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r V ' THs4 NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Sept. .25f:iOQ2 M is r' '.a . bank was robbed, but not broken, as ;r.;r; its directors ' feared. .rr; 5 Actual evils often exist and for Tc-rb -he time are as grave as they appear, ; r.-. but mysteriously bear their own red ;vr ' re8s and healing In them. The snake's ; - skin cures the snake's bite. The Mex- lean war was bitterly opposed by near ly the entire whig party. Probably no well-informed man now lives who does not consider that that war was a benediction to the United States and - . to humanity at large. Our purchase of ;r Alaska long seemed money thrown away, but - sealskins and gold, fish, -v lumber, and silver fox pelts fully bal ance the account. In an address pre : senting to the senate a bill providing ; .Alaska with a code of procedure, Sena j tor Carter of Montana declared that ; , Alaska had yielded to the treasury and people of the United States a million f -dollars for every thousand invested ' K ! in the purchase. From the British . - point of view the success of the Ameri r can, revolution was a terrible mlsfor- tune. Yet the British empire today, ; -owing to the more Just government of . colonies brought to pass by that revo- - ; 'lution, is in all probability vastly -stronger and happier than it would have been had said revolution never . occurred. The protestant reformation :;'has in a similar way fortified the Ro- man Catholic church, which, at the "time, naturally deemed the reforma Z. ' on an unmixed disaster, "r & KvUs often exist and are as h grave as they seem, yet are followed, Vs not casually; but in the order of time, -by compensatory blessings so massive' : as to force forgetfulness of what pre ceded. Take the revolutionary period. v -of 1848, with ' Chartism in England, and mark how quickly all storm and :.-.ritresa passed with the discovery of gold, multiplying business, and rals lng profits and wages. Chartism and barricades did not cause gqld to be found,' but the gold, when found, caused Chartism and barricades to dis- ; .appear. i ; r ?. Since the common man awoke to the conscious possession of rights - . which the privileged were, bound to ,: respect, his upward career has never ibeen permanently checked. Witness ; the long struggle of plebs against pa .triciana in Rome, in which, despite all sorts and magnitudes of obstacles, vic . .tory more and more-at last .decisive- ly-crown9d the people's cause. Re-;- ' call the sweeping triumph of the Third " .Estate in France, first over the feudal lord, then over the king. The history of the rise of free' institutions Is in - point, particularly in England. The .wildest pessimist must admit that .many and many a crisis in that his V' tory has seen the common man's cause ; .much harder bestead than it Is now. -'' 8. Suppose all these consolatory thoughts dismissed as of no worth, and suppose the entire visible prospect to - contain no hope whatever, still,-even v so, at the very worst, no one can prove that there is no hope. Good :- may be in store though you may not ;;ee it. The invisible portion of reality . 1s immensely larger than the visible. " If the belt or patch of life where we . this moment are is so dark that we 1 cannot carry out of it any hope what ever, it cannot possibly be of such a nature as to prove that realms not yet traversed are as angry as it is. Even after Magna, Charta and the rise -of parliament liberty in England seemed chained to 'its nadir, rising a little now and then, but as surely sink ing. Through the whole, Tudor Cen tury the oppressed, aghast at the ra pacity of the rich and great; , the tra vesties of justice named court pro ceedings, the murder and rapine com manded by monarchs, with no redress, no appeal, incessantly cried out, How long, O Lord, how long! It was not very long. The Stuart century, the very next to come, saw a king decapi tated, a Petition of Rights granted, a Bill of Rights enforced, the monarchy - effectually limited. If you are devout you say God was standing within the shadow keeping watch over his own. Is the God of Naseby and Marston Moor dead? If of a secular temper you say Hearts of Oak did it, hearts of " ,oalv in Saxon and Norman men. Has .the oak in the hearts of Saxon and Norman men turned to pine or punk wood? Let us have patience with ourselves. Our. national experience of late has . been bo bewildering that it is no won " der if our minds are a bit unsteady, " Our thoughts of national duty, our creeds, .even, have, since Just before the Spanish. war, been shifting like a kaleidescope. A foreigner observing this might be reminded of the foot note on the weekly church notice slip In a certain very advanced church, reading like a railway time table, "Doctrines subject to change without '.. notice." ?V The people who think the future of .this country wholly dark seem to view "imperialism" and the trusts as the two .blackest thunder clouds in the sky. la this they are probably right. " If it can b shown that even these phenomena, troublous, threatening and obstinate as they are, may quite pos sibly evolve in a manner to leave the republic in that, free, the ,home of a, happy people, and the best govern- - ment on earth, we may for the present dismiss the minor infelicities that have been mentioned entirely from our view. Let us then examine calmly those two arch dragons; let us walk boldly up to them, look into their structure and ascertain if we can what their evolu-, tion is likely to be. Let us first deal in this way with "imperialism." Within the last few years, as the whole world knows, the United States has become possessed of a number of island