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FEBRUARY 5, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
If
Christian, Mohammedan, Shinto, Bud
hist, Parisee and Confucian religion
and let the visitors compare the tex
ture and quality of each and then in
vest in the sort that suited them best?
What does a specimen of religion look
like, anyway, when it is put on ex
hibition? The dispatch says: "The
world's fair religious building and ex
hibit committee has voted to reject
the proposition of the management
of the fair to give space in one of the
large buildings for the religious ex
hibits, instead of in a separate build
ing." A religious specimen must oc
cupy a good deal of space if the ex
hibition of the various sorts in vogue
require all the space in a whole build
ing to display them.
For some time The Independent has
thought that there was a movement on
foot to make Cleveland the next nom
inee of the democratic party. Infor
mation which reached us this week
dispels every doubt upon that subject.
Men have been secretly at work for
several months in every northern state
east of the Mississippi. It is also
claimed he has what he considers a
sure thing in several southern states.
If the Kansas City and Chicago plat
forms are to be repudiated, then
Cleveland is the "logical" candidate.
It would be "according to the eternal
fitness of things."
News of the Week
There appears to be a movement
among government authorities all
over Europe to fix a ratio between
silver and gold and make both a stand
ard money. It is either that, or a
greatly diminished trade with those
countries using the silver standard.
Mark this announcement. Before the
expiration of five years there will be
a bimetallism established by all the
leading nations of the earth, and after
that we shall have no more of the
single gold standard idiocy.
Mr. Vrooman says that his scheme
of socialism has failed. He announces
the result in the following terse sen
tences: "My plan?, were not practic
able. I attribute the shortage to ver,
apparent errors, and my plans will
not ignore human nature as in the
past." The ignoring of "human na
ture" is the weak point in socialism
as The Independent has often pointed
out. Mr. Vrooman i3 a man of the
noblest impulses and The Independe'm
is sorry that he has suffered Iops.
There have been attempts" without
number during the last hundred years
to put the theories of socialism into
actual practice, some of them by the
very best men and women and of the
highest education, but they have all
met one fate. Mr. Vrooman is not at
all discouraged and will try again.
The retail trade of the merchants
is beginning to feel the effect of the
extortions of the coal trust. When
100 families have to pay $25 each more
for coal than usual, it means $2,500
less trade for the local merchant. It
also means a falling off in the sales
of the wholesalers. That means leso
orders on the factories and less work
for wage-workers.
The Oto bank over in Iowa is short
$214,563.11 and the books do not. show
what became of the money. Will any
one be sent to the penitentiary for
this sort of bank robbery?
In the authoritative announcement
that Judge Parker would be Dnve
Hill's candidate for the nomination
for president, it was added that Judge
Parker could get as much boodle from
the trusts and corporations as any
republican candidate, which is no
doubt true.
The shortage, just at present, in the
kind of cars that haul corn and wheat
is just as great as that of anv other
liud lhat carry coal. The output of
coal, corn and wheat is no greater
than usual, while the number of
freight cars have been increased by
the thousand during the last three or
frnr years. By the tin. there are a
few more "mergers" we will get cars
only semi-occasionally, or when the
magnates in their superior wisdom
think that it is good for us to have
them.
The howls lhat can be heard in the
office of every plutocratic daily over
the sufferings caused in the Philip
pines and elsewhere on account of the
fall in the price of silver is not on
account of the people of those coun
tries. It is the office-holders and toy
eaters. Every time there is a fall in
the price of silver, their salaries,
which are paid in silver, purchase that
much less.
dent has all the time held. In an in
terview at the Auditorium in Chicago
the other day he said that we might
as well expect to suppress crime by
simply publishing the names of criminals.
The Record-Herald says that "the
situation of the silver countries is a
hard one." and that the movement
among the manufacturing nations to
establish by law a ratio between gold
and silver is the "ghost of bimetal
lism." It has found out that it is a
sort of ghost that won't down. The
pinch is not affecting the silver na
tions and their situation is not nearly
so hard as it is with the gold stand
ard nations that want to sell them
goods.
