THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JULY 23, 1903.
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New York desiring to forward a pack
age to one of the farther European
countries was told by these much
vauated private corporations that they
would take the package, but "we can
liot undertake to guarantee any limit
guarantee its safe delivery, nor can
we prove delivery if required by the
shipper."
Mr. James L. Cowles makes a fine
answer to Loud and all other express
company advocates in the following
words in The Outlook: j
"The truth is that neither in our do
mestic or our foreign business can any
or all of our private express compa
nies taken together give to our people
such a parcels service as the post
office can easily perform. No other
Institution has even now so complete
a machinery of collection and delivery
either for domestic or foreign service,
and this machinery is extending with
lightning-like rapidity. The po3tofflce
moreover, is the only agency that can
subject our private transport compa
nies to effectual competition. Only
through the extension of the postal
service can the public be protected
from extortionate express charges."
Coroner Burke of Cleveland, O., has
taken a wise step. He will hereafter
furnish no details concerning suicides
and will use all his Influence to get the
papers to refuse to publish detailed
accounts of such things. He ie not
the first one to point out that the pub
lishing of such details under large
display heads invariably leads to more
suicides. The same psychological law
prevails in regard to crimes of all
kinds. The description in detail of
lynchings leads to more lynchings.
One-half of the matter published in
the great dailies is distinctly degrad
ing. sswvxs
From time to time for three or four
years The Independent has published
articles concerning the restraint of the
liquor trade in the southern states and
called attention to the Inaptness of
the remarks in republican papers con
cerning whisky and the southern dem
ocracy. Some of the big dallies have
Just found out that there is far more
I,rohibition In the southern than in
the northern states. It is accomplished
in the south by local option laws in
stead of state prohibition. The con
sequence is that the attempt to sup
press the liquor traffic is far more
successful in the south for only in
communities where the is a majority
In favor of it, is it attempted. It is
another demonstration of the effic
iency of local self-government. ,
The Wall Street Journal still insists
that editors should go to the bank
ers for inspiration. The Independent
is perfectly willing and often has con
sulted a banker on subjects "in which
he is an expert." But to hold that
bankers are "experts" on economic
questions or even on the question of
money, is to make a very grave mis
take. As a class they are more ignor
ant concerning the functions of money
than almost any other class. They are
experts in loaning money, in looking
after security, in getting the largest
possible rate of interest, in making
exchanges and all that line of busi
ness, but of the great economic ques
tions involved In the functions per
formed by money, most of them seem
to know nothing. An editor who would
rely for advice upon a banker who
had never read a work on political
economy in his life would be just as
idiotic as the editorial writers on most
of the great dailies.
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us to Epuorfh Leaguers,
Great 25 per Gent Discount Sale.
Cloak, Suit and Millinery Departments,
- From August 5 to August 13.
For the benefit of our out-of-town friends who will attend the annual Epworth Assembly
in Lincoln on August 5-13, we hare decided to hold a 25 per cent discount sale in our cloak,
suit and millinery departments. Thousands of dollars worth of stylish garments and smart
millinery will then be thrown open to the public for inspection and buying.
Every garment that is received up to the time of August 5th wiil be included in this
great sale. The new garments for autumn have already arrived to the value of several r
thousand dollars. Let there be no misunderstanding about this point While we are hold
ing this isale primarily to dispose of all the goods bought for this season, yet all the new
Ladies' suits, jackets, shirt waists, wrappers and all the Children's and Misses' jackets, suits
and skirts are included in the 25 per cent discount.
Be sure to visit Herpolsheimer's, then and take advantage of these special offerings.
This is the largest and most commodious dry goods store in Lincoln and is filled with goods
worthy of such a large store. Forty-five big electric fans combine to keep the air in circula
tion and to make shopping pleasant. Our new fall dress goods are rapidly arriving. We wish
to show these to you, as the selections have been carefully made and show the result in goods
that are at once fashionable, of splendid quality and moderately priced.
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Lincoln, Nebraska. N and I2th5ts.
rr.and for a state constabulary always
armed and equipped and ready to
start at any moment for the seat of
disorder and we shall have the sys
tem of gens de armes of the old world
fastened upon us. There will be the
man in uniform everywhere just as in
Europe. He will have to be maintained
by taxation and the children of the
men who are so eager to join lynch
ing parties will be brought down to the
evel of the peasants of the old world.
Any man who joins a lynching party
is forging fetters for himself and the
children that come after him.
The Omaha Bee calls attention to
the fact that the city treasurer has
collected taxes to the amount of $1,
000,000 and of that the railroads have
Paid $10,532.98. The returns of the
city assessor show that the roads
own $27,000,000 worth of property In
the city and if they had paid taxes in
the same proportion that working peo
ple who own their little homes dq
.the roads would have turned over to
the treasurer $238,344.14 instead of
$10,532.98. The Bee, however, wiL
continue to support the republican
party, well knowing that as long as
It is in power In the state the rail
roads will pay no more taxes than
they do now and that the farmers and
wage-earners will be forced to pay
what the railroads ought to pay. The
Bee will not only do that, but it wil
-continue to sneer at-every party and
.every man who makes an effort to
overthrow the republican party and
make the corporations pay the same
rate of taxation that ether citizens o
the state navJ0Pas
These frequent lynchings are plant
ing the seeds of tyranny and imperial
Ism In every state In the Union. If
local authorities cannot maintain law
and order there will soon be a de-
If the mob spirit grows at the same
rate for the next five years as dur
ing the last year, courts and juries
will become obsolete. No man of
sound mind can fail to see that if this
ynching business goes much farther
it must of necessity end in anarchy
end wholesale rioting and slaughter.
