THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JANUARY 22, 1903." EMINENT DOMAIN Mr. Anthoay Comments on tb Principles Involved In Exercising Thla 8ov reign Klht Editor Independent: The right of way, the land and the fixtures of all corporations controlling public util ities are owned by the people. The natural law seems to be that all things the individual creates belong to the individual, for hi3 Individual use and all the utilities that society ere- aies Lrciuiig wO luc puunG iui iuuui. uses. The constitution of our union r a record of the natural rights of in dividuals surrendered to create fo the general welfare a legislative, Ju . dicial and executive department, each independent of each. The congress enacts laws within the sphere of the power granted. The judiciary con fines the laws within the powers grant ed, the president executes the laws, makes them effective, prescribes the way the people shall choose from then own ranks who shall be their public servants, who shall perform the du ties assigned to each of these depart ments. The people cither through the con stitution of the states or of the union have reserved to themselves as com moc property the absolute title to ev ery foot of land over which the con stitution of the union holds supreme sway. If the occupier of a farm or lot refuses to pay his taxes, refuses to contribute his share towards the pay ment of the people's hired help, the use of his farm or lot is taken from him and turned over to some citizen whn will now iVio iavoi lavAetA nn iYir farm or lot for the payment of the people's hired help. Should the com mon, welfare of the people require l he use of any farm or lot it is taken from the individual using it for the use ct nil 4 U .,1..,J, ,1 Jl.. AA I,. an, luc tAtiuu'-u yei nun uh.iuut;u, &iv ing back to the individual-occupier the amount of labor he has stored in the farm or lot through its purchase, money or otherwise. The people have not reserved the right to oust the individual occupier for any individual or private purposes Our supreme court has decided that in laAV coTuorations are individuals or single persons. The use of the law of eminent domain is for public use1? alone. It cannot be used for corpora tion right of way for private individual right of way. All lands taken from individual use through the law of eminent domain have teen taken for public uses; wherever the people choos3 to take possession of their owa they have the supreme authority o their constitute i for their warrant. If corporation? choose to build per manent structures on land belonging to others they assume the risk com mon to all Avho build on land to which they have no title. These struc tures belong to the holders of the titie to the land on which they are, built. Their name betrays ihfm. It can have no other meaning than co-operation, perrons acting together for a common purpose. Calling a corpora tion "quasi public" no more maes It public, being always for private gain, than calling a dry goods store or blacksmith's5 shop "quasi public" givfs them eminent domain. All depend uu on public use for private gain. Thei: claim of public utility is like the pW of the murderer of his father who claimed clemency from his judge be cause he was an orphan. F. W. ANTHONY. Mattawen, Mich. (It seems we have started with the wrong foot forward in this exercise cf the right of eminent domain. Pri vate property is taken, it is said, for "public uses;" but. in the case of railroads, it becomes the private prop erty of the corporation for whom th right has been exercise 1. The correct rule, it would seem, would be that wherever the right of eminent doman is invoked that the property taken , fchould belong to the public and be operated by the public through Us government In truth . the present. ; practice i3 nothing more than taking private property for the use of other private persons. Ed Ind.) Silver Dollars ; , Editor Independent: I have a ques tion I would not have known until very recently about the republicans -wimiiK l mucn silver, u u naa noi been for The Independent and The Commoner. Will you please tell me when the law was passed under which silver dollars are now coined. We know silver was demonetized. After a time we had the Sherman purchas ing law, which Grover caused to b repealed. . Under what law then are we now having the coinage of silver? This question has been asked me by one who was skeptical about the statement of any silver, being coined. . Perhaps we have as many mullet heads here , to the acre as anywhere. Anyhow what we lack in number can probably be made up in size. Long life and success to The. Independent A. B. PAUL. McDonough, - N. (The act of 1873, commonly known as-the "crime of '73," made provision for the coinage of trade dollars, but said - nothing about the coinage of standard ' silver dollars. Of course none could be coined without author ity of law, and none were coined from the time that act took effect until tha act of February 28,. 1878 known as the Bland-Aiiisun act, took effect Ac cordingly the mint reports show that during the years 1874, 1875, and 1877, not a silver dollar was coined. Un der the Bland-Allison act silver wai purchased . and paid for out of the treasury just as horses or any other commodity would be paid for, and al' told $378,160,793 in silver dollars was coined after March 1, 1878. The Sherman act required the pur chase of silver bullion at the markei price, the same to be paid for in United States notes. These notes ic turn were made redeemable in coin. The act did not require immediate coinage of the silver so bought and it piled up in the hands of the gov ernment Between July 14, 1890. and October 31. 1S93, however, 136.087 2S5 in silver dollars were coined from the Sherman law silver; and between November 1, 1893, (the date of Gro ver "s repeal) and June 12, 1S9S. $42. 139.872 more silver dollars were coined from the Sherman silver. . June 13, 1898, the war revenue bill provided for. further coinage f what was left of the Sherman silver bullion, and i' is under this act that the present sil ver dollars are being coined. The sup ply of bullion is about exhausted and coinage must r.oon cease unless provi sion is made to purchase a new sup ply. Ed. Ind.) G. W. Walters, San Saba, Tex.: Send me about half a dozen more of your educational cards. I want io spread the truth all I can. It is such a rare thing that we get the truth out of our old party papers. The Vlei Presitfint Editor Independent: As there is a controversy in our school in regard to qualifications of vice president, I write to ask if the law requires the same qualifications for vice president as if does for president, with regard to age and native birth. . Please answer through the columns of The Indepen dent and oblige a school, girl reader. IDA FORBES. Payette, Idaho. , '' (Originally the federal constitution said nothing about the qualifications for vice president Paragraph 5 of section 1 