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December 13, 1900 Uebrask Independent U actio, EtbrjskM fVLSSt EILG-. CCKNU !3TIt AND N $TS SI. CO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Rtilif rns:tttci tie IT jrt. j-i'Wter, to fc r'rd4 ! iim. Tt.rjr frejuel"y fsjji rtfcJii -C-; -i ttit thaa was Jri w.ta ti.au, ei-i te Ur fail tit get v " - A4Irr all ta mvfei l.Io&, ab4 Kke all iJra"i, -Wrf. to 27; c HttrJikj Indeptadent, Lincoln, tietx twcl. '-1 t.n.rr :ja lc4 I r Th WiihiirvM Is!:- i-. Ja speaking of ll- trt&tr;::? of Hryan by the cltt teii I hi own city. .. : "Lt Un COls rot :. d'-2!- a tallowed name." Ttt t r-j.ta!'..-!!-" !' -r ;.t la the dem ocratic arty uT;:t- ! with the capital istic republic! :.a:t to d- f at Bryan. T1-t l the wt-V fjry and If one ahocM writ t-n e-olui&n It could not le tc! 3 I- .! r. Ct;ica evangelists .r.t Mo., converted lh wto taw a i.&d rfot i.vx for their j two n ks' morfc. I U j.ul that they j ftuh'm! in lth the lawyers and the tastier. 2j C'i'. i rr.Tr. r.t Las coined Elnce tit vilt.1 s ::;i -u'j.!.. 1 in guld, kiiv-r, - l i r. 35 i I t -i and bronze tae kz: totl of i: f .",'Z2l- .2". Of this prjoui.: : .'.TiC.rT. v a. uickel. flr i "': ::.;- ct it was in Hie iN:uthera M reu ry ia all of a StiiUc a. at it .-rr. toi..e to the ton t'mlju t.if t ilt rata as Cyclcne j Iteti. Harry Tracy. Stump Ash by, llxiiiiy ;:tb zi. I J. II. liradiey nfter all vrre i,'.r. t Vi It ours its vftntii all oir thrru in the hope 1 to g,H tl.eni to join ti.e Wharton Bar ter It rt work. It f . r-s th-t t -Lole rtform ! LUK irury uepartment, page 21. j-rf. rr.ti.-. ? :vrr rtpubtican j The coJnage of silver since tne close &vjS pc?'Jl.t. foUow the lead of The ! of tbe fiscaI Vear, that is, during the n-h-p .U :a, Tl. text isue after the j moDths of August, September; October fWiiop, Tt- in i nt said let j and November, ha3 been more than there t no (. t:c; -j j.-.'.:t!on to the 5oulj3 that of any three months of the n asure proposed Y tt- republican fim half ' the year, and if main party. Th-t I.aa n r. r-ate i In taintd u"til January 1, the coinage of thm:fi;I of i..pri sir.- that time, j si!ver for the year 1900 will be greater i it uUuiity. it nay be ! than for any 'ear since the govern- Ths i'hii:pp:js c-oit not only In Ui-n. but in Hi'.;-, W hav already lost two leg "attle ships and came vet y c-ir I-Miirs another. The Charle'ton an! ih Yt.-fmite. cotinc over t" '- " tarh :ir- total " losses ! &sa te Un ;yj car. v-ry c-ar being a wrt-ck.. Th dCiatr Khe sustained is t.: j't ktown. b;t t.'.'- ''Axt-r who wst !oa tr-i phszzd up the big lIe ttT in htr hull gut $15 000 for his vkwrk. A t.-r- i.t !s.t-r ;h Count Tol uol his tta publi-htd in which he lfck. ifju.e very puni-nt remarks. They rt alt. r t!, tollowtn, sort: facial Uiu la organized j-elaishness "Yoi tflp f :r gocr nment to kill HLpIsos. If u:: . t...t you are not & Christian.. "Vou Arriricans are vp thin the Mohamn:-ians. They preach vzt aaj fijrht. You pr-arh lib erty aisd pice aad go out to conquer throurh &r." Accor&izg to the dispatches sent from Maalla. the l-"ilipii.o 1 ate been takics- the oath of alk-riance to the Utile 1 Sit-s la b ;r.(. :i. of a thou- "Ed t a tin r.d there are only ittout ffeiity-tLrt Aguiraldoites It ft j courage enough to drive these sneer Is the iflansts iycrfiary Hoot also ir.g, arrogant plutocrats into silence. irfts that t nsu?t l.?r tn army of 3t0 b-iu it i'l take 7o.00 so! t!kr to whip ibu terrihle seventy three fighting Filipinos. "When the only 1 Del u tries were fOip h.o'..fe" w&s the t that the repatlitas rp. -!!-bia1t rs wrre cock litre that our troubles all tars from orer-prcl action. In thote days they ulhc f aid if lie eoiaarre of silver was tot ftoppe-l. repudiation, anarchy and uaiversaJ iuir vr;. surt to follow. Now thf y trfcg stout our exports and laxrona p.-uu action aal have coined more iilrcr than wa eve" eind N- fore ia th- arr.i"agth of time since the f-ovtrsment rras JaundKi. Mrserv e has tahen such precaution with the fsnchs of the ttate that the rp-hlicac.s w:il cot have a chance to play Hartley for som- months to come. ronowiss out the popaUs-t principles to the full? t extent n& paying the dttu of the Mate as fait as money cam into the treasury, instead of ho:tr;r.; St in the tsnks after the re publican fiibJca, there will "be but tbout fir: .'