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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT APRIL 4,1907. Pimples and Blotches A re not the only signs that blood cleansing, tonic medicine is needed. Tircd,"1anguid feelings, loss of appetite and general debility are other signs, and they may be" wore nigna. Tlift lie.i blood-cleansing, tonic medi cine is Hood's Harsaparilla, which acts directly and peculiarly on the blood, ridding it of all foreign matters and building up the whole system. This tatement is verified by the experience cf thousands radically cured. Over forty thousand testimonials re ceived in two years, by actual count. Accept no substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla Insist on having Hood's. Get it today. In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doses $1. Unit governments and people are mad for parties instead of parties for gov ernments and people, they may be able to improve the lav to their liking. Winn time has thrown its perspective upon i lie work of the legislature of 1907 this law is fairly Bure to stand out as the master gift of a legislature that has leen rich in achievement. Not thnt the direct primary insures perfect government or even good goxernment. Nothing but a good and perfect peo ple can do that; but it does insure a government that accurately reflects intelligence, honesty and civic spirit of th.j Nebraska people. What more can they u.sk or desire? THIS I'l Hl.U'S INTERESTS. ' The people of the United States note with pleasure their recognition as par ties at interest in the current contro versy between the western railroad:! and their trainmen. An apparent dead lock has been reaclid between the trainmen and their employers, but tin railroads are asking for arbitration and the head of the trainmen's organization Kays: "We are not unmindful of tho public's right in the matter and we ari not going to do anything hastily." As a matter of fact, neither railroads nor trainmen would be the heaviest im mediate losers by a railroad strike. With business already hampered by congested traffic a strike would cause untold loss and inconvenience through out the west. Tubllc opinion would bo sure to react with telling force upon the interests repsonsible. It will be for the good of all concerned if the mediation of the interestate commerce commission and the department of commerce and labor results in a settle ment without useless and wasteful in dustrial war. FOKAKKK'S CANDIDAC Y. Senator Foraker for once takes a po sition on a public question to which there can be no reasonable dissent. He proposes to be a candidate for the presidential nomination and will con test with Secretary Taft for the Ohio delegation. He does not propose, how ever, to take advantage of his con trol of the state political machinery to fix arbitrarily the choice of delegates. He "does not want any political hon ors from the people of Ohio without their hearty approval," and proposes a primary for the selection of dele gates to a state convention which wiii decide who shall bo Ohio's candidate. This is unselfish in the senator, for his chances are hardly best in such a test. It would be perhaps a little fairer to let the choice depend upon a direct ex pression of the voters, but a conven tion chosen to do but one thing can without great difficulty be made fairly representative. If tho strongest pos sible candidate? are to be named at Ihe next national conventions it will be necessary for the people of other states to make their preference felt by some fuch direct method as thK A ME HOR ABI.K HAY. March 27. 1!7. will be a memorable dat.i In Nebraska hi'tory, Forty years a ltd a month after incoming a staio Nebraska ha at length completed pro vision for assuming the control over her vital interest in transportation to which he has bwu entitled from thj nrft. The Uw defining the duties and i-ow ir of the railroad cointnHMinn which tl.ii legislature passed ami the gov rrnor ha Hned MM to be a model i. its kind. The bet authority on f.f th" NtbrrtiWa inachiri'My provided for titat purport, except that th.:y dirftruM th' elttne method ft thoo pig pivtnkrN oi ihf cominlL n. Thvt .bj.M(kr up"" " frtfilUM the railroad' for dictating nomina tion of the Mimmivicm-ni In Utcon r.Ulroad n ruUllon nmk no cntcim tmti'nx. Th found for thH ot WUI ) e rt-ioovu with t i tson vt 11 t covering th l i lrt.,,lt.jr -i;M ' f lfSltiou. ih pa rtf.d tt. dlrttt primary. A tr., oills for outlawing the pass and for putting nominations in the hands of t he'-voters go to the governor, two more red letter days will be put down in Nebrai,ica history to the credit "f the year 1907. DRY FARMING. The Nebraska experiment station has issued its lirst official bulletin on--the results of the "dry farming" experi ments at the North Platte sub-station. The work at the station has now con tinued through three .cropping seasons, not long enough to produce results from which to draw general conclu sions, yet long enough to give much of interest