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vs THE NEBRASKA IITDEPENDEITT Oct. 30, 1902 li 11 ililiJlilijl'i- """ JO ' . yip .J Buy Your Paints frca the Factory. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 1, 1902. Nebraska Paint Sc Lead Co., City. Dear Sirs: 1 take great pleasure n recom mending to the pnblic your mixed paints and varnishes. Can cheerfully say it has riven me .better satisfaction and covers more surface than any other paint I have used, and cost me ranch less. - I have bad 25 years of experience in the busi ness and would cheerfully say that if you are wanting paints that are unadulterated and to cover lots of surface and last, I would recom mend the above paints. , Yours respectfully, W. 11. Jennings, Painter. Marion, Wis., Sept. 29, 1901 Nebraska Paint & Lead Co., Lincoln, Neb. Gentlemen: I have used different kinds of paint, but have never used any that covered mors surface to the gallon than your first grade paint does. You can surely await more orders from me. Yours truly, Geo. Fradrich, Painter. Amity, Mo., July 24, 1902. Nebraska Paint & Lead Co., Lincoln, Neb. Gentlemen I find your mixed paint to be all O. K. and as I have used most all kinds of We can save you from 40c to 50c on the gallon on our different grades of paint We are also making very close prices on White Lead, Dry Paint and Colors in Oil. We manufacture all our paints and sell direct to the consumer. If you will give us a trial on our Faint you will find that it is the Best Grade of Paint there is on the market today. We have sold considerable paint all over the country and it has given entire satisfaction. Write us for Color Cards and prices before buying your Paint You will save by buying your paint from us: on a building 32x23, 18 feet high, f rem $5.00 to $6.00 and remember you are getting the best paint paintk. I can recommend yours to be Just as good as any. It will cot er as much surface aa any paint, and looks well when finished. Yours truly. E.Jackman, Painter. Atlantic. Iowa. June 10. 1902. Nebraska Paiat & Lead Co., Lincoln, Neb. Gentlemen : I have Just finished Henry Peter's job of painting aad was well pleased with the way your paint worked. Please send me color cards and price lists as I would like to try some of your diuerent paints. Yours truly, J. a Jlpsen, Lincoln, Neb.. June 10, 1902. Nebraska Paint & Lead Co.. City. Gentlemen The mixed raintas well as the roofing paint, which I got from you some time ago, to use ia patatingmy residence, has proven highly satisfactory. The painters that I em ployed frankly stated that your mixed paint was by far the best that they had ever used. I hope you will be successful in building up a large trade, as the goods which you manufac ture are certainly of first-class quality. Yours truly, , A. Urbahn, 1147 P Street. NEBRASKA PAINT & LEAD CO., MANUFACTURERS 305-07 O Street. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. P. O. Box 86. WE THE FRE M ? and deliver this bill of groceries to your station upon receipt of $10 in draft, express or money order. Our honest and straightforward method of doing business is known all over - the west.. .We have thousands of customers who send us ...their money and order our goods. Have you ever dealt here? r If not try us on this combination. Every article we guaran tee first-class. Any bank in Lincoln or the editor of this paper will vouch for our reliability. Your money's worth or your money back. No discrimination with us. We treat all alike. Goods shipped same day orcTe is received. Let us hear from you. COMBINATION ORDER NO. 88E. 65 lbs. best granulated sugar $1 00 6 10c pkgs. best soda ....... 50 2 lbs. best.baking powder 50 6 pkgs. best corn starch -.5Q 4 lbs. best Japan tea -... 2 00 25 bars laundry soap ..i.w 1 00 2 lbs. purest pepper 50 3 10c bottles lemon extract .. 25 3 10c bottles vanilla extract.. 25 6 10c pkgs. gloss starch 50 6 lbs. choice prunes 50 6 lbs. choice rice 50 4 lbs. choice raisins 50 4 lbs. choice peaches 50 3 pkgs. Rising Sun stove polish.. 25 3 10c cans lye 25 2 lbs. Mocha and Java coffee... 