February 13, 1902 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 4 SPANISH GOUMV-CURED OF iA Conn Segnndq de Oyies -was: a Carlist exile. The signature of his Tra6le, Louis De Oyies, is found with, that of John Quincy Adams ceding Florida to the United States in a treaty with Spain. The Count is forty-six years of age, an exile froln drietto; situated in the northern part of Spain, and has been exiled since 1876 ; he is wealthy, and has traveled and studied the customs, habits and languages of twenty-five different nations. In areoent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus,' Ohio, the Count gives his endorsement to their great catarrh remedy, Peruna, in the following words: The Can field, Atlantic City, N. J. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen! Last winter my secretary had a severe attack of la grippe which was cured effectually by the use of four bottles of Peruna, so when I contracted the same unpleasant sickness last fall I at once sent for a bottle. It truly worked wonders, and removed the sickening and sore feeling I had within a few days, I would not be without it now for any money, and when I go away 1 carry Peruna as a valuable perquisite ' to my ' traveling outfit. "--JULIAN SEGUNDO, CONDB DE OVIES. vr EARLY everybody is having li J)j - grippe again. It resembles some V what" in the beginning a severe cold. A chill or cold spell is followed by aching bones, sore . throat, headache, cough, and general weakness. Its course may be 'quite slight or severe, but in either case it nearly always leaves one. in a miserable condition. . ' Unless Peruna is taken it will be wee'rs or months before a person re gains his usual health. If the Victim ii fortunate . enough to begin the use oi Peruna at the commencement of the attack the course of the grip ' is , much shortened, and the system is left In a natural state. ..;'. - - People , who have had la grippe, but are stili suffering from the after-effects, should not neglect to take Perttha, as it will promptly restore them to health; ? Henry Distin, the inventor and maker o ! all the band instruments of thd Henry Distin Manufacturing Co., writes the following .from 1441 South Ninth street, Philadel phia, Pa: ,"I had a bad at tack of la grippe last December which lasted more than three month s, and which left me with catarrh, and seve r a 1 of my I friends advised me to try Peruna. I began with a bottle the first week in March and it certainly did me a great deal of good. I was so well satisfied that I purchased another bottle and fol lowed. the directions, and can say that it has cured me." -Henry Distin. A large , per cent of those who are afflicted with this epidemic, instead of getting well as they ought to, will have chronic catarrh as the result. This is almost invariably the case unless Pe runa is taken as soon as possible after the grip begins. . Every one who has observed the effect of Peruna during the last three epidem ics of la grippe positively knows that this remedy will cure it permanently. The fact is, however, that a great mul titude of people will not take Peruna, and a foundation for chronic catarrh will be laid. Even in cases where chronic catarrh has affected the lungs, and the early stages of catarrhal consumption have been developed, Peruna can be relied upon as a prompt and lasting cure. La grippe and catarrh are at present the two great' enemies "of life in the land. Peruna is a cure for either. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable Ad vice gratis. , , . Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O l n m ii 9 ii , IT .in a. w lU.tl. f 1 UCU1J XllJlilUt I A FREE PRESS There are senators in the upper house of congress who can out lie old Machiavelli himself, and do it with more self-composure. Take the posi tive statement that there was no cen sorship in the Philippines, that the press was free and newspaper men were not subject to any supervision. Then turn to the laws that the' Philip pine commission have enacted and read this: ' ' ';' "Until it has been officially pn claimed that a state of war. or in-i Biirrection against the authority or sovereignty of the United States no longer exists in the Philippine islands, it shall be unlawful' for any. person to advocate orally or lay' writing- or print ing or like methods; the independence of the Philippine islands or their sep aration from the United States, whether by peaceable or forcible means, or to print, publish or circulate any handbill, newspaper or other.jpub lication advocating such Independence or separation. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $2,000, and imprisonment not exceed ing one year." There is just as. much freedom of the press in Manila, as there is in Mos cow or; Stf Petersburg and no more. One of the necessities of imperialism and without which it could not, endure, ft a suppression of a free press. The United States government has gone into that business and it will stay in it as long as imperialism Is recog nized by the supreme court. TRY US FOR TREASON Imperialism continues to make as tonishing advances. It is now treason for a man to declare that the Fili pinos ought to be given their inde pendence. When Senator Tillman made that statement on the floor of the senate, he was gravely informed by another senator that it was -only because he (Tillman) was a member of the congress of the United States that he was not liable to fine and impris onment for such incendiary talk. That is just what The Independent said would happen when the nation started: on this new voyage-into unknown seas. You are not a member of. con gress and if you assert that all men should be free and independent you commit treason under the new alien and sedition laws. It will not be verv long until; measures will be taken to enforee these laws' and:ome.jof us will " land in Unitea States prisons. .. But'oit one defies them. The Filipinos ought to be given their freedom and inde pendence. "If that is treason, make the most of it." QUEER STATESMANSHIP Sugar is sold to the trade in Ger many at 7 cents a pound. The same sugar is transported to England an.1 sold at 3 cents a pound. The result of the insane interference with the laws of trade is the same in Germany as in this country where highly pro tected goods are exported and sold to foreigners at about half what Ameri can citizens have to pay for them, Ger many may have some imperial or oc cult means of getting rich by taxing her people to furnish cheap sugar to England and charging her own people twice as much for the same article, but no economist has been able to dis cover it. We tax our people to fur nish cheap steel, iron, cutlery, agricul tural implements and many other things to foreigners while we pay high prices ourselves, that we may put millions into the pockets of the fav ored few. But the laws of trade can not be wholly defeated. While Ger many furnishes us with cheap sugar by means of bounties, we furnish her many articles very cneap by the means of the high tariff under which we sell her goods at one-half that they can be bought for in this country. Ger many charges her citizens 4 cents a pound more for sugar than she sells it to us, and we sell her many kinds of goods at one-half what our citizens here have tp pay, so the eqtiilibrium of trade is not wholly destroyed. But how silly it is to call such transactions statesmanship. A LOT OF TR1ITORS All that The Independent asks Is that these new alien and sedition laws be rigorously enforced and that every man who is giving aid and' comfort to the Filipinos by saying that they ought to be given Independence be clapped in jail right away. Of course those traitors who occupy seats in the house and senate will have to be'ex cepted until: their terms of office ex pire, but let the Washington authori ties' get after the rest. . There was a petition presented . in the senate 7 the other day by Senator : Hoar asking that hostilities be suspended in the Philippines and every man who r put his name- to it- committed treason : ac cording to r Senator Lodge and ' thes sedition laws. , The editor of The In dependent wants' to see every' one of signers were George F. Edmunds, Mark Twain, the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, W. D. Howells, and Bishop Vincent. It is said that thirty-six professors In the University of Chicago and a num ber of other educators have put their names to this appeal to the senate. Lodge and Beveridge are the only kind of true patriots left in this coun try and they should , get after these men immediately with United. States marshals and haul them before "the federal judges who will take great de light in sentencing them to long terms and heavy fines. It only takes one witness to convict a man of treason now, and "talking" is treason, because the old constitution was thrown into the waste basket. It will do not good to plead that "no person shall be con victed of treason unless on the testi mony of two witnesses to the sams OVERT ACT or on confession in open court," because the document that contained those words is no more in effect. On with the dance. The Inde pendent hopes that the imperialists will continue to make it lively. JEFFERSON AND SMITH Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith in the same year published a declar ation of independence. Jefferson's ap plied to political life; Smith's to econ omic life. Both these declarations were but tha outgrowth of a revblution which had begun some time before. Primarily the revolt was against restrictions upon conscience and religion; then it included a demand for political liberty and extended into the industrial world. Adam Smith's central idea in hl3 "Wealth of Nations," according to Prof. Ely's interpretation, is this: Men are by nature . free and equal; the law should not establish artificial inequalities among them. What men need in business is not protection, but liberty. Under free competition each man' seeks his own interest, and 1 in seeking his own interest promotes, as a rule, the best interests of society. (The exceptions to the rule, which the careful reader of Adam Smith dis covers, are more important than- gen erally supposed; yet the chief em phasis was laid on the rule and not the exceptions, and the impression which the book produced was in favor of the abolition of legal restrictions.)' ': - lieges to certain favorites, giving them a monopoly of certain lines of indus try; and it was against such procedure tliat Adam Smith , issued his declara tion of industrial independence. Tha