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February 27, 1902 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Champ Clark's Letter T fSpeclal "Washington Letter. HE Republicans in the house, with their brutal majority, are undoubtedly traveling the pace that kills. For instance, they brought in an ironclad rule railroading the bill to repeal the Spanish war taxes, involving $70,000, 000 or $80,000,000 a year, allowing only about eight hours for debate and ab solutely refusing even one minute for amendment. Such an outrage has rare ly been perpetrated in any legislative body of the world. The minority, un der the lead of Richardson of Tennes see and Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic members of the rules com mittee, made a splendid but unavail ing fight against this latest act of Re publican despotism, which has a tend ency to still further degrade the house of representatives. Unavailing fight, did I say? It may be of some avail in rousing the country to a realizing sense of the high handed methods practiced by the Republicans. It Is surely high time for them to be aroused. When Hon. John Dalzell of Pitts burg, gyasticutus In chief of the Repub lican house machine, had jammed his rule through, Mr. Richardson astound ed the Republicans by asking unani mous consent that the tax reduction bill be voted on at once, saying point edly that Drmocrats would rather have two minutes for amendment than eight hours for debate, which under the rule would not change one syllable of the bill. Ah, then and there were hurry ing to and fro and rapid scurrying about among the Republicans and lay ing of heads together. The white locks of Hon. Sereno E. Payne covered the bald pate of "Uncle Joe" Cannon as he whispered In the ear of the venerable Sucker. General Grosvenor's snowy whiskers nearly smothered Colonel Hepburn of Iowa as the two veterans conferred. They couldn't understand what Richardson's great coup meant except that they realized in a dazed way that the Tennesseean had made a masterly flank movement and that if political capital is to come of the tax reduction bill it would inure to the benefit of the Democrats. When Richardson made his amazing request. Mr. Speaker Henderson seem ed nonplused, but there wasn't any thing for him to do except to submit it to the house, which was done amid si lence that was painful. They do say that some of his remarks in private to his lieutenants were far very far from being complimentary. A Memorable Feb. 17. The bill carried by unanimous vote on roll call. That, in brief, is the history of Rich ardson's great coup. The 17th of Feb ruary will be a memorable day in the history of the Fifty -seventh congress. Richardson's performance accentu ated the tyrannical conduct of the Re publican majority as perhaps nothing else would have done. Democrats wanted to amend the bill so as to cut down the tariff on trust made articles, but the Republicans would not have it so. That's precisely what they were afraid of. They even whipped Babcock of Wis consin into line to vote for the rule, though his bill cutting the tariff rates on articles made by the steel trust was to have have been one of the amend ments if amendment had been permit ted. His poor and limping excuse was that the tax reduction bill ought to be passed and that he would call his bill up at a more convenient season, well knowing that the Republican bosses will never permit him to get it up as a separate measure. He thereby threw away his one chance of having his bill considered. If he had helped defeat the rule, he could have offered his bill as an amendment, but his heart failed him. Poor Bab! He is not a howling euccess as a reformer. Mr. Hay of Virginia did not over state the case when he said: "The adoption of this rule means the humil iation of every member on this floor. By this rule we take away from this house its rightful functions and its con stitutional power. We are bound and gagged and forced into accepting the action of a bare majority of one of a committee upon a question of vital im port to the country. ' Mr. Ball of Texas said:. "Every one who is informed knows that the object f this rule is to prevent the hand of taxation from being laid upon the sug ar trust, the steel trust and other bloated corporations. The action of Mr. Reed in counting a quorum was to dis patch public business. The object of this rule is to prevent a fair and proper consideration by the house of repre sentatives of pending legislation." Samples of Prosperity. It is constantly and vociferously as serted by Republican spellbinders that frosperity is universal, but once in Awhile a news item gets into the pa pers which has a tendency to contra dict these asseverations. For example, the Boston papers recently reported that there was held a large and angry meeting of the stockholders of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton company of Salem, Mass., at which it was discov ered that the company lost $25,000 the last half of last year, and the stock holders wanted to know wh3r it was thus and why they had not received their dividends as usual. Mirabile dlc tu! The explanation was that the loss and skipping of dividends were occa sioned by a falling off in the oriental trade! Why, bless my stars, we have had it thumped Into our