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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-07-19
A CONVENTION PRIMER
Railroads Bent on a Continued Ex-
tortion

(From Nebraska State JournaD
What's all this noise about any
way?
The money question.
What! The old 16 to / question up
again?
No, Old 16 to / is dead and buried
forever. But there is another ques-
ton of money, very important to Ne
braska people. The Nebraska rail
roads are exacting for their services
about S10O00O0O annually from Ne
braska people in the way of freight
rate extortion.
! How do you make that out?
| The official reports of Iowa show
that the Iowa roads get about $1,000
per mile net profits while the Nebras-
ka reports show that the Nebraska
roads get twice that amount. In other
words, if the Iowa rates and Iowa reg
ulation was in force in Nebraska, the
net profits on the Nebraska business
would be the same per mile as IN
Iowa, or about $500 per mile The
extortion practiced in Nebraska is
about $1,000.
Well $500 is not much.
No, but $500 per mile on $500
miles is $S.4O0,OOO per annum. The
very latest reports on Nebraska bust
ness indicate that this extortion
would now reach about $10,000,000 an
nually. That means about $40 per
2 capita.
: Why, that's robbery!
| 1t is. 1t is one of the most aggra-
} waited examples of cold blooded rob-
} berry ever known in all the history OF
1.-THE world Because our people are
energetic and our soil is fertile, these
transportation companies can plumber
: us with an extortion that amounts
o to $40 per capita, and still leave our
people a margin of profit that makes
them prosperous as compared with the
n people of other states where they
4 are less intelligent, less energetic, and
4 where the conditions are less favor
: able. Do the Nebraska producers
", know that they are being plundered
| in this way?
Yes. They see this steady drair
5. from their pockets. They feel the
:. weight of the railroad yoke upon theil
n necks. For the railroads not only rol
If them of these millions in money an
ID nually, but by a systematic use o
brides they corrupt politics and rol
d the people of their control in the gov
r eminent Of the state
n 1t is easy to see why the railroads
h. want this extortion, this $1000000
sr annually, if they can get it, becaus'
It, this $10,000,000 is money and 1t swell
the Golfers of the railroad kings o
ay Wall street who own the Nebraska
railroads. They want money. Blu
why do they want political control?
They want political control to bac
up their control of transportatio
IT. rates. They must keep their politica
be yoke on the necks of the people an
he crack the bosses whip over the part
"a conventions in order to prevent rat
in reduction laws by the legislature an
nd in order to prevent the election c
nd independent men to the national col
Is. gress.
st Well, how do they get this contrt
Ist over our state politics and over on
ty public Offices?
ye They buy it. u
On With what3
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-07-19

The hog market after touching
1915 weakened and is still weak.
This is as we predicted week ago.
1t my squirt up again.
There have been quite liberal re-
ceipts of sheep and market is a quar-
ter lower than a week ago.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-07-19


This is as we predicted week ago.
1t my squirt up again.
There have been quite liberal re-
ceipts of sheep and market is quar-
ter lower than week ago.
Chicago Live Stock
Chicago, July Observation-Disclosures
5000; market slow; prices steady;
common to prime steers $4.25 $3.50;
COWS $275@4.50; heifers $2.75@5.25;
bulls S2.60@4.25; calves, $3.50 100;
stockers and feeders $260@4.25.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; market
best strong to shade higher; others
weak to 5 cents lower; good to prime
heavy s675@6S2; medium to good
heavy $6.6O@6.75; butcher weights,
$3.50. 1865; good to choice heavy
mixed $665@6.75; packing $500
$50.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts $4,000
head; market steady to Is cents lower.
Sheep $4.75@600; yearlings $4,000
$50; lambs $5.50@S.O0.
Kansas City Live Stock
Kansas City, July 1S.-Cattle-Re
.ceipts $500 head including 5000
head fsoutherns; market steady tC
strong: top 1910; choice export and
dressed beef steers $5.40@610; fail
to good $4.00@5.95; western fed steer:
$3.75&5.75: stockers and feeders
$275@4.50; southern steers $4,000
$780, southern cows $2.00@3.50; ma
tive cows $200@4.50; native heifer
$3.25@550; bulls s240@4.O0; calves
$2.50@6.35.
Hogs -Receipts $4,000 head; MAI
ket 2 to cents lower; top 1852; bull
OF sales $6.50&6.60 heavy $500
6.62; packers $6.55@662; pigs an
lights $5.50@6.62.
Shee--Receipts 10000; market 1
cents lower; lambs $6.00@7.90; fey
ewes and yearlings $5.00@6.10; Texa
and Arizona yearlings $5.500@6.25
Texas and Arizona sheep $450@5.90
Texas goats $3.25@3 90; stockers an
feeders $35O&4.75.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-07-19

