The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, April 02, 1903, Page 10, Image 10
I i 10 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. AFRIL 2, 1903. 11 in i . 1 1 s l , ' I n i f 1 t 5 LEGAL TENDER Every bow and thensome lawyer makes the discovery that a fair, working knowledge ot political econ mv ocmsriaiiv nf money and the functions of coin la of vital Import ance to him In his profession. The ! county attorney of this (Lancaster) county made such a discovery last week or, rather, he should have made it; but the chances are he doesn't yet know exactly what hap pened to him. A purchased of B a brick building located upon a lot in West Lincoln and proceeded to tear it down and re- - AllO V kUO Ul 1VIM iuiMwCir vt city. Against the lot and building were a number of years' delinquent taxes. If the building were removed the lot itself was practically value less. Even lot and building as they stood could not be sold for the delin quent taxes. An injunction was sued out, re straining A from tearing flown and removing the building until the lien for taxes should be satisfied. A of fered to pay that portion of the taxes which would be the share against the building. This was refused. , Then he offered to put up a guaranty bond to secure the taxes if the country would stipulate and permit him to go ahead with the tearing down, allowing the whole matter to be adjudicated after ward. ; Here the county attorney's lack of knowledge regarding the function ot money and legal tender coin caused him to fall. He stipulated himself out of court and never knew it He could hardly believe it when the judge as sured him that taxes are not debts. That they can be paid only In coin, or a seizure of the taxed property which must be sold and converted into coin. That one cannot pay his taxes by delivering his promissory note, no matter how well secured. And that a personal judgment, as in the case of debt, cannot be rendered against the person owing taxes. Thls particular county attorney a good lawyer in many respects will probably never clearly understand the matter. The sophisms of the "sound money", advocates are firmly fixed In his mind. He believes that value is intrinsic. That the metal called gold s 13 money. That God ordained gold to be money, and that its function is to facilitate exchanges In the world's markets, while at the same time the protective tariff prevents such facili tation. He sees no absurdity in "dear" money and high "prices." Of course, he couldn't be expected to understand why one may not Day his taxes with a guaranty bond, and that no money judgment could be recovered in an ac tion on a bond given for such a pur pose, '-''.vwswn WHAT HAS FUSION DONE? It is strange, very strange, from what different standpoints honest men will look at Ihe same thing, and tne diametrically opposite conclusions to which thev will come. It has been asked in The Independent, "What has fusion done? ' At one time lusion nut eleven womilist congressmen in the house. It put four United States senators in the senate. The Indepen dent remembers .only two cases in which populists were elected to the house without fusion. By fusion on the legislative ticket in Colorado, ben ator Teller was sent back to the sen ate, instead of the plutocrat and all around corporationist, Wolcott. , Two other seats in the United States are now occuDied bv men opposed to trusts and plutocracy who were sent there bv fusion votes. If the populists anc democrats had not "fused" these seats would now be occupied by tools of the trusts. These thines were actually accomplished by fusion. They are facts. What misht have been accom plished by some other policy can. only be surmised. To say that certain things would have been accomplished had fusion never been adopted, is an "assumption" and in the nature of things can only- be an assumption. To declare it dogmatically is to assume the prerogative of the Deity. The fusion of at least four distinct parties elected Abraham Lincoln. There were Jo Parkers In those days, too, and they would have prevented the election of Lincoln had there not been division in the democratic ranks. The innate deviltry among southern Bourbon democrats in counting out Tom Watson does not prove that fu sion" never accomplished anything. Enough democrats fused with the pop ulists down there to elect him to con gress twice and by that sort of fusion we got the rural mail delivery service, for Tom Watson was the father of it . NOT A REFORM PARTY The populist party is not a reform party and never has been. It has rec ognized from the beginning that one might as well try to reform a rotten egg as some of the principles and pol icies that have , long existed in this country. Instead of reforming, . it started out to form things. It has bad Immense success In that line. What prospect was . there of reforming the system of private ownership of street cars, lighting and water systems ur cities? What sort of a reform would do any good? The whole thing was as rotten as a last year's nest egg. So the populists did not try any reform ing in thaHine. They went to work and formed a new system that had no likeness or similitude to me om. hpv nrooosed nubile ownersnip ana the operation of these necessary mo- nopoli at