noggins for three years that this oriental trade is to make us all rich beyond the dreams of avarice! And, lo, already it is fall ing off! We are frequently told that every man in the United States who wants work can get it and that if any man Is Idle it is entirely his own fault. This cannot be true, for the Boston Adver tiser has this editorial In a recent Is sue: "The number of applicants for cler ical positions In this city Is immensely greater than the number of positions to be filled at present. One reason for this is that during the last few months there have been a good many business changes in the way of consolidations. Another reason is that boys and girls from the public schools are applying for such work and will do it far more cheaply than the old clerks. The latter are thrown out of their places and find, to their surprise, that there is no de- j mand for their services. They haunt the employment offices day after day and week after week, but they would be wiser to try some other line of work if they are not too old to make the change." Now, it is generally conceded that anything seen in a Boston paper is true. The foregoing editorial not only states the unpalatable fact that the number of applicants for clerical posi tions is immensely in excess of the number of positions, but gives the rea son consolidation of business con cerns; in other words, trusts which furnishes much food for reflection. Look Out, Cummins! Governor A. B. Cummins of Iowa is a brilliant, aggressive and ambitious young man, but if he does not look out he will be blacklisted and turned out of the Republican party. He is follow ing the dangerous example of the par rot whose neck was wrung for talking too much.. lie has been "swinging around the circle" a la Andrew John son. At Kansas City, Mo., he said some very unorthodox things when viewed from a Republican standpoint. For instance, he declares against du ties on articles manufactured by a monopoly! Why, bless my soul, that's flat heresy, Democratic heresy ! Sure ly that will cause strained relations between him and the iowa delegation In congress, who are whole hog tariff shouters and advocates. Cummins thinks congress should reduce the tar iff on Cuban sugar and ratify the reci procity with France. Evidently he has not heard of the White House con fab between President Roosevelt, Mr. Speaker Henderson, "Uncle Joe" Can non, Senator Allison, General Charles Henry Grosvenor and other Republican big Injuns, in which it was solemnly decided after two hours of parleyvous ing that there should be no reciprocity and no favors shown to Cuba, which confab is likely to become famous and from which the downfall of the Re publican party may be dated by the historian of fhe times in which we live. Governor Cummins should wake up, or he will be counted among the Babcock recalcitrants and be marked for slaughter. What a deceptive old humbug the Republican party is anyway! All their papers and orators eulogize Blaine as a brilliant leader and McKinley as an Infallible guide and then go and do precisely what Blaine and McKinley condemned, and vice versa. Open Door For Chinese. Not the least of the stupendous evils of the Philippine propaganda is this: It has increased the difficulties of our attitude toward Chinese exclusion many fold. When we annexed the Ha waiian Islands, we took to our palpi tating bosoms about 25,000 Chinese coolies at one time. When we bought the Philippines, we took in about 1,750,000 more Chinese. Unfortunate ly in 1897 the supreme court of the United States rendered a decision de claring a Chinese child born of Chinese parents domiciled in this country for any other than diplomatic purposes to be an American citizen. Any one can see with half an eye how the plot thickens. If the court finally decides that the inhabitants of our insular pos sessions are citizens, then congress can not pass a law that will hold water restraining or curtailing the power of free locomotion. Consequently the la boring people of America are decidedly uneasy as to the Chinese situation, as well they may be. Sees the Handwriting en the Wall. Homer sometimes nods. Ditto The Globe-Democrat. It thinks that the next congress will have 357 represent itives, the same number as the pres ent congress. The G.-D. should wake up. By the new apportionment law passed last year the next house will contain 3S8 representatives. So The G.-IX missed it only by thirty-one. That, however, is a small matter. A long editorial in which the mistake oc curs contains much more important statements. It sounds the alarm that the Republicans will not have as easy iledding in carrying the congressional From Iowa .Editor Independent: We have sean the populist party split all to pieces until outside of Kansas and Nebraska there is not a corporal's guard left of them. I, with the most of the old time pops here, am now in the social ist camp and am likely , to remain there. CHARLEY SHUCK. Derby, la. ' (What prospect is there that the so cialists will kick the republicans out of power in Iowa? Is the prospect .l.