UNCLE SAM AliD THE SICK Mill
Turkey Struts Straight Since Served
With a ' Significant Suggestion
from the Navy of the
United States. .
COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA
And Help Us, Is the Cry of the Chris
. tions Uncle Sam Will Not
Help, He Will
Protect.
The European "sick man" juggled
with the European nations in a mar
velous manner. He had not invited,
or; expected, any other nation to inter
vene. When Admiral Cotton spread
out his fleet at Beyroot and cleared
his battleships for action, the sultan
discovered a new element to be reck
oned with. It is gratifying to Ameri
can pride to learn that amends were
Immediately made and promises of
protection for American citizens were
promptly offered.
THE' MACEDONIAN PHALANX
of old was the terror of barbarians.
The new navy of the United States
confronting a Musselman seaport is
more startling than Philip's famous
infantry formation. The experience of
this country at Beyroot has more than
vindicated the value of an efficient
navy. In modern warfare a fleet of
modern ships is worth more to the na
tion than armies and fortifications, and
America's navy will be equal to the
greatness of America when the plans
of the government are" carried out.
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
is American through and through
Loyal to the land and loyal to the
west It rejoices at every trimuph of
the Union, and shouts its approval at
all work done for the upbuilding of
the common country and especially the
central west. Born in Nebraska in
' 1897, it has spread its protection to" the
widows and the fatherless out through
nine western states, and is greeted
hospitably wherever its splendid forms
of policy contracts are presented.
B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT,
wishes, to engage ten first-class man
agers for unexcelled territory in new
states. With all sails set, and a spank
ing breeze, the Bankers Reserve Life
will make port December 31 with $7,
000,000 life insurance in force and
to and circulates largely among that
rapidly growing class which takes an
active interest in social questions. It
has a wide &ud julj easing circulation
among political associations and re
form societies, among trade unionists
and co-operators, and is to be found on-'
the tables of most reference libraries.
On the continent, in America, in Aus
tralasia and the colonies its sale is be
ing actively pushed. Upon all ques
tions affecting the material and moral
improvement of the people it has. tak
en its place as a standard work of ref
erence. Its varied information is con
tinually in demand, " and its well
printed pages are in constant use."
Net prices, each year from 1895, art
linen, gilt, two shillings; paper, one
Ill 1 1 Lll-, ) i-a lCl&C JyVOVt; Al i 14.
Pullman, Morgan and Baer
Slowly climbed up the stair
That lead to the heavenly gate.
Peter shook slowly his head;
Sternly to the trio said:
"There is nothing to . arbitrate."
Populists in Dixon county have per
fected an organization known as the
"Old Guard of Dixon County-." They
already have a large membership and
are adding to it every day. They pro
pose to have an annual banquet at
which time the Old Guard of Dixon
county will assemble for the discus
sion of principles and plans for more
effective work throughout the various
precincts.
Hobscn's Error
withina year will be a $10,000,000 com
pany. Write for particulars as to our Gold
Bond Policy and Twenty Payment Op
tion Life, Cash Value Policy.
BANKERS RESERVE LIFE, OMAHA.
THE WIDOWS AND OKlHANS
A Wall street dispatch says that
"the selling of stocns was mainly by
holders of smaii lets in all parts of
America. Widows and orphans, trus
tees and small merchants and country
bankers poured out ' sad sacrifices
the securities they bought at pros
perity prices." These losses among a
class that will be pauperized by them
is the result of the work of a vicious,
subsidized press. Every one of the
great dailies had better facilities for
getting the facts than The Independent
had. The Independent warned its
readers of the swindles the promoters
were engaged in. It told them what
the result of "capitalizing prosperity"
would be, and if they have lost their
money, it is their own fault. The
"widows, orphans, trustees, small mer
chants and country bankers" who re
lied on the great dailies for their in
formation were never informed of the
facts. If any one had offered them' a
copy of The Independent containing
the facts, - they would likely have
spurned it with disgust. They are
rather to be pitied than to be de
nounced. They were so afflicted with
partisan insanity that it was impossi
ble to reason with them. The subsi
dized press took advantage of their
sad mental condition, and the result
is that they were robbed of all they
possessed.
