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A FARCE.
The Journal has been criticised for
speaking against the adoption of the
proposed constitutional amendment pro
viding for an elective railroad com
mission, and has been asked to show
cause why the same should not be
adopted.
The Cady railroad commission bill
after providing for the election of 3
commissioners.one everyjtwoyearsata
salary to be fixed by the legislature,
contains the following language with
reference to the commissions powers:
"The powers and duties of such
commission railroad commission
shall include the regulation of rates,
service and general control of common
carriers as the legislature shall provide
by law. But in absence of specific
legislation, the commission shall ex
ercise the powers and perform the
duties enumerated in this provision."
The very indefinitness aad indirect
ness of the language of this bill brands
it as a playthiug of, by and for the
railroads invented 'to fool the people
and create endless legislation in the
courts.
Contrast the Cady weakling which
will be forced upon the voters next
fall, with the Dodge commission bill
which passed the House but which
met a violent death at the hands of
the railroad lobby in the senate. The
contained the
Dodze bill
provision:
"The railroad
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COMMISSIONERS
SHALL HAVE POWKK TO ESTABLISH,
MODIFY AND ENFORCE REASONABLE
rates of charges for the tranporta
tion of persons and freights on the
different railroads within the state
and prevent discriminations and
abuses and adjust and determine con
troversies in respect to transportation
facilities, charges and discriminations.
The liability of railroad corporations
as common carreers shall never be
limited.
The legislature shall provide by
law the methods of enforcing the find
ings and orders of the state board of
railroad commissioners which power
shall- extend over all express, tele
graph and car companies operating in
the state."
The Dodge bill would have
provided for a commission with pow
ers in the state similar to those vested
in the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion by President Roosevelts late re
regulation bill now before congress.
The Cady bill is weaker even than
the old Interstate commerce law which
after years of expensive experimenta
tion has proved inadequate. First,
it gives the commission power, not to
create or establish, but simply to re
gulate" rates, and it shifts that power
to the legislature, leaving the com
mission with limited constitutional
authority, subject to the whims of
every changing legislature.
Suppose the next legislature after
the adoption of the Cady amendment
should pass a law authorizing the
commission to "estaonsn a reason
able schedule of freight rates for Ne
braska. What would the railroads
do? History would simply repeat it
self. The railroads would enjoin the
enforcement of the schedule on the
ground that the? Cady constitutional
amendment simply gave the commis
sion powers of "regulation." And
the railroads would go right on in
violation of iaw, while the learned
judges were spending three or four
years in writing an opinion to inform
the people that the commission's au
thority under the Cady law "is inade
quate to establish rates."
Will anyone question these conclu
sions? Read any report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission of the last ten
years. -Or read tne history of rate
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system. Iowa's first commission
established in 1888, failed because its
powers were inadequate and that com
mission had much larger owers than
those proposed by the Cady bill.
Over twenty states in the United
States have strong commissions with
powers similar to those provided in
the Dodge bill. According to the last
report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, several, even of these
"strong commission" states have com
plained that their control of rate evils
was not satisfactory. And the states
with "weak commissions" like that
provided by the Cady bill have found
the plan inadequate and are rapidly
abandoning it.
With such a history before us and
with the example of Presidednt Roose
velt's rate program in congress to
guide us. it is past belief that the vo
ters of, Nebraska will put their feet in
the Cady railroad trap next fall.
The whole thing is a farce and it
should be turned down.
Let us have a real public railroad
commission or none at all.
Editor Abbott devotes considerable
editoral space defending the western
cattlemen in their illegal land fenoing
deals. It may be that the prosperity
of this state depends upon this illegal
work, but the majority off people are
from Missouri. Tnese same benevo
lent cattlemen who illgally fence
thousands of acres of land which they
have no title, often have a very bene
volent seoret method of making the
small catltemen look np a tree when
tey go west aad attempt to butt in
and raise a few fat steers of their own.
Possibly the land laws seed to be re
vised, if so they will undoubtedly be
very thoroughly revised before long.
