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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-04

il warmly contested primary elections, each fac
ton holds it's own convention, in the hope that
the committee credentials in the higher
vention will recognize it's claims.
Because of the chaotic condition of our pri-
very general demand, regardless of party, for a
compulsory primary election law, and | believe
such law should be enacted, embOdying, at least,
these features
Provisions requiring each political party to
hold its primaries in every county and township
il the state on the same day; that the day and
hours shall be fixed in the statutes; that judges
and clerks therefor shall be appointed by the
judge of the county court; that the names of all
candidates for Office shall be printed on the ballot
with squares in front of each, thus giving to the
voter an opportunity to designate his choice. In
short that primaries shall be held under the safe
guards which surround regular elections.
Our state supports many institutions for the
care of the insane, the feebe-minded and the
criminal classes. Several hundred people are en-
poyed in various capacities in these institutions.
Their tenure of Office is now at the mercy of fac
tions and of parties. The duties of many of these
employees require peculiar taste, education and
experience There is very general demand that
the tenure of office of such persons shall be free
from the accidents of factional and party tri-
umphs. The employees of the state should be
encouraged to acquire skill, education and expe
rience in the line of their duties, and they should
be given the assurance that they will remain in it's
employment while their services are efficient
regardless of party vicissitudes.
Civil service laws are no longer looked upon
as experiments. They are in successful opera
ton in most of the European governments and in
many OF our states Our national civil service
law has the approval of the people throughout
the country Both the great political parties in
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-04
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
Advice From the President Of the Farmers Grain
and Livestock Association.


and Livestock Association.
Brother Farmers: | want to address you on
a subject which deeply concerns your welfare in
the near future. / believe the thing the times
demand of farmers is more businesslike methods
OF marketing / believe there can be no progress
made in this direction without united action.
There is but one reasonable conclusion farmers
must organize and act together. The cheapest
kind of laborers in Cities such janitors, coal
beavers, and street cleaners, are organized and
their rights respected. The highest class of la
bcrers, engineers, electrical experts and high sal
aried mechanics organized and their abili-
ties protected. Not on American soil today is
there body of men not organized except farmers.
I hear you say reading this that farmers are
too widely scattered to organize. You are rot
too widely scattered to visit your home town
nearly every Saturday afternoon for about nine
months of the year. Many of you are in touch
with your neighbors and with the home town with
telephone. What is wanted is a leader to pro-
pose farmer organization and cooperation. Are
you willing to take the lead? If not, you know
who would be natural leader in Jour township.
Go to him and ask him to bring the farmers to.
gether to form union. l ask you to do this
now because organization of farmers is in the
air and no prosperous, intelligent community
will wish to be left behind in this movement
am not asking you to do anything which will cost
you dollar I asking you to do that which
will put you in position to better attend to
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-04
A REFORM GOVERNOR.

Governor Deneen of Illinois has been making
persistent fight for reform laws and better
administration, but he has hard legislature to
deal with and as was the case with La Toilette
in Wisconsin, he will not be able to accomplish
much at the first trial.
Governor Deneen sends The Independent his
inaugural address as expression of the reforms
he is contending for, and those he puts first are
y primary election law, and civil service law.
Following is what he says about these reforms:
Our state needs a compulsory primary law.
IL but six of our counties is there such law.
In the other ninety-six counties, the rules for
conducting primaries made by the commit
tees. In these, the committees have unlimited
power-the power of legislation the power of
administration and the power of adjudication, in
party matters. In ninetysix counties of our state,
the committees may call the conventions when
they choose, determine where the primaries shall
b. held-whether one for each county or one for
each township therein may prescribe the method
OF conducting the primaries-by voice. by display
OF hands or by ballot; may select officers of the
primaries, define the qualifications of voters ap-
point judges and clerks, challengers and watch
ers, and may deny to unfriendly factions the right
Of challengers and watchers in the polling places.
In ninetysix counties of our state it is no crime
either to buy or sell votes at such primaries;
nor is it crime for members of other political
parties or residents of other counties or states
tc vote at such primaries. 1t is no crime for
voter to cast more than one ballot or for the
judges to receive more than one ballot from the
same person, at such primaries; nor is it crime
for the judges and clerks to make false returns
OF the vote cast
"Out of these evils has arisen another evil
that of the double convention. Such is the lack
Of confidence in the conduct OF summaries that
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things in our business system which make
licensed swindling and oppressive monopoly
possible. That is the greatest problem be-
fore us today. The great struggle is not to be
between labor and capital. The labor union
has seen its maximum development and the
strike and the boycott are even at this mo-
ment in Chicago running up against their in
evitable limitations. Let no man imagine
that the amount of damage done is measured
at all by the amount of suffering Occasioned,
or by the money taken in extortionate prices
from the pockets of the common people.
That is small thing. That is nothing but
money. From that we can recover quickly.
The real damage is in the corruption of the
standards of character which has been occa-
stoned by it all"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-04
THE TRANSFERS STRIKE

