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JANUARY 15, 1903. THE, NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.' - combinations producing within a state, tut whose products enter into inter state commerce. ' Comprehensive plajjs to enable the government to get; at all the facts bearing upon the practices of corpora tions engaged in Interstate and for eign commerce. Creation of a commission to make diligent investigation into the opera tions and conduct of Interstate cor porations; this also relates to em ployes of such Corporations. Legislation which will speed the final decision of cases now pending and others that may be raised under the anti-trust law. The anti-trust measure introduced last session by Congressman Shallen berger of Nebraska has also come in for its share of public attention, as the following article from the Wash ington Post of January 3 will indi cate: "Representative Shallenberger of Nebraska addressed the general com mittee of the anti-trust league in an exposition of the subjects of his anti trust bill, now pending before the ju diciary committee of the house. "Mr. Shallenberger's bill provides for two new proposition in the reg ulation of the trusts. First, that there shall be a tax of 10 per cent on the par value of the stock of all cor porations engaged in interstate com merce; second, that all corporations which shall take out a federal inte! state commerce license and complj with the provisions of the law as to full reports as to their methods of do ing business and submit to a thorough system of inspection by the interstate commerce commission shall be ex empt from the 10 per cent tax on all their stock which represent actual capital invested. But all watered stocks shalUin any case pay an an nual tax of 10 per cent on its face value. "The anti-trust league, after propos ing some few minor amendments, un animously indorsed Mr. Shallenberg er's bill. "It is understood that this bill also embodies to a large extent the views of Hon. W. J. Bryan on trust regula tion by federal authority." The. statehood bill continues the Tegular order of business in the sen ate. The republican leaders are con spiring to talk the measure to death but the democrats, with Senator Quay and several other republicans, have so far been able to hold their advantage 'A ; compromise Js talked of to admit Oklahoma and Indian territory com.' bined as one state and New Mexico and 'Arizona combined as another. The leader of the opposition to statehood which opposition is based upon re publican fear that Arizona and Nev Mexico will become democratic states) is Senator Beveridge of Indiana. Bev eridge was the leader of the Indiana delegation to the last republican na- During Attacks Of Heart Failure. Would Appear To Be Dead. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Relieved and Cured. "I have no hesitation in saying that Dr. "Miles Heart Cure is ail that one can wish it to be. I was troubled with heart disease for fifteen years. 1 have tritd many different remedies but until I tried Dr. Miles' Heart !ure I could fi :.d no relief. I was subject to headaches and had tried your Pain Pills and they were so effective I thought your Heart Cure might help me. I would have attacks at times so severe that I would be stone, jblind for the time being. During these ispells I would be to all appearances dead, il took the medicine strictly as directed and I Jean truthfully say that I am completely cured, il advise all that are troubled with heart dis ease to take Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure iat once. I write this and give my name to my fellow sufferers." S. E. Purdy, Atkinson, Nebraska. "I first felt the effects of a weak heart in .the fall of 1896. I saw an advertisement in the Sioux City paper in which a man stated 'his symptoms which seemed to me to indicate 1 a trouble similar to mine. I had a soreness 4n the chest at times, and in my shoulder, an oppressive choking sensation in my throat ;ana suffered from weak and hungry spells, il was truly frightened at my condition and Erocured six bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, ince taking my first bottle I have never been bothered by any of the old disagree able symptoms and now am well and con sider my cirre permanent." Lcyis Anderson, Kuhn, S. D. All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles' Remedies.' St-nd for free book en Nervous and Heart I diseases Address Dr. Miles Medical CoElkhart, TncL tibnal convention and helped to draft the platform which promised state hood to Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Senator Quay has continual ly kept this fact before the people and is asking the republican majority for a definition of consistency. The spectable of the Pennsylvania boss begging his. republican colleagues to redeem their platform pledges is a spectacle to be seen fiat once in a generation and the most pre-eminent example of sat an rebuking sin in the public eye. H. W. IUSLEY. THURSTON'S THREATS "Ked Itoit" Poet Trle to Intimidate the Inhabitant of Hawaii A copy of "Home Rule," published at Honolulu, H. T., the issue of Sep tember 11, 1902, shows that at the time Elmer Stephenson, Tom Darnall, Bud Lindsey, et al., were whipping the brewers and saloonkeepers into line in Nebraska, with dire threats if they did not cease their "fight" on "our man Mickey" that there'd be somethin' do in' in the legislature this