Bat so long as Uncle 8amuel has well
defined laws no one should endeavor
to defend the men who wilfully vio
late them. Booae County Advance.
inis editorial in the Advance is
fairly representative of the position
which is taken by a small group of
editors in eastern Nebraska on the
land-fencing question in western Ne
braska. Without questioning the
honesty of those critics, who it is very
evident, possess no first-hand know
ledge of the conditions, the Journal
deires again to go on record in behalf
of the western cattleman, not iecnuse
he has fenced government land ille
gally, but because the fence in west
ern Nebraska is an aitsolute condition
to the economical raising of hijrh
grade stock; because the removal of
the fences means a return to the ojten
range with a consequent destruction
of the small cattleman in faver of the
big owner; because if the fences are
removed and the laws are not amend
ed so as to permit their replacement,
the best people in the grazing
country will be forced to leave. The
Journal not only has not spoken in
defense of the violation of the fencing
laws but commended the alminitra
tion for enforcing the law, Jx.'iievinjr
that the injustice which the enforce
ment of the law would work, would be
the quickest way to an amendment of
the law to conform to the conditions
of the country. In this opinion there
is evidence that we were right for
there is assurance that the Nebras
ka congressmen are working together
for the passage of a land leasing bill
which will enable cattlemen legally
to use thousands of acres of sand hills
which never will admit of settlement.
The prosperity of Nebraska does not
depend upon the "illegal" fencing of
land but theprosperity of cattle raising
industry which is second in the state
only to agriculture, depends upon the
legal fencing and use of the sand hills
which are uninhabitable wastes, use
less, for anything but grazing. The
Journal is not urging Nebraska con
gressmen to stand by western cattle
men in illegal fencing, but to help
them by a lease or purchase bill, to
gain the privilege of legal fencing.
whether rich or poor, and they re
membered only their bitter hatred of
a man hated because lie is rich.
The acquittal of Crowe is more than
travesty on justice and a stimulus of
crime. It indicates dangers lying in
the widening-breach between rich
and poor which extend to the very
foundations of our government. The
youth of America have been taught
that the jury is the bulwark of liler
ty, the sacred protection again&t the
encroachments of designing classes.
And yet here is a jury tearing down
the bars of justice and inviting the
lowest criminals to walk in and do
their worst so long" as they choose for
victims the children of rich men. It
is an asjtect to cause sober men to
pause and consider and act.
The Journal urges the farmers of
Platte countv not to overlook the.
Farmer's Institute to be held in Co
lumbus next week. This applies also
to the women for lectures in domes
tic science have come to le a part, and
perhaps the most interesting part of
the Institute course. Miss Bouton
has lieen secured especially for this
meeting and she has no suerior in
the state in her line. The ladies of
Columbus, always hospitable to their
visitors, are arranging for the com
fort of all ladies from the farms
aud other towns who can be present so
that no one should stay at home fear
ing that she would find herself alone
at the meeting. The tax-payers of
the state through the medium of the
University are spending over 810,000
a year for these meetings and this
year under a new law, the Piatte
county supervisors have appropriated
$50 to assist the cause in this county.
It is the farmer's mouey largely ex
pended to pay for the meetings and
it is all sjent to help the farmer and
his wile. The committee in charge
has a right to exect a record break
ing meeting.
In the matter of rate regulation,
besides being weak and worthless the
proposed railroad commission bill ap
parently vests the commission with
no authority over express, telegraph
and telephone companies over which
it is just as important for the public
to hold a restraining hand us it is the
railroad.
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regulation in Iowa and the develop-
it of the railroad comaussioner
Pat Crowe has been acquitted by
a jury of twelve men. He was
proved guilty by unassailable testi
mony and by his' own confession, of
one of the most damnable crimes
known to mankind that of child-
stealing and child-torture. Some of
the men who signed the verdict were
fathers. Had the little Cudahy boy,
too young to have guilty, knowledge
of the misdeeds with which his par
ent is charged, been a child of their
blood, Crowe wonld not have been sate
from their wrath, even under the
protection of the officers of law. And
yet these men forgot the brutal, cow
ardly child-torturer and their high
duty as jurors to uphold the princi
ples of justice and law which cry out
for the protection of innocent children
OTHER EDITORS.
Fremont Ti i bune : A measure pro
viding for the whipping post for wife
beate s was discuhsed by congress the
other day. The merits aad demerits of
the bill were gone into freely and ful
ly after which it was dnfeated by a
decisive vote. Of course we are not
o understand, nor is the world to
understand by this that the American
congress, endorses domestic discipline
by means of physical force. That
method may serve its purpose with
less civilized people than we but it is
not resorted to in this country except
in rare cases. For this reason we pre
sume, lawgivers are usually opposed
to restoring the whipping post. They
do not care to bring disrepute upon
the conntry'by recognizing wife beat
ing as a national evil. Here the re
lined cruelties are practiced, xhe
wife is starved or abandoned or driven
to despair by cold neglect. These
make a deeper hurt than beating and
the whipping post does not appear as
a remedy. If there be sections of the
country, state of the union, where
life beating is frequent and scandal
ous, it is within the province of the
legislatures of those states to make
provision for punishment. But it is
scarcely necessary to hold pat a threat
against jaeoraua merely that Missouri
and Arkanass be properly curbed.
