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December 12, 1901
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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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AND CO.'S
; WAREHOUSE'
Cured of Catarrh' of Kidneys by
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HON. JOHN T. SIIEAHANy OF CHICAGO.
ITon. John T. Sheahan, who has been for seventeen years manager of Marshall
Field A Co.'s wholesale warehouse, and U corporal 2d Regiment Infantry. I. N. G.,
writes the following letter from 3753 Indiana aveuue, Hat Six, Chicago, 111.:
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen-"Last summer I caught a cold which seemed to set
tie in my kidneys and affected them badly. I tried a couple cf kid
ney remedies largely advertised, but they did not help me any. One
of my foremen told me of the great help he had received in using
Peruna in a similar case, and I at once procured some.
" "It was indeed & blessing to me, as I am on my feet a large part of
the day, and trouble such as I had affected me seriously, but four
bottles of Peruna cured me entirely and I would not be without it for
three months salary. " JOHN T. SHEAHAN.
Mr. Jacob Fleig writes from H Sum
ner avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.:
" am now a new man at the age cf
seventy-five years, thanks to your
wonderful remedy Peruna." "Jacob
Catarrhal inflammation of the mucous
lining of the kidneys, also called
"Bright's disease," may bo either acute
or chronic. The acute form produces
symptoms of such prominence that the
serious nature of the disease is at once
suspected, but the chronic variety may
come on so gradually and insidiously
that its presence is not suspected until
after it has fastened itself thoroughly
upon its victim.
At the apjiearance of the first symp-.
torn Peruna should be taken.- This
remedy strikes at once at the very root
of the disease. - i
A book on catarrh sent frfr9 by Tho
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.
A very startling piece of news was
sent out from Washington during the.
week by the Associated press. It was
to the effect that President Roosevelt
had directed Attorney General Knox
to investigate the attempted' combina
tion of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railroads, that the attorney
general fully investigated and reported
to the president that such a combina
tion was perfectly legal and nothing
could he clone Lv the national govern
ment to prevent it. The thing that,
astonishes is that an attorney so op
posed to trusts and who has worked
his office force nearly to death fighting
them should make such a report.
The groat plutocratic dailies are
making offers to publishers to send
their weeklies free to all the subscrib
ers of any weekly publication that will
forward to them their subscription
lists. Madden never seems to have
heard of this when he suppressed a lot
of reform weeklies because those- who
had received them had not paid up
their subscription. The republican
party managers are investing man y
millions in subsidizing the great trust
years when the populists have been
calling attention to the special priv
ileges granted to the rich, these voters
have closed their eyes and ears. Such
a transaction as the above should re
move the scales from their eyes and
take the partisan stoppers out of their
ears. How is that they who produce
all wealth can only secure enough of
it to. live, while this ma"n accumulates
$16,000,000 in six months?
In answer to J. D. Ethwold of New
York city, The Independent replies
that while it is true that wages have
not risen in proportion to the rise in
the cost of living, that many hundred
thousand more workmen are now em
ployed than when prices were low, so
that the total amount of wages has
been greatly increased the increase
perhaps being greater than the total
increase in the cost of living. Where
one member of a family was able to
get employment in 1S95, three or four
members now find work. It is true, as
you say, that wages always rise slower
than the rise in prices, .but there is
always a strong tendency to keep them
up after prices begin to fall, so in the
and imperialistic weeklies. You can j long run, the wage-earner prospers
get them for 25 cents a year and if yon
don't want to pay that, you can get
them for nothing. Such offers come to
this office from the metropolitan pa
pers by the score.
Hill is trying the same bluff that
the trusts always make when any pro
test is entered against their extortions.
He says that if Governor Van Sant
don't stop his opposition to the con
solHation of the two competing liner-,
of road, that the shops will be removed
from St. Paul. If Governor Van Sant
is a man of integrity and really in
earnest, such a threat as that would
only intensify his fight against the
trust. A man who can be cowed by a
threat is net fit to be the governor of a
great state. Such a threat might be
efficient against a lot of traders and
merchants, but it would only fill a
courageous man with an uncontrollable
impulse to fight.
