THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
FEBRUARY 20, 1903.
The exodus to northwest Canada
from the western states seems to have
frightened 1 the Chicago bureau of
"Press and Publicity" for the Louis
iana Purchase exposition. John II.
I Raferty, a Chicago correspondent and
story writer, has been engaged to "aid
in deflecting the increasing tide of
emigration" from Canada into the
United States." Advance proofs are
being sent to publishers in every city
appealing to "mutually" patriotic" sen
timents in this "exploitation" of the
'west. The Independent has not suf
ficient space tu print Mr. Rafcrty's in
' teres'ting stories, but Is inclined to be
lieve that it will take more than a, few
, newspaper articles to stop the Ameri
canization ofCanada i
, The Independent has been a little
tardy in acknowledging receipt of a
,book, "Politics of the Nazarene, or
What Jesus Said To Do," by Q. D.
Jones of Edina, Mo., end a pamphlet
entitled "The Seventh Angel's Blast
and Christian Government," by 0. H.
Truman of Fairfield, Neb., both of
which deserve more than passing no
tice. Mr. Jones' book outlines , the
' formation of the Mount Vernon league,
a patriotic organization; and Mr.
Truman advocates public ownership as
the only solution of the saloon ques
tion. In this he differs but little from
Dr. Brooks, whose book, "Sixteen to
One Escaped Criminals to One Con
viction," was reviewed in The Inde
pendent some weeks ago.
The bill to tax the output of coal
in - Wyoming was twice defeated by
' the United States lobby in the house.
There was a great uproar about it
from one end of the state to the other.
Then the lobby took a new turn. A
new bill of the same character was
introduced and passed without any op
position and by almost an unanimous
vote. It now goes to the senate where
it will certainly be defeated, but this
move will enable the republican mem
bers of the house to go back to their
constituents and say that they voted
for the bill and the fault was with the
senate. The railroad managers think
that will satisfy the mullet heads
and at the next election they will line
up and vote 'er straight as usual.
Mr. Shallenberger calls the Fowler
asset notes "promises to pay, which,
by the flat of law, shall have the
power and effect of money, whicn is
a very good description of them. It
is the first time in all history that a
law-making power became so besotted
as to make bank premises to pay a
fegal tender.
The arrangements have already been
made, if the government issues $200,
C00.000 of Panama canal bonds, thit
no one but the bankers can handle
them. The interest will be put very
low, so low "that the people generally
will not invest in them, but the bank-
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Heart Trouble.
Could Not Eat, Sleep
or Walk.
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smothering spells. I was out ol sorts all over
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I could not walk without stagrering like a
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erswill get more than three times
the rate of interest on them than a,
private, unincorporated individual can
get. Bankers will immediately hand
th;m back to the government, draw in
terest on them and get their full face
value in national bank notes whi:h
they will lend to the people. It may
be figured out in this way. If a pri
vate individual gets a bond, he will
receive only 2 per cent interest. If a
banker gets a bond, he will receive 7
per cent interest, the 2 per cent that he
gets from the government and the 5
per cent that he gets from the people
on the notes that the government will
give him when' he deposits the bond.
The people have submitted to that
sort of outrages for more than forty
years and there are no signs that they
wll make any objections to its in
definite continuance. That is beea'ise
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
Where are Bynum and McLaurin?
Nothing has been heard from either of
them for some months. Is not their
treiuon to be rewarded? One thing
that stands in the way is that the un
written rules of ttte senate prohibits
either of them ever getting an office,
the nomination to which must De
confirmed by that body. Bynum
would have had his reward long ago
had it not been for that fact
The populists believe in one kind
of money, the same dollar for wage
worker as for the millionaire. T.ie
currency tinkers of the republican
party have succeeded in imposing up
on us nine kinds, and they are not
through with their tinkering yet. Aid
rich wants to give us another and
Fowler is bent on giving us still an
other kind. Perhaps this idiocy wll
run its course by and by, but there are
no signs of a let-up at present We
now have gold money, silver money,
national bank notes, treasury notes,
copper, nickel, gold certificates, silver
certificates and greenbacks, when
greenbacks would answer the purpose
as well as this grand conglomeration.
Fowler wants to add to thi3 asset
notes, and "Aldrich wants a sectional
currency dividing the country into
three sections where it can circulate.
If ever "a hell broth" was brewn, ii
is this Wall street currency system.
