MARCH 23, 1903
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Greatest Values in Spring Merchandise
V H W " I 1 H I M n W n n K
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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. '
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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. It
is all the fault of the lobby.' iThe mem
ber of the legislature is not to blame
at all.
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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