A check was handod to Rockefeller
the other day ior $16,000,000, that be-.
ing his share of the profits p th'j
Standard Oil company for six month?.
It would be well for a few poor men
who always vote the republican ticket
when they see this statement to -step
and think for a few minutes that is
If they can think at all what hds.
brought about conditions under which
such a thing was possible. All these
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I Chronic Constipation Cured.
I The most important discovery of
Jrecent years is the positive remedy
rur tuiibupauon. ascarets ianay
jCathartic. Cure guaranteed. Gemi
jine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never
Isold in bulk. Druggists, ioc
just in the same proportion that the
farmer does by a rise in prices, and
suffers just as much by a fall.
The liberal party of England held a
meeting of delegates elected by th.3
members cf the party in every district
in the United Kingdom and passed res
olutions demanding that the govern
ment stop the war on the Boers in
South Africa. There were but 15 votes
in the negative. The London Times
in discussing this meeting declared
that it was time for the imperialists in
the party to make themselves- heard
as they were in a majority. The New
York World, under exactly the same
circumstances, declares that the gold
democrats in congress should make
themselves heard. The imperialists
in the liberal party in England and
the gold democrats in this country
must be exceedingly modest, ,both
have a majority in their respective
parties, but they are so coy and hum
ble that they won't stand up to be
counted.
The republicans redeemed South Da
kota and under legislation for the ben
efit of the trusts it has become the
dumping ground for the refuse oil and
gasoline of the Standard Oil company
that cannot be sold in states that hava
decent laws and competent inspectors
to enforce them. The Pierre Register
says: .
The recent shipments of kero- ,
sene and gasoline sent to Pierre by
the Standard Oil company have
been so poor that it has been near
ly'impossible for. consumers to get
along in any : manner with the
stuff. "
. That is a specimen of what the peo
ple will always get as long as they in
sist in keeping the party in power,
that runs its campaigns on trust con
tributions. All the papers up that" way
declare that the trust is charging 103
per cent more for this miserable stuif
than good gasoline and oil was sold
for before the independent companies
were driven out of the state by favorit
ism, to the great trust. Republicanism
oomes high, but as long as a major
ity of the people of a state want it.
they should not kick at paying the bill
Dr. C. M. Woolbridge of Cleveland-,
O., expresses in very forcible lan
guage what The Independent has been
asserting for the last five or six years.
He says:
With innumerable others I have
for years been aware of a con
spiracy among the men who own
' this country to darken the intelli
gence of the American people by
so editing the information which
shall reach them that they shall
remain in ignorance of everything
which these owners of the country
would, prefer should not be known,
and should be taught whatever
they Would wish to have the people
believe.
Mortonsays: "The supreme import
ance of telling the truth at all times,
in all places, and under all circum
stances, is not enough prominent in
the common school teachings of Am
erica." All that may be, and probably
is true, but whaj effect can the teach
ing" of the necessity of telling th?
truth produce while the children are
permitted to read such papers as the
Conservative and hundreds of others
of like character? When children read
such statements as that every socialist
and anarchist in the state would vote
the fusion ticket, don't they know that
that is lying?
A PLUTOCRATIC EXCUSE
When the oppressors of mankind
look upon the! result of their work in
the degtedation and misery of the
slums, they seek to escape responsibil
ity by saying that it is heredity. Tens
of thousands of the boys and girls of
the city slums have been taken away
and put on farms where the environ
ment was such that true men and
women could develop, and these boys
and girls when they grew up made av
erage citizens of honesty and upright
ness. Some of them are now judges,
at least one made his way into the
United States senate and thousands cf
others are in all the avenues of busi
ness. Those who have taken active in
terest in this work and have become
acquainted with the facts are all of
one opinion. Judge Tuthill of the
Chicago juvenile court says:
I don't take any stock what
ever in the theory that heredity
is accounta!. le for the conduct of a
child. From a vicious mother and
drunken father a child may be
born that will lead his race. Men
whose names are emblazoned on
the most glorious pages of history,
such as Lincoln and Garfield, were
born from the humblest of parents.
