THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
O&bber 18, 1900
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PUBLIC OWKEBSHIP
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Where the power of direct legisla
tion rests witii the people; where the
people, when they disapprove an act
of the legislature or council, may stop
it from going Into effect by petition of
a reasonable percentage of voter, de
manding a reference or submission of
the act to the people for final approval
or rejection at the polls: where the
voters by petition can propose or In
itiate a law the legislature or councils
nerlect or refuse to pa, and can by
such petition rrlnr the desired meas
ure before the people for final decision
at the polls: where the people nomi
nate their oTiCers and recall them at
will; In other words, where the pop
ular recall exists and the Initiative and
rferdura are applied to city and
stat legislation, as well as In town
meetlng sroveransent and the making
or amending of commerce of a conti
nent, the wsy to d!2us wealth and
equalize power Is to transfer the own
ership of the railways to the nation.
Public ownership Is the simple, fli
rct anJ practicable remedy for the
concentration of wealth public own
ership of franchises and industrial
taooopclSs and public ownership of
the sroTemmect. the cot Important
monopoly of all. If the state constitu
tions then the people may truly be
ald to own aid operate the govern
ment. They can slop or start legisla
tion at will; they can have such laws
as they pleas, ani no others: govern
ment by politicians is changed to gov
ernment by the people, and the peo
ple pom the continuous and effec
tive ecotrol essential to real public
ownership.
With such real public ownership we
may solve the problem of monopoly
Which Ilea at the heart of the great
work of diffusion the Twentieth cen
tury Is to accomplish- The pabllc
schools have been a mala factor In
the diffusion of knowledge; public In
dustries will be a msia factor la the
diffusion of wealth. Pube ownership
of the mean of education has been
followed by wide diffusion of enlight
enment; while private ownership of
the railways, telegraph, telephone, gas
and electric plants, and other monop
olistic means of producing and dis
tributing wealth haa been followed by
great congestion of wealth and power;
to secure a ut equalization of we
must adopt the same great, democratic,
all-pervading force of public owner
ship opportunity and wide diffusion of
benefit that haa produced the diffusion
tsf Intelligence. And this very diffu
sion of enlightenment, resulting from
the public ownership of education, is
a fundamental means of securing the
new diffusion of wealth and power
through the public ownership of gov
ernment and public utilities. The con
centration of wealth cannot continue
whea the people know the facts and
understand how to secure their rights.
Private monopoly must suppress the
public schools and destroy the foun
tains of thought, or It cannot last long.
We. who dere a Just ar.d righteous
diffusion of wealth, should do our ut
bm! to ee not onlr that diffusion of
knowledge shall continue, butaiaai
that less attention be given in pumc
schools to studies that are compara
tively unimportant and" Irrelevant-1
our- welfare, in order that more at
tention may be given to economic, so
eiologie and ethical studies, that con
cern us so deeply. We should deepen
and strengthen our system of public
Instruction, extend it in fall forte to
the kindergarten and college. Improve
its methods, and focus its power on
the vital industrial and political
problems, on the true solution of
which the pac and happiness of the
future so largely depends. Prof.
Frank Parsons.
The Tla TRUST
This is a truit after McKinley own
heart for he was the one who started
It with a tariff on tin. It will be re
membered that they discovered a great
tic mine up la the Black Hills and
were going to mine all the tin that
would be fcsed in the United States.
The republicans those dsys wore little
pieces of tin as campaign badge. This
writer fought that tariff on tin with
aU his might and pointed out what
the result would be. but the mullet
heads would have it. Now here Is a
tiography of that trust, cut short for
watt of space:
Planted by McKinley tariff. 75 per
cent protection.
Nursed by Dlngley tariff. 70 per cent
plate trust (New Jersey) capi
talized. jic.ooo.f-r.
' Tinware trust (Nat. E. & S. Co.)
National tin plate and stamping.
Advance in tin piste prices, 75 per
cent.