territories, each bearing a num erous population unlike that existing in any part of the old United States, these territories all lying at a consid erable remove from the former United States borders, , Some of these depen dencies are so situated that their pos session by the United States draws the United States Into unprecedentedly ; close neighbornood and relations with foreign powers. The new populations themselves are the incarnation of . knotty problems galore. There can be no question that this enlargement of -..our domain creates a" precarious situa tion for the government we love, a situation full of danger even if also full of promise. No sensible man assumes that our rule in these until recently foreign parts will bo pleasant, easy or uniformly successful. It is quite un likely to be so. It is the part; of wis dom and patriotism to point out in the most cold-blooded manner the dif ficulties which our momentous under taking will involve. ' Those seeing the most danger in this new national path and seeing them the most clearly seem to think that the last presidential election,' with the re cent decisions of the supreme court in the island cases, has some how irre vocably consigned the country to a system of crown colonies such as Ind ia is, natives without any part in their own government and equally without hope of ever having such. Were that the meaning of United States expan sion our people would oppose it to a man. But it is not On the contrary, such is the spirit of our political par tics and partisans and especially of our voters, every community under United States sovereignty, soon as It comes to possess a reasonable measure of civic ability, may be sure of govern mental autonomy perfectly satisfactory to itself, either like Hawaii, under our flag, or, like Cuba, out from under our flag. .- ' ' ' The United States may elect to con stitute Puerto Rieo and Luzon each an independent state like Cuba under a United States protectorate. Many did not think this likely in the case of Cuba, but it was done. The same out come is certainly, among the possibili ties for the other two. Some would regard such independence on the part of the lands named unfortunate for them and also for us, but- those who most dread expansion would certainly be relieved of their principal mental distress were they sure that all the bodies politic we took from Spain were soon to be free and independent states. Another conceivable , event is .that Puerto Rico and the Philippine archi pelago, following the example of Ha waii rather than that of Cuba, remain under the flag, graduating, piece by piece, as one community after another is found fit, into territories and then into states under one constitution. Contrary to a common thought, the supreme court's decision.does not at all preclude this. A joint resolution by congress can impart territoriality- or statehood to a half foreign populace like Luzon or to one fully foreign as Hawaii was, just as easily as it can to one under the constitution at the start. Puerto Rico or Luzon may one day be come a state under the flag as Cuba has become one out from under the flag. . ' Many, we know, would deprecate the expansion of our country in this form, however conservative, but most of the objections which they make to expansion in this form, provided it is conservative, seem to more fanciful than solid. Particularly ought not ex pansion of that sort to be bewailed should 5 the peoples named conclude of their own accord to cast in their lot with us; a determination not at all unlikely if they are assured that in case of such choice they would be our genuine co-citizens and not our teub jects. It has seemed to me that had our dealing with those populations been a little more' clever they would have wished to be of us and no sem blance of coercion would have been necessary. It Is quite within our pow er even now to exhibit to them such a spirit that- none will ever wish to haul dow;i our flag from over their heads. : I cannot think that it could ruin this republic toannex remote peoples upon the basis thus suggested. The principal objection seems to be the "danger that undesirable foreigners will move in and compete with working men here. That would certainly be a misfortune, but the fear does not seem to me well grounded. England has not suffered so. Millions of negroes, Malays and1 people of other unintelli gent stocks are barred by nothing but the trifling expense of the steerage from flocking to Great Britain to dis place British labor. They have a perfect legal right to settle in Eng land, but they do not. Some Chinese and Japanese already resident in the Philippines might come to the states, causing a ripple of unhealthy compe tition for a time, but this could not last long unless those peoples were admitted to the Philippines from Chi na and Japan, which of course could be prevented just as their admission to California Is prevented at present. What makes the shoe pinch with many no doubt is the eertainty that, at best, in parts of Hawaii and in the central and south of the Philippines, the form of imperialism must last for years, the peoples there being too bar barous to realize for a long time any promise of self-government held out to them. They will have to remain, di rectly or indirectly, under congres sional rule, with such constitutional guarantees as congress may think it wise to establish. It is thought that such a regime must mean tyranny there and the vitiation of democracy at home. Bat would these evils result? The American congress is created by the American people, and must in the long run act out far as well as near the spirit and wishes of the people. If you can trust the people you