2Xay 30, 180L
THIS IfEBRAOKA INDEPENDENT.
TLer w tccr a faro Ujr-o-t ta
AxkosA thai eq-.l th urHLhi&f
la Wall ttreet. A trust can,
Ibf paaairg ft dMiecJ cr declaring aa
extra iirft cz, put stocks cp cr down
at tz cvo tweet wllL t!U ttt calltt
lead 20 Iriatlt tla prOTlscea along
t-elr i07 asaiatt aa tura a taiag ai
tia taU gasa.
Tta tier day the British aad the
Gerrura cars la contact la China
aa4 two rrstn were killed. That mat
tr a hardly adjusted b or the
GematJi case lc contact with the
Cn'.teJ Stata ol2r and one Ger
sia waa wounded. Tie Germans' will
bare to atop tie arrogance which they
tare b-o iispUyfcg or there will be
txoctle cutsMe of China.
A Chic go Daily ta j: "Tb resump
tion of gold export!, with a balance of
trte c! nearly 1700.0 W O in our
f at cr. tan mean. csIt one thine. We
fnust be making Euro;- our dettor at
aa aton:hirr rate. It is a gxd time
for people who hate Aanrn stocks
to held ea to them." That editor is
fTisItntly c!T. for Mr. Roewater has
Irfomatlos that 1- hSm to beliere
that the roll in circulation in this
eocstry ha ba largely increased by
cur .xtrn cf imj-orta.
Oar eart of export over imports
far the jrar wa l hat
la about s-qual to the whole amount of :
fold in th'.s country. The to state- j
neatt takes together show that the j
balance waa not pail in gold. There
;trt two war in which settlement j
iojH hare ten made. Foreigners ;
co-Id have returned to this country j
ASMicas tor.i. storks and other eri- S
dencea of indbednf or foreigners j
tx?e beco&e czr dbtori to that j
asKKitt. j
1?ZZZSz i
Two hur1rd Indiana editors met j
the r.ttr day and d'-riared that they
wcruld not
longer ue the loiW plate j
patent inside. They Lave juft found
out that a truf t controls the output
and that tie price charged is altogeth
er too high for the tort of goods fur
r .ted Th'-e editors all ran the
patent xr.f during the last cam
jairn h: the matter was devoted to
Sing up th trusts and now
that
they tzi that a
thesa they kick.
trust is squeezing j
Rer J. M. Greene preached before
tie general assembly of the Presbyter
lia church recently upon the mission
ary work ia Porto Rico. He has a very
iy t-nfsics of the "civ Hirers' who
Kir t-eis sent down there. The !
n .hn nu.rrei and fieht i
., sfinH nf!iff! and ren. I
trj.A: put on air of lord of the world
i,e d'" net think have a tendency to
t-i -rate h- pop up to that point
vitere thy "will be capable cf elf-
t.3rTf-rcsnnt."
The Arsericn Economist, published
ty tte American Protect ie league.
which has for years --r.t out Urge j
ti.'.ys in fi;;"'rt of the tari2 baron. tablish socialism among the rich. Their
i c hat-rl tts t;r.e lately. It is now j watchword has been, "community of
hht:r.g r-:; r'xntr treaties, and says: j interests. If they had said com--Th
pri" la any comet-tic market i munloa of the ricn lt wouM have ex
H the m or 13 "a prire, pJu the duty." It j pressM tbe eame thing. Their attempt
5.14 to u that the foreigner paid ! hag deveIoped just same difficulties
the tat.' When it raid that, every j tfaat has attendei communion among
BttXSet tea a Cnerei ii. woe . u mj
ti other thing cow, every znullet head
ilip t?eli"ea it.
The circulation pr capita in
the
lnitd 5:au is about 33 per cent larg-
er than it a in when tbe mullet
heads got o-t ani voted to further di
minish it. , Who won in that fight?
