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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1905)
MARCH 23, 1005 PAGE 10 X3ho .NcbrocUtx Indopcndont. A very pathetic story is being told in some of tho papers about a mother who was evicted from one of the New York flats upon the birth of a baby. It was said that the landlord charged CO cents a week additional for every child in the flat and the poor family could not pay the additional rent and was evicted. The question arises, if the poor are to be prevented from having children, where are the future Abraham LIncolns and Andrew Jack sons to come from. That kind of men are only bred by the poor. When the great dailies told their readers that gold had an "intrinsic value" and never changed, everyone of them believed it. Being encouraged by such credulity, the editors are now publishing pictures of the battle of Mukden, when any man but an idiot vould know that it will be months be fore a single picture of that battle, whether photographic or drawn by an artist can- reach this country. How ever, this last fake is not any greater than their gold standard fake was. The French have loaned Russia $2, 500,000,000 and think that the interest on that amount is about all the czar can squeeze out of the impoverished peasants. Therefore the French refuse to loan the czar any more moneyr Isn't It a sad thing to think that for gen erations to come the poor, hard work ing people of Russia will have to toil and sacrifice to pay the debt that the grand dukes are creating in this war with Japan? t v ; Think of the indescribable infamy that the railroads committed when they sent two such men as Deitrich and Millard to the United States sen ate, while there were scores of men of ability and good character in the state. It shows that what the rail roads wanted was not the men of abil ity and character, but tools who would instantly obey orders. The railroads send all the members of the legislature an annual pass. Then if one of them refuses to obey orders the papers are all informed that man has a pass. And then they call a pass a courtesy! Members of the legisla ture often find that kind of courtesies very embarrassing. - - Forty per cent of all the gold in the United States, is in the vaults of ...the national banks. ' They are getting ready for something. ' For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's Boothing Srrup has been used by mothers for their children while teeth ing. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child Buffering and crying with pain of cut ting teeth? If so. send at once and jet a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup for Children Teething. vIta value is incalculable. ' It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole System. Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chil dren teething is pleasant to the taste imd is the prescription of. one of the Oldest and b A femal physicians and curses in the United Qtate3, and i for Bale by all , druggists throughout1 the world. Price, 25 cents a bottle. Be Bure- and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup." Would You Better Your Condition? We have an article that sell3 itself Agents make $5 ner day. Others are, why not you? Write today for full particulars. Send two two-cent stamps to WESTERN FLY-GUARD CO., . : . 30 Burr Blk., liihcoIn,'Neb. ; , Three Cancers Cured - Gus Youngven of Essex, la.f was- cured" of lip-cancer by DrD. T. -O'Connor. - He was so well pleased tjxM vhe told itwo of; his neighbors; who alsoriad cancer. C. J. Sandal, Red Oak; la., and T: 13. Draper' now pt South " Omana. Both bave. since been cure4, by Dr. O'Connor. -AWTr-ftnswer inc lries from other sufferers. Wr.ce them and at thesame time send a lull description of ;your cancer to Dr. T. O'Connor, Lincoln, Neb." " A REMARKABLE STATEMENT t 75he Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co. j - - 4( Janvmry First Nineteen Hundred and FiveOLlncoln, Nebraska -K t K ASSETS Cash on hand and in Banks .......$ 74,686 03 First Mortgage Loans on Real Es . tate 851,231 96 Cash Loans on Com pany's Policies . . 30,084 42 Collateral Loans . . 3,120 00 Net Deferred and Unreported Prem iums v Interest Accrued not due 25,505 24 23,436 44 1,000 00 Furniture and Fixtures Gross Assets, Dec. 31, 1304 $1,009,064 03 LIABILITIES Reserve, Four Per Cent ...$ 764,277 91 Death Losses Proofs not in.... 2,000 00 Agent's Credit Bal ances 3290 38 Surplus to Policy holders 239,495 80 $1,009,064 09 Bills Receivable .......... None Premium Notes None Real Estate .None Stocks and Bonds ........None Agent's Debit Balances.. ..None "Other" Assets . ... None No. of Polices In Force ' 9,480 Business Written in 1904 ........$5,461,302 Total Business in Force ....$14,910,277 Not a dollar of principal or in terest past due or unpaid -11 per cent of surplus earned to mean reserve, 1904 We lead the world in our home state in. new business written in 1904 Write J. H. Harley, Secy., Lincoln, Neb., for Agency I ?VbHtHt bbHbbttr Not Overproduction The farmers are having many set backs right now and we do not care very much, for we must not make a big cotton crop this year and the only thing that will keep down a big crop will be providence. If providential hindrances will keep us from planting so much cotton, it will be a great day for the south. We do hope something will happen that will keep down that great crop which we are bound to make if something does not happen. We used to say we couW not make thirteen million bales of cotton, but we have done made them and ginned them, and now I believe we can make and gather fifteen million, and that very thing will be done, for every fel-j low will think, now is the time for him to make his pile. But the good Lord will take care of us. Ozark Tribune. Let the readers of The Standard sub ject the above to a little rigid reason ing in order that they may see if it will stand the . test. The idea of the Tribune writer is to make cotton less plentiful and so enhance the value of this lessened amount. This-argument carried out to its logical conclusion, would result in the least possible amount of cotton being produced, in