THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT MARCH 7, 1907. Spring Ailments i'iinples, boils, eczema and other eruptions, loss oi appetite, that tired feeling, fits of biliousness, indigestion and headache, are some of them. They are all radically and perma nently cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medicine thoroughly cleanses the blood and restores healthy functional activity to the whole system. It makes people well. "I have been using Hood's Sarsapa rilla as a epring medicine for ten years, and have never found anything better." John Flemings, Campbell Hall, N. Y. Accept no substitute for ' Hood's Sarsaparilla Insist on having Hood's. Get it today. In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doses $1. It is proposed to save another seven millions or enough to pay the in creased salaries of postal clerks and city and rural carriers, by cutting: down the railroad compensation in other directions, one measure being a percentage reduction oji all routes ac cording to the weight of mail carried. A OUTLAWED SCARECROW. There may be objections to the in- -----.-- v. I I I V 1 I I J V J V to to reasonable men, but somehow over In France, where an income tax scheme is now being ., urged against bitter opposition, the enemies of the proiwsition are either obtuse in their discovery or for some inexplicable reason are not making them public. For the French newspapers that op pose this form of taxation are doing so chiefly upon the ground that an income tax law puts the assessor in til i HI HI ' 1 vi i ' i 11 r-i 1, : I . . . J ! . . i tinu jina mill inquisitional power. The cartoonists are repre senting the assessor in the act of rummaging through the private papers of taxpayers and exacting from that always unfortunate individual a state ment as to the amount of his income. This may.be new thought in France, but it is far from new to Americans, who have heard this cry of alarm and protest before. It is the inevitable alarm of the rich man In hia to escape his Just proportion of the public burden. Unfortunately for the man with property and income there are but few forms of taxation yet in vented which are not inquisitional. To be based on justice and equity, so that men will pay in approximate pro portion to the benefits to be derived, he who levies the tax must know something of the liability and ability of the person to be taxed. All direct taxes are based more or less rigidly on one's comparative capacity to pay, so that he who has large possessions should pay large taxes and he whose possesses are small shall be taxed lightly. Where taxes are not so levied and collected the burdens of govern ment are not justly distributed in pro portion to benefits. litre in this country, where direct taxes are levied upon one's posses sions the inquisitional feature -of an income tax is not going to excite much adverse criticism. Wherever injustice has been done by the taxing powers, it lias been through a failure to make our inquisitions sufficiently complete as regards the rich. Uttle trouble is experienced in locating the property of tile poor, and the assessor seldom overl oks any of it. even to the tawary jewelry that decks at rare intervals the persons of the wives of farmers and mechanics, or the bedraggled old hen that starves through the stress ful period of maternity. Hut somehow his inquisitional power stands at bay when he seeks to iniioe the diafiiondri of the rieh or urn over their slocks, bonds, notes and mortgages in the general tax rolls. Wry should one's income be any iii nv safe from the prying (yes of the it.t"!iir than one's pnseislon? There is nuilihii, mcred about an Income. He wlm let tt large imp can belter afford to pay a proportionate tax than ran lie who hat u small one, for he will have m n left after discharging hi duty. There I reason to entertain n Mrotur Hiselcloti tht w hf ii on 1 In heard cry In; out against gratifying the curiosity of the u(or, In I on xshn fear- that the rich man wilt not be pf.mill'd to get off with vastly ley than hi junt proportion of taxed, and thN objtt tien of ti. Fretich new spar per lo the ii.i'i.m.