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SEPTEMBER 15, 1904 PAGE 14. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 11 , n i ' 1 iU. il i i 11 It is 41 NEWS OF THE WEEK . A Weekly Resume of the Really Vital News by the Editor 9 any Intention of getting into the neigh borhood of Admiral Togo. The populist party never grew as rapidly as it is growing now. Twenty nine states already have an electoral and state ticket in the field and six teen other states have called their con ventions to put up tickets. ' Roosevelt has written another book and it is the most tedious reading that was ever submitted to the American people. The editor of The Independent has asked fifteen very intelligent men of this city men who read a great deal and try to keep abreast of the times and each one of them said he h ail tried to read it. but positively he could not wade through It. Newspaper men whose duty it is to read all such works have all acknowledged that they did not? read "all of it." The book is entitled: "Letter of Acceptance." It 'took ten long columns of solid minion type to get into print. It has more words than some of Roosevelt's former "books which sell on the market at $1.50. This could not be sold for one cent a copy, so it is given away. That shows how Teddy's intellect has depreciated since he became an intimate associate of Morgan, Rodgers and other pre datory pirates. of their surgeons. The Japanese pris on hospital reports show that almost exactly 99 per cent of the Russian wounded which have fallen Into their hands have recovered. What nation ever made such a record as that before? The hundreds of millions of dollars" squandered by the republicans on the l'hilippine islands is all irretrievably lost. We might endure that, but it is to go on year after year indefinitely. Be sure that you put in a big wheat crop this fall so that you will be able to' pay your share of it, for Roosevelt says that he is going to continue that policy unchanged. - ' Parker says that the gold standard is irrevocably established, but Roosevelt says that Parker "can not be trusted to take the additional action necessary to improve and strengthen our monetary system." Why does the gold standard need strengthening? How is Roosevelt going to do it? Will he bolster it up with branch banking? ' Is he going to melt the silver dollars? Is he going to burn up the 34G,O00,OO0 of greenbacks? Look out for something to happen when congress meets this fall. There seems to always be some wom an who is a great power in the govern- ments of the world. . A short time ago it was Queen Victoria. Now itvis Tsi An, empress of China. At present she wields absolute power over more than twice as many people as the czar of Russia, and the fate of nations rests upon her, as much or more, than upon any other ruler. Her late conversion to modern ideas attracts attention from all the world. She is 70 years old and when she dies no one can tell what will happen. . Several factories that have been shut down for months are now op-ening up They are all in places where the pluto crats need votes. Just one of Rockefeller's banks in New York boasts of $200,000,000 of de posits. One of the Morgan banks holds deposits considerably over $100,000,000. And these two tremendous financial circles control a number of ' other banks and trust companies, which bring the aggregate of deposits in their hands up to many hundreds of millions of dollars. These are the great banks which are striving to secure. the es tablishment of a system of branch banks, coupled with the right to issue their notes with no other basis than the assets of the banks. ' Tom Watson is a mighty eloquent speaker, but it was not his Cooper Union speech alone that set the woods afire down in New York and other eastern states. It got the men together , to act in one party, but these men had been frightened until the;hair stood on end, before Tom Watson appeared and were hunting some way of escape from financial ruin. When Tom's clar ion voice arose, saying: "Follow me," these men were ready to follow. Branch banking would seal the doom of a good many of them and they had just found it cut. ' ' There has been no severe fighting around Port Arthur. The defeat of Kuropatkin, and the retreat of his ar my further north, seems to be relied upon by the Japanese to force the sur render of Port Arthur without any further loss, and they have consequent ly stopped their assaults. However, the correspondents keep sending stones about the plans the Japs have in view to take the place. The Russian armed transport Lena, to the surprise of everybody in this country, sailed into the port of San Francisco the other dayl Of course the newspapers went wild over it. The fact about the matter is that the trans port is in a very bad condition. It no doubt. came out of Vladivostok when the Russian so.uadron there made- its last raid, and the Japs cut it off. The only recourse was to sail for the Pa cific coast of the United States. ' It will doubtlessly lay in that port, under the neutrality laws, until the close of the war. ' What is to be done with the crew is not so clear. ' Imperial Hernia Cure Rupture radically cured by new process, in a few