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...... -' w-'W '' 4fa Ii&mlimi she I mm The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL. VII. LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1896. NO. 39. W v - u IN THE SAME BUSINESS U. P. Thurston and B. M. Manderson Are Two of a Kind. THE7 BOTH HELPED TO BOB US What Interest has a Farmer or Mer chant in Which Gets the Dele gation and the Spoils The Whole Game is to Catch Suckers and Gather in the Boodle. Thurston is in the United States sen ate as a representative of the Union Pa cific railroad, and all other corporations, trusts, and money power interests. Manderson was in the United States sen ate for twelve years as a representative of the same trusts and money power in terests, and is now the general attorney of the B. & M. railroad. One is as good as the other, and neither have any inter- stinthe masses of the people. They both have supported and howled for the republican party through all its malad ministration since the war, which has re sulted in concentrating the wealth of the nation into the hands of the few who make up the money power, control the corporations and trust combines, while the masses who produce the wealth find "poverty staring them in the face" after "'a Iife-tirae of mcessan t labor." Thurston sacrificed his father to put down the rebellion, and is now ready to sacrifice bis son in order to sound the foghorn of the demagogue and gain spoils for the henchmen who aid him in working the schemes to serve the inter ests he represents and bring prominence to himself. , Manderson is in the same business, They both supported the republican leg islation that created a war debt three or four times as great as the value received for it by the government. They both supported the contraction policy, credit strengthening BCt, refunding schemes, demonetization of silver and specie re sumption act, which appreciated thefraud ulently contracted debt so that it takes now from four to ten times the amount of labor and property value to pay the debt than it would have taken when it was created. What has been true of the fraudulently contracted national debt is true of indi vidual debts and business. They both supported and advocated a policy that omnelled the neon e to do business on continually falling market, and after thirty years of paying interest, tribute and debt principals, the people find that they are deeper 111 debt, national, state. municipal and individual, than tbey were at the beginning. That is, after all the hundreds of millions they have paid, they And they have not reduced the debt a dollar when measured in the amount of property it takes to represent a dollar as compared with the amount it took at the beginning, while at the same time they "find poverty staring them in the face. Thurston and Manderson both sup ported the policy that produced this con dition, and are both supporting the gold standard policy which is to continue it. What preference can the people have oetween the two men7 Certainly none. Then why all this noise about which shall control the delegation to the repub lican national convention? The whole game is to catch suckers and gather in the spoils for the politicians who have the nerve and gall to take charge of the people's politics for the spoils there is in it. 4 John M. Thurston has promised the delegation from Nebraska to McKinley. What right has he to speak for the peo ple of Nebraska? None whatever, but be presumes to speak for them because he has been in the habit of herding Ne braska republicans like a lot of sheep, as lobbyist, shyster politician, and agent for the corporations. He fathers the McKinley boom, hoping that if he is Dominated lightning might possibly strike him as the nominee for vice-president; and failing in that, he would be as sured that he would stand nearest the throne in the distribution of patronage should McKinley happen to be lected, and this would aid him in obtaining other greatness bycoralling the people in his political pasture. He has no oth er principle in the matter. Other men who want to stand near the throne, also, and feed a little at the pub lie crib while Thurston feeds a good deal, bave'eonceived the idea of bringing Man derson out as a presidential candidate, thinking to gain control of the Nebraska delegation under the plea of a home can didate, and in that way gain a standing in court by which they can de mand a share of the spoils. It is a scramble of the politicians for spoils. Principles, or issue or the people's in terests are foreign to every thought of the politicians who control the republican party and who have made it so corrupt and rotten that the man in the moon holds his nose when he passes over the continent. The "old school" republican frauds who ''labor incessantly" to pro duce wealth enough to live on and who find "poverty staring them in the face" after all their efforts, are merely puppets playing in the great farce and have no standing in the politics of their party further than to connt one when the census is taken and to vote for the win ner in the spoils contest represented by the