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January 2, 1902
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FRANK 1AMS returned from France October 10", 1901, with the largest importa
tion of stallions to Nebraska in 1901 only man in the IJnited States that imported
all black Stallions. Ile-iraported 40 BLACK PERCHERONS 40
They ara th "town talk." Th people throng his barns and
V-1 ' " y JWjP Wfi j4 bubble orer with tbete sayings : "The most select and largest
-'Xit black stallions I ever savr." "iTery one a winner and as wide
fWyf'ytifJi as a wagon." "The choices lot lams eter imported." "But
M' Iam9 lwar h the borses." "Has many prie winner
fcr Tii$i'v?jt at'leading horse shows of America." "Won't hate culls."
--llpKAi "His horses won $1,300 at Omaha exposition." "In fact, they
H' fwwWji? win- ' aas on hand-' .
Bt4SM infl 'Black P"cherons, Clydes. I ft ft
&;rWJVfi-j -n: I UU : : Shires and Coachers, ,.1 1 IUI -
-"-t old, weigh 1,600 to 2.400 lbs. lams has
FYVSVi? MORE black a.alions,
Kit i.TlJ'M ..5'rti .-!! moey makers -and
ilJrireeii'Ma royal bred stallions tl
lSi,L$L'cf!?r&ZW.1sA "Peaks French and
E sTS. .v-.'f.i: :.f tho breeders in LA
, MORE ton and thick stallions, MORE
TOPS, more fforernment approved and
itrn ALL importers of Nebraska. lams
German and needs no interpreter, knows
PEECHE. . This with twenty-five -years'
experience saves $200 on each stallion and sets the best horses.
irrespective of their cost. He ha no salesman, saves yoU tbo middleman's profit. nseS no gold
brick talk, ffuarautcos t show you more black ton stallions than all importers of Nobrsska or
pay fare and $20. Don't bo a clam write lams. lie pays freight and fare of buyers. Barns in
town. ' 7 -
F R A N K
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ST. PAUL., HOWARD CO., NEB., ON B. & M. AND U. P. RTS.
References: SC Paul State ISaiik. 1'ii at State Rank, Citizens' Nat. Rank.
WE ARE NOT THE LARGEST IMPORTERS ,
In the U. S. Neither have we all ton horses. But we do make five
importations each year. Out stables at, Lipcoln, Neb., and at South
'J mali a Union .Stock Yards are full of first-class stallions. If you want
a gviod one for what he is worth, it will pay you to see us. Our horses
won sweepstakes in all draft and hackney classes at Nebraska State
Kair 19U1. Addrnn all rorrosnonrtcnr to
teptetWATSOH, WOODS BROS. & KELLY GO,, Lincoln, Neb.
SPECIAL NOTICE Woods Bros., of Lincoln. Neb', have two cars of
Shorthorn and Hereford bolls and cows for sale at a bargain.
It seems from all that can be learned
about the matter that the virtuous in
tentions of the railroad corporations
to institute a reform in the matter of
Issuing passes has simmered down to
the resolution not to issue any more
for the purpose of getting traffic the
great combinations have made that
unnecessary but that the political
passes are to be issued in the usual
quantities.
Bill Jones of P street called up all
the writers on that paper, got them in
a room together anfl asked them to,
suggest anything which in their opin
ion would improve the old State Jour
nal. He told them to be perfectly
frank and express their honest opin
ion. They all replied: "Leave out
the editorial." But Jones would not
take their advice and the same style
of rot fills its columns.
The supreme court decisions, estab
lishing imperialism is throwing the
whole government into confusion. The
other day the secretary of the treasury
had to ask the attorney general for
an opinion as to whether articles cf
Poro Rican origin, can be exported'to
a foreign country and imported thence
into the United States free of duty,
and whether articles of United States
production can be imported into a
foreign country and thence into Porto
Rio free og duty. The opinion was
asked in view of the supreme court's
recent decisions in the insular cases.