coat. mey never im posed that they should be operated so as to produce revenue for the city as they deemed that a very unfair mode of taxation. As far as street are concerned, it would not be as fair as a per capita tax on rich and poor, for the pennies of the poor are what produces the revenues oi me cars. The ricn riae in carri& automobiles. A public administra tion of the street car service to pru h.im. a nuhito revenue would be a tax on the poor and the rich would escape. As far as taxes are concerned that would be only extending tne present system, for the poor pay the taxes now and the rich escape. Bryan took another course anu uu to reform the democratic party. He has made the bravest fight recorded in history and has compelled the admira tion of. good and true men me wuuic world over. But he hasn't got it re formed yet, and a battle is to oe virht in the near future as fierce and vindictive as any in the past. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING noHinw Rnmethine for nothing seems to be the American passion, but this must not be limited merely to the o-omhuni? hfthit. For example, news- j U. a A hiishprs could" write an in teresting book on the multitudinous schemes to get free advertising not alone the fertile inventions of what might technically be termed iaKes, but many reputable concerns stoop to devices that are almost childish in their naievete. Here's a sample: The Mutual Life Insurance company of New York- one of the largest concerns in tue world whose president is Kicnara a. McCurdy, under date of the 23rd ul timo sends The Independent a printed circular letter saying: . "If you regard the enclosed no tice as worthy of gratuitous in sertion in your news columns, we shall be pleased to have you pub lish it If it appears, kindly send us two marked copies, and oblige." The "pnr-inKed notice" is the bottom part of form 58,385 and consists of five paragraphs . (38 lines), of which the following is a iair sample: Diarrhoea, cholera, epnepsy anu spitting of blood, attacks of which often occur with little warning, are prescribed for in "Emergen cies," one of the series of medical handbooks issued by the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York and sent on request to those who address the Home Office oi " the company in New York city. One would think the "Home Office" might at least be artful enough to alone a copy of "Emergencies' and solicit the free advertising under the smise of a book review. The in dependent is rot inclined to give the whole $1.50 worth oi space ana in au Hit inn be mit to the trouble of mailing a request for the book. Besides, isn't this whole scheme rather a trespass of the physicians' preserve.' IAMS HOB SES . f . i . .. f 4 a lit a jimrAtitl1a Timl AT UBIMIODI K Dli Doytrf, nil low price! are warm l""'"-'""- , " r T u x( otvu will ihow yon MORE stalliona of bi mee, quality and flnub than ALL. IMPOKTKKS in fliiHUASAA. ana none. yo wui wiin k any or vj joui . , riia r rCTK. iK you will pay ea.h or glvt baokabU note, yon will sure, buy a .ttalhoa of IAMS. n ttetobwy he imported 63 black and bay ataUioaa, they cannot be duplicated in any importjn barna in th ne imported oj Diacic ana nay ateuiooa, iney cannot m uupm-aw "-:-- ",rt UniUd Ht.tca for the number, for bin tize. Quality, finish, royal breeding "d bargain prices. awi . ii - xueyareau TOP NOTCH ERS. from MiMourt; Jama has the food ones: ha snowa us norses ww min do " or Iowa at $.',000. See that 2,150-lb 3-year-old, a "ripper". y. Iky J see those six black 2-SW-lb 4-year-olds be is showing to those Ohio men. They are the BEST I EVEB AW. bay, boys 1 look at this 5,100-lb pair of beauties; they are worth going from Maine to California to see (better than the pictures'. Say, Ikey, too couldn't tro wrong here. Tbey are alt "erackeriacks . Ifyoa open your mouth and your pocketbooks, you will do business. lama sells them. He has on nana Imported and home bred, - - 117 BLACK PERCH ERONS, BELGIANS 4. COACHERS-117 2 to 6 years old, weight 1.600 to 2,500 lbs., ail approved and stamped by the European gown Meat. 84 per cent BLACKS, 50 per cent TON HORSKS. lams speaks French and 0rmsn. buys direct from the breeders. PAYS NO INTERPRETERS. NO BUYERS, NO SALESMEN. HAS NO TWO TO TEN MEN AS PARTNERS TO SHAKE PROFITS WITH i his buyers get middle man's profits. Ihese six facts and his 21 years of successful business at St. Paul makes him sell flrsl eiass stallions at fllty cents on the dollar, and seres his buyers $60o to aMMoneacb sUtiioa. FARMERS: Form your awn stock company, why pay slick salesmen $2.W0to tQlr1 rat bullion when Ton can bu a better one of lams at $1,000 or $!,. First class stallions are BY SALESMAN : 1 t T7 a. 1 a IQgUQ in UUKQU DvlHlSi MUOWiUg tU UlUVVI nvlUUI Ut Ul uuiico a vjwivv.- St. Paul State bank, First State bank and Citizens' National bank. Barns in town. ... .. ." .. i j rr.ll- t;iH T'w. hnm TUinna. Vm Tlra visitors ana Duyers inrong uis earns anu j j ntuu, , j ' o a ... w i a i . i l I. . . V. alvartlaaa Kaa thai Missouri: lams nastnegooa ones: ue uew o uum mvw - rC- en rou can buy a better one of lams at $1,000 or $1 a. first class stallions ara LED to be sold. IT COSTS 8W) TO 11,000 TO HAVE A COMPANY FORMED (;IAMS paya horses' freight and his buyers' fare. Write for finest horse cata. I States, snowing 40 illustrations of his horses. It is an eyeopener. References. t mi iCIi 1 I 1 mi IU.1! - 1 1 I. Da-ana t tAWR. FRANK lAiVi ST. PAUL, Howard Co., Neb. On U. P. and B. 4. M. Ryt. SHIRES, PERCHERONS, BELGIANS. I RAFT STALL g n Head to select from all im y U ported by us and guaranteed.. 