MAT "7, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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$1 Paine's Celery Comp...74c
$1 Hood's Sarsaparilla ....74c
3 50c Kilmer's Swamp Root.. 39c
50c Scott's Emulsion . 39c &
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5 50c St. Jacob's Oil 39c J
J"$l Stuart's Tablets ....64c &
- Ayer's Sarsaparilla ....79c
C 525c Piso 19c J
! ?1 Bovanine 89c
jt 25c Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 19c yt
! 50c 'King's New Discovery. 39c &
25c Green's August Flower. 19c jt
25c Boschee's German Syr.l9c ??
& Warner's Safe Cure 79c
$1 Mother's Friend . .79c &
8 50c Hay's Hair Health. .... .39c
1 Hall's Hair Renewer. . ..79c j
8 75c Mellen's Food 59c
$1 Listerene 74c &
& $1 Malted Milk .'......74c JH
$3.75 Hospital Size, Malted
& Milk $2.99
$1 Danderene .' 79c J
8 $1 Coke's Dandruff Cure... 74c
, $1 Welsh Grape Juice..... 49c 8
8. $1 Warner's Safe Kidney S
& Cure 79c J
J $1 Pinkham , 64c v
50c Fig Syrup ...19c &
$1 Kinney Hair Tonic. 69c
$1 Kinney Hair Tonic .69c ,
25c Anti-Pain Pill .22c &
8 $1 Allen's Hair Renewer... 79c &
35c Castoria (Pitchers) 13c; &
8 two for 25c
& Elliotts Face Ease 25c &
$3.50 Marvel Syringe .....$2.99 &
& CIGARS. - &
2 Seven 5c cigars 25c 8
58 Four 10c cigars .....25c
8 One 15c cigar 10c &
- 8 Boxes of 50 5c cigars $1.69
8 Boxes of 50 10c cigars. ... .$3.05
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RIGGS
The Gut Rater
Location 1321 0 St.
Lincoln - Nebraska
GEN. MILES' REPORT
Mr. Tance Inquire if it Is Not Time That
This Senselem War Should End
Titus Out-Tltnsed
Editor Independent: General Miles'
report of conditions in the Philip
pines ought to forever brand Mr. Mc-:
Kinley's and Mr. Roosevelt's admin
istrations, the republican party, and
the hypocritical political, commercial
and religious press that has sustained
them in, their policy as infamous be
yond all parallel in human history.
If all the cruelty of African slavery
and the slave-trade of the Spanish
inquisition, of Weyler in Cuba, and
the British in South Africa, were
blotted together on the page of his
tory it would be but as a fly speck in
comparison with the horrors of the
United States "benevolent assimila
tion" of the Philippine islands, if
what the general of the army reports
is true. And no man can doubt it
There is not a law of God or man, a
precept of morality or a sentiment of
humanity, but what has been ruthless
ly and systematically violated. Take
the murder of Vincente Luna, after be
ing rendered insensible by torture,
dragged into his house and burned to
death. The crowding of six hundred
people into one house in the province
of Batanga3 where many of them un
derwent the fate of the British in the
Black Hole in Calcutta during the
mutiny in India. The selling of cheap
and damaged food to the reconcentra
does at an enormous profit by United
States army officers. The whipping to
death of Filipinos for refusal to be
tray others into the hands of the
enemy. The cold-blooded slaughter of
prisoners. The beating, torturing,
robbing, maiming and insulting of
priests whose peaceful calling has ex
empted them from insult and injury
among all civilized nations. The rav
ishing of -women and young girls. The
wholesale burning and looting of
towns. The 'laying waste of whole
provinces.
