JANUARY 21, 1904.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT - . 7
Better Than a
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 17, 1904. In the
pulpit of the Vine Street Congrega
tional church today, the pastor, Her
bert S. Bigelow, spoke on the question,
"What is better than digging a ca
nal?" He said in part:
Since it is proposed to spend so
many millions for a canal in Panama,
it i3 well to ask ourselves, "Precisely
what good is it going to do us?"
What is a canal? It is a labor-saving
device. Will the canal benefit the
masses? Have labor-saving machines
been of bencht to them?
MACHINERY AND LABOR.
We should not stop inventing ma
chinery because inventions have not
materially increased the wages of la
bor. We should jt,o o(i with ourranal,
notwithstanding the fact that wages
lor common jatci wih continue to be
what a man can live on and no more.
We should not put a stop to material
progress because, forsooth, the ben
efits of progress have not bea equit
ably distributed. But it is time we had
learned this tact, that of greater Im
portance, even, than digging canals,
is the work ol amending our laws, to
the end that the benefits of public im
provements shall reach down to the
bottom of society and not be monopol
ized by a few at the top.
WHERE DOES THE WEALTH GO?
With canals, end railroads, and im
proved machinery, wealth production
has Increased enormously. Yet there
has been no startling improvement in
the condition of the masses, vv nere,
then, .loea this wealth ko? There are
nnlv three nl ares for it to 0. It must
be distributed, either as wages, or in-.
terest, or rent.
There has been no increase in the
rate of wages corresponding to the in
crease in tire productiveness of labor.
Have we not five bridges spanning the
Ohio? Mtehtv . triumphs of civiliza
tion! Yet, it was only yesterday that
a father surrendered two of his four
children to a charitable institution be
cause the wage he received as a clerk
in a railroad office was not sufficient
to sunnort them all. This father could
not have fared worse in this country
a century ago, yet those were tne days
of ferry boats and stage coaches and
. honrl tools. ,
Meither has the capitalist absorbed
a larger share of this increased pro
duction. As a matter of fact, the rate
of interest has gone down, and the
capitalist, as capitalist,' gets less tnan
ever before.
GROUND RENT THE SPONGE.
But not so with rent. While inter
est and wages have stood still, rents
have gone up. On the great average,
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your riiy.
wages and interest remain on a dead
evel. but rents shoot skywavd. When
our forefathers wanted to live and
work on Manhattan Island, the Ind-
ans reauired of them but a lew
strings of beads- But this generation,
before it pays interest on capital or
wages to labor,, must pay tne ASiors
a tribute or-hundreds of millions. It
is Into that ever-enlarging maw or
the land monopolist that .the first
ruits of our advancing civilization go.
Ground rent is the sponge that sucks
up the wealth of the nation.
THE NET RESULT.
Sunoose the Panama canal should so
change the course of trade that New
Orleans in a decade should grow to
the size of Philadelphia. The net, re
sult would be that the men who own
the site of the Crescent City would be
able to collect millions where now
they collect thousands in ground
rents, while the masses there wouiu
be no better off than the masses in
the Quaker City. Without the single
tax that canal will be of trifling ben
efit to the ma?ses. The landlords will
be the chief beneficiaries. The money
sunk in that canal will increase-neith
er interest nor wages. It will swell
ground rents. It is the people s mon
ey but they will never get it back, un-
;il they take these ground rents in
ieu of taxes. .
Three Cent Fares
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 15, 1904. Some
twenty years ago, when the writer
first had the pleasure of making Mayor
Johnson's acquaintance, he was im
pressed with the fact that here was
a man of more than'ordinary attain
ments, and made the statement at that
time that, given health, the history of
this country would never be written
witho'ut a prominent place having been
given to Tom Johnson. Continued
years of acquaintance, have verified
this prophecy. Today, unmindful of
reverses, indifferent to, criticism, pur
suing the straight-forward peisistent
policy of a man who has a definite end
in view,- Mayor Johnson is applying
himself to the task that he has laid
down for himself.
