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." I mi i i -j 7 Aug:. 14, 1902 TKE 17EBB.ASKA INDEPENDENT 5 1 " . fell? v ( It is High Time This Hold-Up Craze Was Snppressed ; Too often you .have tested a mail order proposition only . to. find your self the victim of a hold-up. The idea of giving a fair equivalent for what you gave him never entered the other fellow's mind you had a right to feel sore. No hold-up methods can be tol erated by this Clothing House for these very good reasons:, It is in the busi ness of selling clothes and furnishings has been in it for years and proposes , to stay in it. ,Part of it's business is to see that you trade here. It does business on the theory that you need something in clothes every season and that it ought to supply, you. "Unce a C Customer Always a Customer," is our it motto. -xxiis viuiuiug nuuse a new iun auu 7 winter catalog is just from the press. It is a valuable money-saving guide for any one. Send for it. Probably you are coming to the State Fair. Look up this number and come in and do some' investigating. We claim to be , the best Clothing House in the West. The claim will bear investigation. THE... Armstrong Clothing Co. 1221, 1223, 1225, 1227 O St. Lincoln, Nebraska. Editorial Notes. The wave that has borne the re publican party so gloriously onward for the last few years seems to be broken up into a choppy- sea, with squalls coming from every . direction at the same time. 0 The wholesale price of coffee in New York Is 5 cents a pound, but on ac count of the benevolent assimilation, of - the trusts and railroads by the ' time it gets out to Nebraska we have to pay 35 cents a pound for a good variety of it. A few years ago our manufacturers could be undersold by foreigners and demanded protection. Now they can undersell .-tile foreigners and they de mand more protection. Protection is like whisky once indulged in, the ap petite for it grows by what it feeds upon. If a man wants to know what Is coming, let him run his eye over the mortgage records that have recently been made in the various counties. The . demand for chattel mortgage blanks has been so . great in some places that the supply has been ex hausted. Washington and Jefferson made a republic, but the republican party has turned it into an empire, holding as unwilling subjects 10,000,000 people of another race. That ' thing has been done before In the history of tho world, but it ended in the annihilation of the republic that did it. When the scientists make a classi fication of the people of the United States it is' about as follows: First, the sound and sane. Then follow the perverts, the defectives, the degener ates and the mullet heads. The last are rather more dangerous than the others because they are allowed to run at large and vote. Could the old Puritans In the May flower have been told that the resi dents of the country which they came to settle w'ou'fcf" build another ship named after "the little bark which brought them here, which would cost more to run one day! for the pleasure of the president than the price of their whole voyage, what would they have said? The Independent sends its sincere sympathy to our Uncle Mark. The foreign trade is falling off, the din ner pails of thousands of wage-workers are empty, scores, of great manu facturing concerns are going to other countries where he can't assess them for campaign expenses and taken al together these things make Uncle Mark very sorrowful. A recent German census bulletin asserts that there are 18,000 Ameri cans living in that country, nearly all of whom, are there as students or for pleasure. ;1 If we estimate that they, each spend $1,000 a year; that draws $18,000,000 a year in clean cash from the United States or lessens the bal ance of trade to that amount. Rev. Mr. Savage of Omaha needs the immediate attention of the re publican congressional committee. In a report which he makes of some re vival meetings at Burwell he says the crops are splendid and that "the peo ple are profoundly grateful to God." Now thatris not according to the re publican campaign text book. They should be profoundly grateful to- the republican party. John Lind is a candidate for con gress fn the Fifth Minnesota district and 1 wo other districts in that state are regarded as doubtful by the re publican leaders, all of which has a tendency to make your Uncle Mark feel sad. In a very clear and convincing ad dress to the populist voters of Kansas, State Chairman Babb and Secretary Curran explain the ingenious deviltry of the Kansas ballot law and close with these words: "Many a man has fallen into the" pit he digged for an other. Haman was hanged upon his own gallows." " The Chicago Tribune says that po litical and not medical efficiency is the test applied in selecting 5 employes and superintendents Of hospitals and insane asylums of Illinois. That is