IF.... You were going to ship stock to Omaha and you didn't know one commission firm from the other, its a ten to one shot that you would inquire of some neighbor that you knew, and if he told you of a firm that had always dealt square you'd hunt them up. When you want to buy anything, and you don't know one store from another, its a good deal the same way you ask somebody And if they tell you of a store that has always dealt square you will be apt to go there with confidence. Ask your neighbor about us. Ak them if they ever hekrd a kick on uThe Nebraska." Come and eee us on the strength of what your neighbors say about us and you'll soon be telling how well you got used. If you can't come, send for our catalogue. We issue two, one for men and one for women. Write for either or both. GT7 '0 . i&PUl A A W9i dependent does not positively assert that Wellman was that man, but af firms that to its best recollection and belief that he was. A man who would write the falsehoods in the letter which was printed in the Record-Herald, September 9, would be very like ly to do just such a thing. Wellman is just the sort of a man to charge Bryan with dishonesty and sub terfuge, but the important thing about this matter is that every plutocratic daily will take up this statement and make it a basis for editorial writing. New assaults will be made upon Bry an and that wing of the democracy that he represents. The republican daily papers are filled from the beginning to the end of every year with just such ma licious falsehoods as are contained in this letter of Wellman's. THE ANSWER IS: "NO" A gentleman who for thirty years has been engaged exclusively in lite rary work and has been successful, be ing among the ten or fifteen who stand at the top of the profession in New York city, writes to the editor of The Independent and invites him to come to New York, where he says a money making career surely awaits him. Sev eral such invitations haVe been re ceived during the last year and the same assurances of success given. One man said he would insure a circulation to a paper of the character of The In dependent of 100,000 within a year and if at the end of that time it could be sold for a check of five figures at any time. This last writer says: "I have carefully examined three or four edi tions of The Independent which have been sent to me by a friend and I say that in style, force and pungent writ ing, as well as the character of the themes discussed, it is wholly unique among newspapers. It is the only writ ing that I ever saw that could make the dull subject of political economy interesting. Usually I would rather attack an abstruse problem in algebra than read a chapter on political econ omy, but The Independent makes that subject as Interesting as a problem play or the latest and best novel. Come east. Here is the place from which to disseminate all kinds of literature. No matter what its elegance or value may be, it will not circulate from west to east. Again I say, come east." To invite the editor of The Inde pendent to go east is useless. The west is "his own, his native land." Its fertile farms, its groves and streams are all a part of his very nature, and to them he clings. There is no telling what he might do down there among the Morgans, Baers and Rockefellers. He probably would not be the same man at all and the style of his writ ing might so change that it would not be any more interesting, with the writ er surrounded by that environment, than that of those who are there now. Many thanks for the kind compli ments, but the answer must be: "No." BEET SUGAR TRUST The Independent has never been de ceived by the Elkins-Dietrich-Millard 1 rogram. That those men were deep ly interested in the welfare of the farmers and from purely patriotic mo lives were fighting reciprocity with Oil-a no man who had even a superfi cial knowledge of them ever believed. It is now announced that H. O. Have in eyer and his friends have acquired a controlling interest in no less than fourteen plants engaged in the manu facture of beet sugar. These plants have a capacity of 9,000 tons of beets a nay, as compared with a total con sumption of 25,000 tons of beets a day In the entire country. This presents evidence of the strong foothold, so far as the manufacture of beet sugar is concerned, that has been obtained by the American Sugar Refining com pany. Eventually it is the intention to combine all these plants Into a sin gle company. Beet sugar manufacturing is a part ot the sugar trust and The Independent has said so all the time, which is an other demonstration of the fact that the readers of this paper can rely on its statements most implicitly. MORE PLUTOCRATIC LIES While the American plutocratic dail ies are declaring that arbitration in New Zealand is a failure, the London Times, which is as mucn opposed to it as the anthracite coal barons, prints a letter from a New Zealand corre spondent in which the writer says: "It is fair to the authors of the conciliation and arbitration act to own that all the evil consequences which its adversaries predicted have not come to pass, and that employers have not withdrawn their capital In order to escape , what