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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 1, 1S03.
cans in every part of the state are up
in revolt against it. The result of it
will be not only a railroad machine
kept in good running order the whole
year at "the expense of every county , in
the state, but when tie assessing is
done the farmers "will get it in the
neck" and let the railroads off easy. :
The only officer in each county In
which the railnadn will be partic
ularly interested in will be the county
assessor. They will be willing to trade
everything else off to get him. If they
do that, the railroads -think that not
only the tax question will be settled,
but they will have a political machine
that will beat anything ever , before
invented. With such a machine-there
will be no more trouble for the rail
roads in this state about rates, farmer
elevators or things of that sort.
The thing f or populists to do is to
get into the school houses again and
explain all. this to .their neighbors.
They- will And as many republicans
ready to join them as they did in the
old alliance days. -
WHO GOT IT ALL
'. ,Let any farmer in Nebraska who
has 160 acres of land go out to some
Doint wherfi he ran take a look over
the whole farm and note the acres of
wheat, corn, oats, hay, potatoes, fruit
and other things that he has raised
this year." Let him estimate the thou
sands of bushel3 of grain that he, by
his labor, has created thisyear. He
will see enough to feed him and his
family for ten years; Let him count
lip the cattle, horses, hogs and poul
try. Then let him reflect that by the
first of next April it will have practi
cally all disappeared except the seed
he has reserved for planting, the stock
for breeding and his work horses.
What has become of it all? If he has
enough left to feed and clothe his fam
ily until he creates another mass of
wealth without making store bills or
other debts he is among the very for
tunate ones.
' What became of that enormous
amount of wealth that at autumn cov
ered his fields and 'crowded his barn
yards? His fatted hogs and cattle are
gone. His piles of grain have, disap
peared. Did he and his family eat ,all
those fat steers? Has he salted down
all of those hogs? Did he exchange
His grain for beautiful clothes and fur
nishings for his bouse? Not at all.
He has lived "very plainly. Hennas
none of the luxuries of the cities. If
he has been able to support one or
two of his children at a college he is
still among the fortunate few. . What
"became of all that wealth? The! farm
er owns it no longer. Who. got it? . ;
"'Nearly one-half of it went to, the
railroads . for hauling his grain, cat
tle and hogs to market. It was con
verted into money and spent by the
great railway magnates In yacht races
or sent across the sea to support dukes
and lords to whom the magnates had
married their daughters. Some of it
went to pay taxes that in justice these
magnates ought to have paid. How
does it come that these railroad mag
nates were able to take that wheat,
those cattle and hogs, . which the
farmer raised by his own labor and
spend it on million-dollar yachts,
lords and dukes? It was because the
farmer voted that the railroads might
do this very thing.
At the last election the railroads
openly selected the candidate for gov
ernor long before the convention met
The members for the legislature, with
a very few exceptions, were selected in
the same way. And the farmers went
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.v.. hue jwiio aim T ULtU 1U1 L lie ill. vv lit
they do it again
Even some of the farmers who have
always voted with the railroad party,
seem to have concluded that they made
a mistake. They have been attempt
ing to escape handing over to the ele
vator trust the part of their crops that
the elevator trust has for years been
taking. But the farmers have found
that the elevator trust and the rail
roads, are one and the same thing.
There were plenty of elevators In the
- $100 REWARD $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stage 3 and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only positlYe cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taker internally, act
ing directly upon the biOod and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers, that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best
state, but the farmers In their des
perate efforts to escape handing over
a large part of their crops to that
combination have gone to the expense
of building elevators of their own. It
has been a futile effort in most cases
for the railroads deny them the facil
ities that they give to the trust.
Some of the farmers think they can
find a way of escape. They, having
built their elevators, will appeal to the
courts, and demand that all shippers
of grain shall be treated alike. Here
is the vital thing in this campaign.