Bill Jones of P street made a dis
covery the other day and announced it
in the following words: "The fact is
that the great combinations instead
of concentrating capital In the hands
of a few owners are really diffusing it
among a greater number of owners
than ever." That is to say that the
belief that there are . millionaires in
the United States is all a delusion. The
trust magnates, tariff barons and rail
road managers have all been engaged
in the laudable work fcof distributing
the wealth of this country among the
common people instead of gathering it
to themselves. That is a great dis
covery and Bill Jones should get a
patent on it.
The republican party is conducting
a general retreat from every position
that it has held. It abandons its high
protection forts and talks of reciproc
ity. It forsakes the bulwark of anti
paternalism and advocates the publ:c
ownership of telegraphs and gives
signs of abandoning its defense of th
private ownership of the railroads.
From the fortress of no coinage of sil
ver it fled long ago and'went to run
ning the mints night anI day. From
the hard money entrenchment of a few
years ago it has retreated and Is now
marshalling its battalions to fight for
paper money and that money issued
by the banks. It has been driven fro.n
every position it has ever tried to hold
except the offices. It ha3 them yet.
A tariff graft catches everything go
ing and coming. They all believe in
I listvo beii troubled n erent deal
Witli a torpid liver, which produces constipa
tion. I found CASCAUKTS to bo all you cliiim
for thorn, ami secured such relief tho first trial,
that I purchased another supply and was com
pletely cured. I shall only bo too glad to reo
ommond Cascarets whenever tho opportunity
Is presented". J. A. Smith.
2620 Susquehanna Avo., Philadelphia, Pa.
Wi J CANDY .V
seen an edition of a paper, not'even 'of
the one that he edits, that" did hot con
tain Something with' which' he did hot
disagree. A man who can agree with
everything that' he sees in his paper
from week to week must have a very
queer sort of a brain. This writer
thoroughly reads six great" dailies ever-
day, the editors of which hardly
ever advance an idea or policy with
which he coincides. The fact is, if he
stopped every; paper that' contained
anything that he did not like, he would
stop them all. ,
Roosevelt's manner of speech is
causing a great deal of comment in
Washington ' circles. He' treats som?
men to brutal phrases and then again
he 'lapses into a regular school girl
style. He telegraphed to Governor
Shaw: "I am delighted that ybti have
accepted the portfolio." That is a
girl's expression and hardly to be ex
pected from a president when publicly j
talking about a cabinet position. j
-Pleasant. Palatable, l'ofent. Taste Good. To
Good, Never bicuen. Weaken, or Gripe, JOo. 26c. 60c..
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Sterling na4j Cump.aj, t liUnc. Montrv.l, ! Yarh. ISO
HflTflni f So' and pnraiitcet by nil drtiir-
llU I U'UKU o-istn to I?7kJU Tnhnem Habit
practicing honesty among v thieves.
When reciprocity is proposed no mat
ter what there will be some one of the
grafters to set up a howl. Tlie growers
of citrus fruits are not affected by rec
iprocity with Russia, but they protest
against reciprocity with, the fruit-producing
West India islands. The manu
facturers of cheap jevelry personally
are willing to let foreign oranges " in
tree, but they put their veto on a rec
iprocity treaty with France. The beet
sugar people cannot find fault with
that treaty, but they protest against
reciprocity with uba and lower duties
on its sugar. Practically all these in
dividuals "pool their issues" and unite
to defeat every reciprocity measure.
According to Jim Hill's long article
printed in all the great dailies, he is
the most self-sacrificing philanthropist
that the world ever saw. For the pur
pose of protecting the people of the
great northwest from railroad com
binations and extortions, he spent mil
lions of dollars of his hard-earn-a
money in buying up the stock of the
Great Northern and Northern-Pacific
to keep those roads out of the hands
of wicked men who wanted to form a
combination with the Union Pacific.
He declares most positively 'that his
whole purpose was purely philanthrop
ic. He wanted to insure the dear peo
ple of that country low' rates and up
to date accommodations. He is al
most heart-broken because the people
dd not appreciate his disinterested ef
forts in their fbebalf.
