bee
is monumental. State general fund war
rants run from eighteen to twenty
months after registration before being
called for payment. When called for
payment, upon presentation of the war
rant, principal and interest are paid.
No interest is ever paid on a state war
rant until the warrant is cailed and paid
in full. But the Bee seemingly doesn't
understand such matters.
On the first day of May the perma
nent school fund held as an investment
$876,405.11 in state warrants. The ma
jor portion of these were purchased since
March 1, 1899, and will not be called for
payment for a number of months yet.
Upon this $876,405.11 of warrants over
$40,000 has already accrued, yet not a
cent of it was available for the May ap
portionment because interest on state
warrants is never paid until the princi
pal is paid.
At the time the Douglas county bonds
were purcha&ed, and for some time after,
there was only $8,000 uninvested in all
the educational funds and the purchase
of state warrants for a time was very light
or stopped altogether. The $2,847.18 in
interest, which worries the Bee so much,
is interest oa the last of a large amount
of warrants which had been purchased
prior to the Douglas county bond pur
chase and which were called for pay
ments only a few months ago.
The looting of the poor Cubans is not
an accident not merely the , chance ap
pointment of a dishonest man to office
it is the . result of imperialism. In ail
the history of the world no other result
ha3, or even can follow the government
of conquered peoples ' by ' pro consuls.
The punishment of the men engaged in
it will not rectify the wrong. The only
way to, escape such . outrages in the fu
ture is to abandon imperialism. Any one
can well imagine what would happen in
this country, if :every official 57ere ap-
pointed by the British crown, and we
had not one word to say who they should
be, hoV long they should hold office or
what salaries they should tax out of us.
That is just the condition of affairs in
puba and Portq Rico. That is imperial
ism. The result ia now, always has been
and always will be corruption.
Our old friend ? Donnelly ; is in a peck
of trouble again.". Wharton .Barker gave
out aA interview in which he said:. .
"The fight this year will be on other
questions than r money. For .the time
being that is put aside. Transportation,
expansion, and other live questions will
make up the issues." - -
That sort of talk didn't suit Donnelly
at all. He first declares that he don't
believe that Barker ever said it, but if
he did then Barker must get off the
platform. The first thinehat any one
knows Dorjjidry-wTirlietel t&at Phila-
derfihia banker with a hot iron and if he
does, he will sinare all the bide from him
. The Independent points to its lists of
souvenir premiums for(clubs of new sub
scriptions. Huhdreds have taksn ad
vantage of the premium watch ofleland
of the Bryan picture and book proposi
tions. While, there is no Immediate
profit in these transactions we are more
than pleased to send them out as ' each
represents an increase in circulation and
serves, as a - valuable advertisement
Each one sent ' adds others. We have
added to the list some excellent summer
goods, hammocks, croquet sets, fans etc
Read the terms in the ad " on another
page. : ." - : -l .
The State Journal declares that the
act of congress hustled through with all
expedition, providing " for the extradi
tion of Neeley, and the great republican
blow-out in Indiana to celebrate - the
action of Governor Mount in refusing to
honor a requisition from the governor of
Kentucky for accomplices in the murder
of Goebel, "are consistent and perfectly
logical." Every one hasV long known
that a "queerness" had louged in the
noddles of the men who write Journal
editorials, so that statement caused no
surprise ;..
Mr. Rockefeller? is going Ito raise the
price of gas in New . .York oity on the
first of June from. 65 cents! v $1.00 a'
thousand. The mullet headed citizens
of that place will curse and svear when
the bills come and jthen go dovi in their
pockets and pay Mr. Rockef eer $1.00
for what costs him less than 30 cents.
It will never enter I into . their muddled
brains that they could go to the polls
and cast a vote that - would .result in the
municipal ownership of gas, after which
they would get it atSO cents a thousand
instead of .the $1jD0 ' which they will
have to pay.. "What fools these Wortals
be!" - .
