APRIL 6, 1S05
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life Nebraska. Indopondont
The Church and Rockefeller
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2. At the
Vine Street Congregational church, the
pastor, Herbert S. Bigelow, discussed
the attitude of the church toward
. Standard Oil money. He said in part:
It is a signifiicant sign of the times
that a man so sober and even so con
servative in his thought and utter
ance as Dr. Washington Gladden
should be outspoken, in his objection
to Standar Oil money. He asserts
that this money is the product of the
most, relentless rapacity known to
modern commercial history," and that
the church which accepts it invites
"the contempt of millions of honest
men." .
A few. years ago, I attended a meet
ing of clergymen where Henry D.
Lloyd's book, Wealth Versus Common
wealth, was reviewed and discussed.
The ministers, one and all, expressed
complete sympathy with Mr. Lloyd's
indictment of -the Standard Oil company.-
But they were almost as unani
mous in the opinion that a preacher
ought not to jeopardize the peace of
his congregation by treating such sub-
jects in the pulpit.
Now consider the memorial of the
; New England preachers in objecting
: to taking this money on the ground
that the methods of the Standard Oil
company are "morally iniquitous and ,'
socially" destructive," and in refusing
J to be put "in a relation implying honor
! toward the donor."
While this is gratifying as evidence
of the increasing interest that good
people are taking In social problems,
It leaves much to be desired. This Is
not wholly an individual problem, and
we do not reach the root of the mat
ter by pointing a finger of scorn at
particular individuals. . Primarily it
is a question of wise or unwise social
arrangements. The remedy is to be
found in social readjustments, not In
personal denunciation.
, i All know that the inordinate power
of the Standard Oil company has been
built up, "very largely by discrimina
tion in railroad rates. It is not enough
that the church should denounce1 as
bad the men who have profited by such
discrimination. It is . more Important
to teach people the need of taking the
railroads out of private hands, that
passenger and freight rates may be as
impartial as the price of postage
stamps.
Mr. Rockefeller is not more a knave
? that the other fellows have .been fools.
If the rest of us had given more
thought to public questions we would
have owned our own railroads, and
he could not
then have done all this
wickedness.
Would it not be more
Christian for
us to repent or our neg-
lect than to
declare from the house-
tops our
scorn or nimi
Surely
the people who have done
and doing nothing to correct these
conditions can not escape their share
of the guilt. Their indictmenj does
not carry the weight it should, because
they do not come into court with clean
hands. Others hav been guilty of
sins of commission. We have sinned
grievously by our political prejudices
and our mental sloth and neslect of
civic duties. . , I'
ll the 'good people of this country
had had the intelligence and the public
spirit which a citizen of the great re
public ight to have, a Rockefeller
would be an imposibility. Therefore,
repentance is more in order than cen
sure. - - ' : .
The church that faces these social
problems intelligently and courageous
ly will not need tp reject Standard Oil
money, it will not De onerea any;
Watch Teddy Swing His Club il",
Editor Independent: I received an
Invitation several months ago to Cast
-my ballot on the question of fusion,
but did not consider it worth while.
I've seen too much of it. There iis
only one kind I will vote and work
for and that is whenever a, call ; is
Issued for primaries and conventions
to meet of all who are honestly op
posed to corporation and .trust rule and
are in favor of taking from cornora-
uons anu trusts already in existence
their power to tax and rob the people
of this country and compel all corpo
rations and trusts to obey the laws 6f
the several states and the United
States and as punishment for wilful
, violation be made to forfeit all prop
erty owned and controlled by thern
to the state or United States, whose
laws are so violated, to be used for
the benefit of the people whom they
have been robbing or cheating. Noth
ing short of forfeiture of their prop
erty will make them stop, they have
got so accustomed to the practice.
There Is also another class who
should be made to obey the laws. They
are our officers and lawmakers from
pound master to president. There
should be a graduated penalty law to
compel them to be honest or take the
consequence, "the higher the office the
greater should be the penalty. Favors
are graduated all the way from a pass
FRANK I AMS 1st prize winning 4 year old Percheron Stallion at Nebraska State
Fair. Weight 2240 pounds, one of 80 Topnotches that must
be sold at Special low prices.
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nothing Uuu guciraii lik success.
In Central Nebraska, (the garden spot of Nebraska) ,1s located the up-to-date business town of St. Paul, Nebr.,' this Is the home of the most
snccessiul business man and largest importer of drati and coach stallions in U. S. He is an expert horseman.- A thorough successful business man
(with ideas all his owu).- A hustler SJ65 days In the year. This is frank lams, the bestjioted and best advertised Importer of 1st class draft and
coach stallions in America to day. He begun business there 25 years ago with 3 stallions, to-day he owns and sells more registered pure bred
draft and coach stallioDs tlian any man in the V. a His motto has been, do business With moneyed men that are succes&ful business men, make
every represent action good, sells 1st class stallions $1000 cheaper than any competitor. Frank lams is doing this every day, in selling stallions
in every btate, Canada and Mexico. He is saving thousands of dollars to stallion buyers by his manner of doing business.
