The flpbrasha Independent
DECEMBER 27, 1908
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Dad hygiene, foul air, impure
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It is called "the soil for
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end for Book on Scrofula, No. 1.
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high, Inequitable and - discriminating
rates now in force, in Nebraska.
The constitution (Sec. 4, Art. 11,
entitled corporations) provides: "And
the legislature may from time to time
pass laws establishing maximum rates
of charges for the transportation of
passengers and freight on the different
railroads in this state."
From the wording of this portion
of our constitution it is very clear to
my understanding that the legislature
alone has the power to fix, make and
determine what rates shall be charged
for the transportation of freight and
passengers in this state, and it has no
Inherent power to confer or delegate
this vested duty upon, another body
or upon any executive officer or
officers.
The constitution must; be strictly
construed, and it is very clear to me
that the court would have to give the
above construction to our constitu
tion. I think this was known to at
least a few of the manipulators of
your state convention. You . will, no
- doubt, recall that the platform draft
ed by the special committee called for
legislative enactment upon this sub
ject, but when the committee selected
by the convention met they changed it
so as to clothe the proposed commis
sion with the rate making power. This
appears to be just a little the smooth
est piece of political work ever per
petrated by the "power "behind the
throne." ,
The contention that the constitu
tional amendment adopted by the peo
ple at the November election covers
any doubt upon this matter is not
well taken in my judgment. The lan
guage of the joint resolution submit
ting the proposed amendment to the
people is as follows:
"The powers and duties of such com
mission shall include the regulation
of rates, service and general control
of common carriers as the legislature
may provide by law."
There is nothing in this language
which would amend, abrogate or modi
fy the language used in Sec. 4, Art. 11
of the constitution above quoted. I
do not think, therefore, that anyone
will seriously contend that the joint
resolution confers power to make or
fix rates. Now, then, if your party
does nil upon this subject that it has
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promised you can see that the people
will not get the relief they are de
manding. In fact, you could not ren
der a great service to the "interest"
that are opposing -the reduction of
rates in this state than to carry out
your proposed plan.
Having pointed out what I consider
fatal defects in your plan, pardon me
for offering a remedy which will ob
viate all trouble and give the people
immediate relief. The legislature of
1893 passed a maximum freight, rate
law which . provided for . an average
reduction of approximately nineteen
per cent from the , then prevailing
rates, and a greater per cent from the
rates now in force. Just as soon, as
the railroad ce-'mmissioners elect take
the oath of office let them, put this
law in force and if any of the sched
ules are too high thel egislature can
lower them. By thus doing we cer
tainly will have lower rates at once
and will avoid the dangers of a new
law being declared unconstitutional.
The dangers incident to passing of
new laws, is always very great and es
pecially is thus true with matters re-;
lative to rate making. Very few per
sons are competent to undertake so
difficult a task, and as the legislature
is limited to a sixty days session I
think it improbable if not impossible
for them to pass a satisfactory law,
and even if they did, it will require
several years to determine its valid
ity as the Wall street interests that
are reaping the benefits from the ex
cessive rates charged in this state will
not submit without a long and drawn
out legal battle.
This , subject should be considered
and discussed from a non-partisan
view point and by so doing the people
may expect speedy relief. Respect
fully. W. B. PRICE.
Complexions Undergo a Change
It is not so many years ago that it
was the chief ambition of every girl
and woman to have a complexion that
would be said to resemble the "roses
and cream" of the heroine of an Eng
lish novel. Nowadays, to judge by
the complexions on view in the high
places of the diamond horseshoe, that
sort of thing will not do at all, for
the face of the average woman to
be seen there on subscription nights
looks as if she had just come in from
a day spent either in a biting wind
following the hounds or as one might
look who had been on a yacht for a
fortnight or so under the torrid suns
of summer days. Two striking il
lustrations of this fashion in complex
ions were afforded recently at the
opera by Mrs. Edmund Baylies, who
was in the conspicuous Goelet box,
and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who was
holding an impromptu reception all
through the opera in the Gerry box.
Mrs. Baylies' face was a rich red that,
showed out brilliantly over her cos
tume of greenish blue, and Mrs. Fish
looked as if she had spent all the time
of her voyage across from- Europe
out on the deck of the liner, so vivid
was the hue of her complexion. In
both instances this effect of out of
doors life was all the more striking
from the con t rant afforded by the ele
gance of their frocks,- New York
Press.
PETER S. GROSSCUP
i
Federal License or Prosecution of
i
Corporations ; That Are Dis
obeying the Law
Springfield, O. Judge Peter S.