The pop. What u the result? Just
hat the isps sail it ould te. Hur
rah for popullsni! It was the salra
t;os cf the l"nitel tats. It f'ill
carete on MrKiniey is coining more j
ii!er every day and the only thing
that the grM have to say is: i
Look at the r-rotperity.' and then j
dram that e have the goM standard. I
I
Jf a vousg n,an enlist, in McKinly s I
army ail the great dailies declare that !
he mu be provided wuh a saloon I
wher he can gt beer at co.t. fur- I
furr.shed by the government cr there j
t ,he r,rr Old Nick to car. If !
he r.'r.t in any one of the industrial j
armies, under any of the "great cap-
taiti" he Is forbidden to go Into a
sa'-joa at all and if he is caught drink-
te is :mn::ia:ejy given a ancon-1
thus . c.e cf thoe things that no
;vp can Isi oat.
C.t- W. H. Ashby of Beatrice haa
launched out into journalism and will
putl:h on May Ashby'a Crucible.
It wii l a five-coiumn folio, all home
print. He says: The Crucible will be
"jMst to subscriber who pay tl.00 per
year is advance, and to no others;
and will be atopped when the subscrip
tion expire-"" The Independent hopes
that when Captain Ashby g-eta his
Crucible aeren times hotter than usual
that he will chuck every Nebraska
rattUet head into it and keep them
there catil he roasts the political ia
aazity cut of then.
Rudge
" " "
When the demand comes upon the
Ne-v York banks for the movement of
the crops and the banks call upon some
of the trusts to return the loans that
have been made them on five or six
times the true valuation of the plants
that have gone into the combination,
what will happen then? The western
I auks will be needing money at the
ram time and if all their reserves are
down in New York, how will they get
them? There is an immense amount
of money in circulation, but is the sup
ply absolutely Inexhaustible?
A dispatch from Deadwood says that
the Homestake Mining company. Black
Hills, has declared the regular month
ly dividend of 25 cents per share and
the usual extra dividend of 25 cents
per share, both payable May 25. This
P"fit comes from ore that will not av
cage $4 per ton.
erage $4 per ton. That shows what
the Lord is doing to the plutocrats
who wanted dear money. Four dol-
years ago at all. Now all the dumps
in the Black Hills are being worked
to make money more abundant.
The attempts at combination that
have recently been made by the New
York millionaires are attempts to es-
th u wnr wn frtr - littift
while and then there was trouble. The
communists then began to quarrel
among themselves and a fierce fight for
j control was engaged in while each side
called the other scoundrels. That has
j been the history of communism in all
! ages.
The thing that aroused the Ire of the
Chicago papers against Professor Starr
Is the following statement: "Money
contributes to human happiness with-
out doubt, but it Js not the only thing,
nor t the chief thing to be sought,
n(1 is possible to pay for it several
times its value. The age in which we
lJve eeems to me to be money mad.
Schemes are on foot where moral prin-
cP,e 18 Bad,y absent and "acter is
'Morofonned that our cunning may
obtaln what cannot be htd by fair
xn'anR Therefore envy is stimulated
b wealth- and crude and rel anl"
mal PIont environ the struggle for
It! We prefer wealth to peace of soul,
and are too ready to sacrifice the lat
ter for the former."
The Independent again issues a word
of warning to western bankers. Be
c.ireful of the amount of money you
i-ave In New York banks. The New
York banks, as shown by the clearing
house statements, are loaning from
five to six times as much money upon
manufacturing plants as they would
lean before those plants went into the
trusts. The security that those banks
are taking for loans Is entirely Insuf
ficient. When you want your re
serves to save your own banks, if they
are In New York, you will find that
your correspondents there will not be
able to call in and collect these enor
mous loans made on Insufficient col
lateral. What will these Inflated se
curlties held by New York banks be
worth when the final day of liquidation
comes 1 -
& . Guenzel
Lincoln, Neb.
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West of Chicago.
Immense Stocks of
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Carpets, Tinware, Cuttlery,
Drapery, Lamps,' Sporting Goods,
Queensware, Tools, Bicycles.
The PRICES in our SPRING CATALOGUE you
will find to be as low and, freight
considered, 15 to 25 below
Eastern supply houses.
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If in this city of Lincoln, with its
mullet head majority of over a thou-'
sand, ore should be discovered in the
streets, the city council would imme
diately meet and make a present of
them to D. E. Thompson or some cor
poration and the mayor would stay in
the council chamber to sign the bill
the moment that it was passed. At
least that is the way they did about
the electric light plant. The street
lamps were so demoralized by that per
formance that they have sputtered,
flickered and gone out every ten min
utes ever since.
