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FEBRUARY 18. 1904. logs and Sheep for profit The Philosophy of Freedom An Open Forum for Singlo Taxers ' ' The best parinc animals on thm farm. Aren't THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT; Open letter to the Regents and Trus- tees of the Nebraska State Uni versity. - Gentlemen: It is now up to you; and what are you going to do about it? Whether, as the Omaha Bee naively suggests, "the new temple proposed to be erected for the benefit of uni versity student? may, or may, not, be long felt want," yet the proposition Is assuming substantial proportions while the element of requisite-funds therefor seems to be the only mooted question, and this has recently" given to the people of the state from the lips of your chosen chanceller, ,Mr. Andrews, the veiy remarkable sfate: menthat "the American people, are not able to ' Sustain their public schools, but must sooner or later de pend upon the generosity of enormous ly rich men." ' v' As may well be suspected, this mon strous bit of sarcasm, , having been taken seriously, has given rise to much iomment through the public press and like everything else-of late that is of i public nature, so far as the press is concerned, has a party taint to it, As ; you are of course aware quite an acrimonious . controversy is' now going , on , between the Omaha Bee (rep.)' and the World-Herald (dcrn.) concerning the morality of a condi tional gift of fGG.000,' proffered by one John D. Rockefeller, of coal oil defam ation, in which the press at; large throughout the state has joined in pros and cons, while at the same time the people, 1 individually, regardless of their party affiliations, are . uttering their protests, in a percentage of 92 against to 8 for the acceptance oj the Rockefeller gift. -f,"i It is conceded by all. parties to this controversy, growing out of the und proffered by Mr. Rockefeller, that be cause of the flagrantly immoral busi ness methods of the donor, that surn methods are not by any means to be :3pproved. ; The Bee and its coadju tors give strong emphases to tnis, col loquially, placing their favor of ac ceptance chiefly upon the exigency of the' case, but with the further insist ence that the immoral feature of the Rockefeller fund differs only in mat ter of degree- from the immorality as sociated with all other funds that wil be applied and. have been so. ap plied by the state and from private sources whose wealth is told only in "thousands," while that of the re doubtable Rockefeller is- toM by the FREE $3.75 TREATMENT ; Describe .Your Symptoms to Dr. Franklin Hiles, the Celebrated Heart Specialist and He Will 5end You a Complete Special Treatment For Your Case, Absolutely Free. To people who suffer from weak heart, short breath, pale lips, cold hands and feet, poor circulation, diz ziness, fainting spells, palpitation, weak, sinking or smothering spells, pain in side, shoulders or left arm, ir regular pulse, sitting up to breathe, swollen ankles or dropsv, etc.: A word with you. I am a practic ing, graduated physician, with over a quarter of a century's experience in treating human ills. I have discovered a scientific method of treating the human heart, when sick, by means of tonic tabloid3, a cur-, ative , elixir, eliminating pills and a compound strengthening hyoscyainic plaster, in which the Ingred'tnU arc so varied in strength anl composition as to give to every one of my patients the benefit of a treatment so caiefully adapted to their case as to nuke a ture practically certain. To prove to you the posKlvc value of my new system of treptment "Tor a class of diseases hitherto dcemtd in curable, I will gladly send you free, a complete set of theso special reme dies adapted tr your own particular rase, together with valuable adutr m to diet, exerehe, etc,, upon request. All t ask of you is to write me a rompleto history of your can, w'th symptoms, giving your age, heir lit, fct-x and weight, mentioning this pa per, when I will at one prepare and send you this Complete spet-la $3.75 Treatment, together with my nrw Book on Heart Dlseants, absolutely fire. Address: Franklin I. MUci, M I) , M. It. 205 to 231 Wate Btrret. Chi cago, 111. I lea mention The loaepetident in your reply. millions. To this 1 end the business men and wholesale jobbers of Omaha and Lincoln are brought upon the car pet, charged with accepting immoral advantages in form of rebates, special favors from railroads and of crushing weaker competitors, etc., and etc., which, if true as 'it undoubtedly is, gives the force of truth to the conten tion of the Bee and supplies as well the further axiomatic insistence that those who seek equity must them selves - have their hands clean, and, also, that it is only those who are not also guilty that. may throw stones Having read these rscent -crimina-tious ' arid recriminations of the Bee and. Herald, you have perhans noticed that the latter journal, speaking to the negative case, does not deny the chaige made by the. Bee against the wholesale business men and jobbers, etc., save by the innuendo