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OorOBER 20. 1904 T5he Nebraska. Independent PAGE K has given Mr. Cleveland most of liis popularity. But Mr. HilTs ; support, dangerous as it is, is not so detrimen tal to Judge Parker as the corporate support, which is gradually gathering about him." Ideal, number two. "There is no doubt that- the cor porate interests have an understand ing with Judge Parker." "Can the democratic party afford to lend it self to a movement to so make up . the supreme court as to nullify the efforts of the .people at reform?" "As president, Judge Parker, might appoint one, two, or even three su- ' preme justices, and his appointments mifht hnr iha xvav fn roliof fnr ion ni fifteen years."r. Ideal number three. In the. Commoner of April 15," 1904, under the title of "Parker, Alias Bel mont," Mr. Bryan had an editorial in which he referred to-Belmont in this fashion: "That he should be selected as .the diplomatic representative of Judge Parker is sufficient proof that the judge's nomination would put the democratic tarty back in the Cleve land rut, and make the administration a co-partner with the Wall street syn dicates." Ideal - number four. - . Again: "But if the party had not had its bitter experience with-Cleveland it would have ample reason to avoid a 'syndicated president,' but with the experience of 1892 and 1898 fresh in the memory; it would be inexcus able, nay, even criminal folly, to put the destinies of the party and the country in the hands of a man mort gaged in advance to men of the Bel- .Tnont ttrno f Iioal nnmher fivo . But Bycirate further ? 1, The files of the Commoner letoitbljQst Buch characterizations, of Parkef 6? - the election of Parker means the triumph of Mr. Bryan's ideals, we must look, to the files of the Commoner for a statement of Mr. Bryan's . ideals. These "are the: ideals of Judge Parker as set forth . by Mr. Bryan, and Mr. Aryan's says his , triumph will be a victory for his ideals. Is it possible? ' But those who really know Mr. Bryan better than, in this campaign, he seems to know himself, will appeal from Phillip drunk to Phillip sober. They will prefer to take his charac terizations of Parker as odious oppo sites of Mr. Bryan's ideals.. They will prefer to believe what Mr. Bryan said before the St.; Louis convention than what he may say since. They will pre fer to believe that he meant what he said when he said that Parker's n6mina nuu.weuj, seuuieu uj uumcu nuu in defensible means,' ana; that "if-'tre democratic party were so unfortunate ss to elect Parker, It would be disas trous to it, because it would be only another record of Clevetandism."- Q. ' He Does Not Dare to Answer The World-Herald repeatedly calls upon the "Standard Oil' governor to make answer to some pointed ques tions. The World-Herald is cruel. It should remember that there are some questions that people do not wish to answer; some they can not answer, "ilmi&Jthey dare not answer. , The World-Herald 'has as&fetFnPepefttwily. nd which the governor ,of the great state oi Nebraska does not eitner ae sire or dare to answer: "Is it not true that Governor Mickey called into his office James H. Hays, the chief oil inspector, and requested him, in the presence of a representa tive of toe Standard Oil company, to approve several carloads of oil wkfch Mr. Hays had previously condemned? xS it not true that Mr. Hays de clined to comply with Governor Mick ey's request? "Is it not true that within one hour after Mr. Hays had declined to accede to Mr. Mickey's request Mr. Hays was rcmoveu from .office? "Is it not true that Mr. Hays' suc cessor was Eld A. Church, the favored candidate of the Standard Oil trust? v "Is it not also true that among the early acts of Mr. Church's administra tion was the approval of the" oil which Mr. Hays had condemned and which condemnation he had, in response to the governor's request, refused to can cel?" - ss GerveroJ Barry In their desperation to hunt up and discover somewhere or somehow, some discrepancies in the accounts of fusion officials in the past, the "redeemers" attempted to besmirch the record of Gen. Patrick H. Barry, than whom no more honest man has ever occupied any position of public trust in all the history of Nebraska. It will be recalled that General Barry was adjutant general of the state during the Spanish war and subse quent military movements. He had the handling of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Expert Examiner Wiggins, In going over the accounts of General Barry, found an item apparently show ing a discrepancy of some $75.04. The "redeemers" gleefully took up the cry that at last they had discovered a shortage in the account of, a fusion oliicial. They thought this shortage might offset that of more tnan haif a million of a previous republican oi ncial. So they rejoiced, but soinenoyv their expert later discovered that the apparent shortage was fully accounted for ' in the fact that the item of ap parent shortage instead of having been charged as premiums on state warrants should have-been entered as money re ceive! trom the government in a set tlement of accounts. So this error be ing discovered and rectified it proves a clean bill for General Barry's admin istration.'