n THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT April 10, 1902 DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deaf ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lin ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rum bling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,' which is nothing but. an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir culars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., , Toledo, O. Sold by. Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. cumulated. But this last year's crop, he actually goes on to declare, is the produce of the plowing done for the crop of next year. Surely if this be the case, the result will be somewhat singular. If this year's plowing pro duces last year's crop, then this year's plowing can multiply last year's crop. The more acres the farmer plows, the more of last year's bushels will appear In the padlocked barn. This absurd ity. of course needs no comment." To The Independent there appe'ars to be an element of truth in both con tentions. Mr. George insists that in asmuch as labor always precedes the payment of wages, therefore wages are paid out of the product produced by the laborer, not always directly, of course, but in effect. Granting this to be true, however, it does not change the fact that the wealth produced by - the laborer becomes capital unless im mediately devoted to consumption; hence, wages must, after all, be drawn from capital, whether newly acquired or otherwise. .-'Upon the Malthusian doctrine Mr. Georee says: "Both the jay-hawk and the man eat chickens; but the more jay-hawks, tr. the fewer chickens; while the more men, the more chickens. . . . Within the limits of the United States alone there are now forty-five millions of men, (this was in 1879) where there were only a few hundred thousand: and yet there is now within that ter ritory much more food per capita for the forty-five millions than there was for the few hundred thousand. It is not the Increase of food that has caused this increase of men, but the increase of men that has brought about the Increase of food." ' -To this Mr. Mallock replies: ' "It by no means follows, because 1 the limits of subsistence are elastic. that very great pressure may not be required to stretch them. Mr. George argues as though they must be one of two things so absolutely rigid that ' they can be bent by nothing, or so " absolutely yielding that they can be bent by anything. If he can prove that they are-not like the trunk of an oak tree, he thinks he has proved that they must be like the twig of a hazel. It never occurs to him that there is r yet a third alternative, that they may possibly be like the bow of Ulysses. . . . Many men starve in their own country because they love it too well to leave it, or because they are too weak to make the effort required to ' do so. Many men starve, not because - there is no work to be done, but be cause they do not know where the work is; and the more civilization ad vances, the more labor Is divided; and the more densely the world becomes peopled, the more fatal does such ig norance become, and such knowledge . the more difficult. Here then are two limits, at least, that population tends to press against the limit of habi and local attachment and the limit of knowledge; and it is by limits of this kind that, practically, the limit ot subsistence is prescribed. Thus it is not, as Mr. George supposes, one thing, but many. There is a separate limit, not only for every country, but for every district and for every town. . : There are limits within limits, cir cles within circles, like so many India-rubber rings enclosed in larger ones, and the thickness and elastic- ity of no two are alike. . . . The Mal thusian theory does not deny thia. All that it asserts is, that in expand- : Ing the India-rubber rings, some pres- ; sure has to be always exerted; and that on the average a certain propor ' tion of people are always Injured by the pressure before they are able to Telieve It. . . . The most bigoted Mal thusian would not dream of main- : taining that, because some poverty was caused by increase of population, more could not be caused by the in crease of pick-pockets, and that a gret deal more might' not be caused by fires." Mr. Mallock divides the fourth point - .into two parts: (1) Does private own- - ership in land, as a fact, cause any poverty at all? and (2) would any pov- "erty be lessened by making all land -over to the state? Mr. Mallock con cedes that "if a tenant's rents are ev ery year remitted to him. he is, of course, a richer man. If they are not remitted to him, he is poorer than if they were. A beggar would be a Croesus if he had never to pay his bills; and if our zero-point of wealth Is fixed by our getting any one thing without payment, we, of course, be- For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by mothers for their children while teeth ing. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child Buffering and crying with pain of Cut- - ting Teeth? If so send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth - ,-ing Syrup" for Children Teething. Its ralue Is Incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. r;::WinsloWs Soothing Syrup" for chil 'firen teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and - nurses in the United States, and is for . sale by all druggists throughout the ' world. Price, 25 cents a bottle, e come poor the moment we have to pay. for it. . . . The question is not, are men poorer because they pay rent? That, of course, they are. The ques tion Is, how much poorer? "What Mr. George asserts is this. As population increases in a country, there is not only more wealth in that country actually, but more in propor tion to the increased number of in habitants. Each thousand pounds of capital naturally yields higher intern est: each laborer naturally, earns (that is, "Is maker of") more wages. But the whole of this increase is swallowed up by rent. The landholders alone get richer, and capitalists and labor ers remain just where they were. Let us take an example. There is a small farm in a remote country district, bringing the farmer in a hundred pound3 a year, out of which hundred he pays thirty in rent. By and by a town springs up in the neighborhood: the small farmer becomes a market gardener, and his hundred pounds a year soon mount to a thousand. His gross annual profits, before his rent i3 deducted from them are thus nino hundred pounds more than they were before; and if to those profits his rent bore the same proportion a3 formerly, his net income would b3 seven hundred, not seventy, pounds a year. It would have increased by an annual six hundred and thirty pounds. But, according to Mr. George, nothing of this kind happens. The whole six hundred and thirty pounds are con fiscated by the landholder. This .s ridiculous, but Mr. George means more than this. Add six hundred and thirty pounds to the original rent of thirty, and the tenant's profits are still three hundred and forty. His original in come still would be nearly five times as much as before. But Mr. George maintains that It actually remains th j same that it is not Increased at all. That is to say, out of the annual thou sand Dounds of produce, the land holder takes, not six hundred and thir ty pounds, but nine hundred and thir ty; and the tenant still remains with nothing but his original seventy. . . . Is it, then, a fact in England and America that the landlords, as pro duction increases, pocket all the in crease, and that all the rest of the community, so far as wealth goes, re main stationary? Do merchants, manufacturers, and bankers starve, and do landholders alone make for tunes? Is "nouveau riche" a synony mous term with landholder. . . . Have the men, whom we hitherto supposed to have made fortunes in cotton-spinning, been, not really cotton-spinners, but merely the ground landlords of factories? Have Mr. Bright and Mr. Chamberlain made neither screws nor carpets, but wrung their fortunes in rack-rents from anonymous firms that have? . . . Mr. George alludes con tinually to the wealth of the Duke of Westminster. Let him compare that with the wealth of the house of Roth schild. Even in town where land is most remunerative, it brings more per foot to the occupier than to the own er." Mr. Mallock quotes De Laveleye: "The value of capital engaged in in dustrial enterprise exceeds that of land itself, and its power of accumulation is far greater than that of ground rents. The immense fortunes amassed so rapidly in the United States, like those of Mr. Gould and Mr. Vander bilt, were the results of railway spec ulation, and not of the greater value of land. We see, then, that the In crease of profits and of Interest takes a much larger proportion of the total value of labor, and is a more general and powerful cause of the inequality than the increase of rent." "Had he known it (Mr. Mallock con tinues) he could scarcely have missed perceiving that ... his own theory is not only false to facts, but that it ab solutely inverts them; and that the history of progress, so far as land is concerned, is virtually the history, not of the rise of rent, but, as related to progress generally, of Its constant and steady decline. (In another article Mr. Mallock shows that the gross in come of the nation was 1,200,000,000 pounds, and that according to Mr. George's theory the landlords' share would be about eight or nine hundred million pounds, whereas in fact it was only 150,000,00a pounds one-eighth in stead of two-thirds.)" Mr. Mallock then proceeds to dis cuss the single tax by saying: "We gather from Mr. George that it will do so (abolish poverty) in four ways: (1) by abolishing all existing taxation, and thus make living in calculably cheaper to every one; (2) in case the land tax should exceed the existing revenue, by returning the sur plus to the taxpayers in the shape of public works or otherwise; (3) by pre venting landowners from keeping land unoccupied in expectation of a rise In its value; and (4) by making rents themselves lower. "As to the first, we may grant Mr. George his point. His program would no doubt make living cheaper; and for a time certain classes might real ly be better off for It. But it would be for the time only: for if living be came cheaper, soon wages would be come less; and things again would be just where they are now. "As to the second point it is no doubt conceivable that the proposed land-tax might yield a surplus to tv