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12 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. MARCH 26, 1903. New of thesWecK 1 t :. . The arbitration commission ,ap , pointed by the president has at last presented its report One would have to be thoroughly acquainted with the mining, transportation and selling of anthracite coal to understand it A raise in wages of 10 per cent has been , awarded and a sliding scale of wages adopted, by which when coal goes up wages rise and when it goes down, , wages fall. As the .starting point of ail this is' the present price ct an thracite coal at the seaboard, The In dependent can't see in this any chance for a future rise of wages. If hard coat goes higher than it is now, the use of it. will be discontinued by hun dreds of thousands who have been accustomed to heat their houses with It in past years. The demand for it J would be Immediately restricted ana the price would go down, unless th$ monopoly would be satisfied with re ' duced production and sell to only those concerns that must have it ut til something is Invented to take lte place.. The award does not force thr recognition of the Union, but provides for arbitration in the various fields the umpire to b'3 "appointed by a fed eral Judge. To The Independent it seems that, it is throwing the whole regulation, .of wages into the hands of, the federal judges and ' organized labor : knows , full ; well ' from past ex periences what to. expect from them. , Anthracite ', coal '., is selling , in Ne braska at the present time along the lfnes of railroads from $15.50 to $1 a ,ton. The various grades of bitum Inous coal are so high that it matters little, as far as the" cost is concerned, which the suffering people buy. Much less coal is being consumed than us ual; every housewife being as careful as' possible in its use and every sub stitute possible is being used. Corn cobs, where the farmers have been able to get cars to ship their corn notwithstanding the constant refilling of the stoves required, are burned by well-to-do farmers who have been ac customed to use coal for heating pur poses, and using the cobs for light fires in warm weather. There is no longer a scarcity of coal. It can be obtained at any of the stations, but the exdrbitantly high prices greatly re duces the consumption. ' It is hard to account for this on any other suppo sition than that competition in the coal trade has been, destroyed and ths price is being kept up by combina tions. If the usual quantity of coal is being mined and the production is kept up for a few weeks longer, the result must be an enormous stock of unsold coal in the hands of the opera tors. That does not necessarily mean a .lower price for coal In tbe near fu ture, for the republican government o? this country has turned things tops turvey and chaos results in the eco nomic world where order and system under the natural laws of supply and . demand have to long ruled. Under the old order of things it would result In bringing down the price. Taking their cue from the railroads, all men take all the traffic will bear, without any regard for reasonable profits. Farmers are everywhere experienc ing very great difficulty in getting help. The present price of corn and , wheat , does not warrant very high wages." Many of the farmers have gone through with such sad times in raising corn and-wheat at a loss and getting into debt thereby that they will prefer to let the land lie idle to paying wages that mean a loss. They say that they have the long end of the lever' on the city fellows as long as they keep out of debt " They " can live without going Into production to any great extent, while the city mar. must have business or . wages or starve. Twenty dollars a month for a., farm hand with board, room an i laundry is better than $60 in the city where expensive clothing has to be constantly worn and where board and rooms must be paid for at the present rates. Then the farm life with mod ern machinery Is much more healthful and less toilsome than most of the work In the city. A farm hand can save nearly his whole salary, for his clothing is but a bagatelle. Notwith standing this, a great many young men go to the city who ought to be on the farms, spend all they make and when the gray hairs begin to appear find that they are not wanted any longer. Better let the girls sell the ribbons and lace and make strong men of themselves In the fresh air and eunshine of the farms. The selfishness and greed that di rects the action of United States sen ators, even when that greed comes in direct opposition to the defense and welfare of the country, was well ex emplified in the action of Senator Hale when he. attempted to have the i gTIle ,:Way Tliey Write. m 8 !.