a pretty condition for the "God and morality" party to be in, in a great state. But vote .'er- straight. - If ; you dont the country" VIII be ruined. ' Roosevelt sent the labor commis sioner, Wright, to investigate the an thracite coal strike about two months ago. Mr. Wright investigated and sent in his report. Teddy promptly locked it up and no one has ever been al lowed to see it. Lately there have been many demands that the report be made public, l But Teddy says nothing. President Stickney of the Great Western railroad affirms over his own signature that ' the : rebates paid on packing house products "have' ranged all the way from 25 to 50 per cent." These rebates were the foundation of the meat trust. But then you know that your Uncle Mark says there are no trusts. -. . . Editor J. C. Buchanan of the Pitts burg Kansan - is responsible for this atrocity: "Taxation rhymes with cor poration," remarked - Craddock (the democratic nominee for governor of Kansas), "and I'll see they get to gether." "I notice," retorted Bailey (the republican candidate), "that it also rhymes with confiscation, and no corporation will ever stand it." . Your Uncle Mark must have a per fect contempt for Roosevelt and Lit tlefield. He discovered as far back as the iast presidential campaign that there were "no trusts." He must pitty the president and- his eoadjutator when he reads about their efforts to suppress the trusts when there are no trusts to suppress. The Washington authorities have set aside the Clem Deaver sale of Ind ian lands and the little syndicate that paid out .from $100 to $150 each to quite a number of men to keep them out of the room where the fake sale was consummated have lost their mon ey. "Another investigation is to Joe I held concerning the - conduct of the land officers, so it is said. Uncle Joe over in England is having as much trouble as Uncle Mark has here. The colonial premiers have started an Irish home rule movement which is said to ; have more promi nence than any since' the days of Glad stone. The premiers of Canada and Australia have presided at Irish home rule meetings where the Irish lead ers were the principal speakers. Cham berlain undertook to chide them for such conduct and they replied so vig orously that he dropped the subject. These . same colonial premiers have been presiding at what are called pro Boer meetings and Uncle Joe wishes now that ho had -never Invited -them ) to attend the coronation ceremonies. A good deal is said in the' dailies lately about the South American wars and the awful losses they occasion. The losses of all of them put together for ten years will not amount to the damages resulting from one of our big strikes. The South Americans pre fer to indulge in their destructive im pulses in wars while. we prefer strikes. Strikes and wars are of the same na ture and one shows just as much of latent savagery as the other. W. E. Curtis Is disgruntled and very sad. He says that Bryan while on his eastern trip knocked out all the plans of the reorganizes ; ana that there is no hope for Hill to win a victory in New York. ' W. E. Curtis, being a rantakerous republican, one can Im agine how much he would mourn over the fact that the democrats eould not carry New York., The performances of W. E. Curtis are too silly to be even funny. ' ;'' ' . - ' Senator. Piatt in his article In the North American Review acknowledges that there was a contract made with Cuba for, trade advantages with the United States in return for granting this country a suzerainty over the island, just as The Independent said at the time that the Cuban constitu tional convention was forced to change the proposed constitution. It is said now that Cuba will enact a retalia-' tory tariff, a thing that the people have a moral right to do since this country has repudiated its contract. The republican text book is out. Ac cording to the compilers every good thing that- we enjoy comes rrom the republican party. They point to ex ports. The major part of these are the wheat, corn, hogs and cattle raised by the farmers. If the republican par ty was not in power the cattle and hogs would not breed and the wheat and corn would not grow. They point to the increase in population. The only inference to be made is, if the democrats get in power the women will cease to bear children. The reorganlzers are always talking about Bryan having been defeated twice. But their patron saint, the old stuffed Prophet, was also defeated, and defeated when he had his whole party fighting for him. Bryan was de feated because the Cleveland-Hill-Whitney crowd fought him and voted the . republican'., ticket. Not satisfied with that, they put up a sham third ticket and cubbed it democrat to fool as many..; unwary voters as possible. Not.w;thstanc1ns; all-that. Bryan polled more votes than Cleveland' ever did. What . will the State Journal and