Many Chicago sermons last Sunday were de-
voted to comment on the great teamsters' strike
which is clogging the business of the city. Bishop
Samuel Fallows said that public interests were
suffering severely and that public opinion should
be brought to bear heavily on both parties to the
strike to end it.
DR.. F. w. Gunsaulus said:
II should like to be wise enough, great
and powerful enough to change the condi-
tions. While tufnult fills the land may God
teach us the everlasting principles of human
ity, curb ambition, dethrOne greed, and bring
us all under the banner of Christ. With our
city in disorder and with each true heart
straining for some divine solution of these
problems, let believe firmly in the right.
1t is better to be wronged than to be wrong,
and better to fall beneath the cross than to
mscarry Christ's cross May the minds of
the strong be disposed to use their strength
for right and may men dsdain the use of
brute strength for selfshness and greed.
When we teach unity individually we will be
rid Of the great cry for equality. Then we
will be together, believing every man our
brother. Then the Hottentot will understand
the Irishman and the American the English
man."
Rev. Willard Brown Thorp bewailed oppres-
sive mOnopolistic economic conditions:
"The feeling all over the country is ex-
ceedingly intense The Rockefeller protest,
the Kansas ownership, and all other spasms
of indignation simply mean that the people
are aching to strike an effective blow at those
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Ole Nebraska Independent

critics. There has been no disposition to give
undue publicity to the opinion of the inter-
state commerce commission, holding that
there was no constitutional objection to the
imposition of reasonable rate to all ports,
irrespective of distance. 1t had no chance
alongside the mass of statements drawn
from the railroad managers and their at
torneys"
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The opinion of Attorney General Moody that
congress has power under the constitution to au-
thorize the interstate commerce commission or
any other tribunal to fix railroad rates. is of great
Importance showing clear constitutional way
to public control and, not less important that
the administration is in earnest in it's control
program. Apparently it is the administration
against the senate committee under the lead of
the shameless railroad manipulation Elkins. The
humiliating fact is plain that the United States
senate is the stronghold of the opposition to the
control measure for which the popular demand is
insistent, and United States senators the gen.
erals Of the railroad army now arrayed against
the people. The kernel of the truth lies in this
'"The character of the opinion reached by
Mr.. Moody has been communicated to the mem
bers of the committee, but Senator Elkins has
sought to discount it's effect by piling in all
the testimony favorable to the railroads he
could. The main strategy of his campaign
has been simply to flood the country with
statements of men either in the employ of
railroads who could be depended upon to
give testimony in the interest of these prop
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Contributions, how

this state favored civil service law in their last
platforms. The time, therefore, for discussion
has passed; the time for action has come, and
the people will expect you to carry out their will
in this regard
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PAGE s