can trust congress to do what ought to be done with any human beings vmder our sov ereignty however remote. What if the constitution does not extend to the islands ex proprio vi gore! You can force congress to car ry the whole of it there. If you can not trust the American people to look after the maintenance of liberty, there Is no hope for the republic extended or unextended. Men's very attitude of appeal the cry of danger presup poses conviction that conscience, pa triotiGm, integrity, reason, humanity and other noble principles are not dead among us. I am sure that they are not dead and that we can trust them to rectify and prevent wrongs. Therefore, even though our dealings with Puerto Ricans, and Filipinos may not go on according to the policy whlch many of us would have pre ferred, it Is stupid to despair. There is an opinion that though our home political life might securely stand the strain of governing depen dencies, we, being a republic, could not possibly govern them well. I am sure that its advocates, Intelligent a.3 many-of them are, do not see the whole logic of this view. It means that republics are unfit to take part, and if they are philanthropic and mind their business none will take any part, in j FROM DEATH'S DOOR TIMELY RESCUE OF A WOMAN IN . OREGON, ILL. : How 6he was 8vcd From a Horrible peath Wb AH Hop vras Qoat Story la Her Own Words "I hope never to go through such an experience again," said Mrs. C. L. McDowell, of Oregon, 111., whose nar row escape from death is best told in her own words.. "I was always weakly," she contin ued, "but, in 1894, the childbed fever in a very severe form left me in a miserable condition. My blood turned to water and it seemed I could not recover any strength. I was white aa a sheet, without any ambition and so low that no one thought I would ever get well. In addition to all this I had neuralgia in its worst form. My grandmother died with neuralgia and I was afraid it would take me away. I cannot tell you how I suffered with it for years. It was terrible." "But how were you cured?" asked the reporter. "The best doctors could not help me and I never thought I would get well," replied Mrs. McDowell. "But one day I read an advertisement of Dr. Will iams Pink Pills for Pale People and I concluded to try them. I found relief in the first box, so I continued to take them. The neuralgia gradually grew less severe until it disappeared alto gether, my color returned, I gained in strength and now my blood is in good condition again." The pills which cured Mrs. McDowell are an unfailing specific for all dis eases arising from disorders of the blood and nerves Among the many diseases they have cured are locomo tor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumat ism, nervous headache, the after ef fects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions and all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by all dealers or will be 'sent postpaid on re ceipt of price, fifty cents a box; six boxes for two dollars and a half, by addressing Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, Do not trust the word of a man who says he has the genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in bulk. Nqne of these fam ous pills ever leave the factory except in packages bearing the well-known trade mark composed of the seven words "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." the political education of those back ward races which still so largely con stitute the world's population. By this theory, the sole way In which repub lics can multiply is by converting or conquering peoples who have first been thoroughly drilled in monarchical ideas, either monarchies now existing or younger monarchies in lands like India or China, which, because repub lics dared not undertake the task, were tutored and trained by - monarchies older than themselves. Monarchical nations are not going to keep out of Oceanica just because we do, if we do. They will conquer, annex, and, in their way, educate. Spite of such monarchi cal pre-emption of the earth, republi can propagandism, following along later, may ultimately convert a na tion here and there, but it must be af ter centuries of wasted time and ef fort; It is hard to teach an adult dog, man or nation new tricks. Ex pert missionaries without exception, I believe, consider it far easier to lead polytheists to Christianity directly by one journey than to use Mohammedan ism as a halfway house. Our friends with whom I am just now expostulat ing prefer the halfway house plan. Monarchize pol'tical heathen first, then - republicanize them. To allow this policy to prevail in part is, I dare say, better than for the United States alone to undertake all the political mission work which the world needs; but I cannot agree with those who deem it our duty or even our privilege to renounce that mission work alto gether. I beg to remind you again that I am not finding fault with those who point out and emphasize national dangers or what they conceive to be such. That kind of criticism is to be desired; it is perfectly consistent with patriotism; it may be the highest patriotism. To repress it, to decry the citizens who offer it is to betray the state. Our rulers need all the light they can get, and, with other light, they need that sort which makes darkness visible. It is not denunciation of present policies which I condemn, but the tone of pes simism in which men so often de nounce. If we turn now to that other hob goblin, the trusts, we shall see in them equally little which is calculated to make a thoughtful patriot leap from the ship. The eerious dangers with which monopolies menace the public are but three: monopolies