THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDEWT
JANUARY 28, 1904.
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the . absurd 5-mill limit on the gen
eral fund levy, the state board could
have always made two years' levies
cover a biennial appropriation. The
populist levies of 1897 and 1838 aggre
gated 19,344.31 more than the 1S97
appropriations. In addition to that,
the populists maintained state govern
ment in a high state of efficiency and
left $212,902.38 of the 1897 appropria
tions wholly unexpended. And in
those two year they cut off $364,589.46
of the floating debt.
The "state's growing needs" de
manded an' increase of $255,530.20 in
the appropriations of 1899 and the
6-miIl general fund levy lacked $33,
596.08 of equalling the appropriations.
The legislature was asked, but re
fused to remove or raise 'the 3-mill
limit. During this two years the
floating debt increased only $155,763.71,
making the net populist reduction in
four years, $208,825.75. It will be ob
served this increase is about $60,000
greater than what the tax levies lacked
of equalling the appropriations. Par
don another reference to "populist de
Ociencies," which the redeemers care
fully conceal: the' Poynter adminis
tration, although creating "deficien
cies" of $149,112.05, yet nevertheless
left unexpended $113,231.37 of the "1899
appropriationsand this notwith
standing the fact that the "redeem
ers" had nearly three months at the
last end. In other words, the Poynter
administration expended money . and
contracted deficiencies to the amount
of $2,627,254.28, while the legislature
had made provision for expending $2,
691,373.60, but divided it up so that
some appropriations were $149,000
"short," while others were $113,000
"long." "Hence, the real "deficiency"
was $35,880.68 instead of what the
apologists tell us. Governor Pojnter
and the populists generally will "stand
for this" gladly, especially after the
people of Nebraska take another good
look at the way "the growing needs
of the state" grew after the "redeem
ers" secured control. The table below
shows a "growing need" of $2&3,-916.11,-which
the legislature of 1D01
added for Redeemer Dietrich. And
then above that another $864,991.21'
for Holy John over what was given
the wholesaler In postoffices. So that
the upshot Is that The Sanctified One
in 1903 was 'given appropriations $1,
404,437.30 greater than Governor Hol
comb had in 1897.
''Growing needs," forsooth! In
creasing at the rate of $234,000 a year
for six years, $287,000 a year for four
years, or $432,000 a' year for two years
is "summat" swift to say the least.
Here is the table:
APPROPRIATIONS
LEVIES.
Total
appropriations.
1897 ....$ 2,335,843.40
1898
1899 .... 2,591,373.60-
1900
1901 2,875,289.51
1902
1903 3,740,280.70
1904
AND TAX
Total
tax levy.
$1,181,919.76
1,163,267.95
- ; 1,286,792.58
1,208,984.94
1,232,391.72
1,131,124.61
1,523,316.38
not made
$11,542,787.21 $8,727,797.94
It is "to be observed that it would
take a tax levy of $2,814,989.27 in the
year 1904 to round out the 11 mil
lions which have been appropriated
by the last four sessions almost one
third of which was made bythe last
sesion. It will require a tax levy of
$2,216,964.32 this year to complete the
levies sufficient to cover the last ap
propriations. This much will certain
ly be made, unless the stae board
fails to obey the law. And this will
make the state taxes for 1904 nearly 46
per cent higher than the taxes of 1903.
Or almost double what they were in
1902. .
It must be noted that the levy of
-1902 is less than that of 1901, although
the grand assessment roll Of 1902 had
Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure
Cotis Nothing if ft Fails
any hnoMt ponn ho iuttcr from Hhi-tmutlwn u
VflcniiM ii tun ttfr. for fftn I tearrhrd erorj.
mhm to flnJ a upocMe for I lifumaium. rr nearly
Kfl feara 1 worked la thU mil. At lt, la tirrroant,
m m unh m rtwari-a. i found ft!i chfmio&l
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erUUxM bid d!ir4al0d tbratrUfia rwraarr.
t uo tit iiu o tbt I r. - Ii (' ( biMuimio t nr can
turn in Mnti Into 0h at am. i hat I iuirMSi i.