Advance la tinware. 20 per cent to
VA per cent.
Advance la tin plate. 125 per cent-
The price of tla straits Nov. .
was $12.5 S per 100 lbs.
The price July 27. 1K0. was S34.C2
aa Increase of 1C7 per cent. This Is
strictly a tariff trust and lays its
piratical hands upon the poor especial
j tor the rich use but little tia.
REPUBLICAN GLOOM
TW l41aaa Mcllaaaaite Art Verr M rh
Irpr i Itarrtaoa
W"t Mk !-! tar
MvKialey.
Ex-President Harrison having at
last mde Lis declaration that while i
he would vote for McKinley he would ;
make no speechea la this campaign, j
roupsea wun nis (denunciation or me
Porto Rica a legislation has brought
eoxycferaatioa to the republican leaders
SUMS especially so in Indiana where he
resides. A recent dispatch from Ind
ianapolis gives the Impression that u
fell upon the Hannait like a wet
blanket- The dispatch was as follows:
Indianapolis. !ad Oct. 11. General
Eeslamin Harrison s statement is un
mistakably a disappointment to Ind
iana republican. They . looked for
soevthirg larger and stronger. I saw
evidences of tae disappointed feeling
la the southern part of the state this
morning, and here ia Indianapolis.
bc withstanding that the Roosevelt
demoastratior 1 occupying the talads
of the republican managers, they show
that they expected -more from Gen
eral Harrison than they received.
Publicly the republican leaders say
General Harrison's course Is satisfac
tory, because it put him clearly on
record with his party and shows that
in his riew the lasue of four years ago,
which made the defeat of Bryan im
portant. Is agala the issue la this cam
paign. Some of the newspapers repub
lish his Carnegie hall speech. This,
however, does.-not meet the expecta
tion In Indiana of a new speech from
General Harrison that would cover
new ground and compel discussion
and refutation by the democrats.
The democrats had been counting on
a campaign deliverance which would
be one of the strong republican Influ
ences In the last week's campaign,
and had been preparing to meet it.
They are relieved by his mild indorse
ment of his party's position, and are
making much of the Porto Rico state
ment. The republicans would be grateful if
he could be persuaded to say some
thing about the flag in the Philippines.
Their great disappointment is over his
silence oa this subject.
PURCHASING POWER OF WHEAT
It has fibrusk Fifty Per Cent In Two
Tears, and That Is McKinley
Frapritr (or The Fanner.
Farmers buy what they consume
with the products of their farms,
sometimes directly as when they trade
at the country store, sometimes in
directly as when they sell their prod
ucts for money and then exchange ttr
money for the things that they want.
The reduction of the purchasing power
of what they raise and the Increase of
the price of things that they buy, can
never bring permanent prosperity to
them. The decrease in the purchasing
power of wheat (the standard Min
nesota being taken as the basis) is as
follows:
Sugar January 1. 1838, 157 lbs.
Sugar January 1, 1900, 104 lbs.
Sugar Shrinkage 53 lbs., 33 per cent.
Salt January 1, 1898. 94 bbls.
Salt January 1, 1900, 5 bbls.
Salt Shrinkage, 4 1-3 bbls, 45 per
cent.
Lumber (2x4) January. 1, 1698, 723
feet.
Lumber (2x4) January 1, 1900, 418
feet.
Lumber (2x4) Shrinkage, 305 feet.
42 per cent.
Wire Nails January 1, 1898, 41-3
Vera
Wire Nails January 1. 100. 1VH
Wire Nails Shrinkage. 2 3-6 kegs,
5 per cent.
Barbed Wire January 1, 1898, 435
pounds.
Barbed Wire January 1, 1900, 133
pounds.
Barbed Wire Shrinkage. 302 ib3.,
70 per cent.
Kerosene January 1, 1898, 101 gals.
Kerosene January 1. li00, 56 gals.
Kerosene Shrinkage, 5 gals., 50
1 wr cent.
