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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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Lincoln, feb.
Amctm Mlrctiae will ate to ao
rs4. Tb Asphalt trut. tne Sugar trust,
Oly tnexa Loth McKlnley xnnit.
A Ksser maa tata be
Coszsaads tne nary, sails tne sea.
3ak our tariff, demands our awe.
Ties for the trtista let all hurrah!
The constitution xsakera la Cuba
fcsva lea cWseiy following the exam
ple of tb United State and that Is the
rea oa that they did not wish to ub
mit ittir eonatltutioa for approval to
tort I fix nation-.
The corrugated sriae sheds and mad
bats cf the asphalt company were al!
tasdics uaharxrd at lan accounts
a4 a aquadroa of the United States
maTy was tallies around the coasts of
Venezuela under the command of a
trust attorney. Hurrah for the trusts!
The State Hypocrite and Thunder
maker Harison would do well to read
th report cf the committee on sol
diers" homes appointed by this repub
lican legislator which reports that
the Mllford home -has been well man
aged. gereral Chicago ministers have dis
covered that partisan Insanity Is very
prevalent la that city, so there were
many sermons preached by them last
Sunday drawln attention to the fact.
if they had been readers cf The Inde-'
pendent they wou?d har known all
about that d!tae lone go and might
have done eotnethlne to prevent It be
contzjs epidemic.
The blue Jackets of the United States
r.avy, whose glory is written upon er
ery p cf American hlitory. hav
now vLt fLe. administration of 31c
Klnley become the Janlssari of the
Asphalt trust. To be i, trust ir.g1.t
Is greater than feeing: a, kiss;. His hired
man can sail around in an American
war vessel vhkn is an honor denied to
any other man Hurrah for the trust!
, Cold standard England has had to
rati oa bimetallic France to pull her
mt of the danger of bankruptcy again.
Tfc Brttin whs nee! lor relies ujim
Frnc to Coat mnth of tie new war
loan. It will be placed at 7 per cent
vt Its face value; la other words, gole
standard .XTn;IIh paper is 3 per cent
Hcoust in bimetallic France. VVfctrs
2s "ts beat money now?
President McKlnley said that it was
cur plain duty to give Porto Rico free
trfcde with th United States. He said
that we must see to it that free
Cuba Is a reality.- What did be do?
He s!gne4 a b:ll imposing a tariff on
Porto It J co and be is now sending or
ders to the Cuban constitutional con
vertioo to the effect that it roust ac
kbowd:e the sovereignty of the
United State. These statements no
man denies, but McKlnley is a great,
holy, truthful, moral, upright and
godly man. Any man who says dif
ferent la a traitor.
Tterev was f3l3.2S2.04 Internal rev
enue collected la Kansas in the year
easing June SO. IKMJ. Se annual re
port commissioner of Internal revenue,
paxe li.I And the most of this from
plates that Carrie Nstlon seeks to de
molish with her little hatchet. If the
great, upright McKlnley treats the
rxmstitatloa and laws of Kansas with
titter contempt. Is It any wonder that
Mrs. Nation finds a few thousand of
his follower doing the same thing In
that state? They sell liquor, after Mc
Klnley has gives them a government
license to do ia direct violation of
the law and eornitution of the state.
Is nar!y every civilized govern
ment rational Irrigation Is aa acroiu
piisbed fact, Just as government tele
rrapha and railroads are. For oce.
The Independent If very tired pf thi
Urging along at the tail end of civili
sation. It would have the United Stat
es fctep to the front and take the lead.
bnt the millionaires and plutocrat
went let os a lonx as they control
the government-' When they want to
copy everything evil n the govern
ments of the old world, they call them
-the most enlightened nations. When
pop propose to adopt rome of the
rseszare that these governments have
proved to be cf great value to the peo
p! by Ions; experience, then they are
tb ete xsossrchles of the east."
TAXES AND CIIABITY.
The article in last week's Indepen
dent entitled a "Taxpayers Conven
tion. has attracted a great deal of no
tice. Several letters have been re
ceived inquiring about it and it has
been made the subject of comment in
some dallies. The facts about the Very
large amount of taxation for charitable,
purpose are new to most. taxpayers.