-- - -n-x prom North Dakota Editor Independent: We take ,six papers, two republican, two demo cratic besides the Commoner and In dependent. I like to have both sides. I could dispense with, all except the Commoner, and. The Independent. Your paper suits me the best. You are truthful and fearless. The re publican party deserves all the maul ing that you give them. . If I were able I would send your Independent broad cast. It Is grand. Every seed will elections in 1002 as they had In 1898, when they had a majority of only thir teen. Evidently The G.-D. sees the handwriting on the wall." It, however, fails to give the Interpretation, which is that "the Republican party has been weighed in the balance and found wanting," sadly wanting. A General Order's Exceptions. Evidently Senator Henry Cabot Lodge believes that there is no use in being the favorite courtier at the White House without securing favors for his family. This is demonstrated by the fact that he has prevented his sailor brother-in-law, Captain Charles H. Davis, from being sent to sea. Sen ator Lodge succeeded in that caper the very day that President Roosevelt is sued his drastic order declaring that ho influence shall be exerted by any offi cial of the government for the benefit of any person serving under the gov ernment. Clearly sometimes Teddy's words are to be construed in a Pick wickian sense. Nobody can blame Henry Cabot for helping his brother-in-law to a snug and soft berth on land. It is so much more unpleasant and unsafe to go to sea, don't you know. But Lodge's suc cess in breaking through the presiden tial order will embolden other senators with kinfolk to attempt the same performance. i The Democratic minority in the sen ate is m king a splendid and aggres sive fight on the Philippine question, stringing it on the Philippine tariff bill. The Washington Post, independent and ably edited, recognizes that on the Philippine tariff bill the Democrats stand to enlist the sympathy of Amer ican voters, for it begins an elaborate editorial on "Practical Statesmanship" with this suggestive sentence: "The division of Republican sentiment in congress on the Philippine tariff ques tion opens the way for Democratic sen ators and representatives to make a creditable and possibly a greatly use ful exhibition of real statesmanship." Then after stating the various pending propositions as to the rates of that bill The Post adds, "Here, then, is the chance for Democratic senators to make a record on which they can safely appeal to the common sense of the country." They are daily and hourly appealing in every wpy they can not only to the common sese of the country, but also to its conscience. Pap or a Riot. The devil has broken loose, not in Georgia this time, but among the Re publican spoilsmen in congress, most of whom vaunt themselves as civil service reformers, but who, down in the bottom cf their hearts, hate it most thoroughly. Thrs trouble with the spoilsmen aforesaid is that Fourth As sistant Postmaster General Bristow of Kansas, whose own official scalp is not glued on for keeps not if Senator J. Ralph Burton can lift it has in formed them that fourth class post- ! masters wjll hereafter not be removed indiscriminately where they have ren dered faithful and intelligent service, j Worst of all, Bristow is said to be 1 speaking for Postmaster Gene- tl Payne, i and he in turn is supposed to be speak i ing for the president. The situation is j excruciating for the Republican pot hunters. They are in about the she- bear-robbed-of-her-cubs frame of mind and will rend and tear Bristow, Payne and even Teddy if they get a chance. They wjll have pap or they will start a riot of the good old sort. Good thing for Democrats. Republicans Should Muzzle Hoar. If the jingoes do not summarily muz zle Senator George Frisbie Hoar, the venerable statesman, savant and ora tor from the old Bay State, he will make many enemies for our policy of "benevolent assimilation" in the Phil ippines. Recently the senator blurted i out the following rather warm lan- fiuage: j "When Governor Taft says that the ' people are enjoying American freedom and at the same time he promulgates : a law that makes it a penitentiary of fense to read the Declaration of Inde pendence on the Fourth of July, I con fess I am very little impressed by his judgment and very profoundly im pressed by his edict." Now, be it remembered that it was not some untamed senator from the wild and woolly west or from the trop ic south who gave utterance to the foregoing "treasonable" words, but the almost octogenarian senator who occu pies the seat of Charles Sumner in the house of the conscript fathers. He comes from a cold climate, has passed j the day when the blood is hot and is ' an original Republican. Fitzgerald's Poker Story. I Representative Fitzgerald of Brook lyn was "the baby" of the last con gress. He no longer enjoys that honor, ns at present there are at least two younger members, Lever of South Car- olina and Feeny of Chicago. Fitz is a bright and aggressive young man. He possesses a rich vein of humor, which j he works occasionally. He tells with great gusto the following story of a poker game which he witnessed in Ok ' lahoma: "I'll be blamed if I play In any game like this!" shouted one of the players, jumping to his feet and throw ing down his cards. "What's the matter?" asked the oth er four players in chorus. "Somebody's stolen a jack of hearts . off my knee." i An examination of the player's cards showed that he had jacks up. and the odd jack would have given . him a full