it was said.woujd, scon be come intolerable tyranny. We are ready to admit thta this has been in some degree owing to the good sense of leaders of the trade unions who moderated demands and stopped wholly unreasonable ap plications." Only let the plutocratic dailies unite in saying anything and it seems that the whole population will believe it, populists and democrats as well as re publicans, and the editorial statements that New Zealand is on the verge of revolt against arbitration Is a case ex actly in point. GROWN ARROGANT Twenty-five years ago the railroad officials had a wholesome fear of what the people might do in the state in re lation to railroads. This writer has a distinct remembrance of one order that was issued to train men on one of the roads. They were directed to try to get acquainted with the farmers along the line, to show them the great est respect, answer all questions po litely, point out things that might be of interest to them about the engines and trains and in every way cultivate their good will. Now no such orders are given. Instead, the most arbitrary rules are issued without any consid eration for the convenience of the farmers. Many of these rules have in times past been adjudged illegal by the courts, but the railroads don't care a fig for that. What has caused this great change in the attitude of the railroads toward the people? It is simply this: They have learned that by getting control of the machinery of the republican par ty, the expenditure of a few thousand dollars each year in cash for republi can campaign funds and subsidizing a few conscienceless scamps in each lit tle town with passes, they can run the state government to suit them selves. Besides this, they have to fee a host of lawyers, all of whom have passes all over the United States. By controlling the elections they control the courts. It would be a pretty, tough proposition in any part of the state where the republicans rule for any lawyer who was disposed to do jus tice between the people and the rail roads to attempt to be elected judge. That accounts for the arrogance of the railroads, their arbitrary rules, their exorbitant rates. Their reliance is on the partisan insanity of the people. They know that there are thousands of farmers in Nebraska who will vot the republican ticket even if the pres ent rates were doubled and the con ductor should give each of them a kick every time they got on or off a train. They think that they have to "pro te6t the infant industries" even if the roads take half of what they produce, and to do that they must 7ote the re publican ticket. A FAIR TO URAW TO Governor Savage and Coal Baroa Baer would make a pair upon which any republican could raise the bet and draw to with the perfect assurance of winning. Baer says he Is the vice gerent of God to whom the Almighty has confided the property Interests of the country and Savage says in reply to the miners' demand for arbitra tion: "Arbitration is simply a crutch on which organized anarchy is willing to lean for support after it has found lawlessness of no avail, and while it may contain some merit, it is its subtle progeny and is of kindred parentage." Notwithstanding that the bosses de clare that you are an anarchist and have found lawlessness of no avail, dear brother wage-worker, continue to vote 'er straight or the country will be ruined. There is not a particle of doubt that Savage and Baer represent the real feeling that republicans en tertain towards wage-workers and producers. The only difference be tween them and some others is that the others have sense enough to hold their tongues. A FAIR SAMPLE In no state in the union where the republicans hold power is there any effort being made to check the trusts or interfere with oppressions of the corporations. Nebraska is a fair sam ple of the rest. When a demand was made to force the railroad corpora tions to pay their just share of taxes, the attorney general, as a representa tive of the party and its policies, as sembled around him all the leading railroad corporation lawyers in the state and he and they together fought against the demand of the taxpay ers, which was an equitable demand, that all property should be taxed ac cording to its salable value. Prout and his associates in office in the state house owe their positions to the solid support of every railroad corporation in the state. Every man in Nebraska who has common sense knows that the republican party always has the ac tive support of every railroad official in the state. He knows that they go to the extent of sending an agent to the state university every year and offering bribes in the shape of a pass to every student to go home who will vote the republican ticket. He knows that they will do that again this year and that hundreds of passes will be given to voters who are absent from the state to come home and Vote. He knows that the railroads selected the two present United States senators. He knows that every delegate to a repub lican state convention is given a pass to go and return. Most of them know that the railroads have permanent agents at every little town in the state who work all the year round in the interests