' The Independent has been favored
by a request for copies of the Henry
George and Karl Marx editions to be
sent to Joseph Edwards, founder and
co-editor , of the "Reformers' Year
Book," "Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, Scot
land. ; These, have, been forwarded. In
bis prospectus Mr; ' Edwards says:
"The Reformers' Year Book ; appeals
Editor Independent: A telegram of
September 8, 1903, from Tuscaloosa,
Ala., stated that, on the previous day,
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson,
U. S. N., delivere-. there the first of a
series of lectures on "America's
Mighty Mission in the World," closing
his address, with an appeal that the
American navy should be placed in the
front rank, for which he advocated the
expenditure of $1,500,000,000 for new
ships, covering a period of thirteen
years, beginning with $50,000,000 to be
appropriated at the next session of
congress, and increasing this by $10,
000,000 each succeeding year.
However ineffectual the sinking of
the Merrimac might have proved, as a
military measure, the originality of its
conception, and the skill and courage
of its execution, mark it as one of ths
few noteworthy episodes of a greatly
overrated war.
But when the hero of that event
rushed into a series of magazine ar
ticles, as his own apologist, he fell in
the public estimation; and it was not
long before his osculatory perform
ances brought him general ridicule.
These offenses against modesty and
dignity may be extenuated to some ex
tent on the score of youth. But Cap
tain Hobson's naval program merits
no leniency from public opinion. The
proposal of any such program would
indeed, be considered amusing (as
would also its author's ambition for a
seat . in the national house of repre
sentatives) were it not for the fact
that he is but an extreme advocate of
a doctrine whose apparently growing
popularity is equalled only by its dan
ger to-the republic.
To the man who believes in the
steady march of civilization and tha
vitalizing power of Christianity, it
must appear as an alarming sign of
national degeneracy whan, in the year
of our Lord 1903, in an age when the
ruler of the most despotic government
of Europe sees an international court
of arbitration established upon his own
initiative, and even suggests interna
tional disarmament ; in an age when
the arts of peace are supposed to be
supplanting the arts of war throughout
the world when, in such an age, tho
United States of America, the land of
free institutions, the land where, if
anywhere, much be solved those great
social problems which have vexed
mankind from the beginning, so far
neglects these supreme interests as to
propose a steady increase of military
burdens burdens which; having been
largely fostered as a means of further
ing the pride and ambition of kings,
at the expense of their subjects, have
been a principal bane of all people, in
all climes, and in all asres burdens
against which the masses of Europe
are today increasingly protesting--burdens
which our comparatively iso
lated geographical position and our
comparative independence of Europ
eon politics render absolutely inde
fensible burdens which are peculiar
ly incompatible with the progress and
destiny of a free people.
The man who advocates such a dis
tinctly retrograde movement in our na
tional life, whether that man be a na
val captain, or the admiral of the
navy, or the secretary of the navy, or
the president of the . United States,
should be branded as a thoroughly
dangerous demagogue. ,
. ; : ' JOHN SAMPSON.
Washington, D. C. '
A FISHBONE
SdiUr ! Lon of the Weekly Feople
Chokes la Trying to Swallow a
. Chaotic imeraace"
In the Weekly People .(S. L. P.)
New York, issue of Saturday, February
y. iU3, the editor, Daniel De Leon
printed a four-column article entitled
"Money: Its History From Barbarous
Start to Future Civilization." ' Later
this was printed in pamphlet form.
portion of this pamphlet was reviewed
m The Independent of June 25, 1903
page 6. Since that time The People
and The Independent have exchanged
several articles on the subject, Mr,
De Leon attempting to cover up the
metaphors. At last he is driven to
downright lying. And at this point
The Independent will, as far as it is
concerned, close the discussion be
cause it is fruitless to discuss any
question with a man who will deny
his own language. -
In the Weekly People of Saturday
September 26, 1903, page 4, column 3
beginning at line 15, appears this
language: v
"Persistently misquoting The Peo
pie, The Independent always seeks to
create , confusion by falsely imputing
to The People the chaotic utterance
that 'labor is the sole producer of all
wealth values.' This false quotation
need not be rerefuted."
Let us see about this "chaotic utter
ance." Refer to Tne Weekly People
o;' Saturday, February 7, 1903, page 3,
column 4, beginning with line 51:
"It is the constant contention of so
cialism that based upon the undenia
ble principle that labo ris the sole
producer of all wealth values the only
quality requisite to a rational medium
of exchange is that it specify the time
expended by the holder in contributing
to the common stock," etc.
