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BACK HOME AGAIN
ne Battle in the Open. Satisfied
With the Result and Fuller of
Fight Than Ever
..dttor Independent: I have been so
highly gratified at reading the-self-congratulating
letters from the breth
ren all over the country that I have
Jiept still, though.it has required au
effort to do so. For eight years be
fore the Springfield convention I was,
after helping in building up the re
publican and greenback parties, a
homeless man, politically, but since
:the 4th of July, 1904, we feel that we
; have a political home. For eight years
we camped out giving the vandals pos
i session of our dear old home. Many
itfmes we would go back to the
old home and seeing so many things
familiar and dear, would m our eager
ness to enter grasp the latch-stfing,
when hearing so many discordant
i T0ice3 within, would stop' and say
I "there's some mistake." This is not
I my dear old home, and back to my tent
tin the woods I would go, and perforce
i'had to be content there with an occa
sional visitor such as The Independent
and a few others. But thank the Lord,
on the 4th of July, 1904, we marshalled
our forces and drove the vandals out.
Since that day we have been clean
ing, repairing and fumigating the old
house. And It's been a hard and nasty
job. Many a sad scar they made and
car loads of filth they left, but we think
It is now in fairly good repair. We have
'driven the vandals out and fought with
them one battle In the open and we
'are' satisfied with the result. Now let's
'. teep them on the run. Our captains
! have . shown that they are true men
and capable of leading Our scattered
armies are assembling and eager for a
fight. And now boys, be stalwart,
(young, strong and brave, keep in the
' middle of the road.
Carry the Omaha and Springfield
1 platform in your,pockets. and when
! you find a reasonable kind of a man
invite him to join your army. Does he
cloubt the propriety? Read him your
platform of principles and kindly ask
! him to point out to you his objections.
Have him compare your principles
. with those of his party. Have a social
talk with him, and ten to one -he will
! be convinced and converted too. Should
you meet the incorrigable that knows
nothing of principles of any. parts, but
clings to the name only, why, brush
him away and waste no ammunition on
him. Should you meet the other fellow
who will. fight, give i him battle. Tell
'him to "lay on, McDuff, and damned
i be he who first cries Hold! Enough!"
As for this old white-haired veteran
I who has grown graye (and poor, too,)
j in the service, a3 have many others,
jwe will follow with our shot guns and
j mayhap pick off a few of the enemy
iWe are as full of fight for the right as
ever we were, Jbut we are sadly crip
pled by 78 years fighting. Too much
so ; for active campaigning. However,
j we will do all we can. There are many
things to discourage. The worst of
all is the desertion of our trusted lead
ers. But we know we are right and
we believe the right will prevail not
j withstanding. Ah! Weaver. Ah! Bry
I an. Down on your knees worshipping
the golden calf, after denouncing the
practice as the most foolish paganism
But never mind that, boys; again we
say, "Go ahead and keep in the mid
dle of the road." As Uncle S'olon
. used to say, "The "greenback road's
, like the road .- to heaven," straight
ahead
J. D. TUCKER.
.Valparaiso, Ind.
ThaLt Title Page
. Some time ago a paper covered book
without a title, page, came to The In
dependent. A short notice of the book
was given and now the author sends
tne title page,. , . That . title page sets
forth some fundamental principles tha
are worth noting, so it Is printed in
full. It is as follows:
; "A. mighty contrast in facts: Ave
rage wages in 1850,. $300 per year:
largest income in 1850, $25,000 per year.
Average wages In 1904, $500 per year;
largest income in 1904, $35; 000,000 per
year. (All cashed or redeemed in la
bor's products.).
' '.'Labor must "war -against Monopo
listic privilege instead of productive
capital, and with the 'open shop' de
mand 'open opportunities' In natural
resources and communal privi
leges in order to equalize this terribly
unequal distribution of material prog
ress." "
Wants Both Sides.
Editor Independent: May I say just
a few words through your paper. That
populists are getting stirred up is evi
denced by the numerous letters that
appear in your paper. And let me add
that you do much good by opening the
columns of your paper to the public!
and giving both f!des.of the question
an equal show. A large majority of
the papers are doing much harm by
refusing to give all parties an equal
show. The article, "Packers and Rail
roads Are Twin Thieves," has much
good common sense. Being, as the
world terms us, a buckwheat farmer,
I enjoyed the article very much. But
when I read Colonel Feller's article
I could see a vast difference in the two
men, and I must confess that I was
more favorably impressed with the
farmer than the colonel, yet some of
his ideas are all right. Just what
the colonel means by not worshipping
at any man's shrine I can't say. If
he means the attitude of populists to
wa'rd Brother Watson, then I call him
too narrow-minded to be of much ac
count in this world. Can not a man
have respect for another man without
worshipping at his shrine? To my'
mind Tom Watson stands for all the
principles that are necessary to run
this great government and run it to
the betterment of the masses, and he at peru with a minimum capacity of
has the courage to stand before the 2,000 barrels of refined oil per day.
world, boldly as the standard bearer other legislation has been passed and
of -true Jeffersonians and-democratic approved, all calculated to protect and
principles, and for one, I am willing to encourage the great oil producing in
take off my hat, give three cheers. for dustry of Kansas. "
such a man, for they are few and far Fortunes have been made there in
between. This waiting until a conven- the oil business An the past but the
tion names a man is all wrong, as for opportunities now. given for money
proof, remember St. Louis and 1904. making are Incomparably better than
When such a man as Tom Watson can ever before. The Peru district produces
be found in advance the public will th best cmalitv and the greatest auan-
do well to tie to such a man. I am a
democrat and am asking -my friends to
worship at the Watson shrine, in spite
of the colonel's unwillingness to do so.