The people who advocate heredity
when they see a child of ordinary par
ents develop into an artist,' a poet, a
great writer, a master mechanic or
financier, say that it is a reversion to
the characteristics of some ancsnt an
cestor who has mouldered in the
ground for hundreds of years. It is '.a
easy thing to make the assertion, but
when proof is asked of the proposition
there is never any at hand.
Turn over to page 2 and see adver
tisement of Sure Hatch Incubator.
They claim they have killed, them both,
but they keep right on fighting. .
Can $1 00 Grow to $5000?
From the figures given in connec
tion with the advertisement of the i
Iowa-Nebraska-Beaumont Oil Com
pany elsewhere in this paper, it would
appear that an investment of $100 in
oil stocks has, in several instances,
grown to a good deal more than $5,000.
Certainly never in the history of dis
covery has there been such a remark
able one as the oil fields at Beaumont.
Texas. The offering made by these
people has every appearance of being
the safest and best of any oil stock of
fering in America..
Hardy's Column
No More Hunting Bears Increase of
Pensioners Ship Subsidy New
States A Western Measure Next
President Lack of Equal Justice.
We hope Roosevelt will not go on
a bear hunt this winter, for if a bea
should tear him to pieces Bryan will
have to bear all the blame, just as he
did when that foreign animal shotf
McKinley.
Our pensioners will increase as long
as the Philippine war lasts. Our boys
are coming home by the shipload in
the right condition for a pension.
The ship subsidy bill seems to be, a
little cold. They are not ready to dis
cuss itj in fact they, do not want the
people to -know about it until it is
passed. There would -he much more
utility in passing a lumber wagon sub
sidy bill.
No new state will be admitted unless
it is sure they will send republican
congressmen and senators.
In the president's message we find a
recommendation for irrigation reser
voirs. This is the first recommenda
tion for the good of the west we have
had in twelve year. The west ought
to have their share of the river and
harbor appropriation. -
It seems to be anasy thing to grind'
the face of the poor, but to grind the
face of the rich equally as much with
taxes is horrible and fiendish; The
Journal favors making every person
pay six dollars a year who uses a sin
gle gallon of water through a meter.
That smacks of injustice and robbery
more than of politics. Here is a. poor
widow, with one child, who use3 water
only for drinking, cooking and wash
ing. She has to pay six dollars a year.
Across the street i3 a man and wife,
five children, hired man and hired girl,
two horses and cow. He only has to
pay six dollars a year. That amount
will pay for the water use 1 by such a
family if none is used for lawn or gar
den. Now is that equal justice. No.
Better raise- the price oi water and
make the pay sccording to the number
of gallons' used. The same injustice
prevails in regard to other taxes. That
widow's . house could not be sold for
over one thousand dollars, while tr,
man across the street could sell for tea
thousand any-' day. His city, county
and state taxe should be ten times as
much as hers, but it is only about five
times as much. As long asmillionaire
trusts and corporations run the repub
lican party and that party runs our
government such gross injustice ' will
increase. We favor the water meter
system. Let. those vhi are not able
to buy a meter and pay at once, pay
fifty cents or a dollar a quarter till
the meter is paid for. Look at the tax
on our gas company. When it was pro
posed in the city conm-il to reduce the
rate on gas to consumers, at once
Thompson and his paid friends in the
council began to object because the
present price only paid a fair interest
upon the value of the stock. They hid
watered the stock, but wanted interest
on the water the same as on the money
they put in. By and by when it was
proposed to raise their assessment and
tax the water in the stocks a bigger
howl yet was heard. The buildings
were old, the gas pipes were rusting
out and it woui require many thou
sand dollars to put things in shae
and the assessment must not be rais'ed.
They were willing to pay taxes on the
visible property as compared with oth
er property by the side, but not on
what the city gave them, the right to
use the streets and alleys. The basis
of taxation should be what the whoie
thing would sell for, buildings, pipes,
watered stock, and all, because the
people have to pay dividends on all.
The same may be said of our stre-it
railroad company; they should be
taxed according to what the whole
thing would be sold for, no matter if
the city did give them the right of way
through the streets, that right should
be taxed according to its value. We do
not use the term franchise, because
some may not know what that term
means and some may not know what
"watered stock" means. It means two,
three or ten dollars of stock for every
dollar in money paid in. The same
injustice prevails in our government
internal revenue system and tariff.