house. TRUST PROSECUTION t Wall Street Fanle Stricken bat Recover The Magnates Will Ht n Farther Use for Roosevelt Washington, D. C.; Feb. 22. If any thing were needed to show the wide divergence of President Roosevelt from his party leaders the action of Attorney General Knox in declaring his intention of attacking the North ern Securities company in which the Northern Pacific and Great NortSern railroads have been merged with tht Burlington would reveal it. It will be remembered at the time Attorney Gen eral Knox's confirmation was held up in the senate that there were rumors of a promise that this action should be taken provided the democrats would permit the nomination to be confirmed without further challenge. It is be lieved to be in fulfilment of this promise that the attack on the merger has been announced- -At -first Wall street was panic stricken at this blast from the house of its friends, but re covered tone within forty-eight hours on the strength of assurances from Washington that the attack on the merger was to be taken in a Pick wickian sense only. Nevertheless, the big capitalistic interests frown on such evidences of frivolity and have about made up their minds that Roosevelt will never do. for a renomination. President Roosevelt has declared that the Schley case is closed, that neither Schley nor Sampson was en titled to any particular credit for the victory at Santiago, which he declares to have been a "captain's fight." He condemns the loop of the Brooklyn and indicates his opinion that the Brook lyn ought to have kept on plunging straight at the enemy. This is Rough Rider Roosevelt all over, and is a con clusion directly in the. face of the highest naval expert opinion in the world, which declares that had thf Brooklyn continued her original course directly at the enemy she would have received their concentrated fire at short range so overwhelmingly as to have thrown her out of action and permitted the escape of the Colon cer tainly and probably one other of the Spanish squadron. Like the charge of the Light Brigade, It would have been glorious, but not war. The su perior marksmanship of the American gunners made it the height of strategy to keop at a range where our guns would be most effective and the Span ish guns least. Fortunately for his tory as well as for Admiral Schley, the verdict of the American people has been made up in his favor and Is not to be disturbed or set aside by President Roosevelt. One single American citizen in private life may not know as much about naval war fare as President Roosevelt, but seventy-five million of them combined know a heap more. The Cuban claims commission, created especially to adjudicate1 these cases, has been organized for1 a year, has spent $50,000, and has not heard a single case. " M Other scores of Cuban plantations, heavily mortgaged when the insurrec tion broke out, have been forced into insolvency and are now controlled by the Spanish, French and British mort gage holders who thus constitute a class of wealthy non-resident land owners who will spend the profits of their estates not in Cuba, but in the capitals of Europe. There is one grave danger in sight for Cuba, however. Under the old Spanish regime some fourteen thous and small farmers, owning from fifteen to twenty-five acres each, used to bring: their cane to the big central sugar mills and either sell It at a fair price or have it ground and the sugar made for a proportion of the product. These were the men who formed the bulk of the Cuban army. Now the big foreign landlords, American sugar trust mag nates and European mortgage holders, don't want these little farmers around the edges of their big estates, and are refusing to grind their cane,tp employ their spare time or to buy "their cane at any price. This sort of grinding tyranny leads to revolution.' It is not improbable that Cuba will be forced to adopt a graduated land tax as New Zealand has for the cure of foreign landlordism and give these capitalistic tyrants a taste of their own medicine. There Is no present prospect that congress is going to fall into the sugar trust trap. The demo crats don't want to , and the repub licans are afraid of the fall elections. D. P. B. that Mr. Meserve is "morally as well as legally blameless?" ; State Affairs T. J. O'Keefe, publisher of the Hem ingford Herald, announces that the next Issue of his paper will be issued at the county seat, Alliance. Mr. O'Keefe has purchased a complete new outfit and says: "If we don't show the readers of the Herald as handsome a country weekly as can be found In the state, then our hand has lost its cunning." Alex Schlegel of Omaha has leased the Schuyler Quill for a period of five years and announces that -no change will be made in the political policy of the paper, which has been populist in the past. Mr. Schlegel was deputy clerk of the district court of Douglas county four years, but is an old-time printer and newspaper man. Mr. B. L. Knowlton, the retiring editor, will still remain with the Quill. The bright young attorney who writes heavy editorials for. the Hamil ton County Register during Mr. Burr's absence at Washington, last week fell into the too prevalent error of con victing a man before hearing the evi dence. He said: "The grand Jury were rotten certainly; they were par