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MARCH 23, 1903 PAGE 14 Greatest Values in Spring Merchandise V H W " I 1 H I M n W n n K Ue Nob rash a. Independent i I 4 Weeft tesume o (Ae ReaJiy IVews by (Ae Editor W For more than a year the state of Colorado has been In a turmoil. The people will have a million of extra taxes. During that time, every sec tion of the bill of rights has been trampled underfoot and business has been greatly demoralized. What has been worse, great distress has been brought upon those who labor. In hundreds of these families the grim specter of want has appeared. Hus band and wife, father and child, have been separated by as reckless and heartless a villian as ever wore shoul der straps. A look of disgust comes over the face of every decent man when the name of that blathering, boasting, blatherskite, General Sher man Bell, is mentioned. Meantime an election has been held, and as a result, a man who did not receive one vote for governor has been installed in that office. All that has come about be cause the waterworks and other city utilities of the city of Denver are in the hands of private owners. There has been nothing else in this whole matter. The owners of these city, util ities wanted franchises extended, new ones granted and other favors and special privileges. They . not only wanted that, but cheap labor and long hours. They bought up a previous legislature and persuaded it to defy the constitution of the stale. From that moment the trouble began. When the fountain head was poisoned, all that flowed from it was poisoned. Cor ruption in the courts, at the polls and in every department of the govern ment was the necessary consequence. This legislature secured a republican majority by arbitrarily unseating mem bers of the opposition who were duly and legally elected. It has ended with making a man governor who was not a candidate for that office. That Adams had a majority of the legal votes cast was so evident that even the parasites of the owners of municipal franchises had not the face to seat Peabody, whom they could not deny had re ceived only a minority bf the, legal votes put in the boxes. .Notwithstand ing that, these degenerates seated Pea body under the promise that he would resign after twenty-four hours, which he ; did. There ' is nothing to corre spond with such action to be found anywhere in the history of legislation. There Is nothing to which it can be compared, either for its cowardice or venality. . That is not the last of such work. If a stale can seat some man as gov ernor who was not even a candidate for the position, the same thing can be done at Washington and some man seated as president who was never voted for for that office. There has never been a greater crime committed against free government than this Colorado theft of a governorship. It has not been a greed for office that has caused it. It has been a low, vul gar greed for money. The offices were wanted not for the honor that was to be gained, but simply for the money that could be made by possessing them. The, money is, to be obtained by robbing the people under the forms of law. This Colorado business should give the whole nation pause. ' - The senate of the United States has - adjourned, its. extra session and given the president another slap in the face. It refused to ratify the San Domingo treaty in any form whatever.. It re fused to even cast a side glance at the Esch-Townsend railroad freight regulating bill. ; The senate acts as if it was lord supreme of Ihe country and intends to give to the people only such part in government as they are capable of exercising the senate at all times to be the Judge of the people's capabilities. " TheVe was never a more corrupt body oil aristocrats on the earth than the United States senate Most of them have grown old and har- : dened in grafting, boodling and politi cal crimes of all sorts. The few. new men will soon be initiated into the same practices. of Vladivostok and the line of railroad leading to It from Harbin. The war correspondents have been giving us more of their personal ex periences during the week than news about the movements of the troops and the fighting. The rapid abandonment of one position after another, caught most of the correspondents napping and they were taken prisoners by the Japanese or hiked away in such a hurry that they had no time to gather up the news, give us any estimates of the losses of men or material. As soon as they got to a place of safety they sent dispatches telling of their experiences while on the run or how they were treated when taken prison ers. The Japanese j?ave those cap tured a hearty welcome and started them in a hurry, for the rear and on toward the ports of Nippon, where they will be kept until all danger of their making anything public that would give information to the enemy has been passed. Those who escaped the Japs had the hardest time. Their outfits had to be abandoned, and the Russians that were ahead of them gen erally gobbled up everything that was eatable before the correspondence got a chance at them. Alfred J. Boulton will deliver an address, "The Trades Union and Poli tics," under the auspices of the Brook lyn Philosophical association,' at the iEghth street, near Bedford avenue, on Long Island Business college, South Sunday, April 2, at 3 o'clock; - , The first effect of the calling the grand jury in the Chicago case of the beef trust was a sprinting for Europe by a lot of high-up trust employes that were wanted for witnesses. As . Proc tor Knott said on a different occasion, "The gang-planks of - the steamers