nominating conventions of their party. If Thurston wins in the state conven tion be takes the delegation to St. Louis and delivers it for spoils reward for his henchmen who in turn will aid him to ob tain greatness in the same way. If the Manderson men win, they will take the delegation to St. Louis and deliver it, receive the spoils reward for a like pur- pose, that is all there is to the principles of the grand old republican party and those who have "never swerved for one moment in their allegiance to them." May God have mercy on their souls, as they wifl certainly have great sins to an- swer for in the after a while. Ed. J. Hall. OMAHA REPORTERS- Their Capacity for Lying Shown up in a Congressional Report Washington, D. C, Feb. 22, 1896. Editor Independent: The readers of the Independent will remember the villianous way in which the Omaha re porters wrote up that congressional in vestigation in the Omaha Reservation last summer. They said that Captain Beck insulted them, and ''the big popu list senator" ordered him to "sit down.' I thought you would like to know the truth about it, I th erf ore send you the stenographic report of that incident which is just published, It is as follows; Capain Beck. I can show you thirty of them. Not only that, but it can be proven that they have paid money to wrong persons individually. That can be proven. Mb. Myers. We have got no leases of that kind, and money has been paid to the proper persons in every instance, Captain Beck (reading). "I further certify on honor that said E. P. Walker" Mr. Myers. We haven t done that kind of business, and I want Captain Beck. I don't want any more of that, sir. I want you to understand Mr. Thurston. Captain, I would like to make an inquiry whether we are in charge for the purpose of this inquiry in this office now, or notf Captain Beck. Well, Senator Thurs ton, I haven t the slightest desire to be in anyway offensive to you gentlemen, and I would think you would know that, but when this man, who has just been arrested on a warrant issued by the United States district attorney, comes here to this office and disputes my word, I don't think you can consider I am vio lating any law of hospitality Mr. Thurston. Captain we are here for the purpose of conducting a most ira partial inquiry. We desire to render you every possible respect as a representative of the United States government here. Captain Beck. Well, then, i beg your pardon. Will you be kind enough keep this man silent? MR. Thurston. 15 lit we also have in vited all thes men to come here and meet us, and without regard to whom these people are or whether they hold any offi cial position or whether they are under charge or under arrest. We recognize no distinction between citizens of the United States before us at this bearing, and if we are in charge of this place dur ing this hearing we win attend to the matter of the preservation of the order and reprimand, whenever it is necessary any person in attendance. If we are not in charge for that full purpose it will be our pleasure at least mine to retire from the room. Captain Beck, Very well, Senator Thurston. But I was not aware Me. Allen. I think, Senator Thurs ton, it is altogether improper that while the Captain or any other person is mak ing a statement heshould be interrupted. Mr. Thurston. There is no question about that, and I think the gentleman conducting this inquiry will see to it. Captain Beck. 1 Mas not aware, sir, that this was a formal investigation. I thought it was essentially an informal one. 1 am not aware that it is an au thorized investigation, Senator Aflen. Mr. Allen. No,' this is not an author ized investigation. What we are endeav oring to do, Captain, is to find out the facts here from inquiry of the settlers,the Indians, and yourself. Captain Beck. That is what I sup posed; and I did not suppose that I was violating any parliamentary rule when I was attacking a man who bad the impu dence to interrupt me under the circum stances; That man, though he may have been invited by this honorable body, had no right to interrupt me under any cir cumstances, and he must not do it. Mk. Thurston. I will agree with you. Captain Beck, that it is not a formal in vestigation in the sense that it has been directed by any act of the congress of the United States; but is being conducted by the Nebraska delegation in congress for the purpose of laying the result of our inquiry before congress when it assem bles, and possibly for the further purpose of making our recommendations, if they are or any weight, to the department the having charge of this Indian reserva- tion Captain Beck Very well, sir; all that I request Senator Thurston. And I think we are fully in accord with you in the propo sition that no witness or no person in vited to speak before this delegation shall be interrupted, or that anything shall be said with our consent that in anyway is offensive to any party who comes before us. Captain Beck. The intention of the man was to insult me. I know him. Mr. Allen. Now, Mr. Myers, let me make a suggestion, and to all of you getlemen. You are all going to be given full and fair opportunity to be heard. Now, don't take advantage of your po sition here to interrupt auybody that is making a statement, If the statement is not correct you will havean opportunity to correct it. Now, go on, Captain. Nebraskan. The Intrinsic Never Change. The intrinsic nature of gold is just the same as it was twenty-two years ago. So is the Intrinsic nature of wheat and cotton and petroleum, and every other commodity that is sold in the market. But it takes twice as much of these com modities to buy a given amount of gold, or any other money on a gold basis. national uimetaiiist. A BOUNDLESS FRAUD. THREE HUNDRED MILLION CASH IN THE TREASURY. 