. ia the trriuury to turn over. TLi-t .is Ins, thaa some of the republican city treasurers keep la the b:Ls. will the people pay Interest the rake-cST from tiehanks is eas.kx;ova ' v SO.VK TO HAKE REPLY. It is exasperating almost beyond en durance to have to cuffer the constant reproach of the plutocratic journals when we have eo complete and over whelming a reply and no way to make reply, ro aa to reach the mass of the people. The Independent can speak to not more thaa 30.000 or 40.000 peo ple out of the 76,OC0,OO0 that consti tutes our population. If we only had tome man in congress whose words would be read in every state or some great dally that went everywhere, to make plain to the people the simple fads of the economic situation these j arrogant writers of the republican par- ty could be silenced. What are the facts? In 1836 the. re i publicans went before the pojple to j praise low prices and glorify cheap- cess. One United States senator trav j elled all over the west and whenever be appeared before an audience he bragged to thm that the suit of clothes he wore only cost $3. They declared that the coinage of silver must be stopped, or universal bank ruptcy would ensue. They declared that the future coinage of silver was equivalent to repudiation. The opposition took issue with them and said that prosperity would never return until more silver was coined 1 and more money was put in circula j tlon. They said that prices rose and fell in the ratio of increase or de crease of money in circulation. That, the republicans and sound money i 1 - a.n.. i i i . ueniea. inose were tne lssues- for a year after McKinley was elected times continued as hard as they ever had been. What did the re publicans do? They began to coin sil ver in large quantities. In 1897 they coined 118,478.297. In 1898 they coined 123,034,083. Ia 1839 they coined $26, 001,519. During the first six months of 1(j00 they coined $17,890,754 of sil ver. The gradual increase in the coin age of silver for the three years and a half may be represented as follows: 1-23-20-35. Times grew better just la tbe ratI the increase of the coin age of silver. In 1S03 and 1895. the days of the soup house industry, about which the republicans have so much to Ka". the coinage of silver was as fol lows: 18S3. $S18,7C0: in 1895, $5,698,010. These figures are taken from cir cular No. 113. issued July 2. 1900. by ment was founded. The largest coin age of silver in. any one year was in when $29,202,90S were coined. The increase in the volume of money by the coinage of gold which must be added to the immense coinage of silver since 1893 has been $534,709,867. The total increase of both gold and silver since 1893 is $059,020,492. The result has been just what ev ery populist, democrat and free silver republican said it would be. There has been a rise in the level of prices. In less than three and a half years of McKinley'B administration he has coined $S5,473.635 of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. From that coin age together with the unprecedented coinage of gold, relief from the pres sure of the hard times caused by the repeal of the Sherman act end the al most entire stoppage of the coinage of silver, has been secured. The repub lican party having coined nearly $100, 000,000 of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, adopted the policy of their opponents and given relief to the country there by, now go around with a sneer on their faces and talk about 16 to 1. That is not half as exasperating i however, as to think that we uave no j leader in congress nor' any great paper with general circulation endowed with Having enthroned themselves in pow er and the seciorage from which this coinage of silver has been made being miarly exhausted, it remains for them to stop coining silver for a while and we shall have '93 over again. McKin ley has coined $85,O00,C00 of silver at ! the ratio of 16 to 1 in three years and i a half and the republicans go around j with a sneer on their faces thinking j that 16 to 1 has bean abolished. But ! then these insane partisans don't know I any better There are, however, parties who do know better. When they went about j the country in 1896 denying the quan tlty theory of money, they were con sciously and purposely propagating falsehood. So far did they push their contention. General Walker, America's great economist, felt compelled to force an article into the Harvard Jour nal of economics, confuting them ! These gentlemen knew what they were doing when they began coining silver by the ton at the ratio of 16 to 1. They argued that It would be of Interest to themselves and plutocracy to ease up on the pressure that was tearing down on the people for Just a little, lest their whole scheme should be overthrown. If they could produco Just a little prosperity by an Increase in the vol ume of money In