Jha Nebraska. Independent
ArillL 6, 190S
Her president f Roosevelt are three
-limes' greater than under President
Cleveland's . second administration,
while the army now costs just twice
ca much as 11 did then.
-Until 1898 the greatest expenditure
"forth3 army during any administra
tion since Grant had never exceeded
$206,153,887, yet during President
'Roosevelt's term It has jumped to the
enormous total of $447,953,500, and the
navy, which usually ran along with an
appropriation of '$122,208,362 for four
years, now uusta iui mv juiuc ijcuuu
$430,639,773.:
Republican leaders are fearful that
bonds will , have tot be Issued before
the close of Rooseve'lt's administration
In or Jei to meet thenecessary expen
diture of the government. The deficit
Is growing daily and by the end of the
fiscal year will be between $80,000,000
and " $100,000,000. ,
Nebraska Populists
Editor Independent: I had a conver
sation yesterday with several populists
of Adams county at Hastings regard
ing the people's party and the. editor
of The Independent keeping so quiet
in trying to start up some movement
to organize the people's -party in Ne
braska. Some of them asked me if
there was not a scheme afoot to fuse
again this fall. My reply was that I
did not know, but I thought It was
high time for the editor to inform the
readers of The Independent, and have
them come out and tell whether they
were for the people's parly organiza
tion or for co-operation with the demo
crats. I said that it was good policy
to fight shy ot any party leaders or
editor vha Is afraid to let; the people
know where he could be found. I said
beware of the leaders who have so
nearly destroyed our organization.
I said that there would never by any
more fusion in Adams county because
every5 democrat "in the county had
voted for Parker. - . ;'
j , J. E. MOWERS.
TTnstincrs. Neb. '...'
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(The Independent took a referendum
frnrnedlatelv after the election and the
1 editor-filled the paper with a discus
sion of . the subiect for many weeKs.
. The editor has published every article
that has come to the office concerning
nrc-mfiization of the Party in Nebraska
:itp tins adVlsed a "conference and has
"published several contributed articles
"on't'hat subject. Ud. Jndj -
,.v i r-.:, nracici Arse'-.' '
' rtngiri-nui. ,
"' "What have' you in cigars?" asked
f the smart young man of then ew clerk
. in the tobacco store. . -,':'
. ." "La ' Flor' de Bumme, Ferfecto ' de
Cabbagio, and all the other leading
brands.", answered the clerk.
. ."And what have you in the pipe
. ; "Crude; oil," answered the , , young
man, who was trom peaunioni, j.exa.
Baltimore American. J V ;
EASIER THAN BEAR
As Mr.. Roosevelt is not going south
.' until April,, maybe by that time the
Texans will have the Standard Oil and
, the beef packers, broken , in so that
they can have a tame trust hunt for
the president's special benefit. New
York world. , ,
A Quick Conversion
Some ten or fifteen years ago out
In "poor old bleeding Kansas" -W. E
Iloch, a good Methodist deacon, wa3
Himwinsr fits because Judse Doster o:
that state had declared . "himself in
favor of state ownership of railways,
Hoch has just been elected governor
of Kansas and apparently where Judge
Doster failed to convert him to public
ownership, J. D. .Rockefeller has won
in a canter. Wilshires Magazine.
Tunnelling
Mr. Bryan seems to be about the
only democrat that is trying to tunne:
out: from ,1m der the , recent landslide
People's Party Paper (N. C.)
Is responsible for most of
the diseases and ailments of
the human system. It se
riously affects every organ
and function, causes catarrh,
dyspepsia, r h e u m a t is m
weak, tired, languid feelings
end worse troubles. Take
Hood's Sareaparilla
which purifies end enriches
the blood as nothing else can
-r For testimonials of remarkable aires
(end for Book on the Clood, No. 3.
C. L Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
NEWS OF
A Weekly Resume of the Really Vital News by the Editor J
The universal i denunciation of the
egislature in the republican press,
with the exception of the Lincoln Star
which stands by it, is strong evidence
that the-republican bosses expect tor
elect the next legislature by a bigger
majority than they did this one. . The
program of the republican party all
over the United States is to denounce
trusts arid railroad robbery and then,
'vote 'er straight," for them ' every j
time. That is what all these republi
can editors of Nebraska expect to
do. Not one of them will fail to sup
port the. tloket next time, even if the
same men are nominated again.
The talk in the press about peace
between- Japan and Russia still goes
on, although the authorities in both
countries declare that they are going
to fight on and have no idea of peace.
The Japanese are great imitators and
they assert that if peace is declared,
they must have an Indemnity. All
the great Christian nations do . that
way and that is what Jthe Japanese
are going . to do. The Christian na
tions demanded a heavy indemnity of
China and Japan was right on the spot
and saw it done. The expedition fo
ekin by the forces of the ..Christian
powers was nothing more than a sum
mer outing when compared with real
war, but the Christian nations demand
ed and secured an indemnity of $333,
000,000. If Japan imitates that Chris
tian act, she wil demand an indemnity
from Russia of about $1,000,000,000.