to report. By tilling the soil tYo years for one crop, that is, tilling without cropping one season in order to save the rainfall of two seasons for one crop, such results as thirty to forty bushels of corn were obtained on the high table lands of the south part of the North Platte farm. It may be doubted whether farming requiring double labor as this does will soon be commercially profitable, but there is no doubt of the ultimate- value of the system. Of more immediate import ance were the experiments with hay and pasture grasses, such as broine grass ajid alfalfa, both of which were grown with such success as to promise well for dairying in that region. The station has taken an interest, moreover, in the dissemination of seeds of crop varieties best adapted to semi-arid con ditions, an immensely practical policy. Superintendent Snyder's report is inter esting throughout. It will be even more so as changing seasons put the workr to sterner tests. .KY YORK JIHISl'Kl IHOMK. Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White. That much was not denied. Over two months ago began the trial to determine whether or not the laws governing his case required his crimi nal punishment. The fundamental point on which this question rested was Thaw's sanity. A jury has been kept in imprisonment all this time, wit nesses examined at great length, on all matters incident to the case and expen sive expert evidence heard. After nine excruciating weeks it is decided to as certain by expert commission, the only way such a thing can be determined with any pretense to accuracy, whether or not Thaw is legally subject to crimi nal trial; that is to say, whether or not he is sane. The jury which has weighed the evidence these weary weeks is suspended, and may not have a chance to pass upon the case. It is in the position of the man who wound the family clock daily for forty years and then discovered that it was an eight day clock. It is to be assumed that the methods of jurisprudence made and established in New York required this order of business, this building a house and then tearing it down in or der to dig the cellar but the mind un schooled in legal mysteries cannot but wonder why the first thing ought not to be done first instead of last. WEM.MAVS Ql EST. After one false start Walter Wellman announces that his balloon trip to the north pole is not to be delayed past next August. We shall be permitted in the dog days to cool our thoughts If not our bodies by visionary flights of fancy to this visionary flight of man. Enthusiasm for Mr. Wellman's trip or confidence in his plans may suffer some what from the fact that advertising pur poses enter largely into the enterprise. Should he reach the pole, either just under or just above the Tfnited States flag which he will hang from that long fought staff will go the pennant of the newspaper whose name is to profit from the undertaking. This is hardly a fair criticism, however.- Public taste has not yet risen to support many excellent enterprises directly. The great pianist tours America to advertise a make of piano for poor public support of high grade music makes the tour otherwise unprofitable, Dan Patch I a good goer if he does not make It his main business to advertise a stock food. To what end, aside from personal or business adertising, do men risk their lives to reach the desolate pot where latitude ceases and all longitudes meet? As well ask why men try to run 100 yards in elRht seconds or fast longer or play the piano longer at a stretch than ever man did before. There are some possibilities of new scientific knoMetig'? to flow from a nearer up front h to tfc pole than the 175 mile point where Peary wut forced back. Hut the rualn reason why men try n1 try HKMin ix the instinc t for doing more than lien have Wen ull- to do before. Wh.'it men ceis making such trials th human tact' will glpupsti Its JinUh. t:HE i nmtt, W.Mt l he ift tnlt.Al c.r mtndt lal In at Ion H!l a matter for clicu.ion In and out f the Irgtnhtturr the rail road lobby tot ' fairly wpt be. u it hah IntcmUd to "taVe laim away f r m the it urior c It it- and town tnd ,.1v" hm to On i ha." Tb chief railroad n.oilt lip!i Pi l.ilsrnlr deci.in d li jviM a "J-4kl tiiMn", mainly tfiw;eg Omaha." Now that the bill is certain to become a law and nothing is to be gained by pretending, the truth is coming out. The tax commissioner of the Union Pa cific estimates that It will add from $65,000 to $70,000 to the annual taxes of that road in Nebraska. Tax Comm. Is ' sloner Pollard of the Burlington " is quoted as saying: "We have 210 sta tions in Nebraska which will be af fected by the terminal taxation bill. I have not figured wl at the extra coat will be to' us, as I do not know what the assessment will be. I think there will hardly be a town but that will re ceive more taxes than it did under the old law. J figure it will cost- us be tween $15,000 and $20,000 more in the city of Omaha." The tax agents of the railroads thus prove that with their usual