other papers of that ilk have to say about deficiencies after the next leg islature adjourns? They filled many columns discussing that matter when the fusion government was in power, but the deficits that the next legisla ture will have to make appropriations to meet will be as : much as it cost the people to' run the whole state under the fusion- government. Republican ism comes high and' when the peo ple insist, on having it they must pay the bills. They should do it, too, with out any. howling. The plank in the republican state platform of Iowa demanding a revision of the tariff has driven the New Eng land tariff grafters almost wild. They say it 16 "the ruin of the republican party arid makes it doubtful whether the republicans can hold the state af ter this year. The Cummins following however declares that there is such a sentiment, in the state for tariff revi sion amohg republicans that there is no use trying to resist It. Your Uncle Mark is having lots of trouble these days, in the west as well as in the east.. The Platt-Low combination of re formers in New York city is at last being severely criticised by the mug wump papers. The Springfield Re publican says : "Mr Low, the reform mayor of New York, secured the votes of German-Americans in the last mu nicipal campaign by virtually pledg ing that as mayor he would not en force the excise law so that they would be deprived of their Sunday beer. And the promise was kept. Wasn't a piedge not to 'enforce a law a bribe to the voters?" The Independent never took much stock in that movement. The result is that New York city is no bet ter governed than when under Tam many rule. ..- . - Notes of warning are being sounded more frequently as the months go by. One of them, published in a daily of large circulation, is as follows: "The greatest menace to continued finan cial prosperity is the overstocked strusts. They are capitalized 'on . the theory that the productive energies of the country will always remain at high tide; but when a period of depres sion comes and dividends are reduced or fail, then there will be a rush to unload, arid it will be wise for every man to trim his financial sails." ,One thing is certain, and that is that very few populists will be caught out in the cyclone when it comes. The mul let heads will be found mangled and ruined by the tens of thousands. i Hards Colcma It is estimated that the estate of the late millionaire Californlan who died in England a few weeks ago will have - to pay three or four millions government tax: There is one country where millionaires are forced to pay more than poor men for the support of the general government. The mil lionaires in this country pay no more than do : laborers,' and not as much according to value on their drink and fine clothing imported. Wonder? if Queen Victoria's .estate was taxed un der the same law by the English gov ernment? ' .' If. the Bryan' democratic fusion party sells out to . the , Cleveland-Pierpont Morgan party, as the prohibition party did in '96, or, pulls down the equal ity flag for one we hereby refuse to be delivered as we did in '96. When there is novdifference between the two big parties we. will -go back to the old free soil party and vote for John T. Dale's yellow dog or Abe Lincoln's old shoes. : - i Too much Is being said and done against child labor. There is no doubt that many children are worked too hard, so there are many grown-up women, wives and mothers, who are worked too hard. Many wives have to earn their own-living, support their husbands and on top of that earn his whisky money. :: There are less chil dren who do all that for their fathers. Boys and girls On the farm work or go , to school, and that is one great reason why they make better men and women than ; the boys and girls of cities who have nothing to do. We are in jfavor of jetting the boys and girls work from 'early childhood. We are not in favor of overwork, with either men, women or children, nor even with horse? or oxen. . Education in work is better than book educa tion if you cannot have but one Economical- living is sure to be prac ticed by those .-who earn their own living. Fortunes handed down by parents ,and relatives are sure to do ten heirs harm where it does one any good. Prodigal: living is worse than death. ; , - . . Is it just to make railroads reduce their rates of freight and passenger fare and at the same time make them pay more taxes and higher wages to their men? The state of Montana has levied nearly a million more taxes this year upon her railroads than sh-? did last year. There were several roads about to be built, all of which have been suspended. Everything should be , taxe according to selling value, but there are " many miles of road through wild; Tough country that would not sell alone, for what the iron cost. . , It is really an honor and a credit to Mr. Bryan that