The articles that the common' people
consume are heavily taxed while those
that the rich people consume. are not
taxed as high. That is the reason tho
rich people oppose the income tax be
cause they would be taxed more than
the common people. If the tax' was
levied upon incomes of five hundred
dollars or less and none on the in
comes higher than that every mil
lionaire would favor it. Imported wine
that the rich people drink is taxed 35
per cent wrhile the whisky and beer
that common people drink are taxed
about 700 per cent. v So with broad
cloth that rich people' wear. In order
to relieve them from a heavy tariff,
woolen cloth is taxed .by the pound.
Everybody knows that ten -: dollar
cloth weighs less than dollar cloth,
such as farmers wear. So instead of
taxing it ten times as much the tax
by the pound is less. ' All this is called
republican equal justice.
Were not Present
Among timely and interesting sub
jects discussed at the recent confer
ence of college teachers held at Syra
cuse was, "Freedom of Speech in
Connection with Education." Dr. E.
Benj. Andrews, whose "usefulness" (to
the Rockefellers) was "seriously im
paired" at Brown university, was not
present. Neither was Dr. Alfred Em
erson, who at one time made Bryan
campaign speeches in Tompkins coun
ty. Professors Edward A. Ros3, Wm.
H. Hudson and the four or five other
professors of Leland-Stanford univer
sity, who had to resign because the
estimable old lady who runs that uni
versity did not like their "freedom of
speech" were also .absent. All of
these, and many others, were, however,
present in the mind's eye of the speak
ers. The subject wag divided into
topics as follows: "The Rights of
Donors," St.' Clair McKelway, of
Brooklyn, and James C. Colgate. , of
New York city. "The Duty of the. In
stitutions to Maintain Freedom of
Speech," paper by President J. G.
Schurman, of Cornell, on "The Influ
ence of Money," read by Dean White,
Chief Justice Alton B. Parker, of the
court of appeals, also contributed a
rapcr on the subject. Ithaca (N. Y.)
Femccrat.
for.- lying about populists and demo
crats and are trying to earn their sal
ary. Mr." Stark is serving his third
term sufficient proof of his standing
at home and his faithful work for his
people. '
Congressman Sibley from Pennsyl
vania, whose wealth made republican
policies more- congenial to him, hence
his desertion from the reform ranks,
has introduced, a bill providing that
all expresidents of the United States
shall become United States 1 senators
immediately . after leaving the execu
tive chair, to serve for life. This in
effect creates a peerage like the Eng
lish hoifse of lords and is a logical se
quence of republicanism. -
H. W. RISLEY.
A HOLE IN THE SURPLUS
All the Taxes Collected on Philippine Im
ports and Export Must b'e Refunded
The secretary of the treasury has is
sued the following circular of instruc
tions to collectors of customs regard
ing the refund of duties collected from
imports from" the Philippine islands:
"Referring to the recent decision of
the supreme court of the United States
relative - to importations from the
Philippine islands, .1 have to confirm
department's telegram of the 3d inst.,
as follows:
" 'Discontinue, require entry and
collection of duty or merchandise
shown by manifest of vessel to be such
as shipped from Philippines. Allow
free delivery goods in bond. Detain
cigars and cigarettes until interna
tional revenue stamps are affixed under
circulars 81 and 85 current year. Re-
funds will be made by certified state
ment where protests are duly filed'
"With regard to the matter of re
funds, I have to state that in addition
to forwarding certified statements as
above directed, you will forward certi
fied statements in cases where nb pro
tests have been filed, when so request
ed by the parties in interest, with a
view to submitting estimates for ap
propriation to congress should it"be
found that no existing appropriation is
available." 1
The republican editors have had a
great deal to say about the surplus in
the treasury. Four weeks after this
congress gets into action there will be
no surplus. River and harbor bills,
ship subsidies, subsidies to the rail
roads upon the pretense of carrying the
mails and things of that sort Will not
only disperse the surplus, but leave
a big deficiency that will have to be
made up by issuing more bonds . and
establishing more national banks.
