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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-10-26

"Just Laughed"
Artist-Have you taken my picture to the
exhibition?
Porter-Yes, sir. 1t seemed to please the
gentlemen very much.
what did they say?"
"Oh, they didn't say nothing; but they
laughed that hearty.'-Stray Stories.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-10-26

He that will keep a monkey should
pay for the glasses he breaks.-Selden
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
Will Pull With Any Man

Editor Independent: Enclosed please
find 81 for subscription to November.
| had aboue become disguised with
the way reformers were fighting one
another, but your article in February
IS, IA Moribund Party" gives me
some hope that the reform elements
will have sense enough to come to-
gether and do something, but unfor-
tunately the ego is so strong in some
men that they would sooner not have
reforms than that some other man
should carry them out. l have been
fighting for reforms for thirty years,
and have seen my hopes shattered,
lust because we could not agree as to
the mode those reforms should be car
ried out | do not care for party
names myself. I will pull with any
man, who is fighting for the same re-
forms that | am, | do not care who
it is, wether it be Bryan, Hearst or
Watson. They are all fighting for the
same cause, their mode may be differ
ent, that is all. | think that Bryan
made mistake in working for Parker.
and did not follow him, but | do not
see any use in jumping on him for
that It was matter OF the head, not
the heart. Let us get all the reform
elements together and form a new
PARTY. Call it something like the ma
tionalist, and | will guarantee that we
can put the next president in the white
house. T.. S. KNIGHT
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

were going to investigate, the gamb-
lers always received warning in adj
vance. And now bill has been in
troduced In the Legislature forbidding
the Law and Order society to make
any raids without previously notifying
the police.
What adds still more to the terri
hleness of the situation in Philadel-
phia is the fact that a majority OF the
voters submit to all this with the pa
thence of lambs while in Denver they
are making vigorous efforts to get rid
of it.
Christ's rebuke to the Scribes and
Pharisees seems most fitting in it's
application to these people who are SO
afraid of the votes of corrupt women
when He says: "Woe unto you, Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrates! Ye blind
guides, which strain at gnat, and
swallow a camel"
ELNORA MONROE BABCOCK.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
Election Frauds

Those who are searching for an ar
gument against the political rights OF
women are continually pointing to the
frauds in Denver as an example OF
the workings of woman suffrage.
1t is difficult for one to retain their
dignity when reading some OF the ef-
fusions upon the Denver frauds in
their relation to woman suffrage, es-
pecially when we know that women
took little or no part in them.
If the testimony of those who have
made a study of these questions for
years can be taken, the election frauds
in Denver are as nothing compared
with those in some of our cities where
men only vote.
Mr.. Rudolph Blankenberg of Phila-
delphia, chairman of the committee on
election frauds, says that in Philadel-
phia there are more than 100000
fraudulent names on the voting regis
ter. that when the polls opened at
a. M. oneb allot box had already been
stuffed so full of fraudulent votes that
| it was impossible to get any OF the
legal ballots in; that 142 voters were
registered as living in one small house
not able to lodge dozen; that out OF
| sc registered letters which he sent to
voters alleged to be living at another
house, 20 were returned through the
mail with the report that the persons
were unknown there.
Vice outside the election frauds has
become so fragrant that the Law and
| Order society has been tackling the
situation, and it's executive officer, D.
Clarence Gibbony, ISIS aid to have
broken up 400 gambling dens and
about 1000 houses of ill repute. They
have been making these raids without
the cooperation of the city police, be-
cause it was found whenever they told
the police what gambling dens they
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