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Enormous crops in, most of the west-
era states Is the only thing that has
saved the farmers of the western
states from ruin. One year of poor
crops would bring tnem tagging tor
-eharltr to keen themselves and chil-
! A ran frntn darvntlnn The rise in the
"priee of Cour haa all gone Into the
r coffers of the milling tiiust. Think of
! these things when you cast your ballot.
Please Answer
At a little town where Bryan had
oaly five minutes to address the peo
ple, he occupied the time by propos
ing the following questions:
"If the trust is a good thing, why
did the republican platform denounce
trusts?"
"If the trust is a bad thing, why did
the republican administration allow
more trusts to be organized than dur
ing all previous history of the coun
try?" "If some trusts are good and some
bad. can you teli the difference be
tween a good one and a bad one?"
"Do you know of any good monopoly
In private hands?"
"Do you know of any man good
enough to stand at the head of a
monopoly and determine the price of
that which others are to use?"
"Do you know of any good reason
why the army should be made 100,
000?" "Would you be willing to make the
army 200.000. If the republican leaders
tu'.d so. or a half million, if they
wanted it?"
"What is your title to the Filipino?
Did you buy him or did you get him
by force?"
"Do you ihink you can buy the right
to govern people?"
-What are you going to do with the
Filipino when you get him? Are you
going to kill him? Tou cannot do that,
because then you would lose your
trade argument. You have got to let
him live if you trale with him. Dead
men don't buy things. If he lives, is
he to be a citizen or a subject. Are
you going to have congressmen from
the Philippines, and senators and elec
tors? If not. are you going to have
subjects? Shall we force upon the
Porto R.!cans, because we have the
power, that which we would not bear
ourselves?"
HON. C. V.SYOBODA .
II TTa a Farmer f or SeTenteen Years
111 pd Org;aai the Alliance
and Has IWea a Talthful
Worker la Reform.
Mr. Svoboda was born in Moravia,
in In 1S74 his father, in order
to escape the blessings of Imperialism
and militarism of his country, sold out
and moved with his family to the
United States, locating at Schuyler,
Neb., where he bought Droperty and
engaged In busIneBS. Here the young
man. in addition to ten years school
ing in the old country, received his
education under the direction of Mr.
J. A. Grimison. the present district
judge of said district. Mr. Svoboda
sr. finding that he could not succeed in
business withou tthe. knowledge of the
English language, bought some land
In Howard county a new -county at
that time moved out there and en
gaged In farming. Mr. Svoboda hoped
to be able to finish hU studies, but
found this Impossible on account of
his father's financial losses and fall
ing health. So he took up the work of
the farm, being the only boy in the
family. He went through the grass
hopper plague and all the other trials
and difficulties of a western pioneer,
but good management, economy and
energy, became comparatively inde
pent financially. He spent seventeen
years of : the best part of his life at
this . occupation.
In politics, Mr. Svoboda has been a
democrat and always opposed to the
republican party, which at that time
impressed him as the aristocratic par
ty of the old country. Although he
never Bought any office, he was -compelled
by his neighbors to fill various'
minor offices. During the time of the
farmers' alliance movement, he was
president of his local alliance, later
secretary of the county alliance and
county organizer, until in the fall of
1891 he was nominated for county
clerk on the ticket of the populist par
ty, which he helped to organize. He
was elected by a good majority in a
three-cornered fight. Two years after
he was re-elected by a large majority,
and again in 1895. After the expira
tion of his third term he accepted a
position of secretary of the Nebraska
Central Irrigation company at Colum
bus, of which he was also a director;
but not finding corporation work to his
taste, he gave this up and engaged in
the brick business at St. Paul and Ord.
His business in these places is al
ready becoming quite extensive. So
much for a brief sketch of a srood Bo-hemian-Amerian
who certainly de
serves the support of all the voters of
every nationality.
