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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1907)
3 APRIL 11, 1WT. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT KOOSEVEIiT CONSPIRACY. President Roosevelt' opponents are making a desperate effort to appear surprised at the suggestion of a con spiracy to defeat Roosevelt policies by controlling the national convention next year. Nobody else could possibly be surprised. The conspiracy to put him out of politics by nominating him for vice president in 1900 is not yet ancient history. The combination of 1903 to pre vent his nomination for president can be remembered even by those who will be first, voters next year. How it was planned to keep the Ohio state conven tion from endorsing him in 1903 on the pretext that the time was inopportune, his famous message declaring thatr.his was exactly the way an opponent of his would be likely to act, which broke up the scheme, all this is too recent to allow anybody not In the movement to he surprised that such an effort by the "Same interests should be afoot today. It -Will require clearness and coolness of the public "mind to escape being con fused by the tactics of this opposition. It is impossible yet to distinguish the anti-Roosevelt shouter for Roosevelt's nomination from the pro-Roosevelt third termer. The favorite son trick, hoary as American politics itself, will spin a web of decoy-candidates. In the midst of this contest the interesting and important fact appears that the fight now led by the president is less a factional contest, an internecine war, than an effort to repel an invasion. MODERN PIRACY. E. H. Harriman, George Gould, M. L. SchifC and James Stillman, together with some minor partners, boarded the Alton railroad in 1899, sacked it, scuttled it, leaving it a water logged wreck at a profit to themselves of near ly twenty-five million dollars. For this act of piracy the perpetrators cannot be held criminally liable, the statute of limitations having intervened. The only serious argument made when Har riman's attorney. Cravath, defended him before the interstate commerce commission last week was the allega tion that such acts were common in those days, and that public opinion and public prosecutors did not re.sent them. Like , bribery in Missouri, railroad piracy had become a conventional crime. The road is now in the hands of innocent purchasers, and the ques tion presses of what to do in the prem ises. Three courses are open. The pub lic could go on paying rates high enough to put value into the gold bricks in the hands of these Innocent purchasers, or the innocent purchasers could pocket their loss and nope to profit' by using better Judgment an other time. Both these courses put the cost of the raid on innocent parties, nnd leave the raiders in respectable possession of their gains. Attor ney General Stead of Illinois now .suggests that the proper recourse is civil action against the possessors of the loot. That seems eminently rea sonable, liven though looting were re spectable, or at least conventional when the act was committed, those who profited by it are self evidently better able to make restitution than the robbed to bear the loss. MI RDERING SOWG BIROS. A sickening tragedy occurred near West Lincoln on Sunday morning which did not find its way into public notice.. A meadow lark flew across an open meadow, singing as it sailed. alighting finally on the ground where it sang louder than ever. Its song at tracted the attention of two men of dark complexion who were passing with guns in their hands. There was a loud report, and the song broke into a twit ter of pain. The songster was flutter ing on the ground with two broken wings. Without putting It out of its misery the "sportsman" thrust the bird into the bulging pcx-ket of his coat to help swell the dimensions of an Italian bird pie. Such tragedies will happen occasion ally as long as mn range in all de grees between savagery and humanity. But this, unfortunately, was not an isolated case. Last Sunday was a St Bartholomew's day to the robins and larks in th vicinity of Lincoln. AN morning a rattle of musketry gave sign of tho hotnejw of the pursuit. Italians engaged In railroad work about th city were responsible for some blood- shed. I will be riifmlei'M that Italian. hat mil i;;h NUnnltnitcd t It.o wnng bird" h'T"ver they have t.u in tln .'utli. Hut one man v hoM.j i oinpUxlon ;uul accent v-- ;s Italian, was hrard to bftst of lugging v. i'iiicn robin and eighteen lark. A k i him warden with ; tron a .li iHi Won Ui of.- t on ltlrd h Rune blrd-t. i i'd have made u i milt" liv o ja isj T o x .2. ZniU Vaa tM tai i tew ttwn fcqfl O -A. JLS 2? O 3T3L X -A. . ing on this one day. The lw provides substantial fines for killing song birds, and. the prosecuting witness gets half the amount of the fine. The district about Lincoln has been, and is still, greatly favored in bird life. On a day like last Sunday one may walk twenty minutes from the heart of the city and enjoy, a concert that money cannot buy. Leave the birds a few seasons more at the mercy of men who find no higher appeal in the song of meadow lark or roar of Nia gara than the appeal of the stomach, and the only music to brighten a spring walk in the environs of Lincoln will be the whistle of engines in the rail road yards. TUB MARBLE HEART. Truth may be crushed to earth, but it will rise again by virtue of its own elasticity. John Currie, the