without he can fill the convention with
his friends, and thus he Is compelled
to favor these railroad corporations in
order to get free passes for MS
friends to the convention. Govern
ment ownership OF railroads would re-
move from the field of politics the
vast corruption funds required to Sc
cure favorable legislation for the rail-
roads, and to prevent what they con-
slider unfriendly legislation. Nearly, ii
rot quite, all of our United States
senators are railroad attorneys, or in
some way connected with some legal
firm that receives big salary from
some railroad corporation. These at
torneys are always armed with that
fearful weapon, the free pass, and
these favors are distributed where
they will do the most good. These free
pascses constitute one OF the most
deadly weapons against human liberty
now in USE BY the free pass, legisla-
ton is controlled, and all OF our judges
are influenced more or less by their
use, and even coroners can bleed these
railroad corporations for an almost I'M
limited amount of transportation. The
most insignificant political worker is
armed with this deadly weapon to self
government. The more disreputable a
politician, the more sure you are TO
secure transportation with his sigma
ture. Government ownership would
give us better transportation, better
laws, better judges, better offlclals
everywhere, and better politics all the
time This being true, it is strange
that we, an enlightened people, do not
demand public ownership at once.
President Roosevelt should be petit
toned by voice and by letter to push
this fight against 4 ilway discrimina-
ton, because this fight once begun will
necessarily end in government owner
ship of all meac' of transportation
The Forum.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
Government Ownership

One of the good results from govern
ment ownership would be the saving
Of the $65, 100000 now paid to railroad
corporations for carrying the mails.
This vast sum would more than pay
the interest on, the necessary bonds
etbat it would take to buy these rail
ways, if they could be bought for the
actual cost of construction and equip
ment, and then, being relieved from
the terrible pressure of corporate in
fluence, we would get even better pos
tai service <han we now have. Our
present postal system is terribly ham
dicappeds by these corporations They
refuse to allow the government to
handle many things that they well
could handle, because it interfereS
with the profits of these railway mag
Mates AS god as our postal system
effective if the express companies
we're not continually fighting the nee
essary legislation required to make the
service more beneficial Another good
feature of government ownership
would be the death of the strong lob
bies that now hover around our legis-
llative bodies like vultures. These lob
bies defeat all good legislation and
force upon the people all our bad legis-
lation. They are the greatest danger
that now threaten representative gov
eminent. Another good feature of gov
eminent ownership would be the elimi-
nation from politics of these vast cor
porations that dominate conventions
by stocking them with their friends,
by the use of the free pass system. No
political leader under private owner
ship can hope to dominate his party
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
SHERIFF SALE

Notice IS hereby given, that by virtue Q. an
order of sale issued by the Clerk OF the District
Court of the Third Judicial District of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster County, IN an action
wherein Henry A. Somers is Plaintiff, and Beth
any Manufacturing Company ct al Defendants.
| will, a. O'Clock, p. M, on the 10th day OF
May A. D. 1905, at the East door of the Court
House In the City OF Lincoln, Lancaster County.
Nebraska. offer for sale at public auction the
following described Lands and Tenements, to-
wit The southeast quarter of Block twelve (l2)
in Bethany Heights, in Lancaster county, Neb-
raska. Given under my hand this 18th day OF
NICHOLAS RESS,
Sheriff
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
Life of Col. Jesse Harper

