MARCH 9, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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AN OPEN LETTER. ,
If r. 8ehwlxr Caflaiaa That Th Ptt
file Dpartmat la DUerlmiMtlat;.
. Hon. Ed. Sizer, Postmaster, Lin
coln, Neb. -The . coal strike is now
settled and winter is over, therefore
I think the government should now be
able to buy coal for heating the post-
office, instead of using newspapers for
that purpose. I did not complain as
long as it was cold and coal , was
scarce, because we all hadto suffer
and to freeze for 'the common good
from that coal famine that our presi
dent and that strike commission may
get a chance to demonstrate their
Solomonic wisdom ' and Justice in de
ciding that coal strike so ""that our
philanthropic coal barons may re
ceive large interests and dividends
from their sacred private property and
who have now promised to be good
boys and not to khnV up their coal
mines and again .freeze thousands
of. people to death,1 a3 long as those
people will pay without a murmur all
what it , pleases those philanthropic
coal barons tocharge them fori their
coal, so that they always can pay
high interest and dividends on their
very clear and well watered stock.
But now, as that ' question is so ju
diciously settled, T would like to get
my newspapers regularly every week.
If you have no fuel for your cooking
stove, just say so, end I will see that
some farmer who 13 shelling corn will
fetch you a load of cobs; it makes a
good deal cheaper and better fuel than,
newspapers. Respectfully.
u F. SCHWEIZER. ;
Woodlawn, Neb.
HARDY'S COLUMN
We can't help but think more and
more of President Roosevelt from the
lack of superstition he shows against
people of dark-colored skins. The ap
pointment of Dr. W. D. Crum . gov
ernment collector at Charleston, S.
C. We can well remember when that
city would not allow a colored man to
show his head on a northern ship In
that harbor.
It is very clear that the-reason the
three new states were not admitted
-as because it would increase the
western senators six, congressmen
"three and presidential electors in 1904
nine. Western men are not controlled
by eastern politicians as easy as in
Delaware and other eastern states.
.Five meat packers of Kansas City
have been fined $5,000 each for com
bining on prices of meat. It will not
do to pitch into the big, vile trust.
Meat is sold cheaper in the east than
in Europe. Why not make Rockefel
ler sell his oil cheaper?
There
climate
surface
hundred
the sun
day in
does at
ter I'; is
are two reasons for the warm
about Winnipeg. First, the
of the country is only a few
feet above sea level; second,
shines two hours longer each
summer time there than it
Galveston,- Tex. In the win-
the other way.
- If trusts and corporations are able
to manufacture goods with less labor
than individuals can and are willing
to sell at a lowef price no harm can
come, but if they must have special
laws and privileges to help them and
are permitted to. monopolize prices it
is inhuman.
Teddy favors the Monroe doctrine
for foreigners, but does not favor ap
plying it to his own people.
As sure as two and two make four
President Roosevelt is splitting the
republican party as completely as Bry
an is splitting the democrats. Reciproc
ity is nothing less than free trade. No
free trader would allow foreigners to
sell their goods free in this country
unless they let us sell our goods free
in their county. Reciprocity is mu
tual free trade.
Why should the farmers of Nebras
ka be compelled to pay 50 or 75 per
cent above European prices for the
goods they buy. of New England and
at the same time sell them bread and
meat at less than European prices?
The" president favored the labor
commission and they have established
the length of a day's work and the
wages. Now why not appoint a trust
commission to establish the price of
trust goods? It is estimated that the
advance price of oil, 2 cents a gallon,
will increase the oil trust profits ten
millions a year.
One of the national war improve
ments is the tendency to arbitrate na
tional contentions and abide by tha
decision as our government and Mex
ico did" in settling the question to
whom belonged the church money in
the hands of our officers. A world's
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governments pledged to abide the de
cision and would be much better tnan
a large standing army and vast. navy.
The ten million advance on oil will
mostly come out f farmers and poor
people, for the cities burn gas and
electric lamns. Any "method is pop
ular that taxes the poor and lets the
rich have the money and go free themselves.
The state of New York has now got
a law for taxing all recorded mort
gages which is no more than just.
It so ought to be in every state. The
money loaners of New York plead it
would drive the money out of the
state or else raise the rate of inter
est. The same argument will hold
against other property. If we tax land
it will induce land renters to sell out
and invest in other states or else raise
the rent of farms. If we tax rail
roads it will raise the cost of travel
and transportation of freight Tax
hotels and more will be charged for
eating and sleeping.
H. W. HARDY.
$25.00 to California.
That is the Rock, Island's rate from Lincoln. In effect
daily, February 15 to April 30. Tickets are good in tour
ist sleeping cars, which the Rock Island runs every day
in the week through to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
These cars make quicker time to Southern California
than similar cars over any other line. Cars are operated
over both the Scenic " and " Southern " lines. Folder
giving full information mailed on request.
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Sound are al?o"offered by the Rock Island.
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