8,; THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. January 16, 1902. NATIONAL CELEB RITIES Declare Pe-ru-na to Be the Greatest Ca tarrh Remedy of The Age. COLDS COUGHS SORE THROAT mmm mwm 1 GRIPPB CROUP HOARSE NESS EX CHIEF JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OF SAMOA, rv?n recommend ii Peruna as one of the very j recommend Peruna to all sufferers." r , mm - Senator John M. Thur ston, f Omaha, Neb., writes: "Peruna entirely relieved me of a very irritating cough. I am a firm believer in its efficacy for any such trouble.' IRISH VS. ENGLISH Hon. William Young blood, AudLor 6f the Interior, writes from Washington, D. C, to Dr. Hart man, Columbus, O., as follows : "I've often heard of your great medicine and, have persuad ed my wife, who has been much of a sufferer from catarrh, to try Peruna, and after using one bGttte she has wonderfully improved. It has proved all you have claimed for it." Hon. RufusB. Merchant, Superintendent and Dis bursing Officer, U. S. Post- Office, Washington, D. C, says: I take pleasure in commending your tonic, having taken a bottle of Peruna with very beneficial re- suits. It is recommended to me as a very excellent catarrh cure." i Congressman David F. WUber, of Oneonta, N. Y., writes: I am fully convinced that Peruna is all you claim for it after the use of a few bottles. " i Congressman Irvine Dungan, of Jackson, O., writes: " desire to join . with my many friends in recommending your Invaluable remedy Peruna to any one in need of an invigorating spring tonic, or whose system is run down by catarrhal troubles." We have letters from thirty- eight members of Congress attest ing to the virtues of Peruna. Thousands of people in the com mon walks of life use it as a family medicine. For book of testimonials address The Peruna Medicine Co., Colum bus, O. 1 - 1 j I V yipunK uonscnpiion-uoveromenT irri gation Cuba a Long Ways From Heiiijj Free Washington, D. C, Jan. 13. (Spe-l ciai correspondence.) England s his tory for centuries is a chronicle of op- to her people. It need occasion no surprise, therefore, that Irishmen are foremost in denunciation of that treat ment of the Boers of which they them selves have been the victims for hun dreds of years. Rudyard Kipling, the maladorous au thor of the "White Man's Burden," which republicans were wont to quote in 1900 in defense of a war of con quest, has become a poet of conscrip tion, and his latest "poem" urges upon the British government the necessity of - that mode of recruiting the red coated ranks for South African ser vice and murder. The Irish World is a type of Irish opinion. It closes a stirring arraignment of English in famy in these sentences: "It is ; now recognized in Ireland that the young man who takes the Icing's shillings brands himself as an infamous traitor to Ireland and to the Irish cause. His is the unpardon able sin which makes him an object of. loathing to his countrymen, and which brings unspeakable1 disgrace U Dull . iii i.auiii v . j. lie jjuci uuiinu nlllU :JiCica ilia uaib " iiu llilv world of a wretch unfit to live in it. "Let Rudyard Kipling inspire his ' beef -eating, pleasure-loving, money -grasping, unwarlike countrymen with a martial spirit if he can, but let Irishmen keep themselves aloof from participation in England's blood guilt less. Her army today is the scum of the world. The son of Irish mother .rV.sC -ininc n rrrnr is s m nnstpr nf baseness." Prof. E.lwood Mead, who has charge of the government irrigation survey, contributes to the January Forum an article on this subject which is timely and suggestive. He asserts that "the day' of individual effort has passed." Success, in the future, he continues, "requires the organization of the ir rigation industry and the expenditure of public or corporate funds on a scale not heretofore, possible. Before rivers like the Missouri, the Big Horn, the Green or the Columbia can be put to use, irrigation works must be built rivaling in magnitude and cost those along the Ganges and the Nile." He concludes that this -will not be dona until there is legislation by congress. The arid states will not do this be cause they lack the means. "Only con gress, as custodian of the public do main, can provide the conditions in dispensable to satisfactory progress," and even with congressional aid. Prof. Mead thinks progress will be nec essarily slow. Discussing at . some lengths the evils of the existing situa tion .he , points out that principal among these is the lack of water at the proDer time, and he demonstrates the value of storage in the following par agraph: , "The existing canals in Salt river valley, - Arizona, will irrigate 250,000 DON'T TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE Your Life away! You can be cared of any form of tobacco using easily, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor by taking R&.TO-BAC, that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Oxer 300,000 f-i-i All rimy-Hats. Cure guaranteed. Rook- acres of land. Much of this land has been already settled upon, but less than one-half is being cultivated. All