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THE NEBEASKA INDEPENDENT.
May 22, 1902
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FOR THE PLAIN PEOPLE.
Unparalleled Offer of Five Yearly Subscriptions for Only $3 in Order to
Raise Money to Build a Home for the Independent.
Washington's advice to his fellow
countrymen was: "In time of peace
prepare for war." Every reader of
The Independent knows of its fearless
denunciation of public corruption and
the courageous contest that it has
waged for many years for the rights
of the plain people. It is the greatest
foe that organized greed has to con
tend with in the central and western
states. Other newspapers have been
bribed or coerced into doing the bid
ding of corporation ' managers. The
Independent has defied them. It is
recognized today as the leading paper
of its class in the whole United States.
It never accepted any of the funds
stolen by Bartley. It is the only paper
of general circulation in Nebraska that
has courageously denounced the inde
fensible and unjustifiable pardon of
that, gigantic thief by Governor Savage
from start to finish.
The great corporations of this state
and of the east withhold much of their
advertising patronage because they
cannot, control the editorial columns
of The Independent because it will
not mortgage its soul for a portion of
their ill-gotten gains. It has chosen
to champion the cause of the plain
people, and must depend upon their
patronage for its support.
- A HOME NEEDED.
At present we are located in a build
ing which we rent. It is the property
of a very wealthy man. , He differs
most radically with the political poli
cies of The Independent, and looks
upon it as a menace to the rights of
capital. We have no lease and cannot
make one. If properly spurred on by
Mark Hanna and his political machine
he might conclude at any time not to
harbor such "anarchy" as ours. Such
an act during a political campaign
would annoy and cripple our efforts
greatly. We cannot afford to take such
chances if there is any way we can
avoid it.
What we desire to do is to buy a
little spot of mother earth from which
we can fearlessly champion the cause
of good government and defend the
plain psople from the aggressions of
organized greed, and from which we
cannot be driven by the order of some
plutocrat. We want to construct a
"Liberty Building," dedicated to the
defense of the liberties of ths plain
people. In time of peace we wish to
prepare for war.
NO LUXURIES NECESSARY.
If those who are delinquent for sub
scription will send in their delinquent
subscription together with their re
newal and if our friends and patrons
will join in an effort to sell five Lib
erty subscriptions we can soon have a
sufficient sum to construct a building
ample for our needs a two-story
building, 25x142 feet. We will use it
without plastering, heat it with ordi
. nary heating stoves and be thoroughly
happy and at home to and for all our
friends and patrons. We will get
along without the luxury of steam
heat or hot air furnace. From such a
fortress we'll make it so hot for Mark
Hanna and his hosts that he'll be
searching satan's regions for a cool
breath like Dives he'll be trying to
trade his millions for a cool drink.
Will you help to construct such a
fortress? : If you will, when we sell
out to the enemy you may hang our
body to the nearest sour apple tree.
Buy five "Liberty Subscription Pos
tals" for $3.00, keep this and see if
what we tell you is not true. We are
in this fight to stay. Have been In it
from the beginning and Father Time
is the only power that can stop our
fight.
OUR PLAN TO GET IT.
To build ''Liberty Building" we
wish to sell 2,000 blocks, 10,000 cards.
Will you be one of the 2,000 to buy a
block of fire? Each postal is good for
one yearly subscription to be sent to
any address in the United States or
Canada. Each postal card costs you
only 60 cents. You can easily sell
them for more to your neighbors. You
will only be out the time to call upon
them and invite them to subscribe.
NO MORTGAGE FOR PLUTOCRACY.
Why not help erect this fortress of
liberty by buying a block of five? We
could mortgage our plant and the
building to be constructed, but then
the man who held the mortgage would
insist on writing or censoring our
editorials the same as they do for
every mortgaged and subsidized paper
in the country. We'll never do it. We
will sell Liberty Subscriptions In
blocks of five instead.
Our "Liberty Postal Cards" are
printed on the regular government
postal card, all ready to drop into the
mail box after the address of the sub
scriber is written thereon. If you
buy a block of five "Liberty Building
Postals" you may apply one of them
in payment for a year's subscription
on your past due or future account if
you so desire. Why not send for a
block of five today?
EFFECTIVE CURE
FOR MULLET HEADS.
There is no more effective campaign
work you can do than to help Increase
the circulation of The Independent.
