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February 14, 1001 THE riEBllASIIA INDEPENDENT 3 SIDE LIGHTS IUSwIImim tat Ailver Dm m4 Thrnu I 4r It. Everything we era to be subordi nated to the senatorial mix-up. Even that pecsy aabftcrlptioa to tstif the old ataiidard all over tie capiiol dome to VYTsy tot elect V. S. rtom ty popular vote? And ta trite tits about, wby cot this time elect two Jktor who faror the ida? Ttt Esittt mean Roswatr. feowerer, and !t wosld be Iconoclastic for the rrp-atiican party to elect a taan who is acy way Eight support aomthias tie people m ast at c;-posed to what the rorporaUoca a:. !isM It wouM U li&l-maf hist to !ect anybody for toa the Ictora bare ei pressed the:r I re-? ere ore at the poll. It would be Iwa't it strike you that D. tZ. Thosjftn U a rsueh orer-ratM xaan as rjrard his ability to manipulate le.:atcr. &rs like he ought to hr Lxx-d the whole eotey. If he's the holy terror i-opte thick he la. Rp.r-ctatii- IUmU'm Yad-plece la ea irlbt. He is cot afraid to vote for a rtpuMlcaa. Jut to ee the L(U go xouLd." as Budge would ur. And Htcshaw, the aSatle Hln iLiw, t of the smooth gestures, erta If he cSJ rp'iiate the tote, rauxt hate secretly felt eUted. Let a few riiOre cf tie futlocists pass similar roEjllcrsti to their political enemies and a real wild wett ahow. If the r-p'.ti:rana can't break the deadlock til, the fulo.u can enjoy the fun by ihrowiE a few brand Into the trt. l'ic!e Jake grot that school land tulR-t badly "bailed up." He w Jcdiacrett eoocxh to la&e almost ev ery acst acre la the " whole state. rtaw! It'a enough to make a good rpt!Jcaa ewear cot anything Ift to reward the "rooter. " Well, one thing is cert a to. we ran let the republi can rE?er o without paying any rentals for a few years and then eora proeaiaa by ranceiilag the leasee and letting theia hare poeJoa without mctrari, a tat? without "varan f hocl land It certainly a howling fail ure. KroiDrnia 1 Hate Dreamed." by Land Com. Foil me r. lly the way. ia&'t Attorney General 1'rc-jt tHhdIefely slow about difmies tnz thje trat-mahing suit his pre derecr brought? There la no use of dUr. The people tthat Is to aay. a comfortable minority of them) d- iared aeaint trust-smashing so what ha the attorney general to fear? Hut, of coarse, there 1 the senatorial f-ght to be settled before any buai r.esa can be dose. "All thins come to him who waits." The Hon. William Dorpan may yet se-e that happy day when he can secure a "contract in bulk." under the ben- Zrirrul provisions of boue roll tor u; pijing all the state Institutiona wits Whttebreaat coal, without being '.-cted to the annoyance of compet 12 with Tie pleba -who ell other bra Ma of black diamonds. And, if the bord cf educational lands and fund r.tiBttes to reduce the premium on tate warract. and the stale treasurer ieijUes himfeeif in the belief that he can keep the permanent school fund Invested without an earnest and con tisuoua eJort. the Hon. William mar again be able to invest a little of his earplu prof.t in state warrants at, say. S2 or If the republican board of purchase and supplies will perform it duties as conscientiously aa did the fusion toard preceding, there need be no fur ther legislation relative to purchas ing what the state need la maintain ing Its penal and charitable institu not.. A glance at the ta&le given In Governor Ioyctera message will show that these institutions were xnain taibed under fusion government at a cot away below that unler the ad miniit ration of Governor Crouase. who It should be aaid. w as the best repub lican governor who ever sat in the ex ecutive chair at least within the past twelve or fifteen years. Governor Croune xuld have done better, but 1 U4 READ EVERY m mum. WORD. eh. horke's Electmc Belts Wrr tli m rnmrm 74 IntroUae vmI ' tapn I'M miy. mat tfcTf a a ! i ii kam T-ar taaaJtty. I r Y fcr aU wa at aarfacily a i r. ta Ut anaaaf " Jfi .f r ya Db. IIchhe KtrCaaJfCtt aa aa aaaat aa 5aatra r - t: amW fmr-mtgam 33 XrrrMaaaaw ' mpimmi MHmmmm Teryaat MJwwr JEiafaary rmmptmimt yriM MUUtaf zB Xjm rM ! Wmmmmt' Cmamptmtmim a JafaaMa laft 4La4a 4a0aa(afltal aJ "y Jfeaaataaaf Cti'X' OUT aaw aaa4 a as aa yawx waaat waaaia I aaa) caa a-aa at taau- aaaaua he was handicapped on every band by republican barnacles. His emphatic repudiation by these barnacles at the next convention was a foregone con clusion. He was persona non grata. Governor Holcomb took up the work begun by Governor Crourise and im proved upon it; and Governor Poynter continued to give the people the ben efits of economical government. The result at the last election co doubt warrants Governor Dietrich in assuming that the people do not care for economy, but prefer a ,'businesi,' administration such as will result from the passage of his pet scheme to al low the board of .purchase, and sup plies to make "under-the-hat" con tracts with republican politicians. The Independent is Jacksonian enough to make no complaint if the republican board of purchase and sup plies gives preference, other things be ing equal, to republican bidders; but it objects to allowing a republican bid der to be awarded a contract at a high er rate than the same goods can be purchased from a bidder of a different political faith. Maybe a majority of the people last fall did ask for a "business" admin istration patterned after the days of Thayer et ah. but there are over 113,000 voters who protested against, a return to republican misgovernment, and, in behalf of them. The Independent pro testa vigorously against any star chamber proceedings In purchasing fcuppiles or transacting any other pub; lie business. . 'Two years ago," said a member of the legislature to The Independent a few days ago, "there was an adverse sentiment toward what was known as 'curative legislation. Whenever a bill came up. it there was the slightest sus picion that It was curative, that set tled it fate it was promptly killed and burled. This session every mem ber seems to be on the lookout for hold-up bills, and all that is neces sary to do to insure indefinite post ponement Is to spread the Information that the bill Is 'hold-up in character." Aa a matter of fact, the curative bill introduced two years ago at least a majority of them had been carefully prepared by a man who was in position to know. the legislative de fects which could be urged against many sections of the statutes. None of the bills had for their object any change In the existing laws, but were Intended to settle beyond cavil any question of irregularity In their en actment. Many of the sections had never been tested in the supreme court, however, and the lawyer members of the legislature saw the probable loss of some fat fees if the bills were al lowed to pass. Hence, a sentiment was manufactured to kill them off. The cry of 'hold-up this year will result in killing some obnoxious bills, no doubt; but It will also prevent the en actment of meritorious laws. Isn't it about time that Governor Dietrich take some steps looking to ward the pardon and release of ex Treasurer Bartley? Perhaps, how ever, he intends to defer action until hi creator, the Burlington railroad, has completed .Its. task of electing a United States senator. 15 Governor Dietrich's election (even by a bare three-figure plurality out ot a six-figure vote) was rightly con strued as a splendid vindication of Bartley; and now, after a dismal fail ure to have Governor Poynter wash some mighty dirty republican linen, Governor Dietrich should show that he is a man of courage, and do the one crowning act which he was elected to perform. And the republican legislative in vestigating committee actually discov ered a bad smell down at the peni tentiary! Small wonder. A good many years ago some "contracts in bulk" were let to certain republican philanthropists for the erection of a state penitentiary. It Is an imposing structure or, perhaps, it might be more accurate to say that the people were imposed upon in its construction. It looks like a feudal castle. Not only were the stones used in Its construc tion "plugged to sire," but it seems that the builders plugged every ave nue of ventilation. Perhaps their aversion to figurative ventilation ren- YotuF7rstcsie! THI9 G0UIFGU im good for 813.34 if sent unih an order for a $20.00 Belt, not later thanth iriy days from date of this LAST OPPORTUNITY t re th DR. 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T aaaawtKyaaaaayaa aarry (or ft, aa wa aka3 aarcr acaia affar , aaaaaaaiidiia ta aay tart wa ara aaatainiat aai aa -ary a4waa4 at tea iWntno, bat Mia caaaaar ta iatradata thaa laaawla. f.hfM Uu. may taaa ta aa4 baaLa( an ta aort for as. U yaa waat aaa at f' COTOtOW bam 1 aaiay. aaay teat V Electric Celt & Truss Go. ham aaraaaal aaairiaaaa, at nuabdnr a n(a ta aaa aa t. anny taaaaaads ail at aaa L'atad tTkl ia aa appfaaacaa derrct taa aaat to yr. i: u hi'l'. lj CHICASO, ILL. B.I.A. - r a aanawiiaa aiaasa aaa a at maa tail adrar. aina . aaaaa aaa taat yaa aaaw, waa at Bat aajoyiac food fcaaltlu Bydaia m ram m&Umm taws aad aa. w. waat afaaaaVtaUary JaaaSy (ia aai i---' n i 7 wiii. TTurTTT latiaa ini naaa - - a.u. ALFALFA SEED FOR SALE. E -cleaned seed. croD of 1900. Sample sent on request. Prices $5.25 per bu. ; in lots of 5 or 10 do. or more $5 per on., I. o. b. cars, bacics iree. Chas.Bushnex.il,, Stamford, Harlan Co Neb. ONE OF MANY TESTIMONIALS. Mr. Chas. BushnelL Dear Sir The Alfalfa seed I ordered from you I received ail riRht.andl am f leased with your prompt shipment. The seed s as you represented it. I am yours truly. Nels S. Peterson, Marquette. Hamilton, Co., Neb. dered them cautious about permitting the real thing. At any rate the whole building is about as