Then the new banks will proceed to
further inflate the currency by issuing
as much more national bank money as
the law. will allow.
KEEP IN THE REAR
The nxt president will be Bryan
or Schley That is the reason the re
publicans are fighting those two men.
That is What Pays in the 3favy A Few
More Associated Press Prevarications
Washington, D. C, Dec. 11, 1901
(Special - Correspondence.) The offi
cial records of the court of claims show
that Sampson received $25,417.44 prise
money, while Schley gets the munifi
cet sum of $18.12, which fact is apt
to imbue future . naval commanders
who are "out for the stuff" to keep as
far behind the line of battle as was
Sampson at Santiago.
lue Associated press and Washing
ton correspondents of the Bee and
State Journal say that the nomina
tion of Congressman Stark fo ,
speaker by' Congressman Jevill? raised1
.a loud laugh. The facts are that the
nomination was a tribute to an old
and valueU member and that Congress
men Robinson and Shallenberger bota
offered to vote for -Mr. Stark, who de
clined the courtesy, 1 and then unite 1
with his J colleagues from the Third
and Fifth districts in voting for Rich
ardson. The animus of this may be .ex
plained only by saying that the Jour
nal and Bee correspondents draw pay
AGAINST AWFUL ODOS
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Firemen Forced to Fight for Their
Lives
Fighting in the midst of flames and
suffocating smoke, his life threatened
by falling walls and timbers, the fire
man follows his duty without thought
of himself. The thrilling escapes and
dramatic incidents of which the pub
lic hears are not the least of his, dan
gers. To be roused by the alarm, to
dash through all kinds of weather to
the scene of disaster and to find him
self, afterthe fierce fight with the
flames, drenched and chilled there
are more homely perils, but equally
grave. Accustomed to danger and
hardship the fireman often does not
take ordinary physical x precautions.
This was the case with Joseph V. Wat
son, of Astoria, Oregon, who had a
narrow escape. He tells the story
himself as follows:
"In 1896, while in the fire depart
ment, frequent exposure brought on
an attack of rheumatism. It grsw
worse and finally got so bad that I
couldn't do any work. I partially lost
the use of my right arm and side and
suffered the horrible pains that only
those who have rheumatism can feel.
Part of the time I was confined to my
bed. For a while I was under the care
of a doctor in Seattle, but he did not
do me any good. He only gave me
powders to soothe the pain so that I
could get some sleep. , I also tried
massage, but without any relief. Then
I went to our regular doctor here, but
he could do nothing for me. He said
he thought I was slightly touched with
palsy.
. '-'Since doctors seemed unable to
help me I felt discouraged. But my
wife noticed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People advertised in, some
paper and so we gave them a trial.
This was in 189, and two months af
ter T began their use I was a well man.
I do not need to take any medicino
now and I feel like another being. ' I
can candidly say if any person will
follow the directions he will be relieved."-
Mr. Watson is now " engineer in
charge of the Hattie, one.of the many
yachts that ply upon the Columbia
river, as hale and hearty a man as on?
could wish to see, and he attributes it
all to T)k Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People, His address is No. 468 Irving
avenue, Astoria, Oregon.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People are sold only in boxes at fifty
cents a box'or six boxes for two dol
lars and fifty cents, and may b had
of all druggists, or direct by mail froci
Dr. Williams' vMedicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Li I
FRANK IAMS returned from France October 10, 1901, with the largest importa
tion of stallions to Nebraska in 1901 only man in th United States that imported
nit black Stallions. He imported' 40 BLACK PERCH ERONS 40
They are the "town talk." j The people throng his barm and
bubble over with these sayings: "The most select and largest
'Every one a winner and as wide
choicest lot lams mret importad." "But
orses." "Has many prUa winner
America." "Won't have culls."
