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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
MARCH 26, 1903.
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Only ouj cf hrnK lams' M. Haul, fitti., Sciisaiiunal lireedy, Up-to-di:e 4 Year-old Black Percberon bUmoas. j lams'
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; Jtffeit and most iddeljr adyertiied
imM.rtlB esUbIlhmet of Blaek
pwchtrona, BoyU Blini ani
Froneh Coach itallions. In tha west.
TLat of Frank Iamt St. Paul, Set.
:Thalionia of tha winnera." ;am
Byou" (468) cominsr i yean .old.
Black Percheron wt. 2,060 lbs, im
ported and owned by Frank; lama,
St. Paul, Neb. He is an np-to daU
drafter, with 14 Inch clean flat bone,
n exceedingly smooth finished stal
lion of first-quality. He has that
bi style, all bis own, that makes all
buyers fire bitn a pleasant smila.
He ia a sensational show ytd per
former,, an outstanding winner m
th best company. He pulls himseir
torethirr, goes down the lme like a
whirlwind.; He is the kind that will
get drafters that will sell for $150.00
' to 1300.00 each. Ha Is the type that
f.m. -iU for $1,000 and Jl, 4l)0O.
Whyl does lams aell these first-elaaa
- wide-as-a-wagon imported stallions
' so cheapl Simply because ho knowa
a eood on when be cornea to him.
He spends Atb months each year
selecting these beat stallions from
1 the best breeders in Europe. Uses
his own money, pays no buyers, no
- interpreters, no salesman, no com
mission, has no 3 to 10 men as part
ners to share profits with, sells eyery
horse at bis homa barns. . Here arat
10 facts why lams is a success ana a
money sarer to all his many buyers
of firstclass stallious. He guaran
tees to show you stallions that you
will wish to buy, and at leM price
than elsewhere, or pay your fare to
aee him, you the judge. He gives
breeding guirantee of 50 per cent to
60 per cent, and every bank in St.
Paul will say that lams guarantee)
is worth 100 per cent on the .dollar.
Ha has over 100 head of choice horses
' on hand, in the pink of condition,
95 per ont blacks, 50 par .oent ton
horses. Write him for the finest cat
alogue on earth, containing over 4U
illustrations of lams horses. It will
tell you why bay a stallion of lams,
. and many ways of aaving money ana
buying a first-elass stallion at mod
erate price. " Its a bummer, from
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V DIRECT LEGISLATION ? .
-Although republican candidates for
f onlce, when questioned by , a . body of
. men sufficiently large,-seldom fall to
express themselves as favoring the
referendum and initiative, yet' one
i could not expect a Hamiltonian repub
lican newspaper editor to look upon
the principle with anything but dis
favor. ' The idea that the people, shall
; directly have anything to say about
the laws that govern them is distinct
; ly obnoxious to a follower of Hamil-
ton. Hence, it is to be expected that
. republican papers generally will lose
, no opportunity to discredit direct leg
islation whenever and wherever pos
.sible. - V; ;j '
. The following from the Lincoln
t. State Journal Js a typical specimen of
the methods employed by that paper:
:'- THE REFERENDUM FOLLY.'
; The democrats of some of the '
- - late pop states are stil'. carrying in 1
, , their platform a demand for . the "
. . "initiative and referendum." But
, ' whatever may be said of the
"initiative" the "referendum" is ,
." a great humbug. Four important
... amendments to the constitution ofs
New Hampshire wre submitted
by the, "referendum" the other
T - day. and much less than half -the
: .vote was polled that usually, gets,
counted in a mere election of state
... officers. In Nebraska when a con- "
'v stitutional amendment is" sub
' v mitted it is impossible to get a
' : ' majority of the voters to take
-7: the trouble, with the ballot Mn
.their hands, to mark "yes" or
"no" and it is beaten by default,.
- How many voters would take the
,rV -pains to go to the polls expressly ,
to cast a ballot on an amendment?
." "But no "referendum" .is-mqre im-;
' portatit 'than the submission of an r
i amendment to our organic- law..
, - There were - ten amendments sub-
' Vlmitted, instead of four; three were.