Here is the qailkln the cocoanut why lams can and does sell 1st class stallion') at $1000 cheaper than competitors. lams bnjs stallions by
the train load, uses his own money, owns his stallions, houses, barns, farms and stocks, has no 2 to 10 men as partners to divide profits with,
buys and sells every stallion himself, pays no "Gold brick stallion salesmen" to "Flim-floLm' Stock companies with 4th rate stallions at
3U 0 to $6000 and a worthless guarantee. Inms sells direct to uters and saves his many buyers all "commissions" and "middle-men's profits,
lams buys stallions direct lrom breeders in Europe without aid of interpreter, (this 9aves 20 per cent on every stallion). lams speaks the langu- .
ages and gets in close touch with the breeders ot Europe. He is a horseman born, (not made to toder at Agricultural schools). His record at the
lending state lairs is one continued round of success. The very name of Frank lams owning a stallion, stamps him as a "Top Notcher" His
"Peaches and Cream" stallions are noted the world over as the "best ever". His way of doing business is unique, but grand as he is
saving Mr. Stallion buyer $1C00 or more on every stallion and selling them a much better horse, lams handles stallions that are such grand, indi.
viduals oi merit that they sell themselves. He handles stallions so good, big. finished and of royal breeding that they do not have to be "ped
dled" or put into "branch barn mens" hands to"be sold. lams is a sure "Mascot" to stallion buyers, as he saves all commissions
branch barns mens, and middle-mens profits, tarns seUV'Top-notchers" at $1,000 to 11,500, guaranteed better then any Co., stallion sold
at Sii.000 to S'i.000. ... . . . ...
Our illustration is from "The homo of the Winners". He is a finished up-to-date drafter, a big clean boned stallion of quality. Individ-
u mi-iik, a. swbii diack ooy ju areas piraoe. m. uve wniriwino ne goea uowu
lams' barns at $1,000 to $1,500 fully guaranteed with a guarantee that every bank in lams town will say is "gilt edge".
lams Importing establishment is worth going 2,000 miles to see. His sweepstakes stallions and largest pair ot stallions in U. S. are a whole
show and in a class by themselves. Go and see lams the live, hustling horseman, that has his "selling: clothes" on seven days in the
week and ntalcA. the Wheels or business no around, vou will sure find hums (nil to th rnof at stalltana toanitrnn anH imas
prices" on stallioiis for 60 days. His stallions must positively be sold. Write for "eye opener"
lams. "He has the Goods" and you will buy a stallion of lams betore you leave.
to :d' special train and "every thing fur
nished free for a trip across the con-
tfnent. . Officers should be the first to
be; made to obey; ,the laws or to be
made to get out. and let some one else
have the job who will, while they serve
time in Kansas oil refineries.
I. have; watched the fusion deal ever
since the: greenback party fused and
died, but its principles still live.- I've
watched the democratic . party, ever
since . and never : saw ; the time . when
they were not ready to fuse with any
thing, or(any body, if . they, could see
anj-t chance of . getting just one more
office by so doing even to fusing with
thej republicans to steal the governor
ship of Nebraska from the . populists
when elected without the aid or con
sent of .. any other party on : earth.
That; was the only fusion I. ever saw
that suited me until both old parties
fused in the last , campaign and now
I am suited again. If it's true as re
ported that Bryan and 'Teddy have
agreed to, a fight (sham, of course),
on revision of the, tariff - in the next,
campaign and. try to fool the people
some more and especially to keep
them divided and divide the -. spoils
as they have been doing ever since
the old democratic party died its 'nat
ural death at " the ; end of James Bu
chanan's term.
But the people wont be fooled all
the time. "'It's. only a short time since
Uncle Mark of revered memory, said,
"There .are no trusts," and; every
mullet head in these United States
echoed: "Yep, that's so." But that did
not make, it so. -Several states and
even a republican president have rec
ognized them at last and are going to
bust them when Gabriel blows his
horn. Even the subsidized press Is
howling about them or at least about
some. , of i the smaller ones like the
Beef, Steel and Standard Oil trusts,
but not a mother son of them Is say
ing a word about the mother of them
all. They are just creating a diver
sion to raise a cloud of dust and smoke
to blind the people while they pass
over the reins or tne government Into
Its hands, then If it don't take care of
its brood, it will be because too many
of the people take the things seriously.
" ' ' A Jit ' J .. ; . - i
They may make too much smoke and
a blaze get started which they can't
control as was the case in 1893 when
they started in just to give the people
"an object lesson." It's an object les
son to watch Teddy swing his club
at the trusts, while his Apestle Paul
awards contracts for steel to the high
est bidder, so we can have some more
free libraries which we are taxed to
pay for. Should it be spelled "steel"
or "steal"? ,1 wonder if Paul gets
any rebate on the deal? That's the
way they are' going to steal the popu
list platform, but don't worry, they
won't come any nearer to getting any
of the essential principles than Bryan
did to getting our .financial plank in
1896. Yours for fusion with all in fa
vor" of honest reform on all the essen
tial principles of the greenback, unior
labor and populist platforms, and some
other necessary reforms, without re
gard to past affiliations., "
GEO. N. : MULERTZ.