Boston and Maine railroad pressed before the
senate committee on interstate commerce.
"Mr Tuttle contended that congress had
no more right to establish a maximum
freight rate schedule for railroads than it
had to fix maximum interest rate for ma
tional banks. Without discussing the power
of congress over national banks, it may be
pointed out that most of the states nave
enacted usury laws and that, besides, compe
tition naturally regulates the rate of interest
But the railroads occupy monopolistic posi-
ton through the favor of the government
and are, therefore, subject to regulation
This position has been taken for granted SO
long that it is odd to find its correctness
challenged. Mr.. Tuttles conception of a
railroads business as analogous to that of
dealer in needles and pins is one that was
long ago superseded"
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e ant new practice
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OFFICIAL NOTICES.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
District of Columbia. Washington, February 20.
l9O5-Notice is hereby given that, in conformity to
law the pamphlet containing list of taxes in ar.
req real property In the District Of Columbia on
the LIST day of july. 1904 has been printed. copy
thereof will be delivered to any taxpayer applying
therefor Mt the office Of the collector of taxes Of
the District of Columbia, and IL the tax due, to-
gether with the penalties and costs that may have
accrued thereon, shall not be paid prior to the
day named for sale. namely, the fourteenth U4th)
day Of March. 1905 the property involved win be
sold under cur direction Mt public auction, at the
Office Of the collector of taxes OF the District OF
Columbia, commencing the said 14th day of
March, 1905 between the hours Of 10 o'clock In
the forenoon and O'Clock In the afternoon,
Sundays and legal holidays excepted until all such
delinquent property is sold HENRY B. 7. MAC
FARLAND, HENRY l., WEST JOHN BIDDLE,
Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
fc2o2i "a. % mh6 7-6t
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LEGAL NOTICES.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF co.
lumbia holding Probate Court.--No. 1925, Ad
ministration. This is to give notice: That the sub
scriber OF the District Of Columbia has obtained
from the Probate Court OF the District of Columbia
letters OF administration the estate of Louis D.
Wine, late of the District OF Columbia deceased.
All persons having claims against the deceased
hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouch-
ers thereof, legally authenticated. to the sub
scriber, before the Doth day o. February.
AID. 1905: otherwise they may by law be excluded
from all benefit OF said estate. Given under my
hand this Goth day OF February. 1906 CLARENCE
RHEEM. DIG St NV Attest: JAMES TAM
NER, Register Of Wills for the District of Column
Aftoenev. fa21-1ay-3t
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.
e. s. RANDALL POTOMAC RIVER LINE.

e. s. RANDALL POTOMAC RIVER LINE
Winter Schedule.
In effect December "a. 1904.
Str. HARRY RANDALL, Mondays and Wednes
days at 400 pm for Colonial Beach. Colton's.
Bushwood. Rock Point. Curriomen. Nomini and In
tcrmedlate landings river. Saturdays mt 700
m. for above landings. including wirf's. On
Mondays trip, landings In Lower Aachodoc, and
Thursday up touching at Wirt's.
STR ESTELLE RANDALL. FOR GLYMONT AM,
intermediate landings ut . ain. daily, except
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|,[--TE-I, \FW YORK STOCK AND COTTON
.vrbnu... house. desires manager for WASH
ingtnn branch Address stating references ETC.
Box lJn star phC"- mn
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WANTED FIRSr-CLASS ALL AROUND
printer and estimate man for mechanical super
nt.n.I,ut in uI,-to-tate printing plant. Address.
stating references. ''PRtNTlNG StPERlNTEND-
E\T STAR afB,,, mir -tu. tn, SIT
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WANTFl-A SuBER MAN WHO UNDERSTANDS
no ur..vfsI,u business BUFFALO MARKET.
I5pG IAN - n W unfl1-3t.
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WANTFT-BOY 10 TO Is YEARS WRITER IL
sbin,,jT. room must be able to write rapidiy, 20
yar well. good chance for Advancement. ag.i'
Nr KELLEY 500 T. st. NV.
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WANTElD-5n MEN To REPORT TOMORROW
morning at am stables of kNON EN-
PRESS co 2d and Il SITS. NV. 1t
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WtNTEI'-A EI-TLER; MUST BE COMPETENT
ANA willing to make himself generally useful
NprIy IsOI Mass ave NV mh6-2t
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WANTED-RoOMs AND BOARD.

WANTED-BY YOUNG COUPLE AND BABY,
pleasant home. with private refined family:
walking distance to post Office terms must be
very reasonable; permanent. Address a. Il. E.,
Star office. IT.
WANTED-YOUNG COUPLE DESIRE ROOM AND
beard in vicinity of NJ and SD SITS. Address NJ.
L. T.. Star office 1t*
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WANTED BRIGHT EnYS, II YEARS OF AGE
or over Tor bundle wrappers; excellent salaries
paid aud good chnuces for advancement. Apply
,, KAN SONS n co. mh6-3t
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WANTED-AGENTS.