?- rejected and seven adpoted. The
' woman suffrage amendment was re
" jected by a vote of 15,000 for to 26,000
against; another of tho three rejected
; amendments to- strike from the bill
'.ot rights the words "evajigelical". and
,.,Vprotestant'', and .... Insert the-, i-word
"Christian;" and the third was to. di-
vide the state into smaller voting pre
. cincts. A two-thirds majority of the
' votes cast Is required to accept an
amendment, and the last two men-
tioned, although having, a majority,
-, failed to have the necessary two-
thirds. ; - -
An anti-trust amendment, granting
, the legislature "all Just powers ;pos-
sessed by the state to enact laws to
prevent the operations within, the
t state of all persons and associations,
trusts, and corporations that endeavor
to raise the price of any article of
. commerce or to destroy free and fair
competition in the trades and, Indus-
tries through combination,-conspir-Z
acy, monopoly, or any other , unfair
- means'.' carried by a' vote of 29,000 to
10,000." And the amendment requiring
Van educational test in order to vote,
"V carried by the largest majority three
to one. .
In presidential and gubernatorial
- ' " ' '
elections New Hampshire casts about
8-.000 to 84,000 votes, so instead 01
being "much lesa than half, "the vote
at-Vthis : "special . election . was really
about half. ' ' '" ' '
The experience in New, Hampshire
is decidedly favorable. Those who
exercised their right and duty of suf
frage rejected? the tme amendment a
majority of them desired to reject and
accepted seven they desired to accept.
Those electors who diJ not go to the
polls have no right to complain-
they did not -care whether the amend
ments were accepted or rejected;
th6y, - or most of them, are doubtless
the product of modern political meth
odshad a vote to sell and no pur
chaser; or were just plain, every-day
mullet head3-.-probably both, for, New
Hampshire s usual : republican majori
ties would indicate-a large preponder
ance of mullet heads and purchaseable
voters.
The referendum is 'not . intended as
a certain means of enacting measures,
but. is rather a club to prevent' the
passage of vicious laws;1 Properly it
is' the people's veto. Instead of al
lowing one man the governor, to set
up his judgment against that Of la
majority of, 133" members of the . leg
islature, as, for example, in Nebras
ka,, the referendum permits 200,000 to
have: a voice in saying whether they
want the proposed law.
"Take the present Nebraska revenue
bill.; It was drafted hurriedly and
passed under the party lash in the
house. Suppose a special election
should be held in June to, accept or
reject it. Perhaps not ; more , than a
hundred thousand would .go to the
polls, but if a majority, of those ap
proved it, no one could be heard to
complain. There would be no doubt
about it being what the people -want.
As it is, we , cannot tell, until long
after it has been in force if it ever
does become a law. -'''
WALL STREET- LONG3 FOR SILVEK
From information received by The
Independent it is led to believe that a
good many of - the Wa U street" gang
are ..-turning longing . yes toward sil
ver. 7 One of the fading . men of the
stock exchange said to a man that he
believed they had all been fooled about
the subject. He pointed to the fact
that one year ago the New York banks
held $193,433,500 of gold while today
they have but $176,700,400, showing
a loss of $15,733,100 in one year. The
Bank of England during that time
has lost $8,933,930. The Bank of
France, which is a bimetallic institu
tion, has increased its supply to the
enormous sum of $500,770,465 on
March 1. He said that he could ac
count for such a situation on no other
theory than, that the Bank of France
had $219,000,000 of silver in the bank
which was a full legal tender . and
which the bank would pay out instead
of gold, the minute that there was an
indication that there was a design to
discriminate between the two metals
and draw gold. He said such a situa
tion in the United States would cer
tainly relieve, a great, deal. of uneasi
ness in this country.
Six vears aszo The Independent de
voted much of its space to the distri-
bution of wealth, some .01 tne aau
ies and magazines have reached that
part of political economy during me
last few months. It is not the fault
of the common people of the eastern
states that they are from five to ten
years behind the west in tne stuay
nf nominal economy. The literature
of the eastern states has contained
nothing upon the subject. There was
no chafcee for the people to learn.