the- republican papers publish more about him than about any other man living or dead on the face of the earth. , They do not dare to attack his; doctrine. Not one item in either of the--platforms he stood upon has become -superanuated. Not a single contradiction can be pointed out in anyof his speeches or editor-, ials. v in fact, McKinley adopted Bry an's money doctrine- that legal tender money should" increase as fast a3 tha population and business increases. He coined , more silver, than any other president we ever, had. At the same time gold and bank' bills increased in the same proportion. The increase of money tihas lowered its value , and its rate of Interest or, in other words, ,it ha3 raised the value of property and its rental. Let the greenbacks be re tired and the legal tender of silver limited to ten dollars, as sure as the sun continues to shine another term of hard times will follow. Eight hun dred million reduction in legal tender money will be sure -to have a horrid effect upon the price of property and equally bad effect upon business. The saloons that surround the strik ing coal mines are. not closed. Many of the contributions, from friends and benevolent societies for the feeding of the families of the strikers comes in food for It is learned that if money is sent a good portion of it will be like ly to go for liquor and tobacco. Men are ready to. starve their own families rather than starve their own hellish appetites. We visited " a village of a thousand or twelve hundred inhabi tants, surrounding - the . mouth of a large coal mine. There was no other business beside digging and shipping coal. There were thirty-eight saloons, wide open, within a quarter of a mile of the mouth of the coal shaft, The consumers of that coal have not. only to feed, clothe, and shelter the famil ies of that village, but they have to support these saloons, too. Would it not be better to banish saloonkeepers, gamblers and prostitutes rather than have so many strikes. Then several of the explosions that have occurred in different mines, causing the death of hundreds of miners, -have been traced to the action of drunken min ers. Railroad companies have learned that drinking men are not safe men to trust with track or train responsibil ity. If an employer is to be held. re sponsible t or s what an employe does, to, the harm of another employe, a liquor breath should be sufficient cause for the dismissal of any workingman. It appears that New York million aires have already bought up the friar lands in the Philippine Islands. Now whoever gets the lands will have to pay a big advance. That was the way John Sherman, made his millions. He knew whisky would be taxed and that he controlled the making of the law. So he, with a few money, men, bought up all the whisky on the market; then the law did not tax the stuff already made, but put a big tax on what , was made afterwards So Sherman' put the tax . on whisky in his own pocket. There is nothing like being in league with 'the government. We believe ' in home government. Taking the city, government of Omaha out of the hands of the Omaha people is actually spitting upon the prin ciples of our government. If nothing Is done to violate the constitution and laws of the state, a city should be left free to make their own ordinances and elect their own city officers,, As a rule cities are. no. more corrupt than states in management of public affairs. Cities are corporations as much as a .railroad and none but taxpaying TTT 7v 7 ,f,ji M M III -ttiss Florence Allah. ? J. 0 " V- J " ; BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WHO PRAISE WERUNA THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Worn Out And Nervous! Regained t Their Health And Beauty . By Taking Peruna. Miss Florence Allan, a beautiful Chi cago girl, writes the following to Dr. S. B. Hartman concerning his catarrhal tonic, Peruna: ' ; ' 75 Walton Place, Chicago, UU "Am a tonic for a worn-out system, Peruna stands at the head in my esti mation. Its effects are truly wonder' tul in rejuvenating the entire system. I keep it on band ait the time, and never have that tired feeling,' as a few doses always make me feel like a different woman. '"Florence Allan. Thousands .of women Buffer from sys temic catarrh. This is sure. to produce such symptoms as cold, feet, and hand?, sick headache, palpitation of the heart and heavy feelings in the stomach. . Then begins a series of experiments. They take medicine for sick headache. They take medicine for nervous prostra tion, for palpitation of the heart, for dyspepsia. None of these medicines do any good because they "do !riot reach the cause of the complaint. Peruna at once mitigates all these symptoms by removing the cause. Systemic catarrh is the trouble. Sys temic catarrh pervades the whole sys tem, deranges every organ, weakens every function. No permanent cure can be expected until the systemic catarrh is removed. . , . ' ' This is exactly what Peruna will do. Miss Cullen Wa Exhausted From Over Study. . Miss Rose Cullen, President of the Young Woman's Club, Butte, Montana, writes : i .. .. 