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My catalog of Split Hickory Btiggiin con
tninn over 125 dilforent stylos of bunnies, nnd
n complete lino of Hieh'Grndc Harness. This
J'ree cntnlni; brings into your homo tho great
out dinplavof Ilifrh-rirndo Buggies ovur put in
n hook. No matter where you buy, you otinht
road what I have to say about my direct
you wish, nnd at prices that are from 30 to 507
lower than you can buy a buggy of high quality
elsewhere,
All of my Split Hickory vehicles nro gtiaran
teed 2 years. Tho Huggy shown in picturo is my
YKfl Split Hickory Special 40 moro exclusive
features on this buggy than on any other buisry
mmn. Writo a oostal today for catalog. Doit
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limilo. Address mo poMOtially,
H. C. PIICLPS, Proaldont
Ohio Carrlnjjo Mia Co.
Station 12
Cincinnati, Ohio
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EDITION
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CMmiiKOH of a (stirring kind aro ououring both
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Addrc( THE COMMONER
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
EansocKS
HMJli.LTI'IIMlIli'MUMMfcil
Bargains
in Farm Land
PER ACKI3
OF LAND IN
FOR SAI.IO2.000 acres unimproved farm land
in IVrkins county, Nebraska.
From one to six miles from a thriving town on
Burlington R. R.
This land is all rich prairie land, every acre oC
which can be cultivated. Tho soil is black sandv
loam and very productive.
'Phis land has boon held by an estate and baa
Just been ottered for sale in quarter and halC -section
tracts.
The country is healthful, the land beautiful, and
suited to diversified farming.
ir nrsuioi.s of corn lmcr aorio was
KA18I3I) LAST YKAU ON LAND ADJOINING
THIS LAND.
siu ni'SMKLK Ob1 WHEAT
RA1S10D ON THH SAME KIND
Til 10 KAMK COUNTY IN 11)015.
ALFALFA GROWS IN PROFUSION NEAR
RV ON THIO SAMIO KIND OF 1. VND
I'or each year during the past threo'years the
crops raised on land in Perkins countv so d for
iniiUV,nn,,.!nt,V0 asI(h0Ib0Sl taiul in Iowa or
Illinois. Soil 20 acres In hose states and vour
money will buy a quarter section of tl o US I
!?!l0 VexTi'H0 Mxe?,leilt wnlw at a deptli
nil kinds oAlioUk.101, C0UUll'y U Carth fr rate"n
Oats, barley, and rye are profitable crops.
Do you want a farm while this land is within
your reach V Cheap farm lands w soon be ?
dug of the past. I am offering this landfor low
ban one-fourth what tho saino kind of soil is sell
ins lor less than fiO miles distant. IMntoniSte i"
call nn nu ni. ...n c , - "iioiosceu
serliuion;: Address 1HIC0S n,ul (lotail
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LINCOLN, NEB.
Room 'Mo, Fraternilv Tii.h
THE SHIP SUBSIDY MESSAGE
On January 23 President Roosevelt
sent a special message to congress
advocating the ship sudsidy and urging
legislation providing for aid to lines of
swift steamers to South America and
oriental ports. The message is as
follows:
"I call your attention to the great
desirability of enacting legislation to
help American shipping trade by en
couraging the building and running of
lines of large and swift steamers to
South America and the Orient.
"The urgent need of our country's
making an effort to do something like
its share of its own carrying trade on
the ocean has been called to. our
attention in a striking fashion by the
experiences of Secretary Root on his
recent South American tour. The re
sult of these experiences he has set
forth in his address before the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress at
Kansas City on November 4, last, an
address so important that it deserves
the careTCul study of all public men.
