Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
September 20, 1900
I
Nithr arc you wcU. The frequent hcaJ
cxHcs. the fatigue after slight exercise ; the lack
cf appetite, want of energy, a slight but troutle
scme pain here or there the loss of flesh and
strength: the ease with which you take cold; all
this indicates that your health is not as it should be.
That is the best thing-to do?
All persons suffering-as described above hare ;
certain remedy in
if. Williams' Pink Pill
for Pale People
They arc for pale people, for delicate people,
for nervous people , for people who are thin and
lacking- in energy spirits and appetite.
Xhen you take Dr. Williams Fink Pills for
Pale People you are simply doing what thousands
cf your fellow beings the world over have done
with the greatest success.
Knowing this it is always unnecessary and often
dangerous to experiment with something1 else that
is recommended as "just as food."
Ai;i rufe' r 4lf cl frm Dr. WiU'imi
M ..hacUk4y. X V., postpaid on
tfifftr. Mrai pr Hi; six boxct. S2-M.
by c of the cidier who knocked
hr Coc with the butt of his re
volver. The little children bd nd
braking from ti bowi and notified
the seisbbor. When the police ar
rived, ail the fcoltSr had 04 save
tu, Tfci one Uj oo tbe floor in a
druskea flnuiW Later tbre more
of tb assailants mere rapture!. "
3Us!la Freedom o? July rs. ISS9.
"Corporal DamioftVr aud Prbate
Cote el. toit of t-t. mpaay n. Sixteenth
ftUotry. trt-.j out to rlvtliz the
Totdo dUtri t. In jn:riiasce of the
treat work, tl.ey robbed a fcfKik of a
aallrt acd ia?iLd tbrf native wom
en. One of tbe ktini was an old
!fy ity jr of ace. These two
xpnloaut were convicted of tie
crime. A soldier named M Bennett
of tbe atn company wso m Impli
cated in the outrate is not yet dis
posed cf." Manila Freedom, July t.
"A New York expansionist full of
bid lii'jor raa amuck near tbe water
froct. Whea a Filipino refused to
ell fctia wsae liquor, the patriot raised
a bis ditttrtxc and assaulted the
ctry who ram to arrest blra. The
MEtry wa tbe 2 man and turned
upon his astallact and save him a
o2Bd thrashing, wbkfc was rather
fcatd treatment lor o rood an adm!n
Utratkm gib.
"W. W. rLii, an Ame rian den
tin. atMCdoaed bis wife, ten 'hocsind
tci'.es awy from borne, without a
-et. and fkipp-d for unknown parts.
Tb aUacdcsed ladr was aect borne
to fcer svarects in California, a public
ywcriptioa bavin ben openM for
bat purpo. Manila Freedom Aug
ust U.
Ztmzzn Scbcs! fond
Costl&ce4 From Page On
Coati3iftio&ers Rueil a ad Humphrey,
-ill bow bow erroneous were the fig
urea f e-0ramtiner Rall re
tardinx the status of the common
wbool land on November 50. lMw.
Tbe table are given Me by tide.
Pirn relates of figure Correct
ttss a Noera r Zo. Uf. br cal
ctilatSon. Soc4 coiumi. of fl fares A re
ported hr ex-Cfnfa5.ficaer Russell.
Acres deeded.. 5CAJSS 311042
HIe contract. SJ7.4f5
Laa coat raft L23.e5T4 !
Vacant 722j5-4.7l 22331.17
Acquired 2.713 J37 10
Not oss item wrrl! It is aston
tb!sf tbat these republican cornrais
ioners did cot know even bow many
anrea of land the state bad act aired
for tbe cetjsmoa rhoI fund. Tbe
tate had. In fart. 22.703.25 arre that,
tie officers apparently knew noth
las; ljJt. Hi -Commissioner Russell's
rrora mar b shown in this war:
Krror is acrea dded 1.76A.07
Krror la sale coatrarta 23.2SS.S4
Error fa rrmtr'-t 24.113.6
Em-r la acre acquired 23.7033
nrror i rant laads.. 2.S734
Tbre ia no escape from tbe fig
ure. Tbey rar 1 rertn4 br referr
Isg tn tle biencial reports of the ram
iioer of public lands and tmild
tajrt. Tyrzt bis two tra of vffio Mr.