contained in its retort, "that it is rather severe ar raignment of the wholesale jobbers of Omaha and Lincoln." and I expect that you will properly conclude that Mr. Rockefeller -'abao regards It as "rather a severe arraignment" in his own case and only justifies by the re suiting fruits or their respective "round ups." These controversialists, in furtherance of their contentions and in quest of corrallaries, bring also before the tribune of public conscience certain other media of obtaining pub lic funds, such as fines imposed upon the business of the women in red, saloon , licenses taxes on spirits and beer, fines imposed in police and higher courts for crimes and misde meanors, all of which, it is not de nied, go into the public exchequer to be disbursed in all the various details of local, state and national govern ment, the modicum, of which is 'also specially set apart for maintenance of our schools of all grades You have no doubt thought it strange that your learned chancellor with his knowledge of the various theses of economics and topsy-turvy tax and other gigantic business meth ods of the hour, the crass strenuous ness that bids defiance toiionor, has not taken the whole matter up, ab initio, and read the dissentors a cur tain lecture upon the rottenness of organized society,; the organic injus tice upon which our" present system df taxation is based, the great Ine qualities in social life and business vocations which have been necessarily engendered thereby and declare, .as well He might, that this. state univer sity embrolio is a mess brewed by so ciety itself to which all the carrion birds of crime have brought their apologetic condiments to dispel its putrid taste and odor that smells aloud to heaven. The chancellor's moral character in ' all I the past' does not warrant you as regents and trus tees to assume in advance that be cause of his procurement of this dona tion frop Mr. Rockefeller, as a matter of expediency, that he will impose the vicious, ignoble methods of society's oil king upon, those who enter that pagoda of immoral procurement for instruction, thit morals In business is an inocuous desuetude, obsolete and to be regarded only as a Biblic fetish. No; those of us who know him are assured of the reverse and that as chancellor of Brown, or of our pagoda, the philanthropies of men whose ways are daTk and dangerous to the weal of society will not dissuade him from a most scathing rebuke where censure is due. The open door has no terrors for him. To be sure, there was a bet ter way: the attitude of the chancellor as solicitor of this gift Is unquestion ably wrong, nor should you permit Its acceptance now. The" chancellor should have advised you, as . hrj Is well qualified to do, of the only just and scientific system' of, taxation for this and all other purposes and have deferred this addition until the state did provide the funds. But as to the Immorality of thh particular fund the same may be said of all our t-tate f inula because of the manner in which they are levied, operating to discour age Industry and thrift, promoting land monopoly that denies tomes for millions of people and a promoter of city slums, Icv'en blackmail upon all our iKM'tal betterment by which so ciety at lare Ironies llort partner In all vice, furnishing no capital, shar ing no lws. ch In ordinary partner ships, yet laktns nut of the proceeds. The two rrov.s that were wrancltng . to which wai blackest finally art red that the only dlffTcnc b tween them was their sixe and ame. So it U In this rase of yours and though thp propriety of Omaha' rilled palaces of vice" I not wrglta her claim for meiuorltJ window or you making them so? Do yon provide plenty of good pasture of green feed? If yoa don't you are missing lots of profit You should undoubtedly sow Hog Pasture Mixture, composed of Efse Rape, Thousand Headed Kale. Teosinte. Pencil luria, Japanese Millet, Kaffir Corn. Soja Beans. Coir Peas, Barley and Spanish Crass Peas. Truly great and won derful, the amount of valuable feed produced on one acre, and profits derived from pasture. Our Cstulor Many 1 tclla 11 abaat It. You must send for it nH from farming. ,-It is chuck full of good thimjs. It's tree for 1 Mm yyw;s. ajc irieuuiy mna write us. A. A. BERRY SEED CO.. Box 1C Clarlnda., Iowbl. oooooooooooo o o o o o 0 o o o o o o m LINSEED O o o o o o o o o OIL PAINT Direct From The Factory We guarantee our Linseed Oil Taint and White Lead in oil superior to any hiRh grade paints in the market. We would like to have every reader of The Indenendent writo tor ree r,ric list with color cards and learn how Ohow much can be saved by buying A paint direct rom the iactory. Special T O o o price lor linseed oil during February. T Write today. - O NEB. PAINT AND LEAD CO. 395 to 309 0 Street, Lincoln, MeDraska. WE The Hotel IValton 1516 O STREET. - The best and most convenient low priced house in the city. Kates 1 per day and up. 3 the gambling, dens the insignia of their art to be cut in pannel or arch. yet they may as consistently do so as Mr. Rockefeller and in either case it will be a chump of a