They were very much understated in
the article referred to. although a great
many think that they must have been,
overestimated. ; Our courts are sup
ported by taxation and the fact was
not mentioned that", a ; considerable
amount of the expenses of courts are
caused by the dependent classes. It Is
a fact "beyond contradiction that very
much more than one half of the money
raised by taxation goes to tne support
of the dependent classes when every
thing is taken into consideration, and
that these classes increase In a far
greater ratio than the'population. If
something is not done to remedy this
evil the producing class will be over
whelmed It will be Impossible for its
members to support themselves and so
large a class of dependents. Thl3 fact
has been recognized by the scholars
and original Investigators connected
with our universities, and from the
study of the subject In a scientific way.
has grown up the new science called
"sociology. Many of the great uni
versities have departments for the
study of this subject. Jn some there
are three or four professors, in others
only one or two.
The scientists engaged in this work
are very greatly hampered. The truths
that they discover they are not free to
teach or make public Plutocracy is
afraid of them. They are denounced
as cranks, fanatics and disturbers. In
their study to discover the cause of
the increase of pauperism they have
established some facts that are very
distasteful to the "dependents'" of the
upper classes. They do not want these
scientific truths to become common
knowledge. They do everything in
their power to suppress the truth. A
most disgraceful scene of that kind oc
curred in the board of regents of the
Nebraska university where the two re
publican regents put up' a fight against
the teaching of sociology by the world
wide master of the science. They'cailed
hrra a rdisturber."'
The object of the professors of ' eo-
ciology Is to gain anf accurate knowl
edge of the laws and facts producing
the conditions which exist in, society,
When one of these professors ' after
long years ot Investigation has dis
covered what he believes to te the
cause of the increase of pauperism, and
sv remedy, he should be as free to-make
public his discoveries as the man who
by ion years of study has. discovered
something new in chemistry.1, it Lis
conclusions are not correct, their fals
ity should be shown. To ostrasize him,
to drive him from the university, to
ridicule him, to "denounce him as a'
"disturber, to drive him into silence
and obscurity is adopting the same
plan used In the dark ages to silence
Galileo when he announced the doc
trine that the earth revolved and the
sun stood still. Galileo was a "dis
turber. The men who silenced him,
Imprisoned him and made him recant
a scientific truth, were of the very
same class as these two republican re
gents.
The sociologist looks upon true
charity as being a system that would
make' these dependent classes self-sup
porting that would remove the bur
den of nearly half the' taxation now
placed upon those who produce. They
would find the causes of poverty, in
sanity and crime and as far as possible
remove them. A department of sociol
ogy In a university. In the present
state of society, is of more importance
to the tax paying citizen than any other
department, and the effort to strength
en it in the Nebraska university meets
with the most hearty approval of The
Independent. t
KrPlBLICAN ANARCHISTS.
The Independent has said nothing
about the performances'of Mrs. Carrie
Nation, deeming her a perfectly honest-
woman of good Impulses, but suffer
ing from delusions that her friends. In
stead of encouraging, should have en
deavored to suppress. All persons who
believe that God speaks directly to
them In dreams or In an audible voice
rrc tn lhat PXtnt Inne- Ir- Kansas
the republican party, through the po
lice form of the state, has agreed to
the violation of the law for a certain
I pr cent of the profits. It is the same
sort of business that the police force in
f every large city is engaged In." The
police permit crime and protect crim-
inrls for the money they get out of it.
upneht citizen can agree to any
'such thing. The police are greater
I T-Tn4tal thin th mpn tt V; n artnallv
commit the crimes. But Carrie Na
tion's way will only make matters
worse.
If she smashes saloons, those
who differ with her will retaliate in
j kind. In one instance a church has
ben demolished with hatchets. In
another a man who stol'e a small sum
from a saloon was sentenced tc forty
years Imprisonment at hard labor
Ech and all of these acts are a viola-
lion of constitutional law. Especially
so is this extreme Imprisonment In dl-'
rect-violation of the eighth, amend,
racnt to the constitution which pro
vides that no excessive fines shall be
imposed nor cruel and unusual punish
ments Inflicted.