government, which they might ex pend ... partly in public institutions and partly In direct assistance to the poor. But nothing would really be gained by this in the end. For it is the very essence of the case that the surplus thus employed should be re turned to the community as a gift, not as wages for labor. ... If the land tax therefore were to yield any sur plus revenue, this would enable the state to touch the suffering classes, only by converting it into a vast char itable institution, ready to give inex haustible outdoor relief. The state would thus be doing, only on an in finitely larger scale, what it did with such disastrous effects for the populace of ancient Rome. In the very act of relieving poverty, it would be creat ing it. It would be quenching thirst with sea-water. . . .,: Though Mr. George would turn all landowners into tenants of the state, he does not pro pose to turn them into tenants at will. On the contrary, he asserts with all the emphasis possible, that one of the first essentials to making the most of land. Is complete security of tenure EDON'T m GetA- HGH Bacc. A r X Simply because you ordered a suit from some fake concern and it was not as repre sented. This is our 21st year as Nebraska Clothing Merchants and there are men in all parts of the state who have worn our clothing for years. You take no risk whatever in doing business with us by mail for you are under no obligation to keep goods sent you un less they are in every way satisfactory. Our spring catalogue will explain all these matters to you and besides describes, pictures and sam ples some of the best values in Men's and Boys1 Clothing you ever saw. The Catalogue is free to all who send their address and mention this paper mi be, he says distinctly, to make them practically "the owners, though in reality they would be tenants of the whole people." . . . Mr. George's scheme, we will say, has been put in to operation; and a man under its pro visions possesses a farm, for which he pays a certain rent or tax. Now, Mr. George tells us that no matter what use the man put his farm to, whether he "planted it as an orchard, sowed it as a field, or built on it a house or manufactory, no matter how costly, he would have no more to pay in taxes than if he kept so much land idle." Let us suppose he builds on part, of it, not a manufactory, but a town. What would happen then? As Mr. George has most forcibly pointed out, there would be a rise in the value, not only of the land built upon, but in the value of the rest, which is still . ... in pasture. On Mr. George's supposition, how will the man be sit uated now? This pasture land is still in his possession. He cannot be evic ted by the state. He cannot have his rent raised on what are practically his own improvements. But though he pays for this pasture land no more thjan he did originally, other people, he knows, would be willing to pay more to him; nor is there anything in the nature of the case to prevent his holding this land on speculation, and sub-letting it on exactly the same terms as he would do were he the own er of the fee simple. Mr. George says that the value of the land would be determined by the highest bid that would be made to the state for it at any given moment. But the answer to this is, that a given piece of land is not in the market at any given mo ment. As soon as a lot was knocked down to a buyer, it would be his till he chose to part with it. Meanwhile, no matter how its value increased, this increase would be his also; nor does Mr. George's scheme provide any means of taking it from him, unless any Naboth at any moment might have his vineyard bought over his head by any speculating Ahab. The smallest attention to the commonest of existing facts would have taught Mr. George this. "As to the next point, our case is clearer still. . . . Mr. George does not prelend that rent would cease, and he does not pretend that acres would be multiplied. No matter who owned the ground of Bond street, and no matter how low the rents were, for all that there would not be a shop the more. If all the shops were occupied, the street would be barred to any new tradesman, no matter how anxious he was to set up business there; nor would the fact of the street being real ly national property, in which he him self therefore had some infinitisimal share, give him any more right to the use of a single inch of it, than the fact of his having a share In the Great Northern railway would enable him to go every day from York to London for nothing. So, too, with regard to the poor: is it easier for a beggar to pay a pound to the state than to pay it to a private landlord? . . . Suppos ing a tradesman fails, and can no long er pay his land tax. The state will evict him, just as a private landlord would. He will be as completely houseless and homeless In the one case as in the other. Supposing in his misfortune he met Mr. George at the street corner, who informed him that he had an inalienable right to the soil of England. Perhaps, at first, he might see some hope in this; but we doubt much if he would continue to do so. when he learned that this In alienable right was nothing but an In alienable right to pay rent to the gov- SWEET PRUNE PLUM. In September, 1901, Mr. E. D. Ham