It is as deadly to republicans as
strychnine is to gophers. Better put
out a few kernels in your neighbor
hood. You will be surprised at the
good results.
NO MONEY IN ADVANCE
WE TRUST YOU.
Get up a club. If you cannot afford
to spend $3.00 from your own funds
for "Liberty Postals," and most of our
readers cannot, you can do what Is
equally good, viz: get up a club. If
you are willing to make an effort to
get up a club we will send you five
"Liberty Subscription Postals' and
you can sell them to your neighbors
at 60 or 75 cents each and when you
have sold all five send us the $3.00.
In other words, we will take it for
granted that you are honest, and ad
vance you the "Liberty Subscription
Postals." Why not write for a block
of five? You'll be surprised how eas
ily you can sell them. Select four or
five of your neighbors who should be
come readers of The Independent, and
invite them to buy cards. Explain to
them that they get a year's subscrip
tion to The Independent for the 60 or
75 cents, whichever you ask tftem.
Tell them The Independent is worth
that much and more; that you know it
is for you have been reading it. You'll
have no difficulty in selling the cards.
If it should happen that you could
not sell them, all we ask of you is to
return the ones you did not sell. We'll
be glad to send them to you if you'll
try. Address all orders to
THE INDEPENDENT,
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Fill Out the Blank Below and Send in Your Order at Once. Hundreds of
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Can do as Well r
A right beginning is more than half
the battle in many instances. It Is
as true in political affairs as In any
other. To win the election this fall It
is only necessary to nominate a good
ticket and support it with a vigorous
campaign Conditions are more fav
orable than they have been for sev
eral years. .The republicans cannot
indorse the present administration of
the state's affairs and dare not renom
inate their present governor. In Lin
coln the friends of Mr. D. E.Thomp
son are waging unrelenting war upon
his enemies and a similar condition
exists among the republicans of Oma
ha. The state debt of .registered -war-
rants has increased and a great sum of
school money is uninvested. The rail
road assessment was . scarcely more
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than half what it should be and ex
travagance has prevailed in the man
agement of nearly every state institu
tion. The republican governor has
granted many pardons -without proper
reason for doing so, including the
crowning act of disrespect of law,
courts, and justice by the release of
the famous defaulter, ex-Treasurer
Joe Bartley. Of course many hide
bound partisans in the republican
party are pretending to indorse the
pardon of Bartley, but what would
the same men be saying if Governor
Poynter had granted a pardon to
Bartley? A populist governor could
have become rich by the pardon of
Bartley, but his sterling honesty would
not permit him to do so. Fortunately
there are several thousand honest and
well-meaning voters in the ranks of
the republican party with sufficient
self-respect and decency to condemn
such unscrupulous boodling in their
own party and will be found voting
the fusion ticket this fall.
But notwithstanding all the favor
able conditions it is essential that we
have a good platform and the best
possible candidates for all county and
state positions. Every strong candi
date adds strength to the entire ticket.
Begin right. Attend the precinct pri
mary and select men of sterling ability
and integrity who will attend as dele
gates to your county convention. The
county convention should be equally
careful in selecting delegates to the
state convention. Select the most cap
able men men who will surely attend
the Grand Island convention. The
most capable man in the state is or no
value as a delegate if he stays at
home. A large attendance at Grand
Island means the nomination of a
populist for governor and a good
strong ticket all through. A small
attendance might mean something
else. The Independent hopes that ev
ery populist will make it his special
business to see that there is a good
attendance at the precinct primary.