Wolfe has leased all told 1.213.4C
atrea of fwitioa school land: that is
to asy. be caa acrompiisbM this In
about 44 moatbs. la tbe six yra
from rwetssbr I. lv. to Norenber
Measrs. Husepbrey tad Ru
11 tofetber lea-J oalf !2f,794S
acre. It It ay wm4er TncJe Jake"
fcaa b-M able to rake tip ovmt f 100,V0
a year more for tbe temporary school
fried that th republican offU-e-bold-era
er able to do?
YE ARE PHOUD OF BRYAN
Matter M hat lb rr-rati,a Mtr ft
ti .lar aa CrYhara
OiiUmi.
A t'to paaa and eteau transpire.
w rrow prouder of Cryan. First of
all a i a rtlemaa ia the true secae
cf lb word. Tb republican leader
ship ma to lack every elemeat that
eater Icto tb ehaxactar of featle
bm?. Not oa of tbm cao appear b-
a soldiers' reaaioa. a sratberlag
of farmer, tfce dMIcatioa of a moau
aat or aay other public f unctioa
w1tboJt exblbitinc their low-bred
asaaaers. Tbey ia variably intrude
-tipoa iiKb oecaaloas with tbeir par
tisan opiaioas and Insult half of their
audience. That tbe conduct of
s
Governor Mount of Indiana, who aloug
with Bryan was asked to make an ad
dress at tbe dedication of a monument
to General Lawton. Not in so many
words, but in etfect. Governor Mount
accused Bryar. of being the murderer
of Lu-a-ton and made a speech that
wr r a direct Insult to naif of the peo
ple who had com to honor the mem
orv of a brave soldier who died on the
field of battle. There has not been
a more dl'gurtinr. eJ-ibitior. of vul
garity and low bredin in this coun
try by a prominent man in the last
flfiy years. Everything that a vulgar
product of Hannaism cocld say to in
sult ryan and roue his anger was
sa;d by this official protector of a
m.:rderer.
It bad no more effect upon Bryan
than ;ourir.g water on a duck's back.
H' arose without the llhtest evi
dence of Irritation and delivered an
address full of pathos acd patriotism,
adorned with beautiful similes, tx
pressed in the most elegant English.
He paid a glowing tribute to the reg
ular and vrdunteer, to tb-? patriotism
of thoe vno died upon the Hold and
to tfcose. no less deservirg of sratf
tu.Je. who died in the hospitals. There
was uot a word, a look or a gesture
thit -n any way indicated that he re-
'.U-i the iil-rrd. vtlgi vicious
assault that bad oeen made upon him.
Tbe nearest tnat he came to do that
was waen he eaid that there could be
no greater mistake than to assume
that ail the people of aay party were
unpatriotic
On '.hl occasion, on many others,
tbe people who heard him were con
vince I that whatever else Bryan might
be. one thing was certain. Bryan was
a gentleman, and they greeted him
with round after round of cheers.
Some of the things that Bryan said
on that occasion are well worth pre
serving. Among them were the fol
lowing: "I can hurdly aav that I ara here as
a feoldler. for I feel that my military
neivice was so insignificant compared
with tb service of many who are
here today that I am hardly entitled
to be classed among the soldiers. I
was a colonel, and yet I feel about my
til at I fetl about my service in the
army, that It is hardly fair that one
should be called a colonel who saw no
active duty and ho did not have bis
courage tested upon the battlefield."
"We apeak of people dying upon the
battlefield, and yet more die in the
hospital thtn die upon the battlefield,
and when our camp was rtricKen with
fever and I walked through the hos
pital and there faw the ixjys suffer
ing, away from home and away from
friends. I was convinced that the man
who diea in a hospital is deserving of
as ranch sympathy as the iian who
di upon the battlefield. He gives
ail be hashi life."
"It fa oot for the soldier to deter
mine whether tbe command taat takes
him to his death Is a just one or not.
It is the duty of the foldier to obey,
but It U for the people who control
things, who make governments, make
laws, shape policies ard determine
destiny: it la for the people to say
what orders shall be- given to soldiers.
There is where the responsibility lies."
"There are two ways to make men
willing to fight for their country.
First, let them know that the country
will be grateful to them for their ser
vices; second, make your country so
good that every man will die for it if
necessary."