may raise the selling prices of their commodities above the level where competition would place those prices; they may to some extent vassalize society; and they may retard inventiveness and in ventions. I contend that these are real and not imaginary dangers, which need and must have attention from thought ful citizens. That such perils are ex aggerated through ignorance or for po liticalends, gives no right to dismiss them as not perils at all, any more than the reality of the peril justifies one in supposing it mortal. The pro duction and distribution of goods un der monopoly may, and. unless looked after, will prove indefinitely disastr ous. My belief is that monopolistic agencies will, in the course of time, be effectively looked after, their mis chiefs abated, and the agencies them selves turned into public blessings. You can never suppress them, and you ought not to desire to. I suppose it open to no doubt that monopolistic methods have greatly cheapened and are greatly cheapening the production of goods, and that their tendency is to make the amassing of wealth by the nation as a whole more rapid and voluminous than it would be under the old-fashioned competl- OUR FALL STOCK IN NOW AT ITS BEST- r tStf&'SS tion to the FOLLOWING SPECIALS IN OUR NEW GOODS . . 77. . . . Silk and Woo! 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The excess naturally goes into the pockets of syndicate stockholders at the expense of con sumers. If all consumers were at the same time syndicate stockholders and all syndicates equally strong, the losses would offset each other: but as a great many consumers cannot com bine, losses due to the higher prices enforced by syndicates are not all thus offset, but the portion of them falling upon unsyndicated consumers has to be permanently borne by. such, so that those higher prices set up a special tendency, unknown before trusts came, to enrich one class and to impoverish another. But nothing is Easier than for so ciety to counteract this tendency and it is sure to do so the moment the real situation is understood. Were there created by congressional act, a just, able, non-partisan board or bu reau with the authority and the duty, in the case of any trust, (1) to ascer tain once a year by just appraisal, and to publish, the actual value of that trusts's property, (2) to compare that with the face value of its stock and to publish the results, and (3) to ascer tain by an examination of accounts, cmd to publish its gross and its net earnings, the tendency would be through the mere operation of public opinion to prevent both profits and prices from becoming extortionate. Quite possibly no further remedy would ever be needed. It is distinctly conceivable that, under the silent reg ulation of such publicity, monopoly production would go on creating wealth with unprecedented rapidity and in unprecedented volume, the wealth getting for itself a distribu tion no less just, no less democratic than that to which we are accustomed when old time competition was at its height. Should a further corrective be re quired, a system of taxing syndicate businesses could easily be enforced which could not fail to effect essen tial justice. Monopoly prices, like competitive prices are subject to a law. only the law governing monopoly prices ir. a different law the law -of the tolerance of the market, to the effect that when the prices of a com modity have risen to a given notch, charging more adds nothing to profits. W. M. Morning, attorney, rooms 310-3.11-312 Richards block, Lincoln. Neb. frnnrm Do You Want a J nuine Bargain y u u u u u Hundred of tJprijhl Piano diapnted of at one. Thr Include Seiawys, nh, FUchtre, Starlings nd otfaar wall known take. It any cannot bt dl tiacuiihcd from new jrat f fl 7t offered t a gnat dijnt. C U 13 1 I lr,i(l" M low a 1U0. 41 bean- 151 EK I R tt .J tlfnl New l rlcbUattl3S,l, B M If M and 1 15-A fina inttrument at J90, tally equal to many $400 piano. Monthly payment aacepted. Freight only abeat $5. Writ tot liet and particular. 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Therefore the public can, at. any time, take over, in the way of a tax, any part it pleases of the ad vance which monopoly prices exhibit over what competitive prices would probably be at the time. The only serious difficulty in such an adjustment would be administra tive The taxation described would have to be a state affair, whereas near ly every syndicate traffics in several states. It is precisely at this point that many despair of ever securing justice frdm these great aggregations of wealth. Congress cannot fiscally reg ulate them, while, should the states attempt to do so, their plans would be so various that any monopoly might be sure of a safe retreat in some state or other. From this perplexity there is a re source as yet untried which prom ises much co-operative, harmonious action by the states through a joint commission c bureau, securing the taxation of interstate corporations state-wise, yet everywhere according to the same principles. To effectuate a plan like this would surely be a stupendous work, yet it is not beyond the brain power of our countrymen. It thus appears at least but Impos sible, I think it certainly probable, that in the course of time syndicate in dustry, already doing so much to ac celerate the amassing of wealth by the nation as a whole, will be found not incompatible with a just and ad vantageous distribution of wealth. This form of industry, in other words, will prove not hostile to the general welfare, but immensely helpful, rath er, so far as the possession of wealth can determine general welfare. If we clearly apprehend that thought we have advanced a