The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, June 19, 1902, Page 2, Image 2
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT -.. June 19, 1902 ! S1 11 The Tas. Boss Stiffened Gold Watch Case is made of two layers of Solid Gold with a layer of Stiffening Metal between sheet of metal.- - The Jas. Boss Case is a Solid Gold Case for all practical purposes. ' The ; Stiffening : Metal simply- adds strength and durability. The Boss Case is guaranteed for 25 years by the e largest -watch case makers in the world, .who have been making it for a full half , century.. Ei very Boss 2ase has the Keystone trade- -mark stamped inside.' Ask any dealer to show you one. Write us r for a booklet telling the whole story . ' ' . ' The Keystone Watch Case Company, Philadelphia. ';, By this mark Wt yon know them S1 THE BRIBING OF GOMEZ (Continued from Page One.) sent a message to congress upon the question begging them to fall in line with the administration's policy, but this has but strengthened them In their opposition. Perhaps they may bo won over by "army pie" and "river and harbor pie," but this seems doubt ful at the present moment. The pass age of the house bill would be a bit ter pill for the administration to swal low, but they would be even willing to pass this rather than do nothing at all. There has already been some talk In that direction and the pros pects are pretty bright for another democratic victory such a one as ths members of the house had some time ago. WILLIAM W. BRIDE. THE SPECIAL MESSAGE Senatorial Dignity Oirall by KootU' Order That Cougresa get in Line ' ". Kathbunisra Rampant Washington, D. C, June 14, 1902. (Special Correspondence.) The situa tion was anything but quiet or reas suring when Roosevelt concluded to break all precedent of time and placo in sending his special message to con gress. The senators of his own party regard It as , an impertinence for the chief executive to pas3them out spe cial advice when they" have the meas ure under consideration. -This feeling of offended dignity applies to all re publican senators, but the effect of the message Is still more disastrous when It is remembered that it means an ab solute split of the republican party one that cannot be healed or con cealed by any application of party discipline. The beet sugar senators most from the middle west and northwest are more determined than ever to' oppose reciprocity for Cuba. Those who stand by the president and for the measure are thus lined up as sharp ly in opposition as if they belonged to another party. Of course Roosevelt has ruined any chance he had for a nomination. to 1904, but as these were daily growing smaller that is a minor matter. ;. . The beet sugar, forces have all along contended that reciprocity with Cuba would not benefit the Cuban sugar planter nor yet the consumer. It would, they claim, simply go into the coffers of the sugar trust. The testimony, of R. F. Thurber before the senate com- tut? uaj DUUnCU, WU" nection and proved the democratic ar gument. Mr. Thurber, on being con fronted with a voucher, by General Wood, admitted that he had been paid more than $8,000 to distribute "recip rocity" literature all over the United States and that the sugar trust had paid him a large sum for further dis tribution of precisely the same docu ments. ; It was only when Senator Teller forced the admission that Mr. Thurber told the story of the whole transaction. It was a bombshell. Nothing which has happened this session created such tremendous excitement at the capitol. It established several things which Interest the public. First, that Gen eral Wood has been disbursing Cuban finances for lobbying, purposes to get what the trusts wanted and has been allowed to handle these funds just as he chose without making any ac counting. Second, that the sugar trust and our, military forces and our re publican administration have been nana in giove to 1001 tne people ana to further the projects of the trusts. The administration with its usual fatuity Immediately tried to justify the expenditure of funds and to ex cuse and explain away the trust con nection. It never seems to occur to the administration to reform its wrong doing and punish the offenders. Sec retary Root at once had himself in terviewed saying that General Wood had a perfect right; to expend Cuban funds in any manner he saw fit. The republicans have been shouting to keep up their courage and declaring that the connection of the sugar trust was quite accidental and made no differ ence. But if so, why all this secrecy? Tr wnct h v ar.rident that th ATnn came, The thinking people of the country need only to have these facts in their possession to make up their minds a? to the advisability of trusting the na tion's destiny with a party and an ad ministration where every week ex poses some new corruption and when exposed the administration justifies ttm course. . - For some time the democrats have been endeavoring to get an accounting OI Ulo lUUUb sycui. uuuug uut luiuuai occupation of Cuba. But the rotten ness Is so great that the republicans dare not let the country know what has been done just on the eve of a congressional election. So the official report will be held up until after con gress adjourns and - then f suppressed until after election. , The postal frauds in Cuba will be ka nothinsr comnared to