- tux proportion In hardly likely to c omm. mi ltvlf to the ma, who Income are term-rally not tot l.trge that they nri uble to hide the proportion there. tt. PILES CURED IN TO 14 DAYS NT ST NriftrMee4 In fill'l rotr.ju rfhnrf. trinJ. tliriNtiia or pliie r.f A g Taxes based on -one's ability to pay is one of the- reforms -toward which th? world is tending. It was only a few years ago that it would have been -denounced as an impertinence for the government to have sought to pry into the profits of a railroad com pany, or other corporation. But times have changed, and with them men's ideas on the accountabil ity of wealth to the government and ihe people. Publicity is now the watch word in relation to such affairs, as a means -of curbing the centralization of wealth and of holding large inter ests responsible for their share of the burdens of government. Immunity fronr taxation is no longer an invio lable nriviletre of wealth and it is no Impertinence nowadays in enlightened countries for the tax-gatherer to pos sess himself of knowledge of the nos- sessions or income of anyone liable for taxation. A DISPLAY Of WISDOM. - The managers of the Nebraska roads have begun to number their days and apply their hearts to wisdom. Instead of carriyng the new passenger rale law into the courts, they will obey it as cheerfully as they can on the first hour it goes into existence. This probably means that by Thursday morning at the farthest the people of all Nebraska will be permitted to ride anywhere within the state at the new legal rate of two cents a mile. No doubt they will soon be able to travel as far east as the Atlantic seaboard at the same rate, but that is another matter. The acceptance of the new rate by the compa;Jes doing tasiness in Nebraska is th? important thing at present. This ocuise not only shows a :iew and gratifying respect for U w and public opinion, but it 13 in the Aifch.'St degree prudent from a business stand point. A, fair trial win be given the new law, and no attemt will torsade to go back to thg old figure unless actual experierce 1 such as to warrant an. appeal to iht: courts. It Li th opinion of many oxprrts tl'.af thl vil! never be necessary, ancl ?flt east ol the ba.se of th5 Reeky mountains two cents per mile win. s.pwudliy becorat' the basis of all pvsa:tiigev rates. This, with the entotX'tnuent o' a suit able anti-pass, law, will end Wx entire, section of tho railroad question. It will leave the way clear for the sojut'en of the immensely more ctiffleu't and im portant problems connected, with the charges for moving freight. It is 'a cheering indication that peace between the people and their service corpora tions may be secured. vVthout 3. lot' and exhausting warfare. SENATOR SrOOXER. Had John O. Spooner held his grip on Wisconsin polities, freight rates in that state would bo 20 per cent higher than they now are. Passengers would be paying 3 cents a mile instead of 2V. Railroad taxes would be but a fraction of what they are now. Freight rate discriminations and pass bribery would be rampant. There would be no direct primary and a coterie of busi ness interests would be in charge of public affairs now as before Spooner made his losing light against LaFol lette. Had Spooner had his way in con gress there would be now no rate law, no pure food law, and the record of the. fifty-ninth congress for progres sive legislation would be as short as now it is long. Thinking on these things the public will be able to control its grief over his coming departure from public life. In fairness to Senator Spooner this however needs to be said that his conduct in public life seem; ti have been guided by real convictions. Tie had a profound distrust of the ability of the people to manage their own af fairs or to deal justly with vested in terests. ITe was a man whom the large interests delighted to have in congress, but he served them from principle, not for pay. He refused in public life to compromise himself with a law practice as Bailey did; he served no private interests of his own by his conduct In the senate as do the Platts and Kcan. One reason for his leav ing the senate was the desire to turn his great abilities in hi later years to work that would bring an adequate pecuniary reward. Other men make the senate serve themselves. This Spooner would scorn to do. Another r.-ason for his withdrawal may be th fact that hi renm!ration next year In the AVNeonfln direct prlmarim wriiU be difficult. If not Impossible. With all r--rM-t for hi ability and In tegrity a iHop'e free t choose their own representative are Inclined to hnoe u man who will represent them and who will not. even though from principle, represent Jntr"tn that fek in i-xploit them. Nebraska In nn tmtortant Inter! In K. II. Ilarrimnn He control ort fifth th railroad mlb-ar f tntrt. What rmr rtrer It wlf,ir roe with utich rontrol well Informed peopli un rtrrrtnnd. At ttrtv t hit amounted to th wrr of tt ft Mint- p1 dtrttnt public officials. In futuro times of public somnolence he may bare thl: povvcr i-gain. What .,ort