The gross railway earnings for 1901
will exceed' by 12 per cent and the net
earnings by 16 per cent those of the
best preceding year. Most of them are
paying large dividends on stock wa
tered two and three hundred per cent,
but every one of them will come into
court with a statement sworn to by
their officers that they' are 'too poor to
pay their taxes. In Colorado and in
Illinois they are fighting in the courts
month after month the payment of
taxes. 1 Unequal taxation making the
poor man pay and exempting the most
of the wealth of the rich li the out
growth of the principles of the repub
lican party and, jt is put to universal
application. .Not. long, since, a story
was published here about the taking
of a few household gopds from a poor,
family for. taxes, yet. the street car
company owes $100,000 for taxes and
no effort is made to collect the amount.
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Secretary Long made a speech the.
other, day in which he ventured into
the field of economics. In defending
against, the charge of Edward .Everet
Hale that Long's proposals for the
navy would be a tax equal to $6 upon
every family in the United States. Long
said: "As 'a matter of practical fact,
if that sum is spent there la probably
not a family in the United States
whose future income could be shown
to be $6 less, and there are a good
many families whose income would be
$6 more, andy still more" families whose
income would be many times $6 Jess if
it were not spent." According to
Long's logic to make an appropriation
by congress equal . to six dollars per
family is a clear gain. When the mon
ey Svas spent they would all. have $fi
more than before. That is to suppose
that nobody had to pay the money over
before.it was spent. Every -day that
Long lives he falls in the estimation of
men of sense.
About once in a year or hot quite
that often,, some : one among the thou
sands who read The Independent finds
something, that he does , not like or
some opinion that he does hot agree
with. Then he sits dawn and write
a letter stopping the paper and gives
his, opinion ot, the fool editor. ' Among
the thousands8 of cranks who wandar
around over this country it is stranep
thatthere are not more of this kirfd
than there are. This writer has nev."
Lynchings are constantly getting ;
this government into trouble with for
eign nations The matter was up for;
discussion in the Italian parliament,;
the other day where the prime min- j
ister announced that the Washington i
government was1 willing to pay dam- j
ages. Baron Fava said that the Ital- j
ian government would continue to pro
test in the hope of obtaining satisfac
tion against a state of affairs which
constituted an offense, agkinst inter
national treaties. The government had
represented .what a serious thing it
was, said Sig. Prijietti, that the gov
ernment of the United States should
declare itself unable to fulfill its en
gagements in conformity with the in
ternational treaties. Some " of these
days one of these lynchings will in
volve us in war. Foreign nations will
not always be willing to accept money
in full satisfaction for the murder cf
their citizens. The worshippers of
greed in this country may imagine
that money is the equivalent of all
things, but some day they may find out
that murder is a thing that cannot b3
settied for a price.
IT COMES VERY HIGH
In every county in the state that has
been under fusion or populist control
for a few years debts have been paid
and taxation reduced. Where the re
publicans have been in control the old
methods of financiering have been con-
! Untied and debts have increased. The
republicans have held nearly all the
cities and towns in the state, f of there
is . the permanent abiding place of the
muilet heads and there the work of the
politicfal grafter has ." been abundantly
rewarded, Down in Omaha they have
a representative republican city gov
ernment. The mayor publicly an
nounces that he believes in "a wide
open town." Theie taxation is be
coming unbearable. It is mining the
property holders and even the repub
lican organ begins to cry out against
it. The Bee says: '
The aggregate expense of main
taining our city and county gov
crnmdnt is $2,000,000 a year, ex
clusive of special improvement
taxes, such as are levied for grad
ing, pavement, sewerage, side
walks, and cuibing and gutter
ing. Of this amount $1,000,000 is
expended under the direction of
the municipal . administration,
$500,000 by the board of county ;
commissioners and $500,000 by the
-- board of education. This is equal
to a tax of $20 a hiead for each
man, woman and 'child within the
' limits of the city of Omaha. , In
cither words,! the property owners
of Omaha are taxed at the rate of
.$10 for each -man.' woman and
child in the city for the mainte
nance, of ,f the city government,
which includes (J) the salaries of
city officials and employes, (2)
the pay roll of the fire and .police
departments, (3) -water hydrant
rentals, (4) municipal lighting,
(5) maintenance of public library,
(6) maintenahce of parks,' main
tenance; of sewers,- street ' clean
ing and repairs of sidewalks and
pavement. -
Thatsort of taxation is enough to
ruin any city.- Fifty' dollars for every
average family for city taxation! Thftt
is what republicanism does for Ne
braska's metropolitan city. It comes
very high, but if the people insist on
havihg it they must pay the bill. The
same sort of government at. the state
capital is - producing the same result.