airy as the Black Hole of Calcutta. Undoubtedly there is a bad odor at the penitentiary. There is a smell of prison contracts, entered Into by re publican state officers with their re publican henchmen, whereby the con tractor was paid enough to more than board the convicts and permitted to pocket all their earnings. There is a smell of lost school funds, lost sink ing funds (why. shouldn't a "sinking" fund be "sunk?"), lost county funds, and lost city funds. Even as the faint odor of onions may be distinguished from that of burnt beefsteak or beans, one can distinguish the odor of small fry republican politicians who got their clammy fingers into the state treasury under the pretext that they would pay it back and then sneaked off when the day of reckoning came and made a scape-goat of the treas urer. Yes; there are various bad smells at the penitentiary, but the committee was good enough to say that they are not the result of any mismanagement by Warden Hopkins. The crying need of popular legis lation, that is to say, legislation upon wnich the people have the last word, is well illustrated in the case of the free high school law. Certain ques tions of taxation, necessary to carry ing such a law into effect, have in the past been found contrary to the state constitution, and the supreme court, however friendly to the law, could do nothing else than declare the law bad for unconstitutionality. Here is a case where, the legislature and governor are friendly, the court is friendly, and the people are anxious to have the law; yet the supreme law of the state says "no." The Independent doubts whether any law can be framed which will successfully evade tne constitu tional objections. Now, suppose the people had power to ask for an expression of their will upon any important point decided by the supreme court. The high school law would undoubtedly be sustained, constitutional objections to the con trary notwithstanding, and this would result in an indirect method of amend ing the constitution so as to permit the desired law. The constitution is su preme law but the people are certain ly above the constitution. Auditor Weston's recent ruling on the insurance reciprocal tax law will have the effect of depriving the state of Nebraska of $25,000 to $30,000 each year that rightfully should be paid into the treasury and be used in can celling outstanding warrants. Here's a pretty howd-yedo; the auditor, all by his lonie, holds in abeyance the plain mandate of, law, for the law Is plain that the reciprbdal f ets r should be collected. What official knowledge has the auditor as to what taxes, if any, are paid by any insurance com pany in any county? How and wnere does he get the information which en ables him to "forgive" the insurance companies what the law says he should collect? How do you 113,000 republicans like. his ruling? The law has been in effect a long time, and if it has any consti tutional flaws, the insurance compa nies must have a lot of lunk-head at torneys, because they have never had the temerity to resist payment and test it in the courts. Where a law is good, however, there is an easier way to evade it: just con trol the republican convention, elect a republican auditor and he'll do the rest. The insurance companies and the railroads rendered valuable assistance to the republican party last campaign. The insurance companies are now get ting their reward. Just wait until the state board of equalization cuts down the railroad assessment, and then you'll know why the railroads wanted to turn the fuslonists out. Mullet-Head Innocence The editor of the Wisner Free Press writes in the following childlike and pathetic manner: "One would think from reading the reports from the senatorial farce at Lincoln that the republican members were absolutely owned body and breeches by the various senatorial can didates. The candidates dictate how a caucus shall or shall not be con ducted, and these representatives of the people, or supposed to be such, submit to this dictation with the most servile subserviency. Their constit uents elected them to be their ser vants and not the servants of office seekers. Their constituents claim the right to do the dictating, if any is to be done, and not the men with the sen atorial bee In their bonnets. Their duty is to their constituents and espe cially to the republican party. They should go into caucus on their own motion regardless of what candidate's say or think, work in the interest of the party that elected them and if they cannot agree on present candidates, senatorial timter is not exhausted by any means, but two stalwarts can be found." Who elected this legislature?. Who laid the plans and imported the voters? Are not the men who made a republi can legislature possible to have the di rection of things? If they are not, there will be no more