TmY NOT FBBCY DANIELS?
-The recent populist state conven
tion at Topeka, Kas., gave hearty a.;
proval of the bill for the control of
railroads suggested and authorized by
the Kansas Federation of Commercial
Interests a measure which, as The
Independent reads it, would give the
wealth-producers of Kansas a large
measure of relief, although at best
only a make-shift for the public own
ership which must come eventually.
Of course, there is no sense In follow
ing the socialist idea of allowing
things to go from bad to worse in
order that good may finally come, and
If the federation bill will give some
relief which it seems likely it would
it should become law.
But be a law never so good, there
Is much In administration. The pop
ulists of Kansas need a man in the
executive chair who will be a power
ful ally of the state board of railroad
commissioners charged with the ad
ministration of the law contemplated
by thi3 bill. A hostile or a half
hearted governor could do much to
embarrass the board in performing its
duties under this proposed law. Why
not have a whole state administration
made up of officers who represent the
economic interests of those who dig
the wealth from the soil, as opposed to
the Interests of non-residents who
draw millions from Kansas as divi
dends on watered stock and interest
on aerated bonds as so-called "in
vestments" in Kansas railroads? ;
Railroads are a necessity; but so
are farmers and miners, and mer
chants. Railroads have dominated
Kansas government, both under re
publican rule and populist adminis
tration, if we may judge from the dis
closures made by Gen. Percy Daniels
in his book entitled "Cutting the Gor
dian Knot." Farmers and miners and
merchants have been too easy; they
have been willing to live and let live;
they have recognized the great ad
vantages derived from r the building
and operation of railroads, and they
have proceeded ' upon the theory of
"being conservative and fair." But
they were opposed by railroad man
agers whose jobs depended upon their
taking from the' real wealth-producers
of Kansas every cent the traffic would
bear. The railroads have never wor
ried their heads about conservatism
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and fairness. They have been -"radical"
in the extreme in shirking taxes
and in boosting up rates. One cannot
blame the railroad managers for what
they have done because the eastern,
non-resident stockholders were al
ways clamoring for another ounce of
flesh, and if those managing Kansas
politics and government showed any
weakness or any heart well, there
are plenty of others to take the jobs.
The real issue in Kansas as in Ne
braska and every other prairie state
after all the little side issues are
brushed away, is simply a contest be
tween the farmers and the railroads
as to how a given bushel of corn or
wheat shall be divided, whether the
farmer shall have his grain and live
stock hauled to market at reasonable
cost, or whether he shall be compelled
to "throw up his hands" and submit
to the most gigantic system of "high
way robbery" the world has ever seen.
No farmer or miner or mercnanr. in
Kansas need worry for fear the rail
roads may suffer. .Railroad "interests
have always shown great skill in tak-
ne care of their own. Let those who
dig the ; wealth . from Kansas soil for
once 4fl their lives look strictly .after
their own side of the question they
will find the railroads doing business
right along. The issue is a tug of war
between the two great property inter
ests and there will be plenty of voters
pulling on the" railroad end, never
fear; but it is the height of folly lor
artvone oh the other side to push a
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ittle on the , rope for fear his sidel
should actually be able to pull tne
other! T
The experience of Kansas populists
ought to teach them to select as their
standard-bearers men who have the
moral courage to stand up for. the in
terests they represent. The day of
"good fellow" candidates is past, be
cause the good fellow can't resist the
enormous pressure placed upon him by
the railroads. Looking over the field
n Kansas, The Independent believes
Gen. Percy Daniels is the man whose
election as governor would mean per
manent defeat for the railroad-domi
nated republican party of that state.
He might not make the best candi
date as he is not much of a public
speaker but he would make the best
governor; and its a governor that the
populists of Kansas are looking for.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
The most spectacular fight that has
ever been seen In a court room is go
ing on before four judges of the
United States circuit court at St. Paul,
Minn. Elihu Root, ex-secretary of
war, heads one side of the corps of
lawyers and W. D. Guthrie of New
York the other. The question to be
decided is whether each contributor
who put into the jack pot when the
Northern Securities company wa
formed shall take out the exact
amount he put in, or whether the di
vision shall be made in some other
way. The fees that these lawyers will
get would build a good line of rail
road. One interesting thing about the
contest is that it brings out the cause
of the bringing of the merger suit
Hill has been giving testimony to the
facts as stated in The Independent
about the way that suit was fomented
Hill says that "it was the scheming
politicians" and "the outgrowth of the
agitation begun by the enemies of the
road." So it was not Roosevelt or
Knox who brought about the merger
suit at all. That is what The Inde
pendent has said all the time. Will
the New. York Post please take notice
of this new evidence?
