NOVEMBER 26, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT;
5
UB. HARDY'S VIEWS .
Criticises Mr. De Hart's Sags-Mtlea That
lie i op!' 8 r&rtyl&dspt "Frctsc
tieaaa a Cardinal Plank :
Editor Independent: We would
like to join Issue with John S. De Hart
on. the tariff question. To start; with,
we would first lay down what the
foundation of our government should
be. It should govern with equal jus
tice? it should grant equal privileges
and afford the same protection to ev
ery individual, every community, and
every state. The law should not help
one class, one industry, or one calling
to' the detriment or loss of all the rest
or any of them. . , ' . ,
Will Mr. De Hart tell., us how much
higher price the farmers of Nebraska
get, for their produce -under the pres
ent high protective - tariff than they
would under free trade.- Then will he
tell us how much more we have to pay
for-American manufactured goods un
der a high protective tariff than we
would under free trade. The farmers
ot Nebraska do not gee one cent more
tor what they sell and have to pay
several millions more for the Ameri
can manufactured goods - - they buy.
This is not just and a protective tariff
is-unjust unless it helps all alike.
The European market governs the
price of farm produce and we have to
compete with cheap farm labor of
Europe, India and South America. If
we sell any of our produce In New
York or Boston we have got- to take
less than the European price the same
hour and if we buy any American
manufactured goods there we have to
pay European price with the high pro
tective tariff added. The tariff on
foreign goods goes into the govern
ment treasury, the same amount of
tariff on American goods goea into
the American manufacturer's pocket.
The tariff is not just unless it helps
Nebraska as much as it helps Massa
chusetts. Nine-tenths of the people
think no tariff is paid, only on for
eign goods. - v , r
Must the reform party fall In' and
swallow rank Injustice "because a ma
jority of the people advocate it? It
would have been no worse to have
swallowed slavery back in the '50's.
No, all reformers should continue to
kick injustice no matter whether with
the mniority or with the majority.
All taxes should- be equal on all
selling values. AH Imported articles
should be taxed the same per cent ac
cording to selling value. If anything
is taxed more than other things, it
should be luxuries and curses. Tea
and coffee, silks ' and fineries should
he taxed ten times as nuch as life-
necessities; opium,- tobacco and in
toxicating liquors should be taxed one
hundred times as much. . .
If farmers can compete with cheap
farm labor, why" can't manufacturers
do the same? They do compete in
Europe, for they send hundreds of
millions of goods over there and sell
them without the least . high tariff
protection. High protective tariff and
railroads are the two big machines for
making millionaires. It certainly
would not be unjust to compel trust
monopolies to sell their goods to us as
cheaply as they sell In Europe.
Nebraska Is the most exclusively
agricultural state in the Union. We
have no minerals of any kind, nor any
"timber. ; It., is unjust to make the
farmer work two days on the farm for
one day In the factory. Repeal all
special laws and then we would be on
a-Just lever with the manufacturers.
It would be just as sensible for Mr.
De Hart to advise the people's party
to adopt the gold standard, retire the
gi feedbacks' and sell the silver and al
io si' uo other money to circulate be
etle gold and wildcat bank bills.
. .. H. W. HARDY.
Lincoln, Neb. ; v
JT IS A JOY
TO BE CURED,
Painful Piles Eecome Painless at Once and
; ere Cured in Short Time. -
It almost pays to have the piles so
great is .the 'feeling of'trelief when
Pyramid Pile Cure is applied. They
are in the form of suppositories and
reach the affected parts at once and
the pain ceases and a mild feeling of
ease and comfort takes its place. The
healings process begins immediately
and continues as long as the cure is
administered until the sufferer is per
fectly nd completely well.
How much more sensible Is this
method than the barbarous torture In
flicted by the knife and instruments?
How much more satisfactory to be
able to administer a simple effective
remedy in the privacy of the home
than to submit to the humiliation of
an examination and operation In the
physician's chair!
lyramld Pile Cure cure3 piles to
. stay cured. Thousands and thousands
of sufferers the country over have
found this out through the testimony
of their friends, and others, ana tie
sale of this remedy Is Increasing
enormously every week and month.