50 All the above for $10 00 The Farmers Grocerv Comoanv 226-228-230-232-234-236-238-240 SlTneIK -to find out how much Is really held. It - strains one's credulity just a little to -believe that this change was made in ...the interest of clearness and accur- , acy, and that it was not made for the " specific purpose of making less obvious - not only the rapidly increasing short . age in the amount of cash held by . banks, but the rapidly increasing number of banks short in their re- Even the change does not avail to -cover up the situation very long for, , in No. 30, wnicn brings tne reports " down to September 15, it appears that the aggregate of banks in twenty five out of thirty-three reserve cities V tUU lUtlUUlUg WC IU1 CC 1.1 ai : serve cities of New York, Chicago and St. Louis) are short in reserves. Just how much they are short in cash re- serves must be determined by calcula- tion. - . For the first time in the history of these banks, the aggregate of all the 333 banks in the reserve cities, of first and second class, shows a net shortage "' of their reserves of $16,559,297.23. Of this amount $9,462,252.46 is . in the 61 ... banks of the three central reserve cit ies, (that is, first class) New: York, " Chicago and St Louis. Dropping out of we calculation the eight cities of Philadelphia, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Kas, Denver, San Fran cisco, Los Angeles and Portlan, Ore., " the remaining twenty-five cities are -'- short in the aggregate almost $26,000,- ..'000. These twenty-five cities contain - 264 banks; the eight cities above .named contain 69 banks. The 4,268 country banks are only re-; quire to carry a cash reserve of 6 per' cent of their deposits. They have on .- uauua, lit mo aggicgaic, auuui - 000,000 in excess of that amount Only one state (Nevada) is shown by the ' abstract to be short in its aggregate " of reserves, and that has only one na tional bank. t Now, let us turn to another thing. , Abstract No. 30 covers the comptrol-. ler's reports from July 16 to Septem-' " ber 15, 1902, In all 61 days, during V which time there was an increase of . "Ilone a-nA Hio.rtiiT a" rt K8 9R7 . 1. 849.48, or over $955,000 per day not ex ' eluding Sundays, or almost $1,100. "' uuo for each business day. -During this time the 44 banks in - New York ; city decreased their loans nearly $13,000,000, so that the aggre gate increase outside of that city must r ' have been $70,000,000. There ought td be no mystery" about the conditions of the money market in New York city, or of the anxiety of Mr. Shaw to find some way, law or no law, to relieve the tightness of the situation there. The danger of our situation is at the head. The fact is, our administration is more interested in assisting the Wall street gamblers than in protect ing, by proper financial management, the business and inustries of our coun try. FLAVIUS J. VAN VORHIS. Indianapolis, Ind. . They Want a Cleveland Editor Independent: "Put-the fed eral troops In the coal fields," cry Baer and Markle. That is the keynote to all the demands of plutocracy al ways. Now we can see why the con spiracy to purchase the Philippine isl ands was hatched. The subjugation of that people demanded a large in crease in the standing army. If the Baers and Markles only had a Cleve land In the White house now, wouldn't they be "in clover?" What a fine oportunity those islands offered to train soldiers to meet the demands of plutocracy? How the coal barons would delight in having the "water cure administered to Mitchell or any miner who dared to say that his life was his own and .not that of the Baers and Markles? 7 Mr. Hearst has had the attorney general of New York to cite ,the ba rons, to apear before the court at Albany, N. Y.. and show cause why they should not be restrained from doing business in the state of New York, because of the violation of the anti-trust law of the state, and Hearst in the honesty of his great heart has esked that a -referee be appointed to take evidence as to the acts and do iDgs of these barons. Does any one expect those men to tell anything that would be detrimental to their own in terests? Who was it, Mr. Editor, who stood flat-flooted . before the president of this great nation and told bare faced lies? Was It Mitchell? The election is near at hand. How will those strikers . vote on election day? There is the rub. Usually they strike right and then go and vote wrong. A. H. STEAGALL. . De Land, Fla. v W. M. Morning, attorney, rooms 310-311-312 Richards block. Lincoln, Neb. PEANUT POLITICS SeretiT Marsh Shows His Hog; Hmlr In Certify!; Nominations to th s County Clerks George W. Marsh, the political ac cident who became secretary of state by the grace (or disgrace) of the check Mark Hanna left at Fremont in 1900, has given the people of Nebraska an example of peanut politics which shows the caliber of the man. It will be remembered that the leg islature of 1901 amended the ballot law so that