weeks, without nconvenience or loss of lime n bed. Send for circulars. O. S. WOOD, M. D. 51 N. Y. Life Bids. Omaha, Neb Colorado Irrigated Farms Will Pay . While down on Wall street last win ter, the editor of The Independent was suprised at the frequent allusion to the possibility of maintaining order in great cities. When there to attend the notification meeting at Cooper Union, he noticed th-e extraordinary precau tions taken to guard the president asj he crossed the city, some 250 police being detailed for that duty. Tuesday's dispatches from New -York say: "Mur ders, highway robberies, burglaries and crimes of violence in New. York make such an appalling record that news papers and committees of citizens are making frantic appeals to the author ities for ; better protection: .The fre quency of such crimes was not real ized until the newspapers began to compile and publish lists of such length that the city is alarmed. Al though the strike has been declared off for several days at Chicago, there was the largest riot near the stock , yards there last Monday that has occurred since the strike was first called. Theret is a cause for all this -and The In dependent has been calling attention to it for the last four or" five years, i A Democratic Democrat Editor Independent: Democratic democrats belong this year-in the pop ulist party. It is their duty as 1 see it, to aid in the defeat of Parker. The first reason is that the populist princi ples are more democratic than are those now advanced by the democratic party, if the indefinite propositions which form its platform can properly be called principles. The second reason is that defeat for the democratic party this year will re sult in definite democratic principles as a foundation for the party in 1908 while success for the democratic party this year will mean republican success in. 1908 or the present republican doc trines for the then democratic party. You 50 to 80 per cent annually. Rented, will pay you from 20 to 30 per cent annually. A sure crop every year, anu the highest prospect ot doubling your in vestment in two years or less. These farms are located in the Box Elder and South Platte Valleys of Colorado. There are six millions dollars in vested in sugar beet factories in this valley. Farms are paying enormously, The evidence is, that the next four as they have a sure crop and a big years will be lean and hungry. The one every year, ample water supply, crisis of the present depression must 19 reservoirs, and more than enough. . be passed and the - recovery .will be We are selling farms in this valley slow. Let the republican administra- at $50 and $65 per acre, several have tion reap this harvest. - The people will been rented during the past year at then be ready for democracy and the $10 per acre, cash rent paying 20 per democracy will come from the pme cent on the investment. Four miles fountain of principles for which demo- down the. valley from where" these cratic democrats now must turn to the farms are located farms are selling populist party. . at $150 to $2Q0 per acre. Twenty A Parker -administration 410W will miles further soutlv in the valley. slay the march begun with' the prog- farms are selling at $200. to $250 per ess begun with' the birth of Progress acre, paying on this valuation annual-: and Poverty toward the goal of free-My 20 per cent. .Rented land-that we dom. "Free land, free' trade and free are offering is equally as valuable men." Another term of Roosevelt will when fully developed and improved as ripen this; fruit of freedom and bring the farms that are selling at $250 per the issues of democracy up against- the "acre. - . . ,;, doctrines , of plutocracy. ; ;For the in- We have yet abouti 10,000 acres of dustrial crisis to come during a Parker, this land to sell, with perpetual water administration will mean the issues of rights and ar of tne opinion that ''democratic incompetency' , against anyone purchasing a farm in this vaN' high tariff" in 1908, and high tariff ley will double his money 'within one Some investigations by the Boston Herald have revealed the fact that twenty men own real estate in New York city to-the value of $1,000,00000. William Waldorf Astor heads the pro fession of the monopolists of God's earth, his holdings being excess of $150,000,000. And up to this year, the whole people down there continued to "vale 'er straight." At last there is a prospect that it will no longer be so. Senator Tillman is orating again. This time he says: "Negro equality is something that will not be tolerated and that no power in the world can force upon us, a race war is inevitable, with the result that the negroes will be exterminated." Exterminate the negro! Was-ewr any greater nonsense uttered? Whom does Tillman think he will fool with that sort of talk? He would himself be the first man to fight against extermination. If there were no negroes In South Carolina.' Senator Tillman would have to go to picking cotton himself and there is "no power" that could ever make him do that. The negro is tho foundation of the wealth of the w;ch and without him there would be little elao than starvation and savagery there. - A thing happened last week that if it had not