She has a Christian precedent for it.
An indemnity is one of the devices
of all Christendom to enable : the vic
tor to reap the fruits of victory.
Germany made France pay an indem
nity of a billion- of dollars besides"
taking part of the French territory. It
was professors from s Christian Ger
many that taught Japan the art of war
and no doubt in that teaching was in
cluded the art of . great (indemnities.
Even if she is a heathen counthy,- why
should she be denounced for trying tq
follow precedents t set by : Christian
countries, when they are so numerous
and frequent-as the -record shows in
demnities to be? i . 1 i ,: r. ; v -; '
The New York Press- is gaining
courage enough to say some - things
about Rockefeller which is very sur1
prising. The : Press is discussing re
cent exposures was moved to remark
that; "Mr. Rockefeller is the mildest
and politest man that ever stabbed ft
competitor in the back or cut the
throat of a rivaUin business."-,
. An - examination into Rockefeller's
consolidated gas franchise shows that
the enormous sum of $24,000,000 is un
accounted for. How much of that has,
gone to Murphy and other Tammany
chiefs no one knows. Every one has
been surprised at the sudden accumu:
ulation of, wealth of the Tammany
leader. ,
The Japanese- emperor conferred on
Rev. Dr. James C. Hepburn, a mis
sionary, the order of the, Rising Sun.
It was the missionary's ninetieth
birthday. The emperor thanks the mis
sionary for his services to the Jap
anese people.- ?
. There is an epidemic of cerebro spi
nal meningitis in New York, Berlin,
some parts of Austria and other places.
This is one of the most terrible dis
eases known to mankind, and among
the people is commonly called spotted
fever. The physicians acknowledge
that they know of no cure for it. They
even dispute whether It is contageous
or infectious, some denying and some
affirming. Dr. Von Leyden, an author
ity on the disease, says its bacillus en
ters the brain through the lymphatic
glands. Dr. Merzbach, another author
ity, declares that excessive mental and
bodily exertion predisposses to the dis
ease equally with a lack of food and
proper sanitary methods. It 'would
seem that here was a chaice for the
Christian Scientists. They might come
forward and take these cases off the
doctors' hands as the doctors all ac
knowledge that the can't cure them.
Nearly all the , pastors in Chicago
preached on the election last Sunday,
but it was not the kind of election
that Methodists and Presbyterians
used to quarrel about. Their enthus
iasm was somewhat subdued, result
ing from the fact that they had to wait
until Wednesday morning to find out
who the elect were.
The German emperor has been mak
ing a spectacular show of himself
again. He went to Morocco and made
THE WEEK I
a speech declaring that any changes
in the government and any reforms
must be along the traditions of Islam
anic laws and that it was the wrong
time to undertake to introduce reforms
along" European lines. Then he under
took to set up a sort of Monroe doc
trine for all west Africa with himself
as Monroe. The incident has caused
a good deal of excitement among Euro
pean powers. The effect of the move
is looked upon as very unwise on the
part of Germany as it will have a ten
dency to' bring Great Britain and
France closer together and leave Ger
many isolated, with only Russia to
befriend her, and Russia has got more
trouble at home and with the Japanese
than she can attend to.
Of course it Is a hard thing for any
American to learn anything about the
ability of the German emperor.. He
is described by the imperial press of
all Europe as a man of great ability,
but that is a sort of evidence that no
one will give full credence to. The
little things that are published about
him, tend to make a reasonable man
estimate him as anything but . great.
The enforcement of the lese majeste
laws in the drastic manner which has
been done for the last few years, leads
one to think "that while there are great
men In Germany that the -kaiser is not
to be numbered among them. He Is
spectacular, he is autocratic, he de
sires to weigh down his people with
awful taxes to support a great stand
ing army In time of peace" and that
is about all there is to him:
During the past week Japan has
won another great victory over Rus
sia. This time, however, it. was not on
a battlefield in Manchuria, but in the
world's financial capitals. At the very
time when Russia has been laboriously
endeavoring to induce French banicers
to make her a new loan, and when she
is striving to keep her spirits up by
talking cheerfully about that most de:
ceptive, thing, a Russian Internal loan,
Japan at the , mere asking has floated
a $150,000,000 loan in London and New
York on much better terms than her
previous war loans, and at that she
has seen her" offering obonds almost
tea times .over-subscribed. ;, .
The governor has spent -his ; time
since the legislature adjourned in veto
ing, bills passed by the wild-eyed re
publican , legislature. v Among -.tnose
knocked out was .the bill to, erect a
binder twine, factory. ": That was the
enly bill passed that the farmers were
interested in and it has fallen by" the
wayside. . - . ' - . . ,
At an investigation under way in
New York city it was proved that 5,
000,000,000 feet of gas that Rockefeller
supplied his customers in the city with
was bought by him from the New Ams
terdam companw , for from , 28 to 40
cents per 1,000 cubic feet, and then
delivered . to Rockefeller's customers
in New York for $1 and $1.25 per
1,000 feet. That not only shows Rocke
feller's rapacity, but throws a, great
deal of light on what the price of gas
ought to be.
