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
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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.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor
of Publie Accounts the day and year abore
written. CHARLES WESTON,
Auditor of Public Aocouuts.
H. A. Babcock, Deputy.
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