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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
MAY 28, 1903.
0I1TMI
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SEARLES
SPECIALISTS IN
Nervous, Chronic,
' AND ,
Other Dlseati of
Men and Women we
CURE
ALL MEN'S
mo
Or. F. L. Seavrlos.
CURES GUARANTEED.
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of the No-e, Throat, Chet, Stomach, Liver,
Heart, Paralysia, Bowel. Bladder, Pimplee on
face, Blood, Skin and Kidney Disease. J""".
Fistula and Rectal Ulceri. Diabetea and Bright a
Disease, "
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TIM, DYSPEPSIA OH BlOOD POISON Wl
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HOME TREATMENT BY MAIL.
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Drs, Searlas & Scaries Kffi
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
COLORADO FARM LAUDS
FRUIT FARMS -GENERAL
FARMS
STOCK RANCHES
Colorado Climate Cum
more invalid? than all the physi-1
cians in the world.
The Grand Valley, Mesa County,
Colorado,
is the garden spot of the west a
land of sunshine, a sanitarium of
health a poor, a sick or a rich
man's paradise where every
invalid is cured or benefit
ed, and those in health
enjoy life and pros
perity to its full
est extent.
Uncle Sam's Largest Irrigation
Canal will be Built in the -Grand
Valley,
Land under this canal can be
bought now for $10 and $12 per acre
and will be worth $30 an acre in
two years. Choice farms, improved
and unimproved, nowunder perfect
system of irrigation, can be bought
at very reasonable prices. Great
opportunity to buy homes where
crop failures are unknown.
Geta Farm in the. Grand Valleyi
where the winters are mild and
short; the summers cool and pleas
ant; where crop failures, cyclones,
blizzards, tornadoes, floods and
drouths are unknown; where every
kind of fruit grows in abundance
and perfection; where land is increasing-rapidly
in value; where
farmers get more dollars to the
acre for all kinds of farm products
than in any other part of the Union.
For literature giving full Information of the
Grand Valley, descriptions and prices of prop
erty call on or address -
WEBER & FARKIS,
1328 0 St Lincoln, Ncbr
Money and the Taxing Power
BY W. II. ASHBY.
All Rights Reserved.
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For your Farm, Business,
Home, or property or any
Vimt no matter where lo
cated If you desire a quick
sale, send us description ana
price. orsuweeicru dusi-
noss Agency, " oio au . ...
Minneapolis, Minn.
GASH:;
Fred'k Shepherd, Lawyer, Richards Bids;.,
t ' , Lincoln, Nbr.
' " ' NOTICE
TT KAfrpnt.
Take notice that on the 23d day of April, 1903,
Bertha Mark Secrest filed her petition in the
District com t of Lancaster county. Nebraska,
against you, the object and prayer of which are
tAi.kt.in HivnrnA from the bonds of matri
mony with you on the ground that you hare wil
fully abandoned her lor more than two years
last past, and on the further ground that, being
of sufficient ability to provide maintenance for
her, you have grossly, wantonly ana cruouy re
ftiaaA t ft An aft
, You are required to answer this petition on
or before the zzrt day or ,i une, laua.
. Datrd May 5th. 19t.
BERTHA MARK SECRISI.
BOOK 2. Chapter IIL .
The taxing power is the seat of vi
tality tne heart of all governments.
It is the first essential of all gov
ernments. The duty paramount, of
every person owing allegiance to a
government is to pay taxes for ita
support This duty lies deeper, it i
said, than laws; deeper than consti
tutions; and is imbedded in the frame
work of our present state. The citi
zen must pay tax .levies." The law im
poses that necessity, and bases itself
upon the bed-rock of - fundamental
necessity. The law also fixes and de
termines the specific articles in which
those tax levies must be paid. When
a citizen in the case supposed pre
sents one of those certificates, he does
not by that act pay a tax levy; 'he
simply presents that which the law
has declared to be conclusive proof
that ' the bearer had a 1 r e a d
paid -in advance the quantity
of taxable value named in the certi
ficate. And in the case supposed 'the
certificate would state nothing but
the truth. The bearer had either giv en
the quantity of value expressed di
rectly to the government, or else had
given it in exchange to some one
else who had done so. Its presenta
tion was by law made conclusive proof
that any tax levy against the bearer
had been paid, to the extent expressed
upon the face of the certificate, c:
On account of the power to perform
urgent beneficial service for men, with
which the certificates were thus en
dowed by law, we have seen already
that men would voluntarily give oen
eficial service or commodities endowed
with power to perform such services,
in exchange for the certificates mere
ly as . a convenient storage of perish
able wealth. x'
It was also pointed out that where
all taxes are paid in the specific ar
ticles taxed, implying the absence
of coin, all claims between citizens,
whether arising out of contracts or
torts, would be discharged by the de
livery of the same class of articles
taxed, when agreed upon between
the parties, if the claim arose out of
contract; and in articles subject to
taxation and capable of satisfying tax
levies, at the price at which they were
taxable, if the claim arose out of a
tort.
In ether words, where taxes are ex
clusively paid in the same articles that
are taxed, those taxable articles would
necessarily themselves pass cumbrous
ly from hand to hand in payments and
exchanges in the same way that
"coin" and bank notes pass among us;
and at the prices at which they were
able to pay tax levies.
It is easy to see, then, how one per
son who had possession of a surplus
certificate, expressing the quantity of
value for which a cow would be re
ceived in satisfaction of a tax levy,
and who desired to pay another per sou
an obligation requiring a cow
to satisfy it, or who desired to obtain
possession of some other commodity
of an equal quantity of value, might
for his own convenience, voluntarily
offer the certificate in payment of that
obligation, or in exchange for the
commodity sought, instead of offering
the cow.
