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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
JANUARY 1, 1903.
Much is still being published in the
eastern papers about Tom Reed's re-
tirement from public life, all of which
goes to show that the ex-speaker had
intense convictions on the subject of
imperialism. All those who were in
a position to know why Reed retired,
declare that it was because that pol
icy had been adopted by his party. If
he had not loved his party better than
he. did his principles and the "rights
of man," he would not have simply
"retired," but made a fight for them.
That would have sent his name down
the centuries. As it is, in a few years
h6 will bo forgotten. Only those who
"fight" for liberty live in the hearts
i of the people. Those who "retire"
when the weak need their services,
join that innumerable throng whom
all the worldforgeta
The everlasting chase for the dollar,
to which all modern society is de
. voted, the strenuous life that leaves no
time for leisure, the hurry and rush,
Is evolving some peculiar doctrines
doctrines that are only suited to such
conditions. Among them and per
haps the most detestable of them all,
Is that the physically defective should
be eliminated. The blind, the lame,
the halt, have in ages past added glory
to the human race. Sir Walter Scott
WasXfame, Tope was a sickly dwarf,
Lord Byron had a club foot and Milton
.was blind. The elimination of the
physically defective would have si
lenced the voices of "the greatest
- gJants in literature. There is some
thing else in this world besides dol
larssomething of as much greater
value as the soul is greater than the
'body. vnssw
,': r Whatever benefits have resulted
from vivisection it cannot be denied
' that it has produced human monsters
of ' such hideous cruelty that the world
"fetands aghast. Experiments long
'Vohtinued to see how much agony an
ahimal could endure before death re
lieved it of suffering marks an epoch
in, cruelty which was never attained
-'before. Doctors who engage in such
things as that or who defend them
should not be allowed to come inside
the door of a house in Which' a decent
. family resides.
Hwhen the coal strike was declared
loft all, orders for English coal wen:
i cancelled, but last week thirty steam
jers. were chartered and 120,000 tons
of coal were started for New York
iand Boston. It is a pretty state of
'affairs when with coal lying almost
Ion .the surface all over the United
States we must bring coal 3,000 .mile
from across the sea which has been
mined 'at depths of hundreds of feet
and some of it dug out from under the
sea. This trust business has thiewn
the world topsy turvey. It is over
throwing the whole existing order o-f
things, and bringing chaos in its
Etead.
Look out for something of interest
-tfrom the Philippines. The dailies are
s beginning to roast General Miles
again.
Orders were sent to all recruiting
stations last week, commanding the
officers engaged in that duty to be ac
' tive in their work. The imperialistic
editorials which the dailies engaged
in ust before the election announc
' ing, an order for the reduction of the
- - army to the minimum, ana wmcn rne
- Independent declared at the time were
fakes published for election purposes,
j served; their purpose. With every re
r Scruitinlg station, and there are hun-
tree's Vf them, actively at work, ev
ery mullet head still believes that sol
tdlers,are being discharged and tho
j army is beingjreuedi .
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is a
( great: financier, but he should keep up
with fh,eiimes. His announcement that
' we are nbt on the gold standard. is the
i statement of'alfact that was announced
' in The Independent six years ago and
; which! has been repeated from time to
1 time ever since, Secretary" Shaw seems
I only recently, to have found it out.
Judicial decisions always have had
jiand always will have a tendency to
follow the policy of the party in pow
S'er. The Independent has frequently
pointffl .out how that has always been
the case, with-the supreme court. It
has never yet made a decision of im
portance against the party In power.
"vWhett!, slavery Held the. government
it was' a pro-slavery court. - When the
people abolished, slavery then it was
an anti-slavery court. When the par ty
In power made the' Declaration of
Independence the basis of its , plat-
form, then the court was for the doc
trines of Jefferson. When the party
in power went into imperialism then
' it . abolished-the -Declaration. When
labor legislation was Lae policy of the
party in power, the tendency of judi
cial decisions was in favor of labor.
When the plutocrats seized the gov
ernment, the injunction mills began to
grind. Organized labor must learn
that, as long as the government is in
the hands of the plutocrats the courts
will be against them.