mond, proprietor of the Norfolk Niir sery, picked three bushels of plums from a single sweet prune plum tree in his orchard. The tree was but five years old. It began bearing when two year3 old. This is the only kind of prune plum that has been a success in Nebraska. It has endured the drouth of '93 and '94 and the hard winter of ' '99. It Is a grand success for northwestern Nebraska. ; Those j desiring FRUIT TREES or SEED POTATOES should write for full particulars and free catalogue to ernment and even that for a site only, without so much as a shed upon it." In conclusion Mr. Mallock asserts that "Mr. George's book is in a double sense a failure. He has not destroyed any of the theories of the economists: he has not established any theory of his own. He has not shown that wages are not drawn from capital. He has not shown that population does not press against the limits of subsist ence. He has not shown that private ownership in land is the cause of pov erty; and, finally, he has not shown that, even if it were, it would be pos sible to abolish it. On the contrary, he has shown just the opposite. He has shown that however a robbery of the present generation of landlords might for a time benefit the more opulent and influential of the robbers, private property in land would itself remain untouched. It would changs hands, and it would change in name. But it would certainly not pass into the hands of the poor; and If it changed in anything but name, It would be merely a change for the worse." , t What have our single tax readers to offer In rebuttal? Short, crisp article.3 covering some of the points will be ap preciated; but do not make your story too long. Seed Corn For Sale The Improved Gold Mine is a pure, yellow and early corn, and will ma ture in ninety to one hundred days, and is a large corn; yields as much as the later variety that takes 120 days to mature. It will shell sixty pounds of shelled grain to the bushel of ears. It is tipped and thoroughly tested be fore it leaves my place, and shelled, sacked, put on cars, at Seward, free. Price, $1.25 per bu.; half bu., 75 cents Iowa Silver Mine seed corn is a good large white corn and is early. maturing in one hundred days; is a pure white corn. Price, $1.25 per bu. MIKE FLOOD, Seward, Neb. BEET AND CANE SUGAR Trcamry Department' Statistics on Pro duction and Consumption of Sugar "The World's Sugar Production and Consumption, 1800-1900" is the title of a monograph just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. It dis cusses the sugar production and con sumption of the world during the past century and especially during the last half century in which the burden of sugar production has been transferred from cane to the sugar beet, and !n which the world has so largely in creased its consumption of sugar. The world's sugar production has grown from 1,150,000 tons in 1840 to 8,800,000 tons in 1900. During the same period the world's population has grown, ac cording to the best estimates, from 950,000,000 to about 1,500,000,000. Thus, sugar production has increased about 650 per cent while population was in creasing but about 50 per cent. Com ing nearer home and considering the United States alone, it is found that the consumption of sugar which in 1850 was only 22 pounds per capita, was in 1901 over 68 pounds per capita. One especially striking fact shown by the statistics presented In this study is the rapidly increasing pro portion of the world's enlarged sugar consumption which is supplied by beets. Acording to the figures pre sented by this study, beets which sup plied in 1840 less than 5 per cent of the world's sugar, in 1900 supplied 67 per cent of the greatly increased con sumption; while cane, which then sip plied 95 per cent of the world's sugar consumption, now supplies but 33 pr cent. States in quantities, it may be said that the world's cane sugar sup ply has gmwn from 1,100,000 tons in 1840 to 2,850,000 tons in 1900, an In crease of 160 per cent; while that of beets has grown from 50,000 tons In 1840 to 5,950,000 tons in 1900, an in crease of 11,800 per cent. The figures above quoted include that portion which enters Into the world's statistical record of sugar production and does not include the large quantities of cane sugar produc ed in India and China exclusively for j home consumption, and in a consld-1 erable number of the tropical coun tries does not include that portion of tion for home consumption were ob-: tainable, the production from beets would still show a much more rapid growth during the last half century than that from cane. This, the de partment believes is apparently due to two great causes: (1) the elimina tion of slavery in the tropics; the seat of the principal sugar production; and (2) the intelligent study of, and government aid to the production of beet sugar in the temperate zone, es pecially in European countries. One effect of this enormous increase and the competition which has ac companied the developments above al luded to has been a great reduction in prices to the consumer. The figures of the bureau of statistics obtained from statements supplied by import ers of the cost in foreign countries of the sugar which they import show that the average cost of the sugar imported in 1871-2 was 5.37c per pound, and in the year 1899-1900. 