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."
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We have an article that sell3 itself
Agents make $5 ner day. Others are,
why not you? Write today for full
particulars. Send two two-cent stamps
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: . 30 Burr Blk., liihcoIn,'Neb.
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Gus Youngven of Essex, la.f was- cured"
of lip-cancer by DrD. T. -O'Connor. - He
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of; his neighbors; who alsoriad cancer.
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Neb." "
A REMARKABLE STATEMENT t
75he Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co. j
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Janvmry First Nineteen Hundred and FiveOLlncoln, Nebraska -K
t
K
ASSETS
Cash on hand and
in Banks .......$ 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.
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