The republican party is going to
"get it in the neck" the next time in a
good many republican states, if not
in the nation at large. Even the latter
begins to look exceedingly probabla.
In youth this writer was taus'it
that there were legions of devils. Re
cently, after having made a list of
about four hundred and looked it over
several times, he has come to ihe
conclusion that the three worst are
the devil of greed, the devil of par
tisan spirit and the devil of the ere iit
system, and he is inclined to thiik
that the worst of the three is the devil
of credit If no one went into debt
there would be no interest to pay.
That would dispense with the enor
mous sums paid to the banks and
thousands of other money loaning
concerns. Interest and usury wo.ild
be known no more and the world
would be happy.
Latest news from London indicates
that the English are about to re-establish
slavery in South Africa. I
goes by the name of "forced labor,"
but if is slavery all the same. Tha
liberal party has announced that it
will fight the proposition, but the lib
eral party is honey-combed with trait
ors and is in very much the same
fix as the democratic party is in this
country with its Hills and Clevelands.
Last week Senator Depew was ar
rested and brought to the senate by
the sergeant-at-arms. It is the first
time that, any use for Senator Depew
was found in the senate. It was at
last discovered that he could be
counted as one in making a quorum.
In answer to one or two inquiries
concerning the best, method of getting
this state out of the clutches of the
railroad corporations we can say with
absolute certainty that If the circu
lation of the Nebraska Independen t
was increased to 50,000 in the state,
the republicans and railroads would
have difficulty in carrying even half
a dozen counties. How long it wou'd
be held after being redeemed would
depend upon how close the legislature
and state government stuck to pop
ulist principles.
News of the Week
A copious flow of oil was discovered
in Ireland last week.. It came from a
cellar in a house located in the bogs.
All the Emerald Isle is rejoicing.
Their rejoicing, however, will be of
short duration. Inside of a year
Rockefeller will have it and the Irish
will have to pay 20 cents a gallon for
all they -get.
It is announced that Governor Cum
mins of Iowa will be a candidate for
the vice presidency. He has a good
show to get it. His tariff ideas have
produced uneasiness among the tariff
grafters. If Cummins can be made
vice president his talk about the tar
iff sheltering trusts will be shut off.
The house committee recommended
the passage of the Philippine currency
bill, but balked at tho bimetallic pro
vision placed in it by the amendment
of Senator Patterson. -
During the last hour 'of the legal
existence of the Oregon legislature
C. W. Fulton was elected United States
senator after an all-winter contest.
Fulton is an unknown man and the
result is another demonstration that
senators should be elected by th
people.
If a conversation of Llttlefield, re
ported to The Independent, is true,
and it comes from the most reliable
of sources, the republicans are going
to have trouble with that man. He
bolted on one or two recent votes in
the house and that everybody knows.
Littlefield has a worse opinion of the
recent republican trust-busting legis
lation than The Independent has, and
he swears by the holy horn spool
that he is going after the1 deceivers
and scoundrels who brought it about.
He believes that unless the trusts are
"subdued that this republic is doomed.
The republican party is a queer home
for an anti-imperialist and opposed of
trusts, and such is Congressman Lit
tlefield. .
From information lately received,
The Independent would not be tho
least astonished to see it announced in
the papers some of these mornings
before the 4th of March that Mark
Hanna's ship subsidy had been passed.
There is a lot of that kind of dirty
work going to be accomplished on the
last day of the session.
The people of Kansas insisted on
having a republican legislature aud
now they are howling because it is
about to bankrupt the state. They
also insisted -on electing a republican
United States senator a few years ago,
and last week it was announced that
they were going to demand his resig
nation because he was mixed up with
the "get-rich-quick" concerns in St.
Louis. The mullet heads of Kansas
are a premium lot
A decision rendered by Judge Gross
cup last week, if sustained by the su
preme, court, will knock out the meat
trust combination and it must dis
solve. How long it will take for th3
case to reach the supreme court no
body knows and what the decision of
that court will be, nobody can guess.
The president has appointed Judge
William R. Day to succeed Judge
Shiras on the supreme court bench.
That is strengthening the anti-imperialist
side of the court in a mild
sort of way. Judge Day was opposed
to the treaty with Spain.