60 til $1,000 buys a good one from us this fall. We down competition by selling more quality for less money than ,the small importers can possibly do. We do not adrertiee 100 and only hare 20, but have just what we claim. 60 good ones now on hand. Barns just across from B. & M. depot On September 9 we landed 40 head, which ia our 3ith import. Watson, Woods Bros. & Kelley Co,, - - - - Lincoln, Neb. "THE MONET POWER" Twelve or thirteen years ago when the populists were beginning to fright en the two old plutocratic parties, one nnnnlis exDression. "the money pov- er," received special attention from republican and democratic papers ''What nonsense." these wiseacres wduld sav. "there is no 'money power;' or if there is, it is the laboring men whose millions are deposited in the savines bank's. Twelve years of nonulist education have wrought a great change, wow neither reDublican nor democratic pa pers jeer at the expression. Even so staid a journal as the Fittsourg lead er ( anti-Quay rep.) last Sunday, in an editorial headed. "Roosevelt's Nemesis." after assuming that."WaI street" does not take kindly to the nresident's strenuity and is doubtless hoping that the democrats may nomi nate some "conservative of the Cleve land type," says Whatever serious opositioji may come to defeat or endanger the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt, will emanate from this quarter. It may come in the form of organized opposition and efforts in behalf of the rival candidate, or possibly may assume the negative plan of refusing to aid. It may, by reck less or calculated stubbornness Highly Ifflport ant The Planting of GOOD SEEDS The best grades of Blue Grass, White Glover, Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Landreth's Garden Seeds. Call or order by mail.. LAH R'S, Stoves and Hardware. SeaJion?... 1032 0 St., Uncolo, lleb. excite labor to revolt of gigantic proportions for its power to do so and its willingness, if it so de sires, is unquestioned. Under the circumstances the fi nancial barometer for the next year will pretty accurately reflect . the disposition of the financial powers. The situation is remark able and one that will merit close attention. And that is coins: as far toward ad- mittine: the existence of "the money power" as any populist could ask. INSURANCE The editor of The Independent has had several requests lately to write imon insurance and give the place that it occupies in political economy. It has no place at all m political economy. That science treats of wealth and its creation and in that category insurance has no plare whatever. Three or four years age the subiect of Insurance was discussed at some length in these columns and just at present there is not space to go over the fiiound again. The only basis that insurance has is "benevo lence." If a man's house burns down and his neighbors "chip in" and re build it for him. that Is benevolence. If anticipating such disasters they "chip in" betorehand and create a fund, pay some one to take charge of it and have the money ready to hand over, which is the basic principle of insurance, that is benevolence. The way that Insmance is now managed, it takes advantage of the benevolent instincts of mankind to fleece the peo ple and accumulate millions. Mr. W. H. Rose, in an address be fore the Denver chamber of commerce, made the following statement, and what i3 true of Colorado is true of Nebraska anl most of the western states. Mr. Rose said: "We find that our people pa!d net premiums for all kinds of in surance the Bum of $6,467,053.19, while losses incurred under these policies amounted to but $2,291, 511.12, leaving a difference between premiums paid and losses re ceived of $4,175,541.97. "This sum is far more than the entire income of the state and is far more thin the expenses of the at Wholesale noes $1.00 Peruna...... ...,,.640 $1.00 Kilmer's Swamp Root. . ..64c $1.00 Pierce's Remedies 64c fl.OOWine of Cardui 64c $1.00 Stuart's Tablets. 64c $1.00 Pinkham's Compound. . .64c - See the Easter window RIGG The Cut Rater New Location II 8 iooi no MHataHtOMMUteawiii maintaining all the state institu tions, paying the salaries of the state officers and even including the general assembly." There is ' no political economy in that sort of thing. No wealth is cre-i ated by institutions such as that It is more like a gold brick performance. The people save this $4,175,541.97 to some sharpers, mostly from the east ern states, and then borrowed it-back: again at from 6 to 10 per cent inter est and used it as capital upon which to do business. It is evident that if the people of Colorado had had no insurance at all, they would have been four million dollars richer at the end of the year than they were. A small number were saved from loss and per haps poverty, but the people as a whole were that much poorer. Do you want, to read tho best books on political economy? Then write a card to The Independent today,