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Uf;o HcbrashQ. Independent FAQ 13 1 MARCH 16, 1905 other's vote. Then after each old party ticket; and both republican and demo- ' crat will often vote the Bame reform ticket, and thus a new party will soon come Into power to displace a party of dead Issues. If each voter could vote some reform ticket, and at the : same time vote his old party ticket also, perhaps a majority of them would , dolt NEWTON B. SANDY. i Mannlngton, W. Va, Be Sure You're Right Editor Independent: You make the Malm that, inasmuch, as the railroads are private property the government has no right to do any regulating. I infer it Is a fact that a great many, If not all, city ordinances are of a regu ' lating nature, some of them, even, in vading the homes of many citizens, for instance, in case of contageous diseases, or in ferreting out crime. It is , also a fact that there Is not a railroad, a street car, telephone or telegraph line, or other public utility put in operation without the sanction and aid of government, be it town, county, state or general government. That Is, the respective government gives the charter or franchise, and with it the use, exclusively or in part of public streets, or country high ways, as the case may be. The gov ernment also aids the projectors of any public utility, in getting the right of way, by compelling any unwilling in dividual to part with any needed land, causing in some instances' Inconveni ences, ye3, even hardships. And why all this? A few words explains it all the public good demands it. Whether this, is true in all cases, I need not dis cuss; the stubborn fact remains, viz., wherever and whenever private or per sonal interest or. good and public in terest or good conflicts the former must give way. i Now, a good and just government, 1 take it, is supposed to protect, with out partiality, the life, liberty and pur suit of happiness, of all law-ablng citi zens. Is that being done now? No honest man, I think, will make such a ridiculous statement. Will you insist, I pray you, that the government can not, in any manner, regulate the child of ita own creation, though it may ever so much abuse its granted privileges? Must the government stand idly and helplessly by, while thousands upon thousands of our citizens are annually crippled or slain and as many more are .slowly; but surely brought to the verge of poverty, yes, even starvation, by the comparatively few greedy and wreck less stock-jobbing and stock-catering 1 scheming promoters, while these rapid ly accumulate princely fortunes? "By the Eternal," no, no! Alas, it is not that the government needs to get the right to do the neces sary regulating, it needs, badly needs, many, very many, public spirited men in our legislatures, our congress, our courts and executive chairs, where now such men are almost as scarce as hen's teeth.; The people, largely at least if not altogether, are to blame for not - putting them there. Often I have heard and read the re marks, almost exclusively from popu lists, Iwe care little or nothing for per- sons or the offices, principle Is every- thing. - Indeed, we need and must have the Offices, not of course for the in - come, connected with them, but to get our correct principles enacted into ' law. Can a candidate, closely connected ; with .the banking interest, be expected to work for the interest of the people in financial affairs? Or, can a railroad attorney be expected to work for the - Interest of the people In railroad af f fairs? , Let us then, fellow populi3ts, as we go plodding along towards the - desired goal, though ever so slowly, yet . surely, iiot forget, that while we keep on agitating and discussing, eternal The Kidney Vhsn thoy cro weak, tor pli$ or stagnant, tho whole cystcin suffers. Don't nog fcet them at this time, but heed -the warning of the cenxng pacx, tno Dioateo face, the sallow complexion, the urinary disorder, and tcgia treatment at once with Inlood'sSarsaparilla Vh:ch contains tho hast and cefest curative substances. For testimonials of remarkable curs IZ4 for Sook on Kidneys, No. 8. C L Hood Co Lowell, Mesa. vigilance is the price of liberty. Let us also exercise all possible patience and forbearance toward those, that do not, as yet, travel with us. FRANCIS. S'cribner. Neb. Justice Marches On Single taxers have goon reason to congratulate "each other over the re cent information regarding the on ward movement, as announced through various newspapers. Steps in the di rection of absolute single tax legisla tion have recently been taken by the London county council; the Glasgow council, recently elected, contains twen ty out of the twenty-six who are firm advocates of the taxation of land values; and the city of Bradford has adopted a resolution to the same effect. In our own country we have most encouraging reports from the Fairhope, Ala., colony, and the newspapers of all kinds are now, more" than ever before, disposed to present open columns for the discussion of the question. The fact is that the single tax is the only way out of the woods for every monopoly-ridden nation espe cially the United States. It aims at the root of fundamental evil, and shows the fallacy of trying to correct Indus trial evils either by war, by prayers, or by the dream of socialism. The foundation of our industrial evils is cold-blooded, iniquitous, grinding, cruel, crushing, relentless monopoly. That's the fiend now sapping the foun dations of this government and paving the way for ultimate anarchy. The only remedy is the single tax and it is coming. RALPH HOYT. Los Angeles, Calif. The Inaugural Addreie "We have become a great nation," said President Roosevelt in his Inau gural address. Undoubtedly we have. "Toward all nations, large and small. our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship." Undoubted ly it must. "But justice and generosity In a na tion, as in an individual, count more when shown not by the weak but bv the strong." Undoubtedly they do. "While ever careful to refrain