circulation, that would be sufficient tx keep them in power. If kept In power for another four years, they could establish a great standing army, secure the pass age of a ship subsidy bill appropriat ing millions and other things of like nature, which would not onty increase their wealth, but ten! to make them secure when the coinage of silver would stop from exhausting the sen iorage They well knew that a very little prosperity would satisfy the hungry and suffering people. They counted on the fact that not one voter in ten thousand had a knowledge of political economy. They could coin silver by the ton, produce better times and say it was the result of the benign influence of McKinley, while they de nounced the very thing that they themselves were doing from every stump and in every publication in the land. And there was no one to make reply. GRIND EXCEEDING FINK. The Independent warned the little bankers two years ago, when they were giing their aid and influence to the financial manipulators of New York But most of them never having read a work on banking in their lives, much less one on political economy, they rushed madly forward to help to ruin their own business. Dr. Hall of the state banking board did what he could to restrain their onward rush to ruin. They would listen to nothing. They were told that the system they were helping to establish would finally end In one big bank and they, instead of being independent bankers and busi ness men, would degenerate into clerks, executing the orders of the big mogul located in Wall street. But they had lived on Wall street inspira tion so long that they had come to be lieve that a man who did not do busi ness there of course knew nothing of banking or business. Now some of them are biting their finger nails and really making, perhaps for the first time in their lives, an effort to think. The next thing that they know, they will be sucking their thumbs and pa tiently waiting for something to turn up. Some of them have been looking over the list of Standard Oil banks and trying to figure out how long It will be before Rockefeller will run the whole thing. Here are some of the Standard Oil banks, and there soon will be others, all under the control of one man. New York National City bank, $10,- 000,000. Hanover National, $3,000,000. Second National, $300,000. Bank of the Metropolis, $300,000. Lincoln National of New York, $300,- 000. National Park, $2,000,000. First National of Chicago, $3,000,000. United States Trust Co., $2,000,000 Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., $1,000,- 000. Central Trust Co., $1,000,000. Total capital, $22,900,000. This grand banking organization of Rockefeller also has a surplus of $44, 023,274 and carries deposits to the amount of $432,029,200, besides having deposits to the amount of $21,640,000 from the United States treasury. through the good graces of Secretary Gage, without having to pay any in terest. Rather frequently of late some of these bankers swho have been biting their nails all to no purpose, wend their way to the office of Nebraska's fusion bank commissioner or modest ly ask for an audienze somewhere else. They don't get much comfort. Slowly and surely the banking bus iness is going into the hands of a trust, or rather into the control of one man. When these little bankers had a chance to save their business they would not listen to words of wis dom. Now it Is too late. Nothing short of a cateclysism will save them. Within a few years they will all be In the maw of the great octopus, which they brought up and developed by their votes. What will the little bank ers do then? Part of them will be clerks and cashiers and the remainder will be counting ties. They do not know-how to work and they will make very picturesque Wandering Willies. They need not go to Rockefeller's back door for a cold hand-out. He will tell them that he does not believe in that form of charity. He makes his dona tions only for the founding of great plutocratic universities. The mills of the gods grind slow. That is the way with economic laws. But they grind exceeding fine. The federation of labor has a com mittee to look after legislation. Presi dent Gompers In speaking of that work in his annual report says: "Although it is true we cannot claim to have been very successful in the passage of laws favorable to the interest of labor dur ing the second session of the present congress, yet we have secured the abolition of slavery, or involuntary servitude, in the Hawaiian islands. If this one feature would be but the only record which we could show, it would still