No doubt this IS a "chaotic utter
ance." That is exactly what The In
dependent believed from the first. But
Mr. De Leon said it, and over it all
these columns of wrangling ensued
Now he denies the creature of his
own brain, calls it a "chaotic utter
ance" and inferentially accuses The
Independent of "false quotation" of
lying, in plain English. Will he now
be brazen enough to say that the quo
tation last above is "false?" D.
The service of the Nickel Plate road
to New York city and Boston is un
surpassed. Three fast express trains,
in each direction, daily. These train3
are composed of modern first-class day
ccaches, elegant vestibuled sleeping
cars between Chicago, New York and
Bcston and other eastern points. Su
perior dinng car service, meals being
served on American club plan, ranging
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service a la carte. Passengers can
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via the Nickel Plate. See that your
ticket reads that way. Chicago city
ticket office, 111 Adams street. Depot,
La Salle street and Van Buren street
or. the elevated loop. "
Sept. 24, Oct. 1815.
American Shipping
Editor, Independent : In a recent
issue you call attention to the fact
that in 1810 American ships carried 91
per cent of our ocean freight, and that
in 1902 they carried less than 9 per
cent of it; that in the year 1810 Amer
ican ships carried 981,000 tons of
freight, while in 1902 they carried but
873,000 tons; that we annually pay to
foreigners more than $100,000,000 for
carrying American freight This is a
condition which you call deplorable,
and ask for a discussion of the sub
ject that a way may be devised to pro
vide "American ships for American
commerce, without a cent of subsidy."
I believe that there is nothing about
the situation to be deplored. The de
cadence in American shipping is the
result of conditions which we did not
make and cannot change. The falling
off may have been accelerated by leg
islation, but was largely due to the
fact that our forefathers were lured
from a sea-faring life by the greater
profits to be secured from our fertile
agricultural lands. Agriculture had
hitherto met with indifferent success
on the hills along the Atlantic sea
board, but in 1810 the pioneers were
pushing rapidly into the Mississippi
valley and the great possibilities of
our country were dawning upon the
people.
The Independent also deplores the
fact that we pay foreigners $100,000.
000 annually for carrying our ocean
freight. ' Mr. Tibbies has taught us
that the consumer pays the tariff. Is
it unreasonable, then, to suppose that
the consumer pays the freight?
The agitation for a great. American
merchant marine Is inspired by. self
ishness national selfishness a trait
ac inimical to the national welfare as
to that of the individual., We. do not.
need a merchant marine. England
does. Maritime commerce is her great-
iff f -i i. r. . ... Tl I 1
J lb LIST
which she Is ; fitted and she esEsct
be deprived of it except by an iniquit
ous subsidy. We all concede that the
people of England have a right to live.
Why should we deprive them of their
best opportunity to earn their bread
while we have millions of uncultivated
acres waiting for the plow and untold
wealth In uncovered mineral deposits?
Why should we care if England, forced
by stern necessity, has captured the
ocean traffic of the world? .Is our
solicitude for human welfare limited
by our national boundary lines? Will
we be a more' righteous and happy
people if we neglect our mines and
i, nrflpr t rlnnrivo tho HnHishman nf
an onDOrtunitv tn parn a Uvinsr? Will
our national prosperity be added to by
reducing our best foreign customer to
bankruptcy? , -
So long as there comes from many
quarters of the world a cry for bread,
it is our business to supply, it from
our inexhaustible store house, and we
should not care who runs the bread
wagon. S. W. McCOY.
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Another period of low rates to Call-,
fornia has been arranged for by the
Rock Island System. s
The fiivjt selling ctate is September
11; the last, November 30. The rates
are the same as were in effect last
spring.
$25.00 from Lincoln. Neb -
Corresponding reductions from all
other Rock Island stations
Tickets are good in tourist sleeping
cars.;. - .
Go now before the rush begins.
There will be no reduced rates to Cal
ifornia during the winter.
The Rock Island System offers two
routes to California "Scenic" and
Southern."
Ask nearest ; Rock Island' ticket
agent for folder "Across the Conti
nent in a Tourist Sleeping Car." It
gives full information.
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Half Rates Via. Wabash Railroad
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