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o I 1 1 it I i - 1 T ' .0 : X. r r I ill 31 III 3 II I II V V . II III II II II mm 7 4 Iff WW, VOL. XI I L LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 11, 1901. NO. 7. CHANCELLOR ANDREWS Tk Ateaeal of Brvi ralverelty Stand hy tWrOM iMirattM u4 Klct Him Trat The devilish Llttrcess of the cam p!cs cf by the adherent of the rcld ttandard was never equalled oa the earth in all history and probably will &erer be fa all time to come. No trailer what was the integrity, learn ing acd moral taadicg of a man, if be waa cot willi&g to further the inter est cf the Wall treet pirate, a de liberate plot m la rented to nil a bira. That applied to mea cf learning who were cot la politics at all a well as the most artlre eXre-eeeker who fcus&l under the Ilryaa banner. Such mea &a Fraaci A- Walker, Chancel lor Aadrews aad hundred of others, perhaps cot o widely known for their learning and ability a thee two. were hounded as if they were criminal of the meet dp-rate kind. To differ from the pirate upon a strictly scientific rjttJon was enoujch to start the whole wretched pack cf vllinera and detain ers oa a hunt after them, cot to he stepped until the unfortunate victims were ruined la fortune and character If the thins was poexible. A s'leht reaction has set la since that time although there are thou sand who continue their old vlllaca tions with all the bitterness that It Is p!b to Inject Into them. An evi dence that some of them are Inclined to make amends for their severity i the election cf Chancellor Andrew to a truitefchip ia Brown university. A correspondent write a follows about that matter: "fre dispatches recently an nounced the election of Chancellor Andrews of Lraka university to be trustee of Brown university, of which he was formerly president. I doubt, however. f Unjoin people have been told Jut how this came about. As told to tt lat nlKht, by a prominent c;tlxen of Providence, father of a stu dent at Brown, it was aa interesting story of the inffueare and lmpressioa left behind by a strong character work in for the bet Interest of an institution. It sevens that whea a trus tee cf Brown ! to be selected, the al umni recommend, though do not act ually elect. When it came to Ailing the recent vacancy, there wa a candi date seemingly picked out by circum stances, ilr. Rockefeller had Just made a donation to Brow a, aad aa he has cot ceased lhee practices, it seemed fitting, both as a tribute of retpect and gratitude and as a matter of policy, to f elect a friend of Mr. Rockefeller. Such a frie-ud existed la the president cf the Providence Ex change hank, whom the oil magnate would Lave liked elected. Just make sure that the arrangement went throfh smoothly, aome prominent alumni got out a neat circular letter stating that the friend of the univer sity deemed R best for the future of the institution that the banker be riait trustee. Names carrying con siderable weight were signed aad the ltt west out to the alumni, far and wide. But a ware of simultaneous thoaghtwhere set ia motion no man may kiow knocked all the plan aad nullified the circular. One after an other of the alumni, taking up hi pen to send in his recommendation thought of a sturdy character, a lofty purpose aad a faithful friend, and said to himself. -Well, this New York banker may be all right, hut I think E. Benjsmla Andrews would fit my Ideal cf a trustee. There Lad V a no organized move meat, no real mentioa of the ex-president as a candidate, but w hen the vote were counted, one man had seventy, one forty, others leer cumbers, but E. Benjamin Andrews had about 4 SO oat of setae tVt alumni votes. There was one thing to do and It was dose. When the announcement of the selec tion was made to the student there was a regular Jubilee. Yet only a mall proportion of them had even iMf-e-a the former president, and cone cf them had been under his adminis tration lung:. Even the citizens of the towa shared in the rejoicing, ify informant said he met aa aged friend coming down the street with aa un dented stride and a manner that might almost have betokened spirituous ex citement, fits friend wondered what was the matter. The old gentleman ap proached, held out hi hand, and said with enthusiasm. "I tell you that about Andrew was all right, wasn't it?" Btsae time ago President Faunce was recalling to the Brown student In chapel some of the former glories of the old university. He was running through the list of tLe presidents, and telling what great anl good mea they were, how th:s one wus notable aa a xrJMlotir. that one as aa author, still another a a great divine. The boys showed ordinary interest, but co en thusiasm. The president worked down the Kst to recent times, suddenly men tioned E. Benajmla Andre a. It was like & rooter signal at a football game. Hat went up, everybody yelled the coll e yell, and above the dia was heard, "What the matter with Benny Andrews? He all right. Not an other name was cheered. No one elae had left his mark dep enough to be remembered. The Providence man then told me a hit of aemi-prlvate history of the Aa drews administration, which explain la a measure how such a lore for the president grew up. During: the finaa cial trouble of 1S34 maay of the pa tron of Browa suddenly found them aelres without Income from the ces sation of dividends oa various stock. They had to write to their boy that they might finish the term, but after that they would Lave to Quit schooL All such occurrence were duly re potted to President by fci prlTate sec retary. The president would remark: "Has to q'iii, does Let .Well, that' bad. What Is hi record, Mr. Guild? Ia he trying?" It did not matter bo much If , the standing was high as it did if he was "trying." If the answer was affirma tive the president would say: "Just see how Mr. Smith's account stands. Perhaps It can be Axed somehow." The secretary would bring in the account. The president would take it gravely, scanning the Items closely. "This room charge l& all right, Is it?"