,The republican leaders in Kansas who
so loudly accused the, populists of oe
ing anarchists have introduced an
archy into the state. There is but one
way to preserve order and that is to
enforce the laws. If one class is al
lowed to violate them upon the pay
ment of . a sum of money, respect and
obWience to all law will soon disap
pear. Follow Grant's advice. The best
way to jget rid of a bad law is to en
force it. : If a majority of the people of
Kansas are in-favor of prohibition,
then prohibition should be enforced
until they change their , minds. There
is no other way to maintain a govern
ment of law or to maintain order. The
republican leaders of Kansas are ar-
archists. If a majority of the people
of that state want" that sort of: thing,
then it must be endured.- If they do
not, let them be voted out of office. '
THE CITY "YOKEL. 3
The city dailies take great pleasure
in recording any little acts of "the
country yokel" who happens to show
a want of knowledge of city ways. But
for genuine "greenness commend us
the dweller In the city. The other day
this writer saw a woman deposit a
letter in a waste paper receptical
which she thought was a letter box.
If some of these city people go to the
country, they show the most aston
ishing ignorance of the commonest
things. Country people, being better
bread, do not report it to the i papers
and avoid remarks that would hurt the
feelings of the city visitor. In the
city, the wajit of good breeding sends
the person who sees any little lack of
knowledge of city ways displayed by
one from the country, hastening to a
reporter to tell the story. The re
porter and the city editor, both being
without the knowledge of what gen
teel deportment really is, forthwith
send It forth in the columns of the
paper. It would be only a poetic sort
of justice if the editors of some of the
country weeklies should keep a watch
on, city folk visiting the country and
report some of- their doings. This
writer once asked some 600 pupils of
the grammar m grade in the Boston
schools, from the flesh of what animal
mutton was obtained and only about a
dozen could tell. More than one-half
of the residents of Lincoln" could not
tell whether, a field of growing grain
was wheat or oats or rye until after it
was headed out and a good many of
them could not tell then. There are
more points of distinction between
them than between, a letter bpx and a
waste paner box. Hundreds of erown
up children in the cities do not know
where milk comes from. One girl
twelve years old was sent to the coun
try for her health and especially that
she might get plenty of good fresh
milk. After the first day she absolutely
refused to touch milk. Her father be
ing cent for. she explained to him that
the reason that she did not was be
cause she saw the hired man squeez
ing the milk that they put on vhe table
out of an old cow. They did not get it
out of a nice glass bottle like they did
in the city.
The city child breathes in egotism
from the day of its birth. All the as
sociations of schools has a tendency
to make them feel that' they are su
perior to. the ignorant people of the
country. It would be a good thing if
city teachers would once In a while
ask a question of their classes like
this one: "What would become of the
city its lawyers, its doctors, its teach
ers, its merchants and its laborers
if the farmers failed to raise a crop
for two years in succession?"
A SCANDALOUS FALSEHOOD.
In another column there is printed
a statement in the Chicago Record of
the most ' disgraceful sort concerning
Senator Allen. The readers cf The
Independent know what it thinks of
the veracity of the writer of that ex
tract, but statements of the same sort,
though not so extended, have been no
ticed in other papers. It is about time
that some sort of denial was made of
these statements if they are malicious
falsehoods. If Senator Allen has not
the time to attend to such matters,
there are five private secretaries in
Washington to fusion members of con
gress, each drawing $100 a month, and
certainly some one of them could find
time to write a short letter to some
fusion paper in the state giving the
facts about the matter. Senator Allen
Is being voted for to succeed himself
every day the legislature is in session
and the republican members go around
repeating these undenied stories. The
populists have no way of refuting
them. That story of W. E. Curtis is
simply to the effect that Allen was
sleepy drunk upon a very Important
occasion, that the republicans saw to It
that he was placed in a very important
and conspicuous place so that his con
I'dition could be observed by all. That
a sergeant-at-arms and a page were
employed ' to draw attention to the
fact. It Is a most . disgraceful thing
from beginning to end.. If there is not
enough energy in any populist at
'Washington to pay attention to such a
scandalous charge, we might as well
quit business. : ;
THE TRUST GOES TO WAS
The sugar trust is not the only trust
that can knock the president and con
gress about, make them get up and
hustle, change their policies and eat
their own words. The Asphalt trust is
a little trust in comparison with some
of the others, but it seems to be able
to command the navy, use it to trans
fer its attorneys from one port to an
other and threaten a friendly nation
in a very4serious manner; The Asphalt
trust was able to make a bigger dis
play of naval force off the chief port of
a nation that it had difficulty with
than the United States ever made be
fore. ' It ordered three warships to go
to the port Caracas, "Venezuela, and
they went. One of them carried the at
torney of the company, which is con
trary io the specific laws governing
the navy. But when a trust issues au
order, Jaw never stands . in , the way.