be an achievement worthy of our cause and worthy of our efforts." Stool pigeon parties had their, full swing in the last election and Hanna worked them for all that was in them. Political stool pigeons will probable exist to the end of time. Some of them are stool pigeons for money and soma for want of vaense. The. "move on" orders of charity boards and police authorities should be stopped. There is nothing more vicious. It has been a practice of both of these powers for some years. When ever a pauper has appeared and it was possible for the authorities to do so, they took measures to pass him on to some ether community to support. Ev ery day in the police courts cases are dismissed against petty criminals if they agree "to leave town immediate ly." The practice is to De condemned from every consideration that enters into the suppression of crime or the support of the helpless. There is noth ing to be gained by it for all the towns are engaged in the same sort of busi ness. As soon as one lot has been gotten rid of another lot is shipped from some other town. . The right treatment to be given cannot be learned until new arrests have been made and iong and patient investiga tions have been made. The result is that the same parties are arrested and investigated time and time again when one arrest and investigation would be sufficient if these "move on" orders were abolished. Just at present, Oma ha and Lincoln are. overrun with this kind of people on account of the "move on" orders recently issued in Chi cago. Joe Chamberlain may find out be fore he is through with the matter that marshalling the London rabble to back his schemes of conquest and the destruction of two Christian re publics has a double back: action at tachment. When he encouraged the slums of London to engage in a sa turnalia of drunkenness lasting for twenty-four hours to celebrate his vic tory over the Boer farmers, he thought he was at the height of glory. But now there are omnious rumblings to be heard in the East End. On account of the Boer war the cost of living has very greatly increased. Lipton's char ity restaurants have been forced to raise the price of meals from nine to eleven cents and the price of coal has doubled. To the hundreds of thousands who were always on the verge of star vation, this sudden rise in prices means starvation itself. . Even this sodden mass of humanity can see that the doubling of the price of coal is the direct result of the war, hundreds of thousands of tons of it being con sumed in the ships that carry supplies and soldiers to and from Africa. There are omnious mutterings in the east end of London, and it would be but repeating history if their idol of yesterdaj' became the one upon whom they would pour out their wrath. It is a dangerous thing to rely upon the rabble. - ' The Denver News takes the com missioner of Indian affairs to task in a very savage way for declaring that there are as many Indians as there were in the days of Captain John Smith. The News does not state the source of its authority when it rattles off its sarcastic comments. The writer of the News' editorial probably never gave an hour's time to the in vestigation of the facts. The editor of The Independent was the first man in the United States to make the pub lic statement, some twenty years ago, that the Indian population was not decreasing and had not materially de creased since the first settlements on this continent. Since that time thou sands of dollars and years ' of time have been spent by the scientists of the Smithsonian institute investigat ing the subject and they all agree to the statement of Commissioner Jones. The proof Is incontestible and of such a nature as to convince any man who will investigate the subject. The Ind ian is here to stay. As he becomes educated and adopts the white man's way, it may be "seem" that he is dis appearing "before the onward march of civilization." But he is not. A story comes from missionaries in China to the effect that the foreign troops loot and outrage the Chinese Christian converts the same as they do the native heathen. The fact seems to be that the boasted discipline of the long trained regular armies of Europe is no discipline at all. The barrack life of these armies has destroyed all moral sense In both officers and men and they are worse than savages. De moralization and degeneracy is the tendency in all standing armies, the small army of the United States being an exception to the rule in consequence of their almost continual service in preserving law and order on the fron tier. If they had been shut up in bar