- "Yes. sir, that Is the regular charge. We can't make It any, lower." "This tuition is the correct amount, is itr "Yes, sir, perfectly correct." "These Items couldn't be reduced a little, could they?" "No. air. Impossible. It Is the reg ular charge." "Well. I suppose it is all right. Yes, I think It is all right." With that . he . turned the account over aad wrote across the back, E. Benjamin Andrews." That boy didn't have to quit school. My Informant asked a person who knew just how many such accounts the president Indorsed." "Ten thousand dollars," was the re eponse. If the stocks hadn't rallied the next year there would have been a large, Jagged hole in the president's ex chequer, but not In the student's roll. The Brown boys liked him because they knew they could count on him. He was with them ueart and soul. He would yell for the ball team and pick up the ball If it came his way.; He meant business when he gave an order, but he did not hold people off and put on airs. The Providence man was curious to ask his informant how many students' accounts a certain other president had Indorsed. "None at all." There wasn't any cheers at hla name either. SENATORIAL ANTICS Senator Hr Is Attracting the Attention f tk Whole World by His Peculiar Nrftrmaaeci Senator George F. Hoar of Massa chusetts, speaking at Harvard's com mencement, said: "Harvard has placed her laurel on many Illustrious brows since the day she welcomed George Washington, but none upon brows more worthy than tboae of William McKinley." Speaking of the Philippine policy of the same Will tan McKinley, the same Senator Hoar said in the senate on April 17, 1900: :: "The statesman or the party who will not stand by the Declaration and obey It 1 never to be trusted any where to keep an oath to support the constitution." - And again the Bay State's senior senator said of the Philippine republic, since completely wfped out by Mr. McKinley, whose brows he now finds a worthy as any since Washington's: "If we crush that republic, despoil that people or their freedom and Inde pendence, and subject them to , our rule. It will be & story of shame and dishonor." A a climax to Mr. Hoar's fine flow cf declamation against all the men who went back on the great Declara tion, he predicted their final doom as follows: The men who stand by It shall live in the eternal memory of mankind, and the men who depart from it (which must have meant Mr, McKin ley, because no exceptions were made) and the men who depart from it, how ever triumphant and . successful in their little policies, shall perish and be forgotten, or shall be remembered only to be despised." That performance of Senator Hoar beats the flops of the supreme court and William McKinley himself. Was Senator Hoar an Imperialist all the time? Did he make those speeches in the senate simply because he knew that the people of Massachusetts were against imperialism to secure his re election, and a soon as that was ac complished flop back to be a sup porter of McKinley Imperialism? Keip ths Boys Occupied That is a vital thing to keep the boys occupied. ' Not much use to scold them, still worse to preach at the boys. Let them have work and play that will occupy their activities. If they are not thus busied at home or under good auspices they will be doing something in bad company., .The boy who is brought up to work in a reasonable way, who early discovers his capacity to excel in some useful -endeavor, thereby develops a strength of purpose that will stand him ' In good stead in the battle of life. If the boy is busy with hand and head, be it at work or play, he is pretty sure to come out all right. Witness the transformation worked In boys by the night schools of manual training. Indeed, the sons of poor parents may have -a - better chance in life than rich men's boys, simply because the latter may be pam pered, while the former are gaining in strength through honest endeavor. With well-to-do parents, who avoid the temptations of the very rich or the difficulties of the very poor, the boy has Idea possibilities. He acquires the ability to do. to work, which is the priceless heritage of the poor; he also has the benefit of other forms of edu cation, training, experience and travel that are costly, but of immeasurable value In developing character and ca pacity. Such boys acquire from ex perience sensible ideas about money, ability and Industry, at the same time that Ueir moral fabric Is strengthening and 'aelr physical and mental powers are growing. Good Housekeeping for July. EXPORT STATISTICS Thoy Show That tho Farmora of Amoriew and not tho