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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1903)
MARCH 19. 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. votes, as well as to aid iu the forma tion of partisan clubs. OTHER REINFORCEMENTS. We have outlined the character of the new movements that of. partisan clubs and "the people's rule," and havA dftsorlheii a nortion of the work accomplished during the past year b7 organized labor; the grange, refer ,rVk cndum leagues, and non-partisan fed . erations for majoritjTruIe.- Since elec tion day six state grcnges have' de clared for majority rule, namely, Illi nois, Wisconsin, Mlnnota, West Vir ginia, Pennsylvania and Rhode Isl and. And the natipnal convention of organized labor indorsed the work of the state federations of labor for the referendum and initiative, and pro vided that the system should be ap plied in national , affairs. By. resolu tions 121 and 140 the questioning ot candidates is to be applied to all the national legislation demanded by or ganized labor, and there was a re quest that each affiliated union, in ' eluding the central f and- locals, shall appoint a committee to co-operaie with the national officers. In other word3, there was a request that 14,000 committees be appointed to go into non-partisan politics. :.. In Missouri the recent annual con vention of the state federation of la . bor requested each of its affiliated un ions to appoint the committee as re quested, and suggested that the first work should be to call a meeting to organize a local federation of all who believe in majority rule. This will result in a federation in each city when the time approaches for ques - tioning candidates in 1904. In the ten states where legislatures are to b elected this year, the organization of " local federations can be carried on by the executive officers of the state fed erations of labor; 1 . In these ten states the county and local granges can readily be induced to adopt resolutions calling " for the questioning of candidates for major ity rule. The combined action of organized labor and , the grange city and the farm can easily secure a two-thirds majority Jn the legislatures . to be elected in the north, this year, name lv. in the states of Ohio. Iowa. Ken tucky, Maryland, New York, New Jersev. Massachusetts. Rhode island South Carolina and Mississippi, also elect legislatures. CITY ELECTIONS. In this sDrine's city elections, tho candidates for aldermen and mayor can easily be pledged to install a rule of procedure for the : optional rerer endum and the direct initiative. A committee from organized labor can do the Questioning. It can be as sisted. wherever a few men will feel like organizing a referendum league or a non-Dartisan federation for ma jority rule. In Chicago last spring, a non-partisan 4 federation was organ ized by forming an executive commit .."4 tee of men who were officers, also, in organized labor, the referendum league, and the Turner society ,the ti tle of their offices in these organiza tions being indicated in brackets un derneath their names. Here, as you will see, the "federation" was in name only, but the letter-head did the work. A majority of the candidates elected were pledged in writing There was placed, also, on the letter-head an ad visory council, and in the following words: - - - - ADVISORY COUNCIL. ' i "Will consist of one or more mem bers of each of the 500 trade and labor unions of Chicago; the young people'? societies, such as Epworth League, Christian Endeavor, Young Men's Christian association, Young Men's Institute, Catholic Order of Foresters, Young People's Baptist societies, the Turner societies, and all other or ganizations that stand for a free gov ernment majority rule. "The following individuals have ac cepted membership in the advisory council: (Then followed the names of a prominent judge and other leading men, ending with a professor in Chi cago university.)" ' These names and the names of the executive committee induced more than three-fourths of the candidates to sign the pledge to vote for a rule of procedure for the optional ' refer endum as to all franchises. The foregoing is a demonstration that it is almost no trouble to emanci pate your city from boss rule. A sin gle individual In each of four cities has set in motion the forces that se cured a majority pledged to rules of procedure for the optional referendum and a direct initiative " You can se cure the emancipation of your city, atid ; with practically no expense to yourself. ' GEORGE H. SHIBLEY, Chairman National Federation for Majority Rule, Washington, D. C. Any boy who reads this ad-vertisement can start in business on his own ac count selling The Saturday Evening, Post No money re quired. He can beginnextweeR. Many boys make over $5 a week. Some are making $15. fTHE work can be done after school hours and on Saturdays. Write to U3 at once and we will send full instructions and io copies of the maga zine free. These are sold at $ cents a copy and provide the necessary money to order the next week's sup ply at the wholesale price. $225.00 in cash prizes next month. r THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 467 Arch