of the republican party and are paid for their work with rebates and passes. All this is common knowl edge possessed by every intelligent man. There can be nothing else ex pected from republican officials than that they will work for the interest of the railroads and that in every dis pute between the roads and the people, whether it is taxation or freight and passenger rates, the officials will take the side of the roads. He knows that ten days before the last republican state convention that a railroad attor ney announced that the roads had agreed on Mickey for governor and that that Mickey was nominated. All this is common knowledge, and then comes Tim Sedgwick and announces that the republican party has thrown off corporation domination and re fused to nominate the candidates that the railroads wanted. The mullet heads all answer to Tim's assertion: "Yep. That's so." The old plan of the money power was to double debts by doubling the purchasing power of money. The new plan is to double capital by watering stocks. The result will be the same in both cases. Mr. Hardy regards it "a little queer how frost conquers the wind" and comments on "how still and calm it was during those frosty nights." Isn't it barely possible that the wind con qjerp the frost and that the stillness an calmness of those nights gave the frcct a chance? The republican thieves in Thurston county have been so active this year that it has been necessary to send four different inspectors from Washington Uj investigate, watch and prosecute them. Special Agent Ruby arrived lart week to take the evidence in the Clem Deaver land steal. It costs more to watch these republicans than their Fal&ries amount to and the watching don't seem to do much good. How would it do to try a few honest men for a -while? G.A. R. FOR WASHINGTON The Nebraska official train will leave Chicago via Wabash R. R. at 12 o'clock noon October 5, passing Niagara Falls next morning and arriving, Washing ton 4 o'clock afternoon. Cheap rates, long limit and stop-over allowed on Wabash line. Be sure your ticket reads from Chicago over the Wabash Route. Your local agent can sell that way. Other information address Harry E. Moores. General Agent Passenger De partment, Omaha, Neb. Editorial Notes. For the first time in forty years the republicans failed to get a majority in Vermont, and in Maine the demo crats increased their representation in the legislature by more than a dozen and elected sheriffs and other officers in localities where they never did be fore. The president was right in or dering his cabinet to stump the New Er.sriand states for. there was danger there. The secretary of the anti-imperialist league denounces the statements, in the daily papers to the effect that "anti imperialists will suspend agitation for the present." He says the league is just at present sending out 121,000 copies of Senator Hoar's speech, 25, 000 copies of a pamphlet written by Sixto Lopez besides thousands of oth er documents. He adds: "Our work is limited only by our financial ability, not by lack of zeal or interest in the cause." One of the most hopeful things that The Independent has noticed in con nection with the churches for a long time is that a good many of them have been taking up collections for the striking miners. Such a collec tion as that will have more religious effect than the taking of half a dozen to send missionaries to China to be murdered by the boxers. A few more such kindly acts towards wage-workers would go far toward changing the feeling that laboring people have been manifesting toward the church. The amount of water on which the people of the United States are paying interest cannot be accurately stated, but it mounts up to thousands of mil lions. The United States census re ports that the value of all the plants and the money used in the manufac ture of steel in the whole country was $590,530,484 and the steel trust is pay ing interest and dividends on $1,400V 000,000, while outside of the trust there are. many independent plants. That seems even better than "making mon ey dear and all other things cheap." The declaration of the motorman on the car that smashed into the presi dent's carriage and killed the secret service man Craig that he "had the right of way," will bring that question before the people. The truth is that a street car company gets the right to lay tracks on the streets, but as to the ight of way it has no superiority over a four-horse wagon, baby wagon or footman. All these have rights of way in the streets, but must not use them to obstruct traffic. That is the truth about the matter. By constant hammering, open let ters to secretary of the interior and commissioner of Indian affairs and much personal work, Congressman Robinson seems to have awakened the authorities to the real situation in re gard to the syndicate stealing from the Indians in his' district. His ef fort has been to get such rules promul gated as will give the farmer a chance to purchase the lands that have come on the market without paying a big rake-off to the distinguished crowd of republicans who planned a big rake-off. When Major Gardener arrived at San Francisco he was asked: "Had you