FEBRUARY 16. 1905
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T3ho Nebraska. Independent -
that statute that could do made wa3
'. that the judges were entitled to collect
ifrom the government the actual cost
of travel and ltvii g, hut under no cir
cumstances more than $10 a day. But
! these, judges interpreted It to mean
! that they were to have ?10 a day
whether the cost of travel and living
j was that much or not. They are sim
i ply a bunch of grafters, just like the
re3t of the federal office holding clan.
Centralizing Power
There was never greater nonsense
talked on the floor of the house than
John Sharp Williams' speech denounc
- ing government ownership of rail
roads, because It would tend toward
the centralization of government. The
danger of centralization lies in gov
. eminent, control of rates through a
commission appointed by the president
and that is what yilliams favors. Fed
eral supervision of rates will offer or
ganized capital new inducements to
seek to control the government by a
few. When a commission appointed
by the president fixes rates, the rail
roads will stand ready to contribute
millions to elect a candidate whose ap
pointees will be fiiendly to the rail
roads. To the thoughtful man, there
lies more danger lo the stability of the
government and greater prospect of
extortion in this scheme of railroad
- centre!, than an- thing that now ex
ists. This cry of "centralization" is
like all the cries that have been used
to deceive the people. Plutocracy gen
erally goes before the people and de
nounces the thing that it vishes to ac
complish. That is what It did when
begging. He saw cm women made np
as cripples, pretending, to sell news
papers and every time he turned
around In a hotel or restaurant there
was some one standing near expecting
a tip. He noticed the enoimous num
ber of hospitals and the constant ap
peals made to the public for contribu
tions. He took a good deal of pride
hi telling Englishmen that there were
no such conditions in America. But
now we have them all. The pluto
cratic system of England followed in
this country is producing exactly the
Same results here as there.
Southern Populist
Mr. John Sharp Williams announced
in the house of representatives that
"the time may tome when all the
country, except the south will be advo
cating government ownership of rail
reads. The south never will support
that proposition, because , it has the
old-fashioned idea that tha government
should not become too strongly cen
tralized." It is evident that the southern popu
lists who have so strenuously opposed
fusion, understood the southern de
mocracy much better than the north
ern members of the party. Mr. Wil
liams 13 the democratic leader on the
floor of the house and voices the set?
tied policy of the southern democracy.
With that kind of democracy the popu
list could never "fuse." It has not
only declared the gold standard irrevo
cably established, but it will forever
oppose the government ownership of
railroads." There i3 nothing more
thoroughly plutocratic than the south
ern democracy. Tcm Watson knew
Only Ono of 140 Draft and Coach Stallions at
Frank lams' barns, St Paul, Nebr. Every
one a "SHOW HORSE." lams Sell3 Top
notchers at $1,000 $1,600 It's a
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He Didn't Know
The rural editor is not much given
to advertising hl3 ignorance. If he
from , every newspaper column and perfecUy well what he was doing when
every rostrum went rortu the cry, -pne he repudiated it and fought it.
donar as good a3 every otner aonar.
That was just the very thing that the
money power did not want. They
wanted two kinds of money. One kind
that was reallv money and another
kind that was to be Issued by the know he gcierally keeps quiet
banks -that was not as "good" as the about it, untiLh-i can find out. Clark
real money. There can be no better Perkins of the St. Paul Republican
way devised to make a strong "cen- ah exception to the rule. He takes
tialized" government than to give to a every occasion to tell the people that
few men the nower to fix rates. There he don't know things. In an attack
would be billions in it. It will not take on The Independent he says
the railroads loner to "fix"' a President But the most ridiculous feature of
so that he will appoint men to "fix" lhe article is that it holds secret ex
-..I nA. mt.- w Press rates responsible for the advan
,dlCD lu oul1 tuc tagQ enjoyed over the local retailer by
"ten men of Wall street" will ruu the catalogue house. The fact is that
things to suit themselves without fur- all transportation charges are paid by
the consumers, and if one of them ever
j secured any special concession . from
the express companies on account of
patronizing catalogue houses, or for
i any other reason, we have never heard
of it
The rest of the article is evidence,
tlier Interference.
A Leisure Class
An Englishman in criticising social
lunctions that he was honored with
while in this country says: "With all
their refinement, i must say there were incontrovertible, that there are several
Indications of a vulgar display of iner things tnat Mr. Ferkins never
wealth, which is pardonable in a na- heard of and probably never will as
tion that has nevir had a leisure class. Jong as he elies for his information on
No matter what a man'y wealth is what is publisher! in the plutocratie
over there, with verv raro exceptions, press. At a meeting-of a club a few
' he is engaged in business." That
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Englishman must, not despair of us.
We are getting on famously this win
ter in . augmenting our leisure class.
