JANUARY 22, 1903.
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for a combination of groceries. Upon receipt of
10 dollars by draft, express or money order, we will
ship immediately the following bill to your R. R. Ctj
station, freight prepaid. Read over this list. You JjJ
take no chances if buying of this big reliable
store. We guarantee everything, l our
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Special Combination No. 84 E.
5 J ion. best fine granulated sugar. $1 00
8 lbs. Lion or Ar buckle's Coffee. 1 00
5 pkgs. best yeast cakes 25
3 pkgs. best soda . 25
3 cans lye 25
2 lbs. fancy evaporated peaches. 25
25 bars laundry soap 1 00
3 lbs. best tea 1 50
1 lb. pure pepper 25
2 bs. best baking powder 60
G lbs. best raisins 50
y2 lb. best ginger 25
6 lbs. best rice 50
G ILj. California prunes GO
2 lbs. choice mixed candy 25
8 lbs. rolled oats 25
3 cans oysters 25
1 largest box matches 25
2 bottles lemon extract 20
2 bottles Vanilla extract 20
1 box starch 10
3 pkgs. stove polish 25
3 10c cakes tar soap 25
$10 00
All the above packed securely and
delivered free to your railroad station
for $10. Every article warranted to
please you.
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What do you pay for sugar ? Can you get 50 lbs
for a dollar from your dealer? Ask him to fill the
above order then write. Let us save you money.
RS GROCERY COMPANY.
Established 12 years.
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STANDARD OIL
George Rice Comment! on the Recent
Tract Robbery
George Rice, who rendered Attor
ney General Smyth -great service in
the case of State of Nebraska vs.
The Standard Oil Company of Ind
iana, has a letter in the New York
Times of January 11, which throws
considerable light on what the trust
has been doing in the past year. Mr.
Rice says:
It seems ry late press reports that
the Standard Oil company, more truly
an integral part of the Standard Oil
trust, is composed of twenty or more
corporations, of which there are five
Standard Oil companies of five differ
ent states, the New Jersey Standard
Oil company being one of the five.
The trustees of this trust have deemed
it wise at this particular juncture to
exploit a little latent rebate philan
thropy to their employes, in order to
obscure the public vision, to divert
attention from the enormous extra
monopoly benefits that are now accru
ing to this gigantic, mammoth trust
on account of the coal strike.
Its monopolistic power is well illus
trated by taking advantage of the
present necessities of the people, to
arbitrarily advance within the past
three months, since October 7, the
price of illuminating oils for lighting
and heating purposes 46 per cent, as
sold from tank wagon to retail dealers
or cents a gallon, $1.47 a barrel,
or $10.29 a ton, based on forty-two gal
lons of crude, of which seven barrels
weigh a ton.
The advance in crude petroleum at
the well from October 7 last to Jan
uary 7, 1903, is 27 cents per barrel,
which, taken from the advance in the
price of illuminating oils, leaves a dif
ference of $1.20 per barrel, increased,
extortionate price ground from the
face of the poor. The best possible
evidence of what this hydra-headed
monopoly is now doing is better il
lustrated in the following facts and
figures:
The average daily production of pe
troleum for 1901 was 190,107 barrels.
Of this amount there is positive proof
II STARTLING FACT
HALF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE
STOMACH TROUBLE.
A Simple Course of Treatment Told in
Every-day Language, Free from
Scientific Terms
Half the people in the world have
stomach trouble in a greater or less
degree. Usually it comes from irreg
ular or hasty eating sometimes from
other causes. But there is just one
way to treat it and that can be found
in a booklet which the Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., will
send free to any address upon re
quest. Mrs. Edith Benedict, of Gro
ton, Mass., is one of the many who
took thit course of treatment and was
cured. She says:
"I had suffered from constipation
ever since about the time my little
girl was born, about twelve years
ago, and it finally became chronic.
It isn't necessary for me to tell you
the trouble it gave me, but I suffered
all the time. Doctors gave me no per
manent relief and I kept getting worse.
"At last, something more than a
year ago, when I was all run down
and my blood in a horrible condition,
my mother told me to try Dr. Will
iams' Pink Pills for Pale People,
which, she said, had accomplished
wonderful results with her. I pur
chased some and took them according
to directions and in a short time saw
a decided improvement. I continued
their use and they cured me."