5: The Bonds were Increased to tire the Greenbacks, Be- In discussing Morrill's motion1 to take up the tariff bill Senator Stewart, showed up the real meaning of of the bond sales, He said Mr. President, I cannot afford, to hold my peace and allow the false pretense that this bill is designed to produce rev enue, or that there is any necessity for a bill to produce revenue, to go unheeded The most oppressiveaud the most wicked part of the bond sales is the impounding of the people s money in the Treasury Department. Financial journals in this country declare that that is one of the modes of retiring greenbacks, and the favorite mode. There will be in the Treasury when the last loan shall have been paid in.nearly 300, 000,000 of cash balance. A deficiency of 230,000,000 a year will not draw down thecasu balance in the Treasury to where it ought to be in less than four years. It will take four years for the people to get back into cir culation the money which has been un lawfully token from them by thege bond sales. It will take four years to reduce this unhealthy surplus in the treasury, it matters not how it has got there. It is a sham, a pretext. Anyone who seeks to put more money there wants to im pound the greenbacks to a greater ex tent. Additional taxation, when there is about $ 300,000,000 in the Treasury, when there is a cash balance which at the present rate of deficiency cannot be drawn down to a reasonable limit in less than four years, it seems to me, is out rageous, and I hope that Congress will not adjourn until it takes some means of releiving the treasury of the surplus that has been taken away from the peo ple. ' The gold standard and the policy of impounding what little money is left has distressed the country and when it is said that the country is anxious for more taxation, that the country is rich and abounding in money and anxious for further taxation, I deny it. i deny that in all the history of this country there was ever such general distress as prevails today after twenty-five years of, peace and abundant harvests. I deny that with the money impounded as it is now, with contracting circulating medium, the resources of this country can be made available. The wealth of the United States is not in its debts, but it consists in its productive power. There has not been 33 per cent of that productive power made available for the last three years because of want of money. Falling prices paralyze industry, and here we have a proposition to put $40,000,000 a year more in the Treasury and contract the currency that much more. THE SLOUGH HATS- The Men Who Wear them Will Over throw Oar Oligarchy. Giltner, Neb., March 2, 1896. Editor Independent Inclosed find $1 for renewal of The Independent. I am glad the paper is improving. The pops are so dead out here that they cast about three-fourths Of the bal lots, and the balance of the voters are on the mourners' bench. So, earth toearth and dust to dust, let them join the dying pops. Allow me the space to express my ap preciation of Senator Allen's sincere de votion to the caus of the people. A man who sits in the United States senate, and with the club of Knowledge and Truth pounds the heads of American traitors as they pop up, is entitled to the admira tion of all loyal citizens. There are more hearts beating in sympathy with Sen ators Allen and Tillman than they are aware of. I believe there is a silent con viction uuder the slouch hats of millions of patriots to deliberately overthrow the oligarchy. By the way. Instead of the govern ment increasing the army from the ranks of idle men, to keep in readiness for foreign foes, why not use the money required (which is about f 2,000 per an num per soldier, all told) in buying homes for the heads of families who are homeless, and if there is any foreign in vasion they will not have to be hired. but through patriotism they will defend their homes against all comers. I hope intelligence will govern the people, so there will be no need of the barbarous custom of military powers. S. W. McDannkl. UNIVERSITY REPUBLICANS- They Have a Small Minority Among the Youngr Hen, The republicans of the state university collected the students in the law depart ment together last Friday night and un dertook to organize a young men's re publican club in the department. One of the principal motives for the pressure brought to bear on the students seemed to be to squeeze some campaign funds out of them, as the young men were told that each club