May 15. 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
A FINANCIER'S LUCK
How it Changed When Things
Seemed Going From Bad
to Worse
Mr. Charles H. Bradley, the presi
dent of the State Investment Co., with
offices in the American Trust Build
ing, Cleveland, Ohio, is known in
business and social circles through
out Cleveland not only as a person of
ability, but as a man of sterling In
tegrity. In speaking of his experi
ence, he said:
"It was about three years ago. I
was Just recovering from a long at
tack of typhoid fever and my strength
was so long In returning that it seemed
I "would never be a sound, healthy
man again. My appetite was poor and
my nerves unstrung and the doctor's
medicine did not help me at all.
"Thing3 were going from bad to
worse when on-; day I chanced to read
a statement of a man who had been
cured of trouble similar to mine by
the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People. It encouraged me to
try them. By the time I had used the
first box I felt a decided improvement
and I kept on taking them until I had
used six boxes. By that time I was
restored to perfect health.
"I consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
the best remedy made for troubles
like mine and am always glad to rec
ommend them."
The after-effects of fevers and other
acute diseases are frequently worse
than the allmeniHtself and the utmost
care is requir4- during this stage in
order that permanent evils do not re
sult. The system is worn out in its
long struggle with the disease; the
blood is impoverished and the nerves
weakened. Vitality is low. The blood
needs to be purified and supplied with
the elements to . build up the wasted
tissues, the nerves need a tonic to
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other acute diseases, but also for such
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neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head
ache, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions, and all forms of
weakness, either in male or female.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent postpaid on receipt of price, fifty
cents a box, or six boxes for two dol
lars and fifty cents, by addressing Dr.
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y.
THE "HARMONY TABLE"
Admit the "Reorganliers," Says Floyd Bell
Floyd Bell, Owatonna, Minn., writes
The Independent at some length on
the situation as he views it. While
we cannot give the letter In full we
give the following paragraph: "From
what I have read lately it seems to me
that the situation in national politics
is about as General Joe Wheeler ex
pressed it, 'We've got the republicans
on the run, boys.' They are on the
defensive at last, and they have a
'poor case,' as lawyers say. The dem
ocracy is in a position where it can
force the issues and challenge the g.
o. p. to establish proof of its inno
cence of double dealing and national
steals, and the result will be that the
g. o. p. cannot produce the necessary
proof and the democracy will win by a
Lai f.'cme majority.
"In the congressional district, of
Minnesota, in which I live, there is a
normal republican majority of nearly
10.0C0; last election our candidate cut
this majority to 4.500 and this year
'Truthful James Tawney will prob
ably want to 'go way back to the rear
seat.' after the votes are counted. He
flopped once too often and consider-
able hostility is manifested towards
him in the ranks of the republican
party. There are three democratic
candidates in this district, L. L. Brown
of Winona, Sen. Gansewitz of Owa
tonna and Sen. McGovern of Waseca,
but whoever secures the nomination
will receive the united support of the
democratic and the populists of this
district.
"I think Mr. Bryan displays just a
little 'peevishness' of late. I know you
won't agree with me on this, but it's
an honest opinion. The gold demo
crats, of course, are to be severely
censured for not supporting the 1896
and 1900 platforms, but yet every in
telligent person knows that we've got
to have their strength this year and
two years hence or be defeated again;
and will anyone counsel a plan that
will result in defeat for the party?
Those who left the party because of
their affiliation with the trusts are not
included in this statement. I refer to
those who were honestly convinced
that they were in the right and be
lieved their course the proper one to
take. Let me cite an instance: The
St. Paul Globe (the best daily in Min
nesota, by the way) declined to fol
low the lead of Mr. Bryan and by so
doing reduced its circulation from 30,
0C0 copies daily to 16.500 copies daily;
now what did that paper gain by its
course? In November, 1901, the Globe
announced that the folly of its ways
was apparent and it 'knocked humbly
at the door, promising to work hard
for the success of the party, if allowed
to re-enter its ranks.' That the Min
nesota democracy adopted it into the
fold once more is shown by an in
crease of 14,000 in the circulation of
the paper and today there is no more
zealous democratic worker in the
country than the Globe. This is but
an Instance. Yet, after all this, The
Commoner insists on ridiculing and
insulting our Minnesota -organ con
tinually. Now do you think this 'good
politics, laying aside all other ques
tions? "Harmony Is necessary for success
and, while not a . single principle
should be sacrificed to the deserters,
a place at the 'harmony table should
be cleared for the Hillites, Gormanites
and Wattersonites and they should be
allowed a voice In the council, not a
predominating voice, but a vote In the
party plans.