At the end of this biennlum the peo
ple will have to face a new state debt
of very close to a million dollars. Re
publican state government comes very
high also.
THINGS THAT WILL FOLLOW
; The Chicago Tribune in an article
discussing Senator Masdh's bill pro -viding
for the public ownership of-the
telegraphs, says that there are many
men in congress -who believe that the
government should not' interfere with
private enterprise.' The bankers hava
a private enterprise in- issuing money
and they think - that ought hot to be
interfered with. The express, compa
nies think that carrying newspapers,
is a private enterprise and that ought
not to be interfered with by the post
office department. The (Tribune also
says That "these men, are opposed . to
the paternalism involved, and suggest
that should . the governments absorb
all the - telegraph lines - government
ownership of railroads would follow
and tjien in turn the realization of all
the populistic ideas, including the con
struction of elevatofs ' by the govern
ment and. the purchase and storage of
surplus grain id maintain prices." 1
The populists have ho such idea as.
the last "one enumerated.' There was
something like it in the first platform'
aicpted, but it- was inserted after the
biggest fight over a platform 'thatvas
ever seen ' in a convention and fol
lowed by the words: "Or something
better."" From , that day to this it has
never been heard of. The insertion, of
it was "to prevent certain southern
delegates from withdrawing from the
convention. The ' large body" of the
delegates agreed to it at last on condi
tion that the qualifying words should
be added. The Tribune can rest as
sured that "all the populist ideas" will
follow just as sure as the nation eiit
dures. . None of thenr are new ideas.
Every one of them can be round in all
the standard works on political econ
omy. THEY ALL LIKE IT
,For years The, Independent has been
calling attention to the fact that the
trusts and monopolies were selling
goods to foreigners much cheaper than
they will furnish them , to American'
citizens. At first, this was furiously
denied, then they said that it was only
surplus and oid stock so disposed of,
but now they no longer, deny it.
A recent number of the Iron Age had
a letter complaining that some manu
facturers are stilj ; CQntinuing "export
prices" in the Hawaiian islands, al
though they are now part and parcel
of the JUnited. States, "and hence ought
to be. charged the higher "domestic
prices." It appear?, from .this letter
that the difference tween the. two
scales of prices is so .great that goods
sold in the islands at the "export price'
have been re-entered i the United
States and eold, notwithstanding the
freight charges paid on them, for less
than the ("domestic price." This prac
tice the correspondent of the Iron Age
considers a demoralizing 6ne, and the
editor of thar., paper, hopes it will
cease. .., - ... .
For. years these scoundrels have had
an "export price" and a "domestic
price,"" the. former being one-half less
than the latter. These' goods could oe
bought for export, shipped to England
and back here, and. then, sold for much
less than the domestic price, iflt were
not for the .tariff. ' It is by means of
the tariff that this robbery is carried
on. But every mullet'head in the land
is. now cryihg: "Let the tariff alone."
They all seem to v lift e that sort of
thine. ' V . 'n - " ;
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LITTL.E jTHINKS, ' , &
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If Mr. Roosevelt keeps on driving
nails Jn his political $ coffin it -will soon
be all nails. , - , . .. , .