. Ashland, Neb. x:. '
GtOKGEjW. BERGK, Attorney
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LANCASTER
COUNTY, NEBRASKA..
NOTICE.
Lucia A. Hale, AmosH. Ilnle, Ed par E. Hale.
Claudle Hale, Edith Decamp, and Stusrt G
Hale nnd Sims L. Hale, minors, by their next
iriend and mother, Lucia A. Hale, -
- PLAINTIFFS,
. ' " ' !'. VS.
Susan J. HaleSeaverns and William Seaverns,
her husband, Laura Bucl and Friend Buel,
her husband, Mary Borg and Charles Borg,
; her husband, Union Central Life Insurance
Company, and John Doe,
, DEFENDANTS. "'
To Susan J. Hale Seaverns and William Sea
verns, berhusband, and Mary Borg and Charles
Borg, her husband: 1
iou win take notice that on the 10th (5 at of
Marcn, 1905, the pialntlns above named filed
their petition in the District Court of Lancaster
County, Nebraska, against the defendants, the
object and prayer of which is to partition . tha
South half (S. of the North-west quarter (N.
W. l4) of section twenty-nine (29), township
eight (8), range seven (7) Eastin Lancaster Coun
ty, Nebraska; also lots seven and eight in bloek
two In the village of Roca, Lancaster County,
Nebraska.
JPlain tiffs allege that Lucia A.Hale Is the widow
of James B. Hale, deceased, and that the
ether named plaintiffs are the only children at
Lucia A. Hale and James B. Hale.deceased
Plaintiffs allege In their petition that during
the month of March, 1901, Mary J. Hale died
intestate, seized of the above described real es
tate; that laid Mary J, Hale, deceased, left sur
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and greatest catalogue on earth, then visit
. :
viving her six children, as follows: James B.
Hale, Eliza Dunton, Susan S. Hale Seaverns,
Laura Buel, Mary Bori? and Emma E. Hale
Rouse, and that each of said six above named
children are entitled to an undivided one-sixtn
interest of the above described real estate; that
one of said children, named James B. Hale, was
the husband of Lucia A. Hale, and father of the
other above named plaintiffs, and that Lucia A.
Hole, widow, and her children, above named,
are entitled to an undivided one-sirth interest
in and to all of the above described real estate'
that James B. Hale died intestate on the nth
day of January, 1902, leaving Lucia A. Hale u ud
said named children as his only heirs at law
that each of said children are entitled to an un
divided one-sixth interest of the share of said
James B. Hale, their father, in and to said real
estate, subject only to the life estate and home
8teaa rights of said Lucia A. Hale, mother of said
children, and widow of said James B. Hale de
ceased; that both the estates of Mary J. Hale and
James B. Hale have been administered upon
and that all debts and claims against said es
tates have been paid, and the administrators
discharged in both of said essates.
Plaintifls further allege in their petition that
Eliza Dunton and Emma M. Hale Rouse, who
were each entitled to an undivided one-sixth
Interest in the estate of Mary J. ilale, dece ed
have sold, assigned and transferred all of their
respeciive interests to Susan J. HaleSeaverns.
plaintiffs pray Tor judgment confirmin? the
share of the parties hereto, and for a partition
of said real property according to the respective
interest of the parties, and that plaintiffs be de
creed to have a one-sixth interest in alt of the
above described real estate, or if said real estate
cannot be divided in kind that the premises be
sold and the proceeds divided in the proportion
above indicted; thatthey be allowed all expense
in connection with said partition, and for gen
eral equitable relief.
You are required to answer said petition on or
belorethe8thday of May 1905. ;
Lucia A. Hale,
Amos II. Hale,
Edgar E. Hale,
Claudie Hale,
Edith Decamp,
Stuart G. Hale.
Sims D. Hale, .
Plaintiffs
By GEORGE W. BERGE, 1
Their Attorney. '
SHERIFF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an
uiuci vi doic isaucu uy iue iera oi me ilstrici
Court of the Third Judicial District o Nebraska
within and for Laucaster County, in an action
wherein Charles W. Oakes is plaintiff, and
Frances Cadman, etal., defendants, I will at 2
o'clock, p. m., on the 11th day of April, A. D.
1905, at the east door of the Court House in the
City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebra ka,
ofler for sale at public auction the following
described Lands and Tenements to-wit: Lot-'
twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) In block three
(3) and lots thirteen (13) and fourteen rii in .
block six (6) In Lincoln Driving Park Company's
first subdivision, an addition to the City of Lin
coin Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Given under ror hand this 9th day of March A.
D. 190& NICHOLAS RESS, Sheriff.