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December 13, 1000. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. ! Take LaxMi- l!roi3? Q-i!s:ce TsV iftm. All drajrflfts refund ,b rcony if It fill to cur. E. Y. Crote' t:g ts.tur I a ach ba. lit-. LIKE A S50.0J WATCH. D S0LI) FILLED iCTLJr Wf fe iii."-4 -st--w. ct -shu a- m. m Mt-.t fa, h( r . -fci-r-,: - t C .--ik (IV, tf QTEEL RnfiGESH O at Mil r ooirr . T f rwfM, frtiir, I , f . ' f r j iw teat I -. ' mm'f wtimt MitriiTiii 2.. ''iXr'-rl irs Yea Deaf?? - tJrf. &. l itti.tli.l. ri' fit fi t rrm f--. - 'vv VAtSHTE3 20 TURS -sgta - P a SI BOTTLE I i.ef. t rry Sht-rry . . . . . 49C ire T .c IGc I. 'c !5c r r Tic ::.c -:c :- ; : .-. ""."s . liuv- r s . . . . ':.,;u:. U " - .-V r- ' r - j2, , : 5 T-.-1 T" Hv: a'irr.; !"-.":'. , . . ' . .. - ' ' ' t . , f T " ' A r H:i'r V;jrvr J : ; K - - !: "A ; : r- j.. : ! , : - r. -:t:-- -. -ry , ; r DinnQ CLTRATfl I V I vJ Vi Dru-ist. lit': n I O :r'' L:r.-,.-i. ;.hrnia. -NOTR't: ai.j: r!!:k ' j i at- t::l Mt?:tTii.;;i;. V ":-- !!' 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T?-ctt:j. rs a f. !'.. V Tojv-a. J.. n F ?.1 H f'-ara. IU. Tt i;t. Jo- 5 : 4c Urar, . l-,an4 U"ttl-n-ay r.. it- Kik & Oniha I'.a!!";-! o I a-nl f s r'-r Ofac ft, ?!o . NyvmlT "). 1f). Wltilea he Testh and Sweslen Ita Breath Try e T la Wah tna ljr IJ.MIa iMatit. A fjr a ha':: ; '. Ii .tt!f. Dr. F D. Sherwin, Dentist. Hr tiUt. k l-M-aMrv ran rev. LI NCOLN - . NHR3ASKA k ) ra? SEND NO MONEY BRYAN n. HcKINLEY trk' Great Commoner All the World 1 It. Ia last Sunday's edition of the New York World there 13 a criticism of the pre$!deats message by V. J. Bryan. It Is given great proraTaence in that paper and is of Interest to everybody. It Is read by ten times more people than erer wade4 through the columns of McKluley's official document. It is the anamoly of the age that the words of one of our fellow citizens of Lin coln, holding no oSce, fought by all the wealthy of the whole country, hounded by the malice and hatred of tecs of thousands whom he has only tried to benefit, living quietly in his modf-ft home with bis wife and chil dren, r hould be looked for and read by the millions with more interest than thoe of the highest cfCcer ?n the land. The article was in part as follows: Neither does the president allude to the fact that our own course in the Philippines has aroused the fear that we may at any time feel ourselves called by destiny to assume control of fo much of the empire (of China) as ws have avarice to desfre and the force to subdue. lie refers to the Instructions given the commission wh"ci he appointed and authorized to administer civil gov frnnifnt. and says that the people of the Philippines should be "made plainly to understand that there are certain preat principles or government which have been made the basis of our poverumental system and which we df-'-ni essential to the rule of law and the maintenance of individual freedom." And then be proceeds to set forth specifically the principles which are deemed essential. He culls them "inviolable rules." and declares that they must be imposed upon every di vision and branch of the government of the Philippines. The "principles" are nearly all co pied verbatim from the ten amend ments adopted immediately after the ratification of the constitution. The significant thing about this code Is that it omits entirely the two prin ciples of greatest importance to the preservation of liberty and the ad ministration of law. No mention is made of the doctrine of ee!f-government. There is no trace anywhere of the "self-evident truth that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov erned." The wholo plan rerts upon the theory tit a government can be im posed by an outside power, and that the subject must obey all rules, orders or decrees emenatlng from the foreign Fovereien or disobey at his peril. There Is no difference In substance between the president's plan for the govern ment of the American colonists or Queen Victoria's plan for the govern ment of India and the Transvaal. We are to have a republic in name, but an empire in fact; we are to clothe a president with the prerogatives of a king. Hut this is not the most striking omission, for the Porto Rican bill gave the country some intimation of the in tention of the republican leaders to discard the principles of self-government. One paragraph of the president's in structions to the commission reads as follows: "Trm in all criminal prosecutions the arcusfKl shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial; to be informed of th nature and cause of the accusa tion: to be confronted with witnesses nn:rt him: to have compulsory pro cess for obtaining witnesses In his favor, and have the assistance of coun sel for his defense." The sixth amendment reads as fol lows: "In til criminal prosecutions the ac ni(sl shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of