Those who were intent upon concen
trating wealth m the nanus 01 tne
few, controlled the circulation or an
literature there. The thing for the re
form element to do is to get their lit
erature into the hands of the people.'
"Wherever it has been tried the peo-
pie are glad to get it No iaper ever
published had such a constant stream
of correspondence pouring in, bear
in & PAtl erratuiations. thanks and words
of encouragement as comes daily into
the office of The independent, in ine
composing room there are now -sixteen
galleys of such matter on a rack
that so far it has been found impos
sible to get into the paper. All that
is needed is to show the paper to
those who think that there is an un?
just and unequal distribution or
wealth in these United States and
then they want it. There are some
millions of such men In this country,
They constantly are in search of the
arguments and facts that appear from
week to weelJJb6JndePendent
A writer describing the conditions
in .Venezuela speaks of "the rotten
courts and the judiciary who are but
the tools of the party in power."
Haven't we something of that sort fa
this country? -Has the supreme court
of the United States ever handed down
a decision against the party in pow
er? When the party in power was
pro-slavery all the decisions of the
supreme court were In line with the
party of slavery. When the party in
power was for greenbacks, that court
was a greenback court when tne
party was against greenbacks, the
court was against them. When the
party, got back to . greenbacks again.
then it was a. greenback court again.
When the party in power was for an
income tax, that court declared that
an income tax was constitutional.
When- the party in power went over
to plutocracy and was against an in
come tax, that court went along with
the party. When the party started
out on the road to imperialism, that
court came trailing along in the same
road behind it As far as the courts
are concerned, this country can't
claim to be very, much ahead of Vene
zuela. A distinguished lawyer of this
state, in a , public address, lamented
over the fact that the phrase "d n
the law" was so often heard among
the people. :If he will listen, he will
probably hear the phrase "dn . the
Judges" just, as frequently.
They say that Representative Rob
erts of Texas has the - inside call on
Roosevelt He is the father of twen
ty-one . children, the last having ar
rived.. last week. ,
A VISIT FROM THE PRESIDEHT
PRESIDENT ' ROOSEVELT'S VISIT
TO NEBRASKA IS. SCHEDULED
J FOR THE LA&T OF APRIL. ,
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
Will Join With All Good Citizens in
Welcoming the Chief Executive
of the Nation.
When President Roosevelt's visit to
Omaha was abandoned last ia. it was
the i occasion. '.'of .great,, disappointment
to all good citizens. It is now hoped
that no accident will prevent his com
ing on April 27, as now planned.' '
PRESIDENT ROBISON
of the Bankers Reserve Life Associa
tion invites the attention of all ad
mirers of. President Roosevelt to the
phenomenal - progress the young Ne
braska company is making. Although
its present forms of policies are but
ittle more than three years old, this
vigorous western institution has
$6,000,000 AT RISK ' '
and will add $4,000,000 net to the ag
gregate this . year, putting the com
pany into the class of $10,000,000 com
panies. With a death loss far below
that of any other American company,
he" Bankers Reserve Life Association
presents a brief but interesting his
tory which challenges the attention
of all thoughtful men, not excepting
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HIMSELF.
That distinguished American is not
unmindful of the rapid progress of ,
western institutions, and will doubt
less rejoice to know that in this cen
tral metropolis of the union a great
fiduciary organization has established
for-itself and-all solvent progressiva
home life ' companies a place in the
hearts of the people.
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
has its home office in the McCague
building, Omaha, where B. H. Robi-
son, its president, welcomes visitors
looking for insurance or underwriters
wishing to make contracts on most
liberal terms.
The leading man on the. renuhiipan
side Of the senate is Mark Hanna,
and his idea of statesmanship was, a
snip subsidy Din. -
The. -Indene'ndenr. .-irn AW9. a tniA
.. , w- , .,-7. . bUVU
opening for the right man to publish
a leiuim paper, une 01 tne Old liuaTd,
who-has grown uay in the service,
desires to retire. He will seir at right
ngures. ideation, JNeoraska. Mentioa
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