In this connection The Independent
cannot refrain from calling tbe atten
tion of the few men in this state who
were once popn lists, but who are now
supporting for president aa ex-banker
woo lives In tbe worst governed and
most corrupt city In the United States,
who baa seen the ballot made a mock
ery of and the money taxed out of the
people stolen by the millions and has
never once raised his voic or written
one line In condemnation, to the dif
ference In tbe character of the man
they are now rupportlcg and this man
Bryan, wbom tbe regulsr populist par
ty his made Its nominee for presi
dent. How men tan let their partisan
prejudices so lead them astray is an
other of rhose things that no true pop
can erer comprehend.
Crcker's Utile Speech
Croker made a speech the other day.
It was not very long, but hundreds of
thousands of copies of It have been
printed and circulated as a campaign
document. It was as follows.
"If I were to use bow a common ev-
ry-cay expression to convey my idea
of the young man seeking a future, I
should say: He is up against it. He
may get a start, or what looks like
one, but I don't care what he is
clerk, messenger, bookkeeper, any
thing you please there is no ladder
on which he can climb. Hundreds of
letters come to me every day telling
me just these things, and hundreds of
letters come, too, from young men
telling me that they can't get em
ployment. Where are all the little
business places that used to be the
feature of New York, and of all this
country, too, not many years a$o?
Where are all the little grocery stores
and the other stores where whole fam
ilies had an interest in the business
and every member of the family, as
soon as he or she was able, was em
ployed? They have all been destroyed
and destroyed by the trusts. If the
issues of this campaign were thor
oughly understood Bryan would get
90 per cent of the votes in the United
States, because 10 per cent are now
running the 90 per cent and getting
their hearts' blood."
FRATERNAL INSURANCE
Internal Revenue Commissioner and Old
Companies Undertake to Tax Them
Out of Kxlstenre.
It is a mighty good thing that a
presidential election comes around
once in a while and that the people of
the United States still have a right
to vote. If they did not the mass of
the people would soon be paupers and
slaves. Not long since the old line
insurance companies who have piled
up millions by their excessive rates,
evolved a plan of getting rid of the
fraternal insurance companies which
were proving dangerous rivals. They
found a willing co-worker in the com
missioner of internal revenue. G. W.
Wilson, an appointee of President Mc
Kinley. If his published decision had
been enforced it would have ended
in the extinguishment of every purely
fraternal insurance company in the
United States. Congressman Stark
has been doing some very effectual
work on behalf of the fraternals. an
account of which is contained in a
letter to Chairman Edmisten. which u
printed below.
Aurora. Neb.. Sept. 11. 1900. Hon.
J. H. Edmisten, Lincoln, Neb. In re
sponse to your telephone communica
tion communication touching the ar
ticle in the State Journal this morn
ing, giving an alleged interview be
tween Collector Houtz and myself,
permit me to state that I have not the
honor of a personal acquaintance with
Mr. Houtz; that 1 never had an in
terview with him in my life on any
subject whatever, and such statement
is without any foundation of fact
whatever.
Touching the other matters permit
me further to say that I am not now
and never was the attorney for the
Nebraska Mutual Life Insurance com
pany at Stromsburg. Neb. I never
was its director, only relation with
that association is that of policy
holder. Mr. A. W. Little, secretary
of the company, wrote me that one
C. P. R. Williams, a deputy collector,
had called at the Stromsburg office
and demanded that the company forth
with pay the sum of $2 internal rev
enue tax on each policy issued since
July 1. 1S98; and requested that I take
the matter up with the commissioner
of internal revenue at Washington
for the reason that if that holding was
adhered to. the company must come
to an end. I wrote a letter on that
subject to the Hon. G. W. Wilson,
commissioner of internal revenue at
Washington, D. C, who replied in sub
stance: "It was his judgment that
the taxes were correctly assessed and
in terms stated that he could not tax
the policies at their yearly value, but
insisted upon their ultimate value."
This company issued a peculiar policy
by which the beneficiary is only en
titled to receive $600 the first year, in
the event of the death of the insured
and the amount is increased $100 each
year until the maximum. $X500. is
reached. Both of those letters are
now in the possession of Secretary
Little. On the 22d of August last I
received a telephone communication
from Secretary Little, that the deputy
collector had been at Stromsburg,
Neb., and stated that the tax must be
paid forthwith and that the directors
were then in attendance; had passed
resolutions that Mr. Little go to Wash
ington and appeal from the ruling of
Collector Koutz, and that they desired
that I should accompany him. as the
compeny was largely made up of my
constituency, and its main office was
located in the Fourth congressional
district. I consented to go; met Mr.