republican leg islatures. Doea this innocent chicken really believe that what he calls "con stituents" had anything in reality to do with the matter? Didn't Thompson handle the railroad part of it and swing the employes into line? Didn't Rosewater work the national commit tee for funds without which all the plans would have come to nought? Now this country rooster intimates that they are to have nothing to do with the matter. He really seems to think that the mullet heads who voted the republican ticket should have the right to say when a caucus should be held and who should be elected. Did anyone ever hear of like simplicity? IN A ZONE OF DE ATH. BOER TACTICS WILL COST AN AWFUL LOSS. An American Officer Glrea BU Views , on tb South. African Situation and Predicts Horrible Slaughter Many Thousands Will FaJL "In the deadly fire-zones of the Boers a score of thousands of English men must fall before the Transvaal is conquered. This is the opinion of a 8 istiuguished American military au thority with" whom I talked to-day, writes Walter Wellman. "Great Brit ain is face to face with the most diffi cult military proposition of "tho cen tury," continued this officer. "It is a remarkable fact that the difficulty which the English army is now en countering in South Africa was fore shadowed in a book published before the outbreak of hostilities. It was written by a Polish banker named Blloki. M. Blloki's studies led him Into a critical examination of the effect cf modern small caliber high velocity magatine rifles when handled, by skillful and brave troops, and he 1 Id down the axiom that such troops, when properly intrenched, could hold their positions against all comers. By carefully selecting their positions, he pointed out, they could sweep the zona- in front of them with a fire so deadly that no troops in the world could live In it, while remaining practically out of danger themselves. At short range one of their small caliber balls, driven at great velocity, could disable from three to five men. At longer range from two to three" "would fall by the same bit of lead. . In such a fire-zone, he said, attack would be suicide. Men would go down with appalling rapidity, and the surviving remnants of the bravest troops that ever walked could do nothing but retreat as ' rapidly as possible. They could not recover their wounded, and the hit must lie where they fell till1 firing ceased and flags of truce covered the rescue.- "This is precisely wnat nas hap pened in South Africa," continued the military student .'!The Boers take up commanding positions on the side hills. They intrench themselves and from cover sweep the open before them with a fire so deadly that even the reckless daring and enthusiastic self sacrifice of Che British army is unable to do more than dash into that hell zone and then dash back again.- Ex cept in rare instances, where the condi tions are unfavorable, have the Boers failed to hold their, lntrenchments. On only few occasions have the combat ants come to hand to hand fighting. You will remember that r ter our cam paign in Cuba Inspector General Breckenrldge said the bayonet might as well be thrown away, and that it was only useful to grind- up coffee with, for which purpose a 'small ham mer would serve better. The English have had a few opportunities to give the Boers 'cold steel, but only a few and by small bodies rushing some out lying position. The great problem for the English commanders is how to make an advance. - Their troops have fought with a bravery which fills the world with admiration, but they have almost nothing to show for their sacrl fices. The character of the country aids the Boers' tactics. It is for the most part hilly and broken. The Boers take up position on a hillside. Fol lowing the usual tactics, the English shell them out with their artillery and then advance their Infantry to take the position. But the moment the artillery fire ceases, and it must stop before the British line can move into the open the Boers move back from the other side of the hill, where they have been in cover, and resume their places in the trenches. The artillery has wasted its strength on empty rifle pits. But before the advancing troops can get far on their way the Boers are ready for them, and when the oppor tune moment comes that deadly rain of little bullets sweeps the open like a simoon. More than once," continued the officer, "the British have walked into just such destruction; have fallen by scores, rallied, advanced again, re ceived another deadly fire, and have then broken and retreated, baffled and beaten, without once seeing the en emy, and probably without hitting one of them. Men were never born who can keep up much of this sort of fight ing. The Boers have demonstrated that with modern weapons a small force can defend any favorable posi tion against five times