of article II., constitution of the United States of America, provid ed: "No person except a natural bora citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office w-.o shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, nd been four teen years a resident within the United States." Inasmuch as no qualifications were prescribed, it would seem that one not a natural born citizen, or less than 35, mig" t have been elected vice president But he could not have suc- c ded to the presidency. This was changed, however, by the twelfth amendment to the constitu tion, . the last clause of which says: "But no person constitutionally inelig ible to the office of president shall be ligible to that of vice president of the United States." This amendment al6o changed the manner of choosing a president and vice president Orig inally the one receiving the highest electoral vote (if a majority) was chosen president, and after choice of president tne one having the greatest number of electoral votes should, be vice president The growth of politi cal parties necessitated the change as outlined in the twelfth amendment, which enables one party to secure both offices. Ed. Ind.) C. W. . Selden, Lundy's Lane, Pa. : Find stamps for subscription. I wish the people were better informed on the questions of the day. Sensible re publicans are the ones that ought to read your paper. The most of them, however, are such strong partisans they will not put any money in any thing but a party organ. C. C. Burton, Stoddard, Neb.: En closed find one dollar for The Inde pendent another year. Coal is dear and getting dearer but we can't do without The Independent Its plain, manly statement of all questions just suits us. Has Not DevUt d. . Editor Independent: I received your favor some time ago, but have been negligent about answering it for two reasons: my health has been poor an' I am getting up in years; I am now 71 years old, have to work for my bread and butter; I am not as apt at it as I used to be. The Independent is a favorite paper with me. I am. in sympathy with the doctrines it teaches and the manner in which it teaches them. I will extend the circulation all I can. I am not a new hand in this fight I enlisted when the greenback party came Into existence and have not deviated from that course and nev er expect to. I voted for Weaver and Chambers when they ran on the green back ticket, and shall never vote thv republican ticket again. I want to see that old rotten carcas buried so so deep that it can't smell. We might have ac complished before this time if our par ty had kept together. I have been holding off to get the vote of this state; it will be some time, as they are going to have a recount OWEN MERRY. Happy Camp. Cal. W. H. Burdyshaw, Jcnesboro, Ark.: I would be elad to see the old-time leaders of the people's party in work ing order again. It seems to me tne papers ought to be better organized. I beiieve the people are now thinking of a new party for 1904. The Gold Bulls Editor Independent: The Gold Bulls cross the water. All of the so-called great nations have sent their great iron ships across the sea to fight the little republic. The Gold Bulls first robbed the world of the silver monev the money of the poor people and now the weak nations cannot pay their debts. And all the Gold Bulls unite as one man to fight, to kill and destroy all the ships of poor little Venezuela republic. The first war of the single gold standard! BISHOP L. B. HELLER. Belmar, N. J. On page 9 will be found the ad vertisement of Hayden Bros, of Oma ha. The firm is the largest depart ment store in Nebraska and are en tirely reliable. They are friendly to The Independent as shown by their continued patronage of its columns and we hope readers of The Indepen dent will remember them with gen erous orders for merchandise. Send an order by mail for anything that you need. Mention Th6 Independent and you will get full value for your money. John L. Logan, Oakdale, Cal.: I am a full grown populist and have been ever since I voted for J. B. Weaver and all along the line up to Bryan the second time. I am an old veteran soldier and never have yet forsaken the cause The Independent advocates. Objects to Slang. Editor Independent: And now, Mr. Editor, I don't wish to dictate whit you should put into your paper, o' what you should keep out But your word, "mullet head," I would here after eliminate from the paper and all other words that have no argument in them. Slang and blackguard I think are very slow in educating people that have opposite views. It is too much like President Roosevelt's campaign speeches, wheu he stooped to argu ments like these words: Popocratk ixhibits, The free coinage nerfidv." "Political popocratic proprieties of the Chicago platform platitudes," "Picture charcoal created into sound money, ' "Bryanized ratio," "Melt the purse strings of strong-hearted capitalists." Well, this is but a small part of Roose velt's arguments. It would be better to never have been printed. O. H. SMITH. Little Valley, N. Y. (There is no other term that so ex actly describes the man who shouted for dear money and high prices. If The Independent were to carefully eliminate everything which might of fend some person, it would have no more influence than any of the flat, stale and unprofitable sheets that disa up "sick toast" for invalid and athlete alike. The term "mullet head" is a household necessity. It is a shoe that ought to hurt no one's foot unless he is really entitled to wear it Ed. Ind.) An Old-Time Whig Editor Independent: Enclosed find postoffice order for your splendid pa per, The Independent. My grand father fought in the revolution, 1V7P. and my father was at Orleans under Jackson and helped to slaughter the British. I was an old whig and vote i ior Ben and Everett and protested against secession. I was a candidate against Governor Ireland of Texas for a seat in secession convention on ths union ticket and. got. beat. My re maining in the south necessitated my, going into the army :"so I fit It out' I will enter my eightieth year on the morning of the-22nd" about daylight. How do I know the time of day?: Well, I was there,'.' as was the little Irishman. Pardon this letter, but send' the paper. S. N. ELLIOTT. : Bentonville, Ark. L. Darling, Sedgwick, Colo.: I en close one dollar for renewal. I havo. taken The Independent for eleven years and must have it while time lasts. 5 "CI IB" lilt SHERIFF The gentlemanly and obliging sheriff of Lancaster county would not grant us a day's time. He insisted that we move forth with. We could not do it as soon as he thought we should, so he ran our business for us for a couple of days. The store at the present time looks like well, like the china store after his bovine majest7 had taken a few trips around the interior of it. The stock is badly mixed up, but today we will have every thing in shape to do business. 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