Little at Omaha and proceeded to Pes
Moines. Ia.. and there had a confer
ence with the officers of the Bankers
Life Insurance company, and from
thence went directly to Washington
where Mr. Little filed, over his own
name as secretary, a showing to re
verse the ruling of Collector Houtz.
The matter was taken up from day to
day with Commissioner Wilson and
an order was made by him that Col
lector Houtz make a full report. The
contention of Mr. Little was that his
association was a beneficiary asso
ciation and not conducted for profit,
hence was exempt.
When the report of Mr. Houtz reach
ed Washington we were informed that
it was in part confidential and that it
would be inconsistent with the public
welfare to permit us to read the same;
the only document we were permitted
to see being a copy of the report of
the company to the state auditor
which showed among other things
that the association had a fund for
promotion and extension. The com
missioner stated that made it a com
pany doing 4 business tor profit and
that he should so hold, that he would
reverse Mr. Houtz as to his holding to
a $2 rate on the taxes and would only
Insist on the yearly value: Not be
ing the attorney of that association
I cannot advise you what their future
procedure will be in the matter. Of
course it was a great substantial ad
vantage to scale the rate from $2 to
FECIAL FALL OFFER!
I hands and introduce our
Of $11. for this Famous CAQLI Snwlnr Machine, which is
actual cost of manufacture. It is thoroughly modern in et-ery respect and
Is guaranteed satisfactory or money refunded. This is only a sample of oar
bargains in rehiclea, luuraess, furniture, grocerie. etc C((r
"The Home taat Ssvt y a Money" WESTERN ME&CANTTLE CO. fept V OauktJSe-
Sour Stomach
"After t was taae4 ta try CASCA
XX ETa. I will n erer be without them in tbe house.
Mf llrer was in a Terr tad shape, and my bead
ached and t had stomach trouble. Now. since tak
ing Caaeareta, I feel flae. Mr wife has also used
them with beneficial results for sour stomach."
Jo. KBSHUsa, 121 Consvess St.. St. Louis. Mo.
Jasvwsw Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do
Good. heer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. Sac. 60c.
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Sterna Key raaeaa?. k !. Mntml. Rav Trk. MS
If QTQRAfi 80,(1 -nft,c?2JLnr'e5 r all dfa-
UWaIUsUAtf gists to CrBE Tobacco Habit.
48 cents as their claim in the start
was something over 4,000. The final
order makes it less than 25 per cent
of that sum,.
Touching the relation of fraternal
beneficiary association with this mat
ter, meaning thereby, orders that fur
nish insurance with a lodge system
and ritualism, permit me to further
6tate that on November 16, 1899, Com
missioner Wilson made a decision in
the matter of the Bankers Life as
sociation of Des Moines, Ia.. known
as Treasury Decision No. 21779.
It appears that the Bankers' Life
had placed on their policies internal
revenue tax stamps to the amount of
8 cents per hundred, for the amount
named in the policy beginning July 1,
1898; that the amount was substan
tially $16,000 a year and this large
expense induced the directors of that
association to ask for a repayment to
them, they claiming to be exempt from
war revenue law. These facts were
obtained by conversation with the
officers at Des Moines, but opinion
does not give them. In that opinion
the commissioner states tnat the para
graph in schedule A relating to l.fe
insurance makes four classes;
First Fraternal associations or or
ders. Second Beneficiary associations or
orders.
Third Farmers' purely local cor
porative companies or associations
Fourth Employes relief associa
tion, operated on the lodge system or
local co-bperation plan with the fur
ther distinction that they must be
such an organization as are conducted
solely by the members thereof for the
exclusive benefit of their members and
not for profit. The opinion then holds
that the company is not within the
exemption. After disposing of that
he proceeds to say: "Presuming that
a company comes within one class
specifically set forth, it then has to
have a further test applied to it as to
whether or not it is conducted for
profit." ,
It. is clear that, he now refers to one
of the classes specifically v set forth
which takes in fraternal associations
or orders that issue policies of insur
ance. He then proceeds to lay down
this rule: "Such companies as make
assessment based upon fixed prem
iums to be collected at regular inter
vals, without regard to whether or
not a loss actually occurs, are com
panies that are, in the opinion of this
office, prima facia conducted for pro
fit,' That is a square adjudication
that fraternal associations having the
lodge system and ritualism, requir
ing a stated sum to be paid as an as
sessment every month without refer
ence to whether i loss actually occurs
or not, are associations conducted for
profit and outside exemption.