Trust and Financiers Hart Caused tho Increase The official statistics of the export trade of the United States have Just been published at Washington. They show that the Morgans, the Harri mans, the banks and the whole crew who do so much bragging had noth ing to do with the United States com ing to the front of the great export nations of the world. It was the Am erican farmer that did it. It was not our new. possessions either, for the statistician does not' even mention them. Perhaps some time in the sweet bye and bye the men who have been calling the farmers hogsr in the parlor and declaring that' they were a very Insignificant factor In the financial affairs of this country will learn that it Is the farmer who has made this nation great and not the millionaires. The - Independent has . been . trying to beat that truth into the heads of Han na's followers for many years. The republican farmer, however, prefers to sing the song which begins: "Oh! to be nothing." The government statistician says that there were a dozen countries in 1900 to each of which the United Stat es exported over $10,000,000 worth of domestic products. - -.' The United Kingdom purchased $408,000,000 and Germany $134,000,000 worth. Our agricultural exports to the Unit ed Kingdom were the largest on rec ord, excepting those of the extraordi nary year of 1898, when a value of $439,000,000 was attained. In our trade with Germany, the ex ports for 1900 were decidedly In ex cess of any previously reported, and show an increase of nearly 100 per cent in the five years' period. Next in order to the above named countries in 1900 were the following: The Netherlands $52,000,000; France $45,000,000; Belgium $33,000,000; Italy $24,000,000; Canada $21,000,000; Japan over $15,000,000; Denmark nearly $15, 000,000; Cuba $14,000,000; Spain -$io,-000,000, as against a trifle less than $10,000,000 in 1896; British Africa $10, 300,000. The ten principal Items in our agri cultural export trade for 1900 were: Breadstuff s $262,744,078 Cotton 242,&88,978 Meat products...; 173,751471 Live animals 43,585,031 Tobacco 29,422,371 Oil, cake and oil cake meal 16,806,302 Vegetable oils v.... 1645,036 Fruits and nuts 11.642,662 Dairy products ... 9,226,520 Seeds 7,306,982 Others 31,067,079 Total ...$844,616,530 The total in 1899 was $574,398,264. About half the trade in breadstuffs in 1900 went to the United Kingdom with Germany next at $32,029,000. Of the raw cotton $90,267,000 went to the United Kingdom, $64,395,000 to Ger many and $27,776,000 to France. . Of meat products $107,021,000 went to the United Kingdom and $32,808,000 of live animals to the same country. Look over that list and see how much of our exports were furnished by great financiers and leaders in the re publican party, and how much was furnished by the farmers. Who is it that gives this country standing among the nations of the earth? Is it the Wall street gang of pirates or the men on the farms? COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS It Was for tho Pnrpoi of Uniting Rata and They Ha to Gono up From 30 to 50 Par Cent Prominent western, merchants, all heavy shippers of merchandise, are preparing to call to account before the interstate commerce commission the heads of the various railroad combina tion's and the community of interest alliances of the trunk lines of the country. Charges are made that, following these movements of consolidation freight rates have been advanced from 30 to 50 per cent through quiet and organized manipulation of the various classifications of commodities. Mer chandise formerly in class 4 has been placed under, class 2, with a conse quent Increase of 30 per cent in ship ment charges, and so on through the voluminous tabulated classifications of all commodities. All this has been contrary to the in terstate commerce law, it is charged, but it has been carried on under cover. Behind the movement to attack this scheme of freight advances by apply ing to the interstate commerce com mission for relief lies the plan for a still more vigorous blow. The com plainants intend to press a demand that congress shall take a hand in forcing? the formation of a uniform classification of freight which " shall be' effective . on every railroad in the United States. For some months shippers and mer chants have been complaining of the continued shifting of rates. Several suits have been brought In the federal courts because of the arbitrary rules laid down by the railroads. ' First came an advance In charges on cars loaded with "mixed" goods, then the various lines refused to accept carload shipments unless the goods in each car were of the same kind. It was contended that the tariffs had been gradually inflated until they were unreasonable. No relief came from these continued complaints and as a result the large shippers of the west" have effected an organization to , de mand the government's interference. These communists,- not satisfied with making an enormous advance rate, fur ther propose to discharge a hundred thousand or so of their employes. The offices of railroads in the different com binations located In I all the principal cities throughout the country will be consolidated. The report Is revived in connection withv the Morgan-Hill syn dicate operations. It is aaid that wher ever separate . offices