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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1907)
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 28, 1907 Loss of Appetite Io common when the blood needs puri fying and enriching, for then the blood fails to give the digestive organs the etimulua necessary for the proper per formance of their functions. Iiood's Sarsaparilla is pre-eminently the medicine to take. It makes the blood pure and rich, and strengthens all the digestive organs. . "I was all run down and had no appetite. After taking one bottle of Iiood's Sarsaparilla I could eat any thing I wished." Mrs. Amanda Fen ner, Oneco, Conn. Accept no substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla Insist on having Iiood's. Get it today. In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doees $1. the companies will be unable to add tO"thc present passenger train service, and some trains now running must . be discontinued. If members of the present legisla ture and readers of the legislative re ports note something strangely famil iar about these, arguments they have only to recall that history repeats Itself. TKIUMNAI, TAXATION MTEVUFIC The experts are generally roming to an agreement on the proposition that the taxation of property for both state and local purposes is undesirable, be cause of the difficulty of securing a uniform assessment in all of the coun ties. When the merchants of Omaha, for example, induce their assessors to list their stocks at less lhan 60 cents on the dollar, while,, the Lincoln mer chants put theirs in at 80 or 00 or 100 xents, and the state board refuses to effect nri equalization, the unwork ableness of the present system is dis closed. To take its place a tax on railroads and other corporations doing business over the state generally is recommended. Under that plan Omaha may assess its merchants at 5 cents on the dollar If It wishes without damaging any other county, because no part of the state tax will be levied on that assessment. One objection urged . against ter minal taxation is that if this scientific method of making the corporations pay the slate tax, leaving the counties free to assess and levy as they wish for local purposes, It will hardly be worth while to pass the terminal tax ation bill. This objection Is answered -by the report of a plan by the Call 'fornia tax commission, which proposes to turn into the state treasury all the taxes collected from the franchise values of corporations, leaving the physical property of the corporations to be taxed wherever it may happen to be, In common with all other real property. This is counted a scientific ally just tax. It will be noted that it more nearly approaches the ter minal or municipal tax now proposed for Nebraska than the system that it is to displace. Instead of being a move away from the scientific taxa tion of railroads, therefore, terminal taxation will be in fact a long step towards the adoption of an ideal sys tem. rilIU)10 CRIMINALS. What to do with the chronic criminal is a question tnat rises constantly to plague the student of-penology and the policeman too. There are ten thousand crooks in the streets of New York, says the inspector of iolice. Every one of them has been prosecuted as a crim inal and every one is waiting the op portunity to commit a crime. To send a man to Jail on general principles is not In accordance with our theories of personal libortn and injunction re straining men from picking a pocket have no practical force. Yet It seems unbearable to allow a man to run at larnf when it Is known he intends Io commit a crime. To meet thi case a Mil Is before the legislature legalizing the holding Of "u ihtkoh who has Lem convicted of n felony or one who has U' n convlcteil a a pickpocket, thief or burglar, and having no visible mtana if support, found loitering about fctfamboat landings, railroad Ktattons, banking institutions, crowded Ihor miKhf.ire. ram, omnibuses, hotel, or any public gathering or assembly, acting puMplt'UniMly and unable to give a a It factory explanation of hi pre. Thin euahU the polle to ttrrt nn Only On 'HHOMO IjllMM:" That U I.A.VATIVK UROMO Qulrtln. Kim rrlv ta ft itUrt itdHi.-tl nmtU tometltni' lt. i. Th Tirt nt nriKtnmt VI Tablet i WIIITK I'M'KAOi: with blarJt and Mx m n. l'$u-t the !(H4tur of vr, uiiuvii. ou. person as a vagrant whom they may think needs watching, in case he hau a criminal record to Justify it. ThL is done by the police of many eiik., without any special authority. Wlii: such proceedings are capable of seri ous abuse, the protection of the public seems to demand that something of the kind be done. In several states it is proposed that long sentences be pro vided for such men as have become confirmed petty criminals, and provi sion made for treating them by re formatory methods in the hope of eventually making men of them. AVAIIITOVS II I ft Til OA Y. Presidential birthdays were a more serious affair when the foundation was being laid for today's holiday, than they are now. Partly because official splendor was in vogue, partly because e Very measure that was calculated to lend dignity and authority to the new government was needed in those un steady times, and of course partly be cause of the real feeling of respect ana indebtedness to, the man, Wash ington's birthdays were celebrated with a good deal of show from the beginning of his term as president in 1789 to the end eight years later. A birthday reception and ball which Washington and his wife always at tended was a regular feature of Phil adelphia social life during his term. When a schism in Philadelphia so ciety gave rise to ' two such celebra tions the president used to attend the one on the eve of his birthday and the other on the evening of the 22nd. Yet those occasions and the unan imity with which we nowadays honor the father of his country do not jus tify the conclusion that all was good feeling in those times. The president was mentioned . as a mangier and a murderer of the constitution, a