the wasteful illegal and lavish expenditure under : General Wood's regime. It is now the intention of prominent democratic senators to send a representative to Cuba to unearth a great deal of evi dence that can readily be obtained as to the enormous amounts; of money cpent by General wooa ror any pur - pose which happened to strike his fan for a young republic when we leave it with exhausted resources and empty coffers. ' t The president's ' message' fell flat It was recognized as a piece of bad politics and bungling statesmanship which simply embarrassed his party still more when .It was already writh ing under the disclosure of sugar trust connection with reciprocity. It is easy to see why the spirit of militar ism does not want the people to know how their money is being spent. Ev ery investigation shows corruption. Your Uncle Mark Hanna thinks that "let well enough alone," will do for a campaign motto.- But when the din ner pail is without meat and the scan dals of the administration grow there is no well enough, to be let alone. It is a condition which demands prompt action and a thorough Clearing out of the rascals. D. P. B. THE PRODUCTS OF LABOR Mr. Bolt Dliouiiet the Propenltioa and Asks Some Pertinent Qntien. Editor Independent: What are the products of labor? ' It is my belief that a paper is a benefit to its readers, when, as a result of reading it, new ideas are awakened 'in the minds of its readers, causing them to give a few moments' serious thought to any subject, no matter w.hat that subject is. Considered Jromrthis standpoint, I have already got the worth of the price of subscription from The Inde pendent although I-have nearly a year paid for yet. The editor must not con strue this statement too literally, how ever, and stop my paper or I shall be obliged to resort to "strenuous" meas ures to induce him to - resume, even perhaps a trial of the "water cure" or rope cure." My thinking drill has been working overtime lately, trying to go to bed rock in my consideration of the real, live subjects which appear in every Is sue of The Independent.- One of those subjects through which I have not been able to go to bedrock, is the the ory that workingmen are to a more or less extent being deprived of the prod ucts of their labor. The products of a producer's labor are the things brought into existence by that labor; when those products are sold for the market price in cash, the money represents the wage of the producer for the time he actually spent in the production of the article. I fall to see where he has been de prived of the product of his labor. A skilled workman is set to work on the raw material thus produced and re ceives a stated price for transforming it into a finished article. I fail to see where he has been deprived of the products of his labor. The manufacturer pays cash to the producer for his labor; he also pays cash to the skilled workman; be also pays other incidental expenses, such as clerk hire, Insurance, taxes, rents, transportation, etc, perhaps the total expense of material, labor, etc., amounts to one dollar and twenty cents an article, a profit of twenty per cent would amount to twenty-four cents, which would make the selling price one dollar and forty-four cents. I should think the product of labor is the difference between the selling price and the total expense. In other words, the product of labor is the profit the employer is able to realize by the employment of the workman. Very few people will take the bold stand that the employer should have no profit, and nearly : every one will make haste to declare that workmen should have a sufficient wage to ena ble them to save a little of it.. But I fail to see how the employer can get more money for an article than he paid out for It, and the laboring peo ple pay out less, than they receive at one and the same time. I hope the editor will be able to eo to bed rock for my rope is all out. GEO. B. BOLT. St. Louis, Mo. (Mr. Bolt has raised a very pertinent question. Before the division of labor had been carried to as great "an extent as now, a great many articles were manufactured and used by the same person. The farmer killed a steer and his family ate the beef. From the tallow they made candles to furnish the house with light.. He tanned the hide and later made shoes for himself or members of his own family. He produced the "raw material;" he man ufactured it. The products of his la bor were the beef, the candles, and the shoes. His wages were these identical articles. No one could say that he was not entitled to all he pro duced. Yet it was a cumbrous and ex pensive mode of . production. By the use of money, the division of labor is brought about and today the farmer would sell his steer for money and with the money buy meat and shoes and candles (or a substitute for the latter). But somebody must butcher the steer, tan the hide, and make the shoes. The man who knocks the steer on the head with an ax, the one who sticks him with a big, bloody knife, the one who skins him, the one who cuts him up, the one who hangs the quarters in a cold storage house, the one who places these in a refrigerator car, the railroad company that hauls the beef to another town or city, the retailer who sells the meat all are paid for their services in money; . they own no interest In the product. The question is: Do