are now main tained by the GreatlNorthern, North ern Pacific and Burlington Joint offices will be substituted. L After the offices of . individual lines under the same ownership, have been brought together, It ,1s said; thousands of. solicitors' and freight and passen ger agents will be eliminated in the in terest of economy., On with the dance. - There may be no hereafter to-this, sort of business, but The Independent ' believes that there is. ' V- - - ' Who Will Answer? This administration Is. and has been coining more silver dollars than ever before. This is exactly what Bryan proposed to do ; and the reverse of what republicans: promised. Republi cans said they, were 50-cent dollars and that labor ,wpuld stand the loss. The republicans said there was plenty of money and all that was needed was more confidence. Have they acted on that: theory?; "Have they not acted on the theory tnat more' money is needed and have greatly increased the gold, silver and paper supply? If more money (and it is ' Immaterial as to kind) has made ..better times, why would not free stiver." that would make still more money, make still better times? Who is prepared to answer? M'inden Courier. , UNANSWERED QUESTIONS Boaowator up a Stamp and Can't Talk Other Republican KUitors Dimb aa Ojttora t The '. York Democrat loaded up a quick-firing gun and last week put it into action. Th? first shot was as fol lows: ? . "The Nebraska Independent drew the fire of the Omaha Bee Sunday in answer to an editorial which, appeared in The Independent in which some very pertinent, questions were asked to be explained by thet'redeemers." The Bee, flared up and proceeded to lam bast the whole fusion outftt in'the state, but the questions, of The Independent re main unanswered,: for the good and .sufficient reason that they cannot be answered;" RepubUcansheets like the Bee stood - on their c Tear legs ; and howled themselves hoarse because the railroad assessment under Governor Poynter had been reduced, but they have been mum on the fact that the assessment for this year of the rail roads under the republican administra tion. The Bee says it denounced the reduction of. railroad assessment of, last year and that it '.'has - not com mended the assessment of 1901." Has not commended is good. If the Bee has "denounced fraud and condemned wrong doing," etc., as it says it has; why uid it not denounce the lowering of the assessment for this year. y. That is the question propounded and the Bps has not answered it." . - Without waiting to see what damage the enemy had suffered the Democrat fired another round. As a range-flnder it. used the article in The Independent that pointed out how congress had twice stopped the coinage of silver and that in both instances panic and de struction followed, continuing until the coinage was resumed. Then it said: " "The Nebraska Independent, from which the, above is taken, propounds a question which republicans do not an swer for the very good and sufficient reason that they cannot, and besides were they to undertake to do so would be an admission on their part that the position taken on the silver question by the fusionists of the nationhas been the correct one. More than this, the very fact of the enormous amount of isilver which has been coined by the McKinley administration during the past four years is a sufficient evidence to the minds of all fair-minded men that the republican leaders recognize the value of silver in our currency and have used every means at their com mand to supply it to the business in terests of the country. True, they pre tend that the coinage is protected by the adoption of the gold standard, but this argument Is merely on a par with the balance of their cunning and de ceits. Free coinage under the McKin ley administration is proving as ben eficial as it did under other administrations." They Ought to See The Nebraska Independent expresses surprise ' that the democratic papers throughout the country have not called attention to the fact that since Jan uary, 1897, the currency of the country has doubled; that McKinley has coined more silver dollars fiTty-cent dollars than were ever coined during an equal period of time; that the prod uct of the gold mines has doubled and that the national banks have issued more than $100,000,000 of bank paper. The Independent ought not to be sur prised at the democratic press in this, for they can't tell yet what the "is sue" will be next year, nor which side of the coinage question they may be on. " But even republicans ought . to see that so great an . increase in quantity of the commodity called money would make it easier obtained in exchange for beef and corn, and that a less quan tity of beef or corn would exchange for a given quantity of coin when it is abundant than when it was scarce. Aahbya Crucible. SPECIAL PRIVILEGES Erory Et11 Tht AffiUta the Pooplo or Is a . Throat A(mint Froo Gorernmont Comos From Granting- Them The readers of The Independent will remember how often It has been in sisted upon in this paper that the granting, of special privileges -is the basis of all the evils that have ap peared in modern 'governments. Com petition has not been an evil. Most of the blessings that we still enjoy are the results of competition. - It " has given us a hardy and virile race of men and women