racks year after year, surrounded by a suppliant population, the result would have been different in their case. The old army of the United States, with its high sense of honor, its devotion to duty, its ard and con stant service has passed away and we shall know it no more. In its place there will appear one modeled after the European fashion, and scandal, plots and military arrogance will be its distinguishing features. The Nonconformist, bearing an Oma ha date line, edited in the clouds, and published no one knows where, for the paper bears no announcement of a place of business, places The Indepen dent in . the category of papers that dare not say anything abou nrtiy'm pardon. . If the man who prepares the matter for that institution will reprint what The Independent has said on the su eject of Bartley's pardon, its read ers will get more interesting reading matter' than they have seen xn a long time. A paper that dare not announce its place of business, has no editorial room, does not own a single "m"-quad, that has meandered all over the west ern states, proved a hoodoo to the in habitants wherever it has been, that is edited by a democrat -whom every body respects, and is owned by a so cialist, who pretends to support an other political party, will not create any great destruction when it assaults The Independent. It would better work along its own lines and stick to its hog cholera business. The quality and texture of the hypocrisy of republican editors is something different from what man kind has been acquainted with. It is so childlike and bland, so full of tricks that are vain, so utterly brazen, so inherently devilish, so completely degenerate, that it Is not only inde scribable, but wholly incomprehen sible. Listen to the editor of Kear ney county Wilcox Blade. "He (Mr. Mahn) shows about $6,000 paid out, with over $1,800 of unpaid bills. Won der what all that money went for? If you will only stop to think that that is more in proportion for state officers than what Mr. Dietrich's statement shows of his account." Now isn't that decidedly rich? Mr. Mahn's statement is an honest account of the whole expenses of the populist national and state campaign in this state. What does any honest man think of that expenditure in compari son with the hundreds of thousands of dollars put Into Nebraska by the republican national and state commit tee? Who paid for Dietrich's buttons that were distributed by the thousand? Their cost has. never turned up in any account filed under the law. Who paid the wages of all the men that were brought into this state to vote! No bill for that has ever been filed. The president enacts laws for the whole Philippine nation consisting of 10,000,000 people, the enacting clause reading: "By the authority of the president of the United States be it enacted.", Millions of dollars that are taxed out of those people without representation are thus appropriated at the will of the president acting through a commission of his own ap pointees. Now congress proposes to give him the'authority to double the army of the United States whenever he sees fit. These encroachments upon constitutional government and acts of extreme imperial authority excite but little comment. It begins to look as if when Senator Hoar said that the in auguration of McKinley marked the downfall of the American republic, he was simply telling the truth. But Senator Hoar would not do as much as to raise his little finger to preserve that republic. That there has been a moral degen eracy during the past fifty years no one can doubt. Fifty years ago there were but two papers in the world vile enough to report prize fights and the students of all the respectable schools in England were forbidden to read them under pain of expulsion. Now the great dailies give columns to the reports of the most disgusting de tails and those papers go to all the families of the United States. Even my lady takes them into her boudoir to feast her dainty soul upon the blood and bruises. The conflicts of gladia tors to which the Roman maidens flocked in thousands were not more brutal. The American girls of fifty years ago thought those Roman maid ens were "horrid." Now they imi tate them. A football game has no charms for them if there is no con testant killed or wounded. The Philadelphia Record after call ing the corporations "only agencies for taxation," says, "the farmers can compel the corporations and combina tions to fair dealing whenever they shall choose to do so." But they don't want to. Hundreds of thousands of them would rather have the glory of saying that they voted