It seems that some other parties arj
waking up to the fact that there has
been a manipulation of the coal sup
ply. Acting Governor Northcott of
Illinois has ordered an investigation
of the charge that the railroads are
storing up immense amounts of coal
and refusing cars for its transporta
tion, while there is a fuel famine and
prices go soaring sky-high. He prom
ises that if the charge can be proved
that he will see to it that the guilty
parties are prosecuted to the full ex
tent that the law permits.
Fopulist principles, by the inherent
necessities of the age, are slowly com
pelling the adherence in quarters
where nothing but necessity would
compel it. The Springfield Republi
can, after pointing out the impossibil
ity of competition with the steel trust
with Morgan's lines of railroads dis
criminating against every independent
manufacturer, has been forced to au
vance far enough to ask the following
question: "Is it being demonstrated
that a proper public restraint upon
the transportation monopoly, and an
adequate security to the public from
unreasonable and discriminating treat
ment, can only be secured by govern
ment ownership or operation?"
If the owners of coal mines, with
the supply unlimited and scattered
all over the country, will not, or have
not the business ability to supply the
people with coal, then the people will
take charge of the mines and run
them as the public welfare demands.
The public will not, however, do any
thing as long as the operators keep
them just on the safe side of freez
ing. The fact that the public wiW
submit to extortion and robbery just
as long as the people can barely sub
sist, is the principle upon which all
the great fortunes are based. If the
public was swift to demand its rights
there would be but little suffering in
the world.
Wall street got every dollar out of
the treasury above a small working
balance got it without interest and
then set up a howl that made the arth
tremble because it could not get more.
The treasury of the United States,
these fellows think, was established for
the purpose of furnishing them money
to gamble with, and the last two secre
taries of that treasury have held the
same opinion.
TALL
UM8 October, 1902. Importation of blak PercWoni, Belgians and Coacheri was the
Ter nade west of the Missouri hirer. His stallions of big size, quality, fanisn ana
low prices are propositions tbat will make you bis buyer. If you can pay cash or giro baniawe
note, you will sore buy stallions of lams. Only man in tbe United States that imported omy
black or bay stallions. He bas just imported
63-ST A L LIONS- 63
Snipped to-Hew York by fast boat, tben by Faro Eipress, special traia from New York to St
Pan), Nebraska, lams' biff bams are f nil -of big, black, ton stallions. He is just finishing a
new barn 30x100 feet. Ism's Lorses are tbe senmtinn of the town. Visitors throng bis barn ana
say: "Never saw so many big black stallions together:" "U.ey are larger, bigger bone, more
finish than ever before;" ''But lams is progressive:" "He buys them larger and better eacn
yar;" "He maker prices that males the people buy his horses;" "lams has a horse snow
every day, better than btate Fairs." He has on band oyer
100 BULK PERCHERONS, BELGIANS and COACH ERS 100
2 to 6 years old, weight J.600 to 2,500 lbs. More blaek Percherons. ton stallions, largest French
horse show winners, more government approved&nd stamped stallions of anyone importer in tbe
west, lams speaks French and Grman ; J7ay no interpreter, no buyer, no talesman ; no two to
ten men as partners to share profits. His buyers get middlemen's profits and salaries. lams
buys direct from breeders. This with his twenty years' experience secures the best. All the
above facts Bave his buyers $500 to $-,(M) on a first-class stallion and you get a first-class horse, as
onlyseeond rate stallions are peddled by sleek salesmen to be sold. Good ones sell themsejvea.
It costs $600 to $800 to have a salesman form a company and sell a second rate stallion. Form
your own companies. Go direct to lams barns. He will sell you a better stallion for $1,000 ana
SUtX) than others are selling at 2,000 and $4,000. lams pays horse's freight and his buyer s fare.
Good guarantees. ' Barns in town. Don't be a clam. Write for an eye opener and finest horse
catalogue on earth. .
St. PauL, Howard Co., Neb. On U. P. and B. & M. Rys.
References: . Et. Paul State Eank, First State Hack, Citizens National Bank.