A Chicago Instructor in the schools
gave utterance the other day to the
following truths: "More than a mil
lion people are in Nebraska. The per
centage of illiterates is the lowest in
the nation (or was in 1890). They are
freest from the dictation of political
bosses, and I tell you from experience
that a teacher who may hold a first
grade certificate in Illinois can't pass
a second grade examination west of
the Missouri." He might have added
that Nebraska has the greatest state
university on earth, where every man
has perfect freedom of thought and ex
pression and is at perfect liberty to ad
vocate anything that he honestly be
lieves without danger of ostracism or
dismissal.
"The most enlightened nations," ac
cording to the songs that were sung
Inl896 and 1900, have national debts as
follows: (1) France, $5,800,691,814;
(2) Russia, $3,167,320,000; (3) United
Kingdom, $3,060,926,304; (4) Italy, $2,
583,983,780; (5) Austria, $1,697,255,140.
According to the republican spell
binders, the United States was not en
lightened enough and the first thing
that McKinley did was to get an act
passed that permitted him to. Issue
$400,000,000 of bonds, to restore the
parity, as it were. He did issue $200,
000,000 and the debt of the United Stat
es now stands at $1,107,711,257. McKin
ley has increased our enlightenment
that much and in a few years more we
will, without doubt, get to be as en
lightened as France or Russia.
It is interesting to watch the con
test that is going on in the republican
party over the tariff. While the Home
Market club was listening to Roose
velt and Senator Hoarvs'ang the praises
of "protection," McKinley was travel
ling through the country singing . the
praise of an increased foreign trade
and reciprocity treaties. Meantime
Representative Babcock is filling a
great big scran book with compliments
from republican papers concerning his
plan to abolish the tariff on all trust
products. Not very much reliance
should be put upon the hope that this
quarrel will amount to anything. Be
fore th next campaign they will all
get together and agree upon what kind
of a lie they shall tell when they go
upon the stump.
The Independent has Information
that Treasurer Stuefer has written cer
tain county treasurers that they .need
not remit collections of principal on
school lands to just let it run awhile.
Inasmuch as such money would be
placed In the permanent school fund
on its arrival at the state treasury, and
in view of the fact that Treasurer
Stuefer has now over. $300,000 of Idle
school money, "on handV' it Is . not J
much wonder that he is not anxious
to have the county treasurers remit
promptly. In a little while we may
confidently expect to see a return to
the former republican method of al
lowing county treasurers to remit
about twice a year, Instead of monthly,
as Treasurer Meserve required. And
that means temptation to speculate
with public funds,' and a rake-off for
republican office-holders. You can't
teach an old dog new tricks. A "re
generated and rejuvenated" republi
can party, controlled by the same old
gang, will make- no better record in
governing the state-thai! did their re
publican predecessors, who made no
hypocritical" pretenses - of believing
other than that a '"public office is a
private snap;" ; 11 " "
One term of office has spoilt many a
good man. After sitting for two years
in his office chair he is not worth a
copper for anything else on earth
in me times out or ten ne becomes a
wire puller and office-seeker and is ut
terly useless to himself and all the
rest of mankind. The man who comes
out of office and goes actively into
business and acts as if he never was
an office-holder at all is the chap who
does some 'good in the world. Office-
holding IS a snare and a delusion
Never accept an office except as a duty
you owe to the state and in return for
the benefits that you have received
from free government. That was the
old populist doctrine and it is a good
one, based, as all the populist doctrines
are, upon good, hard, common sense.
he paupers who are being educated
by' taxes collected from the people at
West Point have again violated their
word of. honor and begun the hazing
which they promised should be sup
pressed. The result is that five of
them have been court-martialed and
dismissed and a good many more pun
ished in other ways. . If the military
officers in command at West Point can
not prevent .mutinies and disobedience
to orders, other officers should be ap
pointed . and the court pets who are
now there should be sent as legation
guards to China or to Luzon to tramp
through the swamps for a couple of
years. If the cadets now there are of
such low moral standards that they
will continually violate their word of
honor, the whole lot had better be sent
home and a lot of farmer boys be al
lowed to take their places who have
been trained in a different way from
these cads.'