-. S it f9 Mm 1 r 8 Lincoln, ; - "We always had such good luck with slothing we had from you for my husband and son that we still prefer to deal with you, though we have removed to San Frmcisco from Williams, Arizoni. Mrs. D. F. Creighton. " - -! It 13 a pleasure to us to know that we please our mail order patrons. We realize that they must be , pleased or their orders will not be continued. Our of ' ferings for spring will command your approval if you give them examination. All f we ask is the "opportunity you send us your, address on a postal card and we will place in your hand our',: book of spring styles and samples of .men's and boys'; wear including price cata log of men's and boys'- hats arid furnishings; also shoes for both sexes and all ages. Iveep in mind that we are the oldest shoe and clothing house in Nebraska doing a f mail order business. We are. now on our twenty-second . i year and the great success of our business demonstrates thakwe have kept faith with the people; We can sat t isfy ypu as completely as we atisfy others. li Nebraska. size of the warships reduced from 16, 000 to 12,000 tons, because there was no ship yard In his baliwick that could'! handle a larger vessel than 12,000 tons. It .did not matter to Senator Hale that the reduction of. the size of the ships might endanger the repub lic. All he, was after was the profits of building them. It is men" like that who have laid a claim to all the pa triotism in the country -. The great railroad magnate, B. D. Caldwell, in his testimony before the interstate commerce commission, af ter declaring that the supreme court decision to the effect that a railroad was only entitled to "a fair profit on its investment" was foolish, went oa to say that "the business of the coun try was : in the hands of the traffic man who makes the lates." That is all the evidence that is necessary to sustain the position taken in the edi torial in this issue entitled "Concen trating Power." The recently invented electrical ap pliance that enables those who were born deaf or have become deaf from any other cause to hear, is a fulfill ment of one-half of the prophecy that "the blind shall see and the deaf shall hear." When will the other half come true? - ' ' It was announced in the republican dailies that as Gorman had been ap pointed leader, on the democratic side of the senate that he would bring or der and harmony out of the chaos that had existed and that the minority would hereafter act as a unit Gor man . was to line up the democrats against, the Panama canal treaty and as the republicans lacked two of hav ing a two-thirds majority, Gorman would have the situation in hand and be able to demand things in return. When the show-down came Gorman mustered just five votes. There has never been a more ridiculous failure in leadership since the senate ex isted. But the republican dailies con tinue the eryTGreatis Gorman!" The very - great reduction in the' "labor cost" in manufacturing almost everything which has come about from the genius of American inven tors has excited the brighter mlnda of Europe to the same sort of work. Heretofore inventors have had no standing in- "society over there and were looked upon more as Innovators and cranks than anything else, ; Late ly a change has come over the spirit of their dreams and inventors are re ceiving the honor due them. The re sult is that several machines and pro cesses of very great value have been given to the public Many of them will be exhibited at the St.; Louis fair. One of them utilizes the heat that now escapes from chimneys, increas ing the horse-power from the same amount of fuel one-third. Another is the process of making smokeless bri quettes, the use of which has lately, been adopted by the British navy. An other is the German method of mak ing briquettes from coal dust and slacks These have ofr pome time been used as fuel in Germany at a greatly reduced cost when , compared with coal. v Trusts having become somewhat un popular with the people the pluto crats have invented a new name for them. They now call trusts "large units." These chaps had so much success with catch phrases in the last two presidential campaigns that they still continue the plan Philadelphia has introduced self government in the city schools. Tho school board says that the new device is introduced for "maintaining order in school, or school discipline; instruc tion in manners and morals; holding before children a high ideal of conduct and citizenship.". Late developments in Philadelphia show that a negro Voodoo doctor with his love potions and subtle poisons has been extensive ly patronized by the millionaire crowd. There the highest ideals in govern ment is .Quay and his henchmen and It has long since been proved that; it is utterly , impossible to do anyhtlng with the adult population. So it is well that the school board Is going to try to develop a different race from the school children. It is hoped that the next generation will have at least some rudimentary knowledge of "man ners and morals." The Inter-Ocean of March 17, be sides the first page described in an other editorial article, had an adver tisement filling three full columns of one of these get-rich-quick horse rac ing concerns. The advertisement con tains editorial - indorsements from three , jother great republican dailies, namely, the Boston . Record, the Cin cinnati , Commercial-Tribune and the Kansas City Journal. That is the sort of literature that is flooding the homes of the people -of the great cities, a a a a... Dnnging in its tram demoralization and crime. It is sent out by the re publican party. - , - HAIL INSURANCE The United Mutual Hall ? In surance Association the larg-' est and most successful hail in- ' surance company In the " state. ALL LOSSES PAlD PROMPTLY AGENTS WANTED. Insuring crops against loss by hail is becoming more popular -every year. The United Mu tual Hail Insurance Company organized in 1899 is the largest, best and most successful hail insurance company doing busi ness in the state. 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