all these men receive a just equivalent for the services they the machinery are entitled to Interest upon their investment; in a measure they must stand on the, same footing as the men who perform the actual labor. But the further question is: Does not the manufacturer get more than his just share? Or, stated an other way, do not those who perform the labor receive less than their share of the things produced? Suppose there were.no such thing as money: Then each man employed would be en titled to his proportionate share of the product he helps produce. Does he get that today? If not, then an in justice is being done him. Mr. Bolt confuses the "product of labor with the profits enjoyed by the capitalist. The product of labor is the thing produced. If every man worked wholly for himself, produced only for himself, and exchanged noth ing with his neighbor, but one of two conditions could possibly exist: He would either consume his products ap proximately as fast as he produced them,: or he would accumulate a sur plus for future use. The same is true under a wage system: If he spends his wages as fast as he receives them, he is in reality consuming all he re ceives of what he produces; if he saves something out of each week's wage, he is virtually accumulating part of the product for future use. The machine the workman uses helps produce; it is entitled to credit for the part it performs; the owner of it is entitled to the share it produced, for It represents him. But if the owner of the machine gets not only that portion, but also part of the portion which is really due the workman, then the laborer is not receiving his just share of the product in other words, what he himself produced. Under the minute division of labor at present it is difficult to say in any specific In stance exactly what portion is due the laborer, and the payment of wages in money still further obscures the issue. Laborers are not paid wages accord ing to what they produce, but accord ing to what others equally proficient are willing to accept. Allowing a just proportion of all goods produced to go to the owners of the machines as tleir share, would the total money wages of all workers buy back the to tal of the products which theoretically belong to these workers? Nobody be lieves it would, and this is what is meant when we say that the laborer is entitled to what he produces and does not get it. Ed. Ind.) NEBRASKA LAND FOR SALE. 480 acres under irrigation, Elkhorn valley, at S15 Der acre. 820 aeres, 7 miles from Lincoln, $47.50 per acre. o4U acres, improred, 40 per acre. 190 acres 1 miles from Lincoln, $50 per acre. We have snecial bmraaics in Nebraska farms. Terms of sale about one-balf cash, balance at 5 per eent. PAUL H. HOLM, 1045 "O" St., Lincoln, Neb. THE DOOM OF DEMOCRACY An English Critic Tells Some Unpleasant Tmthf and Makes Some Disa greeable Predictions. Occasionally a reader of The Inde pendent believes the editor to be sim ply an alarmist who views everything through dark-colored glasses and sees danger in even the most harmless looking manifestations. The follow ing, quoted from Public Opinion, will show that others besides the editor of this paper see the drift of America from true democracy: An English author, Mr. Francis Grierson, writing in the Westminster Review, foretells the downfall of re publican institutions in the United States. By way of opening the sub ject, he quotes Chateaubriand's dic tum: "Aristocracy has three succes sive ages: the age of superiority, the age of privileges, the age of vanity; sprung from the first, it degenerates In the second, and expires in the third.'-' In the United States the Declaration of Independence ushered In the age of superiority; the close of the war of (recession opened the way for the age of privileges; we are now entering upon the last stage, the age of vanity and decay. "Three things have caused this pre mature old age," says Mr. Grierson. Rapid and continued increase of wealth, the American's love of travel, and a hasty, superficial culture. Long continued prosperity has created a ove of luxury unparalleled in the his tory of the world; rapid and easy traveling a taste for foreign things; cheap schools, colleges, and literature a belief that the highest culture con sists in hearing and seeing. Ameri cans have lived so fast that only an nsignificant few have had the time to read and digest the work of the great thinkers and writers like Emer son, Lowell, and Whitman. Thou sands who have made the voyage to, Europe more than once have never crossed the Mississippi river; others from the far west know London and Paris without having passed a day In Washington. "We have to look at such people from two points of view; the practical and the psychological. Considered in a scientific light the American busi ness man has a young head; consid ered in a social light he has an old heart. In imagination he Is still in venting and creating; in feeling he is discontented and blase. The typical rich American of today regards with Indifference the luxuries with which he Is surrounded. What he and his wife desire are the distinctions and privileges which belong to the illu sions of the social world. Steeped in an atmosphere of ennui, the only so lace for so much mental misery Is a sojourn in Europe once or twice a year where it Is some consolation to dine with