It Is certainly a glorious thing to be
able to make great nurabuu of poo
I !) happy and nothing will cause hap
piness ko much or do It so quickly
as relief from pain and the cure of a
dreadful disease. The proprlctt m of
Pyramid Pile Cure, therefore, hive ft
great filing of gratlfknlkm and hap-
spinous thenuwlvro wncn the letter
Irom former tuiffcrem come pouring In
on them telling of the wonderful runs
fttul rejoldng and i-trlug thanks fur
Ihelr ddheranee from this terrible
disease.
Pyramid Pile Cure I for talc ty all
dru '.Ma at & rent a i ackage.or will
be sent at orue In plain wrapper on
receipt 'f prlee by Pyramid Ini Co,,
Marshall. MUh.
Write for free bookM on tte na
ture, treatment and cure of pUc,
APPROVES OE HART
PopnlUt National Committeeman Low
ranee Folly Approves Mr. De Hart's
Position on Protection
Editor Independent: ' It was with
much interest ;i read the article of
Jno S. De Hart in the last Indepen
dent. ' ;
Un till 1892 I was a free trader. But
Cleveland's last administration proved
to me beyond a doubt that tariff for
revenue only will not do this coun
try;, and now I am a protectionist and
you-will find the cotton mill men of
the south are fast becoming protec
tionists. I believe the time Is not far
distant when the .south will change
fronts in politics. The politicians
have been howling ''nigger" for years
and now most of the' states have dis
qualified the. negro and the democratic
politicians have about lost their grip.
The article by Mr. De Hart through
out was to the point and fully meets
my approval. S. A. LOWRANCB.
Mooresville, N. C. -
(Without discuss tig the merits or
demerits of "protection," The Indepen
dent would suggest that the Wilson
bill, after being thoroughly German
ized and made protective, .was not en
acted and effective as law until more
than a year after Cleveland's inaug
uration in 1893. The panic of 1893
began under the McKinley law; it
was intensified by the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act.
Quite naturally the cotton mill men
of the south "are fast becoming pro
tectionist." ... Why shouldn't they? The
protective tariff is for their especial
benefit. Associate Editor.)
AN IDAHO VIEW
Mr. Moore ReJccU Mr, De Hart's Proposi
tion to Have the Populist Underse
"Protection", .'
Editor Independent: - I have just
read Mr. De Hart's article on protec
tion. Mr. De Hart states that he sup
poses not many populists will take
favorably to protection. In this I
think he'is correct. Shall we indorse
the mother of .. trusts and then de
nounce the offspring? Shall we, the
populists, who have time and again
denounced this-robberv tariff system as
one of the greatest curses that was
ever imposed upon the American peo
ple, come out and indorse il?
Mr. De Hart also states that whether
Bryan or Cleveland controls the dem
ocratic party, .it will die next year,
and it will die on the tariff issue.
Ever since I can remember this same
old tariff (tax) ha3 been a bone of
contention between the democrats and
republicans, and still this old tariff-for-revenue-only
party lives on.
I do not believe the populist party
would gain one vote by Indorsing pro
tection. On the other hand, I belicvo
the party would lose thousands of
votes. It Is not because of our pro
tective policy that our people have
lost faith In the populist party, but
because of fusion-with the old parties
which we have become disgusted with
and left. Down in some of the south
ern states, in democratic strongholds,
the populists and republicans fused
to beat the jlemocrata. Four or five
years ago I was down In Oklahoma
(Woods county); there the democrats
and republicans fused to heat the
populists.
Mr. P Hart, what became of the
protection lda at this time? " To pro
tect American labor we must buy tho
American produit. To derive rev
enue we must buy the foreign article.
1 tin a farmer; my surplus rraln mut
come Into competition with foreign
Rraln. True, thire U a duty on Rraln,
hnt we do not import much Rraln Into
thh fo'intry. We always have rimuKh
and ome to iparc.
Mr, IMltor, 1 hnve heard many a
man howl fp protection when the
pr d'v hadn't n dnlbr to hU name,
and Mill he had lived linger this old
rotter tariff ryatem. all hla life! Pou't
THE fiRAT SALVAGE
' SALE IS
ON
"7
$20,000 worth of .' seasonable merchandise
purchased at auction at 40to 60 cents on the dol
lan All kinds of dry goods at money-savingprices
Dress goods, silks, cloaks, suits, carpets, cur. N
tains, shoes, underwear, corsets, gloves etc. You
cannot afford to miss this opportunity to pur
chase seasonable dry goods at money-saving
prices., -
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
tax the wealth of the country to sup
port the government, but levy a tax
on what tne people eat and wear to
support the government, is the the
ory of tne republican party. If we
want the populist party killed, I think
it cannot be done any quicker than
to indorse protection.
ti. W. MUUItUi.