"The facts set forth by Mr. Root are
striking and they can not but arrest
the attention of our people. The great
continent to the south of us, which
should be knit 'to us by the closest
commercial ties, is hardly in direct
communication with us at all, its com
mercial relations being almost exclus
ively with Europe. Between all the
principal South American ports and
Europe lines of swift" and commodious
steamers, subsidized by their home
governments, ply regularly. There is
no such line of steamers between these
ports and the United States. In conse
quence our shipping in South Amer
ican ports is almost a negligible quan
tity; for instance, in the year ending
June 30, 1905, there entered the port
of Rio de Janeiro over 3,000 steamers
and sailing vessels from Europe, but
from the United States no steamers
and only seven sailing vessels, two of
which were in distress. One prime
reason for this state ofv things is the
fact that those who now do business
on the sea do business in a world,
not of natural competition, but of sub
sidized competition.
"State aid to steamship lines is as
much a part of the commercial system
of today as state employment of con
suls to promote business. Our com
mercial competitors in Europe pay in
the aggregate sum $25,000,000 a year
to their steamship lines Great Britain
paying nearly $7,000,000. Japan pays
between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. By
the proposed legislation the United
States will pay relatively less than any
one of our competitors pay. Three
years ago the Trans-Mississippi con
gress formally set forth as axiomatic
the statement that every ship is a
missionary of trade, that the lines
work for their own countries just as
railroads work for their terminal
points, and that it is as absurd for the
United States to depend upon foreign
ships to distribute its product as it
would be for a department store to
depend upon wagons of a competing
house to deliver its goods. This state
ment is the literal truth.
"Moreover, it must be remembered
that American ship's do not have to
contend merely against the subsidiza
tion of their foreign competitors. Tho
higher wages and the greater cost of
maintenance of American officers and
crews make it almost impossible for
our people who do business on 'the
ocean to compete on equal terms with
foreign ships unless they are pro
tected somewhat as their fellow coun
trymen who do business on land are
protec ed. We can not, as a country!
have the wages and manner of life of
our seamen cut down; and the onlv
a ternative, if we are to have Teamen
at all, is to offset the expense by giving
some advantage to the ship itself ThS
Proposed law which has "been inTro
duced in congress is in no sense
experimental. It is based on tho best
and most successful precedents, as for
instance, on the recent Cunard con
tract with the British government. As
far as South America is concerned, its
aim is to provide from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coasts better American
lines to the great ports of South Amer
ica than the present European lines.
The South American republics see now
only our warships. Under this bill our
trade will be made evident to them.
The bill proposes to build large sized
steamers of sixteen knots speed.
There are nearly 200 such steamships
already in the world's foreign trade,
and over three-fourths of them draw
subsidies postal or admiralty or
both.
"The bill will encourage our ship
yards, which are almost as necessary
to the national defense as battleships
and the efficiency of which depends in
a large measure upon their employ
ment in large construction. It is of
importance to our navy because it
gives a considerable fleet of auxiliary
steamships, such as is now almost
wholly lacking, and also provides for
an effective naval reserve.
"The bill provides for fourteen
steamships, subsidized to the extent of
over $1,000,000, from the Atlantic
coast, all to run to South American
ports. It provides on the Pacific coast
for twenty-two steamers, subsidized
to the extent of $3,225,000, some of
those to run to South America, most
of them to Manila, Australia and Asia.
Be it remembered that while the ships
will be owned on the coasts, the car
goes will largely be supplied by the
interior and that the bill will benefit
the Mississippi valley as much as it
benefits the seaboard.
"I have laid stress upon the benefit
to be expected from our trade with
South America. The lines Jo the Or
ient are of vital importance. Tho
ASSETS OF $1,327,173.94
is tho Statement of
The Old Line Bankers Life
of LINCOLN
"Salary and commission will bo nald to an
old lino life man of experience. Address,
Box 1195, Lincoln, Nebraska."
A Lincoln Residence
If you waftt to movo to Lincoln to
educate your children or to enjoy tho
comforts and advantaccsof a oity of
schools and churches I will sell my
nice, nine room, all modern resi
dence cheap. It Is located in tho
vory best residence part of tho oity,
and if you desire a home or an in
vestment it will pay you to investi
gate this offer at onco. Address
W. C, Care THE COMMONER
Lincoln, Nebraska
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