Common sagacity should have kept
Mr. Roosevelt . from' ? committing him
self against Schleyi v
England's Christmas gift to South
Australia was a call for volunteers
to fight the Boers'. !
A -joint discussion.sby- Governor f Van
Sant and Mr.5 Schwab on "Are the
trusts dead?" would :be interesting.'
i.'The people'; of .'..this country will see
that Schley ' gets ' justice if they have
to elect him: president ta .secure it 4
General Nelson, A. 'Miles is loved for
the reprimands he has received f Or not
bending in adoration . of ., the powers
that be. , ; - -j ; .wi.-.'ivt
If Secretary t Long wishes to- make
the people a-New Year's gift. that will
be appreciated he will tender his res
ignation. . . .v ' ' ,.
The people ' of " this country regard
that reprimand' as a -new honor for
General Miles; and .another demerit for
the admlnistrat,.n. . .. , . ;
King Eddy seems' more likely" to be
known ih history for .his coronation
dress decrees than for, any act of stat
esmanship,; f
AH honor , to Governor Van -Sant for
declining to 'be bulldozed or cajoled in
to letting, up in his fight , on the big
railroad trust. . .
Kansas kept "up ttp reputation as a
producer of ' the extraordinary when
one of its writers pierced the thick
skin of Senator Piatt, of .New York.
Mr. 4 Schwab, president of the big
steel trust, must be - envious of the
notorietyHanna gained by saying that
there were no trusts, or he would not
have said that trusts are forever dead.
The man who is doing 'the best
work toward the return of the' demo
cratic party to power is Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt. He has, only to keep it up
to make the next president a, democrat.
Mr:v Payne, the coming postmasier
general, . will need all' the political
shrewdness, he has. been credited with
to keep the Roosevelt 'machine from
going to pieces oh the rocks of popular
disgust.- . ' -; ! . v
The Christmas 'greeting of W. W.
Bride cf Washington, D. C, to The
Independent, was: ' "Merry Christmas
and r a Happy New Year. May The
Independent be as prosperous as It is
honest." ' -
The republicans . must have some
doubt about their ability to hold Iowa
in the republican 'line from the way
they distribute patronage over there.
Iowa now has two members of the
cabinet and speaker of the house.
Naturally enough the administra
tion and the other , Sampsonites are
now clamoring to have the case closed,
but as nine-tenths of the people are on
the other side the case will not be
closed until it is closed, right. -
There can no longer be any doubt
that the anti-Hanna republicans in
Ohio are determined to drive him from
public life. They all believe that it
will be an easy job now that he' will
not have a. president to back him.
There 'are a good many things th?.t
the old. world monarchies will let the
people' have that the republican party
will not grant them in this country
and among them is postal savings
banks where the hard ' earned dollars
of "the poor will be safe.
. The attention of Third .Assistant
Postmaster Madden is called to a pa
per published in Nebraska City, Neb.,
called the Conservative. It publishes;
a large edition every week, but if it
has one paid subscriber no . one' has
ever been able to discover who he was.
The physical degeneracy of the aris
tocracy of Europe has' long been a
therrjfe of discussion. At last it seems
that there" is a prospect of improving
the breed. ' 1t! is a common, saying In
London clubs that the modern peer
esses are all Americans or actresses.
The republicans have had a bank
Clerk for secretary of the treasury for
the last five years. Now they are going
to try a politician. Gage could prob
ably tell what Chjcagoan's note it was
safe to discount and that was the; sum
of his knowledge of the science of
banking. ' ' .
