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MARCH 23, 1905 PAGE 12 56? Nobraskxx Indopondoat SENATOR ALLEN. REPLIES by Corrects Some Statements Made Mr. H. G. Stewart in Last Week's Independent , Editor Independent: I desire to en- A f 1 4. A . A ier a aeniai oi suuie suiujuieuiis ui Senator Stewart in last week's Inde pendent. I never said "that strict pop ulism was a mistake." I did say that I had supported Mr. Bryan for the presidency twice and would . do so again, because I believed him eminent ly fitted for the position and that if he were president I thought he would carry into a practical execution the substantive principles of populism. A candidate for the. presidency was not nominated at the Denver conference and no suggestion to that effect was there made. I have never "expressed a sentiment in favor of a regular Wall street reformer and his coin re demption platforms." I have spoken favorably of the intellectual qualities of ex-President Cleveland and Judge Parker, but always in connection with the statement that I would not ac cept their political leadership or be lief and that I would not vote for them. It is singular that a man of the in telligence of Senator Stewart can not distinguish between the intellectu ality of a man and his opinions on Bome subjects. This distinction I have ; Bought to make, in speaking of Cleve- ' land and Parker. I may be permitted to add that just such inferences and ' assertions as Senator Stewart has made are doing populism much harm. They destroy the cohesion and united action that should characterize the party. Their effect is to disintegrate rather than to unite. The senator seems to have failed thus far to learn the valuable lesson everywhere appar ent' in life, that the energies of those i united in a common cause should be directed against the common enemy and not to the destruction of them selves. I am a believer in much that ! Senator Stewart believes in. I regard ' his delightful personality and friend ship very highly, but he believes in some things l do not Deneve -in. i am able, however, to distinguish be tween the intellectual and lovable Sen ator Stewart and some of the things he accepts as truths. I think I have given ample evidence of ray unswerving loyalty to the popu list party and to its platform and but for these mis-statements I would not trouble you at this' time. : WM. V. ALLEN. Madison, Neb. " " -: ... . . his employers. But If he snoum gruw too virtuous for his job, the stream of corruption would straightway bring an other to the top. Tweeds may come and Crokers may go, but Tammany goes on forever. While citizens have parties to wor ship, and corporations have franchises to buy, bosses will grow faster than the revivalist's God can convert them. We suffer from the selfishness of our rich citizens and the stupidity of our poor ones. I do not believe God an swers the prayer' of the lazy. If good people swallow a political boss and then pray the Lord to convert him, why may not a man, with equal pro orietv. ask the Lord to help him digest a glutton's portion of boiled cabbage? These good people who are praying for the conversion of the boss have made him a possibility. Without their votes, the machine could not survive a single election. They, therefor, are the ones who need conversion. Polit ical and social degradation are the ripe fruits of. the ignorance and indiffer ence and subserviency of pious people. Revival meetings will never save, a city, unless they are revivals of civic understanding and integrity and vigilance. Praying for a Political Boss Cincinnati, 0., March 19. At the Vine Street Congregational church to day, the pastor, Herbert S. Bigelow, commented on the special prayer meet ings that have been held in Cincinnati . for the conversion of the political boss. He said in part: -A revivalist has called upon the people to pray "that mercy, salvation, justification, redemption and final glor ification mav sDeedily come to the boss politician of Ohio." . Is it Christian to want all those things to happen to him? A final and speedy : glorification, for instance what is the meaning of that? Here in Cincinnati and Ohio, the shame has worn off and we hardly blush when we talk to each other of our boss. But when we come to advertis ing our shame in heaven, that is too much. The revivalist assures us that the God who effected the conversion of Paul "can accomplish a greater tri umph in the conversion of a twenti eth century boss politician." No doubt it would be a greater triumph, con sidering the difference in material, . His imagination kindles at the thought of such a prize catch. He says: "With his Napoleonic powers of organization and ability to general great bodies of men, he will become a mighty leader in the final conquest of the world." A converted boss is a contradiction. A boss Is a man who enters into con ' spiracy with public service corpora tions and other Pharisees to buy votes and sell legislation. He is the Judas Iscariot of democracy. His profession is to betray the public Into the hands of those who provide the corruption fund and take franchises and other favors in return. If we are to keep a boss 1 pray God he may be as bad as possible, What could be so bad as a good boss? The worst boss is the. best. The only 'good boss Is a dead one. "But," it is said, "if the boss were once converted, he would become power for good." Nonsense! His power would leave him.. He would then have no more power than hun dreds of other citizens, equally able, but more honorable. No doubt, merit tells, even among thieves. When so many are willing: to become the hired assassins of popular government, he