. ... -So'the lie had gone out over the state that a shortage of, $75.04 had been found in General Barry's ac: counts.-Ah attempt was thereby made to. blacken the record of, the old vet eran. But every one who knew him knew that the report was. a lie. And now the "redeemers'' themselves ac knowledge that it was a- lie. But, after all, this occurence redounds to the credit of General Barry! It shows almost a remarkable -record. More money passed through his hands dur ing these war , days than, has ever passed through the hands of any other adjutant "general, in 'fact more than all others combined have handled, and not one cent of, shortage is found. All honor to General Barry, the upright and true. ; - Shifting Responsibility ..The matter of personal, responsibility for. our acts is a subject that seldom ir fii-eeta monv nf IIS. TTflW Wfi do SO- f jj5ithth idea that what- ever we may au, xuv jsvuiuiijr mdj be shitted to otter shoulders! - ijtJtaL greater error was ever entertained by num.' Ecclesiasticism originally pro mulgated : this false doctrine. It was ihought that the sins of man could be shifted to the goat : to be sacrificed, and that the spilling of its blood would be complete atonement with God for the sins Of man. But experience raised a doubt in the minds of thinking men about the truth of the proposition' that smoking fiesh could appease the wrath of God. And so out of that supersti tion grew 'another that one complete sacrifice might be made of an innocent being, nuon whose guiltless shoulders might be laid ; the sins of (he world. Vain hope. So, in" our day men deff & actions tney are "ashamed of by a futile at temnt. to shift resDonsibility. .' Corpora tions are organized to shift responsi bility from the shoulders of a single man' to that of the corporation. Men organize a corporation, because as -a member of such they are .not liable in law for the debts of the corporation, and because they as. individuals in a corporation are by, law exempt from many criminal statutes that a private business would make : them liable to.! Men become soldiers They learn te art of murdering their fellow be ings in a scientific way. 'When they carry out' their instructions, and mal-:e widows and orphans in conflict with t.hev .' c72feiiaftelvesilhat they are not responsible, '-buoESt nmat Lowell that ,' ": " " "If you take a sword and dror it And go stick a feller through, Gov'ment ain't to answer for it God'll send the bill to you." Business men will teach their agents to misrepresent goods and think that when it comes to the lying, the re sponsibility for that lying will rest upon the head of the agent, and the agent in the lying and fraud will think that the responsibility for the act rests upon the head of the employer. lue minister of the Meek and Lowly will preach what he knows is false or fail to express what he knows is true, and he thinks that upon him rests not the responsibility, for the deception: that his flock demands certain things that he proposes to supply, because his bread depends upon it. Or he fails to ascertain the truth regarding a super stition, and he thinks that his failure to ascertain its truth is excusable. Murder is the taking of human life after deliberation. Almost every state in the union is guilty, then, of mur der, because they send men to death after deliberation. Individual citizens of the state console themselves that tney are not guilty of murder, because the slate has committed the crime, and the state what is it? Members of political parties -vote their tickets without questioning either the merits of the candidates upon them or the virtues of the issues at stake, and then they console themselves with i -3 thought that if they have made a mistake, their leaders are to blame and not themselves. On the other hand the leaders console themselves with the sweet solace that they have Insured in Four Companies . ' the , Bankers Reserve Life Company OF OMAHA, NEB., Are The First To Pay V; J Cedar Rapid s,.Nebr., Oct. 10', 1904. , Bankers Reserve Life Company, Omaha, Neb. Gentlemenr' Your agent, Mr. Scbaffnit,' haa just called upon me, giving me your check, No. 6006, drawn on the Union National Rank of OmaharNebragka, pay able to my order for $2500.00, "being in full settlement ' of. policy No. 1858 on the life of my late husband, Frank W. Coll, said policy having been surrendered on delivery of the check; You will please accept my most sincere thanks for . paying the amount in f ull so promptly. As I understand it, the check was made out immediately on receipt and verification of the proofs and handed to Mr. Schaffnit for delivery to me, it having reached me within two .. weeks of Mr. Coil's death. , Hoping that I may be of service to the Company. Kfidvyky hg itevery success, All policies secured by ities with the State of Nebraska. B. only given the people what they de manded. . . .