South Carolina seems to be very
much of a populist state. What has
been called the "imperative mandate"
has been voluntarily put in force. Both
United States senators have resigned
and an appeal is ; to be made to the
people. Tillman had a round-up with
McLaurin In which he told McLaurin
that having voted constantly with the
republican party the honorable course
for him to pursue after having deserted
the party that elected him was to re
sign and appeal to the people. Mc
Laurin replied that Tillman never
would resign, whereupon Tillman
dared McLaurin to sign, a joint resig
nation with him and. send it to the
governor. McLaurin was cornered, but
after some attempts to back out was
forced to do it, so both senators re
signed and a canvass is to be made of
the state by. the two.. Democratic pri-
xnarles are to be called and the ques
tion of who represents the people and
who shall represent them in the future
is to be decided by, the people them
selves. If that Is not straight pop
ulism, what is it? .,
PAYING THE PRICK
Since the beginning of the Boer war
14,978 British soldiers have been killed
or died of wounds and disease.
There are now 13,797. British soldiers
in hospitals. - "
And 17,209 British soldiers have been
wounded. Those Transvaal gold mines
come high, but British speculators
must have them if it takes every
Briton available f or , military duty.
If the Colorado miners keep up with
their cyanide processes and cleaning
up of old dumps, by the time the Brit
ish get Kruger's gold mines they will
not have very much value left in them.
But as the British believe in "intrin
sic" value they will probably keep on
fighting even if gold becomes so plenti
ful that Denver and Cripple Creek con
clude to copy the Celestial City and
pave their streets with gold. If the
Joe Chamberlain lunatics are so de
termined to have the gold mines, let
them fight on. America and Dewet
stand for liberty. ' '
Hardy's Column
The Difference," Why the Fuss -J My
Politics' Corn Corner & The State
Fair ,5 Which Person The Rich
Must Be Made Richer 5 Educations
Dunkard - National Meeting"
Who ever saw a greater difference in
Marks than there is between Mark
Hanna and Mark Twain.
Why make so much fuss about the
Boyd hotel having a saloon handy by
the side with doorways connecting,
while the Lindell and the Lincoln have
saloons inside? Saloons are all of
them either good or bad everywhere.
I was not a Buchanan democrat,
could not be one; neither was I a
Cleveland democrat. I was a Lincoln
republican, but cannot be a McKinley
republican. I am now a Bryan demo
crat. The corn corner is off and No. 2 is
worth but little more than No. 3. The
small quantities of No. 2 and large
quantities of No. 3 and there was no
way of mixing No. 1 with No. 3 and
making No. 2 as Armour, did with
wheat on the Leiter corner, for there
was little or no No. 1 was the real cor
ner of the corner.
Twenty thousand for the old state
fair grounds, with buildings thereon, is
a low price, and why the state board
do not see it we cannot imagine. It
may be another Dorgan deal.
Which person will be most likely to
pass the pearly gates into the New
Jerusalem? The one who makes no
profession, belongs to. no church, yet
leads a pure, kind and benevolent life,
or the one who makes a loud profes
sion, occupies the highest ckurch re
lations, but at the same time leads a
brutal, indulgent life. Right living is
the corner stone of salvation. He that
does others good gets more good to
himself than he can to be selfish. How
few in church or state work more for
the masses than for "themselves.
Who besides the wealthy ship own
ers are at work for the subsidy bill?
Whom else will the law benefit? Any
thing to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer will not be vetoed by Mc
Kinley. We must conclude that the
Yankees are not smart enough to hold
their own on an evener with foreign
ers they must have protective tariffs,
subsidies and who knows what next.
Make a law to tax United States bonds
to pay the subsidy 'and we would not
object or tax corporation, but no, the
farmers must pay it or the most of it.
Education, like suffrage, has been
extended more and more contrary to
the will and wish of the high bloods.
Free schools and free colleges have
been fought by the upper crust. Fifty
years ago none but the wealthy could
get a college education. Now a poor
boy or girl can work their way through
college by tne time they are twenty
one. We have been fifty years fighting
the aristocratic colleges for the ad
mission of girls as well as boys. Most
of the college doors are now open for
both sexes, rich and poor. So line af
ter line. of business has been open to
the fair sex. More and more the girls
of today demand an even marriage or
they will support themselves. It is no
longer necessary for girls to marry
or be left homeless.' Sne can make
her own home and unless a man is a
home-maker she is justified in turning
a deaf ear to his proposals of marriage.