any idea that your report might be used for political purposes," he re plied with evident astonishment: "Politics! Why I have never mixed in politics of any' sort. My politics consists of the Declaration of Indepen dence and the golden rule." That an swer settles the doom of Major Garde ner. An army officer who will public ly declare that he still believes in the Declaration of Independence, the im perialists will find means to squelch pretty quick. He will go the Way of Schley and Miles. Recent reports from India are to the effect that rains have been general and there is a prospect of some relief for the starving millions. Some mil lions have died of starvation during the last four years and the work oxen and milk cows have almost become ex tinct. That being the condition of England's subject nation, it is casually announced in a recent letter from Delhi that $2,000,000 were spent in that city to celebrate the coronation of their alien king. Such is the results of the rule of plutocracy. That is what imperialism has done in all ages past and what it does today. When automobiles first appeared in England years ago, parliament passed a law that a man should always walk in front of them waving a red flag and they had to pay 900 per cent more on the toll roads than "a coach and four." That law was not repealed until 1896. Parliament at that time was complete ly dominated by the railroads and they feared the competition of the steam road wagons. Such laws killed the business. It is probable that auto mobiles would long since have been in general use had it not been for the effective opposition of the railroads. The telegraph and district messen ger companies should be prohibited by law from employing girls as messen gers. The messengers of these com panies are sent to gambling hells, bawdy houses and saloons or wherever a message is directed or a messenger ordered. It is bad enough for boys PE-RU-NA IS THE FRSEN 3 So Says Mrs. Rose, of New York City, And Tens of Thousands of Other Women. i 1 i 1 mm Mrs. Jennie Rose, 362 W. 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I am now a strong woman weighing 148 pounds." Alice Scott. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the u?e of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by mothers for their children while teeth ing. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of Cut ting Teeth? If so send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup" for Children Teething. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures diarrho. regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for chil dren teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States, and is for sale by all druggists throughout tbe world. Price. 25 cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup." and ought to be made impossible for girls to engage in such business. It is an open door for entering on a street life. The telegraph companies are rich enough to pay boys a salary suf ficient to keep the ranks full. But capital has no soul and no morals. The democratic party of Colorado in spite of all that Senators Teller and Patterson could do, refused to fuse with the populist party and resolved to take to the middle of the road. That gives Wolcott a good chance to get back into the United States senate as well as the probable retirement of Senator Teller. The thing was engi neered by ex-Governor Thomas. Tho mas was bent on getting into the United States senate. When Patter son was chosen two years ago and Tel ler became the unanimous choice of the populists anu democrats this year, he preferred to wreck the party. Such is politics. It seems difficult for Mr. Hardy to distinguish between child labor in fac tories and having the children help do work about the home. Undoubtedly children should be taught to work, to do something useful, to be a help to their parents. But there is a world of difierence between having a little girl o- ten "do up the dishes" and help mother sweep and dust, and having her labor continuously for ten hours watching and tending a piece of dan gerou? machinery, with only a short irn ei mission for lunch. The labor un ions are right. The business of manufacturing oleo margarine for export amounts to sev eral million dollars a year, the most of it going to the South American countries where it is impossible to ship butter. The law demands that all oleo for export must be marked "adul terated" which absolutely prohibits ex portation. So this great industry, along with several other manufactur ing businesses, are moving over into Canada. This last republican con cress, beinar erreat Anglophiles and not j knowing how they could go directly to the aid of the English; did the next thing to it and passed a lot of laws that greatly benefit Canada. The plutocratic dalies are filled with editorials declaring that the working people of New Zealand have become dissatisfied with their arbitration laws and are demanding a repeal of them. Let no one believe a word of it. There is no evidence to sustain the declara tion of these editors. It is likely that an order has gone fortn from the trust magnates of this country and partic- . ularly from the