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.
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SHERIFF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an
Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of the Third Judicial District of
Nebraska, within and for Lancaster County,
in an action wherein Thomas J. 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.
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ary. A. IX 190&. -
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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.,