The newspapers gave great publicity
to the matter and the well informed
fraternal insurance men immediately
saw the effect of the decision. The
national fraternal congress happened
to be In session at Boston. Mass.
They sent a telegram to Commissioner
Wilson in regard to the matter and he
thereupon decided, by telegram, reply
ing that fraternal companies would
not be taxed. Since that time Collec
tor Houtz has written a letter to the
postmaster at Utica in which he states
that the Modern Woodmen are exempt.
I have been a member of the Wood
men for nearly fourteen years, and
know that it has funds for promo
tion end extension which is usually
paid to deputy counsels and for "Hus
tler Buttons" and the publication of a
valued newspaper called the "Wood
man." In tbe decision handed down by
Commissioner Wilson he abandons his
oral judgment that the Nebraska Mu
tual Life association was conducted
for profit and holds in effect that the
company is not a beneficiary associa
tion and hence not within exemption.
Perhaps one of the reasons that led
him to this conclusion was the fact
that in the State vs. Needels, reported
in the 90 Illinois report, at page 166,
it was decided in effect that money
paid out for services for promotion
and extension was compensation aud
not. profit. So that much was done
for the Woodmen.
I think it a fairly good statement of
the law that it is the duty of collec
tor of internal revenue when a person
or association is prima facia liable,
to proceed to collect the taxes and
that he cannot excuse himself for any
failure to exhaust his authority in col
lecting on the pretense that a person
or association should not have been
assessed. As to the reason why Mr.
Wilson did not proceed I do not care
to hazard a guess at this time: your
judgment is as valuable as mine in
that regard. To ray mind the visit to
Washington was a success in this that
our hearing brought to the attention
of fraternal Insurance men the hold
ing of Commissioner AVilson and he
proceeded to make a decision that re
verses his views as set forth in the
Bankers Life opinion, even if done
by the extraordinary method, a de
cision by telegram. I know of no
more valuable associations In our
community than those, which protect
In order to get our
eataJosrue in your
line nf orxvl. wa ara maVir a soecial iirlea
7fr-S CANDY
I f CATHARTIC y.
the widow and the orphan by going
to their financial relief when death
affirmed its claim upon the bread
winner. ; These associations have al
ways, ben upheld by public opinion
and sustained by the courts and to
my mind It is the duty of every man,
when he finds that he is charged w!th
some official duty to go to great
lengths to protect and conserve them.
I am glad in a humble way that I
have been of tome sen ice in that di
rection.. With expression of high personal es
teem, I am very truly voure.
W. L. STARK.
Down on McKlnley
Coshocton, O., Sept. 10. The Mus
kingum conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church today adopted this
resolution:
"We condemn the present adminis
tration, which, in the face of full pow
er to prevent it, has allowed the liquor
traffic to extend its withering curse
over the insular possessions and de
pendencies of our government, which
thus lends itself to the destruction of
the helpless millions it has pledged
its honor to protect.
"We condemn the president of the
United States for his nullification of
the anti-canteen law and submit that
such action is subversive of the forms
of our government, dangerous to the
liberties of the people and without
precedent in the history of our coun
try. We affirm, also, that in his per
sonal habits and bis official acts he
has betrayed the interests of temper
ance and rendered himself unworthy
of the support of Christian men."
Fully two-thirds of the minister
present have heretofore been republi
cans. No Need of It.
Now the fusionlsts say they always
knew Mrs. Lease was dishonest. They
are a little late in making the confes
sion. Bixby.
The populists never engage in works
of supererogation. Bixby and his pa
per denounced her for years in such
vituperative terms, there was no need
of the populists lending a haad at it,
and since the praise of the Journal is
sure to damn anyone and ruin their
character and standing in any com
munity, the populist see no need now
of saying anything further on the
subject.
