JANUARY 17, 1907
The Nebraska Independent
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reduced the price about ONE-THIRD for quick sales. X
The object is to clear our stock of all winter clothing. X
O Note-these prices for stylish, well made, well fabriced suits and overcoats that Y
sold less than one month ago at regular prices.
$ Lot No. 1 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $12.50 now $7.75 O
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O Lot No. 2 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $15.00 now $10,75 $
Lot No. 3 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $20.00 now $13.75
O Lot No. 4 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $25.00 now $16.75 O
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O ; IN OUR BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT
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S Lot No 1 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $3.00 now $1.75
$ Lot No. 2 Suits and overcoats that formerly sold at $4.00 now $2.75 O
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With three months more of winter weather
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Summary of News
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The legal battle on the Great North
ern railroad's proposed issue of $G0,-
000,000 additional capital "stock has
begun..
President-Roosevelt, who is said to
have obtained conclusive evidence
that the negro troops alone were guilty
la the Brownsville affair, is preparing
a new and hot message for transmis
sion to the senate.
The proposed credit currency plan
Is attacked by Ex-Governor Holes of
Iowa, who says in a speech at Water
loo, Iowa, that the measure would re
move the last safeguard about a b ind
ing system long outlived, and assist
corporation at I ho expense of public
good.
County Treasurer elm (Joel of Mil
wnukee, Wis., ha. failed to git the
required Loud, and therefore unable
to qualify.
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iave designated this our lot sale because we liave divided all suits and V
at formerly sold at $12.50 and ud to $25 into four distinnt lots and V
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its a good time to buy clothing for present and Y
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'A Good Place to Buy Good Clothes"
R. Heinze havo captured control of
the Mercantile National Bank at New
York and have ousted the Gould mem
bers of the directorate.
Retiring Governor Pardee of Cali
fornia, in his final message to the leg
islature assailed President Roosevelt's
stand on the Japanese question and
defended the right of the state to con
duct its schools as it deems best.
.Governor I loch in his message to
the Kansas legislature, which con
vened at Topeka, urged the passage
of an anti-pass law, declared for lower
railroad rates, and said the legislation
aimed at the Standard Oil company
Is saving consumers of oil $500,ooo a
year.
Legislative reforms of wider scope
than ever previously were put before
an Illinois li-eUIaturo wire recmn
mended by Governor Deueen In his
!nt'v..uf,' to the' legislature.
Governor Wcodniff. In his message
to tho Coruouleut leyUl.tturc, broke
aw.ij from the lu.uhlii1 which Heel
ed bin and iir;;n tadicd b fiLif I. ni.
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THE JAPANESE "INVASION'
We call the attention of our eastern
exchanges which persist in declaring
the demand for the exclusion of Jap
anese coolies to be merely a device
of such demagogues as Schmitz and
Ruef, to a letter from a resident of
one of our best known fruit districts
which we printed yesterday. We could
print many such letters from several
districts which have already been cap
tured by Japanese, but until neces
sary we dislike to advertise the mis
fortunes of any particular locality,
lest the letter escaped the attention
of our exchanges who ought, at least,
as Americans, to try to understand
the position of their fellowAuiericans
In California, we reprint one para
graph: "You are correct lit the statement
that the Japanese coir.es here as u
laborer, then as a renter and finally
as land own.r. Thl.-t has been our
experience here, and In consequence
imr town and country do not make am
ptorres. Fur vn- Information f
ulu state tliai n uu, iit (VU) iUjtt;j
the Japanese population here has
more than doubled, the orchard work
is all done by the Japanese, and thero
is no possible show for the ordinary
white laborer. The Chronicle is mak
ing a brave fight for the white man,
and this is greatly appreciated by al
most everybody."
Our correspondent does not work
for wages; he is a merchant. His
letter shows him to bo an intelligent
man, and he tells the truth. The
place from which he writes seems to
be still in the first stages of tho Jap
anese invasion .it has to deal with
the Japanese as a laborer and a very
unsatisfactory laborer he is. And he
is not "cheap." But the other stages
follow as certainly as night follows
day. Where the white laborer cannot
come the while employer cannot long
stay. Great orchards owned by ab
sentee landlords may be operated, per
haps for a long time, by -Asiatic labor.
But that does not make a country for
a white man to live in. Whenever a
foundation of Japanese coolie labor
is laid a superstructure of Japanese
tradesmen and Japanese employers is
absolutely certain to rise. And they
make a community of Japanese cus
toms, and Japanese morals. There
are certain critics of our position who
are so contemptible as to sneer at us
as those confessing our Inferiority to
the Japanese. We have no objection
whatever to the Japanese taking that
attitude. We do not care what they
think or what they say, so long as
they will stay away from here. But
it is a dpsnirahto thine1 for nn Amor.
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ican to say or Imply When the pres
ident, in his message, spoke of "mut
lerings" against the Japanese because
of their "efficiency as laborers," he
said what, coming from him, makes
the blood of decent Americans boil.
An "American" laborer, born in this
country of American or foreign par
entage, will accomplish as much on
a farm as two average Japanese, tak
ing the year's labor through. But
he will not, if he has the self-respect
of most of them, live as the Japanese
live.. Nor. with all his cin5 min ha
sink to Japanese standards of mor
ality. In the trades, while the Japa
nese is greatly inferior to the white
man, the disparity is not so great as
on the farm with its all round work
and requirements of adaptability. Bnt
he will work for himself or his coun
trymenfor longer hours than the
white man will work. He will live
in ways which no decent white man
will endure. He seldom, in this coun
try, burdens himself with a family.
If he does every soul of them earns
his living. As a renter he will ruin
a farm or a house quicker than any
ether human being. Therefore ho
can, and if necessary does, turn out
a product at a price which will not
maintain a man or a family In tho
American standard of comfort, and
he soon creates a community In which
no white man will willingly stay. And
that h why we do not want them. Vo
M.all make an Issue on It and fight
the Issuj We appeal for the support
if tr.cn ami women In all walks of
life. We do not wUh to nee It tnado
a claws i vrn If thereby we win mora
speedily than otherwl.se. Class hue
are bad even for those who win by
them. We are M -lit In,; for Ameiteau
elvUlgatu ii. San Fratickco Chronicle