the Mark Han na ticket, than to have low freight rates or the benefits arising from pur chasing wire, nails, sugar and salt at a reasonable price. All the ambition of their lives consist"? in the privilege of going to the polls once a year and casting a republican ballot. To even insinuate in the most polite way that it is not to their interest to vote for trusts, great standing armies and na tional banks, throws them into an in sane iury and sometimes they becomo really dangerous. The disbursements of dividends and Interest In New York on the first of January will be, including interest on government and city bonds, the enor mous sum of $695,463,800. Not a cent of tax is levied upon these millions. The men' who receive it contribute nothing to tho support of armies, na vies, courts, police or the common schools. Is It any wonder that wealth .continues to concentrate with accel erated velocity In the hands of the There is no tax on incomes. rAU FRANK IAM; returned from i i iiim. lions to Nebraska ia iUU Onlt man in Luited He imported. 28 Black Percherons 23 They are the "r rliments, TLe most "row talk." The people throuic his barns and bubble over with th com Rt and larfresHblaclc stallions I erer saw," -Every one a winner.'- "Ttie rmt d," "Bat lams always tias the largest and finest horses," "Won't hare cnlU s win at state fairs. He has on hand mms ever imported." "tint lam alwav "His horses a. ways win at state fair.1' He has 100 Black Percharons, Siiiras, They are two to five years old, weight 1.600 to 2,400. lams has mere black stab lions, more ton and big stallions, more cracker-jacks, more tops, government approved, royal bred stallions, than ALL importers or Nebraska. lams speaks Fiench and German; needs no inter preter; knows the breeders in perch colstt. This, with twenty-five years' experience, saves him $.4J0on each stal lion, and he selects only the very best individuals. Has no salesman ' saves you middlemen's profit. Guarantees to show yon more ton black Percheron stal lions than all importers of Nebraska, or pay fare and $20. Don't be a clam Write Iams. FRANK IMPORTED "T" i L L. PERCHERONS AND SHIRES. We offer O . more quality, size and action for less ui ney than any importers in America You cannot afford to buy with- y. out getting our prices. Write us to day, tell us what you want and we will give you complete description and price by return mail. Watson, Woods Bros. & Kelly Go. g S&rJ&XiSf&r, Bloc. Lincoln, Nebraska, a SHIP Thfr is no wav to iret full value for your produce except by suippioir direct to market. The fewer hands the products of the farm passes through before reaching the consumer the more prolit there is for the producer. We Distribute Direct to the Consumer. We receire and sell BUTTER, KGOS, VEAL, POULTRY, GAME, I-UK. HIDES, PELTS, WOOL. POTA TOES, SEED, ItKOOM COllS, POP COltX, liEAISS, HAY GRAIN, GREEN AND DRIED FRUIT Of 11 kinds, or anvthintt vou mnv have to dispose of. H trnarantee prompt sales and quick returnn for all shipments.also full market priceand full weig;lit;weRuarantee to gett"ifiiore money lor your prouuet tnan you can ei at uome. ne niiiiueni wui convince you u uiii laci We are reliable and tesponsible; you run no risk in shipping lo us; have been established here for 21 years. Write us for prices, shippiug tajrs or any information you may wait, SUMHERS, BROWN & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND RECEIVERS FOR THE PEOPLE, Itef. Produce Exchange Bank, Chicago, and this paper. 198 S. Water St., Chicago. The annual salary of a retired major-general is $5,625 and of a brigadier general $4,125. They retire under the law at the age of sixty-four years. If the program laid down in the military bill submitted to congress is carried out there will soon be forty or fifty of these gentlemen on the retired list. Militarism and imperialism come high. Call on your republican neigh bor and tell him to plant more corn and sow more wheat;- The privileged classes grow larger and their salaries constantly increase. x If the Nonconformist objects to be ing called a hoodoo. The Independent is prepared to defend the use of the term. A "hoodoo" is denned by the lexicographers as one who causes bad luck. The Nonconformist was down in Kansas until it hoodooed the party there. Then It went to Indiana and proved to be the worst hoodoo that ever struck the state. In Nebraska, the populists withstood all kinds of as saults and were ever victorious until this hoodoo landed in Omaha and then we were knocked "galley west." If Mark Hanna wants to carry Texas, let him persuade the Nonconformist to go