of character this occasional VI may be is a mat ter of vital m-:..iont. . - ; His testi.nony before the interstate commerce commission last week was not reassuring. It confirmed the stories previously afloat of juggling with raiiroads, the very keystone or commerce, as if they were so many swords to be swallowed. It showed that the 'men to whom we have granted the privilege of managing our highways have forgotten their, legai and moral obligation to the public. If granting concessions to highway men to prey off the public promised to pay better than keeping the high ways open and safe to the public, the concession has been granted. And in Mr. Harriman's case the concession seems to have been granted bv him self to himself. If .inv lcd hop,,-, thar fii nt standing of how others looked upon such conduct micrht man's eyes to the enormity- of his of- tenses, Mr. iiarnman's own statement ioi lowing the hearings will be suf- ncieni to ena them. "This continual reform agitation simply shows the animosity that exists today against men arid corporations that have made a success," he says. "The interstate commerce commission could produce tar. oetier results if the members would try to co-operate with the busi ness interests of the country instead Of antasroni'inp' thorn T1iaa .,. , a,. 1 . n - .is. i .ua in.-) to oe a tendency among all unsuccessful peopie to assail those who are -successful." Long manipulation- of "soulless" cor porations has evidently reduced Mr TIni.4mn . .1..; . ... iio.niuirt.il ui uieir own quality, lie is ohiivious -of -having done wrong. He u.iMHi me gou success, and success to him is good whether won in a good or in a nan cause, by fair means or foul. With reference to him the public is in the-plight of an Israel with a mad King Saul. The only defense seems to be to bind him with laws and watch mm so closely that even the exemplar or a -nigner law" cannot afford to dis regard them. Hl'MIMATIXG DEFEAT. j There is something quite pathetic in the contemplation of the humiliation conveyed to the attorneys for the rail loaus in me text of the decision of rne ieoeral supreme court in the rail road tax ciise from this state. The uidimer m wnicn me court seems to nave brushed aside such reasons for tax evasion as the . railroad at torneys had not already abandoned suggests that the . case was hardly more than a game of bluff from its inception. x Really it did seem, - from the great quantity and variety of noises the companies made in this state when they started out to resist pavment, that they certainly must have some very substantial principles of law up their sleeves which might ultimately be exploited in justification. Railroads have in years past been so uniformly successful in all cases wherein there was room at all for question as to the result of litigation that one could hardly imagine that the railroads' at torneys, with professional reputations to sustain, would ever go into" court without something in the nature of assurance of the possibility of success. Rut a perusal of the decision of the supreme court shows that, the railway lawyers were banking too much on traditions, ancl upon conditions that seem no longer to prevail, for the court did not hesitate to pretty plain ly designate all of their contentions as vacuous verbosity. In it the court says about as plainly'as so dignified a body could permit itself to say that the charge of the railroads that the increased assessment was due to co ercion through political clamor is hot air, pure and simple, as is also the claim that the Increased assessnx n. was fraudulently made, because out of proportion with the assessment of other property in the state and 1m caure of the methods of calculation by which it was reacivnl. In mighty few words the supreme court disjMisc.s of the charge. of fraud and dure as, by imply sugcesi !! Mint the trial court disposed of that con tention ,'nd that th'ere i no iv.e.