Street, Philadelphia A STRANGE CONGLOMERATION I M1S HORSES A Round-up of all Sort and Conditions of . Men at a Democratic Feast la Chicago The Iroquois club had a meeting in Chicago last week and the dailies re port that the names ot Grover Cleve land and Bryan were about equally cheered. The toastmatter in his in troductory speech made the following astonishing statement: "We have in our ranks both conser-. vatives and radicals, gold democrats and free silver democrats, free"" trad ers, tariff for revenue only, and even that rara avis today, protection demo crats, who believe in sustaining in fant industries. We have trust and anti-trust advocates. We have anti imperialists and even imperialists, so far as extension of territory is con cerned; we. have single taxers, initia tory and referendum democrats and not a few who are opposed to govern ment by injunction. And yet we dwell together in peace and harmony, work ing hand in hand for the perpetua tion of the great and ever-living prin ciples of democracy as promulgated by Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the democratic party." It is safe to say that no sane set of voters will ever elevate a party com posed of such discordant elements as that to power in this country. A po litical party when it goes before the people soliciting votes must have a harmonious set of principles which they promise to enact into law. If part of the party are for a low tariff and part for a high tariff, if some favor bimetallism and some are against it; if some favor a gold stand ard and some bimetallism, and so through the whole list of things that people are interested in, who can tell which will have the upper hand when the party g'ets into power, or even make a probable guess what sort ot government it t will give us? The principal guests of the club were as follows: Edward M. Shepard, Samuel Alschuler, Andrew E. Lee, Thoma3 Taggart, D. At.DeArmond, Carter II. Harrison, Charles A. Towne, Judso'n Harmon, C. E. Hooker, N. E. Mack, Rev. W. R. Notman, Lockwood Hon ore, J. M. Di&kinson, Virgil P. Kline. That was the feast that Bryan re fused to attend, and no man will now express any surprise that he did re fuse. Edward M. Shepard of New York made the principal speech and it was a good and wholesome speech. But according to the toastmaster but a small section of them believed in it. Hi3 arraignment of plutocracy was as follows: "Originally it . was upon that body of citizenship and upon the faith that it would continue to be the dominant power that our government of free dom and order was established. The long power of the republican party, its practical devotion to paternal gov ernment, its vast grants of power and Are sensations to bin buyers, hfe low price tr "wirm proportions' to his com petit ore. U mi will show yon MORI stallions of bifs.se, quality and finisa than ALL I kl POSTERS IN NEBRASKA, and bores yon will wish to bar or pay yoar fare to sea Mm-yon tta Jartg a If 70a will pay cash or give bankable note. Ton will sura bay a stallion of IAM s. Ia October, 1902, he imported 63 black and bay stallions. they cannot b duplicated iaany imporUnc barns in the United States for tlio number, for big sis, quality, finish, royal breeding and bargain prices. They are all . TOP NOTCHERS. Visitors and buyers throa his barns aad say: Hello, Bill! I'm front Illinois I'm Ikey from Missouri; lams has tlu rood ; be shws a Jars bttr th he ndrsrti. See that l.JKXMb 2-yecr-old, "a banner." I bea4t fair at Is.auu. Could' dustiest him ia Mlteods,Ooto or Iowa at .',000. See tbat MM-lb S-roar-oU, a "ripper", star. I key I tboseeix Week SJne-lb 4-year-olds be is showing to those Ohio mea. Tkey are thelJJtST I EVES 4W. Say. boys I look at this 5,100-lb pair of beauties; they sr worth coins; from Maine to California to sea (better than the pictures . asr. lkey. ron coulda'i aro wmim bare. Tbey are all "craokeriaok". IXyoa open your mouth and your socketbooks, yoa will do btuiasss, . lams sell them. He kss en band imported ana Home area, , 117-BLACK PEROHKRONS, DELGIAN3 A, COACHETI5-117 2 to years old, weih l."0 to 2,509 lbs,, all inrond and stamped by the Surean govern ment. tt per cent HL..M. K W per cent TON Huats.", isms sean rreacn ana unrraan oay direct from tb tremors. PAYS NO IStMFlKtMri, NO BUYJ89W. NO) SAUUMhBM. HA NO TWO TO TEN MJtN A3 PARTNERS TO oHAJK PROFITS WITH; hie buyer get middle man's profits. 1 hese six facts aud his t jar of soooeaafal hWnsas a St. Paul makes bins sell first ciass stsiiions at fifty cent on taw dwiiar, es4 saves his buyers JSOLkto $iavoca tallica. FARMERS: Forns your owu stock company, why pay sllek taleanea $2,500 to 13,000 for third rate etallion when you can buy a bettor an of Tarns at H.OOOor it.anO. Fires class stall ios are N JiVER PKDDLKD to be sold. IT COSTS i TO U,(M TO HAVK A COMPANY FORM ZD BY SALESMAN ; I MS pays horses' freight aad bis buyers' faro. Write for finest horee esta- logue in United States, showing 40 illustrations of hie borsee. It is aa eyeopener. Rsfsrsnces, 8t. Paul State bank, First State bank and Citiaens' National bank. Barns ia town. FRANK IAMS, -i ST. PAUL, Howard Co., Neb. On U. P. and O. & M. Ry. DRAFT STALLIONS, SHIRES, PER6HEH0NS, BELGIANS. OH Head to select fromall im- Qf 0 U ported by us and guaranteed. U U $i,oo6 buys a good one from us this fall. w down ail competition by selling more quality for less money than the small importers can possibly do. We do not advertise 100 and only have 20, but have juat what we claim. 