The people of Venezuela were , aston
ished beyond measure when they saw
this hostile fleet. They have been al
most worshippers of the United, States.
Pictures and statues of "Washington
are to be everywhere seen In Vene
zuela. When this country stepped in
and demanded arbitration at the time
that England was trying to slice off a
portion of their territory, they grew
to be more enthusiastic admirers of
the United States than ever. When
the warships appeared they were as
tounded. They had not heard that the
trusts had taken control of this gov
ernment and could scarcely believe
their eyes. The Asphalt trust claimed
that the Venezuelan government was
about to violate a contract made about
twenty-five years ago. The trust did
not want to go to law and have the
matter settled in the courts and so it
just ordered three American warships
to make a display off the coast and set
tle the matter by force,, . it proceeded
to do it without any-delay; It is no
use to talk to a trust about interna
tional law, ethics or rights. Whenever
it wants a thing, it, just takes it, for
it has the American army, navy, presi
dent and congress all subject to its
orders. If it wants, to make war it
proceeds to do so. r
MAlCBTWAIN A LUNATIC
The Brooklyn Eagle carries the re
publican plan of not, indulging in de
fense of its new found policies or at
tempting to support them by argu
ment to- the most,; extreme point. In
a criticism upon Mark Twain's article
in the North American review, it says:
"If he or any one in sympathy with
him asks why he is not replied to, the
answer is that ro nation can, .with
respect for itself, insist it has not lost
its virtue, merely because a man. de
li berately declares.. that degradation is
its condition and fts choice."
Mark, Hanna" said, so . it was. re
ported in the newspapers, at the be
ginning of the last campaign: "We
carried the election of 1896 without
making an argument and we will car
ry this election in the same way." The
Brooklyn Eagle boldly 1 adopts that
plan, and the other, which has proved
so efficatious, namely, if you can't re
ply to a man's arguments,- absolutely
ignore him, never let his name appear
in the news or the discussions of the
day, call him a lunatic if he must be
mentioned. That plan is indorsed in
reference to Mark Twain in the some
what Involved and cumbersome sen
tences closing a column of insulting
criticism. Read it and then ponder
on the ways of plutocratic editors. The
Eagle says: : 3
- i a t a i it M l i
Jtie snouia amoK ;. as ,weu oi uis
country as it would think of him. It
does not deserve his condemnation. It
does not justify his despair. . If it
has eve? wronged him, the offense or
injury has been the well intended one
of over-praise. Of that the effect on
him should not be, what some quite
gravely fear it may. have been a cere
bral tunlef action possibly , calling for
an experimental period, of judicious
and benign neglect, In lively hope of a
salutary restoration : to civic health
That statement, stripped of redund
ant verbiage, is an accusation that
Mark Twain has a tumor, on his brain
that has resulted in lunacy, and his
name should never hereafter be men
tioned in public. That is the treat
ment accorded to every man of brains
and influence in the whole United Stat
es, whoever has had the temerity to
object to the rule of money or stood
up for the rights of man. Mark Twain
cannot escape the fate of all the oth
ers. He is a lunatic, not a silver luna
tic, but an anti-imperialist lunatic
Drive him into obscurity. J
ANARCHY AT WASHINGTON.
When a set of men less than a dozen
In number can make laws for this gov
ernment and put them on the statute
books without having been passed by
either house of congress Unmounts to
anarchy. That Is just what has been
done- at Washington during the last
week. The army bill was enacted and
as there were amendments making the
bill uifterent when it passed the senate,
a conference committee was appointed.