from wronging others, we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged our selves." Undoubtedly we must. "We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteous ness." Undoubtedly we do. "We wish it because we think it is right, and not because we are afraid." Undoubtedly we do. "No strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression." Undoubtedly it should not. ' But why this insistence on military force? What. "strong power" is going to "single out" the "great nation" as "a subject for insolent aggression?" What particular country is threaten ing us? . What power, is disposed to deny us "he peace of justice, the peace of right eousness?" What government is likely to assume that our "justice and generosity" are inspired by weakness rather than by strength? Is there no national strength except that of standing armies and battle ships? Then Russian, with the great est of all standing armies, has the greatest national strength. Then all the other nations of the earth are grov elling at the .feet of Great Britain, with her commanding sea power. Even in the solemnly impressive ceremony of the Inauguration Mr. Roosevelt can not forget the big stick which leans affectionately against the platform on which the oath of office is administered. Yet how trivial are all our dangers from abroad In comparison with our dangers at home! How trifling Is our foreign peril in comparison" with our domestic peril! How little do all the battleships of three empires count against us In comparison with the bribery of public servants and the pri vate looting of the public's heritage! What menace is there in all the legions of Europe in comparison with the menace of corporation control of American political institutions? What peril is to be found in the military re sources of all Europe which compares with that system of organized greed and cunning which, in the language of Justice David J. Brewer of the United States supreme court, is lifting "the corporation into a position of constant rtangcr and menace to republican insti tutions 7 ' Will Mr. Roosevelt never Derceive that in trying to emphasize military greatness he Is diverting the atten tion of the American neoDle from the supreme danger?, From the supreme menace? From the gravest influence that threatens to swerve the remihli from it3 destiny? New York World. A Mlar 's ?orth Free To Any Rheumatic Sufferer I ask no deDosit no reference no SAcnrltr- There la nothing to risk nothing to promise nothing to pay, either now or later. Any Rbeu- matie aunerer, woo does not know any remedy may have a lull dollar's worth iree to try. I willingly make this liberal offer because I know that Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Remedy may be relied upon ALWAYS to bring; the ut most relief that medicine can. Years before I dlscoverd this remedy, I studied the nature of Rheumatism. For Rheumatism i really. Crystalized Poison! Your blood is alwaya full of poison the poison you eat and drink and breathe into your system. It Is the purpose of tbe blood to absorb and carry off this very poison. And the kidneys, which are the blood filters, are expected to cleanse the blood and send it back through the system clean, to gather more poison which, they, In turn will eliminate. But sometimes tbe kidneys fail. And some times, from some other cause, the blood gets so full of poison that they cannot absorb it oil. This is the start of Rheumatism. The poison accumulates and cry s tallies. The crystals look like little grains of sugar or of fine white sand. The blood carries them and they increase in sizs. Then, when It can carry them no longer, it deposits them in a joint on a bone any where. The twinge In your leg the dull ache in your arm on a rainy day are tbe outward signs of tbe unseen crystals. And the twisted limbs and un speakable anguish of the sufferer who has allow ed his symptoms to go unheeded and unattend ed for years theae are the evidences of what Rheumatism, neglected, can do. Rheumatism Includes lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, gout for all these are the results of rheumatic poison in the blood. Plainly, the first thing to do is to remove the poison. But this is not enough. The formation of the poison must be stopped, so that nature may have a chance to dissolve and eliminate the crystals which have already formed. Unless this Is done there can be no cure-tno permanent relief. I searched the whole earth for a specific for Rheumatism som thing that I or any physician could feel safe In prescribing something that we could count on not only occasionly, but always. For the ravages of Rheumatism are everywhere nd genuine relief is rare. Mild cases are sometimes cured by a single bottle, On sale at forty thousand drug stores, Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Remedy A Subterranean, City The town of Epernay, France, is a vast subterranean city, the streets for miles and miles being hewed out of the solid chalk, flanked with piles of champagne of all blends and qualities. There is no light in this labyrinth of streets, crossings and trunings, except that which the sputtering candles af ford. All Is dark and damp, with the thermometer dawn about zero. The largest 'champagne manufacturers in Epernay possess underground cellars which cover no les3 than forty-five acres and contain 5,000,000 bottles of wine. Kansas City Journal. Maxim Gorky Few writers have established Iheir reputation so rapidly as Maxim Gorky. His first sketches (1892-95) were pub lished in an obscure provincial paper of the Caucasus and were totally unknown to the literary world, but when a short tale of his appeared in a widely read re view, edited by Korolenko, it at once attracted general attention. The beauty of its form, it3 artistic finish and the new note of strength and courage which rang through it brought the young writer immediately into prom inence. It became known that Maxim Gorky was the pen name of quite ' a young man, A. Pyeshkoff, who was born in 1868 in Nizhni Novgorod, a