The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT
"Biii" Coffin Wrote Letter to Kansas
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Bill Passed

past Slice i Su6Q Tue Official TOD6S Ol Il
public servant, backed out of the polit-
ical game and adopted the rural rev.
cries of an agriculturist. Pardon this
reference of a personal nature but /
have never regretted the change.
After drawing your mileage and pos
tage stamps and locating the dub
bling blinds" of Topeka you will be
expected to do something for the men
who are pumping crude oil from ma
ture's store house. The daily press
tells us the octupus has Kansas by
the hind legs. 1t is now up to you.
The people are asking for cheaper gas
and oil and the man who fails to meet
the emergency at this time will be
cast into outer darkness where the
beautiful golden harps Of peace play
eth no music and the salamander dieth
hard. BY all means establish state
refinery somewhere, declare a pipe
line a common carrier and place the
fixing of rates on some board who will
be compelled to answer to the people
of the state for their actions.
Amend the tax law and tax every
thing in Kansas at it's actual cash
value and hasten the day when every
man will be his own assessor and tlle
his on property valuations at sucn
prices as the public may have the
privilege of buying.
Make the Office of notary public re-
spectacle by requiring that man
who holds that Office should know a
deed from porous plaster. Make it
an Office of record and fix system OF
charges. Deeds and other instruments
of Importance should contain the
sworn statement of consideration and
the postofice address of all parties
concerned. The law relating to alb
stracts should be amended SO as not TO
require a record of over fifteen or
twenty years back. " ..t
Cut the, circle out Of our present bal
lot law or substitute the Massachu-
sets law in it's place.
The bill prohibiting free passes on
railroads and fixing a rate OF two
cents per mile for passenger travel, is
a law the people want. Our public
officers should be protected against
influences of all kinds and this is a
long stepain the right direction When
transportation company doing bust
ness as a public institution adver-
tises a time card it ought to be- COM
PEELED to have its trains there on time
barring accidents, orbe liable to the
public for damages to business and
to the United States by delay in the
: delivery of mail. s@tH s.*
Thousands of dollars were lost last
year by people who failed to get
freight cars. The reason given the
public was the old song of car fam
ine.Y but it did not explain how a lot
of superannuated engines with cystl-
tbs collectively did not have the pull,
ing powers of jaded and sore-back
team. When it costs $42 to ship $40
worth of hay it looks like we ought
to return to the early day conditions
of Kansas when we fed cows on moon
shine and the delightful climate. You
will be expected to do something along
the line of better terms for shippers
or the man who believes that what
all of the people use, all OF the peo'
pie should owR," will have got IN MS
work.
It is not my province to furnish you
statutory pahulum or entertain you
with intellectual sabulosity, but
want to remind you that Kansas Is
the cornucopia of the universe and
YOU are it's legally elected representa-
tives to see that the blessings OF the
earth are properly distributed and the
store house under the earth placed
there by an allwise Providence when
the beautiful stars sang together IN
the great morning of creation shall DC
protected and preserved to the chosen
people Of a great common wealth II
/ call your attention to few things AZ
this time it is only to warn you not &c
"tread the primrose path OF dalllance,
but to play ball. In other words
want you to shoot or give dad the
gun" I do not want to be audaclous
and appear as dabbler or the ringer
of an alarm bell at midnight, but
close this chapter with the self assur
ance that if you neglect the great OPP
portunity and are lost in the labyrinth
of Doodle and corruption or drawn int
the more common vortix OF partisan
ship. my words will go with you al
YOU kneel before the Stygian king t.
fha great temple of torment or arr