tisan and unfair to be sure, but let us see to it that the man who represented the populist party was himself with out fault, and that he is morally as well as legally blameless before we rally to his defense." .' Now, isn't that reversing the usual practice? Isn't every man presumed to ' be innocent until he is proven guilty? There is not a scintilla of evidence that Mr. Meserve ever, received and retained a cent that belongs to the state. In view of the record he made as state treasurer, is any populist justified in .rojLLLgin y tn riivf qhls defense" un- The recent republican wail about "populist deficiencies" was thoroughly exploded in The Independent of De cember 12 and 19, 1901, and It seems needless to repeat what was said then. But suppose we grant that no other legislature ever had a "defic iency" to bother , it. How can we reconcile the pretended republican "saving" of $100,000 with the fact that the floating debt has. increased $310, 000 under republican administration ? Let us take their own figures for It: Pop. "deficiencies" ,...$149,000 Rep. , extravagance. 1 . . . 161,000 Increase in state debt $310,000 . Assuming that the populist "de ficiencies" account for $149,000 of the increase in the floating debt, wouldn't that $100,000 "saved" under republi can rule cut down the increase in floating debt to about $49,000 net? It look3 that way to & man up in a tree. But we are confronted with the fact that the debt has increased $310,000 up to November SO, 1901, and God knows how much since. No wonder the P street organ gives nothing but a bald assertion that the republican administration has "saved" the tax payers $100,000 the first year. The fact is that the republicans have Increased the state debt, exclusive of other fac tors, in the neighborhood of $160,000 to $200,000 as the direct result of mis management and extravagance at the state institutions. It cannot be other wise, because if any saving had been made the floating debt would show it. It is well to occasionally remind the people of the state's financial condi tion. A little table does the work nicely and saves space. The figures below show the total amount of out standing general fund warrants on the 30th day of November in the years named: 1896 (republican) . . . . ; $1,936,273.47 1900 (populist) 1,727,447.72 19Q1 (republican) 2,037,460.31 Pop. decrease, 4 years $208,825.75 Rep. increase, 1 year 310,012.55 This does not take into account the $468,267.35 of state bonds paid off during Treasurer Meserve's term. It's a mighty mean newspaper that would egg on a city council to per mit a railroad company to steal a whole street, and then hold up its hands in holy horror because of the audacity of the railroad company and the cupidity of the council. The ptory that the republicans are now telling, that under their first year in control at the state institutions they have saved the taxpayers $100, 000, will be taken with a grain of salt in view of the fact that the general fund floating indebtedness has in creased over $310,000 since the re publican treasurer assumed control of his office. 60,000 Per Cent Margin Crude oil is selling at 11.9 cents a barrel at Beaumont, Tex. Just think of forty gallons of oil for less than 12 cents, and yet we pay 18 cents a gallon for refined oil, which costs less than 4 cents. This is why Rockefeller can give millions to colleges, and why the oil trust pays $48,000,000 a year as dividends on $100,000,000 water stock. Carnegie, another philanthropic saint, has been made a millionaire by the robber tariff, and these plutocratic saints are the cynosures of the Chris tian world. Babylon in her palmiest days could not hold a candle to the trust plutocracy as it revels in filched wealth in the marts of the east. It will soon require a Daniel to awaken or revive the dormant honest Chris tian heart to the situation and cause an Impulse in the church, sufficiently strong to throw off the hypnotic influ ence that is sooting it into a siesta of morbid indifference by the lavish use of enormous profits derived from trust monopoly and tariff . robbery, now aback of the republican elephant driv ing it to the "jumping off place." Col. C. J. Bowlby in Crete Democrat. Our Moribund Congress Is congress dying? Look at this extract from the report of the com mittee of ways and means in the year 1845. The locomotive had only then begun to assume a large importance and the first telegraph message was sent only five years before: "The government is authorized and required by the constitution to carry intelligence. The functions thus de volved on the government of per forming for the people the office of universal letter-carrier and news-carrier is a matter of the very highest consequence in every , light It can be viewed. . . . It is not without full reflection that the committee insist on the principle that it was the duty as well as the right of the govern ment thus to avail itself, even at heavy additional expense, of the pow erful agency of steam for the pur pose of accelerating the mails. Tt would have been a gross and manifest dereliction to have permitted that vitally important concern, the trans portation of the mail a concern so anxiously Intrusted by the constitu tion to federal authority to lag be hind the Improvements of the age and to be outstripped by