We need honest and able men for
our state officers. Mr. Svoboda is the
right man. Although a farmer, he has
had a good deal of experience In busi
ness and is thoroughly acquainted
with all kinds of office work. Al
though an active worker in politics,
he never was a professional politician.
He ever bore an enviable reputation
for honesty, integrity and purity of
character.
It Is the duty of every loyal Ameri
can citizen who has the welfare of his
country at heart, to see to it that we
get men of this kind into office. In
Mr. Svoboda, the Bohemian-Americans
of Nebraska would receive recogni
tion, which they with their 25,000 votes
fully deserve.
Imperialism vs. Schools
Expenditures of United
States war department
for 1900 $150,000,000
Expenditures of United
States navy department
for 1900 75,000,000
Total for 1900 $225,000,000
School expenditures of U. S. 194,020,470
Militarism exceeds school
expenditures by over 30,000,000
Total cost of United States
government, 1899 694.000,000
Total cost of United States
government, 1896 377,000,000
Excess for imperialistic
policy $317,000,000
Equal to a per capita tax of $4.00 per
head, or $20.00 for each voter.
For any western state the imperial
istic tax is over three times the tax
ation to support the s.ate government
and all state institutions.
Hon. Theo. Griess
There can be no question but that
Mr. Griess will make a model officer.
Wherever he has been, In everey occu
pation that he has been engaged, he
has proved himself honest, effiecient
and trustworthy. Among the many
testimonials of those who have known
him is the following from the treas
urer of Clay county in whose office Mr.
Griess was employed for four years.
"I feel a personal interest in Mr.
Griess' campaign after four years of
office work with him. I cannot recall
one time when I would have had him
different. I consider Mm a model
office man, always at his post, bound
to know and willing to attend to ev
ery detail belonging to his office. The
voters of Nebraska can do no better
than to elect Mr. Griess.
GEO. A. SHIKE.
Success in Caning Fruit.
When one is especially desirous of
preserving the form and handsome ap
pearance of the fruit, the jars should
be filled to the lower part of the rim
with the uncooked fruit, and the hot
syrup poured over it to within one
Inch of the rim. Put the covers on
loosely without the rubbers, and place
the jars on a suitable frame in the
bottom of a wash boiler. Pour in
warm water up to the necks of the
jars, and allow to boil gently from five
to twenty minutes, according to the
yarlety of fruit. Then remove, fill with
boiling syrup to overflowing, wipe
with a damp cloth, put on rubbers and
seal immediately. Berries, Sherries
and currants should cook five or six
minutes, plums, sliced rhubarb, sour
apples (quartered) and peaches, about
ten minutes, sliced quinces and sliced
pineapples fifteen minutes, Bartlett
pears (halved) and tomatoes twenty
minutes, and Siberian crab apples a
little longer. Shrinkage is greatly pre
vented by allowing the fruit to cool
slowly; it is a good plan to cover the
Jars with a heavy cloth and leave them
in a warm part of the kitchen to be
come gradually cool. Good House
keeping for October. (See premium
No. 38 where the "Good Housekeep
ing" magazine is offered to readers
of The Independent at a special rate
unequalled by' any paper in the coun
try.) Watered Stock
To enable the trusts to pay divi
dends on watered stock they have
raised prices. Glance at the following
list and see how they have raised
prices.
Price of nails, 100 per cent Increase.
Price of barbed wire, 125 per cent in
crease. Builders' hardware, 45 per cent In
crease. Mechanics' tools, 10 to 75 per cent
increase.
Farm machinery, 20 to 50 per cent
Increase.
Structural iron, 75 to 100 per cent
increase.
Tinware (average), 75 per cent in
crease. Pig iron, 125 per cent increase.
Steel billets, 130 per cent increase.