If you are suffering from any dis
order of the stomach write for their
free booklet, entitled "What to Eat
and How to Eat" It contains infor
mation that should be in the hands of
every person who is suffering from
a disordered digestion. It treats of
the proper selection and preparation
c' food, the relative value and diges
tibility of various food products; it
contains a chapter on the use of alco
hol and gives a course of treatment
by which consUpation may be over
come without the use of cathartics.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People, the medicine which cured Mrs.
Benedict and thousands of others, ar
an unfailing specific for all diseases
arising from impoverished blood or
weakened, unstrung nerves two
fruitful causes of nearly all the ail
ments to which mankind is heir. They
may be had of any druggist or will
be sent postpaid on receipt of price,
fifty cents a box; six boxes two dol
lars and fifty cents, by the Dr. Will
iams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
- N. Y.
that the Standard Oil trust absolute
ly owns and controls 95 per cent, or
180,602 barrels per day. The addi
tional monopoly revenue thus filched
from the people by this illegal trust
in consequence of the coal strike
amounts to $216,722 per day, $6,501,672
per month, $79,103,530 per annum.
In view of the necessity for this
great increase in the price of illumin
ating oils within the past three
months, it might be well to state that
the dividend of the Standard Oil trust
for 1902 was $45 per share on par of
$100, amounting to a total of more
than $90,000,000, -based upon its pres
ent par value capitalization of $202,
Lj3,700, while the market value of its
shares on January 6, 1903, was $750
per share, or a marketable capitaliza
tion amounting to the enormous sum
of $1,516,752,000, or more than double
the aggregate market value of the
United States steel trust.
' The market value of Standard Oil
shares on October 7, 1902, the day
previous to the rise in the price of il
luminating oils, was $655 per share,
which, taken from $750 per share,
shows an advance of $95 per share on
$100 par value, aggregating a total
advance within the past three months
in the shares of the Standard Oil trust
amounting to the sum of $192,000,000,
of which Standard officials are the
main recipients. These enormous prof
its are the effects of the coal strike,
whereby, in their dire distress for the
want of coal, great suffering is in
flicted upon the people through the
existence of this oppressive, monopoly.
Suckling babes, crying children,
mothers wail in icy homes! Most
monstrous does it seem! Is it not
quite evident that such atrocious acts,
as these breed anarchy?
"Every penny that is taken from
the people for which no return is giv
en is a stolen penny, and these' stolen
pennies, pouched by monopoly," is ob
tained by criminal conspiracies in the
non-observance and non-enforcemeni:
of the laws. The question of the hour
is, how much longer will the people
endure these extortionate and oppres
sive monopolies that are allowed to
rule and ruin with unbridled hand be
cause of the inaction of public offi
cials to properly execute the laws,
that is, by criminal action? What
dees a" fine of $5,000 amount to
against stolen millions?
GEORGE RICE.
Marietta, O.
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Jim HHPs Species
A certain railroad man in Lincoln
takes special delight in relating the
following story on Jim Hill, whose
vl .nagement of the Burlington railroad
since the merger has, brought upon
him the curses both loud and deep
of thousands living along the branch
lines in Nebraska. Just why this
particular railroad man should be de
lighted with the joke does not appear
but no matter; this is the story:
"Speaking of James J. Hill," said a
St. Paul man at the, Holland house,
the other evening, "I can tell you a
story of him.
"It was away back in the Ws, when
the late lamented Harry Ives was Mr.
Hill's private secretary, and Mr. Hih
was giving away pigs of purest breed
to the farmers of the northwest in or
der to encourage stock raising along
the line of the Great Northern road,
and thus build up its traffic. The
state fair was in progress in St. Paul
when one September morning Ives
opened Mr. Hill's mail and found a
letter from a farmer, which read as
follows:
" 'Dear Sir: I went to St. Paul and
to the fair, as you told me. I looked
for you at your office, and also at the
fair grounds. I found plenty of hogs
of your species, but could not find you
anywhere.' "
Political Unity
Editor Independent: August Comp
te, in his "Positive Philosophy," says,
that is the most enduring government
which is "consequent upon itself."