2.49c per pound. The table which follows shows the world's production of sugar from cane and beets, respectively, at decennial years from 1840 to 1900, and the per centage supplied by beets: Supplied Cane sugar. Beet sugar, by beet. Year. Tons. Tons. Per ppnt. 1840 1,100.000 50.000 ..1,200,000 200,000 1850 1860 ....1,510,000 1870 1,585,000 1880 ....1,852,000 1890 2,069,000 1900- 2,850,000 389,000 831,000 1,402,000 3,633,000 5,950,000 t k l 14.29 20.43 34.40 43.08 63.70 67.71 "DOLLAREATUS" A Disease Afflicting People of the East Editor Independent: "The Great West" is gradually teaching the little East how to vote. Most of us east erners are distorted with a disease, which I have heard aptly termed on the stage as "dollareatus." I am glad to perceive that the West is not so narrow, but is far ahead in the science of political economy. Saw vour ad in The Commoner. Kindly forward me a sample copy of your paper. H. D. DE MUTH. Clifton, N. J. 400, and if he works for the London county council that is to say, for the ratepayers he must not lay more than 330. Our correspondent quotes a case or a Duiiding put up for the school board in which the average output of tne bricklayers was 70 bricks a clay. xet tnese are men receiving the hi eh- est current rate of wages, a rate very greatly-in. excess of what was. paid when 1,000 bricks were laid per day. xnis is typical or wnat goes on in ev ery trade, though it may not always be so easy to give exact flmires." American workingmen generally, in stead or seeking to limit output, strive io increase it, and they And their re ward in the cheapening of production, which enables the manufacturer to compete In foreign markets and thus get rid of the surplus beyond the de mands or nome consumption, with the result of keeping his factory going and givine steadv emnTovmciit. tr the operatives throughout the year. ine aoove two paragraphs are taken irom tne report of the United States bureau of foreien trade. Taken to gether they are a complete refutation of the arguments that the smell-hind ers give us in defending a high pro tective tarirr. The independent has for years constantly pointed out that, the "labor cost" of manufactured goods in America was less than in any other country, and that the plea that we must have a tariff to equalize wages was a fraud. The amount paid in wages in the manufacture of goods is less here than in any other country. 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REFERENDUM ROY'S DRUG STORE 104 North lOlh St. The Direct Legislation a Good Basis for Mutual Friendship Among Keformert Editor Independent: Dr. Hill. your issue of March 6, says that if ill- :n DEADLY CANCER CURED WITH OILS. This terrible disease has at last yielded to a mild treatment. Dr. Bye, the able specialist of Kansas City, Mo., states that this terrible disease can be cured. The Doctor has accom plished some wonderful cures recently in what seemed incurable cases cured in from two to ten weeks' treatment with a combination of Medicated Oil. A handsome illustrated book is sent free showing the disease in its various forms. The Oil cures cancer, tumor, catarrh, piles, fistula and all skin and womb diseases. Call or address Dr. 'vV. O. Bye, 9th & Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. A Beacon Light Editor Independent: Your "sam ple copies" were duly received and en joyed. Courage, ability and loyalty to principle seem to be its prominent characteristics qualities so rare in. an age of "criminal aggression" on the one part and mental stultification and servile submission on the other part, that The Independent should be hailed as a beacon light. As I occasionally write for the press I have no special need of additional literature, but I enclose $1 in order that I may have something to give where it is most needed. FRANCIS LEANDER KING. Worcester, Mass. We say "Roy's" drug store as a matter of fact it Is EVERYBODY'S drug store almost. Roy only coo- ducts it, buys and keeps to sell the rect legislation is not established, all goods, and meet and force competition changes will be against popular gov- Our patrons do the rest. We want lo ernment, ana suggests direct legieiar remind you of seasonable goods vir tion as a basis for mutual friends! p n .... i! sas. viz. between reformers of all ltinds T.t uonaiuon Powders, Lice is a good basis. Killers, B. B. Poison, Kalsomine, It is dangerous machinery by which Paints, Oils, Varnishes etc an unjust war, costing already S300.- over 100 vears nlrl rnn he Wr, n We make a Specialty of all kinds of " --o " " ni . . . . the other side of the globe and keut i5loCK ana rouitry Foods, etc. Don't up indefinitely, while no direct vor.e miss us. on the matter can possibly be ob tained. Did we have a referendum at the last election? Does anvbociv know which measures the people meant Dy tneir votes to approve high tariff, bank notes to displace government money, ship subsidies to the International Navigation company (Standard Oil) in particular, the war of conquest, or the eloquence of Al vocates and candidates? It is impos sible that all these things were de sired by the people. They wanted prosperity, but which of these others they wanted is one of these things which no fellow can find out. The voters try. to strike an average right and succeed in striking it wrong, and thus a more dangerous lot of Roy's 1 04 Wo I Oth Save Money Prudent people buy their drugs and patents here and save money. Here are a few prices: C1.00 Peruna 6."c $1.00 Miles' Nervine 65c $1.00 Pierce's Remedies C5c $1.00 Hood's Sarsaparilla C5c $1.00 Paine's Celery Compound 65c $1.00 Wine of Cardui f3c $1.00 Stuart's Dyspeptic Tablets.. 