' , The report from every charity organ-
nights ago where several of Lincoln's
prominent business men were present
nearly every one of them acknowl
edged that he got secret rates and said
that he had to have them to compete
Mr. Stallion buyer The time for buying stallions and getting ready for a big 1905 monev
making business is today. Make money wulle ttxe "un sninet ' on me nor uusiness.
was there so many "itocKmtn -ettger ana lumoiiug uver uue auuiuui i . . 6
"drrters and coacbara". They are higher than lor 25 yrs. and Horseman will be "In clover
and hlffh prices for 15 yrs. more. "Butt In," buy a "to? notcner" oi frann lams, ai. ram xeor.
One oi bis stallions wul maite you jfiuuu eacn year ior rice .
Mr Speculator Don't an Investment of 81000 or 81500 on one of lams "Peaches and Cream"
stallions look like "ready money" to you? That's tne way lams sens mem- e positively guar
antees them to be batter stallions than are soia to "rarmar tocK ws. ai 5o iu sguo uy
Qjld brick aaleimen with the aid ot one or two ot your gooa naignoors w ut-iu me nor
busineas oat. But they getS30J to 8500 for tneir -Kina Aavice" io you farmers. iou j-uy m
bill and buy a 4th rate stallion at 4 prices and get a worthless guarantee. It's lams' "evenin?
out "With one of thote wide-as-a-wagon drafters. The Imported "lams Marian-de-Vissonh"'
(24818) Bay Roval Belgian 4 vrs. old wt 2180 lbs. A prize winner m u. a. ana Belgium, une m
'D...'h.. .nrfCrMin" inri." He Is one of the "host ever." A smooth finished, "swell black boy"
with a 15 Inch bone. He has a world of style and action your old bonnet will not be on straight
when yoo see this sensational stallion on aress paraue. tie is a -Hummer ouo iih-b me - reau
ing" in lams adds. He is only a model ofoverl40 head of "Rippers" to be seen at lams Im
porting barns. Vou say why can lams sell these "top notcbera" atflOOO and $1500? Why do
these "Gold brick stallion salesmen" nouer so aooui lamsr cecauae uu uas me smiuuusjuav
advertised. lams ships stallions by "apeclal train load." lams iwns" his si allions, barns, houses,
farms and bank stock Pays no Interpreters, burera or salesmen. lams sells stallions on "honor"
Guaranteed every statement in catalog or add true .and horses better than pictures in catalog
or pays $100. lams' 25 yrs. of successful business Is his best recommend. Write lams for an "eya
opener" and greatest horse catalog on earth. - .
it is me greaiesi money aiver uuu uuuuciu muuc; amoi vu vovu. .....
cry for It. " - ' " - ' '
, Ization society gives us actual figures h ith others who got them. The3e were
jto base the statement upon, that we the big chaps. The little chaps don't
do have a very large leisure" class. Be- get the -secret rates. If Mr. Perkins
r sides those that sleep at the police sta- l ad appeared in th.it crowd of business
t tions there are a few hundred others, men; and made tee above statement,
, mostly in the south now, who are en- they probably would have recommend-
! gaged in automobile racing. The lei- that he be tapped for the simples
'sure class is being recruited rapidly at That every big mail order house gets
both ends and if that Englishman will secret express rates far below the reg
J kindly visit us again in about ten u!ar tariff, has long been known by
years, it will be large enough to satis- every business man and every editor
' fy him. except Mr. Perkins
The Scvme Results ' Which I the Bluest Fool
Every thing In this country tends According to decisions of the treas-
- toward establishing Eurouean,condi- ury department and the attorney gen
'tions. Twenty years ago, when the eral recently published, it is made a
American landed in England he saw fixed .fact that enly American citi-
many thing3 there that ha had never pens are to pay the tariff tax. For
encountered in this country. - He no- merly they told us that the foreigner
of 99 "per cent of the tax. The for
eigner will get his clothes, his bread
and his shoes at a cost less the tariff
and . the American will pay the tariff
on every one of those things he buys.
Rockefeller pays no tariff on the ship-
leads of tin that ne uses in exporting
oil, but the poor woman who has a
coal oils can, pa3 the fall . amount.
That has been the case for a long
time. But now the rebate has been ap
plied by these decisions to wheat, wool
and hides. Whe;i this matter was
brought to the attention of a distin
guished mullet head of Lincoln his
only reply was, "that's all right." Go
ins down the street a little further
we saw a man being pushed out of a
long as he relies for his information on
all right. Tha'e all right. I allers
take 'er straight:' Who can say which
was the bigger fool?
ticed the beggars on the streets and
the thousand little tricks they em
ployed, such as pretending to sell shoe
, laces, draw pictures on the sidewalk,
running after, busses and "turning
hand-springs and ether things of that
sort to avoid the law against uirect
paid the tax, but . now it Is declared
that the foreigner Is the only one that
does not pay the tax. These decisions
declare that wheat, wool and hlde3
that are imported into this country and
manufactured into a finished product,
when exported wlli have rebate paid
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