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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-02-09
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Man Must be FREQ

There are few lawyers. judges and
writer's who are beginning to see things
in the light that The Independent has
been trying to present them to its
readers. One of item acknowledging
the great accumulation of wealth in
few hands and the processes that have
brought it about, says:
The parting of the ways is at hand
Straight ahead lies continuation of
present conditions with even fewer per-
sons in control of ever-increasing
wealth, more and more centralized and
monopolized. To the left lies the road
to state socialism. These roads, may
seem to lie far apart, put within the
distance any clear eye can carry, the
two roads meet.
The truth is thai the republican par
ty for years has been rotten with pa
ternalism and socialism, while all the
time it has been denouncing them, just
as it proclaimed itself as in favor OF
lone dollar as good as every other
dollar" while it was all the time en-
gagged in establishing system in
which there we're nine kinds Of dollars
and no one of them as good as another
This nation musg own every monop-
oily and preserve competition every
where else, or it must go to socialism
and then to anarchy, for socialism
would end in ancrchy We need not
follow the present system nor turn 10
socialism. There is another way and
* is clearly poin5ed out Dy the funda-
mental principles of populism Man
must be free and not creature of the
state" under orders from birth to
death. He must have an opportunity"
work out for himself, under his own
guidance, his own destiny. Destroy
every monopoly through government
ownership and he will have that oppor-
tunity.
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A Question of Honor

While the editor OF The Independent
has a kindly personal feeling toward
G. w. Langworthy Taylor, professor of
political economy at the state univer-
sity, he has never yet teen able to
agree with Prof. Taylor upon any
proposition, economical or financial. A
recent article of his in the State Jour-
nal on the state oebt is of such char
acter that it does not seem possible
for anybody to agree with him. Prof.
Taylor takes the position that there
is no dishonor connected with the enor-
nous state debt because the state could
at any time borrow enough to pay it it
the holders demanded payment Prof
d1shonor in legislature after legislature
committing perjury as they have done
III this state Every member of the
legislature takes an oath to support
and defend the constitution of the state
duu tAdI COHStItuIlOu ucCldTCS JQdC the
state shall never contract a debt over
one hundred thousand dollars, except
for the purpose Of repell;ng invasion,
|snppressing instruction, or defending
the state in war Those legislators
have created debt OF nearly two mil
lion and half dollars Every one OF
them violated their oaths. Is there no
question OF honor there?
The popnlists undertook 10 redeem
the honor of the state cy paying off
100000 of the debt. Honor is the
only thing involved. The question of
credit has never been raised.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-02-09

wayland of the Appeal to Reason re-
Piled:
Socialism stands for the public own
ership of the means of production and
distribution, democratically managed.
Government ownership does not stand
for such program.
Mr.. A. H. Simcns for the Interna-
tional Socialist Review replied:
The socialist party all over the world
has always stood for the nationalist
ton of industries. But, as before, it
has not considered their naturalization
while capitalists control the govern
ment of sufficient Importance to lay
any great emphasis upon it.
Will the plutocratic press now stop
calling populists socialists?
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Receiving courtesy" That is
what the members OF the Legislature
call the reception of pass from the
railroads. What is a courtesy? Pri-
marily it means tC flatter, to pay court
to. Why do the railroad managers
fatter the members of the legislature?
1t also means an act of civility and
respect. Why are the managers so re-
spectful to a man as soon as he is
elected member Of legislature? Be-
fore he is elected the said managers
would not speak to him on the street.
They would not treat him with ANY
more courtesy than the other thou
sands that pass :long. Why do they
become so courteous all of a sudden, as
it were? Do these fool legislators be-
lieve the managers admire them per-
sonally? Do they derry that the cour-
tesy' comes to them, not on any per-
sonal account, but on account Of their
official capacity? A courtesy indeed!
But then they all do it. and will con-
gtinue to do it until an act is passed
that defines the giving of a pass as a
bride. The last day of the legislature
such a bill might be passed to take
effect eighteen months afterward. That
would not affect any pass now in ex-
istence. Perhaps the present legisla-
ture might muster up patriotism ito do
"a little something for posterity, al
though posterity never did do any,
thing for Them"
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There seems to be good deal of
Fplutocratic prosperity even in Omaha.
The papers report that hundreds of
men applied to the building inspector
for work in tearing down the buildings
destroyed in the recent fire, but only
fifty could be given work." The pluto
cratic wave is slowly working it's way.
westward from New York.
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Now Stop Crying Socialism