Wharton Barker, seems
what uneasy over the fact
to be some-
that his i
vention took -. no action about
came. - ut course ne can t run ior,
Ident in Colorado, Kansas, Neb
Uouth Dakota, or anv ox tne wt
svates where there are populists, oM the
vi. a a l ' r . 1 L
peoples pany uckbu. -in some . mi, j ner
this oversight will have to be remedied.
Tht Independent suggests that the 4 est
way for them to get out of. the muf de
is to call themselves "Tne liarkers. Tse
prolonged howling that occurred at their
convention shows that they would makej
very good barkers also.; .
:4
President Mciunley, just awaking ' in
the morr.rng "Valet, run over for seer
tary of war.'quick.'
After a few minutes the valet return
and report that the secretary of war i
in the outer jroom.
President McKinley "Root! O, Root!
Is the Island of Cuba ' still in the old
place?" , y -;i";vJ" V" v '
Sec Root "Yes, your honor..
Pres. Mc VThat is all. 1 I was afraid
that some of put friends whom we have
sent down there " might have stolen it
during the night. There's nothing
more at present. I will finish out my
The State Journal has made, it thinks,
a very important ! aad. entirely new dis
covery. It says Neely was induced to
rob and steal at the irate of $10,000 a
month because the democratic papers
denounced imperialism and called the
McKinley carpet baggers in Cuba pro
consuls. It says that Neely read these
editorials, and .concluded that he was
really a Roman pro ootgul. The con
clusion is that it is the democratic edit
ors who are to blame for the stealing in
Cuba, and that ! Neely is an innocent
lamb who was deceived by these ungodly
-men. iuvery partisan lunauc wno reads
the State Journal, now hone&Kjrbelieves
that the democratic editors ought to ga
to the penitentiary nd Neely be set free.
Uncle Tim Sedgwick of the York
Times takes a hand in the discussion of
the railroad assessment of -1900, and
brings out the fact that the assessment
of York county lands has been raised 20
per cent in 1900 by agreement of the as
sessors, although, Mr. Sedgwick says,
"it is still only about 10 per cent of the
value." He, like all partisan republi
cans, keeps repeating the misstatement
that the railroad assessment has been
lowered by the fusion board, when in
fact it has been; raised over $810,000
since 1896. s. . ; .,
Last year improved .lands in , York
county were assessed at $3,57 per acre
con-
a cart?
ctres-
ipka.
nzern
and unimproved lands at 11.52. Hence,
the 20 per .cent raise will amount to only
71 cents per acre on improved lands and
30 cents onunimproved. . '
Rome, while yet a republic, started on
the road of -imperialism. A man by the
name of Gibbon 'wrote a book entitled,
"The Decline and Fall of. the Roman
Empire." We commend that book to
the American people. Mark' Hanna and
rMcKinley "have started this f nation on
the same 'road, ' In the next century
some one will write a book, if this policy
is followed, out, entitled, "The Decline
and Fall of .the .'Great. American Repub
lic' Senator Hoar says that the author
will date the beginning of the. decline
from the inauguration of Wm. McKinley.
But Senator Hoar says he will .support
Wm. McKinley for. re-election to the
presidency ,"so . if this . wreck is to be
avoided, some one else besides Senator
Hoar must be looked to to save the re
public When sending in clubs of subscrip
tions DO NOT FAIL to mention the
premium you -desire. Best plan is to
cut out the premium list and check the
article or articles desired. Remember
we are neither hypnotists nor mind read
ers and must depend solely on you to
state plainly what you want. .
HARDY'S COLUMN
Best Thing Good Work Law Injus
tice Heard .From The . Febple
Northern . Summer Days Clark
Only A Sample Small Thing3
Tickle Them The Truth Why He
Is A Common Peoples Man Con
trols Their Ownership Siberia
The best thing done the last week in
th$ political line, was the nomination of
Geo. W. Berge for congressman in the
first district. The democrats have had
twdA'-hances and it is but fair that a pop
should be put on the track this time.