WANTFp-GENERAL AGENT-BRiGHT MAN.
With So, TO secure return of uIsod goods: givan
exclusive territory: profitable line quick selling
articles; wholesale and retail Address HINTON,
Star office. ~
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

FOR sALE-A GOOD PAYING DRUG BUSINESS.
Apply c. HURLEY. 400 II st. ne. mh7-6t|
BUTTER AND EGGS BUSINESS GUARANTEED.
not give it attention. Price 81. 900. NEW YORK
BUSINESS BROKERS, GIL F. mh7-3t.
CIGAR STORE-BEsT LOCATION IN WASHING
YORK BtsfSEss BRoKE Frs. Gil F. mh7- ST."
AN OLD ESTABLISHED TAILORING BUSINESS
in the northeast: must be sold on account Of
other business in Baltimore. 1os ii ST. ne
A CHANCE TO EARN FROM $4,000 TO 81. 900
during next few months; no capital necessary:
washington: references required. address Box
151. Star office. mh7-3t'
FOR sALE-ONE OF THE OLDEST EsTAB-
asd Livery s stables oa In the city s2S fee front
mh7-3- GEO. ". LINKINS. 500 18th ST. NV.
OWNEk RETIRING FROM BUSINESS WILL
sell his and s provision na store in
unless you mean business. Address Box 1856. Star
office. mh6-6tt
FOR SALE-LOCAL EMPRESS BUSINESS: GOOD
teams fine stand, good reasons for selling. Ad-
dress Box 1I2, Star Office. mh6-3t'
WANTED 81 600; WILL PAY $50 MONTHLY
for use; good security; no sharks Address Box
139, Star Office. nih6-3t@
FOR SALE-KoOMING AND BOARDING HOUSE.
doing good business; cheap if sold par
ties wish to leave city. 4l9 st. NV. nlh6-3t.
TAYLOR, THE BUSY BROKER, 141O G.-THERE
is always one place better than another to do
business: the one who knows his business Is the
to intrust your business with. See TAYLOR.
late 4o with Ne" York Business Brokers' R RGS@ D.
DAIRY LUNCH AND DINING ROOM, HEART
of city; business s35 daily; this is chance
merits nita q of the business TAYLOR. i4io G.
mh6-3t
DO NOT MISS THIS CIGAR BUSINESS; PRONE
nent street; established 10 years; worth $500
must sell: viii sacrifice for $3.50. TAYLOR
Room o. 141o G. mh6-3t
RooMING HOUSE; NEIGHB0RhooD ELE-
tlyyaIl fut oltaan rent. Z
furnished: owner leaving city; make me an Of
fer TAYLOR, 141O G. mh6-3t
FOR SALE-AN OLD ESTABLISHED ADvERTIS-
ed medical Office; heart of city; equipped for
general Office practice so arranged that rent is
free; fEest Office south of New York "a, ADDRESS DIRE
b. A. Star office. mh4-3t"
centrally located and in all points second to
Of its class in Washington. Address Y. D.. X,
Star office. mh43tF
WANTED-TO SELL REFRIGERATOR PATENT;
9171a f NV. mh3-6t'
WE CAN SELL YOUR BUSINESS
specialists. We nre the only exclusive business
Brokers' in the country. We have the buyers
se sy 9 sns QUICK W nes
ROBT. NJ. ZURICH & Co.
Pittsburg Bank for Savings bldg. Pittsburg Pa.
OPEN FOR SUBSCRIPTION 900 ISSUE OF
guaranteed 6c6 dividend stock of active estab
M rns snd territory 70
scriptions Of $50 and up accepted Address Box
los, Star office. mil St.
ACTIVE PARTY WITH $4,000 CAN SECURE
the interest of retiring partner In rapidly growing
established manufacturing and wholesale business
dress BOX 2463. Station G. city mh16t'
BRICK CLAY-FOR SALE-ABOUT 80 ACRES AT
Briekhaven. near Washington Address Dr..
KING, 1915 Mass. ave. NV. Washington, D. c.
ja30-7St
AT RAMSAY'S
YOUR WATCH CLEANED. ......... 81 90
WATCH MAINSPRING- $1.00
ALL WORK WARRANTED ONE YEAR.
mh3-5d 1921 ST. NV.
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WANTED 2 DRIVERS FEED STORE; BOY,
doctors Office" b0Hseusan' boy confectionery ~
lIth ".
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WANTED STEADY HOUSE ROY: GERMAN,
Scotch or .aupse; about 1918 years: go nome
nights. permanent place for right person. reIes
enrns REQUIRED Address IS. VI. L. Star Of
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&WANTED-YOJNG WHITE MAN DRIVE DELIs
cry wagon: take care horses and help IN inra'
business name and reference. Address BOX 70
Star nnice. ~
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WAZTFp-t;OOD SALESMAN IN 6ho, IN, TN !,
daut must buye reference and business ABILITY
stntr wages wanted. EXCELSIOR, Star ONCE. !
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WANTED - GOOD. RESPONSIBLE MAN TO
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FOR RENT-TYPEWRITERs.