DR.. G. F. Taylor wrote letter to the
Appeal to Reason and the International
Socialist Review, asking the editors of
those papers if they favored the gov
eminent ownership of the telegraph,
railroads and other public utilities. Mr..
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JAMS STATIONS

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cnch' that VIII
HOME OF THE WINNERS
lot fsauionsan
most
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stallion
Nosu like 10 in
Pm Iamsha
Ribbon sze quanV ano NM
set
ofIsms beats state
stations He sells Topnshsrs
and Cossh
Mr. Unbeieve
$1oo-WiLL BE PAID YoU-$ioo
dt1amsan ddonot
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Som
tnat2o
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kitty
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Black Percherons Bslgians, coachers--t49
nbaeks0
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guarne
eerenees p.nIs."
FRANK JAMS
St. Paul, Nebraska
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Seed -; IT,; =; ] ; ;. !: Y ~
Corn w!t for , a a And W. W. VANSAHT SONS f;. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30
Facts About the Mikado.
shiguchi in the Independent.

Jihei Hashignchi in the Independent
The yearly allowance of the mikado,
which is at the same time that of the whole
imperial family. is now sl500,00O. Besides
he has the yearly incomes OF 100000 from
the interest ON the $4,000, 900 which was
given to him from the indemnity re-
ceived from China ten years ago: of $780,
600 from his private estates, which amounts
to $1,000, 600 or more; of $500,OOO from the
forests, covering an area of 5.124.S73 acres
and valued at S512. 4S7 300, at 500 an acre;
In all, 81, $50, 600. Thus. his yearly net in
come amounts to 81, 10000.
There are in all sixty members In the i'm
perial family, inclusive of eleven married
and four widowed princesses. who are
members of the family by marriage not by
birth. OF the rest there are eleven married
and ten unmarried princes. inclusive Of the
mikado. and eighteen unmarried princesses.
The mikado is Industrious. He rises early
in the morning and performs his official
duties all day for many hours.
The mikado is an intelligent man. well
educated. 1t is said he is erudite enough
for degree of Phi. D.
The mikado Is six feet tall. He is one of
the tallest men at his court. He is stout
broad shouldered and weighs 200 pounds.
His countenance has an expression of an
athlete. which is not represented In his
photographs that are made public.
The Empress Haruko Is fifty-six years
old. and IS two years senior of her hus-
band. She Is one of the most beautiful
women in Japan. AS she is older than the
mikado she has been able to give her moth
erly care to the mikado during all these
years OF Meiji The couple love each other
dearly. although they do not usually 20 to-
gether when they go out 1t Is publicly de-
MED that she Is Jealous of her rival. al
Harunomiya Is not her majesty's son. but
his ma jestyS
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LIVING IN FRANCE.
Cost Of the Expense Of
Housekeeping.