- And so throughout our whole society w see men and women forever un mindful of the fact that every act of tueir lives contributes to the making or unmaking of themselves. They con sole themselves that if their acts are errors they are not to blame and that they are not to suffer, because envir onment or other influences force upon them the performance of acts at which their natures would otherwise rebel. Vain hopes all 'of them. Nature and Nature's God do not work after that fashion. Nature's sure and fixed law is that upon every head rests the ab solute responsibility for every act. She has entrusted to every creature the building of its eternity. She fixes the sure and inevitable compensation for RsebAL.god l m: IIer balance ls Dromises. She accepts1uw She ouers no aiuuKmcui u puu era; .Ma ture rests the responsibility for ' its advancement or retrogression. She al lows no shifting. Nature's law is that every qual ity of your nature shall be added to, if you use it, and shall be subtracted from if you fail to 'use it. "To them that hath shall be given, and from them that hath not shall be taken that wnich they have." The member of a corporation who fails to perform his full duty as he understands it, fails, to exercise those qualities with which na ture has endowed him. Not permitting iler fine qualities to be in possession of those who fail to use them, she takes irom them the benefit of them, and to that extent, are they impoverished. The soldier who goes into battle for no other reason than that his govern ment commands it, and kills and mur ders his fellow being, by that act cul tivates the baser element of his na ture, and by that cultivation it grows, and being base it finally ' consumes him. The man or woman, minister of the gospel, legislator, governor or judge, who fails to give expresssion to the great truths, the power to see which he has accumulated in experiences of tne past, fails to give expression to that much of his very life, and his failure to so express himself causes him the loss of thai much of himself. or ITTe is expression, and here is no life outside of it. Why is it that today thoughtful men everywhere refuse to ha influenced by the editorials of many Kily papers? m i a A - ... YTmam AnAtv n i I am, deposits of apprytl escuiv H. RORISON, fiident. is it not because the Vitcriil writers are no longer allowe thinlr anH oyrirpfiH th' e freedom to' tt-ghts? Is it possible for any f ( tno thnifht ami fnfp" ter to inspire of xien if his ' r tha counting utterances are dictW room receipts or hyl, V' policy of the paper for which he' Vftes? And to the extent that he iiK handicapped and restrained, Just t Hhat extent is his work impoverishe U Just to the extent to which he 1 3 to express himself, just to such lent does he rail to increase the sto; 'ht those vir tues with which nature, y the recog nition of her benefices iaws, would endow bira. . U Just to the extent tha Vien submit, to leaders and allow oth Mo do their thinking for them, just t, ihat extent go they, become incapabk f thought and independent action. zMs enly a question of time when tlJeV xnvzt be come helpless victims toA tjb environ ment about them. They refee t J grow. and alMftiipws jS Acrlia they cease to exist at aTt-!i4; life is ex-' pression, and failure to express oneself is a failure to live. ' ; So there can be no such thing in nature as the shifting of responsibility. we fail to act, we secure" not the quality, the possession of which we desire. Having by effort and action ; secured it. we will lose it if we fail ; to keep eternally at it. Forever up ward, onward and forward, or forever backward and downward, is nature's ; law. She brooks' no stationary point, and upon every atom of her universe rests the responsibility of its- perpetu ity. Upon every mind rests the task of ' deciding its eternity and everlasting ; power for good. Q. ' Divorce L&ws Real students of sociology can but be amused at the cheap talk indulged in ecclesiastical councils, regarding the divorce question. Because there is an undoubted prevalence of divorce suits, these councils would make divorce practically impossible. latere can be no question but that thsre are too many divorces There " can be no question that .these entail upon society a burden in looking after children whose homes have been "de stroyed. There can be no doubt of the fact that little children are left without proper care as a result of sepv ar-.iion of their parents. But does the remedy lie in any provision that forces a -ouple to maintain the relationship of husband and wife, when that relar