There is more catarrh in this sec
tion Of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be Incura
ble. For a great many years doctors
! pronounced it a local disease, and pre
scribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease, and. therefore, requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney Co., Toledo, O., is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It
Is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. -Th6y offer one hun
dred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
THE LINCOLN ACADEMY
Are you going away to school some
where? If so, let us sit down and fig
ure a little, counting time, expense
and thoroughness. At a small town
school your expenses amount to about
$4 a week, or $144 a 3ar. You can
attend the Lincoln Academy for that
and even less. The average expense
is $3.72 a week, or $133.92 a year for
board, room, heat, light and tuition.
High schools require four years, the
Academy 3. But the student here
works 10 to 12 hours a day. not sim
ply 6 to 7. Four years at $144 a year
$576. Three years here at the average
$133.92 $401.76. a saving of $175 and
one year's time. Students always do
better in a school away from home,
especially when they have such excel
lent advantages as here. The instruc
tors are specialists, with broad col
lege training, and are recommended by
university professors. In fact, the
third year can be taken in the univer
sity free under university instructors.
Fourth annual announcement is sent
free. Registration Sept. 17-22.
FOREIGN POSSESSIONS
If They Were a Searea of Wealth Than
Spain Wuld Be the Wealthlet
Nation oa Earth
If foreign possessions were a source
of wealth, Spain would be the richest
nation in the world today. She was
the first power to establish colonies,
and her colonial empire has impov
erished her people, demoralized her
government, corrupted her service and
brought her to the abasement in which
she lies today. Foreign possessions
may furnish places and fortunes to
favorites of the government, but tbey
have never added a dollar to the wages
of labor in England. Spain or any
other country, and, in the nature of
things, . they must operate to reduce
them.
When we challenge the Imperialist
to name one instance in which trade
has been promoted by conquest he
shifts his ground with an ease that
shows his arguments are loose as his
morals. Confronted with the stern
facts of history, he abandons the sor
did contention that his policy will pro
mote trade, or. In plainer language,
that there is money in it, and assumes
a lofty attitude of devotion to human
ity and civilization. He tells us that
while foreign possessions may be un
profitable, it is nevertheless a duty
imposed on us by civilization to take
possession of territory inhabited by
weaker races for the purpos of civil
izing them by subjecting them not to
the influence of our political institu
tions from these they would be ex
cluded but to the authority of our
office holders.
If It be necessary to shoot the na
tives as Kitchener shot the dervishes,
in order to Impose this government
upon them, the imperialist Is quite
ready, and indeed rather eager, to civ
ilize them In that effective method.
Civilization by slaughter is not an
original device. It has bsen often'
HON. ROBERT S. OBERFELDER.
Hon. Robert S. Oborfelder, demo
cratic presidential elector, a widely
known and popular member of the
Nebraska fish commission, was born
in New York city, December 8, 18F5.
He was educated in the public schools
of the American metropolis, came west
to Council Bluffs, la., at the age of
nineteen and entered the employ of a
large mercantile institution. During
the winter of 1876 when the Black
Hills excitement was at its fever heat,
he located at Sidney and engaged In
the general outfitting business. He is
a member of Oberfelder & Co., the
largess business house in Sidney. He
tried; it has never borne salutary
fruit. There was one great civilizer
by tbe sword who has left some Im
pressions on the world. He lived about
1.300 years ago. His name was Mo
hammed. The followers of the prophet
believed they were the sole depositor
ies of civilization, and in order to dif
fuse that civilization over the world
they offered the outside barbarian his
choice between the Koran and death.
This surely was imperialism pure and
simple. The difference between the
Mohammedan imperialism and the
latter-day imperialism is a difference
of men, not of methods.
The promotion of civilization is the
pretense by which nations have always
sought to excuse or justify asts of ag
gression.. ...
Morality is never advanced by crime.
Justice has never been vindicated by
wrong. Civilization has never been
promoted by barbaric conquest or
bloodshed. People cannot be improved
by denying them the opportunity to
acquire from experience the true les
sons of self-government. There is
but one way to qualify a nation for
self-government, and that is to Im
pose upon its people the duty of gov
ernment forcing them to suffer with
out relief the consequences of riot or
extravagance allowing them to en
joy unmolested the fruits of industry
and order.