"A great party cannot be formed
, unless men who think alike form it.
Don't make the bolters of 1900 leaders,
. hut give them a place In the ranks,
hand . them a new musket and watch
the party's triumphal aiarci. to thf
White house and to victory.
"Some adjustment- (honorable, of
course) of the money question should
be found and the strife over the plank
cease. It will need the vote of every
one who calls himself a democrat to
defeat the opposition this year and
we're going to secure the vote. Sub
stitute for the money plank, tempo
rarily at least, a 'government owner
ship' plank and all will be well."
As to Mr. Bell's first contention, it
rather reverses the usual order in re
quiring the republican party to estab
lish proof of its innocence; that is a
negative way of getting at the matter.
There seems to be no difficulty in
proving that the republican party Is
guilty of gross misconduct not only in
the Philippines, but in many other
matters.
Mr. Bell seems to forget that the ob
ject of winning is not to secure the
offices, but to secure legislation and
administration along the lines indi
cated by the party platform. The elec
tion of men like Hill, Gorman or Wat
terson as democrats might result, in
filling all federal positions, not under
civil service, with appointees who
claim to be democrats; but this could
produce no relief in way of legisla
tion conforming to the national demo
cratic platform, because these men are
not in sympathy with the platform.
Success along such lines would be
more disastrous than defeat. The ad
ministration of President Cleveland,
although identical in many respects
with republican administrations, tend
ed more than any other one thing to
bring the democratic party into bad
repute. The panic which had its in
ception during President Harrison's
term and which was delayed only by
heroic efforts on the part of President
Harrison finally broke out during
Cleveland's term. He being a demo
crat, so-called, the entire odium of
that panic fell upon the democratic
party. The repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act intensified
the panic conditions, yet Mr. Cleveland
thought the only cure was to stop the
purchase of silver.
New questions are presented to the
people for solution. Before the money
question can be settled it is important
that we settle the question whether or
not this country is to continue as a
republic. A correct solution of the
Philippine problem is of more present
importance than the money question.
At the same time while the discussion
on the money question will not be
pushed so vigorously, any scheme to
change the money plank will be re
sisted to the bitter end by those who
believe in those principles. Present
conditions have for a time obscured
the real merits of the money question,
but the principles enunciated in the
Kansas City platform are just as true
today as ever. The democratic plank
of course is not radical enough for
populists, but they believe it to be a
step in the right direction and if they
continue to co-operate with the demo
cratic party on national issues they
will not consent to any change in the
democratic money plank such as would
be asked by men like Hill, Gorman
and Watterson.
.The Hills, Gprmans and Watyersons
have nothing in common "with th
democratic party as at present consti
tuted. Their sympathies are with the
trusts and great moneyed institu
tions. If given control of the ma
chinery of the democratic party, then
that party would be simply an echo of
the republican party. The only dif
ference between the two would be the
difference between tweedledee and
tweedledum between a tariff for rev
enue with incidental protection and a
tariff for protection with incidental
revenue. But both would strenuous
ly object to the income tax which
would lay the burdens of taxation
where they properly belong. The
democratic party under Hill and Gor
man would tax the people according to
the consumption of goods which can
not be produced in the United States.
The republican party would tax the
people on the consumption of goods
which can be produced here. But in
either system the burden of taxation
would fall upon the poor man with a
thousand-fold more weight than upon
the rich man. The tax on incomes
would be just and equitable. It is a
democratic measure at present, but if
such men as Hill and Gorman get con
trol then good-bye to the income tax
and we may expect another series of
hot debates on the, difference between
tweedledee and tweedledum. No man
is refused a place in the democratic
ranks. . There is nothing to prevent
any man from voting the ticket and
from believing in the principles enun
ciated in the platform; but Hill and
Gorman are looking for an opportun
ity to change the platform so that the
principles will be different. They in
sist on being leaders, but they will
not lead so long as the platform re
mains as it is now.
INSURANCE
Until State Insurance Can be Had, Mutual
Insurance is nest Two Successful
Home Companies
The Independent believes that pres
ent day tendencies point to state in
surance in the not distant future, not
only against loss by fire. etc.. but also
life insurance. But state Insurance is
something that must be studied, and
the people must learn the benefits it
would bring and thoroughly under
stand it, before there is any likelihood
of it becoming a feature in our state
government.