their numbers. Up to date the Boer losses are prob ably not one-tenth that of the English. Front attacks are things of the past, unless commanders have men by the thousands to throw away. Flanking Is the only thing that will win, and flanking is hazardous and almost im possible against troops as mobile, and alert as the Boers, operating in a coun try favorable to that line ' of defense. These are the problems which the British leaders have to work out, and every military man In the world is curious to see how they are going to do it. In my opinion the British will find a way to do it, but only by making good Kruger'a prophecy that if con quest of the Transvaal, is achieved at all, it will be at a cost which will ap pall humanity." China's Diminishing- Nobility. In China when an honor is conferred on a family it is. the ancestor and not the descendants who share the glory. If a Chinaman, for his merits, receives a title of nobility his son can never Inherit or have the right to use any but an inferior title. Thus the nobil ity in the family goes on diminishing from generation to generation till it finally becomes extinct StIU Thjr Don't Win. There are twenty-one British gen erals now serving at tha front. Cured of Catarrh and La Peruna. HENRY DISTIN, OF PHILADELPHIA. Henry Distin, the inventor and maker of all the band instruments for the Henry Distin Manufacturing Co., at Williamsport, Pan is probably the most active old man in Philadelphia today. He and his wife recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, at their home, on South Ninth street. Mr. Distin comes from one of the most famous musical families of the old world, his father and grandfather before him, as well as himself, having played at most all the royal courts of England and the continent. 1441 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pau, May 6, 1899. Dr. S. B. Hartman : , : Dear Sir I write to ia form you that I had a bad attack 6t la grippe last De cember which tasted more than three months, and which left me with catarrh, and several of my friends advised me to try your wonderful medicine, Peruna, i began with a bottle the first week In March and it certainly did me a great deal of good. I was so well satisfied that I purchased another bottle and fol lowed your directions, which you furnish with every bottle, and I am glad to say that it has cured me. I shall certainly recommend the Peruna to all my Meads, Yours, very truly, . Henry Distin. WEST POINT HAZING The Committee of Congress Reports and a Law Is Passed That "Will Forever Put an End to it. The Independent has kept its read ers correctly informed about the bar barism practiced at West Point While it was laying the facts in the case be fore its readers the P Street Idiot was telling the few mullet heads who read the NState Hypocrite that all this talk about the cruelties practiced at West Point was without foundation and that the reported hazing was only the harmless pranks of school boys. The report of the committee ap pointed by congress to investigate the academy was submitted the other day and since that a law has been passed prohibiting hazing in any form, ex pelling any cadet who is proven guilty of .attempting to haze and prohibiting him from ever being appointed to any position in the army, navy or marine corps. The committee finds that Cadets MacArthur, Breth and Burton were hazed into convulsions, others were hazed until they fainted, while others were hazed until they were sick. The hazing of Cadets Booz and Breth are elaborately treated, and then the report says: "But while we cannot fix upon haz ing the responsibility for these two deaths, the possibility that it hastened them and the blot it throws on the otherwise fair and glorious fame of the academy, its conflict with proper train ing and discipline, and unfitness in this new century, urges the adoption of rea sonable, yet we believe effective, meas ures for its eradication and the promo tion of discipline at the academy." The upper-classmen, the report goes on, have resorted to more than 100 dis tinct methods of annoying and haras . sing fourth-classmen. They are di vided into three general classes: VI. Things done professedly for the good of fourth-classmen or of the ser vice. "2. Things done to punish fourth classmen for violations of the upper class code. , "3. Things done apparently without purpose, except to annoy or for the mere amusement of upper-classmen." The committee describes bracing, eagling, wooden willying, chou-choo-ing, dipping, sitting on bayonet, eat ing quinine, standing on head in bath tub filled with water and many other forms of hazing. Continuing, the re port says the fights grow out of the necessity of vigorous measures to co erce cadets into submitting to the less vigorous forms of hazing, and each upper class has a regular fighting com mittee. The committee says that on the whole a man's religious opinions aro highly respected at the academy.. The bill submitted contains eleven sections against hazing, and provides means for its detection and punish- nm V 0 f)C FOR THIS REGULAR $6.00 UULI VSSI9 WATERPROOF STORM COAT. SEND NO MONEY 5t0a. Ka lOSL, state your height and weight, number ot Inches around body at breast, taken over regular coat, close up under arma. ana we win sena you tmscoaiDj express C O. 