Certainly no better.man lives in the dis
trict. Most assuredly he will prove
more than a match for Burkett.
All things work together for good, to
those who stand up" for justice: Every
mean things done by the republicans
helps Bryan. The republican thieves in
Cuba are doing the very best things
they possibly can to elect Bryan and it
is so all along the line. It is much har
der to defend an old rotten administra
tion than itis to defend a new one yet
to come. t s '
It is a shame; that Ike Lansing was
not appointed; to that judgeship in Cuba
and Porto Rico, for he most fully repre
sents the republican party in Bryan's
state. The otrWi representatives who
have already gone there are the best ex
cepting Ike. :t v '
v r Vv;v- - -----
- - If the law-compells me to pay you fifty
per cent above.Eutopean prices for your
cloth, ought not th? law to compel you
to pay me fifty per-ent above European
prices for my wheat? Is it not justice
that the law should help the farmer as
much as the factorytaan?
The Supreme Courthas decided that
the inheritance tax is constitutional and
that a title to inherited, property cannot
be completed until the tax is paid. No
inheritance less than en thousand, is
taxed.and the tax commences with three
quarters of one per cent .and goes as
high as fifteen percent Why the inher
itance tax should be constitutional and
the incoir a tax not, is hard to see. The
government of England levies both taxas
and collects over $15O,000,0O annually.
We are glad that we have oie govern
mens tax that makes the rich pay more
than the poor. It must be thAt the jud
ges have heard from the peopfe and their
leader ,Bryan, or they would hWe killed
this tax as they did the income-tax.
j The days are now about an hour long
er in Lincoln than they are in ilalves-
ton and they are about an -hour longer
in W imaipeg than they are in Lincoln.
If resicrned Senator Clark of Montana
Vas the only . senator npyf , m Congress
who used money in his election, it wj,uld
be a very ditferent thing. It ie the gen
eral opinion that nearly all who htld
tjie office of senator used piles of money
around and . in the legislatures that
elected them.
The McKinley party seem mch elat-
edl over the action of the middle of the
road pop party, but their following is so
small that their votes will be counted as
scattering. . They may have & dozen or
two votes in Nebraska and Kansas and
somUofthem were for McKinley , four
yeairs ago, but there will not be enough
to eflfect anything. Bryan will have from
twenlty to thirty thousand majority in
each of these states. . There is not a
state Wmth of Ohio that they can trouble
in thle least .and everything east . is
counted for McKinley any way. .
Johri L. Webster, first pet of Rosewa-
ter, uttjered two solid truths in a speech
the other day. One Was that the Mc
Kinleylparty was a ''build-up party
and thejTother was that the Bryan party
was a "iear down" party. It is a fact
that MciKinley has built up . more mill
ionaires Wnd trusts than ; any president
before hl"m, but it has been done at the
expense pf the common people. While
Bryan is roppo4 to this kind of build-
ing he is
pposed to bpcsal laws enacted
especial help. Qryan would
for their
stop this
a oi ouuaingana w-r
many of
ose- buildings down.
We .werfe - asked .the other day why
Bryan is caUIed thd, "common peoples
man." Thre are' several reasons for
that.'- Not rone 'out 'of a "hundred of the
forty-twO thVrasand , millionaires in the
United States sympathises with Bryan
or his. doctrane, the other ninety-nine
are for McKRnley. ; The trusts and cor
porations areall for McKinley. The ar
istocrats and I fine-haired gentry nearly
all live in Ohilo and east of there, and
those states aAl went for McKinley. . v At
the same timel Illinois, Iowat Wisconsin
and Minnesota' had a close rub," but the
other agricultural states, west and south,
GREAT SALE
OF
Wash Dross Goods
HELLER &
LINCOLN,
supported Bryan. . The cities are more
for McKinley and the country more for
Bryan. The "upper ten" and aristo
crats nearly all live in cities while the
farmers are nearly H industrious com
mon people. It is not . strange at all,
that the stuck-up city chaps who never
touch a plow ' handle, should go for a
stuck-up president like McKinley. Birds
of a feather flock together.