From the Paris) Economists Francois
The cost of living abroad. especially in
France. is subject upon which wide vari-
ance of opinion exists There Is no doubt
that the English. on the average, have one
third more to spend than the French, and,
all things being equal. more money is
earned In England than in France. Fur
ther, the cost Of life in England Is far less
than it is in France. The contrary was
true In former days. but now the high
tariff in Francs and free trade in England
have produced their results.
Butter in France costs 30 to go cents per
pound Swiss cheese % to 80 cents pound
and fowls 80 to 80 cents each. Milk is 10
cents per quart, bread cents per pound
and meat 30 to 90 cents pound. Fruits,
which are grown abundantly in France,
cost twice as much as they do In England;
ports by millions. cost cents each. Coffee
is so to 60 cents per pound. tea as much as
81 40 to $1.S0 per pound and sugar 10 to II
cents per pound. Coal in Paris Is worth
$14 per ton. and in many houses heat is a
matches are given for 1 cents. but in France
each box costs 2 cents and the matches are
bad. Drugs are almost prohibitively ex-
pensive.
NJ de Foville PRESENTS the balance sheet
of four average families. The first family.
with an income Of $1,000 per year. repre-
sents Partisan househoid-father. mother.
two children. attending school. and a serv-
ant The second family. with an income
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OF $i,ooO. represents a provincial household
consisting OF father. mother, two chill
dren and servant. The third family with
an income of $500. is a Partisan household
consisting or father. mother, a small child
ana no servant. And the last Is that of a
Worbman's family at Reims, consisting of
father. mother. two children, five and ten
years OF age, the family disposing Of a
purse of S415 per year. The first family
expends $1,744 of it's income for actual
living expenses, and has a balance of $3.50
for pleasures, doctors and so forth; the
second family eXpends $3.50, and has 1850
left; the third, 1861. and has a balance OF
$l33, and the fourth $780, with a balance
or $40. In the case of the third family the
food consists of coffee, bread and butter
Tor breakfast; at midday, meat vegetables
ana dessert; at o'clock the mother and
child have chocolate and bread, and at @
O'Clock there Is dinner of soup, vege.
tables and dessert. This Is certainly an
excellent showing for the money at the
disposal Of the housekeeper.
M. de Foville puts his finger on the cause
OF this successful housekeeping when he
says that 1t lies in the innate inclination,
one might say the passion, for economy.
With few francs the little Partisan, who
may be hungry many days during the year,
is able to make herself a hat and frock
which many wealthy women might we'll
envy. And 1t is with the table as II is with
the toilette. The art of utilizing the rem
nants Is an art essentially French, whether
the subject be ribbons or ragouts. The
spirit of economy is as common in our
country as 1t is rare in England. Fathers
and mothers In France consider themselves
the debtors OF their children, and even the
bachelors think they should leave some.
thing behind.
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LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS.
Regarded as Necessary by an Organ
Of the Trade.

From the New York Weekly Underwater.
The life insurance perturbations OF TINS
,a.r have been accompanied by an album
dance of loose talk by half-paKeo REFORM
orc which has served principally to show
their ignorance One remedy proposed Tor
alleged abuses in life insurance methoas
In this country is the abolition OF agents
This we believe Is one of Senator Brack-
ett's wonderful ideas. A person described
nv the New York Sun as "a life Insurance.
expert" also airs 1t In an interview pup
ushed in that sheet. Being asked W mere
NAV we turn to find a better way OF CON
dmct,np the life insurance business than In
New York;" he replied:
W. might turn to England, where the
companies do not have solicitors VINO eat
nm all the profits and make lie Insurance.
sich a costly luxury in America In Eng
land a company Is satisfied TO start IN
nondestly and grow gradually and natur-
ally. 1t has no amoiton 10. puIio shy
scrapers around It's competitors. 1t starts
upon a.safe sound and conservative OASIS.
like a bank. 1t does reasonable amount
of advertising to let prospective patrons
know where 1t can be 1ouna. but II ooes
not send out an army of solicitors. so
that 1t may boast that it has added $780,
GOO of new business In year The SO
called new business that the American IN
s,rance companies make such a fuss about
obtaining is always got at loss on ac-
count of the big commissions that go TO
the agents, subagents. etc: While the
English companies do not pile up unneces-
sary SURPRISES so rapidly as we do In
America. they are not subject to such great
expenses and the result Is that they sell
sound insurance materially cheaper than
we can do In America,
According to this expert" the agency
system does not exist in England. The
Insurance companies sit composedly on
their launches behind their desks, and the
people to be insured flock to the offices on
their own initiative. The facts are that
of the eighty-six regular British life in
surance companies transacting business
but four are nonagency companies, the
largest of these being the Equitable life
Office which has taken 143 years to ac-
cumulate assets about equal to those pos
sessed by the little state mutual life OF
worcester, Mass. All the great British life
companies the Prudential North British
and Mercantile. Scottish widows fund.
Scottish provident. Standard. Gresham,
Royal. United Kingdom temperance and
others. not only employ agents but adver-
tise persistently for them, and offer good
! commissions.
That the competition between active conn
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Practical Arithmetic.
n the New Zealand Graphic.