When the imperialist is shown that
his schemes for promotion of trade
and of civilization are both futile and
unsound, he is neither discomfited nor
abashed.
With undisturbed assurance and un
abated vehemenie he proceeds to tell
us that if we withdraw from the Phil
ippines we will imperial the prospects
of an alliance between England and
this country. I am not alarmed by this
threat.
It is quite true that the English
press and a certain portion of the Eng
lish people are unremitting In their
efforts to persuade this country to
adopt what is called a vigorous foreign
policy.
England's anxiety that we should
hold the Philippines is not caused by
love of us, but by her own self-interest.
Bourke Cockran.
! "There is one thing that can happen
j to the American flag worse than to be
hauled down. That is to have its
meaning and its message changed."
cv Henry Van Dyke
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Clean stock groceries in resident
portion of Lincoln. Sales. $40. a day.
Small expense. Invoice about 11.500
cash, or bankable paper. Good place
for man and son. Excellent school
facilities. Address 400, Nebraska In
dependent. NEWSPAPER FOR SALE.
A populist paper in a live county
seat town of 1,700 inhabitants; estab
lished 27 years; reason for sale to
close joint stock company. Address
this office for information.
Girl Wanted
Girl for general housework; perma
nent situation; go od wages and small
family Address Mrs. Evans, 1704 D
St., Lincoln, Neb
WHY DIE PREMATURELY
When you can get well easier and
quicker than you got sick, and make
$100 per month besides.
Don't say you can't until you have
written a postal or letter for free in
formation showing what others have
done and are doing.
Z. R.
Lincoln, Deb.
FARM TO RENT
Well improved 80 acres in Seward Co.,
Neb., i miles from railroad, 1125 cash
rent. Address 125 Nebraska Independ
ent, Lincoln, Neb.
Dr. LoaisN. Wente, dentist, 137 South
11th stteet Brownell block.
was elected mayor of Sidney in 191.
and served with credit to himself and
the town. In October, 1895, he was
appointed by Governor Holcomb as a
member of the state board of fish com
missioners, and is now the president
of that bodj. Hvls extensively en
gaged In ranching and stock-raising,
and owns one of the best improved Ir
rigated farms on the Lodgepole creek
near the village of Lodgepole. He is
also president of the Sidney Stone
company, whose Inexhaustible quarries
are located near the city of his resi
dence. Mr. Oberfelder is a democrat
of state reputation; a personal friend
to nearly every public man In the
state and a gentleman of culture and
refinement.
A Few More Pointers About
Gregg Shorthand Insti
tute, Brace Block,
15th and 0 Sts., ,
Lincoln Nebr.
Rohrbough Bros,. Proprietors
Pointer . No. 1 Gregg Shorthand i
now the most popular system lu the
state of Nebraska. It has but one posi
tion, one slant, no shades and but few
rules and word signs. We make a spe
cialty of Gregg Shorthand and the
Moshsr syste n of Touch Typewriting.
It will pay. you to attend a college
making a specialty of these systems.
A new class will start Monday morn
ing. Make your arrangements to start
then.
Pointer No. 2 We are receiving
calls for competent stenographers ev
ery day. Business men are recogniz
ing the Gregg Shorthand Institute as
being a first class institution in ev
ery respect.
Pointer No. 3 Night school is in
session Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings of each week.
Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, Book
keeping and other business branches
may be had. Skilled instructors will
be in charge. It will pay you to in
vestigate. We can save you time and
money. Circulars free. Tel. 665.
DAILY TOURIST CARS
BETWEEN
NEBRASKA POINTS
AND
Utah, California, and Oregon
ARE ATTACHED TO
"THE PACIFIC EXPRESS"
FOR
Utah and California
AND TO
"The Chicago-Portland Special"
FOR
OREGON AND PUGET SOUND
Personally Conducted One a Wk:
5. B. 8LOSSOX. ebrak A re at.
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS
Via Rock Island & Pacific railway to
Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt
Lake City and Ogden, on sale Sept 18.
To nearly all points In Minnesota, Io
wa, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin,
on sale Sept. 26. All the above one
fare plus 2 for the round trip and ;
good until Oct. 31 for the return. -
For further information address
E. W. THOMPSON, A. G. P. A.,
" Topeka, Kas.
" F. II. BARNES, C P. A.,
Lincoln, Neb. ;, $
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