Osceola Record : Attorney lienors!
brown's victory in the suit to dissolve
the Nebraska Grain Dealers' Associa
tion, while important in itself, also
serves to show the efficacy of the Jun-
kin Anti-Trust Law enacted by the
last legislature and under which sta
tute the above suit was commenced
There is not an unlawful combination
of any sort but what the .Tonkin act
is elastic enough to cover and order
it, anytning that acts in restraint of
trade can be strangled. Notwith
standing the hue and cry that has
been raised in some quarters about
rhe last ' corporation ownd legisla
ture," since the smoke has cleared
awa, it appears that some "good
things can come out of Nazareth"
after alL
HORSE
I will sell at Public Auction at my barn in
Columbus, Nebraska, on
Friday. Harch 2nd. 1906
- Horses
Mules - 200
150 Head of Good Young Horses, consisting of 33 Head of Heavy Draft
Horses, weighing from 1400 to 1600 lbs.; 60 Head of Good Young Farm Mares
and Geldings, Weighing from 1200 to 1400 lbs.: Also 50 Head of Good South
ern Horses and General Purpose Horses.
Come and bring your Good Fat Horses, as I will have buyers here from' all of the big markets
Thos. Dattery, from St. Louis, will be here; Frank Sweet, from St. Joseph, Charlie Barrett, from Audi
bon, Iowa, Ed Helliker, from Fremont and Mr. Hoops, from Schuyler, who has always been a good cus
tomer for any kind of a good, maaketable horse; Janmes Connolly, from Chicago, will be here to buy
some nice, smooth 1200 lb. horses for the New York trade.
Mr. Fred Wille will be here to offer 12 head of choice Brood Sows from his fine herd of Poland
Chinas. All are safe with pig by the boars the country offords.
flog Sale Commences at 10 ft. M.
Horse Sale Commonce at I P. M.
Every Horse must be as represented or no sale. Come and help me make
you a market at home for your horses. Through billing to South Omaha will
be furnished to parties buying 10 or more horses.
Two loads of Mules at barn to sell at Private Sale ot any time.
W. I. BLAIN, Auctioneer
H. A. CLARKE, Clerk
Thos. Branigan
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Thai Ihe Union Pacific and the Burlington
Railroad Companies
Are Now Building Lines of Road along the North Platte
River Through
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Do You Want to Buy a Fine Quarter Section
Of table land with good black soil and within five to nine miles from Chappell, county seat of Deuel county,
which is situated on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad. These lands produce just as good wheat'
rye, oats and alfalfa as is raised on lands in central and east Nebraska, where they sell at $50 to $75 per acre
Then Investigate these Deuel County Lands.
Spalding Enterprise : It is true,
too, that the sand hill laad is only
fit tor crazing purposes and that it
takes 20 acres of land of that kind to
raise one animal from the time he
comes into the .world nntil he takes
his departure for the next. These
sea are entitled to not only credit
for what they hare done bnt also to
consideration from the hands of the
gorernment. Some kind of lease law
should be pused so that these men
will not lose ererytbing they have
worked so hard for. and also to pre
vent the land from again becoming a
wild desert.
k The Kinkaid Homestead Bill
6 lands and improve them and have the neighborhood settled up instead of having large pastures and few houses ad
S joining his farm as in the past. These lands are now accessible by way of the Union Pacific railroad to Chappell, th
Has made it possible to put these lands on the market,
and the small farmer has a good chance to buy good farm
the
countv seat of Deuel county, and the prices are from $5 to $16 per acre, according to the number of acres under culti
vation and the improvements. These lands are just as good soil and as fine laying as lands that are selling from $50
to $75 per acre in south central Nebrask.
COME AT ONCE and see for yourself. You can get homeseeker's rates on the railroads to investigate these
lands. We offer the opportunity of the year. Don't delay, but come at once. We refund railroad fare to all pur
chasers of land. . .
R. W. HOBART
Attorney - at - Law
Rooms 10 and 11 New Columbus State
Bank Building.
J These Lands are for sale on Easy Terms, One-Half Cash, Balance on Mortgages or
5 Contracts at a Low Rate of Interest.
S This offer is made to you only until March 1, as all lands rot sold at that time will 52
I be subject to lease for 1906. Send for map and description of lands to any of the under- 25
S signed, who are the Exclusive Agents for the property.
WERTZ, McCALLISTER & DANN, Chappell, Nebraska, i
SS Ar U. DAN??, Kearney, Nebraska " 2J
Or BECHER, HOCKENBERQER & CHAMBERS, Local Agents, ColumbusNebraska
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