sculptor, is a living example of this great truth. Ten years ago he projected something good for the state of Nebraska a he roic statue in marble of Abraham Lin coln to stand'on the. state house square. In this project, at its inception, he had the endorsement of Governor Silas A. Holcomb and two ex-governors besides. Armed with these endorsements he made bold to write the governor of Tennessee outlining his plans and de sires, and In due time, as the records will show, the governor of Nebraska received from the governor of Ten nessee two blocks of gray Knox mar ble of the finest quality to be used aa Indicated in the letters of Mr. Currie on file with the said governor of Ten nessee. The marble is still here, but the statue has never been erected, and the reason of It is fully set forth in a pamphlet recently issued by Major John Currie, "author and sculptor," the title of which is "The Marble Heart." Speaking of himself the author says he "requires no introduction, everybody knows him." "Noted people," he says, "usually earn their distinction by deeds and virtues that entitle them to recognition," and then he names him self in the artist class along with Lund gren, Whistler, Zorn, McEwen, Tedder, and Volk. After establishing his fame beyond the question of a doubt, he goes on to relate the unhappy history of the statue that was never con structed, and the nefarious work of those who would put a quietus upon a worthy project merely for the sake of doing an injury to a worthy and patriotic citizen. But it wasn't the loss of the job that Incensed Major Currie to the point of explosive f ulminatiorts . It was Ne braska's treatment of a generous sister state that had donated the marble in good faith believing that we intended to make use of it as stipulated in the semi-official communications of Major Currie, sculptor, who now says in his pamphlet: After all our people not only failed to give the reception it deserved but allowed it to remain on the .capitol grounds for ten years," and after The State Journal came in at the funeral and cursed it as an eye-sore, it was ignominiously dragged from its original position by tho h&nds of rough and un couth men and consigned to the rub bish heap in a dirty recess of a heating plant smokestack, by order of the board of public lands and buildings of the state of Nebraska, U. S. A. This is all true enough, but the major makes a mistake when he writes con tumaciously of the rough and uncouth hands employed in removing those blocks of marble to a sheltered posi tion under the shadow of the imperial smokestack. Those were the ' gnarled and knotted hands. of honest toil, the, hands that every man is delighted to shake when he is running for office. Ah, but he siay of "rough and uncouth men." Worse yet, and more of it. We fear the major has forgotten himself. Let him be comforted in knowing that the blocks of marble are still intact, and that some day a legislature may bo elected composed of men who will see that the work so auspiciously be gun by Sculptor Currie is carried on to a successful issue. REASON. "t'Atvtan H?hrnirtr ruvr tril twice in the same place." "ilure, dd; when it eormrs VmmJ the won! time the ptce is S'.-ruf l CO-OP. GRAINC0. DISSOLVES General Manager Eaicelhard Telia of . the BuHlne F.ad. The dissolution of the Farmers' Co operative, grain shipping, association, which was decided upon at a meeting of the stockholders in Topeka, says the Drovers' Telegram, marks the passing of what was a promising en terprise. It will be some time before the affairs of . the association are wound up, but that this end will be accomplished at the earliest possible date was confirmed today by Frita Engelhard of Rising, Neb., who has been general manager of the concern since July 1, 1905. with headquarters in Kansas City, where the bulk of the association's grain was marketed. In an interview for the Telegram Mr. Engelhard, who is now president. as well as general manager, told in the presence of Col. John W. Moore, sec ond vice president, and J. C. Goings, a director, the following story of the rise, decline and fall of an institution in which the farmers of the west once centered great hopes. , - "The Farmers' Co-operative grain shipping association," said Mr. Engel hard, 'was organized at Topeka in May, 1903, as the result of agitation for such an institution that had been going on among the farmers of Kan sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma for sev eral years. It was incorporated under fhe laws of Kansas, with an author ized capitalization of $200,000, divided into 20,000 shares of $10 each. Farm ers of the three states paid in $40,000 and with this the association bought ten or eleven country elevators and began the business of buying and ship ping the grain of its members and re ceiving grain at Kansas City on con signments. C. B. Hoffman, a miller at Enterprise, Kas., who was Instrument al in founding the organization, was its first general manager and James Butler of Topeka its first president. "During the first year the company made a profit of 30 per cent. It de clared a dividend of one and three fourths cents a bushel on all grain sold by stockholders to the association. The membership then Increased to about 5,000, fully four-fifths of whom had not over one share of stock each. The purchasing of elevators went on until the number of houses was thirty seven. The capital represented a val uation of $iao,ooo. "During