Every reader of The Independent will
find the precinct primary the most sat
isfactory place to sell two or three
blocks of five of our "Liberty Build
ing" subscription cards. There is
where you will find . the men who
should read The Independent. Every
one of them who can afford It should
be on the list. Send for a block of five
Liberty Building subscription cards
and take them with you.. It costs you
nothing to try. If you cannot sell
them you may return them. You have
been reading The Independent and
know of its value. Why not tell your
neighbor about it? He'll be glad to
know where he can get "just such a
paper." Below is a blank form which
you are invited to cut out and send
in your order for as many cards as
you think you can dispose of at the
primary. You need not pay for them
until you have sold them. Hundreds
of others have sold blocks of five and
found it easy enough to do so. You
can easily do the same. Here is the
honor roll of Liberty Guards to date:
Previously acknowledged 3871
To state committee 2500
E. G. Fowler, Grand Rapids, Neb. 5
Oliver Emmert, Salem, Ore . . 5
G. W. Shrader, Murray, Neb 5
Mineheart Brunei, Allegany, N. Y... 5
C. H. Empir, Holdrege, Neb 5
R. Burgedoff, Holdrege, Neb 5
J. M. McGowen. Glendale, Colo 5
Ira Campbell, Waddy, Ala 5
Henry Stamm, Haigler, Neb 5
Gus A. Olson, Scandia. Neb 5
. E. Moore, Blossom, Tex 5
A. B. Diemer, David City, Neb 5
J. H. Sheets, Elgin, Neb 5
W. C. Nickles, Swanton, Neb 5
A. C. Archbold, Hillsboro, Ore 5
Dee Butler, Violet, Neb 5
Total 6451
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A Moral Reaction
The country is now in the throes of
a great moral reaction. The people
do not know all that there is to' be
known of the awful devastation of
blood and fire in the Philippinesthe
worse than savage work done under
such orders as that of Gen. "Roaring
Jake" smith' to "burn, destroy, kill all
over 10, make a howling wilderness."
Senator Lodge's committee, as well as
the war department, continues to do
its best to shut out enlightening testi
njny. But enough is known through
the glimpse afforded of the horrors
and the shame in these islands to set
a-quiver the sensibilities of every civ
ilized American, . .
There is nothing of party politics in
this matter. No one thinks or cares
about that. . National honor, Christ
ianity, civilization, stand above de
mocracy or republicanism, above any
and all of the factions or parties that
,war for the control of the government,
"It behooves the church to speak."
said Bishop Lawrence, "and in the
name of the Master of humanity to
utter her solemn protest." Andrew
Carnegie, who is perhaps as good a
sample of intelligent partisan repub
licanism as can be quoted, writes;
"We' are engaged In work which re
quires suppression of American ideas
hitherto held sacred. We prohibited
the reading of the Declaration of In
dependence, in the Philippines last
July. If the republican candidate for
the presidency, even if it were Presi
dent. Roosevelt himself, popular as
lie is, could be taxed with having ap
proved this next Fourth of July, he
would probably be defeated in the next
campaign. The American, idea of the
rights of man and of the right of self
government is ,not false. It is true."
President '. Schurman of Cornell uni
versity, the original imperialist who
was chosen by President McKinley
to head the first commission to those
islands, says: "Any decent kind of
government of Filipinos by Filipinos
is better than the best possible govern
ment of Filipinos by Americans. The
American people cannot be democrat
ic at home and despotic in Asia; and
Independence is the only alternative
to despotism in the Philippines, except
the admission of the islands as a
state in the American Union, which is
forever impracticable." Boston Post.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
Why aro wo In the Philippines? Can any
Man Tell What we Intend to do With
Those People ?
The following is an extract from a
recent article of Prof. Schurman, the
president of the first Philippine' com
mission, printed in the New York In
dependent: 'What, I ek, do you want in the
Philippines? More particuarly, why in
any part of Luzon and the Visayan
islands are you making a howling
wilderness and killing children over
10 years of age? It will be said that
these are the unhappy incidents of
war. which is always a stern affair,
very different from the holiday-making
into which civilians would turn it. Be
it so. Why, then, are we making war?
Here are 6,500,000 fellow-Christians
of curs the only Christian nation in
Asia as highly civilized as most of
the people of Central and South
America.,. What do we want of them?
W3 have never tc Id them. The treaty
of Paris requires congress to deter
mine ther;eivil lights and political
status of the Inhabitants of the Phil
ipines. Congress 1 has been dumb.
President,Roosevelt, with his noble in
stincts and straight-seeing statesman
ship, declared that we were to prepare
them for,' liberty after the fashion of
the really free nations. The period of
tutelage should be short, because no
nation can confer freedom upon an
other, and the moft we can do for the
Filipinos is to establish favorable
conditions and then endow them with
independence. This implies doing in
the Philippines wnat we have already
done for Cuba, which this month is to
start as an independent republic. But.
in face of all this, Gen: Wharton says
that the FfiipMios must be despotically
governed.', like Inoia and Java, and
that any one who advocates their inde
pendence should be sent to prison.