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The assertion is made continuously
by the republican press as also by
some men who were once populists
that the populist party was wrecked
through fusion. The Independent de
nies that the party is wrecked or that
any man can prove that fusion proved
detrimental. It is easy enough to say
it, but who has ever offered anything
in the way of proof? The party was
successful in this state when it fused
with Rcsewater, beat Tom Majors and
elected Holcomb. It was again suc
cessful when it fused with Bryan and
the democrats. If succeeding wrecks
a party, then fusion wrecked It It
elected John Powers governor (but he
was counted out) without fusion at a
time when the people of the state di
vided, not on populist and republican
principles, but on prohibition. What
evidence can any man produce to rhow
that if the party had refused to accept
democratic aid, that it would now be
the dominant party?
New Hampshire has recently held a
constitutional convention. It refused
to submit an amendment prohibiting
free passes which goes to show that
the New Hampshire mullet head is of
the same breed of gudgeons as those
who Uirned the state of Nebraska over
to the railroad corporations in the
hope that some day they might get a
pass even if they did have to pay ex
orbitant rates on everything that they
produced on their farms.
For desperate scheming, Secretary
Root can beat Machiavelli. He has jn
traduced a bill into congress which
has passed the house and is now be
fore the senate for the purpose of re
organizing the militia. In it Is con
cealed a section increasing the stand
ing army to 100,000 by calling it s re
serve. The constitution expressly re
serves to the states the power to ap
point the officers of the militia, but
the officers of this "reserve" are to be
appointed by the president and sub
ject to his orders only. If the con
stitution is ripped. up again in that
way and the case comes before the
Late
Yet
Christmas has come and you did not buy one of our.
Beautiful Pianos. Well its not too late yet, we still
have a beautiful assortment, all styles, grades and prices.
We are still as anxious as ever to sell you and will make
every possible inducement.
If you can't call, write us.
Matthews Piano Co.
1 1 20 O Street,
Lincoln, Neb.
sunreme' court it will be another five
to four case. Justice Brown will hold
that the militia is an 'appurtenance
of the regular army and has no rights
except what congress is pleased to
grant.
The last advance in coal oil was 20
per cent. Twenty per cent added to
the profits of the trust and Teddy does
not wink an eye. When will leuay
make a shot that hits? Thirty mil
lions extorted from the poor! That
ought to be a target large enough for
him to hit it somewhere, even if he
did not make a bull's eye. His in
junctions against the meat, trust and
railroads have proved to be Wank
cartridges. "The only shots that f ount
are the shots that hit," and blank cart
ridges never hit anything.
The Independent cannot agree with
the Rocky Mountain News in advis
ing the democrats to unseat some re
publican state senators in Colorado
simply because the republican house
will doubtless unseat fifteen democrats
and thus steal the United States sena
torship from Teller for Wolcott, Per
haps It may be Justifiable to use vio
lence with a thug or high way man
but after all two wrongs do not make
a right; and the after effect of the
News' suggested line of action can
not be good.
The Bancroft Blade says: "The rev
enue of 10 cents per pound on all teas
imported Into the United State;? which
ia to como off January 1. 1903, will
amount to a Bavlng of millions of dol
lars each year to the ta consumers of
the United States." The Independent
is very sorry to see that item in the
Blade, for' it-is high treason to the
g. o. p. "The foreigner pays the tax"
and taking off the tax on tea is tak
ing the tax off foreigners and not off
the people of the United States. It is
peculiarly unfortunate that the item
should appear at the present time, for
Editor Sinclair is a candidate for post
master and doubtless would make the
best one that could be selected among
the republicans around that town, and
to declare at such a moment that the
removal of a tariff tax "would amount
to a saving of millions of dollars each
year"' to the people of the United
States is perfectly awful under the cir
cumstances. "Where we noticed the effect of the
republican redemption most," said
John Lichty to The Independent one
day, "was in the falling off of the
school money. Every district in the
county felt it right away. Smaller
apportionments meant less school or
heavier, local taxes." Certainly the
effect should be noticeable this ear.
Richardson county gets $4,268.02 as
against $3,556.81, the smallest Decem
ber apportionment ever made by fu
sion officials to that county a square
loss of $1,288.79. Yet Richardson
county defeated John Lichty for rep
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