who gets the job must have something to commend him to Government Regulation or Ownership, Which7 The entire country is aroused to the struggle with the railroads. The ques tion of mastery must be fought out. There can be no retreat for the people. The transportation forces are steadily, surely advancing in their encroach ments upqn the rights of the people. They are well organized. They are led by their best generals. The "captains of industry" are the brightest orga nizers in the industrial world. They are inspired by the spirit of greed and an ambition for great wealth and the power it brings. They have no heart for the people only to exploit them. They are all Rockefellers at heart, driving their gainful schemes with a cold and selfish calculation that takes no account of the wrecked lives and fortunes of others. They buy men to help them fight their battles. They extend their pow er into all the states, into every coun ty. Their squads of helpers are in the country precincts: their companies, well captained, are In the smaller cities; their regiments, well equipped and officered, are in control of tlie larg er cities and on guard at every, state capitol. They have divisions of the most - experienced veterans stationed at Washington and congress .and the national executive are in a state of constant siege. ' It is impossible to describe this great army with its complete and ef ficient organization, or to overestimate its power. It controls political parties from the precinct caucus to the na tional convention. It corrupts law makers, executives and judges. It fights just laws successfully in the courts and overrides other laws when t can not defeat them. . The anti-pooling law has always been a dead letter, rne raiiroaas have never obeyed it. The anti-re bate law is only a "brain teaser" to afford their sharp freight managers an opportunity to exercise their wits in schemes to evade it. The long-and- short-haul clauses of the interstate commerce law were long since suc cessfully evaded by their shrewd sys tem of "differentials." . Thirty years ago the war for relief from extortion was begun by the peo ple in Iowa and Wisconsin. It has resulted in utter defeat. Attempted" regulation" has so far failed. Gov ernor LaFollette so testifies in regard to the efforts made in his state and the writer of this Is familiar with the "granger" war on the railroads in Wis consin. In Iowa, alone of all the states where regulation has been tried, has any degree of success been won. But it counts for little there. A state has no power over interstate jates. Con gress aione can regulate tnem. But it is the failure of federal legis lation that demands our attention. The railroads have nullified all federal, regulative measures either in the courts or by defiantly disregarding them. And now they are bent on de feating further attempts to pass more stringent measures through congress With their hand on the United States senate, neither the house nor the pres ident can do" anything. This has just been demonstrated so that a child ought to comprehend the lesson. But suppose President Roosevelt fi nally succeeds In getting his, or any, good rate bill through the senate. Sup pose congress succeeds in giving to the interstate commerce commission the additional powers proposed. Judg ing by the past, there can be but one result. The railroads will continue to be masters Just the same. They will find a way to defeat or nullify the law. But this fight for regulation must be fought out. We want to see the presi dent, Senator LaFollette, W. J. Bryan g It n mission. CATTLE SIM SHEEP Nye & Biirfizn&Q Co, fCCTH OH AH A, KEBKASKA. 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Doyle, trustee, is plaintiff, and Consumers Ice Company, incor porated, of Lincoln, Nebraska, defendant, I will, at 2 o'clock p. m.. on the 28th day of March. A, D, 1905. at the east door of the Court House, in the city of Lincoln, Lancas ter County, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction the following described Lands and Tenements, to-wit. ' Lot four (4) block .one hundred sixteen (116), original plat situated at 721 K St., city of Lin coln, county of Lancaster, state of Nebraska. And real estate described in Deed 106, page 356 and 357 as follows to-wit: Lot "A" other wise described as, commencing at the south east corner of the northeast quarter of the" southeast quarter of section 17, town 10, range 6, in Lancaster county, Nebraska, and running thence west at right angles to the east line of said section on a magnetic course of south 80 degrees 80 minutes, west 415 feet for a starting point called Station A (stone set here) thence north 63 degrees 46 minutes west 106.75 feet to an oak post, thence south 60 degrees 14 min utes west 33 feet to northeast corner ice house, thence south 39 degrees 06 minutes west, along nortn siae ice nouse iuu ieei cen- terof Oak Creek. Also from said Station A, th ence south 32 degrees 40 minutes east, 128 f e et to a lime stone, thence south 52 degrees 08 minutes west 90 feet to center of Oak Creek, thence along center of oak creek to said point 100 feet south 39 degrees 08 minutes west from saiaoau post. - Also Lot B. otherwise aescnoea as con mencing at Station A thence south 32 degrees 40 minutes east 126 feet to a lime stone planted for a starting point, thence soutn32 degress 40 minutes east 121.5 feet, thence south 42 de grees 08 minutes west 80 feet, thence north 1 degrees 12 minutes west 127 feet to point called Station 3. thence north 52 degrees 13 minutes west 14 feet, thence north 52 degrees 08 minutes east 62 feet to the place of begin ning above called a starting