How the silver countries are suf
fering is illustrated by the constant
announcements of the investments be
ing made in them by capitalists of for
eign, and for the most part, gold
standard countries. The following
from Chicago dailies shows how the
matter is: "The tremendous influx
of United States capital into Mexico
has caused a wonderful activity in
railroad improvements and new con
struction. Nearly every railroad in
the republic is experiencing an era of
renewed prosperity, which is result
ing in large sums being spent for betterment."
Over in the Philippines where the
old Spanish laws are still in force,
when they run across one that won't
do at all, they do not declare that it
is unconstitutional, but say that it is
un-American. Governor Taft recent
ly pardoned a man because the law
under which he was convicted was, he
aid, un-American.
Senator Teller holds the same view
about "publicity" that The Indepen-
The republicans are giving Kansas
the same old kind of government that
was administered before the populists
took a hand in governing the state.
The legislature has been in session
four week's and so far has done noth
ing but put an immense number of
party workers on the pay roll. One
hundred and fifty employes look after
the forty senators. Doorkeepers and
"assistant superintendents of ventila
tion" are so thick that visitors are
denied a place on the floor. One hun
dred and fifty other employes clog the
aisles and f.tanding-room in the
house. Thirty doorkeepers stand
guard over four doors. As many as
sistant sargents-at-arms contest with
each other for the chairs heretofore
provided for visitors. The present
fifty-day session will cost the state
over $100,000. That is the kind of
government that the republicans gave
both Nebraska and Kansas and for
which the voters cast their ballots to
return. The reason is that the reform
party has not seen to it that the voters
were kept informed. If The Indepen
dent had had 50,000 circulation in this
state the railroads and republicans
would never have been returned to
power.
The Venezuelan matter is still in a
state to excite grave apprehensions
as to what may happen. The demand
of Germany, England and Italy that
their claims must be preferred and
paid before those of any other nation,
are so preposterous that many think
that they were made for the express
purpose of creating trouble. They
are in antagonism to the interests of
the United States, France and several
other countries and could not hav
been made with the supposition that
they would be accepted. France and
the United Staies were willing to set
tle on the terms proposed by Venezue
la and France had made a treaty to
that effect which that government
claims must be recognized by all oth
er nations. If Olney were secretary
of state instead of John Hay, he
would be likely to say something that
would bring the nations forming this
coalition to fight the little republic
of Venezuela to their senses.
Hundreds of thousands, clad in
rags, are still tramping the streets
of London, sometimes in large masse.;
asking for bread or a chance to work.
The brutal English government seemr
to be taking no action at all looking
towards relief. What do the English
in this country now think, who got so
red hot mad at The Independent for
denouncing the war on the Boers
which has brought all this suffering
about? The cost of that war was $1,
200.000.000, and the wage-workers of
England will suffer under the strain
for generations to come.
The sort of Christianity that the
English believe in may be gathered
from the fact that while the poor
starve by the thousands in the streets
of London, the people are taxed to
pay the Archbishop of Canterbury a
salary of near'y $100,000. The Bishop
of London and the Archbishop of
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York get $50,000, the Bishop of Dur
ham $35,000, the Bishop3 of Oxford,
Wooscester, Salisbury, and Bath each
get $25,000, while all the rest of them
get between $15,000 and. $20,000 eaen
yearly.
An international debate on the trust
question, between Mons. Yves Guyot,
the noted French statesman, econom
ist and writer, and II. Gaylord Wil
shire, is an interesting feature of Wil
shire's Magazine for February. A de
lightfully sympathetic study of Walt
Whitman and John Burroughs is con
tributed by Joel Benton, who was a
personal friend of both. Socialism not
materialistic, by G. E. Etherton, ex
plains that while socialism empha
sizes the material basis of life it is
mainly because the material supplies
the necessary basis for an all-round
development, spiritual as well as phy
sical. The editorials on The Ameri
can Ideal and Our Tariff on Art and
the comments on current events are
keenly and incisively logical and convincing.