th? etate and district wherein the rrlm- Fhall have been committed, wfck-h district shall have been prev iously ascertained by law, and to be Informed of the nature and cause of the ncrnsatinn; to be confronted with the witnesses against him: to have compulsory process for obtaining wit-nrv-o in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel fcr his defense." rpon a comparison of the two it will be found that the president has omit ted the following words: "By an impartial jury of the state an! district wherein the crime shall have Lnn committed, which district fhall have ben previously ascertained by law." That there words were emitted in tentionally is evident, because the rest of the amendment is copied literally. It Is clearly the intention of the ad ministration to deny to the Filipinos the right of trial by jury. The jury system is not only an important but an Indispensable part of the admin istration of justice, although there is a belief prevalent among the corpora tions that we have outgrown it. Th cjause of the sixth ftmendment omitted from the president's instruc tions a!o provides that the accused td. all be trif-d in his own district, a tafejruard always considered essential. Tt1? president looks forward to a tlm in the near future when the Fili piros will gladly and gratefully accept such government as we think best for tL-ni. His optimism Is not warranted by anything which has occurred in tne prist. History furnishes no example of a people who willingly remained sub jects, and we must renounce the theor ies which have until three years ben universally accepted in this country before c can consider a colonial pol icy rii'ht in principles or believe that it is pood In practice, either for the dominant or the servient people. In to far as the message touches upon questions which were promi nent in the campaign, it confirms the warnlrirs uttered by those who op posed the republican party. It remains to be sen whether republican policies when fully developed will prove satis factory to those who gave their sup port to the republican ticket, KEELEY PROBABLY SAFE lBtr-t!n( I aw Points Involved in the Tri.l of tb. JiK.tal Iefttolter. The Neely extradition case was ar gued Monday In the supreme court. All the judges were present. The ar gument developed interesting and Im portant questions of law with refer ence to the right of the United States to extradite a fugitive criminal In the absence of an extradition treaty, and especially with reference to the right of the president, since the ratification of the treaty of Paris, to maintain a military form of government in the island of Cuba. The latter feature of the argument made it the first of the arguments which bring up for final de cision by the supreme court the con stitutional relations between this country and the territorial acquisitions which it has gained us a result of the Spanish-American war. The Neely case referred exclusively to the character of these relations, so far as the Island of Cuba was con cerned, and thus presented an inde pendent question from that which will be argued on December 17, when the character of these relations with Por to Rico will be under consideration. J. D. Lindsay of the New York bar opened the argument for Neely. He claimed that there existed in Cuba, prior to our intervention, a Cuban re public. This republic, he said, the United States recognized on April 20, 1S98, when it passed a joint resolution, signed by the president, which de clared "that the people of the Island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent." He claimed that the United States did not make war against the Cuban republic, but recognized it, was its ally, and therefore the success of the American army did not mean that Cu ba was conquered, but that the Span ish troops were driven out of the ter ritory of a friendly ally. When the treaty of Paris was ratified the war ceased, and as no war had been de clared against the Cuban republic all further justification under the war making power to occupy Cuba ceased, and the president should, immediately upon the ratification of the treaty, or within a reasonable time thereafter, have withdrawn the army. He claim ed, therefore, that the institution and maintenance by the president of a military government in Cuba was, and is. without authority under interna tional law, and in flagrant contraven tion of the constitution of the Unjted States. He further urged that such military government was unconstitu tional, as it was essentially a prose cution of war against the Cuban re public, and as congress alone had the authority to declare war against the Cuban republic the control of Cuba by the president as commander-in-chief was a virtual prosecution of war without the authority of congress. He denied that such government could be justified under the war power, as the war power has no existence, ex cept in time of