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ORDSBaTOKCK. far rYreCiataSaapleeef Katrvthlaf i BetktMaaeee, writ, far 9 A TLB BOOK Ka. MU Aedreea, wEARsTROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. ment. Dismissal is provided for tak ing part in a fight or a challenge, dl recUj or indirectly, or for any form of annoylngT brassing or bracing of ca dets. Cadets disiL.n:d- are made in eligible to appointment to i'ue &i7ny, navy or marine corps. Provision is made for courts of inquiry, courts martial, closer association between of ficers and cadets and other means to effectually stop hazing. Secretary of War Root is expected to make public tliis week the report of tho military court of inquiry into haz ing at West Point. This court's re port states explicitly that the deaths of Cadets Booz and Brett were not due to ill treatment at the academy. It also found that hazing there was less brutal than at civil educational insti tutions. That the military court making the investigation was prejudiced, perhaps unconsciously so," there can be no doubt. The attempted excuse for the barbarities in declaring that hazing at West Point was less brutal than at other institutions was wholly gratuit ous. The court had made no investi gation of other institutions and had no evidence before them upon which' to base such a finding. Japan and America Japanese students have been wel come in our universities; and it is a source . of strength and advantage to us that so many of them, who had formed associations and friendships here, are now influential in their own land. Japanese public men do not favor the policy of encouraging the emigration of their own people. The population of Japan is not increasing at an undue rate, but has, on the con trary, made only a very moderate gain in the past twenty-five years. Mean while, the fields of employment have been greatly increased in Japan,' and it is and will remain the policy of tho Japanese government to employ the whole population, either in the present island territories of Japan, including the newSy acquired Formosa, or else on the neighboring Asiatic coast. Furthermore the Japanese are too well instructed in economics and sociology to misunderstand the objections that are felt in California against the sub jection of white labor to competition from labor of other races having a different standard of living. The government of Japan has such power to control as to be able to pre vent the emigration of Japanese coolie laborers to countries where their ar rival would have a tendency to dis turb governmental relations. , Tho growth of foreign trade must result in the establishment of numerous branch business houses, manned by Americans, in Japanese as well as other Asiatic cities. On the other hand, it is equally natural that the growing market -in the' United States for Japanese goods should result in the establishment here of a gradually increasing number of Japanese im porters and business men. There should be no agitation against these men, any more than against European importers in New York. The coolie labor question is a wholly different thing, and ' that we may safely leave to the discretion of the Japanese gov ernment. The main point to be borne in mind is the ereat desirability of doing nothing to .. offend the nation, which of all others in the world prob ably entertains the most genuine and unaffected feelings of friendship to ward our country. Japan will apply the tests, and we may safely be hospi table to those who come.v From "Ja panese Immigration," in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for Feb ruary. -- . . : ..... G AN Grippe by As soon as any one is attacked with la grippe Peruna should be taken every two hours during the day adults a tablespoonful, children a teaspoonful. But It Is the after-effects of la grippe which are generally the most serious unless Peruna is taken. In all cases where Peruna is taken as above during the acute 6tage the recovery is prompt and complete; but where the ordinary treatment is followed the patient will complain for weeks and monthsof weak ness, slight headache, want of appetite, and many other symptoms of low vi tality. Such people should begin at once the use ot Peruna a tablespoonful before each meal, gradually Increasing the dose to two tablespoonf uls. 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