a decadent lord or sup with a declassee duchess. Thirty years ago the whole country took its moral tone from Boston. The whole nation Is now Influenced by the wealthy sets of the fashionable centers. Washington basks in the radiance of ambassador-, ial pomp; Baltimore has a cardinal's court; New York is both Catholic and Episcopalian; Chicago makes a dis tinction between the millionaires of the stock yards and those of the stock exchange. There is scarcely a city or town that is not in some way con nected by a kind of wireless communi cation with the British nobility. But this state of' things will not long sat !sfy the commercial potentates of the great republic. As soon as the Ameri can navy is three times as powerful as It now is an empire will be formed PIANOS -ORGANS Best line of Pianos and Organs in the west. Product of largest factories in the world. rEvery instrument ; fully warranted. Big Cut for Sample : Instruments in Each County. In order to introduce our fine in struments into every county in the state, we are making a big discount on first sample instru ments sold in each county. Every ; instrument we sell helps sell other instruments in same locality. : Write today for illustrated cats logue and special prices. : EASY TERMS. V -ARTHUR BETZ- 208-212 South 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. court, at Washington surpassing in wealth and magnificence anything re corded in history." The readers of The Independent are invited to read the advertising of H Herpolsheimer Co., which appears with considerable regularity in its col umns. This firm is one of the largest mail order houses in the state and has one of the largest and finest stores In Lincoln. It is as safe to buy goods from them by mail as over the coun ter. Try it. ONLY A FARCE Serere Arraignment of Our Judiciary, Our Constitution, and Our Institu tions by Mr. Sehweizer. "Laws and rights are inherited like an eternal plague." Goethe. "Courts are slaughter houses of rights." Arndt. Bolton Hall, a prominent lawyer In New York, declining a nomination to a judgeship, wrote to the independent labor party: "I wish not to serve you in any con nection with law, for I do not think that at present either the object or the effect of law is to do justice. Lord Cook said the law was a machine for the creation of costs. Any layman who has experience with it will bear me out in saying that law of today Is merely a game played by us lawyers for our benefit, and under complicated rules made by ourselves at public ex pense. I would not wish to spend my life playing such a game." This explanation is correct. Justice has become a rare, costly drug In this country, which common people can not afford to buy. The old, worthy, scrupulously righteous Dame Justice, with scale In hand and the Icey to the larder in her pocket, who always took pains that every one had his good dinner and plenty, at the right time, died long ago' and was replaced by an indifferent, conceited, unscrup ulous hired girl for everything, who always keeps in reserve an extra sausage and a bottle of champaign for every one of her many beaux. Our proceedings at law are a farce of idiotic technicalities, hair splittings and law chewings, a reproach to all reason and justice. The decisions are based on false oaths and antedeluvlan precedent cases and the more worm eaten and moldy the parchments are from which our judges take their pre cedents the wiser and more just these gentlemen think that their decisions are. At our courts the lawyers represent the torturers of the dark ages con fusing, intimidating, insulting and hypnotizing parties and especially wit nesses to prevent them from telling the truth, and for extorting false con fessions out of them.. I was not only f-urprised, but shocked, after I came to this country and entered a court room the first time, especially when I saw with what indifference judges administer oaths in this country for every trifle. It is a sacrilege to call God on the witness stand for everv disputed nickel, and that's what an oath before the court really is. That deprives the honest, conscientious man of his rights and delivers him at the mercy of every mean, unscrupulous rascal who swears to anything and ev erything. A few such mean rascals can bring the most honest, innocent man to the gallows. Mrs. Harriett Beecher has very truly criticised that system in the romance, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," where the lawyer Marks, who in partnership with Tom Locker had made it a busi ness to catch free negroes and to sell them as. slaves, says: "You see we have justices conven ient at all p'ints along shore that does up any little job in our line quite rea sonable. Tom he does the knocking down and that 'are; and I come in all dressed up shining boots, everything first class when the swearln's to be done. You ought ter see now, how I can tone it off. One day I'm Mr. Ranch For Sale Two miles northwest of Venango, Perkins county, Neb. 295 acres deeded land, 52 acres school land, 20 years' lease; 200 acres has been under high state of cultivation; plenty of gras for hay; miles of free range; 80 acres pasture, 2 wires; frame barn, 24x32x 12 feet; posts Hen on east, L on north room for 75 head cattle; all stock can be fed from Inside the barn; mow room for 12 tons of hay; chicken house and hog pen; frame