Almost any day, if you are in Cleve
land, you can see Cleveland's chief
executive waking up to the city hall
at about 11 o'clock. By this time he
has disposed of his day's coirespon-
dence. He receives no mail at the
mayor's office; all this is delivered at
his home, where he has his workshop
and secretary. So before hb starts
out on his day's duties, he has already
disposed of a large correspondence,
and the tremendous amount of woik
that comes to' a man who carries a
load of responsibilities. Once at the
city hall, every energy is bent toward
the accomplishment of bettermentb for
Cleveland's future, which he never al
lows to , become obscured. Silently,
persistently, he brings every power
of his large experience and resource
ful originality towards the accom
plishment of these purposes.
The newest phase in these effoits
was the late passage by the city coun
cil of two new iranchises and an ordi
nance to place fares at 3 cents upon
the existing railway lines within cer
tain limits. The car lines of Cleve
land are arranged somewnat in the
form of a half heel, the hub being
at the public square, where ail lines
converge. A franchise had been
granted a company which proposes to
operate a road at three-cent fare, with
other favorable stipulations as to
transfers and ultimate municipal own
ership, on Denison avenue, a west side
street running as a cross-town line
This was tapped at thi center point
by a branch representing one of the
spokes of the wheel, and leading to
the public square. Another spoke
represented by Woodland. avenue, now
under operation by the old street car
lines, which franchise expires next
September, was granted in this new
franchise to the three-cent line. This
gives a through line, reaching from
tho west side across the river, through
a populous district of the east side.
Of course, all thte means that the old
companies must capitulate or flsht in
the courts to prevent the loss of Borne
of thtMr lines. Whichever way thl
may terminate, the fad remains that
the corporations realize that they have
to df'iil with the most cncwtlc and
resourceful man that ever undertook
to reprewut th peopl' Interest.
There Ij no doubt In the m'r Jh of Mr.
Johnson' friends that, In tH ind, he
will W ktUYO.txful.
Already, one tn junction has Wry
granted on the !nl-on menu Hue
of the nw road, lib it h.t t i ) mat
ter up there fur th tint b.Mnj;. Th
d.tn of h fxpltatlon of ltd Injunc
tion nu turner lm to approach
than another Injunction Wrn
k runted, w hi h will drl.iy tho building
ut UiU road and lu oyrratUm to &
further sutr.
There U a fix rat tXuf, howpver,
that the three-cent fare fight in Cleve
land is reaching a climax, and no one,
I believe, will be surprised to see with
in the next few months a settlement of
the whole controversy, and that upon
the single cash fare of three cents,
which has been Mr. Johnson's posi
tion from the beginning, and from
which he has at ail times refused to be
swerved. .
GOVERNOR TAFT PROMOTED
The Governor of the Philippine Islands
- Succeeds as Head af the "War
Department and
the
HON. ELIHU B. ROOT RETIRES
This Ends the Alleged Boom of Gov
ernor Taft as a Candidate
for President.
The Philippine experience of Gover
nor Taft just appointed and confirmed
as secretary of war will be valuable
to the president and cabinet. Military
duty in , the Philippines promises to
be tho principal work of the American
soldiery for the next generation. The
governor of the islands ought to bring
back to America some ideas concern
ing colonial military movements im
portant to the army as well as the
nation.- His career in Manila has been
creditable. He seems to have won
the approval of the governed -well
as the governing power and his pro
motion to a cabinet position Is a mer
ited promotion.
B. If. ROBISON, PRESIDENT
of the Bankers Reserve Life Company,
wishes to advise the readers of this
journal that while Governor Taft has
been building up favorable public
sentiment and developing genuine
prosperity In the Orient, the Bankers
Reserve Life has been developing the
western field of life insurance and
building up a solid phalanx of friends
in the western states. The malignant
enemies of its earlier career concede
its reliability now. They agree that
it is aggressive and are astonished at
its phenomenal growth. Even the
great Life Insurance Trust is ready to
concede that the
BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
has earned its spurs In the fair field
without favors. The year 1903 closed
with $7,000,000 of the best selected
risks ever written by a life company.
The year witnessed a marvelous' de
velopment of the company's business.