The result of the conference was re
porteu to the house and senate and
each house adopted It, But after the
bill was signed by the president it was
discovered that It had been changed
in such a manner as to force the pres
ident to appoint certain sons of con
gressmen to very high and lucrative
life positions in tha regular army.
There was an Investigation jnade. At
first the enrolling and engrossing
clerks were charged with changing the
bill, but they had documentary evi
dence to prove that they were Inno
cent. It was finally traced to mem
bers of . the conference committee.
These gentlemen then boldly acknowl
edged tfyat they had changed the bin
without reporting what they nad done
to either" house. They gave as their
excuse that certain members of the
house threatened to obstruct the pass
age of the bill If their sons were not
provided .for ln that way, so: the, mem
bers of f the committee, deliberately
committed forgery and violated their
oaths ; of office" and now '"acknbw ledge
that they aid. . ' . ':..:
Everyj one of these men should be
prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary
for ten' ; years rat hard labor. This .Is,,
corrupting, .government y at 1 its very
foundation.. That is what was done in.
1873 when silver was demonetized. Ev
ery member of congress "who lets this
thing pass without a protest, if he has
the opportunity to make one on the
floor of the house, is particeps crim-
inis in the whole plot. Such a crime
ran$s next to murder. It is far more
serious than theft or assault.' The In
dependent here and . now enters its
most emphatic pfbtest against letting
these congressmen escape punishment.
' , SUGAR TRUST RULE.
Who rules this country? Does con
gress or the president? The experience
of the .last year, or so would, seem to
demonstrate that it is the sugar trust.
More than once it has proved itself
more powerful than the president or
congress. , The president declared it
was our plain duty to grant Porto Rico
free trade. The ways and means com
mittee of the house prepared a bill to
carry out the president's recommenda
tion. Then the sugar trust appeared
at Washington and knocked them both
clear out of the ring in the first round.
The ways.andr means committee pre
pared a new bill taxing Porto Rico.
The president ate his own words and
used all the power of his office to force
the new: bill through.
The other day the sugar trust ap
peared in Washington again and de
manded that the secretary of the treas
ury put an additional tax of one cent a
pound on Russian sugar. It was done.
The fact that Russia would retaliate
was wel 1 known,-, but Gage knew that
he must tobey the order, of - the: sugar
trust and 'Toe 'did not hesitate over ths
matter.' ,; ' "" '. '"; h ' ' "' ':, '
.The. result is certain to be most disastrous.-
Russia in retaliation has put
prohibitory tariffs on nearly every
thing that we have been shipping, to
that; country. England! and Germany
will rush in and secure a, permanent
trade. - Gage knew all that before he
put the additional tariff on the Russian
sugar, but he dare not disobey "the or
der of the sugar trust. Neither will
congress. Not a word will be said ty
a member of the dominant party about
it. They dare not! Too many republi
can senators and representatives have
been dealing in sugar stock and the
trust holds enough testimony to damn
them all. They will all keep mum and
for the very same reasons, so will the
president. Hanna said during the
campaign that the republican party
would take care of the trusts, but the
sugar trust .seems perfectly able to
take care of .itself.
Nebraska's - new republican deputy
bank commissioner Jias made his first
report' concerning the condition of the
state banks. He declares - that the
banks are in a most flourishing condi
tion. When we loolc at the figures in
his report we find that the banks owe
$35,684,219.08 and have only $2,080
125.23 of cash on hand to meet their
liabilities. :" That s a very' flourishing
condition for. the., banks if their de
positors do not take a notion in their
heads some day that they want fur
or five million dollars of the something
oyer $25,000,000 that they have de
posited. If such a condition shoul-i
arise, these "flourishing banks would
all go Into a receiver's hands within
twenty-four hours. A short, crop or
any one of a dozen other things might
bring such a condition about.