war, when the war is authorized by congress, and that the president could not use the national forces for the purpose of governing Cuba. He relied on the case of ex parte Milligan. He argued, finally, that. In any event, as to the trial in the Cuban court without a grand jury or a petit jury, Neely could not be tried before them without violation of the sixth, seventh and eighth amendments. IHAT SKIP SUBSIDY BILL A Direct Donation of $9,O00,000 a Yer to American Millionaire. In the light of Mr. McKinley's ex pressed approval of ship subsidies and the enthusiastic advocacy of them by Senator Hanna and other party lead ers, a shipping law may be forced upon the country, but in its passage the present administration will incur a grave responsibility. The theory of paying subsidies i to encourage the growth of commercial enterprises which do not thrive in natural condi tions is bad enough in itself. If mon ey is not now invested in American shipping it is because more profitable uses for that money are found else where. Admitting that it is desirable that American ships carrying Ameri can products and manned by Ameri can seamen should ply upon the high seas, the government would be abund antly justified in removing restrictions upon shipping; but it has no more jus tification for going out of its way to pay bounties for ships than it would have to pay bounties to inaugxrate or encourage any other line of profit making industry. The shipbuilding in dustry already enjoys certain legisla tive advantages; building materials are admitted duty free; the coastwise carrying trade is exclusively limited to American-built vessels; the postal subsidies, moreover, are immensely greater than those paid by Great Brit ain. Were these privileges to be sup plemented by legislation looking to a change in the system of registry and other reforms, the shipping business would have all the encouragement it needs or is entitled to. Bad as is the principle of subsidies, however, the proposed measure is still worse in the methods by which it would make the payments. The bill provides for thed isbursement of $9, OQ0.OOO in subsidies each year for thir ty years. Theoretically this is for the purpose of increasing our foreign trade Practically., it would be a strong in centive to the companies now in busi ness to unite and discourage competi tion. In fact, the bill, with remark able perspicacity as to the require ments of the wealthy men who now control the leading lines, specifies that "a foreign-built vessel hereafter ad mitted to American registry" shall not receive compensation, thus restricting the subsidy payments to those who al ready have acquired their vessels by purchase. There is an abundance of testimony of great weight to prove that the whole subsidy project as applied to shipping lines is a fallacy. As Mr. Benjamin Taylor points out in the current issue of the Forum, England's great com merce has grown steadily in its pres ent enormous dimensions although the British mail subsidies are in no sense subsidies as now proposed. Less than 3 per cent of England's tonnage re ceives this artificial support. France, on the other hand, with liberal boun ties is making no progress in ship ping. Notwithstanding these facts of rec ord, the people of the United States are now asked to burden themselves with the payment of $9."000,000 a year for subsidies' which will go primarily to enrich a certain few wealthy vessel lines. As things now stand, congress might as well vote a direct donation of . several millions a year annually to the operators pf those lines.,. . Before the republican members of congress vote to commit their party to this measure let them consider well the consequences which must ensue if this piece of dubious legislation proves to be nothing more. nor less than a scandalous game'. of grab. Chicago Record. Fictitious Prosperity Last week's record of the stock mar ket was phenomenal alike In the num ber of transactions and In the advances in quotations. The reported transac tions in the four days, including the half day of Saturday, on the stock ex change alone aggregated 50,000,000 shares at a par value of $500,009,000, and the actual transactions exceeds the capacity of the ticker to report them. The Increase in the value of the stocks dealt in exceeded $500,000,000. Monday continued the excitement, with sales of over 1,600,000 shares re ported and the ticker working over time in the vain effort to keep pace with the activity of the market. This would be a welcome evidence of "prosperity" if it represented any real addition to the wealth and re sources of the country, but the slight est reflection suffices to show; that it represents nothing of the kind. A railroad share or an "industrial" has no value except that which is derived from its capacity to earn money by carrying on its business of transporta tion or manufacture. The transfer of a share or of a million