without whose intelli gence and activities we would still be savages. In a recent t article in the Pilgrim, Tom Johnson .takes exactly the same ground. He even advocates the proposition that The Independent made long., ago that the government should cease giving special privileges to patentees and pay inventors a rea sonable price for their inventions after which they should become public prop erty. He declares. that the patent laws have been a hindrance to advancement. It is an undisputed fact that in regard to the telegraph that is true. The Western Union has bought up and sup pressed many valuable inventions con nected with, telegraphy. However it may be in regard to that matter, no one can dispute that the granting of privileges to private parties in trans portation, in water works, in gas and electric lighting, has been productive of evil and only evil. In regard to these Mr. Johnson says: "Municipal monopolies they con sist of rights and special privileges in the public streets and highways which, in the nature of the case, cannot be possessed by all the people and can be enjoyed by only a few. A constant struggle goes on to obtain such priv ileges, with the result of checking and retarding, for a long time, neces sary public improvements. Rival claimants, not strong enough to obtain what they want, often succeed in checkmating each other at the expense of denying to the public needed ad vantages. Only a very slight. observa tion of and reflection upon the needs of people crowded together in a city, as to facility of moving about, as to communication, as to supply of water, or of artificial light, is needed to satis fy any candid man that such businesses are, in their nature, monopolistic. In other words, they can be carried on, with the best possible results to the" public, under a single management and with a single consistent policy. ;Where .competition .prevails in such matters, almost invariably the public service is inefficient and" defective. Wherever there is unity, the condi tion 4 of things is much better. My proposition on this subject is to en large the functions of municipalities so that, the means of transportation and communication and the supply of wa ter and of light shall be furnished by public authority and not by private en terprise, and extend this principle to Its logical result, of taking under pub lic " administration ' all businesses which require the grant of any special right or privilege. "We have already - started on . this road-and made considerable progress. In many cities the water supply is a public business; In some cities the gas and electric lights are manufactured and furnished by public authority; In many cities of Europe and Australia street railroads are owned and operated by the public. Why not go on in this direction till there shall be no more private ' property in special grants or franchises and till all business requir ing such grants shall be carried on by the municipalities? Under present conditions the adoption of this policy would require the taking over by the public only of the water, gas, electric light and power supply and of the tele phone and street railroads. The evils which a great many timid people fear as likely to arise from enlarging the scope of the functions of municipalities are trivial in comparison with the evils which are inseparable from the present system. As long as the great rewards which these monopolies offer to private enterprise are possible our industries will be hampered, our poll tics will be corrupted by bribery and fraud and our people will have to pay unnecessarily high prices for these kinds of service and they will be sub jected to daily and hourly inconven iences and vexation, owing to the poor quality of the service. "It would be no injustice for cities to erect their own plants and so compete for the business with the present, pri vate owners. It would not be inequit able for cities to use their powers of taxation so as to compel the present private owner to bear the same propor tion of public burdens, according to the value of their property, including -franchises, as owners of other kinds of private property, have to bear. It would be no violation of vested rights, where the power has not been bartered away, for the cities and the states to, regulate fares and rates of compensa tion, so as to make them yield only a fair return on the actual investment made, ' rather than upon a fictitious capitalization, based mainly upon fran chises or special privilege values. In short, municipalities ought not to hesi tate to do what private persons in bus iness do as a matter of course. They should respect the grants which they have made, according to their true limits, but, doing this, they should take advantage of every right that Is left to themselves to get rid of the present system and substitute therefor a re gime of public Ownership and opera tion. " . -"Transportation Monopolies While there are other independent forms, and also forms that are the direct out growth of railroad favor, such as spe cial freight lines, sleeping car com panies, express companies and . tele phone companies, yet I shall, for the sake ' of clearness, restrict, myself to railroads alone, being confident that the principles that apply to them will apply to all classes or. sub-divisions