I ut It will tim from ih IiI.nmJ ib r nlswa that raiuwa
patii nd al'lir. d ibro that it ih rnd r I hen
trtatitm. I lUf (bit t thai i wilt funii-h ft
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tn mti that. I ut nt raM will iiMn ,n
dt 1 bit trial lralmrnt will elnr thai I r
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wtlcr la maa t r-aU'r )u if in) utli. vr
faltlt I tut tb t4U't. ii rsi firing-t aVtyal
..iwl I i.iw vliatliraud.t. t,. u,.,
tu uat 1 mil lunia mj n intxty rn trial. .ti,
rtw mm a tal l..r n b k nn l bini)iu, i mi I
tba arrant im a i!rnrl In jr r ttrmnv a ht
raa arrwro li 11 r ( t r. btxf ( hn.inip
ut ttak lb it ' h mar taka u l.ti iu tn
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fan tJ ba la ad aiawv Until to k rt
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MUd mm rbntMie tr itaa rd hi
uu.a At an tirua-gu a
increased nearly six million dollars.
This was done by levying less than
the 5-mill general fund limit on about
half the counties for political effect,
doubtless but nevertheless in viola
tion of law, for the command to levy
enough is superior to the command to
equalize by varying the rate of levy.
Read the old, law and see. Apply the
known rules of statutory construction.
The general fund levy of 1902 might
have been and ought have been un
der the law................ $300,455.96
It actually was.... 785,504.23
Being short $114,951.73
That piece of work added to the
state debt and helped to give color to
the cry' for a new revenue law. After
getting thi3, , . the . 5-mill limit " was
raised to 7 for the year 1903, and on
the latter basis was made the levy for
that year. . It was intended , to accus
tom the farmers to the much heavier
taxes they will have after the new law
gets to working. .
Our readers outside the state -will
pardon us for the space given to this
matter. " It is a vital one to our "Ne
braska subscribers, who, along with
the mullet heads who brought on the
present situation, must suffer severely
from greatly increased taxes at a time
when Roosevelt "prosperity' is col
lapsing like a child's toy balloon. D.
A DEMOCRATIC BOLT COMING
Prominent Democratic Politician! De
clare That It la Cart&ln WIicbTr Fac
tion Cantrola the National Demo
cratic CoareaUioa ,
" New York, Jan. 19, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) Charles A. Towne
is the president of an Investment
company with offices at 63 Wall street.
He lives at the Gallatin hotel, 70
West 46th street, and is up to his eyes
in politics. There are a lot of hotels
in the neighborhood of Madison
Square, from- 23d street north, at
which different cliques of politicians
hold a sort of perpetual headquarters.
Towne's headquarters are at the Vic
toria and the democrats of the Bryan
and Hearst kind assemble there. At
the Fifth Avenue hotel, Tom Piatt and
his gang of republicans held their
"round-ups." The Cleveland demo
crats favor .the Holland. Just now
politics is exciting in New York. Both
of the old parties are divided and
fight each other with the venom of
devils. There are Roosevelt republi
cans. &Pd Hanna republicans and Bry
an democrats, Hearst democrats and
Cleveland democrats. AH that any of
them are alter are the offices and spe
cial privileges that the government
can grant. - Every move is made from
that standpoint. The Hearst men ad
vocate the government ownership ot
municipal utilities and even of rail
roads from the standpoint of getting
votes. The Cleveland men advocate
the gold standard from the standpoint
of getting the aid of the banks and
great corporations, hoping with a big
campaign fund to be able to buy Ind
iana and Illinois, 'carry New York,
Connecticut and the solid south and
get the offices in that way. The Bry
an democrats, and in this land of the
enemy there are quite a few of thenC
are the only ones who seem to regard
principles, and who sometimes say
that they would rather lose and be
right than win and be wrong.
As far as the common welfare is
concerned the interests of the mil
lionsbut few think that they are
worth considering. All day yesterday
the editor of The Independent spent
among these New York poiiticians.
In personal appearance they all seem
to resemble each other. They are a
slick, fat, well dressed lot. They all
smoke cigars and patronize the hotel
bar freely, though not an incoxlcated
man was seen :.mong them. But few
men of prominence in the diffeient
cliques were among them. The real
managers are not often-found around
the hotels. Tbey are In the bank
parlors, the great railroad headquar
ters and directors' rooms of the big
trusts. Every band of these politic
ians were operating under orders Is
sued higher lip They are automatons
and when the trust magnate or rail
road president pulls tho string they
hop about.