must send five dollars to the national republican headquarters. The managers of the movement found the young men of the law department of the university an altogether intractable lot. There were seventy-six students in the department. With all the pressure they could bring to bear, they could only induce twenty-three to go in, and one of these backed out when the campaign fund business was explained to him. Nebraska university men are not chumps. They have been doing some thinking and studying on their own ac count. They don't propose to go into the gold bug camp. It is thought by those who have the best opportunities of knowing that this proportion of 22 to 76 is about the pro portion of gold bug strength among Nebraska's brightest young men, not only in all the departments of the uni versity, but all over the state. THAT GREAT WAVE. How it Haa Affected the Riohest Ooun try in the World Thous ands Homeless- The prosperity of a nation or state or county or a city depends upon a combi nation of many things. Some of them material things, such as climate, soil or minerals. After having all the material things necessary to make a people pros perous and happy, that people must have an honest government, adminis tered by honest, practical men, or they will not be either prosperous or happy. The United States has the best piece of ground in the world, extending from ocean to ocean and from the Gulf to the Lakes. It is located in the temperate zone, and has by far the most varied and best climate of any nation in the world. We have the best form of government, and the intelligence of our people is above that of other countries. We have to our credit more useful inventions, and have them to use, than all the other na tions combined. In fact our country has the best of everything that the world can furnish. Yet with all these natural resources we have millions of men without homes, without the neces saries of life. Why is it? Bad govern ment is the only answer. Legislation in favor of the few, compelling the poor to bear the expense of government bv rais ing the revenue by taxing the clothes they wear and the food they eat, and ex empting from taxation those princely fortunes in the east that constantly grow greater whether their owners wake or sleep. By contracting the currency and so increasing the value of all money, and decreasing the value, (in terms of money) of all property result, property, decrease in value, mortgasre sanitize. equity gone, foreclosure, owned t" the Gold Sharks, and the man who has spent years of toil in improving it is turned out homeless, with no where to lay his head. Yet the cry is "Sound Monev." and less or it, and by party roanipula tion, and tariff speeches, the Gold Sharks expect to conquer. Who is to blame for all thisr loose who have controlled the government for the last thirty years, Shall we endure it longer? The repub licans are with Cleveland democrats on everytning except a percent on the tar iff. They are controlled by the same crowd of monied monopolists. Think about these things from now until elec tion and then act once in your own be half, and for the welfare of your family. THAT GREAT WAVE. Failures Continue to Increase in the United States and Canada- Failures in business are increasing at e. rapid rate. , The predictions of the mon ied prophets seem to have been made too soon. K. u. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: "Failures in three weeks of February aggregate f 10,889,936 against f 8,523, 028 last year and 111,420,418 in 1894. Failures for the week have been 278 in the United States against 259 last year and 58 in Canada against 38 last year." This report shows an increase of 29 failures over the same week of last year. The increase in Canada was 20. The total failures in this country since July 1st, 1896, are 2.848, a train of 255 over 1895 for the same time. In Canada they have amounted to 519, an increase of 109 over last year for the same time. The Bi-Chloride of Bonds is a slow cure. It may be sure. We shall see and report later. YCTJARE RIGHT. STEWART. Every Man in the old Parties is an Enemy. and We Will Shoot on Sight. It is impossible to discriminate be tween the innocent and guilty of those who are serving the enemy and fighting the friends of reform. We shall hereafter treat every man who remains in either of the old gold parties as a goldite, because we regard him as more dangerouc than an avowed enemy. He is a secret foe; if not in principle, in practice; he is re cruiting for the enemy; he is serving as a sort of decoy duck to lead the unwary into the trap of the iniquities conceived by Rothschild and his co-conspirators, who are known to be enemies of the hu man race. If you have no desire to in jure your country, come out from among those who support the agents of gold monopoly, whether they be gold repub licans or democrats. "Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separ ate, saith the Lord, and touch not the nnclean thing; and I will receive you." II Cor. 6:17. Senator Stewart. Allen for President. Zanebville, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1896. Editor