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?The house finally finished its abor3
o$ H. R.; 344, the revenue measure,
passed it and sent it over tJ the sen
ate. iTherei it seems likely, the party
lash -will be applied and the bill passed
ixi double-quick : time. The measure
las turned out -to bei a sort of white
eJfphant on the republican hands and
the majority, seem anxious to turn it
over to the governor, ; ,
"A good many of thej republican mem
bers foresee the final result of enact
ing II. R. 344. It will , increase the
burdens of taxation on the farmer and
business man and lighten the already
light burdens of the corporations.' This
shows: good faith on the part of the'
majority. The republican platform of
last year, when intelligently,, inter-r
preted, meant nothing else than a
relative decrease of railroad taxes and.
aft Increase of taxation on the farmer;
and business man no one short of
mullet head could make anything else
out of the smooth sentences. Strange
to say the farmer and business man
whooped it up for just such a meas
ure as H. R. 344 but just the same, he
will howl long and vigorously when
he pays his taxes in 1904. , And it is
the inevitable reaction which Is sure
td come as the result of the measure,
that frightens some of the Nebraska
republican solons today.
' Of course It will have little effect
upon the election next year, because
the taxes of 1904 will be collected
principally AFTER the election. But
the future success of the republican
party In Nebraska depends in great
measure upon this H. R.; 344, and those
republicans who Tsnow what its effect
will be are not particularly pleased
with the prospect
. However, they can't well turn back
now. They have crowed over what
they would do and at this , writing
it seems likely they will do it The
Independent 'some time ago believed
that no revenue bill would finally be
come a law, but It now seems that
that was a mistaken diagnosis.
'Curiously enough the feature of the
present revenue law which has caused
the two . millions of floating debt is to
be repeated in the new law. That is
to say, the folly of fixing a maximum
rate of levy which the state beard
may impose upon any county. It
stands at 7 mills now, hut the senate
talks of cutting it down to five. - This
is simply the rankest kind of non
sense, Such a limitation; .will, cancel
the other- feature of requiring the
board to levy sufficient; to meet ithe
appropriations made exactly where
the trouble lies with the" present law:
r ;It 'seems strange ihat an intelligent
legislature doesn't know, and can't
find out that there is absolutely no
constitutional limitation upon the
amount- it may appropriate, and that
it it does not empower the state board
to levy at least one dollar in taxes
for every dollar it appropriates, there
is bound to be a floating debt It is
Enough" of a limitation to say to, the
state board, You must levy one dol
lar in taxes for every dollar of ap
propriations. Any mill limit, short of
ten or fifteen, will finally be found to
stand in the way of (a) either a prop
er equalization between counties, or
(b) a sufficient aggregate levy to do
the state's business without piling up
a floating debt
uch methods as now in vogue in
thH regard, and are seemingly to be
continued, are quite at par with the
Ingenuity of the man who looks his
trunk and gives his wife the' key In
order to keep himself from robbing
himself.
A hundred thousand dollar appro
priation has been made to erect a
building for the agriculture and me
chanic artri school. This is good Hews
if Governor Mickey doesn't use his
veto snickersnee.
The "deficiency claims bill" now
carries $120,000 of republican deflc
ipeies. despite the lies told by Gov
ernor Mickey and his coadjutors last
fall that the books would be "closed
without a deficiency." Which reminds
the associate editor of a young lady at
Fairbury' who once protested vehem
ently that "I can lie if I choose to,
because I'm a church member and
church members have a right to lie."
Stroud 5co!ds Parker
Editor Independent: Though never
a mpinhprbf the pop party or voted a
pop ticket,? after reading your editor
ials, and contributions of many of
you able correspondents for the past
six months, have got in the habit of
looking for The Independent every
wpelr as a source of education in good
citizenship. But If Its columns are
open to such false and venomous' ut
terances as appears In the March 12
is"e br some fool or knave that slcms
himself H. J. Parker of Clarton. III.,
on "life Insurance" you will plpas.j
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continue my paper. It do not know
of any of the regular legal reserve old
line life companies that, issue any
such policy as ,he mentioned. What
the "fake imitation" associations (of
which there are many) are doing, I
do not know as their tactics and meth
ods are very similar to those of train
and bank robbers always working
their schemes .in the dark. But one
thing I do know is that, the most suc
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country are the largest investors in
Aetna Life and Endowment Insurance
policies, all of whom have nothing
but praise and commendation for its
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Among business men of intelligence
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thl3 "Parker rot" does no harm, but
may mislead some of the young and
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