large toarn on the Volga; that his father was a merchant or an artisan, his mother a remarkable peasant wo man, who died soon after the birth of her son, anfl that the boy,. orphaned when only 9, was brought uo in a fam ily of his father's relatives. -The childhood of Gorky must have been anything but happy, for one day he ran away and entered into service on a Volga river steamboat. Later he lived and wandered on foot with the tramps in south Russia, and during those wanderings he wrote a number of short stories which were published in a newpsaper of northern Caucasia. The stories proved to be remarkably fine, and when a collection of all that he had hitherto written was published in 1900, in four small volumes, the whole of a large edition was sold in a very short time, and the name of Gorkv took its place to speak of living novel ists only by the side of those of Kor olenko and Tchehoff, immediately- af ter tne name or Leo Tolstoy. In West ern Europe and America his reDuta- tion was made with the same rapidity, as soon as a couple of his sketches we translated into French and German and retranslated into English. It is sufficient") read a few of Gor ky's short stories, for instance, "Mal va," or "Tehelkasn," or "The Ex Men," or "Twenty-six len and One Girl," to realize at once the causes of I spent twenty years experimenting before I felt satisfied that I had a certain remedy for this dreaded disease a remedy which would not only clean out the poison, but one which. ( would stop its formation. Certain Relief The secret lay In e wonderful chemical I found in Germany. When I found this chemi cal I knew that I could make a Rheumatic care that would be practically certain. But even then, before I made an announcement before I was willing to put my name on it E -made more than 2,000 testa! And my failure were but 2 per cent. This German chemical ie not the only ingre dient I use in Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Cure but it made the remedy possible made possible an achievement which, I doubt not, could have been made In no other way. The chemical was very expensive. The duty too, was high. In all It cost me J4.90 per pound! But what is 14.90 per pound (or a rial remedy for tbe world's most painful disease? for a bkal relier iroin the greatest torture human beings know? I don't mean that Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Cure can turn bony joints into flesh again that Is impossible. But it will drive from the blood the poison that causes patn and swelling, and" . then that is the end of tbe pain and swelling the end of the suffering tbe end of rheumatism. That is why I can afford to make this liberal offer that is why I ean afford to spend the FIRST dollar that Rheumatic suffers, the world over, may learn of my remedy. Simply Write Me The offer is open to everyone, everywhere. who has not tried my remedy. But yon must write ME for the free dollar package order. Jr will send you an order on your druggist which he will accept as gladly as he would accept dollar. He will band you from his shelves a standard sized package and he will send the bill to me. There are no conditions no require ments. All that I. ask you to do la to write- write today. I will send you my book on rheu matism beside. It is iree. It will help you to understand your case. Address Dr. Snoop, Box W4U aaciue, nia. his rapidly won popularity. The men and women he describes are not he roes; they are the most ordinary tramps or slum-dwellers, and what he writes are not novels in the proper sense of the word, merely sketches of life. And yet, in the literature of all nations, including the short stories jit -Guy de Maupassant and Bret Harte, there are few thing,; in which such a fine analysis of complicated and strug gling human feelings is given, such interesting, original and new charac ters are so well depicted, and human psychology is so admirably interwoven with a background of nature a calm sea,; menacing waves or endlesssun burnt prairies. In the first named story, you really see the promontory that juts out into "the laughing -waters," that promontory, upon which the fisherman has pitched his but,, and you under stand why Malva, the woman ! who loves him and comes to see him every Sunday, loves that spot as much a3 v she does the fisherman himself. And then, at every page, you are struck by the quite unexpected variety of fine touches with which the love of that strange and complicated nature, Malva, is depicted, or by the unforseen aspects under which both the ex-peasant fisherman and his peasant son ap pear in the short space of a few days. The variety of strokes, rsfined and bru tal, tender and terribly harsh, with which Gorky pictures human feelings, is such that in comparison with his heroes the heroes and heroines of our best novelists seem so simple so sim plified, like a flower in European dec orative art in comparison with a real flower. , Gorky is a great artist; he Is a poet; but he is also a child Of that long ser ies of folk-novelists whom Russia has had for the last half century, and he has utilized their experience; he has found at last that tappy combination of realism with Idealism tor which the Russian folk-novelists have been striv ing for so many years. - Ryeshetnikoff and his school had tried to write novels of an ultrarealistlc character, without any trace of ideal ization. They restrained themselves whenever they felt Inclined to gener alize, to create, to idealize. They tried to write mere diaries, in which events, great and small, important and Insig nificant, were related with an equal exactitude, without even changing the tone of the narrative. In this way, by dint of their talent, they were able to obtain the most, poignant effects; but, like the historian who vainly tries to be "impartial," yet always remains a party man," they had not avoided tha Idealization which they so much dread ed. Prince Kropotkin In Independent. Why not help push the educational and organization work by sending In a club of new subscribers? a-