Let the railroads put the man whom
they have selected upon the supreme
bench the man who has fought their
battles for the last sixteen years as a
railroad attorney, and what man can
believe that there is any hope for
redress by an appeal to the courts?
With that done the state government,
the legislature and the courts will all
be In control of. the men whom the
railroads have - selected as candidates
and elected by their contributions. Af
ter that, the great crops on the1 farms
will vanish more quickly and leave
even a , smaller .portion of the wealth
that the farmer creates by his labor
to be en joyed, by .him and his family,,
while still more costly pleasure yachts
wlll .be built and, bigger, dowers paid
to the degenerate, lords and dukes of
the old world.
The railroads' have planned a-" new
raid upon the homes of Nebraska. All
the plutocratic papers announce that
the farmers of Nebraska have become
wealthy. They picture them as roll
ing in wealth with untold millions de
posited in the banks. These roseate
pictures have ; induced the railroad
managers to believe that they have a
new field to exploit that the traffic
will bear more than they have taken.
That is proven by the recent rise ht
rates which In a few days took 4 cents
a bushel from the price the farmer got
for his grain. Tna 4 cents a bushel
all goes to railroad magnates. The
price did not fall that much in Chi
cago, but in Nebraska. It was a direct
tribute laid upon the farmers of this
state. It was simply an order issued
by the great magnates in New 'York
that the farmers of Nebraska should
pay them an additional tribute on all
the grain that they shipped out of the
state. The action was taken because
the magnates thought that ten or fif
teen thousand populists would stay at
home and not -vote this year the same
as they did last year.
There Is where the danger lies. Only
10,000 populists out of the 70,000 in'
this- state take The Independent , The
result is that about 6Q.O0O. of them, are
Very imperfectly acquainted with the
facts. : They ' do not realize that the
railroads have a cunningly , planned
scheme, to get the control of the su
preme court, and finally wreck every
farmers' elevator i this stated They
know that they cannot' do it if Judge
Sullivan .. remains on the supreme
bench. Count up how much the rail
roads can afford to expend in an elec
tion that will continue a tribute of 4
cents a bushel on all the grain shipped
out of the state. How much will the
elevator trust expend to preserve its
monopoly? In view of the enormous
amount of money at stake for the
farmers of this state it is a wonder
that there is not a popultotieeting in
every school house in' (hi state every
night in the week.
THAT KTBA TRIBUIB
The raise in freight rates causing a
fall of 4 cents a bushel in the price of
gram shipped out of the state in 1901
would have put an additional tribute
in the pockets of the Wall street mil
lionaires who own all the railroads in
Nebraska, an additional tribute from
the farmers of the state for 1901 of $3,
485,623.56. For 1900 the additional tri
bute would have been $4,562,575.52. The
following is the shipment of grain in
bushels from the state during those
two years:
1900. V
Wheat 20,180,794
Corn ..' 77,418.9.
Oats 14,681.699
Rye 1,109,242
Barley 673,703
Total 114,064,388
1901.
Wheat 26,765.074
Corn 48.199.230
Oats 10,511,79
Rye 1,141.238
Barley 523,278
Total 87,140,589
" TI11 Firtt Judicial
Down in the First judicial district,
W, H; KelHgar, of Auburn, democrat,
and E. O. Kretsinger, of Beatrice, pop
ulist, are the -fusion candidates for
district judge. Their opponents are
C. F. Reavis of Falls City and A. H.
Babcock of Beatrice. Within the re
publican fold a fight of exceeding bit
terness is progressing. Reavis is bit
terly assailed by Frank Martin, editor
of the Falls City News. Back in 1891
Martin, whothen claimed to be a dem
ocrat, was the fusion nominee for dis
trict judge; but in 1896 he saw a "won
derful light," and- as a reward of mer
it was made Bud Lindsey's alternate
to the republican national convention.
