MARCH 23, 1905
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T5he Ncbraoko. Independent
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Is William P. Pierson and he lives at
Onarga, III When the editor of The
Independent was a young newspaper
man, working on a paper in St. Louis,
he noticed for several days papers
piled up at the door of a fine resi
dence which he passed. As they con
tinued to accumulate, he made in
quiries and got on to a nice little story
for publication. The last member of
the family had died a few days pre
vious and there were no known rela
tives, although at one time the family
consisted of twelve, the father and
mother and ten children. One by one
they had all died, the father the last
of all.' He had been a subscriber to
the Misouri Republican for fifty-one
years and the paper was still being
left at -the door. Two' of the sons
of this family had been killed in the
union army and three in the confed
erate. "All the rest had died of dis
ease! Three of them had been mar
ried but died childless. . The , fatner
was an orphan boy who came to this
country from Scotland when very
young. The mother was the only child
of ' Kentucky parents, who died when
she was very young. The man had
been true to his paper all his life. The
Missouri Republican had been named
away back in the days of Jefferson or
soon afterward, for "republican" was
the name of Jefferson's party.
r. Two Billion Dollar Congress'
The following are the aggregate
amounts of the various appropriation
bills passed by the last congress:
Agricultural
Army
Diplomatic
District of Columbia..,
Fortifications .'.
Indian ......
Legislative '..
Military academy
Navy ...J.
Pensions
Postoffice .........
River and harbor . ,
Sundry civil
Deficiencies :!'.,. . . ; ". " .
Miscellaneous .' .......
Permanent appropriations .
Total
$ 6,850,000
69,102,772
2,123,048
9,798,297
6,747,893
7,857,720
29,133,842
673,713
100,396,680
138,250,100
181,022,094
. 18,251,375
67,063,750
.31,180,810
3,250,000
146,836,320
.$S18,478,914
Here is an increase in the total costs
of government within ten years of
$348,984,904, or 74 per cent.
That is the same way that the re
publicans are" also governing Nebras
ka. If the people will have imperial
. ism, favored trusts and , grafts of va
rious kinds, there is no escape. Taxa
tion must be increased. -A few years
ago there was an uproar , when itwas
found that otfe congress in its two ses
sions appropriated a billion dollars.
The last congress appropriated nearly
two billion dollars. No one seems to
he much impressed with the fact and
they will not be until another bond
issue is proposed. The experts of the
treasury say that there will be a de
ficit of $95,000,000 at the end of this
fiscal year, and they always underesti
mate deficits. Next year the deficit
will be still greater and after that
comes bonds.
All the World Moves Qn
While all the world moves on, this
country is tied down by a lot of old,
plutocratic fossils like Depew and
Piatt. Daniel S. Kidder, United States
consul at Algeria, reports that:
A much needed reform in the rail
way system of Algeria is to be realized
as soon as the existing concessions
expire, which will be within a few
years for the last of them. The colony,
aided financially by France, is to buy
up all the lines, and is to establish
uniform and reduced tariffs over the
whole country. No measure is more
urgently required nor is more likely
to prove a greater boon to Algeria.
United States Minister Sorsby, La
Paz, Bolivia, reports, under date of
' November, 17, 1904, that a law was
passed by the recent Bolivian congress
dedicating the Brazilian indemnity
fund, 2,000,000 ($9,733,000), to. the
costs of studies and construction of
railway lines in the republic.
The most enlightened nations of
Europe long ago adopted the govern
ment ownership of railroads, and now
the colonies in Africa and the repub
lics in South America are doing like
wise. But this republic, that can do
more bragging about its greatness
than anything else on earth, comes,
under the leadership of fossils and
plutocrats, trailing along in the rear
with China. If the plutocrats are still
to rule, we had better take down the
stars and stripes and run up the
dragon.
Still at It
Albert S. Bolles has written a good
many books on - banks and banking
and is a lecturer for the University
of Pennsylvania and Harvard college.
He startsbut in one of his works to
tell what money is, and saysr .
The. transformation of metals into
coins does not affect their value. This
truth can not be too firmly grasped.
Now that is the sort of lies that is
being taught to the young men of
those two schools. The author and
lecturer can not but know they are
lies. Did he ever see a' silver dollar?
