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
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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.
$1 Patent medicines cut to 64c,
7JtC and 79c. Mail orders solicited.
1 RIGGSV
1 Cut Price Pharmacy.
1331 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
prVfll AOV There is no subject on which
iStAULUuT. there Is such a lack of Itnowl
wu'w ' edge. persons otherwise well
informed are lamentably ignorant on these lines.
I make a specialty of books dealing with this
subject. I handle only the very best. I will
have nothing to do with trash. Interesting cir
cu'ars sent for stamp. Postal cards not noticed.
Address A. W. HIDEOUT, 70 St. Paul St., Bos
ton, Mass.
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CERTIFICATE OP PUBLICATION.
V" BTATK OF NEBRASKA
s" f OFFICE OF
. AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
- Lincoln, Feb. 1st, 1903. .
It is hereby certified tbat the Minnesota Mu
tual Life Insurance Co. of St. Paul, in the State
of Minnesota, has complied with the Insurance
law of this state, applicable to such Companies
and is therefore authorized to Continue the bus
inossof Life Insurance in this State for the
current year ending January 31st, 1904.
Summary of report filed for tho year ending
December 31st, 1902. .
INCOME
Premiums ,..$ 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