Until the day comes when state in
surance is adopted and proven a suc
cess, however, prudent business men
must have insurance; and the question
arises, Shall it be given to old line
stock companies or to mutual concerns
at home? Two things must be consid
ered before a definite answer can be
given: Safety and economy.
Under the Nebraska insurance laws
there can be no doubt about the safety
of a mutual company, if pfflcered by
men of average business ability, after
the amount of insurance written
reaches a reasonable figure. Th
stock companies cannot be a whit
safer. In fact, reason would dictate
that the opposite might be true. With
in certain limitations the property of
all the insured stands back of every
policy in a mutual company. And al
though the big stock companies show
on paper enormous assets, is no
ticeable that there is more or less
squirming and raising ofs rates after
a series of heavy fires.
But there is the question of eco
nomy, not only to the individual in
surer, but also to the community or
state. Last year non-resident com
panies collected in premiums on insur
ance in Nebraska over $1,000,000 more
than they returned in losses paid. Fig
uring their ordinary expenses at 1-3 6f
this amount, and there is still 2-3 of
a' million dollars which goes out of
the state annually, never to return ex
cept in exchange for Nebraska corn,
wheat and other products or to be
loaned on Nebraska real estate. We
burn the candle at both ends in pa
tronizing foreign insurance companies
pay them a big profit on the insur
ance business done, and then borrow
back this profit and pay interest on it.
However, It must not be supposed
that all the insurance business in Ne
braska is done by companies from
outside the state. Twenty-eight mu
tual insurance companies of Nebraska,
belonging to the state association,
have in force more than 105,000,000
of insurance at this time. The aver
age cost of carrying this, including a
large amount of mercantile property,
has been only 55 per cent of the rates
charged by the stock companies. And
this, too, in spite of a reduction of 25
per cent which had been made by old
line companies in their rates.
Two of these companies, the Farm
ers' Mutual Insurance company of Ne
braska, and the Nebraska Mercantile
Mutual Insurance company, have saved
their policy holders $125,000 in prem
iums during the last three years an
average of ?6 to each policy holder in
the two companies, besides expending
for losses and expenses the entire
amount of premiums collected in the
state. These two companies are now
carrying between $49,000,000 and $50,-'
000,000 of insurance on Nebraska prop
erty. They have recently moved their
offices to 130 North 13th street. They
employ 25 people regularly, and some
400 agents in the different towns arid
counties of the state, and have estab
lished a reputation for prompt and
satisfactory payment of losses, and for
economy and care In writing insur
ance, unsurpassed by any other insur
ance companies doing business in the
state.
Mutual insurance is paving the way
for state insurance. Until the latter
comes, it is certainly to the interest
of Nebraskans, bath directly as indi
viduals and indirectly as citizens of
the state, to insure with the mutual
companies.
Mr. Bolt Replies
Mr. Geo. B. Bolt, of St. Louis, takes
exceptions to what The Independent
said in answer to his communication
published April 24, saying:
"In your discussion of my article
on the circulation of money, you tacit
ly admit the correctness of my posi
sion by no attempt to disprove my
statements, except that a large portion
of the people's savings are deposited
in banks and afterward loaned by the
banks to persons on good security."
Now, Mr. Bolt had carefully figured
out that if sixteen million heads of
families would each save a dollar a
week for 1S9.88 weeks they-would ab
sorb every dollar of money in exist
ence and take it out of circulation.
The Independent admitted that this
would be true if every man should
carefully hoard his dollar a week,
hiding it in the feather tick at home
or burying it in the ground, but called
Mr. Bolt's attention to the fact that
people as a rule do not save money
that way. The circulation of money
was under discussion not the good or
bad features of our banking system:
and The Independent certainly did dis
prove Mr. Bolt's statements, and cer
tainly did not tacitly or otherwise ad
mit the correctness of his position.
His mathematical calculations were
correct; but it is absurd to talk about
money being taken out of circulation
by saving, except in the most limited
degree.