General Miles report shows conclu
sively why 10,000 copies of the Dec
laration of Independence translated
into the language of the Filipinos wer-s-ordered
burned by the press censor at'
Manila. That this war is being car;
ried on against a Christian people, and
that we are making use of Mob am-;
medan and Pagan cannibals as allies
in carrying it on, ought to convince!
decent people of its character. Our;
army is being brutalized and ruined.;
Six hundred American soldiers .build-:
ing roads in the Philippines our ;
American soldiers making roads for
Macabebes and Kigritos. Is it any ;
wonder, under such conditions, that
they drink and go mad and commit
crimes that would shame the blackest
fiends in hell? '
Talk of hell! Dante in his wildest,
dreams, Calvin in his gloomiest im
aginings, have never conjured up a
literal brimstone hell to equal that
which the United States government
is carrying on, wide open with the
lid off under a republican administra
tion in the Philippines! What with
our hell-roaring, burn, kill and ravish
generals in the field; our mercenary
and imperialized government at Wash
ington, and an equally mercenary re
ligious pulpit and press upholding the
government's policy throughout th;
country, the United States has suf
fered more in its good name and in
its national character for love of fair
dealing, liberty, and humanity than in
all its previous history. Tilly was not
one whit more cruel at Magdeburg.
Nor yet Titus at Jerusalem.
. We have outdone the unspeakable
Turk in his Armenian butcheries, anl
to make our deeds more infamous have
done" it all in the name of civiliza
tion, Christianity and benevolence.,
I will not speak of the cost of this
war in dollars and cents. Its real
cost Is in national honor, morals and
public health. We are taking our pa?
in Asiatic, cholera, the bubonic plague,
and in loathsome and Incurable ven
eral diseases; in a corrupt,. brutalized
and degraded army; and in a gov
ernment incapable of telling the truth.
For two years the government has
been assuring the people' that the
war in the Pfcilipsines was over and
that the administration was only de
vising means of establishing a fre-
and stable government In the islands.
And yet within the last week we. have
the story through the Associated presi
of the, killing of two hundred Filipinos
in the Island or Luzon witn tne usuai
absence of casualties on our side. In
the name of God and humanity is it
not time that this senseless, cruel and
profitless war should end?
ALEX H. VANCE. ;
Milford, Neb.
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CLEVELAND OR OLNEY
The New York Sun Qnotei Harper'
Weekly on Thi Mooted Point
For the benefit of Independent read
ers who are not readers of the New
York Sun, Harper's Weekly and that
class of gold-bug publications, we re
produce an editorial from the Weekly
discussing the comparative availabil
ity of Cleveland and Olney. The mani
fest injustice to Mr, Bryan boldly
suggesting that his choice of a demo
cratic candidate would be determined
by his probable chances of securing a
cabinet position is quite in keeping
with ptocratic democracy, which
cannot conceive that any one could
rise above sordid selfishness. The
Weekly falls into th3 same error that
many other eastern papers do re
garding the strength of the people's
party. Because of fusion, election re
turns do not show how many thou
sand populists cast their votes for
Bryan and Stevenson, and what the
Weekly calls the populist strength is
simply the, vote of the bolting mid
roaders. Let democracy nominate Mr.
Cleveland and see whether the pop
ulist partv "has practically ceased to
exist." Harper's WeeV.ly says:
"Mr. Bryan seems to be personally
unfriendly to Mr. Cleveland, and he
has repeatedly intimated to his Com
moner that he would resist to the ut
most the renomination of the ex
president. Perhaps he foresees also
that he could not hope for any rec
ognition on the part of Mr. Cleveland,
should thelatter be re-elected presi
dent, whereas it is by no means im
probable that Mr. Olney would in
vite, him to become a member of the
cabinet . - :
"After all, however, Mr. Bryan's
wishes are not of very much import
ance, because it is no longer probable
that his followers will constitute a
third of the next democratic national
convention, atid because, in no event,
would he be able to bolt and accept
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a populist nomination, since the pop
ulist party, has practically ceased to
exist," having shrunk in ten years from
upward of a million to about twenty
thousand votes. Mr. Bryan and his
friends will have to support the demo
cratic nominee, whoever he is, unless
they repudiate the duty about whicn
they had so much, to say in 1896 and
1900 namelyr the duty of submitting
to the choice of the party's represen
tatives. . -
"We may7-then,.for the sake of ar
gument,, disregard -Mr. Bryan's" per
sonal preference, as the : convention
will be likely to d,o, and. confine our
selves, as the :. convention will con
fine itself, to the question of availa
bility. From this point of view Mr.