of this form of government favor. "The original idea behind the rail road was entirely different from the idea attached to it in common thought today, and to the departure from this original Idea I shall trace the evils now complained of. It was at first sim ply the idea of providing a roadway or passageway a highway for vehicles moved by steam, just as there were, then, roads for vehicles moved by horses. It did not provide for exclu sive use, but for . general use, subject to a charge or toll, just as charges were made on some horse roads. But. seeing the advantage of exclusive use, the companies building, these steam highways, by means of heavy or dis criminating tolls, or by other methods, prevented general use, stopped compe tition and made themselves the sole users. The rail or steam roads in the United States, instead of becoming what they were intended to be, as the term applied to them, 'public high ways, indicates, becames private high ways. V.. - - "And what has been the tendency of these private highways? . Sixty years ago railroad building began in the United States, each road separately or ganized, with , its own officers and Its distinct Interests. '. But separate in terests melted Into common interests and many small companies formed into single large companies that grew out of concentration of management and combination of effort. This cen tralizing movement has proceeded so fact, within the past decade, that now substantially the whole railroad busi ness of the United States is under the control of a score of men. The multi tude of little roads has given place to combinations, which, in turn, must soon very soon give way practically to One system, controlled by one man. This is a natural process. Concentra tion means greater economy in opera tion and greater public facility and must occur whenever railroad develop ment is given free play under present conditions, whether, under private own ership, as in this country, or under public ownership as in continental Eu rope and Australia. "But let us anticipate the end of this present and perfectly natural tendency. We must see the appearance of the one directing mind, the king-pin, the dic tator, the supreme monarch in the rail road world. If present railroad princes are giants among magnates, this man will be a Titan, a Gulliver among.Lil liputians. , Indeed, compare , in your mind's eye the powers of such a' man with the powers of the president of the United States. ' Which could command more men? ; Which would receive the larger revenues? Which would, have the larger . pay .rolls? . Which would have greater control of the pockets of the v people? In short, whose favors would be more courted? One might distribute honors by the appointment of foreign ministers and judges at small pay, but which would appoint most men at $50,000 salaries? Which, then, would have the dominant power the men representing the people or the man representing privilege, the one voted for by men or the one voted for by shares of stock? Can interstate commerce commissions prevent it? WTiy, railroad owners themselves can not prevent it, for. it is in the natural order under present conditions. If government control failed "before rail roads were consolidated, what can it do after consolidation .is perfected? If discriminating - rates have worked such evils on trade in the past, what must be their effect in the future? If railroads have hitherto controlled leg islation, what will : they do when all their power is vested in one man?" ' WORKING THE NEW SCHEME Milling FlnaU Bonded and Stocked to Ten Time Their Value Out in Colorado Recently five ore milling plants sit uated at Cripple Creek that were built at a cost not to exceed $3,000,000, and with no patents involved, have been in corporated with a capital of $10,000,000 and an up-to-date bond issue of $3, 000,000. The bond issue, it will be noted, just about represents the cost of the plants, and the interest upon the bonds will represent payment of reasonable inter est on the cost of the plants. What ever dividends may be paid upon the $10,000,000 of capital stock will rep resent profits derived from the busi ness over and above interest on the cost of the plants. That is a fair specimen of the way the modern financiers are organizing every business in the land. It' is the new scheme that has been evolved In the last four years. Capitalize every thing to ten times its value and get rich on wind. Perhaps people can all get rich that way, but The Indepen dent has" not yet been convinced that that is the road to wealth. This new corporation not only issued bonds to the full value of the plant, but issued $10,000,000 of stock that has behind it the same sort' of "security that the cer tified checks made to men in New York who had no deposits. It is all cut from the same piece of cloth. These incor porators also followed the example of the New York communists in another particular. They made provision to avoid paying taxes. "When - the ar ticles of incorporation were filed, they filed along with them a protest against the payment of fees that the state lev ies on corporations "and it proposes to go into court and have them annulled. On with the dance. ;- Let the issue of stock be unconflned." Nobody has to pay the fiddlers At .least that is the idea of the new