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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. '
JANUARY 15. 1903..
. HARDY'S COLUMN
; If It is best and is lawful to have
praying among our lawmakers, why
is it not equally beneficial and lawfu
to allow praying among our schoo
children? If men are allowed to pray
smoke and get drunk, why not allow
children to do the same? If the state
government sanctions the drunkard-
making machine' by giving a license,
why not allow it, to bless the young
the old? Inconsistency.
We hope the legislature wilj revo
lutionize the management of our peni
tentiary. Those strong, healthy men
can be made to earn their own living
and pay all expenses of the institu
tion just as well as not: really it
would make imprisonment more re
formal ory. It would be well to offer
a reward to all those who behaved
themselves, worked steadily and do
their 'work well, a certain per cent of
ati they earn payable at the close of
their term or mombij to their famil
ies if they have families. A few dol
lars, when a man comes out of the
pen, will furnish him support until
he can find employment. The state it
self should employ the men, furnish
the material an? give no middleman
a profit The machinery for making
broom handles and brooms costs but
little. The lumber and broom corn
can be bought and the men can do it
all. In one day a man can learn tc
make brooms and at a week's end
turn out a fair day's work. Then the
machinery for spinning binding twine
did not used to cost five dollars a
spindle. It takes but little power to
run twenty-five spindles and but very
little training to learn how to spin.
Then making barrels, especially apple
barrels, it would be a great help to
farmers, especially such fruit season;!
as we had last year. Then there are
many other things that other state in
stitutions must have that the pris
oners can make just as well as not,
and save buying. Of course the labor
unions will .fight, any such economy,
for they fear one man 'at work in the
pen will throw hundreds, out of work
outside.
It seems that party politicians in
office think it not good party policy to
force the collection of taxes. It cer
tainly is mora ' necessary to collect.
.within the year, "what taxes are levied .4
than to increase the valuation of the
property that pays its taxes under the
present tax collection. Give the sher
iff authority and compel him to ?ell
and give clear and full title to all
property on which the tax is not pair!
within the year. Ten days before the
sale notice should be served person
ally upon the owner of the property.
The punishment for the most dread
ed crime should be the most dreaded
punishment. Hanging is much more
dreaded than imprisonment, and every
murderer pleads for the prison rather
than the gallows. The punishment is
not so much because a crime has beer,
committed as to prevent more crime
in the future. It is certain that hang
ing will prevent , the one hung from
committing any more crime; not so
with the prison, for men plan murder
In prison.
prevailing policy i3 not to require the
head officer of any department to do
any work only to draw his big salary
and spend it. He must have a deputy,
a clerk, a. shorthand reporter and .a
typewrite to ttart with and then as
many more wedged in as possible af
terwards. A board of control of all
the state institutions, including all
supply purchasing, is certainly commendable.
Yes, the home for the friendless
should be put back into the hands of
the women. They know better how to
care for babies than politicians do.
No state institution was managed as
well or as economically as the home
for the friendless by the women. They
received by voluntary contributions
thousands of dollars to be used in.,
that institution, thus relieving the
taxpayers of nearly one-fourth of the
running expenses. The law chang
ing management was one of the things
that knocked out the party in power.
It would be equally proper to take the
state ;air out of the hands of the
farmers. The state owns the grount".
and forr.ishes a part of the running
expenses so the state owned the
buildings of the home for the friend
less and furnished a little larger pro
portion of the running expenses. Poli
ticians know as much about farming
as they do about caring for homeless
children.
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There are several other measures
recommended in the two messages
that should be carefully considered by
the legislature. The labor bureau is
of no use to the taxpayers. We do
not believe in any civil service law
that will give a state office for lifr
as the national law does. We be
ieve the normal school at Peru should
be moved into the central part of the
state or else a second one established
west of the center. District judges are
too numerous and five supreme judges
wm be a plenty, an odd number would
be best so they could not divide even
We think one experimental farm is
enough. Selling value should be the
basis of all tax levies. Up to the
present time the policy of every ad
ministration has been to increase the
mi w C JtS ' n
iiuiiiuui ui state oincers ana emmoves
We are glad for once that a reduc
tion of state expenses has been rec
ommended. State, countv and c.itv
- - -!
oetter pay security companies for
bonds rather than not to have any-
Dociy watch our treasurers. Every
treasurer, city, county and state,
should be required to report the re
ceipts and. payments of the month and
where every .dollar of balance is.
H. W. HARDY.
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We do not nee.l a beard of control
and a state acountant added to all our
present state employes. The present
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful It is in Preserv
ing Health and Beauty
Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the
aaresc ana most emcientamnrectant and puri
fier in natnre, but few realize its value when
taken into the human system for the same
cleansing purpose. .