but an eighth lower than the day be
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

The death Of Or. A. z. Marble in New
York i'm the harness as associate super
lntendent Of the biggest and most inn
portant public school system in this
country recalls the disgraceful warfare
that was waged upon him when he was
superintendent of schools here in
Omaha and was dismissed from his po-
sition on the presence Of insufficient
ability as an educator, to make way
for an inexperienced wire puller. DIR.
Marble was unquestionably the most
scholarly and most thoroughly
equipped superintendent who has ever
been at the head of our public schools
and the shameful treatment accorded
him by the narrow minded bigotry
which at that time had control of our
school board put a blot upon Omaha's
reputation abroad which it will take
long to efface.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
STATE LEGISLATURES no CONGRESS-

STATE LEGISLATURES TO CONGRESS.
The joint resolutions and memorials
to congress from the several state legis-
latures since President Roosevelt's mes
sage to the Fifty-eighth congress year
ago last December, urging enactment
Of laws to enlarge the powers of the
Interstate Commerce commission, are an
interesting study suggestive of the pub
lie unity and insistence for such legisIa-
ton.
Within the year eighteen state legis-
latures have taken action on the sub
ject. and OF these only two, Illinois and
New York. failed to indorse the presi-
dents policy. In Illinois strong reso-
luton was passed by the house, but.
being amended in the senate. concur
renee was refused. A similar resolution
in New York after passing the house
was defeated in the senate.
Excepting Massachusetts. the other
fifteen state legislatures, most of them
unanimously or by overwhelming ma
iorities. adopted joint resolutions calling
upon congress in the most positive and
explicit terms to regulate and enforce
interstate rates. These are the legisla-
lures of Arkansas. Idaho, Indiana, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri Montana, North Dakota, Ohio,
| Texas, Utah, Washington and Wiscon-
sin. The resolutions are in substance
the same. some of them like the Indiana
resolution quoting the presidents recon-
mendation of power to fix reasonable
rate when the challenged rate Is found
unreasonable. the same TO go into effect
and obtain until reversed on appeal TO
the courts, and all the others stating
those points forcibly, whether quoting
| the presidents words or not
The Colorado legislature "instructs''
the Colorado senators and members of
the house Ito use every effort to secure
the passage OF such legislation" The
language OF the Wisconsin resolution is:
I'VE respectfully demand Of senators
and representatives, and each OF them,
representing this state in congress, to
vote for and urge TO the best of their
ability the immediate enactment into
law of such proposed legislation" The
resolutions of the other legislatures EN-.
plOy the more usual, but hardly less
significant form of request TO their
senators and members in congress. and
some Of them include Herewith forceful
protests against wrongful discrimina.
tions and other railroad abuses which
the application Of the powers OF the
Interstate Commerce commission is
aimed to destroy
Three other legislatures holding ses
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