Paul Morton save a card party at
his residence in Washington last Sun
day at which the gayest of the gay
things, that are at all allowable, were
consDicuous. Paul Morton is deter
mined to introduce the continental
Sunday into Washington. ,
The CriDDle Creek mine owners
don't like the fix they find themselves
in at all. They will have to pay the
cost of the military occupation of the
district under Peabody as the legisla
ture got into a 'fight and .the bill to
reimburse them never came to a vote.
They are howling awfully. They want
the man they made governor, to call
a special session of the legislature to
pass a bill to Issue $800,000 of bonds
to raise the money.
The lying about the president's hunt
in the Rocky mountains began before
his train left Washington. It was an
nounced that Teddy's guide, John Golf,
had a pack of dogs that could climb
trees and kill moutnain lions. There
will be columns of that kind of stuff
for the next month. , r
Nothing , has been heard ' either of
Togo or the Russian fleet, except that
the latter has left the vicinity of Madi
gascar. It will not take many days
more for Togo's fast cruisers, that are
scouting the sea in every direction,
to pick up the Russian warships. What
will happen then is almost universally
conceded. Rojesvensky will have his
Weak Kidneys
To any Kidney sufferer who has not tried my
remedy I offer a full dollar's worth free. Not a
mere sample but a regular dollar bottle
standard size and staple. -'
There is nothing to pay, either now or later;
I ask no deposit no promise. You take no risk.
The dollar bottle is free because mine is no
ordinary remedy, and I feel so sure of its re
sults that I can afford to make this offer.
In the first place my remedy does not treat
the kidneys themselves; Such treatment is
wrong. For the kidneys are not to blame for
their weakness or irregularities. They have no
power no self-control. They are operated and
actuated by a tiny shred of a nerve which alone
is responsible for their condition. If the Kid
ney nerve is strong and healthy the kidneys are
strong and healthy. If the Kidney nerve goes
wrong you know it by the inevitable result kid
ney trouble.
This tender nerve Is only one of a great sys
tem of nerves: this system controls not only the
kidneys, but the heart and the liver and the
stomach. For simplicity's sake I have called
this great nerve system the "Inside Nerves."
They are not the nerves of feeling not the
nerves that enable you to walk, to talk, to act,
to think. They are the master nerves and every
vital organ is their slave. The common name
for these nerves is the "sympathetic nerves"
because each set is in such close sympathy
with the others, that weakness anywhere re
sults in weakness every where.
This is why I treat not the kidney that is
weak but the ailing nerve that MAKES it
weak. This is the secret of my success. : This
is why I can afford to do this unusual thing to
give awav FREE the first dollar bottle, that
ANY STRANGER may know my remedy suc
ceeds. The offer is open to every one, everywhere,
who has not tried my remedy. Those who have
tried it do not need the evidence. So you must
write ME for the free dollar bottle order. I
will then send you an order on your druggist for
a full dollar bottle, standard size and staple.
He will pass it down to you from his stock as
freely as though your dollar lay before him and
will send the bill to me. Write for the order
today, .' . .
For a free order for Book 1 on Dyspepsia
a full dollar bottle you ' Book 2 on the Heart
must address Dr. Book Son the Kidneys
Snoop, Box 4910, Ka- Book 4 lor women
cine, wis. state wmcn hook Bior en
book you want Book 6 on Rheumatism
Mild cases are often cured by a single bottle.
For tale at lorty thousand drug stores. .
fleet transformed ; into r submarines.
But" if the unexpected should happen,
and-Togo's fleet be: partially disabled
and driven back to Japan, an entirely
new phase would be put upon the war.
The immense Japanese "army in Man
churia would be cut off from its base
of .supplies, and the forwarding of com
missary stores and ammunition would
be made, very . difficult it not- impossi
ble.; It is said that the . Russian war
party is placing its hopes of salvation
upon the success of the Russian fleet.
The Omaha Bee calls the now dis
banded crowd of - pass-grabbers, who
held daily .sessions at the state house
all winter: "The late assembly of an
archistic law-makers." That they were
anarchists is the prevailing! opinion of
the whole state press, with only one
notable exception ;
Investigations made by the Wiscon
sin legislature proved that over $6,000,
000 were paid to favored shippers in
that state last year in rebates. No
wonder that quite a number of "busi
ness" men" have been at the capital
this winter fighting 1 railroad regula
tion, v - "' '. . ' " -
"All the news from Russia goes to
show that the discontent and disorder
is everywhere increasing.' From every
part of the empire' comes word of up
risings, revolts and the destruction of
property. : Several attempts at bomb
throwing have been made during the
last few days, and the papers of St.
Petersburg are caning more persist
ently for an; elected assembly than
ever before. . ; . . j V
A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
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"Absolutely sure. I have used the
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twenty-one times, and the pages bris
tle with 'viewpoint' and 'strenuosity.
It can't help being a success." Chi
cago Record-Herald.
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