From the New Zealand Graphic
A teacher received the following from q
complaining parent few days ago:
"Sir-Will you please for the future give
my boy some eesier somes to do at mites.
This is what he brought home two or three
mites ago; in fore gallins of bere will fill
thirty-to pint bottles. how many pint and
half bottles will nine gallins fll7 Well. We
tried and could make nothing of 1t all. and
my boy cried and sed he wouldn't go back
without doing 1t. So had to go an buy
nine-gallon key of bere which I could III
afford to do. and then we went and bcr-
rowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles. be-
sides a few we had by u.s. Well. We emptied
the keg into the bottles and there were-nine-
teen. and my boy put that down for an am
swer. I don't know whether 1t is rite or
not. as we split some in doing 1t.
sP. S.-Please let the next one be water,
az am not able to buy any more bers."
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panies is not strenuous there as here
is owing to the difference In the tempera-
ment Of the two peoples. and to that cause,
and also our larger populati ton, our greater
volume of new business is due. nom
agency office is possible In England: 1t
would starve to death here. EXtTavagant
commissions to agents are evil to be
corrected, but the solicitation of the pub
lie to take life insurance has been stu
pendous gain to human welfare and happi-
ness. Millions of policyholders would never
have taken protection for their families
had not the advantages of life insurance,
and the duty Of the individual toward
those dependent upon him through life in
by the agents. AS for selling life insur-
ance cheaper in England than here as
the expert" says Is the case. the rates
are practically the same. II they were not
there would be an influx Of British I'M
dercut Offices in this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30

competitors make It particularly interests
ing that two Washington men thus far
through their agents have been lucky
enough to draw prizes in the competition.
More may be successful as the land lottery
goes on, as the government Is conducting
the work in accordance with the usual and
prescribed regulations.
The dsbursing agent of the fish COM
mission. William p. Titcomb. whose ticket,
No. 1012, has drawn one good quarter sec
ton, is not intending to give up his work
here In Washington. Willard D. Jones.
policeman at the Pennsylvania avenue and
tin street crossing, the other lucky man,
whose number was 1410. is also not pro-
posing to leave the city. Both men hope to
realize upon their drawings. and are said
to be looking up the land office regulations
on the point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30

pany Of Washington. which is operated
chiefly by the father and brothers OF the
reported missing man, has such high
commercial standing that Mr.. Lindenborn
and the three other jewelers. feel safe in
the belief that IL the travelling consignment
merchant should, for any cause. neither re-
turn nor pay for the S25.O00 worth of dia-
monds. the Castleberg family would make
good the loss.
Mr.. Castleberg made many friends while
with his fathers firm In Washington. He
was considered a paying and a safe Gus
toner of Davis and the other three, and had
taken out goods for all or most of the four
firms before his last trip. He Is about
fifty years old.
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more who enjoy the lottery. send represent
tatives to look after their interests. At
Rosebud more than 100000 persons regis
tered when only 1900 farms were to be
given away. That the game is more inter
esting to many than the possession of he
land. or that only the prizes are aimed at.
is shown by the fact that more than half
who drew never paid their money or allowed
themselves on their land to prove title.
AT Provo. Ariz., August II, when the
Uintah Indian reserva ton was first opened
the spectacle was one Of the usual stam-
pedes. Men of all nations, sizes and COM
plexions and even women crowded to the
land draw ing. The attention at the draw
ing of No. / for first choice stilled the
whole multitude.
The scarcity Of farms and the host of
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Robin Kills an Adder,
From the Boston Globe.