Il have never had the heart TO punish
boy for throwing snowbals at a man
wearing a silk hat" says a New York
Judge: who. indeed kept his word when a
bold youngster toppled the shining mark
into the street
The emperor Of China has a household
consisting Of 500 persons, including thirty
bearers Of state umbrellas an equal number
of fanbearers, thirty physicians and sur
geons, seventy-five astrologers, seventy-six
cooks and sixty priests.
Rear Admiral William II. Brownson. com
handing the fourth division of the North
Atlantic feet. has been invited to succeed
Rear Admiral George A. Converse as chief
Of the Bureau of Navigation, when the
latter retires for age on May 10.
A consul in China remarks that "the
Chinese will buy only what they want and
not what foreign manufacturers think they
should buy. No EFFORT to force upon them
goods manufactured for export and prob
ably unstable at home will avail"
A New York boy, who claims TO have
travelled 10000 miles on a total expenditure
of $3.50 for carfare, arrived home the other
day as a stowaway on the Umbria. Now he
can write a magazine story about It and
earn enough money to travel all the rest
of his life.
In character sketch of Thomas F. Ryan,
the insurance and railroad magnate, a mag
azne writer has this to cay OF his subject:
big. gaunt, square jawed, grim; a toiler
from youth. a maker of his own way, a
fighter of his own battles. grizzled by years
of fierce combat with the most merciless
set of foes on earth, clear and cold-visaged
niggard OF speech, compeller Of men. His
eyes. level and cold, and an almost phe-
nomenal power of mental concentration
upon the matter in hand, are all that could
give ground for any notion of a hypnotic
suggestion in the man. In manner he is
smooth and dignihed, in speech he is de-
liberate and straightforward, positive and,
above all, economical"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
NO REVISION THIS SESSION

The reply of Chairman Payne of the
house ways and means committee. to
the inquiry of Congressman Mccall of
Massachusetts, states cogently some of
the considerations which render I'M
practical general tariff revision during
the present session of congress. No
tariff, high or low, protective or for
revenue only, of course can be perma-
merit, since industrial and trade condi
tons are not permanent. But the time
and manner of general revision of any
tariff are practical questions to be de-
cided with a view to many other con-
siderations apart from the mere Ques-
ton of tariff rates. Chairman Payne
pertinently points out that while there
are groups of congressman in the house
and localities and interests in the coun-
try who desire a special change here
and there in existing duties, the party
which made the tariff and by which
alone il can be safely changed has not
as a party reached agreement on the
hhbJNtAs anu AhlEll nave llldl
the party has not as yet decisively I'M
dertaken 1t. Prosperity has so abounded
under the present tariff. in memorable
contrast with preceding democratic
tariff conditions, that the mass of the
people have been rather content with
good fortune than disposed to hasten
to the immense labor OF tariff revision,
which under the most favorable circum-
stances must always have a disturbing
effect upon business.
But Chairman Payne does not allude
to one of the most important reasons
for not taking up general tariff revision
at this time. a reason which alone would
be sufficient II the dominant party were
otherwise ready for tariff effort. The
party has other and more pressing work
on hand, to-wit: The great task Of
subjecting transportation companies
| engaged in interstate commerce to eff
cient public control. This the people
do demand to have attended to without
needless delay. and by itself it will en-
/ gross every energy or the national legis-
lature at the present session The coun-
try will be well satisfied il its para
mount interest in that behalf shall be
provided for, leaving congress free after
control of transportation rates is secured
to revise tariff rates at the proper time.
President Roosevelt has been wise to
proceed under the rule that one thing
at time is enough, recommending and
pressing with all his might for immedi-
ate railroad rate regulation, and not
urging tariff rate revision now. The
leadership Of the presidents party in
the house in not taking up the latter
work now is simply following the line
OF the presidents leadership.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

An expert accountant. competent and
trustworthy to perform the duties of
city comptroller, surely ought to be able
to get a job at his profession in these
days OF business prosperity. The dis
reputable Westberg, however, since he
was let out OF the comptroller's Office
has been either unable or too lazy to
find work as an accountant. When not
buncoing his friends on questionable
mining deals, he has done nothing except
lobbying before the legislature or city
council with an occasional feint at in
termittent insurance soliciting. Is this
the kind of an expert accountant the
people of Omaha want to employ to
make sure that millions of dollars of
city taxes are properly collected and
disbursed?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