Does he know the market value of
uncoined silver bullion? Does not the
transformation of silver bullion into
coin affect its vaue? Mr. Bolles
knows it does. He knows that the
value is more than doubled by coin
age. Yet he goes on writing and speak
ing his lies. His statement is not
even true of gold under the govern
ment fiat that all gold presented at
the ndint shall be transformed into
coin at public expense. Coined gold
and uncoined gold bullion are no
where the same value unless it is
within a few steps of a mint. The
cost of shipping it to the mint is al
ways deducted
Some people Imagine that the gold
standard thieves have learned enough
to stop teaching and writing their
falsehoods, as they' don't see much
about it in the papers, but they have
not. They are still at it.
Darwinism - and ' Man '
Those socialistic economists who
are forever trying to apply . Darwin's
theory of the survival of the fittest to
man, forget that for at, least two thou
sand years the whole human race, ex
cept the wild savages, have been work
ing on exactly the opposite theory. The
weak are preserved, .the, helpless are
fed and clothed; the old are cherished
and cared for. There has , been in
jected into man a law of love, and the
law of self-preservation as the first
and only law has been superceded. v
It is a waste of time and energy to
follow these materialists and forever
be reminding them that in applying to
human society the law of struggle and
survival they forget that the great end
and purpose of organized or civilized
society is to arrest and turn aside the
operation of what are called cosmic
forces and substitute what we may call
moral law. If there were no such
thing as a moral law, if there were no
such emotion as love, Mr. Ghent's the
ory of economic force as the basis of
all ethics, might stand.
Charged With Perjury
Whether a pass is a bribe or a courr
tesy, one thing is certain, the charge
that every member of the legislature
who accepted one, has committed per
jury can not be refuted, .for everyone
of them took the following oath when
he was sworn in:
I do herevy solemnly swear (or
affirm) that at the election
at which I was chosen to fill said of
fice, I have not improperly influenced
in any way the vote of any elector,
and have not accepted, nor will I ac
Cfrpt or receive, directly or indirectly,
any money or any other valuable thing
from any corporation, company, or
person, or any promise of office for
any official act or influence (for any
vote I may give or withhold on any
bill, resolution or appropriation).
CAT A
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Pon'tdecclve yourself intothinkinRlt'soiily a per
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ea, the Catarrh Is spreading out through your bend,
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some condition. It' making you a hawking, spit
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every one who comes near you.
Don't make the mistake of believing Catarrh
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away." Once the active, poisonous germs gain
even the slightest loothold. they multlnlv with
astounding quickness und spread rapidly ov.t the
delicate liDiug of the nose and throat, until their
unheeding victim Is lalrly devoured by Catarrh.
Don't let CeLtevrrh get down (o yovir
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settles on ,tho lungs, it's CONSUMPTION.
Consumption is simply neglected CeUarrh,
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because they haven't looked alter their Catarrh.
While they'ro thinking "it docsn.t amount to
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able to the deadly stage. All of a sudden they
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Interior of the nose showing the passages
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la your breath fault
Are your eyes watchit
Do you tahe cold easilyt
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Do crusts form in your nonet
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Does your mouth taste bad morningst
Do you have a dull feeling in your headt
Do you have to clear your throat on rising?
Is there a tickling sensation in your throat?
Do you have an unpleasant discharge from
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Does the mucus drop into your throat from
the nose?
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A little book by Flora Bullock has
been laid on the editorial desk en
titled, "The Old Town by the River."
The text is by Miss Bullock, the pho
tographs by Tyson & Rice and the
drawings by Harriet Hershey. Both
the prose and the verse is' poetry and
the illustrations are poetry also. The
Old Town is Nebraska City. It takes
one away "into dreamland to glance
through the pages of this little book.
The author must have caught some
thing of the visions in which the In
dian indulges when he stands on some
lone hill, shuts his eyes and sees the
happy hunting grounds, which is a
more rational vision of heaven than
streets paved with gold. The Indian
in his vision sees some of the things
described in this little book. Ivy Press,
Lincoln, Neb.
The Hartford Courant says that it
is "well satisfied to let the masters of
the art of railroad transportation con
duct It, instead of trying to conduct it
ourselves." Did it ever occur to the
Hartford Courant that the same "mas
ters of the art of transportation" i
would conduct it under government
ownership that now conduct it under
Wall street ownership?