Congress is silent, "the military au
thorities whistle down the wind the
humane and enlightened policy of the
president, and the military authorities
are the supreme power in the Philip
pines. Are the American people, then,
the freest people on this earth, the
very flower and chivalry of liberty,
shooting down Filipinos because Fili
pinu3 will not do what Americans
want, while all the time Filipinos are
endoavCTiV-g to ascertain, but cannot,
what it is Americans do want? Are
not your, oriental wards entitled to
know what you intend to dispose of
them before bidding you welcome to
their honx.s? If we have no policy,
)r,-t us pay so and it may end all fight
ing. But to keep an army of 40,000
or 50.000 ! American citizens in Asia
to fight for no policy is at once foolish
and wicked.
It is said officially that the fighting
is over. But the commanding officers
rgree with the best newspaper re
porters that the Christian Filipinos
are tverywhere against us. And the
war department has stated in con
firmation of this situation that the re
tention of a large army in the Phil
ippines is indispensable. But if this
be so, though the insurrection may be
ended, the archipelago is as full of
our enemies as it ever was. You have
governed them against their will: be-
hold the result. Shall we make of
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dent of the St. Louis Blue Ribbon
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concerning Peruna from 2947 Dayton
street, St. Louis, Mo. :
"It is with feelings of gratitude for
benefits derived from the use of Peruna
that I desire to proclaim to human-kind
my experience, hoping that it will bene
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"Suffering for years with what ap
peared to be an incurable malady, and
after a great expense incurred consult
ing physicians without any benefit, I
was recommended to try Peruna. Asa
last expedient 1 purchased a bottle, and
before one-half of the contents were used
1 felt the beneficial results. I am con
tinuing to use same, and might say I
am entirely well. My disease seemed to
be catarrh of the stomach, and the
nauseating sensation, and the heavy,
languid, tired-out feelings with which I
suffered, especially after eating, have
entirely left me, and my digestive or
gans are in splendid condition, all of
which I owe to the use of Peruna."
MRS. BARBARA MoDONALD.
Miss Julia V. Teller, of 2518 Prairie
street, Milwaukee, Wis., is President of
the German Young Woman's Union.
Her opinion of Peruna is given in the
following words :
" Our German Young Woman's Union
has nothing but praise for Peruna.
Three of our members have been most
wonderfully helped. One of them had
almost constant backache for the last
year. The other two suffered from ca
tarrh of the head and throat.
" I have used it after a most unpleasant
experience with an attack of la grippe,
and found that three bottles completely
restorod me to health." Julia V. Teller.
Mrs. Mary Hardy, of 568 :W. Polk
street, Chicago, 111., writes:
" find it necessary each spring to
take some kind of a tonic and have
tried a great many but have found
none of such value as Peruna.
"After taking a few doses J feet the
good effeets and seldom need to take
more than one bottle as a spring medi
cine.' Mrs. Mary Hardy.
Mrs. Catherine R. Bertos, 803 N. Elm
street, Centralia, 111., writes :
" I have found Peruna tne most satis
fying medicine I ever tried in my life.
I suffered for years with catarrh of the
stomach, which became aggravated
every time I caught a slight cold. My
food did not digest properly, and life lost
its best charm until I tried Peruna. It
made a new woman of me. It took eteht
bottles to effect a complete cure, but t
would not be back in the former condi
tion for a thousand dollars. I am most
grateful for being cured completely and
feel better than I hare done for years.
Catherine R. Bertos.
The lassitude incident to spring weather is especially trying to women. Ailments peculiar to the sex
of many varieties are especially prone to aggravation. All this class of affections are fitly described
by the term "pelvic catarrh."
Any woman wishing to be placed on the list of Dr. Hart man's patients for free home treatment and
advice should immediately send name and symptoms, duration of disease and treatment already tried.
Directions for the first month's treatment will be promptly mailed free of charge. No free medicino
Will be supplied by the doctor, but all nscessary directions will be furnished.
Read what the above ladies have to say of Peruna as a cure for these cases.
"If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from tho use of Peruna, write at once to Dr.
Hart man, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, ColumSus, Ohio.
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The Greatest of the Season
Phenomenal Wash Dress Goods Selling has been a Daily occurrence
during this, the early yart of the season. We Intend this great
sale to far Eclipse all of our previous efforts.