down there and Joe Bailey and Hogg won't be in it after that. The glory of the old army has passed away forever. Its officers were men almost without, exception of unblem ished honor But this new army will be a different affair. When Mark Hanna gets through with the appoint ment of six major-generals, fourteen brigadier-generals, and colonels, ma jors, captains and lieutenants without number from the ranks of plutocracy, we will have such an army as the world never saw before. It will be about as much protection to this coun try a3 an embankment of paper boxes. But then they will all draw their salaries and there will be plenty of army scandals to interest the people. Long live tbe Army! If any man saj-s a word against it, let him be sent to Devil's Island for life. One of the greatest perversions of morals and logic Imaginable cropped out in the discussion of the army bill on the floor of the house the other day. Replying to Mr. McCall, Mr. Hull declared that until congress acted to the contrary we must assert and enforce our sovereignty over the Phil ippines or disgrace ourselves before the world. To declare that we would disgrace ourselves by doing right, by upholding the principles upon which this republic was founded, by reaffirm ing the Declaration " of Independence and.standing by the constitution wnicn we have all taken an oath to main tain, is certainly the greatest perver sion of the moral nature and the in tellectual powers ever recorded. ).-t .). 1900. with L.AtOh.ST importation of iinl tot a tea that imported ALL BLACK TALLii!f on hand Glydas and Coachars 100 St. Paul, Howard Co.. Nebraska, on B. & M and Union Paciiic Hy. o o HARDY'S COLUMN Equal Taxation Stand up for Ameri ca Republicans Can Our Courts Our Schools Commission Knocked Out Oil Inspection Can Go Labor Office, Too Board of Control Equal Taxation. Michigan has just adopted a consti tutional amendment requiring railroad companies to pay taxes according to the value of their property the same as farmers. Heretofore railroad prop erty went ocott free. Why should England have anything to say about our isthmus canal? We said nothing about the Sues canal. The time may come when we do not want England to change her navy from one ocean to the other bo readily. Stand up for America if you are an American and let England stand up on her continent. The republicans huve it in their hands to bring about reforms in this state that will give them much credit. They can do away with many foolish things, that they themselves adopted and started a few years ago. In the first place the legislature can be run for much less money than it his been. Fifty clerk3 and waiters In each house are a plenty. The senate, thirty-three members, had at one time one hundred and twenty-two. Our courts are too expensive. We do not believe that assistant nupreme judges are really necessary. The three are working out nearly as many discussions as the six did. The last decisions rendered were on cases tried in district court. less than thrte years ago. Then many oi the cases coming up now are almost duplicates of some of those already decided and all that Is necessary Is to rewrite an old de cision. There are five or six more dis trict Judges than are necessary. Some of them do not spend to exceed, fifteen or twenty weeks in a whole year hold ing court. They all draw the same salary. The three Judges of Lancas ter could do the work of Sewtird and Saline without sweating undr the collar. We believe that the regents should have the same control and manage ment of our university and normal schools that the school boards have of the public schools in our cities. They know better what should be done and what needs doing. Any other pub lic interest should be allowed to suffer for want of care and support rather than our schools. It Is now or never with the education of our -boys and girls, but not so with any other Inter est. The different legislatures so far have been quite liberal toward our university. The railroad commission has al ready been knocked out by the courts. It has always been an expensi-re lux ury; three men drew large salaries and one of them did most of the work. Then there was a lady secretary who has done the most of the writing for the three secretaries at a good salary.! The republicans made the o(fl:e nnd' run it the same way and at ths same excuse, and the fusionist seemed to think it would be a crime to lessen . the number of appointments. One com missioner could have done all the work just as well as the three and a !erk, for they could do nothing only look :- S-i; . Av A" 1 lAIVSS, ON S