If we could ever get a law passed
making public what the cost of the le
gal departments of the railroads are,
the American people would be aston
ished. The assembling of the leading
railroad lawyers last week to devise
ways to enable the roads to carry on
business after the old fashion not
withstanding the passage of the re
publican trust-busting bills, calls at
tention to the matter. Every railroad
system "has its general counsel, who
has been .-elected because he is in th
front lark cf his profession, and the
general counsel is assisted by an x
pensive staff of general and special
attorneys. For years the legal d
parlmont of railroading has been ad
mitted exceedingly expensive.
Freight rates and passenger tariffs
could be greatly reduced and the net
earnings remain the same, if the ser
vices of these expensive lawyers wer
dispensed wHh.
Attached to Congressman Little
field's speech in support of his trust
busting bill is an appendix contain
ing a list of nearly 800 trusts with a
total capitalization of nearly $14,
000,000,000. It is said that this is the
first accurate list of trusts ever pub
lished, but it will be out of date in a
month. New trusts are forming ev
ery day.
The York Teller says that "the
populist leaders are discouraged." If
any men thinks that he is a "populist
loader" and is discouraged that is his
misfortune. Those who vote the pop
ulist ticket have never acknowledged
that they had any "leaders," and in-
j stead of being discouraged they are
THE VALUE-OF CHARCOAL
Few Pcopl Know How UmiuI it U In Preserv
ing Health and Beauty
Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant . and purifier in nature,
but few realize its value when taken
into the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating on
ions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and im
proves the complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs the injurious gases
which collect in the stomach and bow
els; it disinfects the mouth and
throat from the poison of catarrh.
All dnigists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the
best charcoal and the most for the
money is in Stuart's Absorbent Lozen
ges; they are composed of the finest
powdered Willow charcoal and other
harmless antiseptics, in tablet form
or rather in the form of large, pleas
ant tasting lozenges, the charcoal be
ing mixed with hoaey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condi
tion of the general health, better com
plexion, sweeter breath and purer
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 benefits of charcoal, says: "I ad
vise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to
all patients suffering from gas in
stomach and bowels, and to clearHhe
complexion and purify the breath,
mouth and throat; I also believe the
liver is greatly benefitted by the daily
use of them; they cost but twenty
five cents a box at drug stores, and
although in some sense a patent pre
paration, yet I believe I get more and
better charcoal in Stuart's Absorbent
Lozenges than in any of the ordinary
charcoal tablets.
everywhere rejoicing over the great
advancement that" populist principles
have made in the decade that has
passed since, those principles were first
promulgated.
The coal trusts, little and big, all
over the country are determined to
take "all the traffic will bear" and
have by no means stopped their mur
dering for money. A Chicago tele
gram of the 18th says: "There is
much suffering among the destitute,
notwithstanding the best efforts of all
charitable organizations, although the
scarcity of coal is less general than
in the previous cold spell. In addi
tion four deaths are reported directly
and indirectly from the effects of the
cold. Dispatches from St Louis of
the same date say that the four courts
had to be closed for want of coal. "Not
a pound of coal could be found in the
engine room, and old floors are being
torn up to keep the 250 prisoners in
the jajl warm." Topeka, Kas.. re
ported: "There is much complaint
about the scarcity of coal. Very lit
tle difference exists between the con
ditions now and when the coal fam
ine was worst. Many stories of suf
fering are coming in." All this suf
fering and death is a result of the
formation of trusts and some millions
of people still vote for the party that
has created the trusts, because Abra
ham Lincoln freed the slaves.
Tom Taggart, who succeeded in get
ting control of the Indiana democratic
machine and thus largely aiding the
republicans of that state, officially an
nounced that Dave Hill will be a
candidate for the democratic nomina
tion for president and that the Ind
iana delegation will be for him. He
says that Hill is not backing Judge
Parker of New York, but is backing
himself.
The news from Philadelphia dtfring
the week was very disquieting. There
has been a good deal of fighting near
Manila and some in other places. The
dispatches still insist that it is all
caused by "ladrones" or mere rob
bers. That does not alter the case at
all. There is an organized force in
the field commanded by officers .whose
orders are obeyed and the thing is
ju3t as serious whether the Filipinos
engaged in it are called ladrones or
insurgents. What we shall ever gain
by keeping an army in those islands
and undertaking to hold the people in
subjection, it is impossible to im
agine. No nation, since nations ex
isted, ever went into a more foolish
business than the imperialists forced
upon us.