beeH for the wars in prog ress, and thernolitical campaign, would doubtless have occupied, a large space in the news columns of the daily press. The fact, astonishing as it was, was only given about three inches of space Wireless telegraphy, was established be tween St. Louis and Chicago, the first message sent being over three hun dred words which was read without the least difficulty. It is claimed also that messages were sent simultaneous ly to Seattle, Wash., and the Philip pine islands. The system employed is the invention of Dr. Lee De Forest. It may be that the Western Union com pany had something to do with the small notice given it. If the system is what is claimed for it, that grabbin corporation will perhaps in the near future receive its just deserts, which will consist of being wiped out of ex istence. The government at Toklo has sen out an official statement of the losses of the Japanese in the fighting around I.lao Yang. The killed and wounded amounted to 17.523, which substantiates what The Independent has said, name ly, that just In proportion that arms and high explosives have Improved the casualties In war have decreased will ;win. Let us not deceive ourselves with the hope that should Parker win, imper ialism will end.',. If Parker wins it will be. by favor of plutocratic support and year. . . .. . v ; -.- - - ' Wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, alfalfa, fruit, all vie with each other in quantity, and quality. The result is. farming by Irrigation is ideal assistance and this , element will as and peace and plenty abound. surely dominate his administration as We have sold this veer; two farms it did Cleveland's, and as it has the in the Box Elder, Larimer county. two more recent administrations. On I Colorado, to a prominent gentleman the other hand a good heavy populist of Lincoln. After purchasing them he vote wiH become the "beacon light to leased them for three years at an an- guiae : tne democratic party of 1908 arigbt. 13. O. BAILEY. Boulder. Colo. ' 5 Ka.m Democracy. Editor Independent: Now that sham democracy has disappeared from the political arena, it behooves true dejno- est character, combining remarkable nual rental of ,15 per cent on his in vestment ,to good and responsible parties. We have sold several parties dur ing the past year who have rented their farms at equally as high percent age. : As an investment tt Is of the high- crates, by which I mean all who pos sess the characteristics of honesty and intelligence, to rally round the flag of the people's party and help to per petuate true democratic and republl can principles. We may not get a million votes possibilities of large pronts with an exceptional degree or saieiy, relia bility and permanency. Which is, the better investment buy eastern land at $50 an acre and rent at at $3 an acre or buy Colorado land at $50 and rent It for $10 the eastern We may not get half a million votes. farmer gets C per cent and the Colora but truth will prevails and ere long the d0 man gets 20 per cent on his invest ... At masses, wno areaireauy ieeung me pinch of sham democracy and sham republicanism, will rally to the stand ard of a party which is not and by support of which they may ment. Send for literature. Excursions every week. For excursion rates and rurther in formation apply to . WOODS INVESTMENT CO. The StutiiRfii'ld Republican ray that the great city of New York N simply a cow fur William Waldorf Alor to milk. 1I cornea near milking It dry every year. The paper an? all tall In attention to tu wonderful klndnes and rare with wtUh th JanaitfKe treat their Russian prisoners, a well a the iWltt There has been no news of Import ant from the seat of war during the week. The Russians have evacuated Mukden and are hiking for the north. The Japanese are pruning nlowly on after them, witlto by means of tho rail road from New Chwang, re-enforcements are routing P l large numbers. Tlo fhort distance from ihelr base when compared with Russia, whose bane In tl.uoi) mile away, Rive the Japanese a very great advantage. The Itusatan lUlllc fleet ha nailed fur the far eat, that I. It U an noun f l, but no one believe that U has hope for' a satisfactory settlement of nfflrp, itneoln Hotel. Lincoln. Neb, tne labor problem. PHILIP KELLY. St. Louis. MA.' (They are coming to us, brother Kelly, and half a million votes and even a million votes will be no marker for the number of votes Watson and Tibbies will receive. The Mncle taxers 01 tne 1 mien mui", m m-uhi iwu mil lion, ore coming to our standard al most ettmae. The east H aflame with the tire. of populitmi-n thing that ha not occurred In day past and lis vote for Watxon and Tibbie In New York and other eastern Mat will be ft dossier. The giant U awak citing,-.hk late IMl'or'Q.) SWEET CLOVER HONEY Four or more 11 lb. cam $1.00 ach. One or more GO lb. cant RB0 each. At our btation. .Small sample sent for .TcU by mail. Addre V. A. S.nmx. Miliedgeville, III. Whtn needing dotting write to Armstrong Clothlns Co., Llncotu, Neb. Sert J. In thli Issue. Cancers Cured Why eufTer ttin end death from can cer? Dr. T. O'Connor curee c tncer, lectori and wtni; bo knife, blood or pleiter. A Jireti 1300 O St. Lincoln, -- . '