anthracite coal barons that such editorials shall be written because of the general demand in the east that the coal strike shall be arbi trated. They have issued the order so as to stop that demand and the flunkey editors have instantly obeyed. Tom Johnson may make a valiant fight on state issues only, but if he really desires to become a presidential candidate he will some time have to make an explicit statement concern ing his views upon finance. Does he believe the government should control the volume of money and so regulate it as to secure stable prices? Does he think that it is necessary, for the gov ernment to issue a bond, sell that bond to a banker, then take -back the bond and give to the banker the full amount paid for it, allow the banker to col lect interest on the bond and the mon ey that the government has given him, all for the purpose of getting into cir culation the audltional amount of money that we must have after all the gold and silver . that is mined Is coined? The "four hundred" are a lot of people who try to keep themselves aloof from the rest of the people and then style themselves "the best so ciety." They adopted the name "smart set" to sidetrack the other epithets which were constantly applied, to them. The "horsey girl," who fre quents the race tracks, the owner of the jeweled fingers that handle the chips at Saratoga, the female admir ers of the nastiest French plays and still nastier French novels make up for the most part the feminine portion of it. As for the male side, it is com posed of men who admire women of that character. That is the sort of "best society" that plutocracy has giv en us and it is called "the four hun dred." It has been remarked by more ob servant men than one that reorganiza tion on a revised basis of radicalism, and reorganization on the old basis of tariff for revenue only and not much else, now contest for supremacy in the democracy. The Ohio state democratic convention, under the control of John son, is apparently to lead in the one movement, and the coming New York state democratic convention, under the control of Hill, is apparently to lead in the ot r. As The Independent has before said, it is for reorganization of the democratic party and will watch with eager interest the battle royal now on between the old moss backs and the new democracy which was brought into existence by the genius of Bryan. One W. E. Fairbanks of Blooming- Patronize HOME INDUSTRY BUY.. (BB) ... HARNESS ....COLLARS ....SADDLES Ask your dealer for them. Mfgd. by BUCKSTAFF BROS. MFG. CO. LINCOLN, NEB. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state afore said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of De cember, A. D., 1886. (Seal) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ton, Neb., has written the editor of The Independent what he probably supposed to Le a "scorching" letter the usual mid-road harangue. He ac cuses the editor of thinking more of "political power" than of underlying principles and then bitterly accuses us of being one who "recommended. Let the democrats swallow us boly and bones and we will take what the democrats are a mind to give us." Strange reasoning, indeed. If we should permit the democrats to swal low us, that would not give us much political power, would it? The Inde pendent knows nothing about Mr. Fairbanks, but his talk sounds much like that of a man who had labored hard to get an office and failed; or else a man who has held office at the hands of democrats and populists and feels aggrieved because he can't get a life-lease on the place. It will pay you to read the advertise ments and take advantage of the bar gains offered. LOW RATES TO CALIFORNIA AND OREGON via the : : : ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM. During September and October the Rock Island will sell tickets to the principal points in California and Ore gon at rate of $25.00. Only two and one-half days from Lincoln to Los Angeles via the Rock Island's new El Paso line. For further Information call on or address : : : F. H. BARNES. C. P. A.. 1045 O St., Lincoln, Neb. I. H. Hatfield, Attorney SHERIFF SALE Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an order of sale issued by the Clerk of the Dis trict Court of the Third Judicial District ot Nebraska, within and for Lancaster County, in an action wherein KllisT. Hartley ia plaintiff, and Mary Fitzgerald, in her own right, and as administratrix of the estate of John Fitzfrorald, deceased, et al Defendants, I will, at 2 o'clock, P. M., on the 30th day of September, A. D. lr, at the east door or the Court Houe. in the city of Lincoln. Lancaster County, Nebrafc a, o.f cr for sal at public auction the following de scribed Lands and Tenements, to-wit: The north half of Lot Three (3) ia Block Two (2) in Mnir's Addition to J. O. Young's East Lincoln, Lot five (5) in Block Twentj-nine (29) in Kinney's "O" Street Addition. Lot Ten (10) of irregular tracts in the Fouthwest Quarter (SWi of Section Twenty, five (25) Township Tn (10) North of Range sf (6) Ea?tof tin 6th P. M.. all in the city of Lin coln, Lancaster Countv, Veraska. Given under my hand this 27th day of Aacuit A. D. 1932. Z. 8. Branov, Shri2,