Mr. Bolt proceeds to give a hypo
thetical case of a workman depositing
a marked silver dollar in the savings
bank, and traces the circulation of
that dollar, giving a large number of
journal and cash book entries to show
that he finally loses money because
of the payment of interest. He then
assumes that an article selling for
$1.26 would be made up about as follows:
Raw material ,
Railroad rates
Labor ,
EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS
50
01
4S
Railroad rates 01
005
003
003
.' 005
035
, 005
Int. gov't bonds
Int. state bonds
Int. county bonds
Int. school bonds
Int. corporation bonds ,
Int. mtgs. and notes
20 per cent profit 20
Total $1.26
He then says: "It will be seen that
the labor- received out of the purchase
price paid by the consumer about 93
cents, the remaining 31 cents repre
senting profit and interest on different
forms of debt. Now, as a remedy I
would suggest United States postal
savings banks, paying no Interest on
deposits and loaning no money. An
increase In the circulating medium cf
at least $16,000,000 per week. An in-
THE NEW MODEL SUSPENDER
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clothing the only abjust
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than in anv other item of
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Ask yonr Dealer for
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All of these goods are made out of the very
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Figured Lawn Kimonas, with solid colored trimmings Q Q
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Just received a big line of sample wrappers, which
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Wrappers, worth $1.35, QTp
at U I U
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LINEN DEPARTMENT
TOWELS AND TABLE CLOTHS We offer a few
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this week
Checked towels, ,
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Splendid quality.Huck 17V
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We offer 8-4 Turkey Red table cloths, CU
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$1.35, at....... y0
GOODS
Our line of white goods is replete with all the new
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Nowhere in the west can be found such a large range
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have made special efforts to secure for the coming
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rics. How well we have succeeded can be seen '
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DOMESTICS
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Lincoln,
Nebraska
crease in taxation until all govern
ment, state, county and school bonds
are paid. Government ownership of
railroads and the liquidation of their
debt as fast as it becomes due. A cur
tailing of the powers of corporations
to issue bonds, and the government,
state or municipal ownership of all
public utilities."
Evidently Mr. Bolt believes that a
dollar a week is enough for the six
teen million heads of families to sav,
and so fixes it that the government
shall issue and put into circulation a
dollar to replace the one taken out of
circulation by being deposited in the
postal savings bank. But suppose this
should go on for 139.88 weeks and the
sixteen million depositors should take
a notion to withdraw their deposits
and begin circulating them. The
amount of money would be doubled
and prices would go jumping up sky
ward. Then saving could begin again
at $2 a week (because (the 52 could be
procured just as easily as $1 before)
and a panic would surely ensue un
less the government should issue $32,
000.000 a week.
Postal savings banks conducted on
Mr. Bolt's plan would contract ths
circulation right along. But why not
use the deposits to pay off the present
government bonds? Why not use them
In the purchase of the railroads?
A Case in Point
A clear illustration of the single
taxers' contentions is shown in the
following paragraph from the Spring
field Republican:
"Russell Sage owns the house In
which he lives, at 506 Fifth avenue.
New York, and Elbridge T. Gerry owns
the ground upon which it stands. Mr.
Sage began to pay ground rent to Mr.
Gerry some 44 years, ago, taking at
first a 22-years' lease at $700 a year.
At the end of that period the lease
was renewed for an equal term at
$3,300 a year. Now another renewal
has been made at a rental of $12,500
a year, which Mr. Sage says Is out
rageous, but as he and his wife can
not bear the thought of moving from
their old home, they conclude to sub
mit. Mr. Sage's house has been stead
ily deteriorating in value all this
time, while Mr. Gerry's land has been
appreciating to a remarkable degree.
The value of Mr. Sage's house came
out of his own pocket, but the present
value of Mr. Gerry's land is due, not
to - himself or his work, ; but to the
growth and efforts of the community
as a whole. Cases like this, which
are so common in England, are un
common in the United States, where
the ownership of improved realty in
individual hands usually embraces
land, as well as buildings and improve
ments. If separate ownership were
common to the country, the ideas of
the late Henry George would gain
much more rapid headway than they
do."
Franchise Values
To my mind the answer of Louis F.
Post, In The Public of May 3 (page 51)
to the question the editor of The In
dependent has been propounding to
single taxers, is the clearest and best
I have ever read. However, the "ellip
tical forms of expression" Mr. Post
mentions as having confused The In
dependent, have to a great extent con
fused many single taxers, and created
erroneous Ideas of value. Some sin
gle taxers agree fully with Karl Marx
that value 13 "crystallized social la
bor," which might also be explained
as an elliptical form of expression.
Admh-ing that "values themselves
are not taxed" but that men are and,
consequently, that taxes must be paid
out of the taxpayer's income, and in
the last analysis out of the products of
labor, Mr. Post says that "values are
only a basis of measurement, the ques
tion being whether we shall tax men in
proportion only to their land values or
to their other values."