a straight party ticket could be voted by making a cross In one of Ihe party circles, placed at the top of the ballot. The law provided that each party having candidates' names cn the ballot should be entitled to have its party name printed in black faced capital type near the top of the ballot, and a party circle connected to the party name by leaders (a dotted line). A schedule, was also made part of the bill, giving a tentative form of ballot In this the republican party was named and given a party circle; but the democratic and the people's independent party names were placed one above the other and given but one party circle. This was manifestly in conflict with the text of the law, and Mr. De France, who was then chair man of the populist state committee, commenced an action against Douglas Frye, county clerk of Lancaster coun ty, asking for a writ of mandamus compelling him to give a party circle for each of the parties. The supreme court granted the writ, and it was sup posed that no more would be heard of the question. The case may be found in 62 Nebraska Reports, at page 817. George W. Marsh knew about this opinion. He had the deputy attorney general appear in the case to look after his interests, although no one knew in what particular way the secretary of state could be affected, Inasmuch as he has nothing whatever to do with preparing the official ballot. All the law requires him to do is to certify to the various county clerks the sub stance of the information contained in the several certificates of nomination filed with him. This might be done in an "Irish table," as the printers say that is, run in a solid paragraph or it could be made up like a sample ballot. That is optional with him. Mr. Marsh knew that the county clerks are apt to follow the form of whatever is sent out by the secretary of state, and he prepared his certifi cates to look like a ballot and at the top had placed the various party names after the model In "Schedule a' ' of the ballot law the schedule that the court held should not be followed. Then when his attention was called to it by a county clerk who knew the law, Mr. Marsh pretended that he had forgotten about the court's decision and gave out to the press a statement that he had wired the county clerks to correct the mistake doubtless a false hood. In any event he knew that in the smaller counties, where the clerk must get his printing done miles from home, that his second answer would never reach them in time. For whole sale violation of law, a republican politician' of the peanut variety, such as Mr. Marsh has shown himself to be, cannot be excelled. Of course he knows that he has nothing whatever to do with directing the county clerks as to how they shall prepare the bal lot. That is their business not his. But he knew he could suggest an un lawful manner of arranging the bal lot by making his certificates in that form. Populists and democrats in every county of the state must stand up for their rights. It doesn't matter whe ther the ballots are printed or not, if the clerk is following the illegal form an action in mandamus should be brought against him at once. There can be no doubt as to the result, be cause the supreme court has already decided the matter. A special effort should be made at every polling place in the state to de feat this peanut politician and elect Honest John Powers. Judge A, Hardy I met Judge A. Hardy at Beatrice Tuesday and traveled with him to Vir ginia, where he stopped for an even ing meeting, and I went on to Dubois. The judge is fusion candidate for coun ty attorney of Gage, and he gave me an insight into the rottenness, and cussedness of republican rule in that county. It seems to me that upon the showing made, the republican ticket ought to be defeated overwhelming ly, but mullet heads appear to like to be robbed. The county treasurer, or former treasurer, took some three thousand dollars of county money that he was not entitled to. A republican county attorney began an action in man damus to collect it! Think of that, ye pettifoggers! A bar that can turn out a Prout might be expected to do most anything outre.. That mandamus suit to collect a debt is still dragging In court It is famous also because it made ' Rock Island Hinshaw the republican candi date for congress. Maurer, the respon dent, was a delegate from Gage. The Jefferson county delegation included Judge Letton, and some 243 times Jetierson had voted "18 for Hinshaw." Dan Cook, a fledgling republican, was manipulating