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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
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variable appetite, nausea at times and
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stipated. They're tiny and sugar-coated.
stimulate Belgian ship owning by the
payment of subsidies. The Antwerp
chamber of commerce took the question
up and ordered a thorough investiga
tion and report by its economic, geo
graphical and maritime sections. This
report has now been made and will
not tend to cause regret at the fate
of the ship subsidy in this country.
Tho report declares that the lack of
Belgian shipping lies to some extent
in the indifference of the Belgian peo
ple to that branch of industry. They
have other things to do which they
prefer. 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
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