point. Also the land and the creek 73 feet wide along the west side of the following meander: Commencing at Station 3 and running thence south 15 degrees 13 minutes east 127 feet. thence south 43 aegrees vts minutes west tit feet to north edge of Cotton Wood tree on east bank of Oak Creek; also land and creek 75 feet wide alone the west side of the following meander, beginning at a point 800 north 11 de grees 30 minutes west (mag.) or tne soutnwess corner east southeast X section 17, Town ship 10, range 6. and running north 73 degrees 30 minutes east 140 feet, thence south 89 de grees 14 minutes east, 138 feet, thence north, 64 degrees 21 minutes east 470 feet, thence north 53 degrees 35 minutes east 105 feet to said Cotton Wood tree; also the' land and creek 75 feet wide along the west side of the following meander: beginning at Station 3, and running thence north 62 degrees 12 minutes west 219 feet, thence north 26 degrees 42 min utes west 46.5 feet, thence north 20 degrees 32 minutes west 86.3 feet, thence north 22 degrees 3 minutes east 178.8 feet, thence north 9 de grees 03 minutes east mv reet, tnence nortn. 11 degrees 06 minutes west 310 feet, thence north 34 degrees 16 minutes west 159.5 feet, thence north 66 degrees 31 minutes west 154.6 feet, thence north 80 degrees 31 minutes west 199.4 feet, thence south 55 degrees 46 minutes west 290.4 feet, thence north 63 degrees 09 min utes west 126.1 feet, thence north 35 degrees 31 minutes west 97.7 feet, thence north 5 de grees 38 minutes west 166.7 feet, thence north 15 degrees 20 minutes east 56.1 feet to the north line of the southeast X of said section 17-10-6 at a point 1194 feet west of the east quarter corner of said section, also the land and said Creek 75 feet wide along the east side of the following meander: Beginning at a point 634 feet south 9 degrees 30 minutes east (mag.) of northeast corner of southeast X of north east X of said section 17, town 10, range 6 and running thence south 68 degrees 55 minutes west 175.2 feet, thence soutn 57 aegrees 51 minutes west 182.2 feet, thence south 48 de grees 57 minutes west 351.6 feet, thence south 44 desrees 17 minutes west 117.3 feet thence south 50 degrees 43 minutes west 152.8 feet. thence south 54 degrees 02 minutes west ho: feet, and thence south 33 degrees 11 minutes west 181 feet to the south line of the southeast X of the northeast X of said section 17. town 10, range 6, in said county and state, an ac cording to tbe map of said section 17, town 10, ranore 6 on file in the Register of Deeds Office of Lancaster County, Nebraska. Given under my hand this 23ra day or Febru ary. A. IX 190&. - DON'T LOSE MONK V from your neglect in keep ingaccounts of your dealings. Get THE HANDY V.OOKET ACCOUNT BOOK. It shows you how In business form, by plain examples and illustrations, Firmly nicely bound, pocket aud flap, 36c postpaid, M. O. or 2c stamps. F. O. Johnson, Pub., Marion. Iowa. Mukes a tine gift. and others who believe in "regulation" organize their forces and give regula tive measures the best and most thor ough test possible. For it is only by making such a test that the whole country can be con vinced of the impossibility of making regulation effective, or that relief can be obtained by. such measures. When the lesson is once thoroughly learned, the people will wake up, exert the power they posses, shake off the rule of the great railroad army and adopt government ownership. New Era-Standard, Kearney, Neb. The American house of lords will take time to deliberate on secret re bates, trusts and "sich." The people haven't time to think or deliberate, and when the "lord have thought and deliberated, there'll be still less opportunity for the people to do so. Beacon, Broken bow, in en. Notice Of Stvle Under Chattel Mortgage Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a pertain chattel morteaee executed and deliver ed to A. W. Stevens Co. by Andrew Enrich and Adolph Schnase on the 25th nay ot June A. u. 1901, said Andrew JCurtch and Adolph Schnase, then and there being residents of Lancaster county Nebraska and said mortgage being duly tiled or record in Lancaster county Nebraska in tlie office of the county clerk of said county on the 29th day otJnne 1901, said mortgage being given to secure the payment oi tne sum ot r our Hundred ($100.00) dollars, evidenced by two certain promissory notes ot Two Hundred it 200. 00) dollars each signed by the said Andrew Curich and Adolph Schnase, and payable to said A. W. Stevens Co., on the 1st day of Jan uary 1902. and the first day of December 1902. re spectively with interest Irom June 25th 1901 at 6 per cent per annum. Default having been made In the condition of said mortgage, and no suit or other proceedings at law having been instituted for the recovery of said debt or any part thereof, and there now being due to said K. W. Stevens Co. thereon the sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Four dollars, and eighty four cents (I364.8U the said mort gagee will on Friday the 14th day of April 1905 at the hour of 2:00 p. m. o'clock of said day sell at public auction to the highest bidder lor ensh the following described roods and chattels, be ing the property described In said aloresaid, mortgage to wit. One Hevens 16 II. P. Traction Engine No. 2135: one water wagon plain with force-pump and hoe with all attachments and fixtures belonging thereto and to sold machinery; one J. I. Case separator with V. T. stacker. - Said suleto take place at the lime aforesaid in Lincoln Nebraska In the presence of the property to be sold at the S. E. Cor. pf 10 and f'W&ts., Lintoln Lancaster county Nebraska. ' A. W. Stevens Co.,