If in such case the other party
would agree to his proposition, the
obligation would be thus discharged
or the exchange effected. Such a
transaction, like every other payment
before judgment, and like every other
exchange, would rest upon the agree
ment of the parties in each particular
case, end would be a purely voluntary
use of the certificate.
Government officials, meantime
would observe that such certificates
were being sought for as a safe stor
age and investment for surplus perish
able wealth, and were being voluntar
ily received in payment of obligations
and in exchange for commodities en
dowed with, utility. Governments
have never been slow or backward in
pushing their own interests. There is
among all governments a resistless im
pulse which drives them to exceed
thefr revenues, and this results in a
perpetual "deficit," universal wherever
governments nave existed among
men.
The invariable result has always
been a perpetual flow of those certifi
cates, issued and given in exchange
for the services and commodities re
quired in governmental operations.
And history shows that by slow de
grees the laws have been manipulated
Into a form by which the payment of
all tax levies has been required to be
made by the delivery of those certifi
cates and in no other thing.
The revenue is thus perpetually "an
ticipated" and a continuing "deficit"
made certain.
. As the quantity of value of such
certificates must ever depend upon the
quantity of the force of demand for
them, any device which gives them
increased power to perform beneficial
service for men must necessarily in
tensify the force of demand and re
sult in an increase in the quantity of
beneficial service, or things able to
perform such service, which must be
sacrificed to obtain them.
So long as a cow and a certificate
are endowed with equal power to per
form a given beneficial service, suf
ficiently urgent, it is self-evident that
their valuation' will' be equal; and the
price of both must, therefore, be that
which is inscribed upon the certifi
cate. '"
But now Jet the law be changed, ani
while the certificate retainsthe power
to perform for the taxpayer the office
of . conclusively proving the. pre
payment of a tax levy against him
(expressing a quantity of value equal
to the quantity of value expressed
upon the face of the certificate),, the
cow has been deprived of that power.
No American citizen may now tender
a cow or any other thing he can pro
duce and demand the cancellation of a
tax levy against him. When both
cculd perform the same beneficial ser
vice, they were subjected to an equal
quantity of-the force of demand and-
wfre of an equal quantity of value.
The certificate stated its quantity of
value on itfi face, and that of the cow,
being the same, was necessarily ex
pressible by, the same term. ;
Now that the cow has been deprived
of that power, and can no longer be
tendered as a receipt against a tax
evy, she is henceforth subject to a
force of demand less strenuous and
ess in quantity, and her quantity of
a!ue ha necessarily diminished. On
the other hand, the certificate not only
retains its power to perform that ben
eficial service, but being made by
siatvte the only thing endowed
with that power, the force of demand
formtily playing upon both the cow
and the certificate is now concentrated
upon the certificate alone, which must
result in an increase of the quantity
of value required to be sacrificed to
obtain it. In other words, in decreas-
ng the price of all other commodities.
Governments thus make a market
for the only wares they manufacture.
No one except the government can
issue such certificates; and no other
thing is endowed by statute with pow
er to perform for men the beneficial
service which those certificates per
form; and the performance of that
service is both imperious and uni
versal.
The force of demand for them be
ing thuslntensified and increased in
quantity by statute, enables govern
ment, by their issuance, to obtain in
exchange for them the services and
commodities required in carrying on
its operations.
Up to this point in the evolution of
coin," the judgments of the courts.
under the conditions described, wouM
be satisfied by : the dalivery of the
quantity of value expressed by the
money" symbol, in each judgment, in
any taxable article, at the price at
which it was taxable and able
to pay taxes. x
The option of selecting which of
many articles endowed by this pow
er snould be used, rested with the
debtor. That option Is still his today.
But the government, having found a
means of "anticipating" the rev
enes, as we have seen, by the issu
ance of certificates of payment of taxes
for an indefinite period in advance, in
exchange for needful services and
commodities, next, in order to intensi
f y the force of demand for those cer
tificates, and thereby to Increase the
quantity of value required to he sacri
ficed in order to obtain them, issued
them in convenient and durable form,
and in almost every conceivable quan
tity, for convenience in payment of
tax levies; and what is of vast mo
ment, has by law made tax levies pay
able by the presentation or "tender'
or sucn ceruncates ana by no
other means whatever.
(Continued Next Week.)
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. hundred pounds. Some years ago my heart
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. NOTICE -
Notice is hereby given that at a regular meet
(nar of th. Board of Trustees of the Village of
College View, Nebraska, held on Saturday, May
2d, 1903, the following estimate of the expendi
tures of the Village or college View for tbe ns
cal year commencing May 5th, 1903, was made,
to-wit:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Chairman and
the Board of Trustees of the Village of College
View, that the estimate of the probable amount
of money necessary for all purposes to be raised
In said Village of College View for the fiscal
year commencing May 5th, 1903, together with .
the various objects and purposos of expendi
ture, is as follows: .
1. For general purposes $80-00.
2. For streets and alleys (100.00.
8. For fire protection $400.10.
4. For street crossings.sidewalki and bridge
$200 00.
Total estimated expenses for the fiscal year
commencing May 5th, 19 3 $78 UX.
Total revenue of the village for the fiscal year
ending May 5th, 1903, $590.87.
Approximate amount of funds on hand May
.,1903, $350.00. V.'ILLIAM DYMOND. .
Chairman of Village Boare
DAVID J. WEI3S,
Village ClorV.
Dated College View. Nb.. May , 1903.
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