the Gage delegation for Burlington purposes. He went out for a drink. Judge Letton fell upon Maurer, the respondent, and the stuff was off. Hinshaw was nominated. If Judge Hardy is elected, he will not monkey with a mandamus. He will bring a good, old-fashioned ac tion at law against Maurer and his bondsmen to collect what they owe the county. He showed me some of the rotten deals on bridge contracts. One place the contractor, with two $3-a-day men and two at $2, put in less than a day and a half repairing two bridges. No new material was used except nails. The bill was over $111. , And that was but an item in one voucher "for over $2,800. The judge says: "If there is $96 of rake-off in an item of $111 how much is the steal - in the whole $2,800?" CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE. The Nebraska Independent, pub lished at Lincoln, Neb., is one of the best newspapers in the United States. Lamar (Mo.) Dally Leader. NEBRASKA RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS What They Have Been-Vhat They Are-What They Should Be A Startling Array ot Figures. - COUKTT. Adams. Antelope Blaine..... Box Butt . Brown . . Buffalo Bart..., Boone . Batler.. Cass.. ... Cedar. . . Chase... Cherry Cheyenne.. , . Clay........ Colfax ....... Cuming. Coster... Dakota... .. Dawson Dawes, DeueL Dixon Dodge Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage , ,, Garfield. Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton ..... .. .. Harlan. Hayes Hitchcock Holt Hooker Howard. Jefferson Johnson Kearney , Keith Kimball Knox Lancaster Lincoln.. Madison Merrick Nance.. Nemaha Nuckolls Otoe. .... Pawnee Perkins., .... .... .. Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Bed Willow Richardson Bock Saline Sarpy Saunders.... Scotts Bluffs Seward Sheridan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington. . . . . Wayne... Webster. Wheeler. York wtxes. 132.07 72.37 18.40 42.25 23.59 107.90 35.21 50.99 134.27 124.13 47.36 2.01 112.71 39.32 119.99 43.43 36.32 81.13 59.91 63.67 90.79 20.53 45.45 81.89 106.92 41.54 127.86 46.34 32.13 62.37 158.94 4.71 20.83 30.89 51.85 74.96 66.33 81.65 12.59 49.16 77.62 30.18 91.29 105.83 58.46 70.81 41.75 38.15 27.66 206.94 105.35 58.46 68.33 33.94 73.67 140.22 112.14 87.10 43.85 45.39 59.30 97.16 21.48 50.46 79.80 23.12 80.25 94.19 85.80 85.36 77.6. 57.37 48.18 22.98 99.11 33.30 16.88 40.11 53.40 45.54 69.97 3.36 89.92 ASatSSMBKT FOB 1892. MILES. $749,235 CO 132.07 349,755 00 72.37 64,400 00 18.40 147,875 00 49.52 142,950 00 - 28.59 740,721 00 108.19 176,050 00 85.21 244,405 00 50.99 657.127 00 134.27 838,682 00 124.34 227,370 00 47.36 6,030 00 18.48 563.5)0 00 112.71 438,418 00 134.45 725,492 00 120.96 332,942 00 43.43 181,600 00 38.32 284,055 00 94.29 288.525 00 59.91 669,025 00 63.69 403,550 00 90.79 2B5,8D9 50 26.76 218.155 00 56.07 564.368 50 81.89 761,004 00 107.09 199,392 00 41.54 731,400 03 127.86 205,008 00 46.34 128,520 00 32.13 258,400 00 62.37 : 760,710 00 171.16 16,485 00 4.17 83,320 00 20.83 108,115 00 30.89 190,665 00 51.85 504,768 50 74.96 320,388 00 66.33 345,012 00 81.55 37,770 00 12.59 203,388 00 49.16 377,975 00 77.62 105,630 00 30.18 373,145 00 91r29 503,194 00 119.41 275,136 00 58.46 397,744 00 70.52 465,512 50 41.52 425,372 50 36.21 138,300 00 s 27.66 1,198,447 00 228.16 840.533 00 105.35 281,593 00 58.46 588,767 00 68.33 152,730 00 33.94 362,670 (X) 73.67 596,828 00 139.09 532,185 00 112.26 390,924 00 87.10 175,400 00 43.85 181,560 00 45.39 283,690 00 59.30 582,574 00 97.16 94,870 00 21.49 217.079 00 50.46 396.080 00 80.36 115,600 00 23.12 557,617 00 ' 82.72 606,713 00 98.40 498,748 00 85.80 40.05 412,700 00 , 95.96 330,415 00 77.65 220,035 00 57.37 217,950 00 48.25 114.900 00 22.98 454,130 00 99.11 116,550 00 33.30 84,400 00 16.88 154,235 00 46.27 267,000 00 53.40 227,700 00 45.54 314.837 00 69.97 11,760 00 3.36 443,622 00 89.92- ABBKSSKIXT FOB 1902. $682,521 60 246,018 00 62,560 00 159,404 00 102,924 00 649,324 00 183,092 00 181,455 00 491,133 00 862,614 20 204,780 00 55,440 00 405,758 00 609,366 00 645,510 10 272,494 00 . 144,683 00 307,108 80 263,022 00 498,801 50 320,124 03 262,248 00 251,546 00 453,922 00 745.531 00 186,930 00 626.924 50 185.661 00 110,848,50 252,297 00 763,012 00 12,676 80 71.863 50 105,026 00 161.&51 40 450,570 00 289,557 00 317,976 50 37,770 00 194,070 00 267.282 00 102,612 00 302,191 40 587,9 53 00 258.2S9 00 355,509 00 406,898 00 354,858 00 120,824 00 1,205,867 20 735,694 50 215,099 00 518,018 40 118,790 00 362,211 00 517,119 50 525,453 00 369,377 00 151,282 50 156,767 00 206,620 00 465,698 00 76,648 00 209,673 00 401,097 00 83,232 00 527,873 20 581,679 00 547,501 80 88,110 00 332,580 0? 