dwelling, 5 rooms, 3 rooms plastered, kitchen and wash room celled, well painted inside and out; barn and windmill painted; 60 barrel cistern near the barn with wood pump; garden fenced; bushels of strawberries; nice plum grove loaded with plums; plenty gooseberries and pieplant; large rock-walled cement reservoir to irrigate garden; large rock-walled cellar with stone steps; everything in first class shape for cattle ranch. This is a snap for the small sum of $2,250. For fu partic ulars write me at Venango, Neb., Troickem from New Orleans; 'nother day I'm just come up from my plan tation on Pearl river where I works seven hundred niggers; again I come out a distant relative of Henry Clay or some old cock from Kentuck. Tal ent Is different, you know. Now Tom's a roarer when there is any tumping or fighting to be done, but at lying he hain't good, Tom hain't. You see, It don't come natural to him, but Lord, if there's a fellow in the country that can swear to anything and everything and put In all the circumstances and flourishes with a longer face and carry it through better than I can, why, I'd like to see him that all. I believe my heart I could get along and sneak through even if justice was more par-' ticular than they Is. Sometimes I rather wish , they was more partic ular then would be a heap more rel ishing if they was; more fun, yer know." - , It must be about 50 years that Mrs. Beecher has written that serious, but true criticism of our judiciary, but in this long period the judiciary system was not changed by a single letter. We have today by the hundreds or even by the thousands the Tom Lock ers, who have to do the "tumping and knocking down" of men and the Marks who can swear to anything and ev erything and put in all the circum stances and flourish the same with a long, piteous face. They instituted a well organized and well armed and well drilled by the government li censed guild and from their talents and efficacy they have given proof at Homestead, Hazelton, East St. Louis, Brooklyn, Chicago, Coeur d'Alene. These Marks and Toms are hanging around in every court room and are employed with large salaries by rich corporations, which have justice con venient at all points alone shore and does up a little job in their line quite reasonable. If a corporation or one of our millionaires is prosecuted for a crime they go to the president or to a judge and ask what they will charge them for the joke, as for instance by the investigations in the case of Bab cock, Bellknap, Credit Mobilier, plugged up armor plates, embalmed beef, when some of the Marks will come in all dressed up first class, shining boots, to swear to anything and everything desired and the con cerned gentlemen will again be as clean and innocent as a new born baby, just the right gentlemen to be appointed or elected to the United States senate for enacting our laws. In the worst case, if an intelligent jury should resist all intimidations, brlbings and bulldozings of lawyers and judges and send one of our mil lionaire robbers through the front door to the penitentiary there would be one of our higher officers waiting with a key to unlock the hind door of pardon for him. Money buys In digencies for every crime, only for the poor man there is no pardon. Hun dreds of bankers who. robbed the poor of millions were pardoned, but to the poor devil who robbed the mails for only 2 cents a pardon was refused. In Idaho 1,200 men were corralled, ar rested and placed In a stockade, prop erly named a bull pen, where they were cruelly treated and held for months without trial under pretended suspicion of having set fire to a coal mine, although not the least proof could be produced and not a single man could be put on trial. Justice Gunmere of the supreme court of New Jersey handed down a decision, If a railroad kills a child its parents should be satisfied with damage of $1. Chil dren are a source of expense to their parents and of no pecuniary benefits. Justice Robinson, a member of the supreme court of Connecticut, Is re sponsible for this judgment: "Pro vided, the railroad killed a man pain lessly, $10 is sufficient damage for his relatives. The relatives must prove that the man suffered pain to get more. The fact that the body is mutilated does not prove it." The price of men went way down since the emancipation of slaves. A negro was worth from $500 to $2,000, but at present human flesh is the cheapest article In the meat market. If a railroad kills a hog it has to pay from $1 to $20 damage; if it kills a cow or ox it has to pay from $20 to $50 damage, but according to the above cited decisions the officially fixed price for a child is $1 and for a man $10, so that human flesh is even cheaper per pound than pork or beef. This is the most atrocious scorn of justice. Such judges are a disgrace and a curse to a country. Where in justice prevails people must degener ate to stupid slaves, barbarians and cannibals, and In that direction we have made great progress. Laborers in coal mines and sweat shops are worse off than slaves ever were. The devilish refined cruelties wherewith people In China and the Philippine islands were treated stand on a level with the cruelties which once were committed by Attilla and the Huns and in cannibalism can we beat any thing in roasting negroes? The con ditions must be changed, but they