921 Galena street, Butte, Mont. Peruna Medicine Co.i Columbus, O. : " Gentlemen "Peruna has many friends in Butte. I cannot say too much in praise of it. While finishing school I became very nervous and exhausted from over study. I was weak and sick, and could neither eat, sleep, nor enjoy life. A couple bottles of Pertina'put new life in me. I find by having it in the house and I taking a dose off and on it keeps me in fine health. A' large number of my friends place Peruna at the head of all medicines." Rose ,Cullen -. . -Peruna is especially adapted to pro tecting against and. curing nervous dis eases of run-down women, as the testi monial of Miss Cullen indicates. Miss Blanche Myers, 3120 Perin street, Kansas City, Mo., has the following to say of Peruna: ;. " 'During each ofthe past four seasons I I , have. caught ft severe cold, when sud denly chilled , after ari evening party, and catarrh for several weeks would be the result.' One bottle of Peruna cured me, and I shall not dread colds any more as I did." Blanche Myers. . An excellent little treatise on " Health and Beauty," Written especially for wo men, DrvHartmai,' wilL be .sent free to any address - by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio. stockholders should be .aljowed to vote. , Home owners know best what homes need. - The .tariff is splitting the republi can party and their leading papers and politicians see it. We believe a ma jority ' of the working people in the party stand with Bryan on the tariff and . trust questions. Many republi cans loath the name of Bryan as much as the slave holders loathed the name of Lincoln. The main reason for it is those two men have always stood up for equal justice to all, black or white, rich or poor. . , Bryan is getting rich they say and is bound to become a millionaire. It is his heart, his head, his mouth and his ren that are doing it. No tariff, trust or special law has ever helped him a cent. The money that has been collected on that line has all been used against him. How tickeled they are to hear he is not a candidate' for renomination. - We fear a sickly season. Floods and fast shifting climate, so' different from seasons before, are sure to bring sick ness. H. W. HARDY. News of the Week Judge Jackson is still, issuing in junctions. One of the latest was di rected against those who fed the strik ers and those buying and distributing food among them. That is a duplica tion of the time when men in the north were arrested by United States marshals for giving food and shelter to black men. ' The whole business is the same old thing over again. British trade is not , experiencing that revival which was commonly ex pected as a result 5f the end of the Boer war. Kaffir stocks s have . been going down hill ever. since, and official labor statistics just published, show a net weekly decrease of $392,500, com pared with the best of 1900. When the bankers bought control of the religious press years ago and the papers were made more the advo cates of financial schemers than of Christ; when their advertising pages showed in what esteem they wers held by Wall street and by. the aristoc racy generally, The Independent' fre quently called attention to ..the. de generacy and foretold their doom. ,. It has come. The. old religious paper U practically going out. of existence. Its power and influence is gone. An east ern daily . calls attention to , the fact in the following words: The religious press of the country is making open confession of its loss of power .to con- 1 tinue the strong independent life that r i 1 1 rr I- a; 1 a. uuc luarKCQ 11. . tuts .ungrega,i,i.uiiaii3i of Boston was forced to, put itself in the hands of. the Congregational" pub lication society, the New York Ob server has lately passed into the hands of . new owners, who will strive after additional streneth for It. and the ln- dependeht-and the "Outlook long ago' transformed themselves into 'weekly magazines. In which the old type of the religious newspaper is sought in vain. Now the New York Evangelist, so long a power in" the Presbyterian church under Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field, is to.;be, merged-with Christian Work. ,The consolidated paper will be known as Christian Work and the Evangelist, and so Dr. Field's paper is to lose its identity -and, be. no.more. , Generals Delarey and Botha were given an ovation' at Stellenbosch, says a Cape- Town dispatch. They were driven to the town hall, and each car riage was drawn by 60 students. At a luncheon which, followed the students acted as waiters. General Botha in a feeling address said the day. of sur render was. the most, painful of , his life, but now jthat it had been done he prayed earnestly . that his hearers should consider it God's will. 