De Wet.'according to the latest re
ports,, has four companies of the Im
perial Yetfrnanry instead of two as at
first reported, and Lord Kitchener has
sent in an additional list of killed' and
wounded,, containing, ji'fty names.. That
thing must . have,, been wprse than
Spion Kop. .,
"Me Too" Piatt swears by the holly
horn spoon that he will have the scalp
of William Allen White because of
that article in- McClure's Magazine, but
he can't get it, for William Allen has
less hair on the, top of his head where
the hair ought to grow than there. Is
on a billiard ball.
after consolidation and; reduction of
charges than they did before. So one
continuous"- road from Nebraska 1 1
New York . or, to the Pacific coast,
will. - reduced rate, can , make mo
mom than now and the producer can
make more ais well. But if trusts and
consolidations are to v raise " charges
then will be a tfine occasion for hard
kickin. .. ' . ; ' ;
THE BRITISH MEDICAL INSTITUTE
With
Constantly
-Health. Three
Is Crowded Almost
Invalids - Seeking
Months' Services jare Given Free to
all Sufferers Who Call at Its Office at
the Corner 11th "and N Streets Shel
. don Block Before January 7." - ;
.A staff of eminent "physicians' and
surgeons from the British Medical In
stitute have, at the urgent solicita
tion of a large number, of patients un
der their care in" this country, estab
lished permanent branch of the Insti
tute in this city, cor. 11th and N-sts.,
Sheldon, blpck. - -
These eminent gentlemen have de
cided to give ' their services entirely
free for three months (medicines ex
cepted) to all invalids who call upon
them for treatment between now and
January 7. . These services consist 'not
only of consultation, examination and
Sdvice," but also of air minor surgical
operations. - i x-
The object in pursuing this course is
to become rapidly arid personally ac
quainted with the sick and afflicted,
and under no conditions will any
charge whatever be made for any ser
vices rendered for three months to all
who call before January 7. v I
The doctors treat all forms of disease
and 'deformities and. guarantee. -a cure
in everycase, they undertake. At the
1st interview a thorough examinaton is
made, and, if incurable, you are frank
ly an.d kindly told so; also advised
against spending your money for use
less treatment. - , r
M'ale and female weakness,,, catarrh
and catarrhal deafness,' also rupture,
goitre, cancer, all skin diseases and all
diseases of the rectum, are positively
cured by their new treatment.
The Chief Associate Surgeon cf the
Institute is in personal, charge. ,
Office hours, frpm 9 a. m. till 8 p. ra.
No Sunday .hours.
Special Notice If you cannot call,
pend stamp for question blank for
home treatment! : :
NEBRASKA PUBLISHERS
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Is -S PIARDY'S COLUMN.
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. Oil trust universities' football play
ers sat down on,, fraternity houses
should go, too. Trusts and consolida
tions limited by government.
The oil trust college, of Chicago Ms
too expensive for a poor boy or girl.
It takes a lot of money for tuition and
then every student must put on style
and good clothing, spend money for
unnecessary things or be sneered, at as
a "wilct human from the woolly " bor
der." Not so with the Nebraska state
university. Poor boys and girls come
and work their way through. Scholar
ship, deportment and intellect mark
high standing here.
;Eastern colleges are setting ma .f
football playing students, back in their
classes or neglect of studies. Kicking
and rooting do not count in educa
tional grading. We have longed for
the time to come when these exciting
games are ruled , out of the college
course. They should be relegated to
the outside world; to those who have
no other means of physical exercise.
According to the . latest official re
ports Philippine - assimilation 1 won't
assimilate - at all: s i Chaffee . says the
"whole people," are 4down on it.
-Senator Hanna is loudly advocating
peace between capital and labor, but
he isn't saying a -word about v peace
between himself and Senator Foraker.
The points of resemblance between
the characters of the emperor of Ger
many and the president of the United
States have been quite conspicuous of
late. ' . r y , ... -
Congressman McCall still .'asserts
that the -constitution : follows the - fla g.
If he realjy ; believfes that, , how doc-J
it come that he stilt attends the re
publican caucuses ? ' "
What a mockery of fairness it was
to scold the commander of the army
for praising Schley ;i arid politely re
quest the resignation of a ten-cent
clerk for abusing hira: ;
It is. now up to congress o see that
justica is done to that brave offiqer and
gentlenaan, Winfleld Scott : Schley ; . if
congress fails, it will be for the' people
to act , ana tney. wnao it. - ;
There is another thing ; connectfj'I
with our. modern colleges that should
be dropped and that is these fraternity
houses. We. know what we are writ
ing about for we have been through
the mill, though not' under that name.