fatuity the railroad lobbyists have all along been insincere in their appeals to the pub lic. They have been willing to resort to falsehood in order to muddle the minds of the members of the legislat ure, in the hope of carrying their point, and earning their salaries. When the lobby is, legitimatized by law, as it may be some time, and a man appears before the legislature to plead for a client, he will assume much the same position as an attorney be fore the bar of justice. A lawyer who deliberately attempts to deceive a court is no longer allowed to appear before that court. A lobbyist who uses false hood, as these lobbyists have done this winter, will be driven out from the capitol and never allowed to return to plead a cause. IOWA ESSAYS A REFORM. The efforts of the people of Des Moines to free themselves from a costly and inefficient city government have finally, resulted In the passage through both branches of the. legislature of i bill providing for the establishment ot the commission, or Galveston, system of management in all cities with a popu lation in excess, of 25,000. Upon petition of 2.r per cent of the voters of a city the proposition to adopt the new sys tem will he put to vote; Under this plan the administration of a city will be placed in the ham.- of five men, one of whom shall be mayor. These men appoint the police judge, the city attorney, clerks, treasurer and all other officers. They perform all of the ad ministrative, legislative and judicial functions of the government. Each commissioner looks after a particular branch of city affairs, and becomes a specialist in it. An interesting feature ot the iowa law is the use of the direct primary in its pristine purity for the purpose of making this commission independent of politics. Before, the city election a primary is held, open to all voters re gardless of party.y The two men re ceiving the highest number of votes for mayor are made the nominees for that office, and the eight receiving tho highest number of votes for commis sioners shall stand as candidates for the four coinmissionerships. This means that two elections will be held, one to sift out promising candi dates from the mass, and another to give an opportunity for majority elec tions It is expected that Dos Moines will make an early trial of the new system, A great deal is iromised for it, on ac count of he success recorded at Gal veston and other cities in Texas. In the hands of good men it ought to prove an ideal method of managing a city. In the hands of ringsters. and grafters it could be made an intoler able burden. If the people of Iowa think they have a patent .device for getting good government without effort, they are doomed to disappointment. Eternal vigilance is needed to keep government in order under any pos sible system of management. HKMilAV SHIPriMJ. Antwerp is the third greatest sea port in thti world, being exceeded in tonnage by only London and Hong Kong. Notwithstanding, the Belgian merchant marine is insignificant. In view of this fait a discussion arose as to whether it were not desirable to tf4 IkM . A i' il It 7I i ' i ! iii.ii(i.Ma. v Vk. ara rJ tf AmUftJ unt rf vrlft kasw. i jr t ni c.! tll hi , i Miln tn h h of hirmr. W it U cr llt cut n c llir kind 'i'hnnU (l.r4 riKinra rhr ! toh lt lrla. FuUll foi .... ' ' nr(iif Kbiiiit!. Allw.l t.if rIl rt t.litf . llw-imwl ami wlr imx.c U t'ha- alienor Ucif lhi hlai. Will ! lai ul rain irf. M afcra your huM In rrlr In lumtiri and varmrr m nr. 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The successful ship owning countries are steeped in sea faring v tradition, not in subsidies. England and Germany, with the most splendid fleets, are not subsidized to an important ex tent, while France, Spain and Italv, which have multiplied laws and sub sidies in behalf of the shipping indus try witness a languishing merchant fleet. The report declares that the registry' of the carrying vessel has nothing whatever to do with the sale of the goods it carries, and there is accordingly no more reason for pro moting a shipping industry than any other industry. So long as other na tions can carry on this industry cheap er than they, the Antwerp investigators believe it would be inadvisable to crip, pie Belgian industries with th artificial support of a Belgian fleet to do what ' would otherwise be well done with out this expense. The Belgians would not consider it logical to give home industries an advantage by a protective tariff and then tax that advantage out of ihem to support a merchant marine which by reason of the protection could not operate as cheaply as that of other countries. This report deals only with commercial consideration, and it de clares the subsidy commercially tin jusliable. The military aspect of the cane has no bearing there, for the rea .'on thai Belgium is a neutralized na tion. STEEL ROOFIHG PER 100 FIRE SQUARE FEET :WATERAhot r will trmi Ihta r.(li f to ar OB' i.,,,,!.,. tit a..M.tM.tt.,M it t.it, itl . a t .1 it . ? I. 1 v. V t s