the year 1905 the associa tion lost $60,000 as a result of being caught with 275,000 bushels of wheat on its hands in the country and in transit when the Gates 'corner col lapsed in Chicago. This was in April. The mafket dropped about 33 cents a bushel within a few days. Our wheat was not 'hedged' or protected in any way. Hence the loss. Mr. Hoffman soon retired from the association, and in July of that year I was elected gen eral manager. "A hard struggle was. made to keep the organization intact, and to recover the lost ground, but the association continued to sink money until the present year, when the loss reached an aggregate of $75,000. Among the difficulties encountered wan the car shortage of the last several months. There was. some trouble attributable to the unfair competitive methods of private shippers in the country. In ternal dissentions, which had been en countered almost from the first, mul tiplied, if It became necessary several months ago to begin selling the eleva tors and about nineteen were disposed of. We have seventeen houses left, mostly in southern and western Kan sas. I anticipate that when these ele vators are sold and the association's affairs finally liquidated the disburse ment to stockholders will be about 40 per cent, or $4 a share. There are about 13.000 shares out, some members holding as high as thirty. "It should not be assumed that liti gation or a squabble of any kind is likely to ensue, or that any member of the association will really lose a dollar. The benefits received through the association's methods of handling grain largely from the grower direct to the miller or the exporter made for the members between $500,000 and $1, 000,000 during thp last four years. Records show that we have handled an average of 3.000.000 b tlx In I. -4 of grain annually. "Among the members there have hcn many farmers whose loyalty to the adulation In the face of discour aging r-xf)trienoe was highly commend able. Now, however, there Is very little sentiment In favor of a reorganization. In a few scattered localities thre may be efforts to maintain local co-operative whipping woe tt !.." Mr. Stcad'.i lda of an Intern Hl-mal li. acf revival pre.scuts tmiquo pf.ib!U th. fir would start a pear delega tion from -the United States, have it tJk on recruit u successive nation nr. visited until the trip terminate In mn.nn at Ti lixguo conference. He would Ktirt with a .nowball and hop t . it grow into an avalanche Owing to frequent rompj.iint -ut Iklng by th Chlne rVnU;f tn thu triitji cipMiln uf ur.v ''! Amr Jet i .inn rn'r th !rrnl.riiv nf fv gr r" I it t'vcrimfiit pt-rt. Ch- oafnosc Ourod By flew Discovery Q I 1 "I have de monstrated that deaf ness can be cured." Dr. Guy Clifford Powell. The secret of how to use the mysterious and InvlHible nature forces for the cure of Deafness and Head Noises has at iast been discovered by the famous Physician Scientist, Dr. tluy Clifford Powell. Deaf ness and Head Noises disappear as If by magic under the use of this new and wonderful discovery. He will send all who suffer from Dafnes and Head Noises full Information how they can bo cured, absolutely free, no njatter how long they have been deaf, or what caused rheir deafness. This marvelous Treatment ia so simple, natural and cer tain that you will wonder why it was not discovered before. Investigators are as tonished and cured patients themselves marvel at the quick results. Any deaf person can have fuii information how io be cured quickly and cured to stay cured at horn- without investing a cent. Wrlta today to Dr, Guy Clifford Powell 604 Bank BUlg.. Peoria. 111., and get full In formation of this new and wonderful dis covery, 'absolutely free. cese students aboard, and on the rec ommendation, of Hir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chinese minister to the United States, for a uniform allowance to these stutionts, the Chinese govern ment has .drawn up rules fixing their fees, Including medical expenses and all: .Students in Kngland, 192 a year; in the United States, $!)00 gold a year. J- 4 4 J CONCERNING WOMEN 1 The American Woman. P. T. O.: When people, ask me what I miss most out of America, my an swer is invariably, "The American wo "man." English women have many ad mirable traits of character they are intensely feminine, they are very often unselfish, but they are utterly unlike the American women. The American woman and the English woman are the product of two exactly opposite condi tions of civilization. In England the being to be looked up to, the being for the woman to sacrifice herself to. Is man. Take an average dinner or lunch party, and you will find that the men generally talk more and better than the women. An Englishwoman married to a very brilliant Englishman once said to me, "I can't talk; it ia an im possibility. I am the daughter of a bril liant man who, when I was a girl, did all the talking. Then I married another brilliant man, and since my marriage he has done all the talking. I have many thoughts, but they remain un expressed." Fancy an American wo man making that assertion! by con stant haughtiness and an always per fectly apparent air of superiority, Eng lishmen have managed to vry largely suppress the English woman. The fact is that Englishmen like a woman in one capacity, that of a wife and a sweetheart; they know nothing of women as friends, as companions, as intimates. 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