American financier. ECONOMIC IMBECILES Their Doctrines Hare Brought DUtreM " Upon Europe and Wrought Htoo " in America ' No one can look at the condition of Europe today and fall to see, if he Is an honest and intelligent man, that the loss of their trade and the coming distress that they fear has; been brought about by the constant fear of overproduction which falsu econ omists have instilled into the minds of all classes of society. The sam teach ing has wrought havoc In thla coun try and the only real danger that now threatens us can be traced to this per nicious false doctrine. The wage workers of Europe were so thoroughly convinced that great production would lead to their ruin that years ago they adopted every means to lessen it. A worker, who invented a machine that did more work than could be done by hand, or who attempted to become dextrous and swift at his employment, was looked upon as an enemy of his class. That has wrought the trouble before which the economists of Eu rope" now stand aghast. In America the same sort of doc trine has been preached by the social ists and republican party, but the gen eral intelligence of the American workmen, the result of the superior education of the common people In this country, has in the main rejected it Every American workman h&s con tinued to devise to the best of his abil ity ways of doing more work in the same number of hours and without in creasing the exertion enabling him to do it. If it had not been for the strong, common sense of the Ameri can workman, which rejected the false doctrines of hired economists of the gold bug school, this country today would not be leading the world In manufacturing and agriculture - as it does. . These false economists still keep up their work. They are afraid that if a great and productive country in made out of te arid west, thaKIf barren deserts are turned into productive farms, nothing but disaster will fol low. A very good answer waa made to this sort of economic rot in the tes timony of Mr. A. H. Naftzer, a Cali fornia fruit-grower, before the indus trial commission the other day. Among other things he said: "It has been carefully estimated that under a system of national irrigation seventy-five million to one hundred million of acres of lands now practical ly '.desert - and worthless could be re claimed and made productive. It would; be nearly or quite Impossible to do this without government aid. If government aid be objected to on the ground , that the development of these arid lands would bring them into productive competition with, and tend to decrease values of farming lands in the eastern states, the answer is, first, that the development of any portion of our country is incidentally a benefit to all; but more specifically, if these desert lands should be watered, vast quantities of machinery, implements, and other manufactured goods will be required by , the settlers - upon the lands, practically all of which manu factured goods would have to come from eastern states. This alone, I think, would more than compensate for any otherwise possible depreciation of eastern farming lands, occasioned by Increased western competition. If the west shall have more water, the east will have more trade. "But these western lands would for the most part be devoted to a different class of products than those of the eastern states, increasing interstate commerce and developing home mar kets In both directions. ','A.Sain, wno can say that these west ern lands will not be needed for homes for the overflow of eastern cities and towns. Under the rapidly developing economic and industrial conditions now astonis'hing the world, and partic ularly by reason of the introduction of the 'community of interest idea, hat ing for its ostensible object economy in both production and distribution, there is strong probability that many who are now wage earners must in the near future obtain their livelihood by culti vation of the soil. The government owns these arid lands, and it is cer tainly not unreasonable nor Improvi dent that it should expend some of its revenues in making them irrigable." The Minden Gazette says: "Now that the committee has fixed the date for a state convention it behooves the republicans of the state to cast about and select the very best man that can be chosen as a candidate for supreme judge." When it comes to being "childlike and bland" ths heathen Chi nee was a novice in comparison with the Minden Gazette. It seems to think that "the republicans of the state" have something to do with nominating the candidates in a republican state convention. It is passing strange that a Nebraska editor would entertain such an idea. How much did "the re publicans of the state" have to do with the nomination of Dietrich? Every body around Lincoln knew that Diet- ' rich was to be the candidate before the convention assembled and the moment the announcement was made the town was flooded with Dietrich buttons which had been made long before. A few : corporation magnates will select the candidates this fall as they have been doing for the last twenty years. How much did "the republicans of the state" have to do with the nomination and election of the heavenly twins? They will have Just the same amount of Influence when it comes to nominat ing a, supreme Judge. ..... - "