Selling a Gold Mine
It is a matter of tremendous diffi
culty for a prospector to sell his gold
prospect, even though it be one of
exceptional merit. This might appear
incongruous, but nevertheless the fact
remains.
Provided the owner can bond the
property for 18 or 24 months, receiv
ing a small payment in cash, which
is based just in proportion to the
value of showing on the claim he will
have fared unusually well.
A bond, in other words an option,
is given on the property for say 18 or
24 months. During the life of bond it
being agreed upon that continuous de
velopment work must be carried on.
However excellent the surface show
ings may be on a gold prospect, lhii;
fact does not constitute a proof of
the presence of a paying mine, for
after the costly operation of exploi
tation driving tunnels and sinking
shafts, etc. may determine otherwise.
Necessarily therefore oftentimes con
siderable risk is attached to these un
dertakings. Accepting the EVA property as ar
illustration, the surface showings here
were magnificent, but the owners were
without the funds. However they ne
gotiated with The Mines Exchange
Limited who had little difficulty in in
teresting local parties to organize
with a small capital the Imperial De
velopment Syndicate, formed with the
express intention only of developing
prospects. An 18 months working
bond was taken on the EVA group.
Fortunately a thoroughly practical
mining man headed the management
of the Syndicate, a Mr. A. II. Gracey,
whose faultless judgment distin
guishes him as the greatest western
authority in the art of mine develop
ing. Instead of organizing a company
on the mere prospect Mr. Gracey pro
ceeded to develop the property, first
a camp was built and trails made;
then came the appointment of an ex
perienced mining foreman to super
intend the making of numerous open
cuts on the surface opening up and
tracing the veins. When the surface
work was completed tunnels were
started and driven on the different
veins, thus bringing to view the large
ore bodies.
Development work being vigorously
prosecuted proved the property to be
even more valuable as depth was at
tained, the veins not only continuing
in sie, but also increasing in width.
Enormous bodies of ore were blocked
out and the actual value of bullion In
sight demonstrated, this being as easy
of ascertainment as it is for farmer3
to correctly determine the value oC
wheat in the bin or corn in the crib.
Successful Farming;
There has been much said of late
about the practicability of farming by
irrigation. Much of it has been from
theorists, but farming by that method
has now progressed far enough to get
actual figures and statements as to re
sults obtained. Here is what a for
mer resident of this state says about
his experience covering two years on
a 120-acre farm:
"ou ask me to give you a state
ment of what I have raised on my 120
acre farm for the last two years and
how much I have under cultivation.
About 75 acres now. In the year 1901
I raised 310 bushels of wheat off 10
acres and sold for $1.30 per 100 lbs.,
and 807 bushels oats off 12 acres and
sold it for $1.50 per 100 lbs., and the
same year I had in 5 acres spuds
and I got 1,400 bushels and sold them
on an average for $1.05 per 100 lbs.,
and oEf 15 acres alfalfa I cut 62 tons
of hay in two cuttings. In the year
1902 my crop was just as good all
around except the spuds, and the
price is about as good as the year be
fore. I am well satisfied with this
country. I came here from Colfax
county, Nebraska. Yours trulv.
"J. F. PECIIANEC."
Mr. Pechanec bought his land from
Hon. M. Patrie of Market Lake, Idaho.
Mr. Patrie has and is now offering for
sale a large quantity of land exactly
the same as that sold to Mr. Pe
chanec. Any readers of The Indepen
dent interested in Idaho lands or look
ing for a location in an irrigated dis
trict should write him for price3 and
terms to settlers.
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A municipality Is never betf
the people want it to be.
Misery loves company and usually
has no trouble finding it.
"All the world's a stage," and too
many supes endeavor to play leads.