FOR RENT - DENSsIoRE TYPEwRITERs IN
perfect condition. $500 per month, delivered to
any part OF the city; months rental applies on
purchase: especially low rates given to business
college students. DENSMORE TYPEWRITER
CO.. 1921 ST. NV. sele-tf
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APARTMENTS TO LET.

rooms and bath. .ss5. 90
rooms 4 bath Observation-Disclosures. 80 90
rooms and bath Nv. $500
No. Al. : rooms and bath. .............. $3.50
66Aa and - ST. e. 4 rooms and bath. Is. 20
25O6 Pa ave. NV rooms and bath. -. 90. so
$751; Decatur st. ne, rooms and bath. 10 so
nh7-tf WEAVER BROS. 1416 + ST. NV.
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WANTED THREE MEN FAMILIAR WITH MA
chjpery and tools GEO. II. CHRISTIAN. Trun-
bull 81. pumping station. mn. =
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FOR SALE - UPRIGHT PIANO BARGAINS
SleiH, Enabe. becker Bros, Miller Emerson and
others. Must get rid of sn used pianos. VIII
Sell low 500.
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WANTED WATERS klItHEN Mf--> u 4,
bous,. men. good 1913 y \. ave. II
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MALE.

WANTED-A YOUNG COIORED BOY WITH A
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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-02-04
THE BEEF TRUST I'M HAND.
How the Administration Are Going
About Putting Down
Monopoly.

The determination of Attorney Gen.
eral Moody to disregard all the techni-
calities and confine himself to the
real merits Of the case must have
shocked and disconnected the beef trust
which has proved it's own existence by
denying it. Mr.. Moody talked to the SUI
preme court as he would to ajury; he re-
lated the facts. 1t was really all a re-
iterationOf the old story of how the COM
bination of packing house interests
works at both ends-at one to keep the
price of cattle down, at the other to keep
the price of the product up. This SIM
pie policy, says the Detroit Free Press,
has been elaborated in practice into an
intricate system whose refinements were
necessary to meet all the ~exigencies that
might arise in a trade SO extensive and
diversified.
If the supreme court believes what
the attorney general said, the decis-
ion that will follow will be so sweep
ing as to forever forbid another such
combination by the parties concerned.
1t will be a long step in the direction Of
curbing the ~voracity of other trusts. 1t
will convey in striking terms the SUI
preme courts opinion that uniformity
of price p~resupposes the existence of an
agreement in restraint of trade, which
it does. and the anthracite coal trust will
have no standing in court when it pleads
that the regular monthly increases in the
price of coal were the result of accident
and not the product Of a criminal de.
sign to charge all the traffic VIII
bear.
1t is necessary to establish the illegal
ity of these combinations of natural!
competitive institutions before the way
is clear to regulate the great orpora.
tons which outright all the fac.
tories. or most of the factories. prOduc-
ing a similar commodity. One of the re-
suits OF the successful prosecution OF
the suits against the beef trust and the
coal trust will be to force the coalitions,
now known as combinations. of indie
pendent dealers operating in harmony
or under an absolute agreement as to
prices, into single corporations like the
steel trust. The steel trust and the
Standard Oil are im%pregnable so far AS
present laws are concerned. They are
beyond the reach of in~iunctions. but they
are not beyond regulation. That is evil
IDENTIFY the next step in the progress to-
ward relief from the onerous burdens
imposed. 1t is a difficult problem and
the tariff is an essential factor in it. II
ic nonrn fhnn nrnhoh1n fhof Or1v-
through the tariff can be found the means
of curbing a greed which appears to be
constitutional.