can never be changed by brutal force. You can never attain moral good by immoral acts; the end does not justify the means. Club and sword are argu ments of savages and barbarians, but reason, truth and justice are the wea pons of civilized peoples. To change these conditions we must change our political system. The peo ple must take the reins of the govern ment in its own hands. The will of the people must be supreme law. in stead of obeying the dictates of offi cers, lawyers and judges the people must show these gentlemen that they are only hired men of the people, who must work for their wages, obey the will of their masters to whom they are responsible for their acts, the same as other hired men. But from my experience In Switzerland, I know, that that can only be done by a total change of the constitution, which was a patch work right in the start. The most honest, noble, patriotic men of that time opposed it and It was not accepted by the people until It was patched up with several meaningless amendments. Patrick Henry, one of the wisest, most honest statesmen of that time, was the strongest opponent to the adoption of the constitution, and as today his prophecies about the effects of the adoption of the constitution are literally fulfilled, I will give a few sentences from his speech against the adoption of the constitution: Mr. Henry said: "If we make a kin gwe may prescribelhe-Hll pby. terpose such checks as shall prevent him from infringing upon them, .hue the president in the field at the head of his army can prescribe the terms on which he shall resign. . Master so far that it will puzzle every American to get his neck from the galling yoke. Away with your president, we will have a king. The army will salute him as a monarch." But after the constitution was adopted this noble man said: "Yet I will be a peaceful citizen. My head, my heart, and my hand shall be at liberty and remove the defects of this system -in a con stitutional way. I wish not to go to violence, but , will wait with hopes that the spirit which predominated in the revolution is not yet gone nor the cause of those who are attached to this revolution yet lost; I shall therefore patiently wait in expectation of seeing the government changed so as to be compatible with the safety, liberty and happiness of the people." But, alas! this government is not changed yet. We all know that this government is not compatible with safety, liberty and happiness of the people. As Patrick Henry foresaw and foretold, except for a small privileged class, it is at present a great puzzle for any American to get his neck from under this galling yoke as there is not a single sentence in the constitution which confers the least bit of a right upon the people. In the Free Thought Magazine, Judge Parish B. Ladd expresses the sentiments of millions of American citizens when he says: "Where, O. where are our once boasted constitu tional liberties? Where our cherished rights of self-government? . Where our asylum for the oppressed? Where our land of the free and the home of the brave? Alas! all gone down, trampled in the dust by the iron heel of an American despot, sustained by an ir responsible congress of brainless dem agogues and a subservient supreme court." Now there is no other way to change these barbaric systems except to change the constitution, but reform ers must be careful in tearing down existing institutions; they must act like an intelligent archtect who, in tearing down an old bulding, Is al ways careful to save the building ma terial which, by a little hewing, paint ing or polishing, may again be used on the new buildng. Before changng the constitution we must prove and sound the ground for solid moral founda tion. Our political and economic system is a failure because it has no moral foun dation; instead of being based on rea son, knowledge or truth and justice it is based on old superstitions, lgnor ance and brutal force. Our moral code is yet based on thousands of years old Hebrew myths and superstitions which long ago were contradicted by science, and our civil code is based on thou sands of years of old Roman rights which were intended for slavery and absolute private property and there fore it must have the same effect and lead to the same end, where we al ready have arrived. Our president usurped and exercises more absolute powers than any living monarch, and the members of our supreme court Imitated the pope, declaring them selves infallible, what for thousands of years was believed to be an attri bute which belongs only to God. F. SCHWEIZER. Woodlawn, Neb. Remember the Dead If you have relatives dead do not neglect to show your reverence for their memory by erecting a suitable monument at the grave. Do not put it off indefinitely and eventually neg lect it altogether. Write today to Kimball Bros., Lincoln, Neb., for their illustrated catalogue of monu ments and make a selection. You can have it made and in place by fall and will never regret it. Write today white you have it in mind. A SURE CURE Mark Twain's Cousin, G. C. Clemens, of Topeka, Kan., the no ted constitu tional lawyer, who bears so striking a re semblance to Mark Twain, ( Samuel B. Clemens) that he is frequent ly taken for the original Mark, G- c Clemen., is a man of deep intellect and wide experience. He is con sidered one -of the foremost lawyers in this country. In are cent letter to the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Mr. Clemens says: "Personal experience and obser vation have thoroughly satisfied me that Dr. Miles' Nervine contains true merit, and is excellent for what it is recom mended." Mr. Norman Waltrip, Sup. Pres. Bank ers Fraternal Society, Chicago, says: Mr..