. ... ':. - ;. -.
It does seem almost out of the ques
tion for the government to own, control
and run all the railroads but we can
adopt the English system of controlling
them. First find out the amount of act
ual money invested, then limit the divi
dend to six or eight per cent , annually.
Whenever it exceeds that, cut down the
charges and when it falls below, raise
them. - Appoint inspectors to look at
and inspect the management.- This can
be done with little , cost. All corpora
tions are creatures of law and subjected
to law. It is very different with individ
ual private business. - We can at once
adopt the law of control and then grad
ually run into full ownership. This
trust business that is so general now is
sure to hasten government ownership of
all public monopolies. . But trusts are
worse than corporations. They double
prices at a jump and then halve them
so that supply and demand in no way
control -the market. Some how- every
body else is trying . to' work games ex
cept farmers. Take. the. labor fellow,
those whe have not brains enough to set
themselves to work," they are on to it.
If the government runs these public
utilities, where would the strikers and
destruction of property come in.- These
trusts and labor organizations are very
unpopular among farmers and it will
not be wise to salt our state ticket this
fall, with either.
" , - .
Siberia is bound to be the home of
millionsTjf emigrants during the next
twenty years. The Chinese, Japanese
and East India people are flocking in
there already by the thousands. . The
intellectual and patriotic cream of the
Russian Empire are already there in
the persons of political prisoners. Eur
opean emigrants are fast turning thei-
faces that way. The climate of the
southern portion very much resembles
that of north' m United States. It was
not criminals that were imprisoned
there, but such men as Wendell Phill
ips, Garrison, Lincoln and Bryan, for
talking reform. They have made set
tlements and have been living happily
in a world by themselves. The three
thousand miles of - Russian railroads
stretching across the country, through
valleys and over mountains from Mos
cow to the Yellow Sea and Pacific Oc
ean, open up an' inhabitable country
trible the size of that opened up by the
Union Pacific rail road. - The people of
India prefer the Russian government to
starvation under the English. There - is
one thing creditable in the Russian' gov
ernment policy, she is not fishing all
over the world for other people to rule.
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x. It is a little interesting to review the
improvements made, in the . instruments
used in sending stones, arrows and bul
lets, tilings ior sen a ing stones were
probably the first improvement upon
the hand throwing. We read of the
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marksmen becoming very proficient, so
much so that they could sling a stone to
a hair's breadth and not miss. David
was probably one of the best Sharp
shooters of his day. His sling and
pouch of smooth stones were his only
defence against wild animals! It' was
undoubtedly with the sling that he
killed the lion and the bear, as they
came to feed upon the sheep and lambs
he tended. He had confidence . in his
own markmanship and knew he could
send a center shot and not miss, which
he did into . the pate of Goliath.
The next improvement was undoubt
edly the bow and arrow. They had
thrown stones and spears with the bare
hand and after the sling for throwing
stones naturally followed the bow for
sending small spears; This was-so
much more deadly that . the, sling went
out of use. Clubs, swords 'and spears
may have been used, for ages before the
sling and bow were invented. It was
only about three hundred years ago that
a Chinaman , discovered the ' chemical
combination of gun powder, after which
followed the gun. The first guns were
fired by match lock which was nothing
more or less than touching the gun off
with a little burning brand of fire. The
cannon during the revolutionary war
were fired by means of a hot iron, but
the guns were supplied with a flint lock.
The flint scraped off a shaving of iron
so quickly that it was yet red hot
and ignited the .powder. Next followed
the cartridge and breech loading gun
which are . generally used today the
world over. -What the next improve
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