charge not escaped by later presidents. Thomas Paine in 1796 called him "treacherous in private friendship" and a hypocrite In public life." John Adams wondered whether Washington would ever have been commander of the rev olutionary army if he had not been the Tiusband of the rich widow of Cus tis. A New York paper tenderly in quired whether posterity would not say of him that "the mask of political hypocrisy has been worn by Caesar, by Cromwell and by Washington." These criticisms of Washington sug gest a reflection on the need of care in judging the character and motives of our present day public men. . How ever strongly thc4r ideas and policies may meet criticism it seems wise to reserve condemnation of the men themselves with whom we happen to disagree. To remember Thomas B. Reed's sweetly cynical discovery that a statesman is a dead politician may save us from posing for our posterity as Washington's detractors now do for theirs, in the role of examples of how badly mistaken men may be. ISf I,0JI(1AI. ORDER. C. M. Shepherd of Pawnee pro- Rev duces a clever piece of sarcasm in his hinting that the present attack railroad abuses is of less import letter' upon ance than the assault upon me rum power. If Mf. Shepherd will investigate tne history of the . prohibition party in Ne braska he will find that for many years it was encouraged by the railroad pol iticians as a means of keeping people interested in something outside of the railroad business. For nearly two de cades the leaders of the prohibition party were given passes and encour agement. Their-work was considered valuable by the managers because it helncd to keen people who wanted to break away from the old conditions in- hostile camps The split in the pro hibition party in 1896 was procured by outsiders, and the men in the prohibi tion party responsible for it were f the time riding from one end of the country to the other without payiag a cent for railroad fare. As a result of this interference the prohibition party was of no value to practical temper ance and no progress whatever was made in curbing the corporations. It finally dawned upon n large num ber of peoplo of Nebraska that instead of dividing Into hostile parties, ears attacking a different evil. It was tin to unite and march together for ku'I government. Individuals and newt papera anserted their right to Inde pendent thinking and soon brought the leading parties around to the con nlderatlon of the problems most im mediately affecting th state. The plat form of the democratic and republi can partle la.t year suunflally alike for thli reason. Two year.1 ago a Mart uu mad toward b.-ttcr polit ical erudition by taking lh elation of t'nlled Ntiitn nenators nut of tho hnndi of the politician. Thin yr I h rttltmnd hav Ihhi it n homed ni political dictator. Effective corpora tion IrgUUtlmi ha tn and will Iwj lftd. Then problem out of th way, will b poible to bring the question of county option quarly tefor th lrOat for notation during the r-mliijr two years. An attempt to force it in ahead of the to to all restore the government of the ctat the people may result in suspending I'lUKiesEive legislation fr- o X, ,L not ralr to assume ih.tt Mr. .Shepherd would seriously advise o ... iHHscui program m order iu pmce empnasta upon the particular reform that he no strongly desires. Tin: riiKsinij.viiAi, l (ESSIOV How the question as .the lrtW!i now stand nnght in certain circumstances be dangerously involved is shown by a report of a house committee recom- ,.T Vrs "Litl" imanges in the stat u up io istj tne law provided that m case of the death of both the presl- lllc VJtt. president tne presi dent pro tempore of the senate and the ' speaker of the house of repre sentatives should be in line of suc cession. Soon after Mr. Cleveland canie into oflice in that year the vice president, Mr: Hendricks, died.' The senate was republican and elected John Sherman, a republican, president pro tempore. The house was demo cratic, and elected' a democrat, John G. Carlisle, speaker. Mr. Clpvebtnrt's death -at that time would therefore nave turned a democratic adminis tration into a republican administra tion under John Sherman. Mr. Sher man's death in turn would have re turned ocrats uation under the administration to the dem under Air. Carlisle. This sit- caused tne new succession law, wnicn. cabinet officers then provided ror--wcrc placed In. line of succession instead of the senate and house officials, thus assuring that there would be no change In party control during the term for which a party had elected its candidate. Two cabinet offices have Anon created since nowever, and it is now proposed to add the secretaries of agriculture and of commerce and labor to the line. In recommending that bill the com mittee calls attention to 'some puz zling situations tliut might arise under the law as it is now and as it will continue to be alttr the proposed Jaw passes. The law of succession gov erns cases of "removal, death, resig nation or inability'.' of both president and vice president. What is meant by inability, and who is to determine when h president is in a condition of "inability"? If a president-elect died before his inauguration, would the vice president-elect be president for the full term? Should both the president-elect and vice president-elect die before their inauguration, what cab inet officers would come in under the succession law? These are questions to which the law gives, nr answer. A world of trouble might be saved by settling these points before their set tlement bears, on a particular case. TUB SERVE CENTER. "Experts are beginning to realize," says a dispatch from Washington," that one of the bigg2St railroad lob bies that ever swooped down on Wash ington is making its headquarters her now and devoting its energies and efforts to defeat a number of matters of pending legislation." The hours of service bill, the movement to reduce the pay for carrying the mail, and the LiaFollette measure providing for a physical valuation of