order that the highest price possible could be obtained for it. So little raised, that it became a luxury that only the rich could buy. If this were found to be profitable for the produc ers of cotton, the same thing would be true in the case of producers of all other things and we should then have a condition, where only the very rich could buy and since the consumption of production would fall off, there would be a falling off in the demand for labor to produce; 'this would re duce the earnings of labor and result in still less demands for labor prod ucts and so on in one round of ever tightening constriction. It was the politico-economic ignorance of Presi dent Harrison which advocated the idea that anything that was plentiful was "cheap and nasty." So long as there are people 'needing cotton goods, there can not be too much of it .'pro duced, and there are millions of peo ple in this country needing cotton goods; many, very many more mil lions all over the world needing them and if we have them, we can ex change with these people and both parties to the exchange, be benefited What the planter most needs . Is not high price for cotton, but a just price relative to the prices he has td pay for those things he does not himself directly produce. Free him from the burden of taxes he now pays owning 15 per cent of the total wealth of the United States, he pays SO per cent of the taxes-r-give him free trade with all the world and he will prosper, These are the things he most needs, and the men who .are now advising a reduction of cotton raising are working at the wrong end of the line! The Standard, Daphne, Ala. road commissioners, and to fix a maxi mum schedule o railroad freight rates on oil.; Last week it supplemented these measures with the so-called antl disenmination bill,, designed . to pre vent the Standard Oil company from stilling competition' by temporary cut ting of prices Jn various localities of the state. The evil which this law attempts to remedy is widely recog niztci by economists as one of the most vital jn the whole trust problem. Thus, for instance, Professor J. B. Clark, of Columbia University, in his recent vol ume on "The Problem of Monopoly," re.naik& that -'the difference between a regime of uniform prices and a re gime ol distriminating prices maitefa the difference between freedom and. oppression : ;. and the differ ence between a sound economy and an unendurable one." He adds that if federal laws, or laws made concur rently in the several states, made this predatory competition unsafe, "the lo cal competitor might survive, and his survival would afford " a guaranty against extortion." He concludes that "a regime of uniform charges would go far toward disarming monopolies." It is precisely the policy suggested by Professor Clark and other economists lor trust regulation that Kansas is Uying to cary out in the anti-discrimi nation law. The statute forbids any poison, firm or corporation to discrimi nate between localities in the selling price of goods, "after equalizing the distance from the point of production, manufacture or distribution, and freight rates therefrom." If complaint is made to the state charter board that a cciporation is violating the law, the boaics is authorized to conduct an in vestigation, and if in its judgment the corporation has been guilty of unfair c scrimination, it may revoke the char ter cf a domestic corporation or with draw the permit of a foreign corpo ration to do business in the state. A penalty of a fine of $1,000 is provided for every violation of the act, the sum to be collected by suit brought in a competent court by the attorney gen eral of the state. If the law can be effectively enforced, and does not be come what Professor Clark has called "merely a pious wish," it ought to prove of great value in developing the potential competition that so often checks monopolistic exactions. Its ope ration will be watched with interest by persons throughout the country who are concerned with the possibility ol the' control of monopolies. The Out look. ; ' : Good Seed Corn Prevention of Predator Competition The last of the- series of measures adopted by the state of Kansas in its contest with the Standard Oil company will , receive wide attention because cf its bearing on the possibility of the control of monopolies generally. When the state legislature appropriated $410, 000 for the establishment and -operation of a state refinery as a branch of the penitentiary, in order to encourage independent refineries to enter the Kansas field, it enacted laws to make pipe lines common. carriers under the jurisdiction of the state board of rail- It is important to farmers that they secure good seed corn. Here's what a farmer says about corn he purchased f roni . Ratekin's Seed House, Shenan doah, la: Racine, Wis., Feb. 4, 1905. The? ; Iowa Silver Mine I purchased from : you last spring grew almost to a grain, and made me a splendid j crop which made an average of 90 bushels- to the, acre. - This corn .' beats all other varieties. JOHN VRANA. ' - The Ratekin Seed House have other varieties equally.good. Write for sam ples and prices, mentioning The In dependent. -: ': Mr. H. L. Williams. of Gothenburg, Neb., and Geo. B. Aistrope of Wake field, Neb., had. each a mixed car of steers and heifers on. the South Oma for $5 and $4.95 respectively. Both were highly pleased.. Nye & Buchanan sold both shipments. Will Win in Georgia The old ring forces in Georgia are bracing up and putting this man and that man out as a candidate for gov ernor, feeling for the best taking bait, and" it.behooves the populists to begin to bestir themselves and do something. Georgia is ours next year if we but reach out and take it. The people have been hoodwinked and honey-f uggled as long as need be. The law built and protected trusts and corporations are eating us up. Are we to sit idle and unconcerned and let them go on, or are we men enough to measure swords with the rascals and drive them put? Go to organizing at once, and join in the fight for Mollie and the babies. Dalton Herald, Ga. Mis SEED Oil. 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