I desire to say that hope to secure
agents to sell this splendid book in
every county. To all persons who will
take agency send SLIPS for one book to
use as a sample. Sell them for $1.25
each. Send me $3.50 five books, SIS
for six books, $40 for thirteen books.
This will give good commission to
agents. Much of the book is new to
all 1t has choice information on So
c;al, moral and economic questions and
comprises 371 pages. Write to the
author A. =. BARIoN.
Danville, III.
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49,
there to London, to save the bank OF
England, that strongest bastile OF the
international money bag. from tumb-
ling over. But our secretary OF the
treasury never had money to buy
bread and coal, to save our suffering
poor people from starving and freez-
ing to death. Switzerland has no coal
and produces not half of it's necessary
provisions, but you never hear that
people in Switzerland have to starye
and freeze to death from want Of food
or fuel.
Ii they can do that in Switzerland
with their inadequate natural re-
sources, it must be an easy matter to
do the same thing in this land OF plen-
Ity. We are rich enough to provide
every family with comfortable home
and plenty of good food and clothes
and to give every child good educa-
ton, not to make great philosophers,
clergymen or angels out Of them, but
to prepare them to become honest,
healthy, intelligent, in dustrious men
aud women, fathers and mothers
Statistics show that il all the in
comes of the United States were equal
ly divided that every family had to
spend every year $500 for their sus-
tainance and comfort Now it takes
not an expert arithmetician to figure
out that if you pay $4,000 pension to
Grover Cleveland Il wonder for what)
that fifty families or $50 persons; $780,
900 salary to a president, that 100 fam
lilies or 500 persons; $1,000,O00 salary
to Manager Schwab of the Steel trust,
that 1000 families or 10000 persons;
and if Rockefeller takes 100000
profits, that 10000 families, or 100000
persons must be deprived Of every
thing and urged to either beg, steal
or starve to death.
saw in the newspapers that it was
proposed to raise the salary OF the
president to 100000 and the salaries
of representatives and judges of the
supreme court in proportion to that,
but at the same time had Hill OF New
York declared that it becomes neces-
sary to cut the wages of our laborers,
thath our manufacturers are able to
compete with the manufacturers OF
other countries, but Mr.. Hill is mis-
taken in that Wages and incomes OF
the common people are already cut
low enough and even too low 1t is on
the top that the cutting down process
must begin Squeeze the water out OF
our corporations, enforce the old usury
laws, to stop all kinds of usury and
cut out the exorbitant profits and sal
aries of our money princes, high Of
ficers and their favorites and you can
provide all thep eople with their nee
essary things SO that they can live
comfortably.
After while will the people OF the
| United States too become so wise not
to believe everything that every uni,
verslty professor, clergyman, politician
and old woman says, then. they will
/ commence to think and act for them
selves andenquire and look for them
selves as to what becomes of their
money First of all we must provide
bread and butter for our own people
before we are squandering our money
for Panama canal and building rail
roads in China, Philippine islands.
Honest Abe Lincoln said: "Some
people can be fooled some times, many
people can be fooled many times, but
not all the people can be fooled all
the time. F. SCHWEIZER.
| Woodlawn.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
there is no necessity for them to
pay even cost of production for

tnere Is no necessity for them to
pay even cost of production for
They forget that it is about 90
cheap to buy cotton at present
prices as to raise it where com.
merclal fertilizers are used and
% WINE Ihe crop may equal or ex-
Seeu Ine government estimate.
IL Will never be all marketed at
current current prices; 1000, 900, l5OO.
oUO or probably 1000. 600 bales
OF TINS crop should never and
probably will never be counted
IN the crop Of 19O4-19O5 unless
Ihere is a material advance in
the price. because rather than
accept current prices it will nav
petter to store the cotton and
borrow money on it. A 500
pound bale of cotton at present
price, at initial point, is 63-4
cents, equals $33.75. To carry
THIS one year at 8 per cent
would be less than z 1-3 for The
COTTON, while such, action if at
All unanimous, would advance the
price probably two or three cents
per pound. '
MY advice is to plant the lands
IL TOBACCO, corn, oats, peas.
sugar cane, raise hogs, curtaii
,ott0n acreage and wait till the
!orld wants cotton at remunera-
=. AsSsss ,{0Is,y ,.,s..s..,B 3.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
work of the class room, and an
nogs both pupils and teachers.