'Al though Afrikander nationality, in a manner., had been huried, it would re main the most important factor in the social life of South Africa: Gen eral Botha" paid' a tribute to ex-President Steyn's abilities as a statesman. "Now,, let us-stop bothering ourselves about pplitics'' .said the general, "and try to make ourselves happy in South Africa, because we have no home else--where.''' Generals Botha and Delarey will proceed to England, the United States ..and Canada to collect funds for the relief of widows and orphans of Boer' soldiers . ; The Economic league of New, Eng land, believes, strongly in government ownership of natural monopolies. The league held a convention : at Bridgeport,-. Conn.fv last" week. ,. One of. the songs vsungr ,on, that, occasion had . the following chorus: . J So wake, ye slumbering workingmen, Unite to win the day, And vote -for - government ownership On next election day. - Considerable alarm exists in Illi nois republican circles. Senator. Ma son has revolted against the party machine,- and- declared , his determina tion to seek a re-election through democratic .and Independent republi can votes.- His: anti-imperialist views have kept him put of harmony with his party ffbr soriie? time, arid: will now be of assistance in bringing to him democratic support. - David Davis was elected , senator .under very similar circumstances" from the same state in 1877:"': ' -' : i i V The weather Js-, killing the, summer boarding house, business In " Massa chusetts arid all New England. Hun dreds" of ; people" who engaged rooms and paid for - them in advance have preferred, to stay ,at horne. The few "tourists", who braved the, weather and went to 'the country around Mt. Washington. report that they have had but one -clear day In thirty-five. As the summer boarder is one of the chief sources of, income in that region the people there; are looking forward to a winter', of semi-starvation. I , ' Some .of the. eastern dailies are fig uring uplhow many times the repub lican managers in the senate sat down on" Teddy 'during ..the -f last session. They .enumerate several cases, but two. especially, where they sat down j ex ceedingly hard. v One .was the Cuban reciprocity scheme. The other wa3 still worse' Teddy had' recommended publicity aS' a Check Upon the trusts. Senator DuBoigj put those-clauses from the message into -ithe form of an amendment to the census bill, but the republicans would not have them at all. They were taken verbatim from the much , talked-of Littlefleld bill, which the president asked Littlefleld to draft. The promise now that that bill will be introduced next winter and crush the trusts don't carry much weight. The senate ;wilh- have to be changed before.it can pass. The labor leaders are' looking for ward-with much hope to the supreme court to overthrow some of. the lata injunction orders..-They might as well apply to the devi for a supply of holy water: ' . ' v The asphalt trust collapsed from too much water, and -exorbitant charges. Now paving is being done In New York at $1.05 per jfard, whereas a year ago the trust charged $2.75: The trusts, you know, are able to reduce expenses and make many economies impossible in open competition.. .That is what the asphalt fellows said when they were forming the trust, and the fel lows who read only the republican papers all said: "Yep. That's so." Devery gave an outing to the wom en and children of the Tammany dis trict, which he wi3hes to represent, the other day. Two big steamboats and six barges were crowded with the women and children. Three life-savers, one trained nurse and one physi cian were stationed on each of , the six boats... There were 12 brass bands. As for the eatables, there were 3,000 cab bages, 2,500 loaves of bread, making a pile twice as high as a man's head. l,500,pounds of cake, 4,000 gallons of milk, and the ingredients for 30.000 plates of clam chowder, besides inci dentals.. The head steward command ed a corps of 145 persons. Devery foots all the bills, and asks only votes in return. The aristocratic reformers of New York never do anything of that kind and then they wonder why the poor of New York' vote the Tammany ticket every time. How many , thousands". Of men are out on strikes at the present time It 13 impossible to tell, but it is generally conceded that there are more men out than at any time in the history of the government. The corporations take the same attitude everywhere, so much so that a general agreement seems to exist between them to crush organized labor. The one reply made by all of them is: "There is nothing to arbi trate." Everywhere labor unions have Biggest in Years! ..THE.. Nebraska State Fair. 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