the railroads in order to arrive at a basis for establishing rates, are the measures suggested as giving - this lobby the most concern. In the case of the hours of labor bill, the meas ure as reported to the nouse by tne Interstate commerce committee has already been so amended that it should be entirely acceptable to the railroads if passed In that form by the house and senate. The reductions in pay for carrying the man" cannot in any case be tremendously import ant to the railroads. The measure that has precipitated tne lobby, a lobby greater even than the one that gathered to oppose the rate bill last year, is evidently the La Toilette bill to evaluate the roads. Here, evidently, has the very nerve center of the rate question been touched. Trying to en tablinh "rensnna blv' rates before th value Is known on which dividends have a right to bo-arned Is a public proceeding which the stock waterers can observe with reasonable equanim ity. Proceed to live, beneath tho water to the foundation for rautona. ble rates und Washington is mobbed with lobbyists. oi.y MtiAitn Industrial Commissioner Muna.i of the lilll UllKtOtl begun bis lnl.lrr.-n to the CoHiMivrclal c lub convention w ith an In. tlmatton that he feared the mi In. ml. were without friends In that mmlng. ThU feeling may ! typical of rati nwl moil at tin. prexcitt time. With two cent far blllx howerlng iibout thrlr head nil over the ft, tiirlr in. fht.-neo In leRhdatlon in nearly every WMlrni utate fiuliiKly K'Uif, Mod u dUroltton In th lgbiUturei ( brln th rail mad to ai. vunt on a cr of iKilt.ta, Ui old Ohio railroad mnaKrt Weal Kidneys, Weak Nerves SO A PHYSICIAN WRITES It is of but little use to try to doctor the kid neys themselves. Such treatment is wromr. for the kidneyt are not alone to blame for their yreakneasea or irregularities. They have do 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 beallhy the kidneys are strong and healthy. If the Kidney nerve roes wrong you know it by the inevitable result kidney trouble. This tender nerve is only one of a great systPin of nerves. This system controls not only the kidneys, but the heart, and the liver, and the stomach. For simplicity's sake Dr. Snoop has 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 Kidneys alone, but the nerves which are to blame, is known by physicians and druggists everywhere as Dr. Snoop's Restorative (Tablets or. Liquid). This remedy is tot a symptom remedy it is strictly a cause 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. Shoop. With the book he will also send the "Health Token" an intended passport to good heal th. Both t he book and the Health Token" are free. For the free book and the "Health Tokcu " you must ad dress Dr. Shoop, Box 9fU0Racine, Wis. State which book you want. Book 1 on Dyspepsia. Book I on the Heart, nook 3 on theKidneys. Book 4 for Women. Book 5 for Men. Book 6 on Rheumatism Dr. Shoop's Restorative Tablets give full three weeks' treatment. Each form liquid or tablet has equal merit. Druggists everywhere. may appear justified in feeling that the skies are falling. The matters which the people have to adjust with the railroads cover a wide field. If they appear to take a measure' of delight in the adjusting process the railroads alone are to blame. To say the least, the people of Nebraska are not so. arrogant in t heir attitude toward the railroads through the present legislature as the railroads were arrogant toward the people through the last legislature. The' rail roads may remember that the regula tive legislation now flooding them is but the bursting of a dam which they themselves have constructed. It Ls hardly necessary to assure the rail roads, however, that the people of Ne braska, including that part of. ihem represented in the Commercial club convention, are not the enemies of the railroads. The, railroads by attempted usurpation of public functions abd by arrogant conduct when successful in this have caused a reaction against themselves. The public can be denend- ed upon to realize, ho wrongs do not make a right. The. fact that they have been abused by the railroads does not and will not war rant reprisals, but onlv measures tn prevent further abuses. These- meas ures may seem radical to railroads which have been accustomed to dictate legislation for themselves, but that will not mean that they are not just. THE IVIG CONGRESS. Congress must do all th work- it is to do at this session before next Monday at noon. Two things unite to make the coming week the most dangerous in a legislative way of the life of this congress, as it is of the life of every congress, in the first place the congress now in session is a body which under the simplest rules of common sense should not be al lowed to cast a vote or propriation. Its life reallv evr.ire.i when a new concrress wn owtt iac November. The congress now pass ing laws and making' appropriations is already superseded. The ship sub sidy bill, which it is limped to press through this week. Would he itnnoa- sible but for the support of members like Orosvenor who have been polit ical corpses for danger lies In the practice of leaving appropriation bills of tremendous size and importance to he rushed through hastily in tho last week, often in tho last day of tho sc:,slon. Here is the opportunity of the vultures that stand around the edges waiting for a chance, to rush In and make n grab. Here Is the secret of the sudden swelling of the volume of appropriations at th end of a session, for the urgency of the case exposal congress to be held up ly every tiw iuber who Is ready to block procwdli.gs until his favortt" scheme I watered by un appropria tion. It would require only u slitipl net of legislation to remedy both thexo eIN. HI It I-'.IT AMI IMIHt:cT TU. It iisff r f.ii are nuiiitly a direct t.tx. Kvrytmiy intuit mor nr lews, and wh-n h. ) hi railroad ?! PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS I'AZO OIN'TMI ST U rrntf-ii In our mv of ifhinrf. luintf. 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