work Of the class room and an
noys both pupils, and teachers
4 hardness most generally origi
mates in the habit of procrastina
tIon, that theft gof time" an,
parents too often Encourage it b,
giving excuses to their childrel
tor the most trifiing causes. In
lead Of allowing them TO pay
the penalty, which the rule 81 81
the school imposes, they ask thai
they be excused. Would that
all parents could realize the harm.
fulness of such a practice. and
tAat they codld be induced To 60.
Uz7erate with our teac}1erss sSisa sa.
curing the punctuaf attendance
of their childrerl 6 ss -,
Khe third and last way bss
which parents can s 20. operate
with our teachers in. their work
IS by visiting the school house
frequently By doing so they
will be enabled to become ac-
quainted with the teacher and to,
understand his ways, to syrnpa-l
thize with him in his manage
ment and to be more Charitable
When crlticising him. How MANY,
teachers there are who have FOR
years taught children whose par
ents they have never seen! All
that they know of them comes
through the children, and how
very unsatisfactory must such
knowledge always be! :,
By visiting the school parents
Will be enabled to hear from the
teacher himself, and not through
written communications, what
progress their children are max
ing, and should his report be not
the most flattering an Opportunity
will be afforded for a frank and
honest conference. The personal |
interview and heart to heart talk
Will 90 more good than the most |
engthy epistle. BY visiting the |
school parents will exhibit a per-
'onal interest in it's welfare. and |
The more frequent the visits thej
greater the interest.
We end as we began, what is
most needed to make the work
II our schools success is par
entail CO-nrnrs.s l.: - I
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
New York Business Men
Rush to the Rescue of
the Crop.

New York, January Rep
resentatives of local banking in
terests, railroads in the South
and capitalists concerned in the
condition of the cotton market,
at a meeting in this city, have
formulated a plant to avert de-
moralization in the cotton market,
prevent further burning of the
crop by Southern growers. and
to insure a steady price for the
staple in the future.
AS a result of the conference
messages were sent to Southern
financiers interested in cotton,
who were asked for their CO.
operation. These men included
F. F. Weber, president of the
Memphis Cotton Exchange; Col.
Harxie Jordan, president of the
Cotton Growers Association, of
New Orleans, and w. P. Brown.
The proposed plan suggests that
each cotton growing section APP
point certain trustees, who will
act in the interests of the cotton
man until after shat the growers
i deliver. 10
Suppose that worlds fairs aks to
financial successes. they generally en-.
rich the language with some new slang.
; Unless he forgets to wind his watch
man only thinks that he is I'm love.
When a man gets something for moth.
Ing he generally finds on examining II
closer that 1t is nothing after all.
A stenographer who can keep up
with woman may be said TO be well
equipped for the struggle.
A lazy man is often greatly fatigusd
BY being compelled to dodge opportu.
mites to work.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
CIRCULAR LETTER.
To The United COnfeder,
ate Veterans.

General Headquarters United
Sons of Confederate Veterans. |
RUSK, TEXAS, Jan, 1, 1905.
mo Nation ever rose so white
and fair,
None fell so pure of crime. tl
This spotless fame, won by'I
the Confederate States during it's
brief but brilliant career, is
cherished by every true Confed-
crate soldier, and held as dear as
life. 1t is due to those who sac
rificed their lives on the CORY
fields of the South, or languished
and died from disease in the
field, or in inhospitable Northern
prisons, in defense of the right
and honor of their home, that
this reputation and characteriza-
ton of the shrine for which they
fell shall be cherished and pre-
served. Many, after surviving
the rigors and dangers of four
years deadly strife, ending valor-
ously in rebuilding the fortunes
of, the South, and as exemplary
citizens, maintaining the dignity
and honor of their sections in
times of peace, have passed over
the river and into the beyond.
The survivors of that war are to-
day the aged citizens Of the coun7
ltry. When they look back ar
the ensanguinednsss 6 7Ba 7BBaIr closed tn
past. tbe;smained to face the worst.
Gwen, she is dead and buried, an,
the scandal is laid at rest, unless tina
Bawdsey revives It."
( "Oh, you can trust Bawdsey," sal
George, smiling. "He and Lola ar
quite happy, and she has almost fol
- gotten me. / got letter from Bawd
sey the other day. He Is acting as hi
t wife's agent, and they are making
O lot of money"
Y "All the better. He won't talk abou
that business. BY the way. forgot {
i ask you about Ireland's moneyT
"The money he left to me? I hav
q settled that on Dorothy. How suddeI
r ly he died." said George refectively
n 'just an hour after left the house"
d "Well, FIVE thousand year 10 not I
D. be despised. Have You settled It all o
Dorothyf"
EVERY penny. Don't you approved
N "Oh, yes, 80 long as Mrs. War
~ doesn't get It,"
"You can derend upon that, sir. Bi
1t Dorothy will have it-Dorothy, whol
le shall see tomorrow crowned wit
ut orange blossoms, and
Derrington laughed, but not unkin'
ly. "Weli, well. Better orange bio
~ SONS than yellow holly"
George nodded. II hope never to 9,
O. yellow holly again." he said. and De
ch rington agreed. SO their conversatiS
ne ended on the threshold OF George
I'd new life with that last reference to {,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
True to Art.
Reason ENOUGH.