THE WHITE MAN'S IIUHDEN
The white mans burden grows
greater as the days fly by. The bur
den of the New York legislature In
which "grab bills" transferred many
millions to the hands of a few who
cave nothing in return, will rest he;i
ily on the'shoulders of the people for
many years. In Nebraska the wnne
man's burden is -also becoming too
heavy to be borne. A "redecmiiu
legislature has imposed such taxes on
the people that the Income from thu
little sav intra of the poor la almoin
wholly destroyed. Kven , the mos
sacred or all or these, the money
saved up to care fur widows and or
phan! and put In an insurance pol
ley, Is almost wholly absorbed to pay
extravagant appropriation of the
"redeemer'n"' legislature. The white
men of Kana and Nebraska mii.it
bear the bidden of Dlctilch and llir
tun.. The whit men who are farmer
have Had some burdens to bear In the
past, but noun UK lhn that are pa
upon their shoulders now. The white
mati'n burden grow blger and bis
r.er. Many ihimMarula ot them in the
near future will be rttcedlnjjy anx
bum to exchange, It for that of the
black man, the yellow man, Hie rot
man, or any other man.
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COD years its author, lr. bprouie. a. a., wen
rUll known as a leader among the great phi
lanthropists of North America, labored night
and day to discover a perfect, permanent cure
for- Catarrh. He sacrificed time, energy and
money to gain his end. Step by step he worked
his way along new paths, outstripped his rivals
on two continents. At last his efforts were
crowned with succes! lie had discovered what
all other searchers had long despaired of find
in? an easy.perfeet, permanent cura for Ca
tarrh. With no thought of rest from his ar du
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cure of Catarrh. With no thou?ht ot the wealth
it could easily win him, he now offers it free to
all who ask for It.
TUC information in its pages .will save thou
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and soul in earnest in bis great work of fighting
disease, its lines fairly throb with purpose and
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be traces all its hidden workings he shows
the awiul dangers to which ii leads he points
out the way to a safe and lasting cure the only
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Catarrh Fine pictures by the best artists il
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ADDRESS.
shown" down in Missouri. Every one
else in the whole United States knew
that monev put into a uucKei biiuy
could never be recovered. There was
a Missourian who wouldn't believe It
and he took his case clear up 10 me
Kimremft court the court that sets all
cf Folk's convicted Dooaiers
a.na that court showed him mai 11 a
man puts money into a bucket sncp
there is no law that will enable him
to get it out. . ;
Lincoln, Neb., has about 1,800 re
publican majority, and trat majority
has provided booze ana loanng piacea
for the seven or eight thousand stu
dents attending; the three universities
and other schools located here by is
suing a liquor license to forty saloons.
Lincoln is a town of about ou.uw, ana
being so small, the republicans
thought that forty saloons would ac
commodate the students in any pait
of the place. The republican majoriiy
has been increasing of late years and
just as the majority grows bigger, the
saloons increase. Every officeholder
from territorial days to the present,
when his term expires, tries to locale
in Lincoln and it may be called a town
of republican ex-officeholders. There
is a parity between republican ex
officeholders and the number of sa
loons. oAs the one increases, so does
the other. ,
The millionaires of our time stand
in exactly the same relation to the
republican party that ihe lords and
nobles did to their monarchs in feudal
times. The nobles robbed the people
and gave part of the loot to the king.
The nobles called that patriotism then
and millionaires cal it patriotism now.
A Vermont Methodist preacher
wants to know, "How shall a man sup
port a sealskin wife on a muskrat in
come? That is one of those things
that no pop can find out. He is in
the same fix as the young man who
had "a champagne appetite and a beer
income." It is as difficult a problem
as "squaring the tirrle."
In making n contest for the presi
dency there is nothing to effective as a
clever hired man.
The English supreme ourt of ap
penls has decided that all the Jewels
of a wife belong to her husband. This
gives to every poverty-btrkken duke
and earl who has married an Ameri
can helream (ho ownership of all the
Jewel that she brought with lui,
Marlborough, Uoxbuiuhe, Cumm and
mores of others are made atual own
era of all lh personal property that
the American heretiHi whom they
married mhh.i when they awnpptd
themselves for a title. They not only
m themselves, but all IheJr prop
erty besides. That wa not thought of
when Iheae, ullinnces mtp made and
future helrrnsea who want IirltUh ti
tles wltl have to take it Into eoimld
rratlon. No loyal Ametban rltUen
wt! express ncy re uret ovr tb matter.
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and brought happiness, comfort, peace
and content to thousands of homes
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cured, who, satisfied, paid his money
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cupied by Mr. Theo. Noel, its distov
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grown to such proportions as to oc
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7r0 square feet, used solely, entirely
and exclusively In placing this rem
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the buildings owned aud occupied Ly
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London. Kngland, for the carrying on
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