that is needed to make the remainder fruitful is more water, and this can be had by storing the floods. Water enough comes down from the moun tains, but it does not come down at the right time. The 100,Q00 acres now under cultivation represent not what can be done with the river, but what can be done with its low-water dis charge. A similar condition of affairs exists along the South Platte and Ar kansas rivers in Colorado, where only a fraction of the arable land below the canals is cultivated, and all of this has not the water it needs. If the wa ter which runs to waste in the winter and spring were stored, irrigation would become to many in fact what it now is only in theory an insurance against drouth. These conditions ars not exceptional. They prevail on scores of streams in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and California They will appear on others as the re claimed area is extended." Mr. Mead goes on to say that of the two plans proposed for control of the irrigation system state and national he favors the former. This view of Mr. Mead's will not bo concurred in by the mass of the people most vitally interested. To invoke national aid for the con struction of irrigation works, and, when completed, surrender them to state control, is to invite all the evil3 of land-grabbing, stock-jobbing and public and private speculation. . It will allow moneyed interests to gain control of 'the lands lying tributary to the irigation works and use them t: private advantage, and thus defeat the very end aimed at, namely, the pro vision of homes for millions of our people in what is now practically a non-supporting region of our national domain. The safer plan is, after having in voked and received national aid, is to vest the control of the whole project in the federal government, represented by those whose duty it shall be to ad minister the law in the interest of those who shall come with an honest intention to establish that bulwark of the republic an American home. This plan followed out will result in a de gree of benefits to the whole United States, and especially to the western half, greater than any other project ever brought to the attention of the people. In discussing "Chinese Exclusion and the Problems of Immigration," Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania lays down the following proposition as one that should guide congress in dealing with the subject: "The most important feature of the immigration question, so far as this country is concerned, is the assimila ble quality of the immigrant. All phy sical, educational and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimi lated. Where he can be assimilated, even with some degree of difficulty at taching to the process of absorption, the problem is already solved. Some of our best citizens are the sons of sturdy Immigrants , wTho, industrious and adaptive, have amassed compet ences and have entered heartily into the spirit of our constitution, of our laws and of our people." , No one can have doubt as to the soundness ; of that demagogism is at the bottom of the agitation for the continuance of the exclusion laws." It is the unanimous demand of la boring men everywhere that the Chi nese should be excluded, and their de mand i3 reasonable. Any race that cannot become assimilated with the great body of American citizenship has no place in this country and should be excluded by its laws. Cuba has been under American mili tary government for three years, and today 5,000 .American soldiers are sus taining the rule of Governor General Wood. On the last day of the old year, a general election was held throughout the island to choose gov ernors of provinces, provincial coun sellors, members of the house of rep resentatives and presidential and sen atorial electors. On February 24 these electors will meet and elect the first president and vice president of the Cu ban republic and senators. It' is al ready known that General Palma, now living: in New York, will be the first president. lie is the choice of the ad ministration. It would indeed be sur prising if no persuasion was brougnt to bear to encompass his election, and still more surprising when it is re membered that the charges of favorit ism toward the successful candidate by General Wood and his subordinates became so pronounced that Secretary Root was compelled to make a public denial. To the government so to be organ ized, says Root in a recent report, "the control of the island is to be trans ferred and such a transfer may be an ticipated before tbe close of the ap proaching (current) session of con gress." Cuba is to be "free and indepen dent" then, in a sense, as by congres sional resolution of April 2J, 189S, she was declared was and of right ought to be. These same resolutions contained the further declaration that "the United States disclaim any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said isl ands." Notwithstanding this declaration, the constitution of the republic of Cu ba contains provisos, inserted therein on the demand of the United States, formally made upon the convention of Cubans that framed it, which do es tablish American "control over said islands," as follows: 1. Cuba can make no treaties or compacts with foreign powers with out consent of the United States. 