An Englishman calls attention to the
fact that Americans seem to nave a
greater admiration for hereditary titles
than the British. He said that he hard
ly met a man when' visiting this coun
try who did not have some sort of
decoration on, of which they seemed
to be very proud. They were Sons of
Veterans, Knights of Pythiasor some
thing of. the sort, and the women were
just as badly infatuated with the idea,
for they were Daughters of the Revolu
tion or some other such society whose
decoration they wore with a great deal
ot pride. While Englishmen only put
on their decorations at public furca
tions, the Americans were so proud of
theirs that they wore them r all the
time. That Englishman, like a good
many others of his kind, got his im
pressions from the flunkies of the east.
He should have come out west. There
he would have met the virile manhod
of the nation men and women 'who
did not attempt to thrust themselves
forward because their far-off ancestors
had done something of note,- while
they, themselves were" mere nonenti
ties. ' ; . ' '
REPUBLICAN TAXXTION.
The 'statement of Congressman
Cochran lis so astonishing that a good
many different, persons have gone .to.
work to see. if. it was a fact that this
government was expending; more
money than Abraham Lincoln did
when he had a . million men on the
army list and a thousand warships at
sea to provide for. They.haye all been
forced to accept the truth of the state
ment.' One editorof a. great dally .was
forced to say in regard. tQthis matter
max ine present expenditures were.
even greater than whehwe were fight-.
ing tne. greatest war of history. ie I
sums it up as follows: .
"The. comparison, seems almost, in
credible", and yet a reference to the fig
ures Involved shows a justification for
the assertion. The expenses of the
federal, government in the fiscal .year
1863-64 , approximated ... ,$1,245,000,000,.
and for the fiscal year 1864-65 $1,100
000.000.1 During'' this period, however
the value of gold fluctuated from 130 f o
260, so that the actual value of the
amount expended in the two years, re
duced to a commdn standard with our
present"- currency, " was hardly ' abova
half the sums .stated, or, say $1,250;-
000,000-. in gold. : Theappropriations
of the two sessions of the present con
gress are calculated to be almost $1,-
500,000,000 (It will be more than that
Edi Ind.) or considerably above that
of the-years which saw the end of the.
civil war." V .
That is to say, that it takes more of
the products of . labor, A more wheat,
corn and cotton, , to pay the expenses
of t the government under-McKinley
than it did under Lincoln when Lin
coln had a million of enlisted men to
pay and a thousand warships on the
sea" to supply, their men to pay and
war material to provide. What do the
people of the United States propose to
do about this? . Nothing at all. They
are prohibited from knowing that such
a state of. affairs exists, The great
subsidized dailies will - say nothing
about it. If an intelligent populist in
forms any of them .of the fact, they
will simply refuse to believe it. They
wiir continue to vote, a ticket called
"republican" even if taxation should
again be doubled. - . . - :
PROGRESS IN EDUCATION.
-'The Independent has never been able
to see, and. no pop has ever been able .;
to find out why an education that bes&
fits the pupil to become a normal, self
supporting and energetic citizen was
not the :.best .education. - Not one?. in
ten thousand who attends our common
schools - or-; .universities - has any lite-'
rary qualifications or ambitions. For
such pupils to spend twenty years in
the common ' - -schools and -,. colleges
studying 'belles letters, j has always
seemed to .the; writer, the ut, most, f oily,
tt "the cost of. such education is-to be
paid by taxation, he could not see' why
the cost of an education that would
make the pupil a happy, self-supporting
citizen, which would not amount to
half as much in money or in time,
should .not be .paid in , the. same way.
Whenever such .an idea has vbeen ex
pressed in the presence of a peda
gogue, no matter how high or how !"w
in the profession he stood, he has met
it with the most persistent opposition
and very often Viith supreme contempt
for the ignorance of the one who pro
posed it. v
There seems to be a change coming.
Superintendent Cooley of the Chicago
schools now says: "I am not opposed
to classics, but I think that the in
struction wtich will fit a boy for a
business career comes first. I will
do all I can to insure this instruction."