General hardware, 25 to 150 per cent
jPllillllliillllH
1 at the always
1 . these
Dress Goods
Specials
50c Venetians and allwool mixtures, 36 in.
wide, sale price per yard. 39o
75c Diagonal cheviots, serges and covert
cloths, price, per yard 63 C
65c all-wool novelty; 38 inches wide,
per yard. 54c
11.00 Cheviots, navy blue and black, 50 in.
wide, and granite cloth; sale price per yd 87c
11.25 serge, 50 inches wide,
per yard . . . . ..... .$1 13
$1.50 Pea Desoe, 48 inches wide,
per yard... $1 35
A Hew Line of Flannel Waists
SMM
S3 Made up in first-class style," f 1.75 waists. . .$1 58
$3.00 French Flannel waists $2 9
5 $4.75 embreidered French flannel wasists.$4 32
Corset Bargains .
40c corsets, sizes 18, 20, and 22, a pair 25c
$1 and $1.25 Kabo Corsets, in black, sizes
19, 20, 22, 25, and up to 28, a pair - 90c
Bed
Comforts
75c comforters, full size 67c
$1.25 comforters, full size. $1 J3
$1.50 comforters, full size 35
Prints,
Flannelettes,
Outing Flannels
2,000 yards standard 6c prints, remnants 1 to
4 yards, per yard 3JC
Remnants, 5 to 8 yards, per yard. 4c
6c full standard prints, per yard . . . -4Jc
6c outing- flannel, light and dark, per yard 5c
7c outing flannel, per yard . 5o
12c and 12tC outing flannel, per yard llc
10c Flannelettes, sale price gc
TJndewear
Ladies' medium weight vests and pants,
regular 20c, sale price, each ITc
Ladies glove fitting Jersey ribbed vests and
pants, regular 50c, sale price, each 43c
-Ladies fin merino Jersey ribbed vests and
- pants, regular 75c, sale price, each 59o
Men's sanitary shirts only, worth 40c,
to close out, each 25 C
60c men's fancy random fleeced shirts and
drawers, to close out. each 45c
Men's wool underwear at, each, 75c, $1.15, $1.25
and $1.40.
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increase.
All since the inauguration of Mc
Kinley. Every dollar of that rise has been
taken out of the pockets of the pro
ducers in this country and transferred
into the coffers of the trusts. That is
McKinley prosperity. Has it benefitted
you? Aren't you one of the men who
bought some of those articles and con
tributed of your hard earnings to the
wealth of these thieves thieves who
steal according to law? Do you want
to continue to pay 100 per cent more
for your nails and 125 per cent more
for your barbed wire than they could
be sold for at a reasonable profit? If
you don't, go and vote to stop it.
The Money Question
A discussion of the money question
seems to have revived in Lincoln, at
least we judge so from the frequent
calls that have been made upon the
editor of The Independent fpr ex
planations of some very abstruse
problems In political economy con
nected with money and prices. It is
probable that this Interest has been
aroused by the rise in the price of sil
ver estimated in gold. Silver recently
sold in London for 65 cents an ounce,
notwithstanding that Teddy continues
to talk about "a 48-cent dollar."
There is no way for certain parties
to free themselves from the entangle
ments of thought in which they find
themselves entrapped except to go
back to first principles, plant their
feet on known ancUindisputable truth,
and from that sure starting point,
work their way out of the mazes of
conflicting theories.
The one truth that underlies all oth
ers in a discussion of the money ques
tion Is the "quantity theory" of the
purchasing power of money. To even
understand that, one must have a
clear understanding of what value is.
The point that has been most under
discussion of late Is: "What would
be the effect upon the price of wheat
and other farm products if silver
should rise to $1.29 cents an ounce, or,
in other words, the old ratio of 16 to 1
should be restored, with the coinage
laws of the various nations of the
world remaining as they now are?"