2. Cuba cannot contract public debts which the United States judges to be in excess of her ability to pay. 3. Cuba consents to the interven tion of the United States at any tim? in her internal affairs "for the pro tection of life, property and individual liberty." 4. Cuba consents to carry out and extend the sanitary plans begun by the United States during the military occupation. 5. Cuba agrees to sell or lease to the United States lands for coaling and naval stations. These provisos, which Cuba has agreed "to embody "in a permanent treaty with the United States," prac tically establish over "free" Cuba the same "suzerainty" which Great Britain claims to have over the Transvaal re public, and more; for Great Britain never claimed the right to intervene to protect life, property and individual liberty in the Transvaal, nor to limit the borrowing power of the Boer re public. ' And yet, in the light of all these facts and conditions and circum stances, many people appear to be sur prised that the Filipinos and the down-trodden of every land do not rush to the "protecting" cover of our national wing! H. W. RISLEY. Diseases of Men I cure all diseases of men. Stricture, varicocele, lost manhood, syphilis, gleet and all other diseases of men can be permanently cured by my new methods of home treatment. All cures guaranteed. Call or write for self-examination blank. Consultation free. D. L. Ramsdell, M. D., 1136 O st., Lin coln, Neb. The Two Best Papers Editor Independent: I like your paper extremely well. I recently made up my mind to take two good newspa pers and sent for sample copies of at least a dozen papers and none suited me as well as yours and the Springfield Republican. Today I send for your paper ar.d the Springfield Republi can. F. E. STEPHENSON. Louisburg, Kas. .tie senator's logic, and . Would Send It to All Ediloi Independent: I like The In dependent and I need it to keep my ideas up to date. The San Francisco Examiner is all right for news, but it is not in it with The Independent when it comes to discussing the polit ical situation. If I had a very small fracticn of the wealth of Rockefeller. I would make a present of a year's subscription to The Independent to every voter in this country. I hope the time is not far distant when there will be an opportunity to hold an in quest on the republican party. GEORGE A. GRITTON. Volcano, Cal. Friend of the People Editor Independent: Enclosed please find $2.00 for which credit my account on subscription as I cannot afford to do without the paper as I think it is the best friend of the people that is published. I have often thought how glad I would be if it only could be placed in the hands of all the people who are still in favor of honest gov ernment. Long may you live to bless your fellowmen. J. W. ZARNES. ' Mountain Grove, Mo. Can't Miss a Copy Editor Independent: Please con tinue sending me The Independent. I will write you later and send you a dollar to pay for it. I think the paper is just the thing for me to read and consequently I shall subscribe for It. It is a live paper, just what I like. Pleas don't let me miss a copy and ac YOU AND I We 'ed to Organize an Infant Class in Politic and Put in Several Years in Attendance This is addressed to the citizen; to all citizens, not collectively hot in, a bunch, but individually to every ; one to you. The intention Is to talk about You and I, about our relations to 'government, ', about our worth as men as citizens. . ' . You and I have, listened to Fourth of July oratory, - and to fellows that wanted our votes, and they have given is all sorts of soft solder and lying compliment; addressed us as honorad citizens, intelligent hearers, etc., until they have made fools of us. They have told us about the shortcomings, the faults, and the foolishness of the othfcr fellow, but said not a word about our faults and foolishness; until You and I have come to believe that we are all right. But the fact is we are not all right. If we were, government and government policies would be all right, for we are the government, that is, You and I. We cast the ballots that make the officials (be it said to their credit they nearly always strive to carry out our wishes). If You and I dictate the wrong policies, at the polls, then it is our fault, when government is wrongly administered. You and I need to organize into an infant class in politics, and put in several years in constant attendace. The first thing we need to learn is the definition cf the word "citizen," for we are citizen?. We have somewhere seen it stated that it was a great, grand thing to be a citi zen. That to be a citizen of this coun try was greater than and more desir able than to be a king, in any other country. If that is a fact, we had bet ter begin to take note of it. If we at'e fooling around here , with the privil eges and powers of kings, it must b said we make very