Young humans , of today are , no im
provement upon those of fifty yeacs
ago so far as i loving fun and thece
seems to, be an increase in : love of
gaming. There are no. dozen boys
or dozen girls who can associate to
gether with only a hired cook and re
frain from excessive sport. It is stor
telling, joking, card playing and all
such nonsense instead of study. We a.l
vise parents wr ho .send boys or . girls
away to school to place them, not
more than two together, in good fami
lies fox home living arid home' be
havior. ' We advise young men and
young women to do the same thing
for themselves. It is the students who
Cend the least time in sporting who
come out at the head of their classes.
Trusts, monopolies and - consolida
tion" of railroads will all be for the
better if government will liinit charges
The same, may be said of, thevShip
subsidy business. . If government will
reduce passenger and freight charges
on the ocean we can - afford rto be
taxed for payment of . subsidy. ' -Y
remember when passengers and freight
had to change cars four or five times
between Albany . and Buffalo and
when the six -companies were per
mitted to consolidate passenger fare
Vtent down to two cents, a mile. Thfj
stockholders did make more money
Better Wake op Madden is After You and
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Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 30. To the
Newspaper Publishers" :ot Nebraska:
The recent rulingsNof the postoffice -department
are of vitkl Interest to every
publisher in the country. It is ad
mitted that abuses .exist in the second-class
mail privileges, and any
sensible and fair effort to put a stop
to these, abuses .should ; receive the
cordial support of all interested in the
publication of legitimate hewspapers
and periodicals. But some of the new
rulings are so outrageously unfair and
threaten such, damage to, the publish
ers that something should. be done to
secure a repeal thereof. '
The postoffice officials have just
ruled that a subscription to any publi
cation entered; as second class matter
must be discontinued when the ..time
for which it is paid in advance has ex
pired. If this ruling is enforced and
the present temper of the third as
sistant postmaster general, Mr. Mad
den, may be taken as an indication
that it will be it will spell ruin for
the publishers of country newspapers
and work a hardship 'to our metropoli
tan dailies". i Just' why a man engage'!
in the business ,. of .publishing a news
paper is not to be allowed to extend
credit to his patrons in the same man
ner as a man engaged in selling gro
ceries, Is difficult to understand. The
enforcement of this outrageous order
will result in the loss "of from 25 to
75 per cent -of subscriptions, with a
resultapt decline. in advertising rates.
It behooves publishers.,. to arouse them
selves to a realizing'sense of the dam
age that will be done them by this
ruling. .
But some remarkable rulings have
been coming from , the office of Xh$
third assistant postmaster general for
some time. " One is to the effect that
one man,; may, not. pay 4 the subscrip
tion of another man Under certain ci-r-.
cumstances. Johh Doe may subscribe
for The Independent to be sent to
RlchaVd Roe because of its value as
a -newspaper,- but if ho so subscribes
because he wants Richard Roe to read
the doctrines advocated by -The Inde
pendent he is endangering The Inde
pendent's right .to entry as seconi
class "matter. remarkable ruling
has . been made by Mr. . Edward C.
Madden, third assistant postmaster
general. Tie' further rules that a fiaid
in advance "subscriber i3' one who has
pa'd his own money for the paper or
iieriodlcal,' and5 that when any large
"l rcf.ortioh of a papef's' subscription
list is made up ofnamesof parties
wfcb'se copies of1 the-" paper have lye&i
paid for bx others.rjtljatrpaper shall .
b'Meiiied'second ass privileges until
such fime as' ii shall have eliminated
sudi names from Its list, leaving only
the .names of those . who have paid
tl'eir pwn money. Already several pa
pers" have been denied second class
privileges on these grounds. One'prom
inent paperV was denied second class
privileges , . becauew ,.It "advertised
ideas," and .another has . been forced
t(i' deposit' third class' rates until It
can' prove to1 the satisfaction of Mr.