Independent: I would beplesaed to have a few sample copies of your pa per. There are several of us here that wish to take a good western populist pa per and have heard your paper favor ably mentioned, bat have not yet seen a copy. We are all for Allen for president and a square fight on the three cardinal principles of the party, finances land and transportation. John II. Josselyn, ' A SENATORIAL CODRTESEY Allen Lays it Aside and Gives the Republican Senators the lie Direct. AND TEABS OFF THEIB MASKS Aldrich and Piatt Declare That They are not Bimetallists. And "You Have Lied Upon This Question For Three Tear." The following clipped from page 2407 of the Congressional Record, shows how Alleu drew the plutocratic republican senators up the snubbing post and made them squarely face the silver issue, it being the first time they have ever been forced to make an unequivocal state ment on the subject: Mr. Allen. Mr. President, the trouble is that nothing practical will come out of the discussion here. The honorable senator from Vermont Mr. Morrill and the honorable senator from Ohio Mr, snermanj are permitted to run away from the chamber without any practical result coming from the propositions they make. The senator from Vermont has under taken to cast upon the populist party tne responsibility lor a laiiure to carry his motion this morning, it isresposible. Mr. President, and it is perfectly willing to assume the responsibility and all the consequences that may now from it. see present my amiable and distinguished friend the senator from Rhode Island Mr. Aldrich, who always coaches the senator from Vermont, the chairman of the committee on finance, and I wish to ask the senator from Rhode Island, who has said he Is a bimetallist and that his party is a bimetallic party, whether he is willing to take the tariff bill iust as it comes from the house of representatives with the free silver coinage amendment attached to it? - Mr. Aldrich. Does the senator from Nebraska wish an answer from me? , Mr. Allen. 1 desire to have an answer from some responsible head of the republi can party, if it has one, i Mr. Aidnonr-f aBswej, teen,- frankly, no, with as much emphasis as it is possi ble for me to use. ' Mr. Allen. I am glad to hear it, be cause it stamps the republican party as the enemy of bemetallism. lour party has been masquerading for three years under false pretenses in this chamber. Mr. Morgan (to Mr, Allen). Ask him if he would take the McKinley law with free coin aire ' Mr. Allen. The senator from Alabama suggests that I ask if you will take the McKinley bill with free coinage. Will you do that? Mr. Piatt. No. Mr. Ailed. The senator from Connecti cut says "No." Are there any circum stances under which you will take free coinage? , . Mr. Aldrich. No, sir , Mr. Allen. No, sir. Mr Piatt. Except by an international agreement. . Mr. Aldrich. Unless an international agreement on the subject shall-be first secured. , Mr. Allen. Oh, yes. Now, that dis closes exactly what we have always claimed. There is no circumstances un der which you are bimetallist. Mr. Piatt. Ob, Mr. President. Mr. Alien. You have lied upon the question, if I may speak metaphorically, for three years to my certain knowledge. For three years you have stood in this chamber and haye undertaken to make the people of this country believe that you are a bimetallists, and now when you are put to test you will not take sil ver with this tariff bill and you will not take it with the McKinley bill and you will not take it under any circumstances. Andrew Carnegia, the greatest protec tionist of tbem all and who has made more out of tariffs than any other man in the United States frankly stated the position of the republican leaders when he said, over three years ago, that as between free silver and free trade hs would take take free trade. "I would rather have" he said, "the gold standard and free trade, than protection and free silver." If, after the above episode in the senate there is a man living who is fool enough to believe that the republican party is in favor of bimetallism, he well deserve no pity if he is raadeaslave. Ed. Indepen dent. A Splendid Paper. The Nebraska Independent came to our exchange table this week, and it is a splendid paper. It is published by the Independent Publishing Company, and is edited by one who comprehends the needs of the hour. More Associated Press Lying. One day last week the subsidized pop ulist-hating commercial press reported it all over the country that Congress man M. W. Howard, populist from Ala bama, had appeared on the floor of the house, drunk. Upon investigation the whole story proved to be a lie out of whole cloth, and these same dirty sheets were compelled to acknowledge it in their own columns. It is a welf-known fact that there is more than one con gressman in Washington, who are not populists, that are continually drunk, and have been for weeks and months, yet these lying sheets never say a word about It Silver Knight. They've Loaded Their Guns It seems that nearly the whole popula tion of Gage county are engaged in the study of economics. At Beatrice they have