-n , disturb lt.s finding. In fact It (in. Is that the charge of fraud, even If ade quately alleged, was very ulighMv preyed In the argument and totally fails on the facts. Titer Is somethttig of the semblance of rebuke hi the court" disciis-don of the fraud charges. "Such charges." It ny, "are iily made, mid It I to be feared, often yre mud without appreciation of the re stx'iislMMty Incurred In making them. Itefore the decree could l revere! It would I nrc?ary to consider m i ton, ly whether the constitutional qtoktlurt on which the dppeaU ' htxed um 0t no pleaded it pntt of the itll.jd fraudulent mlifmc tht It ouht to t onldrrd unle thr- Ncliene wa. in td out." tn top 'f thU rath r d n-lir ltndint Ihe court ilert.iml ttmt the rnlro.oi UllOUltt fOt hftVe been r!nHtd to .! upon the (.hrs! th membrr of th tat" l'ril if( rqiiMtlt ttlotl cllol .! . Weak Kidneys, Weak Nerves SO A PHYSICIAN WRITES It is of but little use to try to doctor the kid neys themselves. Such treatment is wrong, for the kidneys are not alone to blame for thei 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. II the Kidney nerve eoes 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, 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 ana every vital organ is their slave. The one remedy which aims to treat not n-ianeys aione, put tne nerves wtuch areJ uiamu, is Known oy pnysicians ana aruzws everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Restorative (Tablet or Ldquiaj. 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. Shoop. With the book he will also send the "Health Token" an intended passport togoodhestlth. Both the book and the ' Health Token" are free. For the free book Book 1 on Dyspepsia. Book 2 on the Heart. Book 8 on theKidneyg. Book 4 for Women. Book 5 for Men. Book 6 on Rheumatism and the 'Health Token " you must ad dress Dr. Shoop, Box 9940Racine, Wis. State which book you want Dr. Shoop's Restorative Tablets give full three weeks' treatment. Each form liquid or tablet has equal merit. Druggists everywhere. ment and quiz them as to the means by which they arrived at their measure of the assessment waluc of the rail- Uroaos, holding that in that capacity they stood in something of the position of judges and witnesses in courts of law. There might be error in their conclusions, but mistakes did not af-; feet the case of the railroads as it got into court. P'rom the" court's opinion it is ev7-" dent that members of the state board are to be given some latitude for the exercise of their own judgment in reaching a. valuation, and that they are not to be bound by confusing and mystifying compilations of statistics furnished by the railways. ."Evidently the board believed," says the court,' "that the figures furnished by the roads were too favorable, and were intended to keep the taxes as low as they could be kept. Evidently also the members, or some of them, used their own judgment and their own knowledge, of which they could give no very good account on cross-examination, but which they had a. right to use, if honest, however, inarticulate the premises. It would seem from the testimony, as might have been expect- ked, that the valuations fixed were a compromise and were believed by some members to be too low, as they seemed to one too high. The result of the evi dence manifests the fruitlessness of in quiries which, as we have said, should seem to deem the claim that other property in the state was greatly under-valued, and about every other con tention in the ca.e, upon which the at torneys made so much noise in this not have been gone into at all." Very lightly indeed does the court state is disposed of curtly in the sen tence, "Various agruments were ad dressed to us upon matters of detail which would afford no ground for in terference by the cou-rt, and which we', do not think it necessarv to state at length." , To preserve their professional repu tations the railroid attorneys of Ne braska can well afford to throw umii tire managements of their roads all re sponsibility for the prosecution of this suit, and perhaps it was simply for get fulness on the part of the latter that there has been a marked chance. i the disposition of courts to be swayed by railway interests that Mas led to the rebuff the railways have received in this state. W. W. (OI,. - W. W. Cox, who boiled salt on tha edge of the present site of l.in.oln In ISO.', has pass.,1 away, rich in vears and good deeds. True to the lnilnet. of the typical pioneer h left extern Nebraska after it had hecom euled and wealthy and mm iu his lai 'iv in one of the new -r counties and n ir to the only "frontier" we have left in ihl.s Mate. The to r tec rendered lo the public by Mr. t'ox weie varied and a Usable, lie not only performed with a Ktout heart liH h uc of the physical labor wqultcd toubdo the wild ernvo but he f live enthusiastic a report of the t mention r (ho n, w wt,t that hundred of families wt iv drawn to (hi r jcto'i through hi influence. In hi later life It wa. hi jov to write down the neiMorho,d hUtoiy of S.-w lint) On "IIIIOMO TI-. N J":;:!.'.r!" I.AXV I IV K hltmtn llsiinln- rrs--t ro-o.- .,.,....,.. . . ' r'Ue. Th t,ft it to ..U n,il ,i, "t.i,i. i n u iim: I'i'K tip; wilh t,,r, i. t ! ' . i b. w. nnovri : Zr.e ft irtialura f