Madden ithat it is sent only to -people
who have, ordered it. . .The new doc
trine that itf Is illegal to "advertise
ideas" is a dangerous one and should
be combatted by every- publisher and
editor. . ;;
The effect pf the, .recent and re
markable rulings of Mr. Edward C.
Madden, third assistant postmaster
'general, is in effect a censorship of
the pr.ess, and that, too- by a man
who has never; been known as a man
capable of judginV righteously. Such
radical . departures from well estal
lished principles is - a -"menace to the
publishihg business. Mr,. Madden may
long for, and work for, the day when
newspapers and periodicals shall not
"advertise Ideas," but when that day
comes it will Tse a sorry one for the
American people. a The censorship of
the press b,y- such - men as Madden is
not to be tolerated. The newsDaner
publisher of Nebraska should file their
protests against these Unfair4 and out
rageous rulings, with their representa
tives in congress and insist upon con
gressional action that will prevent men
like Madden from assuming such ar
bitrary power. ' The time to act 13 now,
for it Is easier'to cut down a sapling
than it. is to fell a tiant oak. '
WILL M.; MAUPIN,
President Nebraska Pre3s Association.
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Making: History Mighty Fst-Whnt' th
Constitution IIetveen Frlentls ICecnt
Court Decisions
Washington, D. C., Dec, 2G, 1901.
(Special Correspondence.) The irri
gation question was given a great im- .
petus Monday night at a dinner giva
by Congressmau Newland3 of Nevada
at the New Willard hotel. Congress
men Shallenberger, Stark Burkett and
Mercer, and Senator Dietrich repre
sented Nebraska at the gatherin?,
which was, made up of western mem
bers of both houses and prominent
irigationists .of the arid and semi
arid states. The' tone of the speeches
delivered 'was favorable and the friends
pf tho irrigation movement are much
encouraged. . '
The gas rule imposed In the house
by ; the republican majority is inhar
monious with the right of free speech
and unworthy a deliberative, law
making body. ' The Philippine tariff
iniquity was' forcod to a vote and
passed under the crack of the party
lash after denying to the minority the
privilege of full, free and fair discus
sion and allowing but six hours' de
bate. During -this -time Messrs. De
Armand of-Missouri and Shafroth of
Colorado , delivered , noteworthy 'pro
tests against what must prove to Iki
an overpowering and calamitous
wrong. But when all is said and dono
the American .people have genuine
cause ior alarm .when party policies
are enacted into law without allowing
these" policies to be held up to tha
limelight of publicity. '-Such proce- -dure
was unknown in the old days
when the spirit ot republican insti
tutions was strong and virile.
The four - recent decisions .' of the
United States- supreme court relative
to Porto -Rican and Philippine tarifld,
taken together, make precedents for
the following constitutional interprets-'
tions:' (1) The treaty-making power
(consisting of the president and the
senate)may acquire habited as well
as uninhabited territory., as the prop
erty of the United, States by treat v.
(2) Territory" so Acquired ceases. In
stantly; and by force of the treaty, to
be foreign territory as regards exist
ing tariff laws 'imposing duties upon
imports from foreign countries, and In
that respect becomes', territory of the
United States. (3) Congress has powoi
to organize such territory and in do
ing so may impose-duties upon goods
imported rrom it into a state without
regard to the uniformity clause of ti e
constitution and : may also iifinoce
duties upon goods exported to it from
a state, without regard to that clause
in the federal constitution which ex
pressly forbids tariffs on exports. A
more-or-less celebrated man hasVisked
V What s the , constitution between
friends T" ' The significance of his
question is better , understood nor
that a majority of one of the higheit
judicial tribunals in the world has act
aside the . constitutional teaching and '
practice of a hundred ; years witn
seemingly as little concern as a coun
try squire decides a case involvin.
assault and battery. As I have had occasion-to
say ere now, we are "making
history" mighty fast these days.
H. W. RISLEY.
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