shares from one speculator to another adds noth ing whatever to its value or to the value of the property it represents. In the whole volume of transactions un der notice it is probable that less than 5 per cent represents investments the other 95 per cent pure gambling, and it is not worth while arguing the proposition that no country can pos sibly become rich from any amount or gambling among its citizens. World. Hit The Coal Barons It appears from the reports of the coal roads that the strike of the min ers in the anthracite coal region was a body blow to the coal barons. It cost the railroad and coal companies not less than $10,o00,000 in gross earnings and will actually have cost them in profits in the neighborhood of $5,000, 000. The losses of the roads in Octo ber alone, reports for which are just issued, according to the Financial Chronicle, aggregated $6,812,338. The Reading reports gross receipts of the railway company for the month of October this year at only $1,878,281, as against $2,517,143 for the same month last year, while the receipts of the coal and iron company were but $1,021,046, compared with $3,389,460 in October, 1899. The net for the railway company is no more than $364,866. against $1,062,921, and the coal and Iron company shows a deficit below expenses of $145,154, against net earn ings of $390,718 last year. In like manner the Lehigh Valley railroad earned only $1,645,122 gross, against $2,475,563, and the Lehigh Val ley Coal company but $679,000 gross, against $2,418,356, while in case of the net there is a deficit.ibelow expens es for the two companies of $356,159, as against $697,261 net earnings in 1899. The Central of New Jersey lost $414,721 in its gross for the month and $648,330 more on the Lehigh & Wilkesbarro Coal company; in the net the decrease Is respectively $390, 035 and $139,509. The Ontario & Western return has also come to hand showing heavy decreases. Hungarian Anti-Trust Law In this country Hanna says there are no trusts. Others say that the trusts are an evolution and you can't do anything to an evolution. Others say that the trusts are a good thing. The Hungarians don't look at trusts that way. The Hungarian minister of commerce is drafting legislation to control the trusts by which the fol lowing Hungarian industries are domi nated: Jute, syrups, petroleum, can dles, soda, starch, ropes, string, iron, coal, glass, chemical products, artifi cial manure, paper, matches and bran dy. The bill requires the members to publish the terms of the agreements which constitute basis of the trust. Trust accounts must be submitted to an official auditor. In the event of any trust raising the price of an article to a sum that seriously affects the in terests of consumers the government may suspend or abolish the tariff du ties on this particular article, thus counteracting the influence of the trust by foreign competition. The minister of commerce also in cases of necessity may take over the control of a trust whose operations are considered injurious to the inteii ests of the state. In case of great urgency the government may absolute ly confiscate the whole trust, com pensating the individual firms and conducting the industry as a state de partment. That Hungarian minister of com merce must be a pop. At any rate he purposes to put the pop doctrines con cerning trusts into force. We shall watch the result with interest. The Dead Sent Home A while ago we had what was said to be an uncensored dispatch from the Philippines. Since that the cables have ticked no more save to toll off the list of dead and wounded. On December 10 the transport Hancock arrived ' at San Francisco from Manila with a gruesome cargo. It consisted of the bodies of about 1,500 sailors and sol diers who either died in battle or suc cumbed to the ravages of disease in the Philippines, China, Guam and Honolulu. This is the largest number of bodies brought home since the out break of the Spanish-American war. The Hancock will likely remain in quarantine a few days. The bodies will be conveyed to the Presidio and placed in the buildings there, pending interment or shipment to the homes of the relatives. The Hancock was twenty-five day3 In making the run from Manila and was seventeen days in coming from Nagasaki, the last port at which she touched. She brought fifty-two cabin passengers, 500 in the steerage and there were eleven deaths on the voyage to adsJ to the cargo of dead carried from the Philippines. ' , . ' ARGA LINCOLN CLOAK & LOT I LOT 3 Ladies' Cloth Jackets. Ladies' Plush Capes. These Jackets are made of good Made of Saltz Plush, plain or m-u' n v i i i J i crushed, with Thibet Fur Trimming. Iversey Cloth, well lined: colors, black, j . . . , - , . , lhese Capes are well lined, 27 inches brown, castor and red; worth as high in eu th with 1QQ indi B ' as $9.00. ' Sale Price - $6.00 Sale Price - $4.75 ' LOT 4 LOT 2 Children's Jackets, Ladies' Cloth Jackets. We have about SO Jackets left in sizes 4, G, 8, 10 and 12. Made of As Worth up to 812.00. Choice 7.75 trakhan or . Covert Cloth. All good each. Made of Kel vey cloth, Irish styles and colors. Frieze and AstrakliaU cloth. Extra QUr Choice - S2.50 quality of Lining. , Best Bargain of the Season. LOT 5 Misses' Jackets. Special PriceS OD. OUr We have about 40 of these Jackets left in sizes 14, 16, and 18. Made of stock of London Box Astraki ian, Covert and Beaver cloth. All good color and styles. Coats and Automobiles Your Choice for $3.50 t ' Misses' and Children's Golf Capes, to close out at 1-3 off. Ladies Lincoln Southeast Corner O and 13th Streets, Mail Orders given prompt attention. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. T. J, Hoyle, Attorney. In the matter of the estate of (. Thomas Efiaa, Deceased, t Notice is hereby Riven that in pursuance of an order of Edward P. Holmes, Judge of the District court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, made on the 9th day of November A. D., for the sale of the real estate hereinafter do scribed, there will be sold at public auction at the east door of the court bouse at Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, on the 20th day of December A, D.. It), at two o'clock p. m. to the highest bidder for cash the following de scribed real estate, towit: Lots one and two of Yates and Thompson's Subdivision of block 13 in the city of Lincoln. Lancaster county, Nebraska, being No. l'J40 North 21st St. in the city of Lincoln, Said sale will remain open one hour. Dated this 23rd day of November A. D. 1900. T.J.DOYLE, Adm'r. of estate of Thomas Egan, deceased. LOW RATES WI LL BE MADE FOR ROUND TRIP TICKETS via St. Joseph & Grand Island Rail way for Christmas and New Year holi days. HIDES. S. J. DOBSON & Co., Successors to Dobson & Landgren, Dealers in HIDES, FIRS, TALLOW AND WOOL 920 11 St., LINCOLN, EB, We want anything in our lioe large or small lots. We pay the highest market price. Woempener's Drug STORE DRUGS.PMHTS.OILS.GLASS A full line of Perfumes and Toilet Goods. 139 South I Oth St., Between Q&N, Lincoln, Neb. OPTICAL GOODS. The Western Optical and Electrical Co., located at 131 North 11th street, is composed of old citizens and thorough ly acquainted with the business, hav ing fitted eyes for twenty-five years. Certainly they ought to be competent to do good work. They are perma nently located with us and that means much to the purchaser of eye glasses and spectacles. Estray Notice Taken up One bay horse, about 14 years old, weight' 1,000 lbs; one gray FOR Furs We have purchased a manufacturer's sample line of Collarettes. They are made of French Coney, Elec tric Seal, Astrakhan, Krimmer and Monkey. All have either plain or fancy Silk Lining. Sold at two-thirds regular prices. We have about a dozen Electric SeaL and Astrakhan Jackets, the Gordon & Ferguson make, which we will close out at reduced prices. If you want a Fur Coat look at this line. If you are in terested in Furs, Now is the Time to Buy. Cloak -& mare, about 14 years old, weight 1,000 lbs. Owner can have same by calling at the farm of Win. Werger, Martel, Neb., and paying feed charges and costs of recording and for the publica tion of this notice. Wm. Werger, Mar tel, Neb. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAY RATES VIA ST. JOSEPH & GRAND ISLAND R'Y. For the mid-winter holidays the Grand Island Route will sell on De cember 24, 25, 31 and January 1, good to return until and including January 2, round trip tickets to all local points at low rates. k 4 4 4 Jk. 4 A m j;i:illll!llllllll!lllllll!!l!!l!lilllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllll!lllllllllllll!IIIIIIIIL I Holiday Goods We recently purchased a Manufacturer' Sample Lino at our OWTN PRICE, and our assortment is one of the largest in the city. We Bought Cheap and Sell Cheap. If you want the Best Bargains come before the rush. 141 So. 9th St. JOHNSON DRUG STORE. lllllIllllllllillHIilliillllllillllH yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiM ii ni ID QTADF Is now devoted EE JUi 3l VIL. exclusively to E: n oiiaav MM H It will pay you to visit us. Everything at Bargain Prices. Ei I COOPER'S BARGAIN HOUSE, H .138-140-142 South 12th St; iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinin vfL WEEK ! SUIT CO. el. I Suit o Not Alluring The glittering prospect of having "local self-government" when their conquerors consider the time for It has come does not seem to allure the Boers any more than it does the Fili pinos. New York World. FOR SALE NEWSPAPER The only populist paper in a good county in northern Nebraska for sale at a bargain. The county is populiat and the paper is the official county pa per. The best reasons for selling. But little cash required. Address People's Party Paper, care of The Independent, Lincoln, Neb. Holiday Goods (I uooas i c Cjthe Ctime tof 6i to f$g. 5on- iSO