idea took root and caused an indus trial revolution in England. In Am erica the transition from the old prac tice to the new was scarcely felt, ow ing to the scattered settlements and small amount of industry. Stated briefly, Adam Smith's conten tion was for non-interference in indus try by the government. , It will bere membered" that; in his day and , for many 1 years before it; was the pr&c- 4 Competition unhampered by govern mental interference, then, was the cen tral idea. It has a firm hold on the people of both England and America. But new conditions have arisen that could not possibly have been foreseen by Adam Smith and his supporters. They knew nothing of steam transpor tation, electricity, and kindred inven tions and discoveries. They knew but little, if anything, about those lines of industry in which competition can hot long be maintained, and in the na ture of , things ought not to be main tained. In his time there were no railroads, telegraphs,-telephones, elec tric lights, electric cars. His general rule was good then as applied to the lines of industry then in existence; it is good today as applied to the same lines. But the industrial world has developed new - industries to which Adam Smith's idea of "non-interference" cannot be applied industries he probably never dreamed about. Non-interference and competition do not go hand in hand as regards the railroads, for, example. It did nbt take long for the people to discover that if left alone there would be no competi tion, or practically none, among the various lines. Then, while still adher ing to the competitive idea, the peo ple invoked governmental interferen? to compel competition. A good il lustration is the case of the West Shore railway in New York. It was designed to check the monopoly of the New York Central, and was built al most parallel to that line. Its chartsr provided that it should never sell out to the New York Central. Here was &tt3 interference to compel competi tion. But after the West Shore had been run a few years its road was leased to the New York Central tor 475; j ears and is now a comparatively useless fifth track to that road. The most recent example of governmental interference to compel competition Is the suit instituted by the state of Min nesota in United States court to de clare unlawful the recent merger ot the Northern Securities company. The Independent does not care to pose as a prophet, but ventures the prediction that the state 'will finally lose. Tue United States supreme court will proo ably find that it has no jurisdiction over the subject matter, and the state courts will find themselves in a similai predicament. As long as the law stands upon the statute books, Governor Van Sant de serves credit for his attempt to en force it. But the law is fundamental ly bad and the only good effect the suit can possibly have is to furnish another object lesson showing the peo ple that competition in the railroad business cannot be enforced by gov ernment interference. The only ob ject of Adam Smith's declaration was that the best interests of society mlgnt be promoted. Non-interference per mitted competition in practically ev ery line he knew at that time; but he made no demand for government inter ference to compel competition. Such does not promote the best interests of society. In the case of the West Shore road, the people are compelled to pay for a useless line, conforming to Prof. Ely's general maxim, "deduced from our national experience, that the pub lic must pay for every article need lessly duplicated in monopoly service, and that, too, without compensating benefit." Every line of railroad par alleling another is an economic waste which the people are obliged to pay for, if one line could do all the busi ness done by the two. Such attempts to create artificial competitions impo! Prof. Ely to remark that "the history of our railway business' is the history of competing lines which have tracxed each other across the country, endeav oring rather to overreach each other than to serve the public." What has been said regarding the railroads applies with equal force to telegraphs, telephones, street car lines, electric light plants, water works, and other public utilities. The declaration of Adam Smith ;s good-today as it ever was. The law should not establish artificial inequal ities among men. Artificial inequali ties are established whenever the law empowers certain individuals to con demn and take private property for their own use, under the thin dis guise of public necessity, and to exer cise the taxing power i for- their own private benefit, "Equal rights to all, special privileges to none" is the pop ulist motto. It is good democratic doctrine. Apply it to the industrial world of the present day and ' it re solves itself into the two propositions, (a) private enterprise in the competi tive field, and (b) public ownership in ' i n ' ' - T" . .rr' ' jA..i.:-t mean, - however, - that ; every business now known as a monopoly should be owned and operated by the govern-, ment. When the inequities of the tar iff and freight discriminations shall have been abolished many" of the in dustries now thought to be monopolies will be found to respond to competi tion. Small meat packing houses are crushed