starting across the sea were crowded." Four half-constructed skyscrapers in New York fell down last Sunday. There was no , great loss of life be cause it was Sunday and no one was at work on the buildings. " Much damage was done to adjacent buildings by the falling walls. The Tammany building inspectors are getting too big a graft and are doing too little inspecting. The contest in the Missouri legisla ture which has just ended was very similar to the one in the Nebraska leg- slatureftwo years ago. The Missouri patriots fought over the office of Unit ed States senator until the very last hour before adjournment and then elected Major Warner' of Kansas City, one of the true and tried republicans that has never failed to be "regular" in all the vicissitudes of a political career that has lasted over a quarter of a century. . The Elkins gang in the senate now has another member, who will stand for the railroads as long as there is a hair on his head. The Nebraska legislature is so busi ly engaged in paternal legislation of all kinds that it has had no time to bring up the bills regulating freight rates or any other bill to which the roads object. It inclines to make one laugh to think that there are several thousand voters in Nebraska who hon estly believe that the republican party has nothing to do with railroads. The people meet in primaries, send dele gates to a county convention, and the county conventions send delegates to the state convention, all of-whom pay their fare and hotel bills and the rail roads have nothing to do with the matter at all. Then when the honest, pure-hearted patriots whom they have thus nominated and elected get down to Lincoln, they find there a wicked lobby, that will not let the noble, pure- hearted men make any law to relieve the neoDle from railroad extortion. 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UIIUUi iNebr. 7 THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE Of The news from Manchuria during the week was all of the same sort - the Russians were still running and the Japanese were pressing hard on both flanks and in the rear. The change of commanders from Kuropat kin to Leivinich. had no other effect than td make the Russians run a little faster. The facts are that the Rus sians have no heart in this war of im perialism and conquest. There is no prospect now that the Russians who get away will stop anywhere this side of Harbin and probably not even there. That will give the Japanese the harbor Ida Tarbell gave the Kansas oil pro ducers some very sound advice the other day. . She told them to "quit siz zling and do business." She pointed out to them that there was a "world market" that Rockefeller could not control. The thing for the Kansas oi producers to do was to build an inde pendent pine line to the gulf and get to the ."world market.!' the long haired and wild-eyed Kansas republi cans down there would do well to lis ten to Miss Tarbell and give up the idea of fixing prices by law. As the official reports come in con cerning the battle of Mukden it ap- 't is rapidly becoming ONE .OF THE FOREMOST OM AH A I of the life Insurance Companies of the Central West From "The Spectator," of New York, February 9, 1905. The Bankers Reserve Life Co., of Omaha Neb., under the management of B. H. Robison, president, is moving steadily along in the estimation of the public of the Central West, where it operates. Its work last year was the cause of much satisfaction to the official staff and the policy holders, the progress made in all directions being first class. The company posses ses assets amounting to f 364,957, the net increase for the year being $141, 857. New business written and paid for amounted to 13,398," 500 In its effort to extend its business, the Company is working along cor ssrvative lines, seeking only high grade risks and keeping its expenses dow n to a reasonable sum. The success it has met with in the seven years of its existence is ufficient proof that its management is pursuing a wise course. A TEN MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY IB. H. ROBISON, President pears that the Japanese did some ex traordinary "foot work" in their flank ing operations. It is said that the Japanese marched thirty miles on March 6, twenty-five miles on March 7, twenty miles on March 8, . and thir teen miles on March 9, reaching the rear of Mukden. Then a detachment was dispatched to cut off the retreat ing Russians and another to ascertain the whereabouts of General Kuropat kin. It was found that the latter al ready had gone north, whereupon prep arations immediately were made for the advance against Tieling, which be gan March 9. There continues to be talk about peace. Whether there is any founda tion for the talk or not is doubtful. The story that comes from St. Petersburg is that the czar is still for war, while many of his ministers are for peace. That a weak man like the czar, 5,000 miles from the scene of war and car nage should be for war is altogether probable. .The disturbances all over Russia are increasing rather than de creasing. With that state of affairs at home, the czar proposes to raise a do mestic loan to carry on the war of $100,000,000, after the bankers of Paris The Independent said last week, it is not the czar who will make peace or go on with the war. That question will be decided by the money power. gan as soon as the first session ended, and without leaving their seats voted themselves mileage the same as if they had gone home and came back. This amounted to $190,000. How can reform in politics be secured or even hoped for, when those who should set