sions within the year has with equal
emphasis previously memorialized con.
gress to the same effect-that OF Iowa
by concurrent resolution. April Q. 1902,
that OF Louisiana in February, 1902. and
that Of Michigan April 80. 1901; the last
being notable for calling for power for
the commission ito put into full force
and effect its own rulings and decisions
so that the latter may be mandatory
and final to all whom it may concern,
until reversed or modified by the courts
Of the United States"
The resolution Of the Massachusetts
legislature March u. 1905. as a sample
Of New England selfshness, deserves to
stand alone. 1t utterly ignores the great
question of public policy as against pre-
vailing rate discrimination and abuse.
and is solely concerned to secure dis
ordinations i'm favor OF "the port OF
Boston," which through existing diff
ferential rates enjoys great discrimina-
tons against New York and other COM
petlng ports. II is, accordingly. not so
surprising TO find both Massachusetts
senator's arrayed against the broad
policy on lines of public interest so
significantly demanded by the people
through the medium Of the state legisla-
lures since President Roosevelt little
over a year ago pushed this great issue
to the front.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
GENTLE ART OF REBATING.
shippers Find n Way OF Driving
Through Freight Schedules.
PhIladalnhia Racnrd.


Not all the Relating is brought about by
collusive arrangement between the shipper
and the carrier. Sometimes the shipper
goes it alone" On complaints Of the rail
way companies having terminals in New
York an investigation will be begun by
the Interstate Commerce commission In
that city Of charges Of persistent under
bidding and misrepresentation by, heavy
shippers with the object Of securing
fraudulent advantage in freight rates
through improper classification. The rail-
road companies claim that their losses
amount 10 hundreds Of thousands OF dollars,
and that through the employment of de-
teotive agencies they will be able to prove
systematic and continuous swindling.
The mismarklng Of packages of merchan-
disc for the purpose of getting cheaper
freight rates is an offense that involves
great risk Under the law a fine may be
imposed on conviction. OF not less than
81 900 nor more than $4,000. This kind OF
Relating. like the smuggling operations OF
rascally importers. puts honest dealers at
disadvantage. The effort TO expose and
put check upon the practice ought to
be systematically pushed The policy OF
the square deal is the best policy. II IL not
well even 70 rob railroad or a gas com
nanN a Envernmant-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

Sta NDARD OIL YIELDING TO PUBLICITY
1t is unprecedented for officials and
agents Of the Standard Oil company TO
make any sort of answers TO official In
quiry into its affairs, save peremptory
refusal TO answer at all. But their
hitherto unvarying policys Of absolute
secrecy is at length being somewhat
broken, except so far as convenient
lapses of memory are concerned when
interrogatories begin to touch tender
spots, as in 'the Missouri proceedings
against the octopus.
1t is a sign Of immense progress when
high Standard OIL officials condescend
to answer at all. as the vice president,
the general auditor and several others
are doing TO questions put in a judicial
hearing by the attorney general of Mis-
souri,, although, indeed. those questions
have not as yet penetrated very far into
the oil monopoly's viscera. II is not a
willing compliance, but forced by the
power of public opinion, reinforced by
the recent sweeping decision of the
supreme court of the United States.
When this most secretlve and recalci
trant of all great corporation monopo
lists begins, even little bit TO yield
there is surely ground to hope for great
results in the general movement for full
publicity Of corporate affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
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Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS
Ohio starts Movement for CO-OPera-
ton of states.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The Ohio legislature which has been
busily considering the relation OF the Uni
ted States senators to the people, and
which has strongly indorsed popular cleo
ton. now has a new proposition before 1t
tending toward that end. house COM
mittee has reported favorably resolution
providing for the creation OF a committee
to seek to procure the cooperation OF the
necessary two-thirds of the states to Sc
cure a constitutional convention.
The passage Of the resolution will be
welcomed outside the state as well as within
II. Both houses of the Iowa legislature,
on Governor Cummins suggestion, have
passed a resolution for a convention Of
the states TO meet In Des Moines next
summer. Many OF the states, which have
already gone on record individually. are
anxious for leadership which will unite
them I'm a movement that cannot be ig-
nored by senatorial obstructiveness.
Leadership is absolutely necessary. II is
only a question which state will take hold
FIRST. The state that does stand in the
lead will make itself name I'm history
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28
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Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-28

1t is limited that the nomination of a
republican candidate for congress in
the First Nebraska district may be by
direct primary vote \ The last repub-
lican candidate for congress in the Sec
ond Nebraska district was nominated
by direct primary system, so that the
proposal for the First district would
not be altogether an innovation 1t is
only Il question of time when direct
nominations will be the regular thing.