organized a financial reform club, which has already nearly one hundred members. Mr. I. T. Uren is the president of the club.and Mr. E. Ellis, editor of the Tribune is the secretary. They hare already held two important meetings and are now completing arrangements for another., They are determined that the tricks of the goldite democrats and republicans which resulted in the defeat of McKiegan and the election of a gold bug to con gress in his stead shall not be worked again. So they have already begun the campaign, and tbey will shoot to kill every time they see a gold bug head from now until November. "FOR GOO'S BASE BE PATIENT- Don't Help the Money Power by Mis guided Zeal- Let every man guide bis utterances carefully. Let kindness and good will prevail on all sides. And do not insist, as some are doing, that the freesilverites must accept every plank of the people's party platform, The very idea of hav ing two conventions is that men may vote together who differ somewhat in their opinions. The two platforms of the two conven tions will not be hostile to each other, but one may possess planks which the other does not. This will be all the dif ference between the two wings of the great army of reform. ? - ;:r If we fall to unite at St Louis the re sults will be most disastrous they may be irremediable. Think how many hun dred thousand of good, true, honest American citizens will be driven out of their homes, with their families, and re duced to pauperism, by mortgage fore closures, and otherwise, if plutocracy is to continue in power lor tour years ion- Think to what extremes the despera tion of the wretched may drive the mul titude; to be .followed, perhaps, by re pression, by standing armies and radical changes in our form of government. Thin may be our last national flection. For God's sake, friends be patient and tolerant with each other. Don't claw each others' faces. Every man who op poses plutocracy is our friend, our true and treasured friend eveu if he does not agree with us on every public question. If he is ready to fight the gold power tnat is enougn. We hope the misgusded zeal of honest men will not unintentiouably supplement the corruption funds of the money power,, to tear us to pieces, and make success forever impossible. Ignatius Donnelly in The Representative. THE PBOPLE WILL UIITE. Ho Power on Earth Oan Restrain Their Wrath Against Their Destroyers. We are sorry to see that some of onr good people are disposed to criticise lion. H. E. Taubeneck, chairman of the people's party national committee, and to matter susDicions against him. They mistake his eager zeal for the success of the party for desertion of its principles. For ourself, we have the most unbound ed confidence in him. We can never for get how he stood out alone, in the Illi nois legislature, when both his people's party colleagues had deserted him and united with the democrats to elect that' single-standard advocate, Senator Palm er, to the United States senate; and in the midst of the triumphant uproar be laid his head on his desk and wept aloud. That kind of man is no traitor. He may be wrong, but he will be honestly wrong. The conventions of July 22d will dem onstrate that there are honest and earn est gentlemen on both sides; and when tbey have once agreed upon the same ticket, all jealousies will disappear in one wild whirlwind of loyalty, delight and enthusiasm. The people of the United States are going to unite, eventually, in a grand movement to destroy their destroyers; and there is no power on earth can pre vent their harmonious and triumphant co-operation; and that, too, without the slightest sacrifice of principle on either side. Ignatius Donnelly in the Repre sentative. Delinquent subscribers most pay op, at least in part. . . Massachusetts Wakes up. The populists of Massachusetts held, February 22d, the largest and most en thusiastic convention of the party ever held in the state. Over 300 delegates, representing every part of the state, were present. They adopted the follow ing platform: Resolved, That the people's party of Massachusetts, declaring for the ulti mate destruction of all monopolies that are oppressing the people, and recogniz ing the fact that there is a rapidly grow ing sentiment among the followers of all political parties in opposition to money monopoly, affirm our belief . that in the irrepressible conflict to improve the financial and industrial conditions and restore the republic to its normal pros perity, we should welcome the co-operation of all those opposed to the money power that is att3inpting to fix upon this country the British gold standard, and to secure its defeat we should en deavor to unite all forces into one ag gressive, irresistible phalanx that will secure free coinage of both silver and gold at 10 to 1, and the issue of all cur rency by the United States without the intervention of banks olissue, to be re ceivable for all debts, public and private. We believe also that there should be a plank on land, transportation and mo nopolies in the platform. Delegates were elected to tne national . convention in St. Louis. ' .' v - 1 . 9 -ii 11