the pace of ordinary travel and commercial com munication. . . . This great and fundamental principle upon which the department act (of not being out stripped in the transmission of corre spondence and intelligence) led neces sarily to using the steam engine in the service of the postofflce, and It must and will lead with equal certainty to the adoption of any other newly dis covered asency or contrivance possess ing decided advantages of celerity over previously used methods. The same principle which justified and demand ed the transference of the mail on many chief routes from the horse drawn coach on common highways to steam-impelled vehicles on land and water, is equally potent to warrant the callfner of the electro-magnetic telesrraph that last and most won drous birth of this wonder-teeming aee in pid of the postofflce In dis charge of its great function of rapidly transmitting correspondence and in telligence." While we are talking about legisla ftr.TTrnwfr1ng the government to the telephone, this congress of fifty seven years ago boldly took the ground that the constitution required the ownership of these means of communi cation (steam and electricity) and recommended that it be done. But today we have corporate powers of such magnitude controlling these utilities that congress stands aghast and thinks it must conciliate and palaver and do nothing when it could, any day, take the matter into Its own hands. Let our Platts and Paynes and Littauers and expectant Malbys go to studying the constitution. What is a congressman good for , who Is afraid to take any corporate bull by both horns and twist its neck to the point of suffocation? Let "Maltibus" be nailed on the question of govern mental ownership before he is-given a commission. "Flashes" in Massena (N. Y.) Forum. Honors the First Nebraska Capt. Samuel A. Smoke, U. S. A., who has been detailed by the war de partment as commandant of cadets at the University of Nebraska, has re ported for duty. In an address to the student body recently he paid the highest compliments to the late Col. John M. Stotsenburg and the officers and members of the First Nebraska regiment volunteers in the Spanish American war. He recalled the fact that there was in that regiment a large number of officers and non-commissioned officers who had received their military training at the University of Nebraska and appealed to the univer sity students and members of the cadet battalion to honor the name of Stotsenburg and the memory of that splendid regiment. He called attention-to the fact that "four, years ago, at the breaking out of the , Spanish American war, the head of our mili tary department, with several hun dred of our best material, left these scenes of practice for the scenes of action. How they behaved in action we all know. Not only do we know, but every state in the union knows of it, and military students and writers in nearly every civilized nation on earth knows and honors the First Ne braska Volunteers. The brave colonel, with mary others, will not return to work among us. Stotsenburg was shot dead in battle while charging the en emy. At the height of manly vigor, he passed into the eternal beyond, strong in the consciousness of. dying at his country's call to duty. We weep not" for Stotsenburg. We may drop the tear of sympathy for the family, who mourns his loss, but his memory stirs us to admiration and honor. ' He lived a glorious life; he fought a glorious fight; he died a glorious death. And if there is any surer road to a glorious eternity I do not know of it. And what is true of him is true of all the others who lived and marched and fought and died as he did." During the course of his remarks and at the conclusion the students cheered heartily, and the enthusiasm in military affairs seemed greater than ever before. , Pure Literature Editor Independent: I have long felt it my duty as a lover of decency and virtue to write you and tell you that you are presenting a clean, whole some paper in the Nebraska Indepen dent. It is not like so many of the dailies, reeking with filth and corrup tion, but it is a paper than one can read without having his mind polluted and defiled with such stories as would grace the pages of a police gazette. My father has taken it for five years, and while many pointed words are used in the discussion of politics, yet its tone is uplifting, and one feels when reading It that he Is at least reading honest convictions of patriotic men and women even if he doesn't agree with some of the doctrines ad vocated. I .only wish that all news paper matter was as clean and edu cational as that presented In The In dependent. JOHN E. McCONNELL. Paxton, Neb. From Tennessee Editor Independent: When I am perusing columns in The Independent's editorial page and am imbibing the principles for which those able argu ments are being written solely for the Instruction of the masses of the hon est laboring people so as to enable them to protect themselves from the assaults of the trusts and monopolies, it is a source of joy to me that we have one great paper in the United States, together with , the Commoner, that still believes in the principles of the declaration of Independence and fearlessly and boldly defends them. As soon as I glance over them it re minds me of our brave and