Many things were picked un amone
thse men, but the really Important
rati In this itrtlchi w-re Rathcnd
from other ponrcc. Atvordinir to Mia
Informant it cJom nUiume hi
iiTiiini iiMYvrpn iiryan, iieari, lawn
and a fw tthT to pH mntrol of the
dt-mocratii' national t-onventlou It la
ild that Tirynri ban no love for I learnt
imauso H"tr uttrrlv r'jHiilIata the
monry unction an J drUl MrtKlal
Ihmi, n Hsmt would annihilate
Itrynn if ho cmld and gt him tiar
out of th way, lint tint present tuu-
dillon fare thm to work topphrr to
Witt tht Cleveland wing, and If thry
aWcouiidUu that, then thtj will fiht
each other. Such men as George Fred
Williams and Willis J. Abbot have
not entered into this combination.
They are standing aloof, but will vote
and work in the national convention
to down the Cleveland crowd. At
present they have no faith that it can
be done-in such a way as to make the
democratic party a real reform party.
They talk about a bolt from the na
tional convention, and there is no
Question that If th naHnnnl rnnvpn-
tion "goes back" on the Kansas City
platform or nominates a man whose
record Is such as to make his course
doubtful, that 1 here will be a bolt.
One of thi3 party, very high in the
ranks, says that the two-thirds rule in
democratic national conventions will
prevent any nomination until one or
the other faction does bolt. This man
said that the conditions pointed a sit
uation something like that when the
uemocraiic convention met just pre
vious to the war, voted for days with
out making a nomination and then
broke up into three or four factions
and made Lincoln a minority presi
dent The. truth-is that neither the repub
lican nor the democratic party can
poll its full vote in New York at the
next presidential election. If the
Bryan wing gets the convention , the
Cleveland democrats will not vote the
ticket, and if Cleveland wins there
are thousands of democrats even in
this state of plutocracy who will not
vote the ticket. If Hanna wins, there
will be some republicans-who will not
vote the republican ticket and if
Roosevelt ' wins there are thousands
whose interests ' are with the trusts,
banks and railroads who will . not
vote it.
There can no longer be any doubt
that every plutocratic interest in this
state, and in other states as well, is at
work to secure the nomination of
Hanna. There have been several gath
erings nere in the last week, besides
that of the seventeen railroad presi
dents, perfecting- plans to nominate'
Hanna. Money has been cut un in
enormous amounts and agents are at
work in every state In the Union
striving to get Hanna delegations to
the republican national convention.
There are more plutocratic Interests
actively at work for Hanna than ever
before combined on one man. The
banks are for him, the trusts are for
him, the railroads are for him, the
subsidy schemers are for him. and ev
ery grafter and obtainer of special
privileges of every sort i for him.
One man said: "it is doubtful if the
Booker T.. Washington dinner ' will
hold the negro delegations from the
soutn ror uoosevelt. What the ne
groes want is offices. The position
taken by Roosevelt that the negroes
must have equal qualifications for of
fice to that of -white men does not
suit them. Hanna will promise to ask
no such disagreeable things of them."
It is a fact that a good many promi
nent men In the democratic party are
planning a bolt. That cannot be de
nied. 4 Some of them are actuated by
the loftiest motives. Others who have
been beaten by the Cleveland bolt are
determined to pay him back in kind.
Many of these men had but one
chance in all their lives. They can
never have another. They will get
their revenge if it is possible.
The situation here demonstrates the
wisdom of the action taken at the
Denver conference. Every populist in
the land should put on his full armor.
Populist principles are conquering the
whole world. .The last hope of plutoc
racythe sustaining of two nearly
equal parties, both of which will be
subservient to its wishes is about to
disappear. Even the control of the
press will not effect it. Willis J. Ab
bot in a recent article in the Book
Lovers Magaziae talks rather freely
about a bolt from the democratic na
tional convention. Mr. Bryan's speech
at the Lincoln banquet is taken by
that class of men here as an assur
ance that there will bo no compromise
with plutocracy, and they argue that
if he stands to that, he will bo with
them.