Reason Enough.
willie acts 80 am afraid he 10
sick"
"why. what has he doneT
Nothing"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06
FARMERS WARNED
AGAINST PROPOSAL.
n Plan by Which Cotton
Will be kepf at Low
Wafer Mark. Practical
Suggestions.
TO the Editor of The State:

| Io CIle EQlCOr OF The State:
| have noticed the proposition
OF certain cotton merchants in
which they solicit shipments of
cotton from the farmers, Offering
free storage with the privilege of
using the cotton in their business
and agreeing to settle for it at
any time desired by the shippers
at the current price at time of
settlement.
have no criticism to make of
the cotton men making this prop
osition, but l wish to warn farm
ers against accepting it if they
hope to realize any benefit from
holding their cotton. | am in
formed that a number of mills in
this country and also in Europe
have been pursuing a hand to
mouth policy, having only cotton
Tor present needs and having
only a small supply on hand. IF
this is the case and the cotton
now in farmers hands is abso-
sH,S ners viii Iiibbsf1d Be f16drcs6f 60 tie market
or close their mills. NoGreated
cotton is consigned to exporter
under the proposition referred to
above, these exporters can go
right on supplying the mills as
they need it, from week to week
and month to month, there will
therefore be no Withholding of
the cotton, no pressure on the
spinner, in fact nothing to create
an actual demand or cause any
advance in the price, the farmer
will simply be spiking his own
gun. If any pressure is brought
to bear on the market the cotton
must be kept at home or stored
in the nearest warehouse.
To illustrate, suppose the price
of cotton seed was down at a
| figure totally unremunerative
and unsatisfactory to the farmer
and the oil mills were to send out
circulars agreeing to take all the
seed and promising to settle at
current prices at time required
during the season, and the seed
was delivered to them under
these conditions, is it not mani
fest that with the seed in their
possession, their mills running
on full time, there would be nc
incentive to force an advance in
price, but suppose the seed were
hauled away from the gins, car
ried back to the farm and de-
termination shown to put them
,in the ground as fertilizer, rather
our part. pt unsatisfactory prices
in the great whole ws mag 3'Waast- 10.
stand, but we are here to play It. an
now IL our time. This we know. It II
cyniclsm. 1t is for us to express iov
I'm terms OF helpfuiness. This we know
for we have learned from sad expert
ence that any other source Of life lead
toward decay and wasts.-David Star
Jordan.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06

Mrs. Green-william. what objection
have you to that young man who Is
calling on our daughter? Green-He is
silly. Mary. Mrs. Greon-Oh, that's
because he Is in iovsl remember the
time when you were q very silly young
man. Green-Silly isn't. tho proper
name for It, Mary. wss q measiy
idiot-that's what vast
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-06

A letter arrived at the New York
postoffice the other day bearing the
following address: ITO Any Respect
able Lawyer. New York City. N. r."
The carrier into whose hands Il fell for
delivery returned it marked In blue
pencil, mot Found."-Naw York Press.