Ha ha exposition." "In fact, they
hand
Pefcherons, Clydes, tf
.! 1 ww tmres ana woacners, 1 uw ,
I TIibt r 5 tn .1 Tra old. ;ioh 1.6DO tn 2 JOT) lhsi. lm has
fitallions, MOItE ton and thick "Stallions, M ORS
and TOPS), more government approved and
lions than ALL importers of Nebraska. lams
and German, and nseds no interpreter, knows
LA PEBCSE. This with twenty-five j ears'
experience saves $300 on eac h stallion and gets the best horses,
irrespective of their cost. He has no salesman, Baves you the middleman's profit, uses no gold
brick talk, guarantees to show you more black ton stallions than all importers of Nebraska or
pay fare and 20. Don't be a clam write lams. He pays freight and fare of buyers. Barns in
town. , '
r AVVid-'' f -J black tallions I ever saw.'!
f 5ifeV;V i-Tl a. a wagon." "The
( nL' --f - lams always has the best h
. ttt leading horse shows f
. V r, S. iHY "His torses won 1,300 at O
y .&vy.-"-7-!3i always win." He has on
t?Jj Ti ' .;;'ki MOREblaek
"JT v',ir7l Vl i V J-i money m aker s
tWT.-.i- fUJ M 9Paks French
lil .llf.M. ?A she breeders, ixx
i Arts
ST. PAUL, HOWARD CO., NEB., ON B. & M. AND t. P. RYS. "
References: St. Paul State Bank. First State Bank, Citizens' Nat. Bank.
IT GOMES. HIGH
Republican Government Is Piling up an
Enormous Iebt on the Taxpayers
of Nebraska '
The trinity at whose shrine all re
publicans worship is debt, credit and
confidence. Applied to the state gov
ernment it pans out in an enormous
state, debt. The Independent has been
calling attention to that fact for a long
time. It now begins to attract gen
eral public attention..
; The report of Auditor Weston for the
six months ending November 30. 1901,
shows $2,037,460.31 of general fund
warrants jOutstanding and unpaid. In
other words, the floating indebtedness
of the state amounts to that, sum. On
November 30, 1900, when Auditor, Cor
nell made his biennial report, the to
tal amount of outstanding general
fund warrants was $1,727,442.72. Ac
cordingly, since that time, and under
a republican administration (since the
7th of January, 1901,) the floating in
debtedness has increased $310,012.59.
Auditor Weston's report shows that
$163,904.76 of this increase occurred in
the last six months, that is to say, be
tween 'June Land November 30. It is
not hard to see that if this increase
keeps up much longer, at anything
like the same rate, that the floating
debt of the state will be about $2,500,
000 by the time this republican admin
istration ends. ,
Feeling that the showing made must
undoubtedly call forth adverse criti
cism of the present state officers; the
Omaha Bee's Lincoln correspondent
attempted to explain it away as fol
lows :
"Apparently this is an alarmingjn
crease in the outstanding indebtedness
but it should be understood that over
$350,000 of the total amount repre
sents warrants issued for extraordi
nary purposes. Substracting this lat
ter amount, the outstanding indebted
ness would be. over $180,000 less than
is shown by the report. The extra
ordinary expenditures may be named
as follows: For rebuilding peniten
tiary $75,000; for purchasing state fair
greunds, $35,000; for reimbursing those
who advanced money for transporta
tion of the First regiment, $47,370;
for deficiencies incurred by the fusion
administration, $149,112; for miscel
laneous claims, $33,623; for the state's
exhibit at the Buffalo exposition, $10,
000. A comparison of recent reports
of the auditing department shows that
the outstanding indebtedness of the
state is increased at the rate of $100,-
000 per year." .
The Bee's correspondent has cer
tainly claims to distinction as a
mathematician and statistician, but it
will require some explanation to the
average reader to make him under
stand how if $350,000 be substracted
from a given number, the remainder
will be $180,000 less than that number.
He would have his readers believe
that this is the only year when the
legislature ever made appropriations
for extraordinary purposes, and that
this administration has been handi
capped thereby. The fact is that ev
ery legislature makes appropriations
for extraordinary purposes arid to pay
miscellaneous and deficiency claims.