winter, our own and only John Mellen Thurston was over in Honolulu threatening the people of Hawaii that If they failed to elect a republican delegate to con gress, no attention would be paid to the needs or welfare of the islands The following quotations from his speech will show how delicately he suggested that the election of a repub lican delegate would be about the proper caper: "They (the republican administra tion) take it strange that the islands and the people here do not put them selves in harmony, through the elec tion of their delegate, with the re publican party which is administering the affairs of the people." "I do advice you with all my strength, if you wish to secure results from the republican administration, to send some man who will come with a certificate of election from the re publican party of the Hawaiian isl ands." "You might as well ehd a frog to chipper at the doors of the court of St. James for what you want, as to send to Washington a delegate who 1? not one of and in harmony . with either of the great political parties. This not a political theory it is a po litical fact." "You .can send men from this island to represent you there and they may be ever so good and great, J care not what he may be, or how energetic their efforts, unless you send a man or men who are in harmony with the republican party in both branches of congress, and with the republican president of the United States, he will accomplish little." "Whatever you have achieved through congress you have achieved by the hard work of men you have sent there without certificates of election behind them." "The United States government ought not to have taken away the revenues of your ports without giving you something adequate in return. It. should not have depleted your rev enues unless it gave you something of equal value from which" you could de rive revenue to carry on your local af fairs. I think it is only necessary to have that question brought to con gress and the proper appeal made through the proper representative (i. e., a republican delegate) to have this matter straightened out,, and this im position will cease." fjf P fli IF " fit and deliver the following bill of Staple Groceries (to your 11. It. station. Hundreds have purchased jp this combination of us during the past few months Sj... and every response to a shipment brings the best of satisfaction. We try hard to please. Give us a Cff? trial order. Ask our Customers. Save 30 per cent by ordering this bill. READ. 40 Lbs, Best Granulated Sugar for $1.00. COMBINATION A. 40 lbs. very best granulated su gar for , $1 00 4 lbs. best Rio coffee.......... 1 00 25 bars laundry soap 1 00 3 10c pkgs. corn starch 25 3 10c pkgs. gloss starch.... 25 2 lbs. 50c Japan tea...... 1 00 2 lbs. best baking powder..' 50 All above delivered free to your depot for $ 5, $5 00 Remit by Draft, Express or Money Order. .... Reference Columbia National Bank. FARMERS GROCERY COMPANY. 226-228-230-232-234-236-23& No. 10th St., Lincoln, Neb. WHATS THE MATTER " The heart of the editor goes out to the hundreds of honest toiling men who write letters of encouragement and tell of the conditions surrounding them and their families. They come from every state in the union. How The Independent wishes it could help them. But a tithe of these letters can be published for want of space, but. none of them are written in vain for all that There was one in last week's issue that was peculiarly pa thetic from J. A. Huston of Beaver, Ore He has five children and has worked hard all summer in a logging camp getting the highest wages paid and yet, with the closest economy, could not provide, free from debt, the actual necessities of a wife and five children. He said: "Now, I wish you would tell me what is the matter; do I need high tariff or do I "need low tariff, or do I need no tariff; do I need dear money or do I need cheap money? Our last campaign in this state the little bugle-mouthed parrots that stumped around here told us we had too much money." Mr. Huston has had to pay 20 cents a gallon for coal oil. It could be fur nished to him and give a fair profit to the producer and all those handling it at 10 cents. The other 10 cents has ..m f....M..M..jLiiM -rmv I p. Too Late L. - I 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. ii20 O Street, Lincoln, Neb. been wrung from his hard earnings by Mr. Rockefeller's trust and gives him a profit that increases his wealth to fabulous proportions. The steel tools that he has had to use in his work are controlled by another trust tha has taken from him a like exorbitant amount. The sugar that he has bought comes from another trust making tre mendous profits. His flour comes from a milling trust that took more of his wages. His meat was furnished by a meat trust that .fixes prices to suit itself. - So with nearly every article he had to purchase. If he could have kept the tribute that these trdsts lev ied upon him above a fair price, ha could now have money in his pocket instead of being unable to meet his bills. The tribute that most of these trusts collected from him was made possible by the tariff and the others by discrimination on the railroads. Trusts, tariffs and the private owner ship "or railroads is what is the mat ter. The increase in the volume of money has given work to all, but the 1.h.ih .... 1 1 j . j i. ea i take all-except-a bare livine-for tlm toiler. That's what's the matter.