out by freight discrimina tions; small oil refining concerns have been compelled to shut down for -a like reason. But the Standard Oil trust and the Armours and Cudahy3 would have competition were it not for freight discriminations which are almost prohibitive. A REPUBLICAN THEFT The senior member of a triad of re publican papers in Lincoln in discuss ing Albert Watkins' Forum article, "The Outlook for Public Ownership," chortles gleefully because The Inde pendent last week reproduced an edi torial from the Portland Oregoniaa, which, it is alleged, was stolen from Mr. Watkins. It says: As an. example of the mixed alignment of politicians with ref erence to this question it is inter esting to note that a populist newspaper of Lincoln has just been reproducing, as an example . of republican conversion to pop ulism, an editorial as favoring public ownership, from a big re publican daily of the Pacific coast, the principal points of which are made by ingeniously weaving in without credit sentences from Mr. Watkins' article which is non partisan, ; simply discussing the status of the question. The Independent is glad to see big republican dailies using Mr. Watkins non-partisan ideas on this important subject, much as it deprecates the practice of stealing another's lan guage. There is no copyright on tha idea of public ownership, but from a partisan standpoint the populists have a pre-emption on it as a party meas ure, being first in the field to make a demand for it in the party platform. It will dp other republican papers good to study what Mr. Watkins has to say on the subject but they might have the decency to give him credit when they use his language. A SHAKY FOUNDATION There has been a great deal of boast ing in the United States senate and in plutocratic newspapers during .the last, week of the. permanency of Im perialism. We are, they say, in the Philippines and we are going to, stay there. We have established a colonial system,, of government and nothing canr now-overthrow it. Did any.pne pi these boasters, ever stop to think upon what a shaky foundation imperialism stands? The whole thing rests upon a decision of the supreme court and that decision was rendered by one ma jority. It is said that Justice Shiras has given notice that he will soon re tire. If anot.her person should be ap pointed in his place who held the same views as the minority, the whole sys tem would go by the board. It would be impossible to hold peoples in sub jection and administer a government without the consent of the people. Philippine commissions, tariff laws and an army of carpet baggers would j all suddenly disappear and we would have the Declaration of Independence back, the constitution would folow the flag and all the world, except a few thieves, would hold one long and en thusiastic jubilee.. When Justice Shi ras cast his vote to change our form of government he perhaps did not ful ly realize the far-reaching conse quences of the act. If it stands, the history of the world will be changed and men will have to fight the old battle of liberty over again. The Independent received a letter the other day from a populist in which he said that he would be willing to continue to co-operate with the Bryan democracy, but aside from Bryan there was not a democratic leader who conic? be trusted. That is a pretty broad statement. That there are a lot of them who cannot be trusted is true enough and the populists have had a good many of the same kind. There was Peffer, Powderly, Kyle, Loucks, Will its, Clover and last and most infamous of all, Clem Deaver. There are demo crats in this state that The Indepen dent would trust just as implicitly as it would Bryan or any populist. There, are a lot of others whom it would not trust at all. The workings of the mullet head mind -is one of those things that no pop can find out or understand. When the Spanish war broke out the imper ialists all shouted, "Trade follows the flag," and we must take the Philippines to get the trade. - As soon as they got the Philippines they began to shout, "Trade with the Philippines will ruin us and we must build a high protection wall between us and the islands to prevent it." When the mullet head heard the first' statement, he' said: "Yep. Trade- follows the flag and Providence gave us the islands." When he heard the second he said: "Yep. We must have high protection, trada with the islands would ruin us," and he was perfectly honest in both state- SEED CORN Eighteen Years Experience In tbe Seed knows where ii is crown ; also that it ii Corn Easiness as a STEC- refer to buy their Seed Direct 1ALTV". convinces n that farmers i from the Grower; then he knows w Tftfsfc f AmmiattAn - fTAnft r9 VUrerna iTr-vT KaeMaa m mtwm.m iKa e ? X nan Profits. W e are the largest Seed Corn growers in the world, and have sent out mor beed Corn in the. past few years than, any other Growers, Seed House or Seed Firm in the worldL We are headquarters for Seed Oats as well. Write os for our Iree catalogue ot Seed Corn, Farm and Garden beeds. Always address - ; ; 1 ... J. R. RATE KIN & SON, Shenandoah, la. SEED OATS Three Best Varieties in Existence "Mammoth White Russian,", "'Early Champion" white, s nd "Lincoln" oats.' 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