The elliptical expressions, land val
ues and labor values, mean, as I un
derstand it, simply this: The value
of land is the value of something
which no man produced; labor value
is the value of something which man
has' produced. Accordingly, part of
the value of every piece of real estate
which has been in the least improved
by man, is "land value" and part is
"labor value." With the understand
ing that taxes should be levied on the
value of things not produced by man,
and that taxes should not be levied on
the value of things produced by man,
we can come to the most difficult part
of all in applying the single tax.
An absolutely accurate division can
not be made between the "land value"
czd the "labor value" of any given
piece of real estate, but it can be done
with sufficient accuracy for all practi
cal purposes in the case of farm lands
and city lots. When it comes to the
right of way of railroads and similar
land privileges, however, the diffi
culty is presented. I am not satisfied
that the value of a railroad franchise
is identical with the value of its right
of way, but if it can be shown that
such is the case, I am ready to become
an out and out single taxer. That
would reconcile the differences between
the single taxers ana populists to a
great extent. But there would still
be the question of public ownership of
not only the right of way, but also all
the personal property, and the opera
tion of public utilities like the rail
roads. A public right of way oper
ated by any and every person who
chooses so to do, does not seem prac
tical to me If applied to a railroad.
CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE.
Frcd'k Shepherd Attorn
NOTICE.
To Amasa L. Good row, nqn resident defendant:
You are hereby notified that oo the ttJt liday
of April, 1902. Margurette V. Uoodrow filed a j--tition
against yon in District court of Lancas
ter county, Nebraska, the object and prayer of
which are to obtain a divorce from you on the
ground that being of eutlicint ability to pro
vide support for the plaintiff you hae without
rauite wantonly and cruelly failed and refund
to support her for a period of more than two
years last past, and have abandoned and de
serted ber. You are rsquired to answer this
petition on or before Monday, June TM.
Margcbktte V. Goodkow.
Liberty a Boon.
Get the good" old syringe, boys, and
fill it to the brim.
We've caught ' another "nigger" and
we'll operate on him
Let some one take the handle who can
work it with a vim,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Chorus.
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the ju
bilee; Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes
him free!
Shove in the nozzle deep and let him
taste of liberty,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
We've come across the bounding main
to kindly spread around
Sweet liberty wherever there are reb
els to be found
Come, hurry with the syringe, boys,
we've got him down and bound.
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Oh, pump it in him till he swells up
like a toy balloon!
The fool pretends that liberty Is not
a precious boon, .
But we'll contrive to make him see
the beauty of it soon,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Keep the piston going, boys, and let
, the banner wave, .
The banner that floats proudly o'er
the noble and the brave.
Keep on until the squirt-gun breaks
or he explodes, the slave .
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Chorus.
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the ju
bilee; Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes
him free!
We've got him down; so let us pump
him full of liberty,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
' S. E. KIser.
Horace F. Bishop, Attorney.
To Frank E. Pelton, non-resident defendant:.
You are uereby notified tbaton the 2d day of
May, 1902, Marie A. Pelton tiled a petition
agaiDstyou in the district court of Laneatr
county, Nebraska, tbe object and prayer o?
which is to obtain a divorce from you on itn
ground of extreme cruelty to plaintilf and
grossly, wantonly, and cruelly refusing and
failing to support.
You are required to answer said petition oa
or Lefore the 10th day of June, 1JU2.
MARIE A. PELTONV
By Horace F. Bishop, her attorney.
I. II. Hatfield Attorney at Iaw
SHERIFF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an ex
ecution issued by the Clerk of the District
Court of the Third Judicial District of Ne
braska, within and for Lancaster County, in an
action wherein Oliver W. Pierce, Assignee is
plaintiff, and Grandview Improvement Com
pany Defendant; 1 will, at 2 o'clock, p. m.. on
the 21st day of May, A. D. 19U2, at the east door
of the Court Home, in theCity of Lincoln. Lan
caster County, Nebraska, offer for sale at pub
lie auction the following described Lands and
Tenements, to-wit:
All of Section "t" and Lot Six (6) of Section
"R" in Grandview Residence Park, in Lancas
ter County, Nebraska; and also the following
goods and chattels to-wit:
Station house located on Lot 3 Section M"
of said Grandview Residence Park, 1 flat ofhee
desk, maps or plats of Graudvlew, records and
account books, metal plate fur printitir mort-
?;age given by Harvey B. Hicks for f.ilU5i on
ot 6, in section L; IV and 20 in section N ; 1,U",
and 20 in section K;ail in Grand View Resi
dence Park, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Given under my hand this 16th day of April A.
D. 1902. , Z. S.BRANSON.
Sheriff.
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