271,842 00 188.352 80 -170,542 00 - 85,960 00 415,504 50 113,220 00 87,776 00 146,944 40 239,600 00 236,808 00 287.353 50 10,214 40 353,262 00 WHAT ASlBSaMBXT SHOULD BE. $1,284,396 11 295,402 53 55,200 00 143,580 00 132,228 75 1,85H,764 75 241,233 71 552,495 10 1,052,712 50 1,141,147 03 245,833 50 55,440 00 521,2.33 75 1,089,916 40 774,448 41 468,300 40 179,388 45 470,226 00 325,528 86 1,214,446 00 365.303 75 525,566 40 314.085 88 735,025 35 1,087,865 52 7S2.322 82 834,183 33 527,878 48 96,390 00 29,918 05 2,529,736 27 12,510 00 62,490 00 92,670 00 308.471 60 1,046,549 71 1,108,249 53 . 710,832 00 37,770 00 639,252 98 316.086 25 90,540 00 1,279,354 20 1,161.291 79 991.062 52 467,300 44 815,452 80 711,164 40 157,456 78 2,820,812 11 1,291,586 80 467,187 33 1,022.156 28 717,491 60 985,526 44 775,076 13 f 1,843,535 55 878,998 95 131.550 00 136,479 19 244.472 32 1,316.559 25 336,979 93 641,261 29 1,185,582 48 106,930 00 945,772 33 832,663 75 1,015,534 63 120,150 00 ..(-..-.343,613 84 ' 296.585 00 490,463 6b 198,180 00 110,779 02 934,046 08 99,900 00 115,644 88 268,282 40 157,009 47 311,994 54 902,237 07 10,080 00 630,710 08 Total $29,339.631 00 $26,589,592 70 $52,803,992 55 Average assessment per mile, 1892 5,367 68 Average assessment per mile, 1902 4,661 57 Fairly assessed, would be 9,222 14 The above table is copied from the Omaha Bee and is accurate. The Indepen dent asks any honest man if the assessment of 19,222.14 a mile is too much to assess those roads. In the recent great merger deal the Burlington was sold for about f 85,000,000 and the Union Pacific for over $100,000 a mile. A vote for Mick ey and the republican state ticket is a vote to relieve the roads from paying their just share of taxes and when you do that you vote for the privilege of paying your self, the taxes that the railroads ought to pay. The state is already $2,000,000. in debt. You are paying interest on that and it has increased at least $200,000 during the last year. More taxes will have to be paid. Will you pay all the increase in taxes or shall the railroads pay part of the increase. On that question you will vote on the 4th of November. Dubois Had a good meeting here Tuesday evening. The people are enthusiastic listeners, and speakers who are worn out at other places come here to get cheered up a bit. Pawnee is a republican county, but the people are getting awake on the tax question. The railroads here pay $100 tax where they should pay $238. Improved farm lands were assessed at $5.69 per acre In 1889,' and at $6.06 in 1895 a rise of 6 per cent in the six years. But the republican board of equalization assessed the R. V. line of the B. & M. at $5,600 a mile In 1889 and at $4,300 in 1895, a reduction of $1,300 a mile, or 23 per cent in six years. The A.. & JX. line shows sim ilarly a 22 per cent reduction, from $5,775 in 1889 to $4,500 in 1895. It is about the same story all along the line. People are interested, yet they find it hard to drop party. They know that" the populist plank prom ises something specific, and that the republican plank says nothing, yet it is hard for a republican to. vote for any but his party men, even when he knows It will cost him heavier taxes. I go to Humboldt for a meeting Wednesday night. - a Q. DE FRANCE. buncombe on the stump Mr. Shaw may be useful to party managers, but as secretary of the treasury he is a fantastic misfit. Philadelphia North American (rep.). A Republican Opinion. Secretary Shaw has taken the stump for the subsidy seekers. In his speech at Detroit he advocated the scheme of the ship subsidy crowd as openly as if he were its paid attorney. He said he was not speaking In favor of the bill, but he did speak in its favor, and his argument was that the treas ury could stand the drain. He seems to think the United States treasury is maintained solely to supply money to any one who asks for it, and he has the nerve to tell intelligent citizens that "the public revenues come from the rich and well-to-do " and that 95 per cent of a ship subsidy would be "thrown to labor." As a purveyor of Crop Conditions October 1 The monthly report of the statist ician of the department of agricul ture shows the average condition of corn on October 1 to have been 79.6, as compared with 84.3 last month, 52.1 on October 1, 1901, 78.2 at the corre sponding date in 1900, and 77.7, the mean of the October averages of the last ten years. The following table shows for the principal states the averages of condi tion on October 1, the corresponding averages one month ago, one year ago, and two years ago, and the mean of the corresponding averages for the last ten years: v 5 Stat. This Last Oct. 1, Oct. 1, Dtaie" . month, month. 