Since then he has represented his dis
trict, as a republican, in the state sen
ate. At present he is making it ex
ceedingly warm for his fellow towns
man, Reavis, and . the prospects are
that both Kelligar and Kretsinger will
be elected in spite of the apparent 3,-00O-
majority against them. ;
Inquiry as to the situation in that
district reveals the fact that "politi
cal issues are not being discussed or
even thought of, so far as relates to
the judicial fight" "The single in
quiry," says The Independent's " in
formant, "relates to the fitness of the
several candidates to perform the du
ties of the office." ' .
But "fitness" is a term which, relat
ing to the judiciary, cannot be com
pletely defined without reference to
"political issues." .In state matters, in
the last analysis, there is but one "is
sue" the farmers against the rail
roads. Everything resolves itself final
ly into that. Every man engaged in
other lines finds himself with one side
or the other. Gaged, by this, what is
the "fitness" of each of the contending
aspirants for district judge? Beyond a
doubt every man of them has suffic
ient knowledge of the law to preside
over a district court. But where would
he stand in a contest between the two
great contending, forces?
Messrs. Reavis and. Babcock repre
sent a party which is never satisfied
with justice for the railroad interests
it stands for. The railroad . must al
ways get more than even-handed jus
tice would award it. . And republican
judges are ever ready to give more
than the pound of flesh .to the rail
roads. . . . .... ...
' Messrs. Kretsinger and Kelligar rep
resentthe agricultural side of the con
test. The farmers, and those who
stand with them, have never asked
more than1 their just dues. ' They will
btV satisfied with simple justice. They
ask "nothing more. .' v-;.-.-
Within the next four years the
judges of the First district (and in ev?
ery other district) will be called upon
to solve some knotty points in the re
cent revenue law, in the Ramsey ele
vator law, and in various other ways
decide between the farmers and the
railroads. Do the farmers of the First
district want exact justice, or do they
prefer to have the railroads given the
big end of it every time?- If the
former, they will elect Kretsinger and
Kelligar; if the latter, Reavis and Bab
cock. can be depended upon to please
them.
Two populist rapers in Nebraska
have recentlv decided to renounce par
tisanshlo - and become "independent."
One of these, the Alma Weekly Record,
edited bv E. H. Battv, takes this ac
tion because he has decided that "we
can't go fusion any longer." The
other paner. Tfoldrege Progress, edited
by C. Cllnton Pac;e, give3 substantially
the same reasons.
Patronize our adverlisera
The Press at Pawnee City is fighting
Kretsinger, and the Republican , is
fighting Babcock. Marvin of the Bea
trice Democrat thinks the Pawnee peo
ple "are hard to please" and the al
leged democrat who edits the Press
fbut seems ashamed to have his name
appear) retorts with a little biographi
cal sketch of Marvin's political nie
and asserts that "Marvin is a lucid and
logical acrobat with the proper rubber
equipment attached." All 01 wmcn
makes us thankful that the brethren
dwell together in unity.
How many county assessors will the
railroads elect this fall? The roads
imposed on us 90 new salaried officers
during the last legislature. There is
one in every county and they draw
salaries ranging from $250 to $2,400.
They, are called county assessors, but
they have nothing to do. Precinct as
sessors Are "appoi- ted" in every pre
cinct to do the. work, while the coun
ty assessors will have the softest snap
ever provided by a legislature.
The republican party allows ro man
to become a supreme judge who has
not served a long apprenticeship as a
railroad attorney. Their present can
didate. Judge Barnes, served in that
capacity for the Flhcrn firtecn years.
After the ra!i 1- -t the county
assessors, the rep' b'ifn stale. com
mittee will. never' have to c;o to the
cost and trouble of making a noli of
the state. The -county assessor will
simply give each precinct n lessor an
extra book In "hieh he will be re
quired to record the politics, national-,
ity, religious preferences, the one most
likelv to influence him if ha is not a
republican and everything else that
could possibly be of use in controlling
every Inhabitant's vote. If , the pre-
fijvf John Samuels Paid a $3, 00
Mortgage.