Every dollar owed by the Bankers
Reserve Life on December 31, 1903,
was paid. Every loss had been ad
justed. It entered upon the new year
with a clean slate and its field force
will add $3,000,000 net to the gross
amount at risk for 1904. Every read
er of this newspaper shouid advise
himself at once regarding the forms
of policies issued by the company and
get into the ranks of policy holders
while the company is young. Be sure
n investigate
THE COLD BOND POLICY.
Buv a
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That Will Pav
you 50 to SO per cent annually. Rented
will pay you from 20 to 30 per cent an
nually. A sure crop every year, and the
brightest prospect of doubling your
Investment In two years or less. These
farms are located In tlta Box Elder
valley, northern Colorado.
There arc eU million dollars In
vested In sugar bet factories In thl
valley. Farm aro paying enormous
ly, as they have a ur crop and a big
one eery year, ample water fcupply,
11 reservoir!, and mora tlua enough.
We &r HUnR farm In th! ?alljr at
'S and $W per acre, and teveral h.ue
Un rented during the past yrar at
$10 p r acre r;udt rmt, raying 20 jwr
cent on tli Investment, IVtr tnlUi
down th Tallpy from where the.n
farm ir lucatrd farm tie leillBg at
F-"V r n
$150 to $200 per acre. Twenty miles
further south In the valley, farms are
selling at from $200 to $250 per acre,
paying on this valuation annually 20
per cent Land that we are offering
is equally as valuable when fully de
veloped and improved as the farms
that are selling at $250 per acre.
The crops this year will ran auout
as follows:
Alfalfa, 6 to 8 tons per acre. 1
Wheat, 45 to 65 bushels per acre.
Sugar beets, 20 to 30 tons per acre.
Oats, 50 to 110 bushels per acre.
Barley, 65 to 130 bushels per acre.
We have yet about 4,000 acres of
this land to sell with perpetual water
right and are of the opinion that any
one purchasing a farm In this valley
will double his money within one year.
We will certainly have all this land
sold soon.
The man who has a good farm In
an irrigated country, and a good irri
gation right, knows its value. He
never sells out and goes back to the
arm in the east where too much rain .
or too protracted drouths distress and
disappoint In any line of business,
certainty is the element most desired.
Farming under Irrigation is the near-
est approach to a sure thing yet dis
covered. Some question of chance en
ters into almost every business cal
culation excepting ' into the combina
tion of good soil, and good water.
Given these two, and a man's note is
paid, his credit is established and his .
bank account is assured, irrigation is
simply putting enough water on the
growing crops, at exactly the time
most necessary; not too much and not
too little. That is irrigation nothing
more and nothing less. Then, too, the
silt in the water fertilizes the soil
and renews it from year to year with
out either labor or expense: Thi3 nat
ural fertilization, - and the exact
amount of moisture at the exact time
brings tho greatest yield of all crops,
doubling and sometimes quadrupling
the returns over farming in the east-
em' states. .
Wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, sugar
beets, alfalfa, fruit, all vie with each
other in quantity and quality. The re
sult is. farming by irrigation Is ideal.
and peace and plenty abound."
In comparing irrigation rarming
with rainfall farming, the Wyoming .
Lxperlment Station Bulletin on irri
gation says: - -
"The Increase from irrigation fa
sometimes four-fold and seldom bss
than double. It Is estimated that if
only one acre in four could be r
claimed it would still bring the prod
uct of the irid region of the United
Slates up to the. product of the baJ
ance of the country,"
The clippings furnished by us speali
for themselves, for they are the story
of the contented and prosperous farm
ers of northern Colorado, whose lines
have fallen in pleasant places and
among whom discontent is unknown,
and poverty never met with. It is
probable that nowhere on earth are
there as many prosperous farmers as
in that section of which Fort Collins
is the center.
The building of the new ditches
and the cultivation of the new lands
in thl3 vicinity, together with ther
evection of the great sugar factory at
Fort Collins, open up new opportuni
ties and provide a place for new farm
ers, who have only to see and Investi
gate to appreciate the wonderful priv
ilege extended to them.
' Which is the better investment:
buy eastern land at $50 an acre and
rent it at $3 an acre or buy Colorado
land at $50 and rent it at $10 the
eastern farmer gets 6 per cent and
the Colorado man gets 20 per cent on
his investment.
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