190L 1900. a . . x 5- H m Illinois.... 94 94 51 91 81 Iowa 76 91 59 100 82 Kansas... 8 , 91 21 ' 52 62 Nebraska.'. ,86 101 35 73 64 Missouri.. 104 102 31 84 79 Texas 38 37 . 46 72 76 Indiana,.. 97 99 51 98 82 Ohio. 88 93 . 63 95 83 So. Dakota 53 78 69 90 77 Oklahoma. 79 80 . 20 72 .... Wisconsin. 75 88 71 100 84 Peon 86 90 83 73 83 Minnesota. .62 89 75 98 , 87 Michigan.. 97 , 70 90 98 82 The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of spring wheat Is 14.4 bushels, subject to revision when the final wheat estimate is made. . The Negligent Voter Editor Independent: The time for the registration of the people's verdict draws nigh, pn the morning of No vember 5 we will awake before a fixed fact which no sophistry can gainsay. Caliph Omar once said that there were four things which could not be re calledthe sped arrow, the spoken word, the life that has been lived, and the opportunity, that is past. It U to be Loped that these words of one of earth's greatest men will be re membered ; at the i coming election. Bear in mind that your vote is not your own property; it belongs to God your country, and to posterity. You will be held to a strict account for a conscientious exercise of the elective franchise. If you wish to swallow the opiate of a full dinner pail, you will be 'estopped by your own negli gence when it is forever too late to mend. There is in South America a monster called the vampire bat half bird, half beast which approaches a sleeping man, bites his great toe, places his lips upon the wound and sucks out his life while he fans the sleeper with his wings. This would be an excellent subject for a caricature upon the different voter; for these are the lullabies with which men of the Leslie M. Shaw ilk are rocking you in sweet sleep. "Prosperity high prices let well enough alone." The most alarming thing in this country today is the indifference of the American voter. But a short time ago real statesmen of the Batteson type spent four months and a half in framing a constitution which would liberate Connecticut from the Iniquit ous borough system. When this con stitution was submitted to the people, only 15 per cent of the electors of the state went to the polls. If free Am ericans will be thus indifferent to their rights, they must expect cute politic ians to take possession of the ship of state and steer It according to their own sweet will.' This has been an educational campaign. The Indepen dent has faithfully done its duty. It has kept you informed as to what your rights were. If to harvest a few bushels of corn a few hours earlier, you will give the thieves a chance to rob you of ten times that amount, you will have nobody to blame but your selves. If you go to the devil, you go with your eyes wide open. Pollok, in his Course of Times, informs us that the worst torment of the damned In hell is the thundering of these words in their ears : "Ye knew your duty, but ye did it not." But, boys, you are not going to do anything of the kind I have described. You are going to turn out and vote right; and you are going to vote early for fear that some accident may in tervene to prevent you from voting at all and you are not going to take re publican advice about how you shall vote. WILBUR F. BRYANT. ROCKEFELLER "PROTECTED" The Greatest Trust of all Built up by a Tariff Shelter Extortionale Price Forced From the People Mr. George Rice in an article in the New York Times, after giving the enormous tariffs collected on petrol eum for the benefit of Rockefeller's trust, (they are printed in The Inde pendent this week) makes the follow ing statements: ' It is a most significant fact that all the general tariff schedules have marked thereon petroleum free. In comparison with above duties, the present market price at the well of our best grade of crude petroleum is $1.22 per barrel of 42 gallons in bulk, and of the inferior grade of crude, of which 35 per cent of total is produce, is 84 cents per barrel, or 2 cents a gallon. John D. Archbold, a trustee of the Standard Oil company, testified before the industrial commission in Septem ber, 1899, that the "percentage of all business In petroleum and its products done by the Standard Oil companj' in