In accordance with this new idea, a
large commercial school .is planned to
htlve accommodations for about, 1,000
boys. Bookkeeping, typewriting, sten
ography, commercial arithmetic, com
mercial, geography, etc., are to be
taught. Classics of all sorts are to be
barred. Boys who have graduated, from
the grammar schools are to' be eligible
for admission,,, and may: attend this
school instead, cf attending. the regular
high SChOOlS.; :.' r. ':! v .1
This school is to be part of the eem
mon school sj stem of Chicago and is
to be supported in the same . way. Al
ready there have beek oyer ,500. more
applicants than" can be accommodated.
The establishment of this School seems
to The Independent , to be only "good,
common serse, but common, sense is
the ' most uncommon : thing , in t'.is
world. "
Between July 1 and December . 31,
1900, American manufactures of Iron
and steel amounting In value to 1S,
633,480 were sent abroad-and profit
ably sold In foreign markets. To make
these sales ourv steel manufactures had
to underbid the manufactures of tbe
nations to which it as shipped. They
bad to pay transportation to the na
tions to which it was ehippeti. : They
had to pay transportation for thou
sands of miles, and to eut or Germany,
France and . Russia they had to pay.
high tariff duties, They eould pay this
transportation and these duties and
still undersell the manufacturers there.
Why should these seel men have a
tariff of . nearly eight dollars a ton to
protect them from the pauper made
6teel of Europe? There Is but one an
swer. It Is to enable them, to charge
American eitlf ens eight dollars a ton
more for their goods than a fair, hon
est priee. That is the reason end the
qnjy reasoB. ' "v ! " "'-:
- ' Alfalfa Seed.
-. Grown in 1900 in the heart of: the al- -
falfa country, clean and free, from Rtfs
sian thistle and other tou seed. Sat
isfaction "guaranteed and prices reason
able. Samples - sent. ; Low "prices on -carload
lots.- ; GEO; B. YOUNG.
Long Island, Kas,, v. . .-.
Potatoes.
, Senj out to be sprouted,, on. iiiAitJS.
No experience required. ' Directions ; tor .
sprouting JFREE with- orderf -J" . . . ... ,
. -T. J.. SKINNER, Columbus?,. Kas.
:" Farlv lava Snrinor Wheat '
"New variety ' matures four to ten
days earlier' than other varieties and
yields larger Tested at the Iowa agri
cultural college, on the Wallace farms.
and, by others with. aboye.resuits. un
doubtedly the best wheat ontthe mar-
net. Heed for sale.
PRICE, $1:00 PER' BUSHEL. ' .
Cash .with .order. Lincoln s Oats, 50s
jer busheL, Write at once, as the sup
ply will not last long. ;
JD. FVMbRtON, Union, Nbe.
MAMMOTH TVHITE ARTIGHpKE SED
: Fronj JO years' .experience. In rais
ing them In Nebraska I find them due
m . - ..... !" .i lL..1iLI,:t
oi tne surest crops ana-neaiuueM.
hog foods one can raise; as -well as the-,
cheapest. -The hogs do the harvesting.
For particulars and prices address,
GEO. A. ARNOLD, Haydon. .Phelpa
County, Neb. 1 v'
' ALFALFA SEED FOR SALE.
Re-cleaned eeed, crop of 1900. 'Sample sent
on request. Prices $5.25 per bu. ; in lots of 5 or 10
bu. or more $5 per bu., f. o. b. cars. Sacks f ree,
Chab.Bushukli., Stamford, Harlan Co.. Neb.
ONE OF MANY TESTIMONIALS.
MrChas. Bushnell. Dear Sir TTtie Alfalfa seed
I ordered from you L received all right, and lam
pleased with your prompt shipment. The seed
is as you represented it. lam yours truly, Nels
Salesmen taa ..-i ..iv,-.ie, permanent
fositioa, experience unnecessary ; pay weekly.
western r ui aerjr (Jo., liank Eiag., Lawrence.
Kans. . ; ,, -.
TREES and PLANTS
west. Large supply SMAIX F11U1T8..
Two Million Strawberry Plants 50 Best Sorts.
Also Raspberry and Blackberry Plants at whole
sale prices. Catalogue FREE.
NORTH BEND NURSERIES,
NORTH BEND. DODGE COUNTY, NEBR. .
UEfiLTilY TREES.