Nothing will stop it until we get back
to the original doctrines proclaimed in
the Declaration of Independence and
he constitution.
The Kansas State Historical society
is making an enort, wnicn seems
ikely to succeed, to get the scaffold on
which John Brown was hung. It is
probably wanted as an object lesson
to show how far the state has de
generated under republican rule as it
s now one of the negro burning
states.
Every day the papers still publish
accounts of boys who die after suf
fering "terrible torture" from wounds
received from toy pistols. These
deaths must run far up in the scores.
There is no death more horrible than
that caused by lockjaw. It is time
that every state prohibited the manu
facture and sale of those most deadly
things for it seems that thousands of
American parents are so wanting In
common sense that the public must
take some action to preserve the lives
of children.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Here we are on Grand Lake, Colo
rado; still there i3 nothing grand
about it The same may be said of
Grand river. It in no ways seems use
ful only for the home of the trout
Away down in Arizona It helps to float
small steamers. We are surrounded
on every side by snow-capped moun
tains and from some of the high peaks
the mountains which feed the Colum
bia and Missouri rivers can be seen
It Is said that but a few miles of
mountains divide the head waters of
the three rivers; one makes for the
Gulf of Mexico, one for the gulf of Cal
ifornia and the third for the Pacific
ocean. The country here Is Idle and
wild. A little village of three or four
log cottages has taken the name of
"Idlewild." I should judge that the
country for hundreds of miles does not
average more than one family to ev
ery twenty miles square. Nothing can
be grown here, only what can stand
hard frosts in midsummer. We had
two hard frosts last week and an inch
of snow fell on the 3rd of July. There
are no gold or silver mines anywhere
rear. The Looloo mines are nearly
fifty miles north, but they are closed.
There is a little summer pasture here,
but still less winter hay or grass.
There have been two bears killed with
in a few miles of the village this sum
mer. Wolves are often heard to howl.
A few buffalo and elk were killed here
years ago. "A few deer still remain.
Summer visitors are about the only
source of revenue. A railroad route
has lately been surveyed and staked
out, but it will be years before it will
be built and doubtful whether it ever
will pay. Cattle that are raised here
which are the only surplus production
can be driven to market over the
ridge. We have heard more thunder
than ever before in twelve days. Ev
ery afternoon and evening the moun
tains are capped with thunder clouds
n Nebraska and you are a manufac
turer and live in New England. I
want you to work for me in my fac-
ory and you want me to work for
you on your farm. The law comes in
and compels me to work two days on
your farm while you work but one day
or me in the factory. Is that a just
law? The farmer should have the
same benefit from the tariff the manu
facturers have or else neither should
have any and certainly the farmer
should not be compelled to pay the
benefit to the manufacturer.
The labor union of bookbinders in
Washington does not seem to boss
the president or be able to override the
civil service commission. William A.
Miller was discharged by the boss
printer last May, but the president has
reinstated him for the sake of equal
justice. The printers now will prob
ably all strike.
The state government of Alabama
has seemed to turn against the late
enslaving method of colored people,
for debts and fines, called peonage. No
white men or women are so enslaved
We can't help believing that all laws
should be equally just toward al
classes. Every law that white citi
zens have for their protection or ben
eflt, colored citizens should have the
same laws. Every law for men, hus
bands and fathers should be the same
for women, wives and mothers. Ev
ery law for grown people should be
the same for children. If men are al
lowed to go into a saloon and drink
and smoke and chew, women and chil
dren should be allowed the same priv
ilege. Nothing of the kind should be
allowed anybody, old or young. Al
laws of this country should be laws
of equality for all classes, sex and
color.
We never did vote Cleveland
and never will, and yet his second
term as president was conducted more
in the interest of millionaires than his
first term, and if he Is elected a third
time the trusts and corporations wil
undoubtedly own him root and branch
Supposing I owned a factory plan
in New England and you owned a farm
in Nebraska. I am a farmer and live
The farmers of Nebraska have to
compete with the pauper-farmers of
Europe, Asia, Africa and South Amer
ica. Improved farm machinery en
ables them to do so. It is so with
manufacturers; their improved ma
chinery enables them to compete with
paupers all over the world except here
at home, where a high tariff shuts out
all competition. The farmers have to
ay the tariff. Government adds tar
iff to cost of foreign goods and manu
facturers add the tame tariff to cost
of domestic goods.
H. W. HARDY.
A Cattle Ranch Cheap
The Independent has a cattle ranch
for sale that is a great bargain. It
must be sold at once and the price has
been set to the lowest point to dispose
of it quickly. It consists of 800 acres
deeded land, 160 acres homestead, 160
acres leased; five-room frame house,
good barn 16x32, cattle stable 16x48,
windmill and two large tanks; 1 good
well and 1 large spring. One section
(640 acres) is fenced and cross fenced.
Close to good school. Fine location
and good land. A considerable shrub
bery and forest trees well started. Im
provements all nearly new. Plenty of
outside range. This year's crop goes
with ranch if taken soon. Only five
miles from Akron, Colo., the county
seat and best town in Washington
county. A splendid opportunity and
unequalled bargain. Only $2,500. Ad
dress The Independent, Lincoln, Neb.
Alfalfa is becoming acclimated and
produces surprising crops in central
and western Nebraska. Its extensive
cultivation has more than doubled the
average rainfall in that part of Ne
braska. See the ad. of Weber & Far
ris; they have large tracts of alfalfa
land for sale.
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