The extraordinary items appropriated
by the legislature of 1901 amount to
$428,000, which includes new buildings,
state fair sight, land at'Beatrice, pan
American exposition, return of the
First Nebraska, and miscellaneous and
deficiency claims. The legislature of
1899 had nearly $475,000 of extraordi
nary items. The legislature of 1897
had $304,000. The legislature of 1895
had $690,000. Hence, the extraordinary
items this year are smaller than i3
usual with a republican", legislature,
and we must look elsewhere to find
the cause of this 18 per cent increase
in the floating debt in one year. He
lays great stress on the fact that $75.'
000 was appropriated to ' rebuild the
penitentiary, forgetting that the legis
lature of 1899 appropriated $284,000
for new buildings as against $138,000
this year. He attributes the 18 per
cent increase in the floating debt to the
$10,000 appropriation for the panAm
erican exposition, forgetting that the
legislature of 1897 appropriated $100,
000 for the trans-Mississippi exposi
tion. He prates about the $35,000 pur
chase of the state fair site) but has no
recollection of the $25,000 governor's
mansion purchased in 1899. He men
tions the $47,000 reimbursement for
bringing back the First Nebraska, but
says nothing about the $60,000 wolf
bounty appropriations of ) 899. Then
to cap the climax, he asserts that "a
comparison of recent report3 shows
that the outstanding indebtedness Js
increasing at the rate of $100,000 pro
year." The utter unreliability of this
statement is easily proven, as he fol
lowing figures, taken Vfrom the audi
tor's reports, will, show:
OUTSTANDING, GENERAL FUND
j, WARRANTS.
November 30, 1894. 577,825.75
November 30, 1896 1,933,273.47
November 30, 1898 1,571,684.01.
November 30, 1900 1,727,447.72
November 30, 1901......... 2)37,460.31
It will be seen that the floating debt,
under a republican administration,
from November 30, 1894, to'November
30, 1896, increased over $1,355,000; that
under a fusion administration, for the
biennium ending November 30, 1893.
the debt was cut down nearly $365,000;
that during the next two years, under
a fusion administration, the debt In
creased $155,000; and that during this
first year of the. new republican ad
ministration the debt has increased
$310,000. Taking " the" seven years
from November 30, 1894, to November
c0, 1901, the floating debt has been in
creased $1,663,460.31 under republican
mlsmangement; and a net decrease, of
$208,825.65 was made, under fusion ad
ministration; hence," the net increas-i
for the seven years, after deducting
what the fusionists cut it down.' is ex
actly $1,459,634.66, or-over $208,000 per
year, instead of a hundred thousand,
as the Bee correspondent asserts.
It is interesting to note that with
only $305,000' of extraordinary appro
priations 101897, the fusion admin
istration was ah; o cut down the
floating debt.?"u" :.J; and that with
$475,000 of extu q uinary appropria
tions in 1899, the total increase, un
der fusion administration was only
$155,000. But this year, with only
$428,000. for extraordinary purposes,
the republican administration, in a
single year, has increased the debt
$310,000 No one denies that these ap
propriations for extraordinary pur
poses help swell the amount of wai
rants issued. That is plain enough.
But it is nonsense to say that such an"
alarming increase is solely due to such
appropriations because other admin
istrations have had to contend with
greater ones and made a better show
ing. The chief trouble is that the
legislature of 1901 appropriated for
ordinary running of state government
oyer $300,0,00 more than was appro
priated by either of the three preced
ing legislatures for such purposes, and
over $400,000 more than the legisla
ture of 1897 appropriated.
Attend to Madden
When congress . meets it should di
rect its attention to the third assis
tant postmaster general. His arbi
trary rulings, indicate that the postal
laws may be defective in permitting
such wide discretion to be used op
pressively by shameless partisans
vested with authority, and that rem
edial legislation may be necessary -to
prevent a recurrence of such abuse ot
authority in the postoffice department.
But whether or not the law is defective
it is apparent that the postal service
would not suffer were Madden retired
to private life, where his abhorrence
of ideas may not serve as a public af
fliction. Milwaukee News. ,
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A Nebraskan Seeking This Important
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ENDORSED BY OUR SENATORS
Nebrsakanu for Nebraska Every T.im,
Whether in Politics or In Business.
Hon. D. E. Thompson, of Lincoln,
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didate for United" States senator, re
turned the other day from, Europe.
He visited Washington en route west
ward, where he met Senators Millard
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