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-
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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
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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
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