student grad uating there that does .not come to know that the entire structure, from foundation to flag staff, was built with funds that are open to moral censure. Our system of taxation is as criminal as anything that .' a Rockefeller ever did. It not onlv devours widows' houses, but' prevents them from beinir built while it forces tribute from thou sands of people to build and maintain such high class institutions whose children are denied its benefits bv poverty. ; Rockefeller is guilty of land monop oly by consent of society, .without which advantage he would no more have ?G6.000 to bestow at the behest of your chancellor than an ordinary store clerk, farm hand, grocer, car penter, or pedagogue. Every respect able writer upon social statics unite in saying that to land monopoly alone is due 90 per cent of all the crimes known to society. Poverty is the necessary result . of. land . monopoly, while poverty and vice are rightly called the twin whelps of the cosmic lair. I have written you at some length thinking that because of the sophistry employed by-the chief disputants to the controversy you may not get at the real milk In the cocoanut which they seem not to have done, which, especially as to the Bee, surprises me, for I remember when My. George was in Omaha a few years ago its editor really saw that "the cat" was there. This accounts for the fact that in matter of logic he has distanced his contemporary. But finally, In your conclusions of the matter should you have any misgiving as to my conclud ing premise, that taking land values for revenue, abolishing all other forms of tax, fines and penalties, will fur nish an ample fund, nt ouly for schools and state universities, but for all other needd public use and also avoid such monstrosities ns mu.tl mllllonalrea am' the embarrassmf nt. of accepting or refu.Tlng their lll-frottrn philanthropies. As to liiepc tiling, I refer you to the chancellor himself, who, thouch he may hav hern loo "Ions' on expediency In nollcltlnj; the Rockefeller fund. N by no means "fcliort" on the ncienco of taxation ns outlined by the late Thomas U. Shear man, the recognized holon of that mlence. Hoping; that you wHl'dlscourAjre this Rockefeller fund and tnmorlalUe the next letdflnture for a an i)stcm of taxation and for rferenlum and init iative in the Interest of common Jus tice as herein cupcestrtl, I bn to m and remain, sincerely yours, n. C. CI. ARK. Syracuse, Neb. Reduced Rates to California, March 1st fo April 30th. That long-looked-.'or California oppor- tunity is here at last. March 1 to April 30, the Rock Island System will sell "tourist" tickets to principal points in California at these low rates: $.13. OO from Chicago. f 25.00 from MiMouri River Fointf. 95.00 from Lincoln. Tickets 'are good in Tourist Sleepers, , which the Rock Island runs daily, Chi cago and Kansas City to Los Angelesand San Francisco by way oi El I'aso; three times a week via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. March and April are the plcasantest months of the California year doubly so because, at home, they are usually the very opposite. Tickets and berths at all Rock Mand ticket offices or by addressing F, H. Barnssi C P. A., 1045 O Street, Lincoln, Nebr. Excursion! Half Rates TO ' ' ' . CHEAP LANDS IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST ... I have a large list of ' lands for sale in the states of Kansas, Mis souri, Arkansas, Louisiana; Texas and Oklahoma. I can ' sell im proved farms that will pay one half of purchase price from first ' crcp. And improved lands that will double purchase price from one crop. THE BEST RICE LANDS ON EARTH. Write for information statin" in what state you are interested. JOHN CAR R, 503 Richards Block, Lincoln, Neb- Created Wealth. Something from nothing a garden from a desert Such is the history of irrigated sections. Take land that sells for fifty cents an acre, put water on it, and it sells for what? There are quarters of land in irrigated sec tions of Colorado that cann be pur chased for $20,000.00 and which earn a remunerative interest on that valu ation. And yet you tan purchase irrigated lands where the soil if perfect be yond belief, wbere the water supply is plentiful and inexhaustible, where climatic conditions are healthful and exhilarating, where ful is abundant and cheap, for from J 15 an acre up. THE REASONS. The North Platte Valley, exteiidiug from llrldgeport, Neb., to Guernsey, Vv'yo., and the Big Horn U:u:n, Wyo ming, have been but reccutly made available for settlement by the ex tension of the Ilurliugton railroad Into thoac sections The Irrigating com panies must have settlors alons tlnir dm he8 and they offer substantial in ducements In the Khapo of low jibed water rights and land... HOW LONG WILL THIS CONDITION CONTINUE? None may nay surely, but It won't be for lonx, and the sooner you Jn vrst the iheap.'r will you bu able to do so, for the advance is Just as sure an has been the advance In the trice of similar Iambi in other svtlun. Tor further Information write to J, FrnneM, General Pam.engr Ageut, nurllnston Iloute, Onuta, Neb.