In a vigorous battle between a robin and
an adder fourteen inches long. the bird
killed the snake. The fight took place in
the garden of George s. Jones. in Leomin-
ster, Mass, and was seen by John A.
Hannis and others. who were attracted to
the scene by the calls of the birds which
had collected in the trees to urge on their
plucky mate. The robin had nest Of little
ones in an apple tree near the garden.
When the snake ,wriggIed across the field
toward the tree the Bird swooped down
and attacked 1t vigorously with claws and
bill, aiming its attacks at the head Of the
adder. which spat and Kissed. but was soon
put out of the battle. Not. however, ON
the first round. as It gradually came to
after the robin had left 1t and began to
move. The bird discovered the motion and
flew again at the snake. not leaving It until
Il was dead.
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ACTIVE COMPETITION
INTEREST OF SETTLERS IN RES
ERvATIoN OPENINGS.

Whenever Uncle Sam has piece OF land
to give away the competition of applicants
is strenuous. When the Rosebud reserva-
ton in South Dakota was opened last year
people whose instinct 1t is to get something
for nothing fiocked In droves from al
narts Of the country. Many who really de-
sire to take up the land, but whose duties
prevent their being on the spot, and many
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eff they're Rich's Shoes
they're proper.
b. RTCH'S SONS,
Ten-one F St, Corner Tenth.
ENTIRE BUILDING.
"f1ave You Seen the
Splendid Footwear
Values
at RICH ?"

was the expression a
woman was heard to remark
on the street to another yes
terday.
Rich's SEMI-ANNUAL
UCTION SHOE
SALE and the bargains in
SWELL high-grade foot
wear are on the tongues of
hundreds of people. The
selling eclipses all former
seasons, but as stocks are
larger and SURPRISES greater
the varieties and assort-
ments are, even YET, very
very good.
You can appreciate the
necessity for quick clear
ance of this summer foot
wear when we tell you that
during the past few days the
greatest part OF the early
Fall footwear arrived and
the demand for it requires it
to be put on the shelves for
showing at once.
Those who desire the
new Fall footwear styles
will find them here-every
day new fashions are arriv-
ing.
B. RiCh's Sons,
Ten-one F ST., corner Tenth.
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Reason for Inquiry.

Mr. Castelberg has gone a longer time
than usual without communicating with the
firms whose jewelry was In his possession.
Mr.. Lindenborn admitted. and that had
caused them to get together and start an
investigation as to his whereabouts. More
over, the National Castieberg Jewelry Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30

A tableful of mis-
matched and of-style
Calf, Kid and Patent
Leather Low and high
Shoes - some sold as
high as $50.
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A Large Consignment.

Advices received here today from New
York state that Mr. Sol. Lindenborn OF 10
Broadway, who. with three other jewelers.
of that city. gave more than $4,000 worth
OF diamonds to Mr.. Robert Castelberg, Jr.,
on consignment, has made the statement
that none of the four firms feels at all un-
easy about Mr. Castelberg,~ although he Is
reported missing. The diamonds referred
to by Mr.. Lindenborn are said to be part
of those found in the hotel safe at Sara
toga.
II. Bonner of Bonner & Co. OF 81 Maiden
Lane, Mr.. Lindenborn said. had seen let
tiers received from him by Robert Castel-
bergs wife at Washington within the last
week. They represented him to be In a
western city. Mr.. Lindenborn would not
say what city it was, but he felt sure
that the travelling diamond merchant had
neither met with foul play nor made any
attempt to avoid paying for the tewo'ry
he took out on consignment for Bonner Il
Co., Charles Marx of 81 Maiden Lane, B.
II. Davis & Co. OF 6S Nassau street. and
Mr. Idndenborn himself,