The answer to that is that there
would be no immediate, effect here in
the United States, or in any of the
nations using both silver and gold. All
the silver that is now mined is coined,
or goes into the arts using silver in
various products. There would be no
immediate increase in the volume of
money and therefore no effect upon
the general level of prices. But there
busy store, the high qualities and new styles of
offerings make this a memorable occasion. 1
Horse
Blankets
BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY
85c horse blankets, each 75 C
$1.25 horse blankets, each $1 13
$1.50 horse blankets, each $1 35
$2 5-A blankets, each $179
We sell
Carpets
Just received a new line in the prettieat(patterns
you ever looked at. In order to introduce this
line we are making special prices for this week:
Cotton Ingrain Carpet at 37c
Wool Ingrain Carpet at. . 62c
Worsted and
Corduroy Pants
$1.75 Kersey Pants, per pair $1 63
$2.50 Cassimere Pants, per pair $2 25
$2.70 Cassimere Pants, per pair $2 48
$1.90 Corduroy Pants, per pair $1 70
$2.50 Corduroy Pants, per pair $2 25
Write us
your needs
if you can't call
chmidt
are some silver mines that now lie
idle, how many no one knows, that
would be worked If the price of silver
should rise to $1.29 an ounce. That
would increase the output of silver
and if the nations using silver should
continue to coin all that did not go
into the arts, the volume of money
would be increased find prices would
rise.
In the countries that are upon a sil
ver basis, the effect would be far dif
ferent. The purchasing power of their
money would be doubled and the bur
den of their debts, taxes and interest
would be doubled. The consequences
in those countries would be most dis
astrous. Universal bankruptcy and
ruin would come upon them like an
avalanch. They would be In exactly
the same condition that we were in
this country after John Sherman and
the Wall street gang doubled the pur
chasing power of money in this coun
try, only it would come upon them
with suddenness, while the process
was working slowly' here for twenty
years before its full accomplishment
was attained.
Every man who has even a super
ficial knowledge of political economy
can picture what would .happen to
Mexico and the Argentine republic.
Such distress as they never saw be
fore would come down upon them, un
less they had statesmen of sufficient
ability to provide paper money enough
to offset the rise in the purchasing
power of their silver money and hold
up the level of prices in their coun
tries to the point where they are now.
With universal disaster and bank
ruptcy in the silver using countries,
which are also wheat-raising countries
and come into competition with the
farmers of the United States, there
would be reflex action upon this coun
try. If their disaster should reduce
the output of wheat and the demand
remained the same, wheat would rise
in the markets of the world. But if
their population was bankrupted, by.
the doubling of their debts, taxes and
interest, through the fall in the price
of their debt-paying products (which
is only another way of saying that the
purchasing power of their money was
doubled by the increased price of sil
ver) they would not remain purchas
ers of our products and our exports to
those countries would fall off, or cease
altogether. That would r cause some
of the factories in the United States
to close their doors, throw thousands
of workmen out of employment and
reduce the number of purchasers here.
The truth is, that the business of the
world, has been thrown into inextric
able confusion by the scoundrels who
o)o)
We have a Choice
Selection in
Jackets.
Capes, and
Collarettes
Jackets from $2.75 and up to. $18
Capes from $2.50 and up to. . $25
Collarettes from $1.50 and up to $10
Wc can positively Save you v
10 to 15 per cent on your purchase
& Bro
undertook to double the purchasing
power of money by limiting the money
to the output of the gold mines. They
have failed, absolutely failed. All that
they have succeeded In doing Is to
bring years of distress upon the pro
ducing population of many nations, of
many years' duration, and through
that robbery and distress, accumulat
ing some fortunes greater than was
ever known or dreamed of In the all
the world before. But they have not
limited the legal tender money of the
world to the output of gold, although
that output is greater than was ever
known before. All the silver that is
mined and is not required In the arts,
is coined Into money the same as it
always was.. No nation in the world
dared to attempt to complete the con
spiracy and stop the coinage of sil
ver. When brought face to face with
the direful results that were sure to
follow, they dare not. McKinley has
coined more silver than was ever
coined under the Sherman, act during
the same number of months. Silver is
coined in England, in Germany, In
France, In India, in Mexico, In all the
South American republics, In Russia,
Austria, Italy and among all nations
of the earth. No nation dare to stop
it. It constantly adds to the volumn
of money In circulation and helps by
that much to sustain the level of
prices.