Rigby, Idaho.
It would be a very serious thing
for this state If some of the Lincoln
dallies should get even a slight circu
lation down in Boston. The Indepen
dent has a time of it with the Boston
critics. What would one of those crit
ics say of the following sentence,
taken from the News: "Reach towards
the ephemera of the daily press as
the summum bonum of didactic liter
ature." The word "ephemera"' means
lasting but a day; Summum bonum"
means the thing most desirable, and
"didactic" means intended to teach.
So that sentence says: "Reach towards
the lasting for a day of tho daily
press as the thing most desirable in
tended to teach literature." That
sentence without doubt will convince
the mullet heads who read the News
that they' ought to "stand pat" and
always vote 'er straight.
The Springfield Republican remarks
that "some time may yet elapse before
canal digging begins under the au
thority of the United Slates govern
ment." The probabilities are that the
Republican will celebrate another
semi-centennial before that ha;ipy day
arrives. It most certainly will, if the
trans-continental railroads continue
to have as many senators In the upper
house of congress as they have been
able to keep there for the last thirty
years.
Cap Comfort and Cap
Buy Ycurself a Horns . -
The Nebraska Real Estate Co. has
for sale farms and ranches of every
size and description In all parts of
the state. The following are from
their list of improved farms.
No. 616. Buffalo county farm of C10
acres, located near Kim Creek, 2C0
acres In alfalfa, nil under the ditch.
Price, $10 per acre.
No, CI3. Dawson county; 400 acres
food land, frame house, stable, sheds,
mostly fenced, 100 acres in cultiva
tion, well and mill, 3 miles from Sum
ner, most all farm land. I'rlce, $15
per acre.
No. IS. Phelps county stock farm
of 320 acres deeded, frame home and
tood outbuildings, !) acres In cultiva
tion. 10 acre alfalfa, 170 acre pas
ture, 4' a. res Rood hay land, fenced
and croj.ii fenced. Price. $IOju.
No. 5.H. Dawson county; Hi) acres,
hnufto !Sx2. granary 11x21, shed acd
lam 11x32, l.'O acrcH In cultivation.
Price, $2.(HH), ft cah, balance rood
terms; located t mlk- iouth of Hum
ner.
No. C12, Cunttf county; 800 ncrti,
Cheer for 50c
To find out how much Cap
beauty and Cap comfort can
bf crowded into a
fiuy cent piece,
send us a half dol
lar and get your
choice of all-wool
Kerseys in bine or
r black, Cheviots in
grey or fancy mix
tures, ' also fine
pure silk Plushes these in
all shapes and sizes.
You pay elsewhere $;
You pay us only - 50c
Bend today. We guaran
tee your satisfaction.
Write for catalog.
Armstrong Clothing Co.
The Good Clothes Merchants.
1221-27 0 St., Lincoln, Nebr.
11 tenpotl with four wlrpn frAiriA
house 16x24, barn, cattle sheds, well
and mill, 700 barrel reservoir located
VA miles from Lorn ax. Price, $8,000.
No. C58. Seward county farm of 1C0
acres, located 3 miles from Pleasant
Dale and 15 miles from Lincoln, mod
erately Improved, house of 4 rooms,
barn 16x24, granary and corn crib,
two gbod wells, bearing orchard of
about 30 trees, sice maple grove, mul
berry trees, 45 acres pasture, 25 acres
hay meadow, CO acres of fall plowing,
telephone lino runs past the place.
Price. $33 per acre. Will exchange
for 80 acrcj ne.ir Lincoln.
No. 531. Lancaster county farm
containing 200 acres, 1S3 acres In cul
tivation, good house, 2 bams, double
corn crib and other buildings, plenty
of timber on the farm for all pur
poses, running water, 2 miles to a
rood town, thero la no better soil;
thU farm can be bought fur $C3 per
fere, V cftuh. balance on easy terms.
The pmm taking advance of tbl
oftVr will Ret on of the finest fnrma
Ir. Iauaaur couuty; only hours
drlvo from the Mate capital.
NKltUAHKA IlKAI. IWTATK CO,
Ily J, II. LDMISTK.V, President.
1012 O it.. Lincoln. Nb,
Mention The Independent.