Charcoal i9 a remedy that the more you take
bf it the better; it is cot a drug at all, but simply
absorbs the gases and impurities always pres
ent In the stomach and intestines and carries
them out of the system.
. Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking,
drinking or after eating onions and other odor
ous vegetables.
' Charcoal effectually clears and improves tue
complexion, it whitens the teeth and further
cts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic.
1 It absorbs the injurious gases which collect
in the stomach and bowel; it disinfects the
mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one form or an
other, but probably the best charcoal and the
most for the money is in Stuart's Absorbent
Lozenges: they are composed of the finest pow
dered Willow charcoal and other harmless an
tiseptics, in tablet form or rather in the form of
large, pleaaut tasting losenges, the charcoal
being mixed with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell
-in a much, improved condition of the general
health, better complexion, sweeter breath and
Tpuror blood, and the beauty of it is, that no
possible harm can result from their continued
use, but on the contrary, great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of the bene
fits of charcoal, sayst "I advite Stuart's Ab--sorbent
Lozenges to all patients suffering from
gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the
complexion and purify the breath, mouth and
throat; I also believe the liver is greatly bone
fitted by the daily use of hem ; they cost but
twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, find al
though in some- sense a patent preparation, yet
I believe I get more and better charcoal in
.Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges than in any of the
ordinary charcoal tablets.? i
Those who attended the meetin
the Nebraska State Historical society
Tuesday night differed widely in their
appreciation of Hon. Edward Rosewa-
ter's historical reminiscences on "Rail
roads in Nebraska Politics." Thnso
who have for years been apologists for
and participants in railroad domina-
;on were, of course, highly incensed:
but those who have conscientiously op
posed such domination were well
pleased.
Mr. Rosewater can certainly lay no
claims to oratory, but stored away in
bis memory is a vast amount of val
uable historical data accumulated dur
ing his long residence in the state.
iHe began by relating a conversation
he had had with Marvin Hughitt of
the Northwestern system at Chicago
in 180L'. A labor df.y parade was in
progress and Mr. Hughitt remarked
(indicating the paiaders), "There go
the men who make this government."
"Yes." assented Rosewater "when
you let them," "What do you mean
by that?" demanded Hughitt. And
thf editor of the Bee proceeded to en
lighten Liin.
He pcinied out the selection of a lo
cal attorney and delivery of his pass;
the f lection of a kcal surgeon and
delivery cf his the pass given
tj the lor.'!l editor. Then the first
primp ry, where the attorney, surgeon,
editor, station agent and section men
cout relied made nominations and
selected delegates to suit their favor
ite railroad. How in a very short time
the railroads had secured absolute do
minion over the politics of Nebraska,
working, quite naturally, through the
republican party.
He recalled the incidents in connec
tion with the submission of the con
stitution of 1871 a document contain
ing wise provisions for keeping rail
roads in their nroDer Dlace as mm.
mon carriers and preventing them
from being nionarchs of all they sur
veyed. How by stratagem a clause
was inserted for universal taxation
which had the effect for ohce in his
tory of aligning both Catholic and
Methodist against the constitution.
Yet,1 notwithstanding the union of
railroads and churches, the constitu
tion was adopted by a majority of the
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voters and boldly counted out "under
authority of the railroads of Nebras
ka." Mr. Rosewater attributed the pop
ulist uprising to an earnest protest
against railroad domination and re
pudiated the idea currently dissemi
nated by republicans that "hard times
and drouth makes noDS." Comins.
down to the present oay, he hesitated
for a moment anJ then intimated that
he was engaged in relating history
not news. A voice in the audience
asked him to go affead, but he refused,
saying: "What has occuijed recent
ly you know as well as anyone."
One man in tt audience, Dr. Georgs
L. Miller, was evidently much dis
pleased with Mr. Rosewater's address.
After adjournment he was heard to
declare that the railroads were com
pelled to enter politics in order to
protect themselves against blackmail.
"Yes," said another, "and Rosewater
himself has helped to blackmail
them."
IF
HAi?ftiaE$SOR
Prof. Vincent advises The Indepen
dent that the grain growers will have
headquarters at the Capital hotel, this
city, during their meeting next week.
At this meeting the Minnesota eleva
tor law will doubtless be considered
and an effort made to secure its pass
age by the legislature. It proposes to
arm persons, associations and cor
porations, purporting to run elevators
or grain warehouses, with the right of
eminent domain, permitting them to
condemn and take sufficient railroat!
right of way for a building site.
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Lincoln. Neb.
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Neb; '