Olney is' scarcely satisfactory. - He
would not have the faintest chance of
carrying his native state. He might
possibly win Rhode Island, but we
could have no assurance that he would
gain Connecticut, whereas we . know
that Mr. Cleveland has repeatedly car
ried the last-named state. He would
be much less likely than Mr. Cleveland
to capture New Jersey, because local
pride would greatly assist his former
chief. There is no reason to suppose
that he would run better. in New
York than would Cleveland, because
the latter has twice carried that state
against the wishes of Tammany Hall,
and in 1904 he could count upon the
cordial support of that organization.
Either of the two candidates named
would no doubt sweep all of the south
ern states, with the possible excep
tions of Maryland and West Virginia.
As regards the pivotal states of the
middle and far west, however, it must
be owned that Mr. Cleveland would
have the immense advantage of being
well known to the voters. Indeed,
he is probably better known to the
mass of the electorate than is any
other citizen of the United States. Mr.
Olney Is, by comparison, a stranger.
In tens of thousands of constituencies
it would be needful for stump-speakers
to explain who he i3. That is a
handicap which the democratic party
in a desDerate crisis of its fortunes
can hardly afford.
"The crucial question Is, however,
what democrat is able not only to
carry New York, but also Connecticut,
New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois. In
asmuch as the electoral votes of at
least all of those states will probably
be indispensable.' Now, there is pnly
one democrat alive who has ever car
ried those five states, and that man is
Grover Cleveland. Mr. Bryan did not
carry one of them. It is, we admit,
conceivable that Mr. Olney, with Mr.
Bryan's active assistance, might se
cure In those five states some votes
that would be withheld from his
former chief ; but, on the other hand,
Mr. Cleveland, through the influence
of his robust personality and the
eclat of his previous triumphs, would
seem more likely to attract votes
from the republican party.
"It isi perhaps, just as well that
Mr. Olney 's candidacy should have
been seriously mooted at this 'time,
for we cannot begin too early, to can-"
vass his qualifications and those of
his competitors, in view of the tre
mendous importance of the next cam
paign to the democratic party and to
the countryJ' .
TOOK TOO MUCH ,
The railroad magnates saw that
there was lots of t money in the irn
mens water.:- power at Minneapolli
ana tney-eaid to themselves, "The peo
ple who live there shall not have that
money. - We will take - all the profits
of the great water power ourselves."
It was an easy thing for them to do.
They just raised the rates on flour to
three and a half times what it was
for wheat and that did the business.
But it seems that they overdid it.
That left no profit to the men who
ran the largest flouring plant in the
world, producing 50,000 barrels of flour,
every week and these men shut down
the mills and quit, because to grind
wheat, although they did it by water
power, was to grind at a loss. Then
the railroads graciously promised a re
duction so that the millers could grind
wheat without loss and they started
up their mills again. The reduction
has not yet been made. .
What the railroads did to the mil
lers, they can do to anybody else.
Every sort of business is at their
mercy. In this case they made a mis
take and took more than the traffic
would bear, , s6 they had to t modify
their greed. When they only take
just what the traffic will bear they
get along swimmingly. The men pay
it, make no protest and continue to
"vote 'er straight" But the railroads
grow more greedy as the years pass
by. They make closer estimates on
what the traffic will bear and then'
collect every cent of it. It is very
seldom that they make rates so as
to stop business altogether yet that
happens more frequently all the time.
It may be that after a while these
men who are paying will find out
that if the government owned the
roads they would only have to pay the
actual cost of carriage. It takes them
such a long time to find it out that
the only conclusion one can come to
concerning it is that they are very
obtuse.
Anyone who saw the Adam Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers Shows last
year might well have imagined that
the limit in size and quality of the
best had been reached, and it was so
frequently stated by the press. What
could then be said about these shows
this year? They are even larger and
immensely better, and Just how they
will go aboit improving it for next
year it is impossible to guess. If they
are not at the limit now they certainly
must be very close to it. They will
exhibit here cn May 15.