It is the doctrine of imperialism that
the masses are made to "ork and sub
serve the interests of the few. Much
comment has been made on the fact
that some of the women lost on the
board of trade the other day, but ten
times more men lost. Some of the
women made large sums. It is just as
proper for a woman to gamble, smoke,
chew and drink as for men.
Lincoln has been thronged with sev
eral thousand Dunkards, from all parts
of the United States, in attendance up
on their national yearly meeting. The
name is derived from the German
word which signifies to dip. They are
baptists and believe in immersion.They
read the Bible, sing, pray and preach
as other denominations do. r They
seem to be plain, common-sense peo
ple. The men's hats are the same as
other people wear. The only pecul-
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The success with which the sale and demonstration of Faust Blend and
other of Blanke's Coffees have met during the present week at. this store is
proof sufficient of their superior worth, of their being all that is claimed for
them. Among the leading hotels serving BLANKE'S RENOWNED COFFEES
exclusively are: '
The Hopkins, Tecumseh, Neb.
The Exchange, Waverly, Neb.
The Blodget Hotel, York, Neb.
The Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, 111.
Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark.
Brown's Palace Hotel, Denver, Colo.
Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, O.
Grand Hotel, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Del Prade Hotel,
This famous coffee is also served exclusively on the Pullman dining ar.d
buffet cars; on the elegant steamships of the" Ocean Steamship' Co. of New
York and Sabannah; on the dining cars of the Denver & Rio Grand, the Bal
timore & Ohio, the Wabash, Lake Shore and New York Central railroads.
All this week this coffee is being served free at this store. A special
demonstration is in progress and visitors will receive a pretty souvenir.
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larity in their -dress . seems to be in
buttoning . the coat and vest to the
chin. The. women wear bonnets and
not hats, which are of similar shape,
but of different color and made of dif
ferent material. To tell the truth,
they are just as good looking under
their, plain bonnets as are the Lincoln
women under feathers, flowers and rib
bons. They get along without tobacco
just as well as other churches do with
It. The young people , seem to be
lieve in twoism as much as other
young people. We saw several pairs
sitting and standing, walking and talk
ing as though they had more interest
in each other than in all others in
sight. These people not only dress
'plainly, but they live otherwise plain
ly. The one course begins ani ends
their most fashionable meals. They
are mostly farmers and live off the
farm on their own productions. Wish
they would buy the western Normal
building and. start a school a3 the
Quakers have at Wichita, Kas.
For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup has been used by
mothers for their children while teeth
ing. Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of Cut
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get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth
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value is incalculable. It' will-relieve
the poor little sufferer immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no
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regulates the stomach and bowels,
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duces inflammation, and gives tono
and energy to the whole system. "Mrs.
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dren, teeth Jug is pleasant to the taste
and is the prescription of one of the
oldest aCoVbest female physicians and
nurses in the United States, and is for
sale by all druggists throughout the
world. Price, 25' cents a bottle. Be
sure and ask for "Mrs. WinsloVs
Soothing Syrup."
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Filipino Civilizers
A recent cablegram from Manila un
der date of May 23 says:
"As the outcome of a drunken-quarrel
in the officers' quarters at Camp
Stotsenburg Tuesday afternoon, Lieu
tenant James F. Howell of the 6th ar
tillery, shot Second Lieutenant Chas.
R. Lloyd of the . same regiment, the
bullet grazing the left side of Lloyd's
head and inflicting a slight wound. -
"After retreat that evening Lieuten
ant Howell, who . was temporarily in
command; took field battery 12 on a
wild "hike" through the jungles and
rice fields of Mariquina valley. ' Later
Howell, Lloyd and Dr.; Overton, who
dressed Lloyd's wounds, .were placed
under arrest. The affair is being in
vestigated." ' '
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Cabinets $2.00 per doz.. Little Orals 35c per doz.
T. J. THORP & COMPANY
GENERAL MACHINISTS.
Repairing of all kinds.,58
Mod el -makers, etc. S 5
Seals, Rubber Stamps, Sten
cils, Checks, Etc.
308 South llth St., Lincoln, Neb
J. W- Mitchell Co.
1338 O STREET.
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