Push the Old Guard enrollment in
every voting precinct. When the war
begins let us have our army fully or
ganized and ready for battle. T.
Fcr Singers and Speakers.
The New Remedy For Catarrh is
. X Very Valuable.
A Grand Rapids gentleman who rep
resents a prominent manufacturing
concern and travels through central
and southern Michigan, relates the fol
lowing regarding the new catarrh,
cure. He says:
"After suffering from catarrh of the
head, throat and stomach for several
years, I heard of Stuart's Catarrh Tab
lets quite accidentally and like everything-else
I immediately bought a
package and was decidedly surprised
at the immediate relief it afforded me
and still more to find a complete cure
after several weeks' use.
THE CUFF DWELLERS FREEZE
Tbj lAtm 1'ndar Su-f hlaft Wa Tor
twrat aa4 lraruU Than Cmally
New York, Jan. 20, IDOL (Editorial
CorrcHiHuulencc.) The common r,u
pie of New York II v iu ctirTit along
tho canon which, are divided tutu
small noetliMia, rath under the con
trol of a atih-chhf, calUM a "Janitor."
who rule with unllmiti'd autnoiity
and over -whom there arc no ontliti
tloit.il rcMrUtinnii. Th big chief tho
iwople never aoo and all their com.
immkationa aro with this aubtLlcf.
The night of January 19 wa the cold-
'ill if
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"I have a little son who sings in a
boys' choir in one of our prominent
churches, - and be is greatly troubled
with hoarseness and throat weakness,
and on my return home irom a trip 1
gave him a few of the tablets one Sun
day morning when he had complained
oi hoarseness. He was delighted with,
their effect, removing all husklness in
a few minutes and making the voice
clear and strong.
"As the tablets are very pleasant to
the taste, I had no difficulty in per
suading him to use them regularly.
"Our family physician told us theyf
were an antiseptic preparation of un
doubted merit and . that he himself
had no hesitation 1 in recommending
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets for any form
of catarrh.
"I have since ! met many public
speakers and professional singers who
used them constantly. A prominent
Detroit lawyer told me that Stuart's
Catarrh Tablets kept his throat in fine
shape during the most trying weather,
and that he had long since discarded
the use of cheap lozenges and troches
on the advice of his physician that
they contained so much tolu potash,
and opium as to render their use a
danger to health."
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are large
pleasant tasting lozenges composed of
catarrhal antiseptics, like Red Gum,
Blood Root, etc., and sold by druggists
everywhere at 50 cents for full treat
ment. They act upon the blood and mucous
membrane and their composition and
remarkable success has won the ap
proval of physicians, as well as thou
sands of sufferers from nasal catarrh,
throat troubles and catarrh of stom
ach.
A little book on treatment of catarrh
mailed free by addressing F. A. Stuart
Co., Marshall. Mich.
est one for twenty-nine years in this
slate. The eovernment rrwrti Riu-.u.-rri
that the thermometer recorded at
Gloversville 38 below. .Toh
Northville 40. Mavflel.1 42 nn.i nmiwi
Albin .52 below, breaking all previous
recorus. m New York city, anions
the cliff dwellers, the record vh "X
below with one of those raw winds
blowing such as is onlv fnnnrl nl lh
sea level.
That morning all th unii.ri.irf
were In hiding and could not be
found. The radiator in M.o ,nv
where the editor of Tho Independent
was nuicmauns at VI o'clock In tho
mornitur was na cold as the rhimka of
ice Unit were wafted up ami down
in can rher by th tide. F.m
wttat later a siib-ihh'f put n nt)
prarunrc and ;iid that vmc of (ha
pi pen vTf frozen and no watVr utnUl
im Kor. into tri holier. Tint wan
what happened anions? thoM v,t,'it
Citrl Marx would call th ,,lu.r?i1.rf?i.M
Anion t h "prolftarht" thln' in
a hnndrt'd ttimn worio, fcrvat many
vuro frozen to tl'Mh In th tit((,
Ono old woman Tl jt-.trn M--;tiur n
tUtifchtcr 45, were vKtd by i u. of
thco nub-chlrfi. Th old omti wni
) badly froir-n that shu d.cd u.utt
after ttfins taken to a hot.iial and
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