II 3 to 4 It., cherry, a to 8 ft., 3
HOME MOWN, trr
from dlsAtive. v
pay f relKht.Apple,
30: freestone uarh.
$2( Concord (rrupe, (3 per 100. VM0 Ash, CI; Catilpa, l.o
curt, R. Mulbarry B. Elder and Osage Hedge; low prices.
Catalog free. Jansen Nursery, Box Falrbury, Neb. .
GAGE COUNTY NURSERIES OFFER
AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES
. ; 20,000 Cherry Trees, . -50,000
Apple Tress,
30,000 Peach Trees, '
'' Or a pes and small fruits, evergreen and fores
tree seedlings Write for price list. ' Address :
Jl A: GAG Beatrice, Neb.
Bee-Keeper's Supplies
uu vau save ' iiciftui uy uiuciiiia
from us. A large supply always ou
hand, -and a trial will convince you
thai tt'hey are cheapest arid, best. Many
improvements. Send !'for . our' free J
catalogue. Address, - . .
LEAHY MFG. CO., 1730 So. . 13th St.,
' Omaha, Neb. , ..... ,.
Black Locust, Honey Locust and Cat
i ; alpa Fence Posts. - ;
I have for sale 20,000 Black ; Locust,
Honey Locust and Catalpa fence posts.
Catalpa guaranteed to be as durable as
Red Cedar. Eight feet long, round
posts, ranging in diameter from 3 to
8 inches. . '
ItOBT, W. FURNAS. Brownyille, Neb.
IIELOIAK HARES
Thoroughbred and pedigreed. Good
color and shape." Stock from the best
blood lines, including Champion Fash
oda (imported), Lord Banbury, Lord
Britain, Yucon, Nonpareil and others.
Some good breeding does for sale.
Also young bucks and does old enough
to breed by Royal Fashoda, score 96,
son of Ch- Fashoda and dam by Lord
Britain. Prices low for the quality.
ROYAL RABBITRY, Holdrege, Neb.
MONEY IN BEES
Send for onr 40 Pace
Catalogue, Fre. Tells
you how to care for bees
Ten styles of hires and
all bind a rf Kaa tnnnliki
of the 'latest improve
ments. Can furnish Ital
ian stock of bees and
queens. Address.
JOHN NEBEL & SO
High Ulll, Mo,
Estab. LONE STAB APIARIES 1885.
Price of queens from imported mothers:
Tested...... 1 $1..V) 6 $8.00 12 $15.00
Untested. . 1 .75 .6- 4.25 v 12 8.00
tuoiuen Bams price.) oeieci tested, eiinnr race
$2.50. O. F. DAVIDSON, Fartiew, wilsos co. tf.i.
INCUBATORS and BROODERS ..
From $4.00 up.". Frst-class in every re
spect, end fully guaranteed. Large Cata
logue freev,. w, . r. .......
. The MonitortCo.
Box M, Mood us, Conn.
hides:
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S. J. DOBSON & CoM
' Successors to Dobson & Landffren, .
, ' Dealers in
RIDES, FURS, TALLOW AND WOOL
; yr1; . 020-R St., LINCOLN, NEB.
We want anything- in our line large or small
lots.. M"e pay the highest market price.
POULTRY AN l BELGIAN HAKES.
Black Langahan and Barred Rock, males and
females, at reasonable prices for good stock.
Srders for egga booked now. Fine' pedigreed
;lgian does for sale. Q. M. WHITFORD.
.Arlington, Keb.
HOLLYHOCK POULTRY FARM
56-pag-e Illustrated Poultry Catalogue.
The secrets of successful noultrv ral.
J Inn told in plain laognnge; all about in
, f Cuba tors, brooders, poultry houses, how
to naicn ana raise every Chick, what,
wnen ana now to leea, lorctng bens to
r lav and hundreds of valuable mihieets
contained in no other catalogue. Tells of 851 van
eties popular thoroughbred fowls and quoes ex
tremely low prices. Send 4c in stamps for postage.
Hoi yhock Poultry Fa.-m, Box 1409-. Des Moines, la.
SELECT
All first-claes, Sweep or
Power Mills. Grind all kind
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(or family use. Our new
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