SPECIAL WHITE SALE FOR GRADUATES AND JUNE BRIDES
I 2iC yard
3,500 yards of Anita fine corded Ba
tiste; this is a special lot we pur
chased made to sell at 20c per yard,
new white and handsome black and
colored and figured grounds. May
Wash goods sale, per yard. ..12ic
Per
yard
3,500 yards of Honiton Lace Tissue,
fine all linen Etamines for dress and
waists, and plain colored Silk Tis
sues, May Wash goods sale, per
yard... -35c
35C
45c
Pet
yard
5,000 yards of best quality Silk Warp
Tissue, in all colors, will wash well,
Dlain and dots. Mav Wash ennrts
sale, per yard 45c
Ca Per
yard
2,500 yards of fast colored figured Ba
tistes, in black, navy, light blue,
pink, green and white grounds In
stripes and figures, absolutely fast
colors, May Wash goods sale, per
yard 5C
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2U yard
3,000 yards of fine Laurel Batiste Gas
con Organdies, in good range of fig
ures and stripes, dark and light col
ors, all new styles. May Wash goods
sale, per yard 1H
OOa Per
yard
6,300 yards of fine materials for Wash
Dresses, all new qualities in exclu
sive styles, beautiful materials,
worth to 30c per yard, May Wash
goods sale, per yard 20c
OK a Per
yard
17,500 yards of the very finest quality
of imported Demity, Egyptian Tis
sues, Satin Band Mulls, etc., hand
somest collection of 25c goods in the
city, all styles, May Wash goods
sale, per yard 25 C
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
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2,000 yards of fine Batiste, next to th
finest quality made, large range of
good styles and colors, including
black and white grounds, May Wash
goods sale, per yard 10c
75C yard
4,000 yards of fine French Swisses,
the handsomest wash material of th
season, all colors, worth to $1.00.
May Wash goods sale, per yard. 75 O
I5C yard
20,000 yards of finest qualities of Ba
tiste and Dimity, largest range of
styles and colors, the handsomest
line of goods in all new patterns,
sold in small cities and larger ones
for 25c, May Wash goods sale, pr
yard 15o
I On Per
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7,500 yards of fine Tissue Ginghams
embroidered Chambrays In dot?,
stripes and plain colors, absolutely
fast, worth to 25c, May Wash goods
sale, per yard 18o
EflA Per
UUl
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6,500 yards of fancy figured and em
broidered Silk Tissue, full line of
solid colors and fancy figures, fancy
Grenadines and Silk Ginghams, May
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the Philippines an American Ireland
an Ireland consumed with hatred
for us, governed by coercion and bent
on rebellion? '
I was in Ireland last month when
the cities of Dublin and Cork con
ferred their freedom upon the leader
of the nationalist party. His speech
on those occasions was printed in full
In the newspapers and one sentence
of it still rings in my ears. "There
are," he said, "only two methods of
government that of freedom and that
of force; and Ireland has shown for
centuries that the latter is perman
ently impossible." The remedy for
our Philippine ills is to substitute a
government by the consent of the
Filipinos for a government by the
coercion of the Filipinos."
THE FAKE INJUNCTION
The Independent ha3 doubted all
the time the reality of the proceed
Ings against the beef trust. Ithag
I cannot see how they are to be an
been inclined to believe that.it was
simply a scheme to catch votes. Upon
this point Judge Tuley of Chicago ex
presses himself as follows: ;
' "I have read the bill against the
beef trust carefully, and it presents
one striking peculiarity. In , all my
experience at the bar and on the
Bench I never before knew of a temp
porary injunction being asked for
when It had not been prayed In .the
bill. The usual method Is to pray for
temporary injunction and then pray
that on the final hearing it may be
made permanent. Why such a uni
versal usage was disregarded in this
case I do not know, but the conse
quences may be serious. .
"I have serious doubts whether the
court has the right to grant a tempo
rary Injunction that is not prayed in
the bill. - and, of course, I doubt
whether the court will grant :tt. You
may be sure the defendants will stub-
? J bornly opjposelt-PtLJhlPr&UPawP
swered. "
"But the failure of the temporary In
junction, though a matter of consider
able importance, is not nearly so im
portant as the construction they may
put on the adoption of such an ir
regular proceeding by the president
and the attorney general. If the omis
sion of the prayer from the bill
should be followed by a refusal of the
temporary injunction the inference
will be irresistible to many minds
that the failure to enjoin was inten
tional. : "The permanent Injunction, if
granted, will do the trust no immedi
ate harm. An appeal will be taken
to the supreme court, and It will be
three years at least before a decision
will be reached. In the meanwhile the
next presidential election will have
occurred."
Mention The Indenendent -when
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