The threat that these scoundrels
made was to stop the coinage of silver.
Every prediction of disaster made by
Bryan or any other authoritative op
ponent of what was called the "gold
standard," was based upon the ac
complishment of that threat. If these
world pirates had dared to do what
they proclaimed that they were go
ing to do, the disasters predicted
would have come upon as like an ave
lanch of destruction. The predictions
would have been as a gentle breeze to
the death-dealing tornado. When at
last, brought face to face with the de
struction that their gold standard pol
icy would inevitably bring upon the
human race, these conspirators lost
their courage and shrunk back. In
stead of stopping the coinage of sil
ver, they have coined all the silver
that has been mined. When the threat
that the coinage of silver was seen to
be a bogy man, silver began to rise. If
all the silver mined continues to be
coined, silver will continue to rise. If
the coinage of silver Is stopped, and
that portion of the demand is cut off,
silver will fall. .
An edition of The Independent can
not be turned into a work upon politi
cal economy, and although there are
many other things , that ought' to be
Shoes
Dainty Shoes
for Ladies
Serviceable Shoes
for Children.
Infant's Shoes, lace and button, wine and
tan, flexible sole, 1 to 4, special price . . . 32o
Babie's kid button, tip, round toe, 2J to 4
special price, pair 39o
Misses' kid button and lace, black and tan.
Hi to 2, regplar $1.35 to $1.50, a pair. .$1 23
A lot of Boys' Shoes, 12 to 54, worth up
to $2, sal price, a pair $1 28
22 pairs Ladies' kid, lace and button,
sizes 3, 3, 4, 4, and 7, were $1.75, $2
and $2.50, to close out, a pair $1 40
Our line of fine vici kid shoes for ladies, in
McKays, welts, and turns, up to date,
C, D, E, and EE, is equal to shoes sold
everywhere for $3. Come in and see
them, and if they please you try a
pair. Satisfaction guaranteed. Our
price, per pair $2 50
In warm lined
Shoes our As
sortment is
complete
911-921 O Street !
Lincoln, Neb. 1
said on this subject of the price of sil
ver discussion must be stopped right
here.
Who Hauled Down The Flag
"Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 28. A dis
patch received here from the British
commissioners' camp, near Porcupine
City, Alaska, heart of the Porcupine
mining district, says that Archer Mar
tin, justice of the supreme court of
British Columbia, and head of the
British commission, raised the British
flag there on September 17 and took
all of that portion of the Porcupine
district recently declared to be in
British territory by the International
boundary commission. He then an
nounced that the Americans, who own
all the claims in the district, must at
once apply to have their titles con
firmed by this commission.
"The sessions of the commission are
being held in a big tent guarded by
twenty mounted police."
Uncle Sam bought that territory
from Russia and paid for it in hard
cash. The flag has floated there for
more than a quarter of a century. Gold
was found there and then the British
government wanted it Just, as they
wanted the Transvaal after gold was
found there. McKinley lngloriously
hauled down the flag without firing a
shot, but Paul Kruger fought, one
against ten, as long as It was possible
to fight. Dewett is fighting yet.
To Cur Cold in on? Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
To Our Lady Friends.
The Roberts Specialty Company, ad
vertising switches and other hair
goods are vouched for by our
Chicago representative as being
worthy of the utmost confidence.
However as they send goods on ap
proval to those who state they saw
the notice In The Independent this is
all the evidence required of their
honest system. They certainly offer
great bargains.
A STRONG INSTITUTION.
The Nebraska Mercantile Mutual In
surance company Is one of those in
stitutions that seems to keep con
stantly growing and Improving.,
Its . business for August, 1900, just
closed, was a little over 25 per cent
greater than last August.
This Is an important increase. .
This company is up with the times
and worthy the patronage of Nebras
ka people. t
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