FRANK E. NICHOLS.
Brentwood, N. Y.
The R.eal Source Of Power.
The following is fronia speech by
Richard Cobden delivered in the Brit
ish house of parliament, and it con
tains a lesson for the people of the
United States tXese many years after
ward: 'We ought to view this question in
the way the United States has done.
The foreign policy of the United States
is a lesson to this country. They never
arm themselves to the teeth; they nev
er put out their whole strength; they
calculate that foreign countries will
give them credit for the strength which
they have lying latent. The policy of
this country is quite the reverse. We
seem to think that foreign nation?
never give -us credit for power, unless
we display it Dy naving a large num
ber of line-of-battle ships afloat.
"Increase the prosperity and" happi
ness of the people by a reduction of
taxation, and they will add to" their
power quite as much as if they main
tain large armies and powerful fleets.
Money is the sinews of war; and those
nations that are encumbered by an
armed force, as is the case at this mo
ment with Austria and France, are in a
position to be bullied by a country
that has not the tenth part of the force
in ships and regiments, ' but which
has an easy exchequer with a wide
margin for expenditure, and which is
capable of drawing upon its latent re
sources." ' 4o
About a. Pass.
A pass may be given as a courtesy,
but some of the judges think that they
have earned them by favors to the
railroads. That is made very clear by
the letter of thanks thatJudge John
Cooke of Colorado wrote when he re-
ceived his. The letter is as follows:
"Denver, Colo., June 16, 1904 State
of Colorado, S'upreme Court Chambers.
My Dear S'ir:I thank you most sin
cerely for your favor. I asked Mr. Rog
ers to speak to you, because he knew
better than anyone else what I had
done for the railroad attorneys, and
stand ready to, do whenever I can. I
hope to be able" to prove my apprecia
tion of this favor. Yours very truly,
"JOHN B. COOKE."
"C. C. Dorsey Esq."
Gen Corbin Spreads Himself.
A Manila dispatch of the 21st says:
"Major General Corbin, military com
mander of the Philippines, lavishly
entertained a large number of guests
at a lawn fete today." These sort of
dispatches have been rather frequent
since Corbin went to the Philippines.
He is re-establishing the old Spanish
scenes of display, to duly impress the
BIG MONEY IBJ OIL
The development of the Kansas oil
fields is offering greater opportunities
for fortune making than any discov
eries in this country for many years.
There i3 nothing so profitable as oil
producing wells. When once they are
sunk to the proper depth and the
pumps installed there is practically no
maintenance expense. One man can
attend to one or more engines pump
ing ten or a dozen wells, yielding any
wnere from 25 to 150 'barrels of crude
oil each per day. With the market as
low as 75 cents to a dollar a barrel it
is easy to calculate the enormous prof
its. In a well selected location there
io but little risk or danger from fail
ure to find oil. Very few wells are
put down in the oil region in Kansas
that do not strike oil in paying quan
tities. Some pay much greater than
others, but on the whole the under
taking is as safe as most other busi
ness ventures. Kansas is thoroughly
awake to the value of this great in
dustry and has taken all the necessary
steps to protect the crude oil . industry
and insure tremendous profits for the
holders of oil lands in the oil regions.
The Kansas legislature has passed
an act which has been approved by the
governor appropriating $410,000 to es
tablish and operate a state oil refinery
tlty of petroleum oil of any district
hn Kansas, and that this is true is con-
clusively established by the action of
the Kansas people in establishing their
Bueno-Ventura Oil
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ORDER.
cTe INDEPENDENT
Lincoln, Nebr.
Enclosed find $ for which send me ......... .
shares of non-assessable fully paid stock in the Buexa Ventura
Oil and Gas-Company.
. Name.............,''.....................".
Postoffice,
20 cents per share.
great state oil refinery at Peru,
able surroundings.
No oil company ever offered a bet-
The Independent regards this stock
as offering as safe a speculative invest
ment as any that can be made in that
class of investments. With oil wells
almost surrounding this tract of land
it would seem certain that a well sunk
to the proper depth would strike the
same oil lake and be a great producer.
However, in commending this stock
as a speculative investment to thosa
of its readers who are looking for
something of the kind The Independent
can not -guarantee a producing oil
well. It will guarantee that the money
received from the sale of the stock will
be honestly aiil judiciously expended
for drilling the well and for the pro
duction of oil if it is under the land
described. The speculator who asks a
greater guarantee will usually fall into
the hands of some fake promoter who
will promise anything necessary to
make the sale and then disappear from
sight forever.
The Beuno-Ventura Oil and Gas Co.
has been organized for the production
of oil and its funds will be economi
cally expended to that end. Every -stockholder
will share alike according
to the amount of his investment.
If you have a little money for specu
lation send your order for as many
shares as you desire. There is a good
chance that a small investment now
may afford you a handsome income all
your life.
25 shares $ 5 00
50 shares - 10 00
100 shares 20 00
250 share ; . 50 00
5,J shares 100 GO
If further information is desired it
will be furnished on application.
Mako your lemittances and drafts or
money orders payable io The Inde
pendent, Lincoln, Neb. Wo will see
to it. that your stock is properly issued,
recorded and forwarded without delan
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