good way, for it suggests a refuge from the second dan ger we saw in trusts, the danger that they might, by making industries rel atively fev., forcing most men to work for salaries or wages, controlling uni versities, newspapers, and other sourc es of opinion, reduce the public to a species of vassalage not unlike that which existed when medieval feudal ism was in bloom. The remedy for this state of things, already beginning to exist, lies not in exterpating trusts, which I deem an impossibility, but in letting them, un der due oversight, go on multiplying wealth. The domineering powef now possessed by wealth in this country arises not from its abundance, but from its paucity. The independently wealthy are too few for the public good, not too many- They are so few that they form a clique, easily acting in; common, as they have been tempted and almost forced to do by the perverse disposition of many to treat every man of considerable wealth as certainly a blackguard or a criminal. Multiply the wealth and they will break into hostile camps, each faction calling for adherents and seeing to it that such are protected, each faction possessing powerful or gans for creating opinion, each fac tion seeking to influence and actually Influencing social legislation. Opinion and action cannot be free in any com munity till it contains great numbers of citizens independently well off, so that they can champion unpopular ideas and causes without fear of the poorhouse. So. while the primary tendency of syndicate wealth is to place ordinary citizens under a sort of vassalage, its ultimate effect will be to make them and all others freer than ever, to liber ate minds and bodies and to restore social and political equilibrium. The snake's skin will cure the snake's bite. This agency of selfishness, this me chanical force for tue democratic and equitable distribution of wealth will not, I believe, be left to work alone. Hardening and deadening as the in fluence of great wealth on character usually is, I look to see arise, in the course , of time, from among the wealthiest themselves, armies of chiv alrous men and women, with all ex emplary ardor for humanity, who will gladly use their wealth in humanity'3 behalf to beat down wrongs, to tear off common men's fetters, to lift tha weights and remove the clogs and ob stacles which now hinder the noble army of the fortuneless from getting on. Benjamin Kidd has well reminded us that philanthropy and not force led leng ago in the enfranchisement of the Third Estate. The vast arbi trary power of feudalism and of roy alty gave way not so much because overwhelmed by the rising might of the common people as because of en richment in human character Kind ly feeling between men extended to so many members of the privileged class es that theBe 'classes could no longer present a solid front. The power holding orders in France at the great revolution would have continued to hold their own had they still pos sessed the savage spirit of early feud alism; but they had this no longer, large numbers of them being, as Michelet says, "at once the heirs and the enemies of their own cause." Edu cated in the generous ideas of the time they applauded that marvelous resus citation of mankind and offered up prayers for it even though it cost their ruin. As this old feudalism of military power was dissolved by en riched character involving regard for fortuneless men, so, I predict, will the new feudalism of wealth be dissolved. The sun of chivalry is in penumbra, eclipsed if you will, but it has not set. We named, you remember, a third danger from the syndicate, the danger that its working might be to repress inventiveness and invention. When a line of production Is ab solutely subject to a single control, the management is little tempted to in troduce new machinery, even if the new is known to be superior. In fact the temptation is the other way. To put in the new machinery means les sened profits this year. It will be the same next year and the next. Like any other sinner the manager waits in vain for a more convenient season. Under competition the improved gear would have to be put in no matter what its effect cn profits the first year; for, if the old were continued, mills with the new, producing more cheaply, would supply the market, driving the conservative mill entirely out of the business. But. strict mo nopoly prevailing, there is no com peting plant and hence no pressure on you to use up to date means of pro duction. Inevitable results are (1) that mo nopoly fails of doing its best even as a wealth producer, and (2). that public mentality ih the direction of inven tiveness to some extent falls off for lack of its old spur. . 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The rock beneath us may be porous, but it will do to build upon. My country, with all thy faults I trust thee still! I have faith in thee not as a mother dead or dying, but as a mother living, youthful, with promise of infinite progeny in noble lives and immortal deeds. The nation's pas, great as it is, will be , surpassed in splendor by the nation's future. Let patriots look up and renew their oath of allegiance, . Let each be in the mood of Lrowning.when he wrote his "Homo thoughts from the sea" . Nobly, nobly. Cape St. Vincent to the northwest died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red. reeking into Cadiz bay; Bluish mid the burning water, full In face, Trafalgar lay, In. the dimmest northeast distance dawned , Gibraltar, grand and gray. . Here and here did England belp me; how can I help England? Say Whoso turns as I this evening turn to God to praise and pray, While Jove's planet rises yonder, si lent over Africa.