aggressive senator from Tennessee, Edward W. Carmack, who is a statesman without fear and a champion of true democ racy. J. MONROE CRICK. Petersburg, Tenn. From . Pennsylvania Editor Independent: The sample papers that you mailed to me for dis tribution have been received. I am gratified to have the pleasure of dis tributing a paper that contains noth ing in its columns but cold facts. Many copies of The Independent are needed in the Keystone state to edu cate boss ridden voters. We are not yet ready for an absolute or limited monarchy. Wishing many new sub scribers from Pennsylvania for The Independent, I remain yours, EVERETT REYNOLDS. Fallsdale, Pa. (The Pennsylvania subscribers are coming along, Brother Reynolds, Ed. Ind.) From New York Editor Independent: I like your paper. I like the fearless, and bold stand that you take for the people against trusts and monopolies and ev ery kind of raid against the American people which the republican admin istration is guilty of, and I am glad that Nebraska has two men and two papers that are not afraid to come ro the front and challenge all of their damnable wickedness. Wishing you success and long- life in your fight against the accursed doctrines of . re publicanism, I, a lifelong democrat, say: God bless your efforts. ' - H. N, DURYEE.;; , From Michigan , Editor Independent: Enclosed you will find subscription to Independent and Commoner. I can hardly accept the invitation to criticise the paper. With me politics is religion for no man can be better than his politics. One Is his faith and the other is his works and they must go hand in hand. I believe that God is leading us on and he will use this nation to fur ther his gospel of love. J. F. SANFORD. - Maysville, Mich. . ' From Kansas Editor Independent: I received your sample copies and am now a reg ular subscriber to your paper. I want to say that I think that it is the clean est and best paper that can he pub lished. I think that if Jefferson, Jack son and Lincoln were living they would all be subscribers to The Ne braska Independent. T. H. TURNER. Redfleld, Kan. From Illinois Editor Independent: I applied for sample copies of your paper and wai so much pleased with them that I have subscribed and wish I could af ford to send it to many others. I feci like sending the names of some per sons whom I think would read it and are able to subscribe if they want to. MATTHEW J. HUGGINS. Cutler, 111. Read this paper carefully and then hand it to a neighbor. Ask him to subscribe; or better send for a block of five "Liberty Building" Postals and get up a club of subscribers. There is no other way in which you can do so much to advance the cause of good government. t NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT la the District Court of Lancaster County, Ne braska, Charles Sitgrare Ely, Plaintur, vi. Farnetine El, Defendant. To Karnestine Ely, defendant in the a bote entitled cause: You are hers by notified that on the 13th day of February 1902, the plaintiff. Charles Sitgrave Ely, filed in the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, his petition against you, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a decree of divorce from you dissolv incr the bonds of matrimony. You are further notified that unless you ans wer said petition on or before the 24th day of March 1902, said petition will be taken as con tensed and decree entered against you as prayed. Dated this 13th day of February 1902. CHARLES 81TGRAYE ELY, By Doyle A, Berge, His Attorneys. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln. February 1,1901. It ta hereby certified that the Kansas Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Topcka, in the state of Kansas, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state, applicable to such companies, and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Life Insurance in this state for the current year ending January 32, 1903. Witness xny hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first abo-e written. . CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Publie Accounts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy, CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the British Ameri can Insurance Co. of New York in the state of New York has complied with the Insurance Law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning Insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 190:). witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first a bore written. CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERT1FIUATK OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Gerard Fire mni Marine Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, has complied with the In surance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to con. tinue the business of Fire and Lightning Insur ance in this state for the current year endina January 31, 19u3. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Publie Accounts the day and year first a bore WnUen' CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICEOF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the British Ameri can Assurance Co. of Toronto, in Canada, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the cur rent year ending January 31, 1903. 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