60 good ones now on hand. Barns just across from B. & M. depot On September 9 we landed 40 head, which i our 34th import 4 - - - Lincoln, Neo. Watson, Woods Bros. & Kelley Go, wealth to the 'protected' interests, its steadfast centralization of banking and financial privileges, its latter-day abandonment of human freedom, its adoption of a colonial policy of force these and a hundred other features of its policies; since its usefulness ended with the abolfsl.itig of slavery, have borne normal fruit." Colds Vanish The Mercantilists There i3 doubtless considerable truth in the socialist contention that the difficulties in the way of man's getting a living shape his thoughts and give rise to his ideals, rather than that his thoughts and ideals af fect his getting a living. Yet it must be said that the mercantilist theory that a nation gains in . wealth by giving other nations more of its products than it gets of theirs in re turnhas surely affected the getting of a living 'in this country. The republican party is mercantilist to the core. Its members shout them selves hoarse whenever exports ex ceed imports. That is prosperity! The true mercantilist theory, of course, is that the difference between exports and imports is paid in gold and silver, so that after all it is an even "swap" 6 of goods for 5 of goods and 1 of gold and silver. But t.hfi nresent-dav republican mercantil ism is content, to eive 6 of goods for 5 of goods and get no gold or silver to make up the difference. It Is sim nlv a "favorable trade balance" which is never paid to us; but all the same they throw their nats and shout, "Prosperity! Look at the bal ance of (trade. Yep; that's so; vote 'er straight." Even the treasury de partment is elated and keeps a bureau of statistics busy sending out mimeo graph letters for publication in the various newspapers from one of which we copy this: The following table shows the to tal imports and exports of the United States in each of the twelve months ending with January, 1903, and indi cates the unusual fluctuation in the exports during the' last year due to the crop shortage, and the steady in crease during the year in importa tions: 1902. Imports. Exports. February $68,350,459 $101,569,695 March ........ 84.227,082 106,749,401 April 75.822,268 109,169,873 May 75,689.087 102,321,531 June 73,115,054 89,240,483 July 79,147,874 88,790,627 August 78,923,281 94,942,310 September .... 87,736,3-o 121,232,384 October ....... 87,419,138 144,327,428 November .... 85,386,170 125,200,620 December 94,356.187 148,012,403 January, 1903.. 85,109,891 134,040,932 ' George Bliss, Dorchester, Mass.: I put In a word now and again for you. Keep her up, old man! The mullet heads here in the east-'and there are lots of them are having a lesson in $12-a-ton coal, . , People who all their lives hate had two or three weeks' discomfort with every cold are hard to convince sometimes that any cold can be cured in a day if the cure gets a quick start after tfie cold comes. We guarantee Biggs' "Laxative Taolets. If no cure your money awaits you. A.new cold yields in 24 hours; an old cold takes longer but can be cured just the same in a fraction of the usual time re quired. Sold here only; 25 cents. $1 Patent medicines cut to 64c, 7JtC and 79c. Mail orders solicited. 1 RIGGSV 1 Cut Price Pharmacy. 1331 O St., Lincoln, Neb. prVfll AOV There is no subject on which iStAULUuT. there Is such a lack of Itnowl wu'w ' edge. persons otherwise well informed are lamentably ignorant on these lines. I make a specialty of books dealing with this subject. I handle only the very best. I will have nothing to do with trash. Interesting cir cu'ars sent for stamp. Postal cards not noticed. Address A. W. HIDEOUT, 70 St. Paul St., Bos ton, Mass. !'U' ' CERTIFICATE OP PUBLICATION. V" BTATK OF NEBRASKA s" f OFFICE OF . AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. - Lincoln, Feb. 1st, 1903. . It is hereby certified tbat the Minnesota Mu tual Life Insurance Co. of St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota, has complied with the Insurance law of this state, applicable to such Companies and is therefore authorized to Continue the bus inossof Life Insurance in this State for the current year ending January 31st, 1904. Summary of report filed for tho year ending December 31st, 1902. . INCOME Premiums ,..$ 48,4.U9(5 All other sources 66,515.38 Total 584,950.34 DISBURSEMENTS Po id policy holders 400,780.04 All other payments..... 172,332.33 , Total..... 573,112.37 Admitted assets $1,700,2C8.57 LIABILITIES Net reserve.: 11,295,633.00 Net policy claims 25,000.00 All other liabilities . 2,887.49 1,323,520.49 Surplus beyond capital stock & other UabTt's 466,688.08 466,608.08 Total .-. ........... tl,T. 0,208.57 Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Publio Accounts, the day and year first a bote J.'LVpIERCE, CHARLES WKSTON, Deputy. Auditor of Publio Accounts