This expression would appear to
mean, "In harmony with its consti
tutive principles."
It will probably be admitted that
among the organic principles of the
government of the United States are
freedom of speech and of the press,
and political unity. Hence, if Compte
be right, whatever is at variance with
any of these fundamentals threatens
the perpetuity of our government.
During the civil war, an influential
journal in the strongly anti-slavery
state of Wisconsin published for, a
year the offer of a reward of $500 for
the assassination of the president, and
this with absolute impunity.
But, since September 6, 1901, we
have seen a minister of the gospel
tarred and feathered because in hi
pulpit he expressed the opinion tht
the lately deceased president had been
a politician, and that much of the
eulogy of him had been insincere. We
have seen another minister ousted
from his pulpit because, while he
spoke feeling of Mrs. McKinley, he
failed to eulogize the late chief exe
cutive. We have seen The Nation referring,
editorially, and without disproval, to
the probable suppression . of anotlu r
journal and the jailing of its editor,
and that journal expressed sooner
than it did, after President McKinley's
death, the opinion that the president's
Buffalo speech signified a deliterate
abandonment of the doctrine of high
protection. We have seen a United
States court issue an injunction re
straining the members of a labor un
ion from circulating literature reflect
ing on a mercantile firm as hostile to
organized labor the first injunction
of tins sort said ever to have been
issued in this country.
These are but a few of similar inci
dents noted in the cursory reading of
a single newspaper since the tragedy
at Buffalo. As showing the changed
trend of public sentiment, should they
not awaken the apprehension of aH
good citizens?
Again, prior to the recent treaty of
Paris, to be an American was to b?
more than king or emperor. But Ly
that instrument we admitted into the
body politic some ten million persons
living in a tropical climate, seven
thousand miles from our nearest
shores, people of a different race, of
different language, of different cus
toms, people who in a thousand years
would be unable to become Identified
with our institutions, people who can
nev.r share in the glory of our na
tional history or become in any proper
sense American citizens. And so how
have we admitted them? As subjects
political entities foreign to our po
litical constitution. If Lincoln could
truly say, "This rion cannot endure
half slave and half free," then we can
say today, with equal truth, This na
tion cannot endure half citizens and
half subject. It was net for such de
gradation as this that our forefathers
fought and bled and died.
Let us. divesting ourselves as far as
possible of political partisanship, and
considering these matters in a phil
osophic spirit, ask ourselves the ques
tion. Is ail this safe? Can the people
of this country address themselves to
questions of weightier import than
the discouragement of the anarchistic
sentiment so prevalent after the as
sassination of President McKinley, and,
a return to the principles of American
citizenship not such citizenship as
may be invoked by an almost evenly
dividec". supreme court from the letter
of the constitution, but such a citizen
ship as may safely be conferred upon
every person under the American flag,
a citizenship in harmony with the
Declaration of Independence and with
the spirit of tie constitution of the
United States? -
JOHN SAMPSON.
Washington, D. C.
What Hade Prosperity
Editor Independent: I am glad of
the opportunity to assist in the edu
cation of the masses. I believe we
had better all stay at home next pres
idential election. The g. o. p. are
looking anxiously around for some
one to unload the next panic upon. So
anxious are they, that they are spend
ing more time and space on the re
organization of the democratic party,
than on second term of Roosevelt.
They cannot possibly bridge us over
for another six years; a crash is in
evitable, especially if the Fowler bill
is enacted into law, which is un
doubtedly their intention. If I can
serve you further in this way will
willingly do so. Every reformer, in
fact every vo'ter ought to know why
our country became prosperous, and
what causes are being combined to
again wreck the country, and rob the
industrial classes of the fruits of their
labor.
The press, with but few exceptions
(one of which is the Nebraska Inde
pendent), are saying nothing about
this matter. Our own "professed"
publications are not availng them
selves of the best campaign arguments
ever proffered them, an administra
tion elected to office on a "gold stand
ard" platform, adopting the populist
financial policy and not one editor in
a thousand intelligent enough to tell
it to their subscribers. It is discour
aging to say the least. Find enclose,!
$1. How does my individual account
stand? Yours truly,
A. J. McCAIN.
Rapid City, S. D.
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