Grosscup addressed an audience of
$2,000 people at the Grand opera house
on "The Control of Corporations." The
address was given under the auspices
of the Comemrcial club and the fac
ulty of Wittenberg college, of which
Judge Grosscup is a graduate. He said
in part:
I have a friend up the state who,
the ; morning of every election day,
votes his party ticket and votes it with
as much publicity as the laws permit,
but in the evening waits for the re
turns, his heart full of the wish that
the other party has won. There are
many men in public life today who
have just that kind of fealty to the
president and his policies. My respect
for him is not of that kind. No other
individual career in recent years has
so conspicuously broken into a public
atmosphere that had been stagnant,
clearing it up as an electrical storm
clears up a Bultry summer sky. In
the character of a great moral force,
I look upon Mr. Roosevelt as one of
the great figures of the times in which
we live. To no other individual has
been given so great an opportunity to
lay anew the foundations on which our
country's future peace and prosperity
must rest; to the extent that he is
effectively using that opportunity
getting results out of the popular
awakening I follow him as my lead
er. But, like every great man in the
crisis of a great career, the president
stands now at a point where it will
be speedily determined whether foun
dations that go deep enough to sus
tain the new great industrial life on
which America has entered are to be
laid by him, leaving it to his succes
sors to carry up the superstructure,
or whether he is to go off the stage the
great evangel, but an evangel only, of
the future that awaits us.
The danger that threatens him is
the old, old danger that lurks in every
attempt to do too many things at once
and at the same time. The American
people do but one thing at a time. And
the one great thing that is upon this
generation of Americans to settle to
so settle that it will stay settled is
the ways and means through which
the property and the prosperity of the
country, indisputably great, and grow
ing greater every day, shall be put
on their way to becoming the property
and the prosperity of the entire people
of the country. When that great
work is accomplished, or fairly start
edon its way toward accomplishment,
the obligation of this generation of
Americans will have been discharged.
But that great work will never be put
on Its way to accomplishment by any
thing lesg than an earnest, organized
popular movement, that denying to It
self everything else, concentrate It
self upon a corKtratlon reform, that
like the great German corporation
Weak Kidneys, Weak Nenes
, SO A PHYSICIAN WRITES
It is of but little use to try to doctor the kid
neys themselves. Such treatment is wrong,
(or the kidneys are not alone to blaue for their
weaknesses or irregularities. They have no
power no self-control They are operated and
actuated by a tiny shred of a nerve which is
largely responsible for their strength, or weak
ness. If the Kidney nerve is strong and healthy
the kidneys are strong and healthy. If the
Kidney nerve goes wrong you know it by the
inevitable result kidney trouble.
This tender nerve is only one of a great system
of nerves. This system controls not only the
kidneys, but the heart, and the liver, and the
stomach. For simplicity's sake Dr. Shoophas
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 one remedy which aims to treat not the
tviuneys atone, duc me nerves wnicn are to
blame, is known by physicians and druggists
everywhere as Dr. Sh cop's Restorative (Tablets
or Liquid). This remedy is not a symptom
remedy it is strictly acause remedy. While it
usually brings speedy relief, its effects are also
lasting.
If you would like to read an Interesting book
on inside nerve disease, write Dr. Snoop. With
the book he will also send the "Health Token'
an intended passport to good health. Both the
book and the "Health Token" are free.
For the free book Book 1 on Dyspepsia,
and the "Health Book I on the Heart.
Token " you must ad- Book 8 on theKldneys.
d"5s Dr. Shoop, Box Book 4 for Women.
MMacine, Wis. State Book 5 for Men.
which book you want . Book 6 on Rheumatism
Dr. Snoop's Restorative Tablets five full
three weeks' treatment Each form liquid r
tablet baa equal merit. Druggists every when.
reform of thirty years ago, will go
to the bottom of the wrong, "
No mere so-called federal license
plan will fulfill that end; the reform
to bring back the people of the coun
try itno the ownership and control of
the property of the country must not
rest upon a corporation policy as it
exists today, changed in no particular
except that the corporations are to be
subjected to a little, additional scru
tiny at Washington. ........
The mere prosecution of corpora-
J. 1 XI J. ' 11 a
uons mai are aisoDeying tne law, as
the law exists today, will not fulfill
that end; something more must be
done with the corporation than to put
it on the docket of the criminal courts
All the power the nation needs the
nation now has. What is wanted is
not more power; what is wanted is a
clearer vision that at the bottom of
the people's unrest lies this fact: That
under conditions, as they exist today,
the people at large are practically de
nied admission itno the great prosper
ity inheritance; that all around them
the genius and industry of this gen
eration, is building a fact that fer
ments and will continue to ferment
and will cause the whole body politic
to ferment until it is removed.
Sure Method
"My wife sent $2 in answer to an
advertisement of a sure method of
getting rid of superfluous fat."
"And did she get the information
she wanted?"
"Sure; she got a reply telling her'
to sell it to the soap man." Mystic
(Conn.) Times.
Papa No; he's not the proper sort
of a husband for you, my dear.
Daughter Oh, papa! He'd die for
me! .
PapaOh, that's all right. Tell him
to go as far as he likes. I was afraid
he wanted to marry you. Cleveland
Leader.
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