poor use of those privileges and powers at times.l Indeed it is beginning to be said that You and I are not fit to exercise the powers of government. Abram S. Hewitt of New York said . in an open letter: 'If Shepard thinks that universal suffrage is the best form of government for large aggregations of men he differs with most statesmen and the best thinkers of the day." Well, now, if that is true You and I had better quit our governing job; quit voting; anl turn government management over to the Abram S. Hewitt style of "states men and thinkers." But if it is not true it certainly is an exhibition of all sorts of impudence on the part of Mr. Hewitt. Which ever way it is, w? had better find out about it, for Mr. Hewitt is not the only one who has given expression to the same opinion and it may be true.. Our ability to handle the ballot is shown in the way we do handle it. Let us take a ' look back and see what we have been doing with our ballots lately In the last two campaigns we voted to give away our money-making power to the bank ers and financiers, by allowing thera to fix the standard, thereby acknowl edging their superiority over You and I in the management of finance mat ters. You and I were warned that the question of imperialism was an issue last campaign, but we couldn t see it, and we voted in approval, of thj change from a republican to an im perialistic form of government. You and I voted to sustain the Phil ippine policy to rob and murder a peopld that had never done us any harm. You and I voted to sustain the administration in its sympathy with England in the Boer war, thereby making ourselves, that is, You and I, participators in the crime of making war on women and cmidren ana starving poor babies to death in South Africa. Maybe it is these and other voting antics of ours that yours and mine has caused the Abram S. Hewitts to come to the conclusion that "large ag gregations" of men like You and I are not fit to vote. (Of course if You or I have not been guilty of this peculiar kind of voting then we are not to blame), but You and I are concerned whether guilty or not guilty in the preservation of the rights of citizens. The greatest evidence to the minds of the "statesmen and thinkers" of our unfitness, is that we haven't spirit enough left, in us, to resent it when they put such insult upon us as to as sert that we are no longer fit manage the ballot. That we receive such in sult, in humble meekness, and go on subscribing and paying for the publica tions that advocate the idea that You and I are unfit to fill the office of citizen. But the danger of losing our citizen ship is not from imperialistic publica tions, nor from the "statesmen and thinkers," but that You and I, the "progressive" citizens of this "prog ressive" country, in this "progressive" age, will not vote to disfranchise our selves. , SID FOREE. Plattsburg, Mo. HANNA Oft M' KIN LEY. Ohio Senator's Reminiscences of tbe Martyred President. In the current issue of The National Magazine Senator Hanna gives detail ed reminiscences of the late President McKinley as a man, a friend and as a leader. Mr. Hanna says in his article: "A great deal has been said about his proverbial good nature. He had that and in addition to that an unequaled equipoise in every emergency. In ; all my career in business and in politics I have 'never known a man so self con tained. He always acted deliberately, and his judgments were always weigh ed carefully, although there were tinges when his heart impulses would re spond quickly without apparently the slightest delay. "In all those thirty years of close re lations I never saw him in a passion, never heard him utter one word of what I would call resentment tinged with bitterness toward a living person. This was again reflected in the story of the assassination told by Mr. Mil burn, who said that he could never for get the picture in the expression of his countenan6e as he glanced toward the assassin. In his eyes read the words as plain as language could express it, 'Why should you do this?' "And then when the assassin was hurled to the ground, when the fury and indignation of the people had be gun to assert itself, he said, with al most saintly compassion,. 'Don't let them hurt him.' "I know of nothing in all history that can compare with the splendid climax and ending of this noble life. One of the sweetest consolations that come to nie is the memory that on Tuesday preceding his death he asked to see a newspaper, and when he was told 'Not today' he asked, 'Is Mark here?' " 'Yes, Mr. President,' was the re sponse, and in that one sweet last re membrance was a rich reward for the years of devotion which it had always been my pleasure to give him." Senator Hanna closes the article as follows: "We were both of Scotch Irish descent, but opposites in disposi tion. He was of a more direct descent than I, but it is thought from our dis positions that he had the Scotch and I had the Irish of the combination." NEW MILFORD'S FRIGHT. Giant Skyrocket Caused Religious Ones to Pray In the Streets. Several thousand inhabitants of New