John Samuels lives in Brown coun
ty, Kansas. He is a fanner thirty-five
years of age.' He came to Kansas from
the East In. '81, bringing a young wife,
two children'and some money. The
money he invested in 160 acres of land.
He paid a good price six thousand doN
lars, two thousand down and a mort
gage back for four thousand. But it
was a well-improved farm and
worth it
There have been fat and lean years
in Kansas, and in 1902 John Samuels
still owed three thousand dollars on
his place. He had reduced the debt
one thousand dollars, an average of
one hundred dollars per year - and kent
the interest paid up. His expenses in
creased with the growth of his family.
His wife's health was not so good : of
late, and t he paid an occasional doc
tor's bill. Some improvements and
extensions must be made on the farm
buildings. He would be fortunate, if
he could make these additional neces
sary expenditures, keep his interest
paid up and continue applying one
hundred dollars per year on the mort
gage. - .
He -realized at this rate he will be a
very old man before the farm will be
free from debt. If he dies the home
will be sold; perhaps at a time when
it; may bring little, if any, more than
the mortgage. The savings of a life
time will be lost and the wife and chU-.
dren will suffer. " ,'; .
One day a stranger appeared and
asked permission to explain life in
surance. Mr. samueis listened intent
ly, conceded it was just what he need
ed, that he would like a policy, if he
could pay for it, 'but he owed three
thousand dollars on his farm, and it
was all he could do to pay the interest
and a hundred dollars a year on the
principal. As the premium on a pol
icy at his age would be $102.60, he did
not see how he could carry it-
"Suppose," said the agent, "the per
son who holds this mortgage on the
farm should say to you: Tf you con
tinue to pay the interest as before, hut
instead of paying one hundred dollars
a year on the principal, pay me $102.60
per year, I will, if you die, cancel the
mortgage, giving your wife the farm.
If you live twenty years, I will release
the mortgage, giving the "farm to you.
You surely "would accept such a propo
sition. Now, Mr. "Samuels, continue
paying the interest but instead of
paying one .hundred dollars per year
on the , principal, take a three thou
sand dollar policy in - the Old Lino
Bankers Life Insurance ; Company of
Nebraska, which at your age thirty
five, will cost $102.60 each year for
twenty years. If you die, your life in
surance will pay the loan and leave
your home free of debt. If you live
twenty years, your cash settlement,
consisting of the guaranteed reserve
and estimated surplus will pay the
mortgage and leave you $210.45. You
have paid out $2,052.00, and have left
$210.45, thus paying a debt of three .
thousand dollars with $1,841.55, or
sixty-two cents on the dollar, having
meanwhile a guarantee that should
you die, the debt is canceled."
For more thana century, farms and
homes have been paid for in this man
ner, by policies in Old Line Insurance
Companies. Permit our agent to ex
plain the details more fully. If you
want more land, ask for Circular No.
"How Jones Bought and Paid for a
$6,000 Farm." If you are a renter, or
just starting in business, or working
for a salary, ask for Circular No. 2,
showing how, without security on your
part, you may buy a -bond on twenty
years' time, guaranteeing to your fam
ily a home, If you die, and to your
self a home If you live. -
For further Information address the
OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE INSUR
ANCE COMPANY of Lincoln, Nebraska.
cinct assessor objects, he will be told
that if he does not like the work that
there are plenty of others who would
be glad to get the jobat" $3 a . day.
When a highly paid railroad lawyer is
ordered by his client to get up a bill
to set going a new political machine,
he generally turns out something that
for skill, craft, deceitfulness and sub
tility would be harl to beat. At least
that is what they did when they
planned for a political machine, the
cost of running which would be paid
by taxation and entitled it a revenue
law. . -
The , ba"jains offered by Fred
Schmidt & Bro. this issue sl.juld be
interesting to every careful - buying
man or woman. Morey saying is as
important as money making. Look
over the ad. and send your order to
day. Mention The Independent and
you will receive fair and liberal
treatment