65c $1 00 Plnlrhnm'cs nnmnnnnH C.'.c strenuous rulers never ruled a free $li00 Kilmer's Swamp Root. !65c people. Before congress will hear the $10o Scott's Emulsion 5c demand for the referendum and ini- i nn a o o tiative in national affairs, It will Syrup of Figs lic have to be known that many cities and Meadows Malted Milk lie states have easily workable referen dum and initiative laws, which do not require a discouraging number of pe titioners to initiate measures or to refer bad legislation to the people. In Castoria, Dr. Pitcher's Formula. .. .Vic To each purchaser of $1 worth of goods we give a substantial present there is no prescription too difficult for us to fill and we'll save you sparsely settled states, even 5 per cent money. Come in and get acquainted The Crimes of Miles Walter Wellman, the greatest sycophant that whines at the feet of imperialism and plutocracy in all Washington, has evidently been de puted to get up a cry against General Miles. Roosevelt is determined to get rid of him and has had that idea in mind ever since Miles announced that he agreed with Dewey, so Wellman, by using a great daily, is trying to work up a sentiment that will back Roose velt in anything that he may do to Miles. The following is the list of crimes which Wellman says General Miles has been guilty. They are cop ied verbatim from Wellman's last four-column screed: 1. Reversal of his attitude on the canteen question, designed to popular ize himself with the temperance and church people. 2. Attempted interference with the war department and publication by him of his plan to take troops away from posts near large cities, designed to discredit the Roosevelt administra tion with the labor vote. 3. Publicly linking himself with Schley and Dewey, virtually criticis ing the president for keeping Secre tary Long in office, a plan to ride into popularity on the wave of sympathy for Schley. Also a crack at his old "enemy," Sampson. 4. An effort to play into the hands of the democratic anti-imperiali? ts by assuming that the management of af fairs in the Philippines had been a failure and the campaign character ized by "marked seventy." Also a shot at his "enemy," General Chaffee, who was under Crook and who took Crook's side in the Geronimo dispute. 5. A savage attack upon the bill prepared by the president and the secretary of war for reorganization of the army, a threat to retire if the bill was passed (a threat which was a bluff) and talk about a "military dic tator," etc., almost in the words of his friend Henry Watterson. who first published the news of Miles' proposal to go to the Philippines." Wellman declares that a man guilty of such things as the five crimes which he enumerates should be immediately dismissed from the United States army, mat snows tne quality oi a modern imperialistic sycophant. There are a good many in Washington of the same kind. of the voters' names for a partition is pretty difficult, as seen in Dakota'3 recent failure to get more than 4 per cent of voters signatures for a refer endum, although a reasonable amount of work was done. In the New England town meeting, which Jefferson declared "the most perfect system of self-government ever devised by men," any 10 voters can initiate a measure to be settled by tne voters, njvery state except Dela ware has the referendum in contitu- tion making the most important law making. In Massachusetts every year, every town votes "yes" or "no" on whether the .town shall license liquor selling. In Boston just now some of the best literary men and business men are working with the labor or ganizations for . the submission to the people of a constitutional initiative. The governor and the speaker of the house are for It, and it will settle the fate of many politicians Add 25c for boxing where goods are shipped. & Pharmacy 12th and O STS., Lincoln, Neb. AND NINETY-FIVE CENT! lays the eelc-brated, kJirb ral ' lvuw AlMrl EDO EMIR E HCICH .Inh whM'l anv tiAfcrht fmm hlirh trrade itilutneni If We dO I Deluding frad gnaraoUod pafOBatle MrM, slXutitt nnt o-Q It trito irar y V, q M rMl I ! Br, ue leaner camrra grip., pauara , mr mm not get it tnis year, tne tide will rise aria iaia, umm trimi., taBtirUiir nimM thnm, fll&'her next vear I 't, any eoiar enamel. Ptronrrat uhimpim, We are going to get the referendum M2.75rortb,ebrUal9eK,f,"l,,F,rt,,ow"'lr":' j jij4.t. j Mi i. i. i I 1I5.7S for tk kivhcal rraae imk hittyci BHnrumm auu. luiuaiue, auu ttlUJl luat pruyur- jikVi joint, Napoleon or Joarphlne, complete with h tional representation, as we got the Mt"'p""hlnc,udinMor .. .... ... . I rrade Dneumatic tire. rearular 0.OO blcTrlr. Australian Danot, witnout any great n nAYS rDPPTRIAI r ieyi ordered nniea Put -nrU a-n -r.r Q ft i vr n w i.ina. .. 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