Milford, near WInsted, Conn., on the Berkshire division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, were startled the other night by an ex plosion somewhere to skyward of the town, says the New York Times. The sound was terrific, they say, and the sidewalks "trembled. People rushed out of doors,xand some of them declare that they thought the day of judgment was at hand. They knelt in the streets and began to pray. As the terrible sound came there was a bright flash about 200 yards from the earth, directly overhead. A little lafer the streets were choked with peo ple, gaping at the heavens and wonder ing what was the cause of the noise. It was finally concluded by many that a meteorite had exploded over the town. Some of the more religious citi zens, however, persisted in believing that the strange blast was Intended as a warning that the life of the world was about to end. That no fragments or trace of a meteorite could be found was used by them as an argument that they were right in their conclusions. A. L. Conkley, who conducts a music store, solved the mystery late the next afternoon by saying that he set off a giant skyrocket, which caused the ex citement. 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St lovely seaside resorts, v4 St orange groves, beautiful St gardens and quaint old o St mission towns are oc v St VISITED EVERY YEAR 1 St st St by thousands of tourists st who travel St OVER THE UNION PACIFIC st st St because it Is the best and St quickest route and the st St only line running through St trains to California from St Omaha. St In addition to the Pull- St man Palace Sleepers the St Union Pacific runs Pull- St man Ordinary Sleepers v St every day, train leaving St Lincoln at 1:45 p. m. st St Those Ordinary Cars are St Personally Conducted ev- v St ery Tuesday and Thurs- , st day from Chicago and ev- St cry Wednesday and Fri- v St day from Omaha. Pullman St Ordinary Sleeper also St le aves Cm aha every Ttu s- St day at 11:30 p. m. for st St Los Angeles;. st st st st st st st st st st st st st st . "The Conservative believes that ex State Treasurer Bartley ought to bo pardoned. He has suffered enough! Justice has been appeased! Further punishment for this mis-influeticed, mal-guided man is mere savagery. It is brutal vengeance. It is not civil ized Christianity. It is pagan barbar ity. It is cruelty to his devoted wife and unhappy children. "An executive with moral courage and conscience enough to let him out by a free and full pardon would suit the Conservative and please God! "Since the above was in type Gorv ernor Savage has 'filled the bill. " That is what the great J. Sterling Morton has to say. When one comes to reflect that the awful torture of attending the flowers in the conserva tory at the penitentiary was bound to end in the earth death of Bartley, and that four years in the penitentiary was a very cruel punishment for steal ing nearly a million dollars and divid ing it up among a large number of re publican leaders in the state, perhaps after all he may come to the conclu sion that that is the most effectual way to make stealing disreputable. But The Independent still has some doubts upon the subject. The Pop Prophets Maine to Have Spruce Gam Farms. Spruce gum production will be made a regular business by owners of the forests in Washington county, Me., says a dispatch from - Banger, Me., to the New York Evening Journal. Re cently incisions in the bark of spruce trees have been made, and It is found that these Incisions produce gum of the best quality. The first large ship ment of gum secured in this manner was made by H. J. Wells of Wesley, who sent 175 pounds to Boston, pro duced from five acres of trees. A Voyaee Under the Sea. The Petit Parisien learns , fronu M. Goubet, Inventor of the submarine boat which bears his name, that there is some question of constructing a. sub marine vessel which,, deriving its mo tive power from a.i cable extending across the strait of Dover would be able to take 200 passengers from France to England in less than half an . rr 0 - - - - " . The pops are no good when it comes to voting, but they know how to pro phesy. They have insisted ever since Joe Bartley was put behind the bars that if the republican party ever got into power again in Nebraska he would be released. Sure enough, he was, al though, according to the Fairbury Ga zette, it was only on parole. But the pops Insisted that he would be finally let loose completely and entirely with no strings attached. The rank and file of the republican party saw the force of the argument and insisted that Bartley be put back, and he was. Again the pops predicted that this re imprisonment was only for effect and that he would be released shortly af ter election. And once more the pop prophets have been crowned with lau rel wreaths, for, behold, Bartley is a free man. Jefferson County Journal. A Lincoln Democrat Editor Independent: I like your in dependent ways and your publication immensely. It is quite a pleasure now adays to read a non-subsidized news paper. 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