the year 1898 was 83.7 per cent," to which should be addedthe business of the Tidewater Oil company's 11 per cent, which percentage it gave to them, with a guarantee of $500,000 per annum against losses. This makes a total of over 95 per cent of this great industry unlawfully, monopolized by the Standard Oil trust, which absolute ly dictates to the producer of petrol eum what he shall receive for his prod uct, and to the consumer what he shall pay, as evidenced by special reports sent out by the industrial commission to 45 states, on the price of illuminat ing oils, to which 1,553 replies were re ceived, of which 1,475, or 95 per cent, bought their oil direct from the Stand ard Oil trust, in the name of the Standard Oil company. The highest wholesale price reported is 27 cents per gallon in Nevada, and UK i-. ir?x m BOOK PERFECT IMAiNHOOD AND HEALTH This book gives valuable information, upon the . GENITO-URINARY and CHRONIC DISEASES OF MEN. If you are interested In any of these sub jects ASK FOR IT. Free consultation.. Home Treatment. ... D. L. Ramsdall, M. D., Specialist 1134 O Street, Lincoln. Neb. To make cows par, use Sharpies cream Separator BookUiulness Dairying" & Cat.270 free W. Chetter.P a FOUR PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS - FROM OMAHA TO V .CALIFORNIA WITH CHOICE OF ROUTES. . These excursions leave Omaha ev ery Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 4:25 p. m., in Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars. The cars are accompanied all the way by conductors sVilled In the service of excursion par tits. The Union . Pacific is the only line from Omaha running four excur sions to California every week. - These excursions can be Joined ; at ary point en route. For full information call on or ad dress,' E. B. 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They are a sure cure for headache and neu ralgic pains. Only this morning I recom mended them to a friend with a severe hrai che and in a half hour he came into the store smiling. The headache was gone. We use them in the family and find them excel lent for the women folks. This high altitude makes them very nervous. Grandma savs I should tell Dr. Miles she could not live here were it not for the Anti-Pain Pills th it she takes occasionally." L. B. Morris, Helena, Montana. All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind. the lowest 5 cents per gallon in Vir ginia, where competition had Its ef fect. The highest retail price Is 40 cents per gajlqn at Idaho City, and the lowest 6 cents per gallon in Pitts burK. where competition existed. It only costs three-eighths of a cent a gallon to refine all grades of illuminating oils, to which add the cost of crude, will convey an idea of the enormous profit therein, and which can be turned over every thirty days. Jtf.t. AiciiVld before the industrial copftmlsslon, pace 571, testifies that.,th'' price of crudo and refined is flxfcd by them. At th present time the Standard Oil trust re ceives 900 pej cent transportation profits in its iYllgal combination with the tnjnk lines of railroad, through Its trunk lln;s of pipe laid from the oil region to the seaboard, which un lawful cimbinatlon is In gross viola tion of i.he federal anti-trust act, on which tie attorney general refuses to take action. Persecuted, PopuIIstic Democrat Editor Independent: I have never come across a line in either The In dependent or; Commoner written by thf editors thatM did not indorse. The man is surely, wicked or weak-mlndM with whom these' truths do not prevail. I was born a half-witted republi can, fed on republican "pap" and my brain did not develop, so it took roe thirty years to learn what republican ism was. Now I am a poor, persecuted populistlc democrat and have not h.t l time to circulate The Independent as I would wish, but my heart Is with you. The last two months shows a rising tide of populist ideas flowlm? in unresisted torrents over the whole country. The financial wreckers are hardly sly or sharp enough to bind the American people hand and foot with the "Fowler bill." We are getting too many w!3e awake populists to all be bagged with out the alarm going off before the rob bers have completely lobted us and departed with the treasure. My soul condemns the Christianity of this country as a farce. Can a Christian people advocate republican ism or stand aloof in the trial of mis ery and say it is no affair of the church or its individual members? 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