-Pain Pills are invaluable for headache and all pain. I had been a great sufferer from headache until I learned of the efficacy of Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. Now I always carry them and prevent recurring at tacks by taking a pill when the symp toms first appear." Sold by all Druggists. Price. 25c. per Box. Dr. Miles Medioal Co., Elkhart, Ind. Mr. McCUlla 8 n greats Tbt Rldlevle Is the Only Cnre for m Mallt-Had. TMitor IndeDendent: I believe it Is a pop principle that each one is en Ht W tr his share of time in which to make his speech, so here is mine: FVir governor. Billy Bryan, by al! means: second choice. Sutherland, a dark horse, never. And for campaign argument, pure ridicule. Of course a pop will demand something more sub stantial, but ridicule is the only thing that will make a mullet head think above the belt line. And by all means deprive our republican brother of that patriotic name republican as a party namer bring his position right home to him by always speaking of his party as the corporation, trust or railroad party and he the tool of those who control that party. W. H. MCCLELLAN. Arapahoe, Neb. Brain Leaks. The doubter worries; the believer hopes. When the homes are right the streets are boyless. Patient plodding puts petty schem ing to flight The faith of the mother is the refuge of the wayward. Trusting your own strength is to lean on a broken reed. Flattery has ruined more men and women than adversity. The man who accepts defeat is al ways talking about fate. The applause of the wicked removes no stones from your path. Nations, like men, exert tneir great est Influence by example, not by force. Some men spend enough time mourning over defeat to win glorious victories. Some men train their consciences to approve everything they do and then plead it as an excuse. Employing choirs to do your singins 1r verv much like employing men to live righteously for you. Trying to spread tne gospel 01 peace with bayonet and sword is like trying to wash charcoal white. Rnme men elve to the poor for the .-f lendlne to the Lord with the expectation of securing usurious interest ; The man who is always boasting that his word is as good as his bond usually experiences difficulty in Induc-inmenJXL-P ccettfith er, ' !' fill l"0 Fistula. Fissure, all Rectal f 1 1 I" Diseases radically and per I lULU manently cured in a few weeks without the knife, cutting, liga ture or caustics, and without pain or detention from business. Particulars of our" treatment and sample mailed free. Mr. W. O. McDaniel, railway engi neer, writes: Hermit Remedy Co. Dear Sirs: I have doctored for bleed ing and protruding piles for fifteen years, the trouble becoming worse as time went on, until I was laid up sick In bed not able to attend to my du ties. My wife came to your office to get treatment, one Saturday, the fol lowing Monday I was able to go to work, and in thirty days I was com pletely cured without the loss of an hour's time. Several doctors told m? that nothing but an operation would relieve, and I think the cure in my case, in so short a time, Is wonderful indeed, and is most gratefully ac knowledged. Very truly yours, W. G. McDaniel, 367 Milwaukee ave., Chi cago. We have hundreds of similar testi monials of cures in desperate casts from grateful patients who had tried many cure-alls, doctors' treatment, and different methods of operation without relief. . : Ninety per. cent of the people vfe treat come to us from one telling the other. You can have a trial sample mailed free by writing 113 full partic ulars of your case. Address Hermit Remedy Co., Suite 738, Adams Ex press Building, Chicago, 111. A UEW FAST TRAIN Between St. Louis and Kansas City aad OKLAHOMA CITY, WICHITA, DENISON, SHERMAN, DALLAS, FORT WORTH Aad principal points In Texas and the South wsat. This train Is new throughout and is mads up of the finest equipment, provided with electric lights and all other modern traveling conveniences. It runs via our noir completed Red River Division. Every appliance known to modern car building and railroading has been employed in the make-op of this service, including Cafe Observation Cars, under the management of Fred. Harrey. Full Information as to rates and all details ot a trip via this new route will be cheerfully tarnished, upon application, by any repre- aentauve 01 wo SSI Missouri Pacific HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS to points in Arkansas, Texas, Okla homa, New Mexico, Louisiana, Indian Territory and Arizona, on June 17, July 1 and 15, August 5 and 19 and September 2 and 16. Tickets are good 21 days from date of sale with stop over privileges going. Rate only one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. For illustrated and descriptive pamphlets on Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, etc., or for further information apply at city ticket office, 1039 O st. F. D. CORNELL, P. & T. A. Gaat Lw Priced Hotel n that City. RATES, $1-00 par day and up. Hotel Walton