The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, March 19, 1896, Page 4, Image 4
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. March I ELe Nebraska 3nbqjm&cnt THK WEALTH MAKERS 4 USCOUt INDKP&ND&XT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY THt IndBpeijdEijt Publishing Go. At 1120 X Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 538. $1.00 per Year in Advance. Address til communication to. and maks ail drafts, money orders, etc., payable to THE INDEPENDENT PUB, CO.. Lincoli, Nib. State Committee Meeting. The state central committee o! the people'a party la hereby called to meet at tne uostwici Hotel. Hastings, on Friday, April 17. at S p. m.. tor tfie puipow of making necessary arranK" menta lor the election of delegates to the national convention, and lor the transaction ol snch other business a may properly come before the committee. No proxies will be admitted unless B writing and unless those by whom they are presented are actual residents of the respective coantlea which they seek to represent. J. A. kdgkhtoN, Chairman. FbaSk D. Eioin, Secretary. To love your party more than your country is treason. Senator Feffer is booming Governor Holcomb for president. The silver craze is dead looks like it inKentucky don't it? Orover went duck shooting again last Thursday. Now look out for another bond issue. The Texas papers are bragging about their balmy spring weather, but It is all on account of the tariff. The average price of cows in 1870 was 131.01, in 1895 $14.00. It is all on account of the tariff. Thurston says that Manderson lied, "speaking metaphorically," about a pri vate and confldeutal interview. The Utah Democrat prints a fine cut of Senator Allen, with the words: "Our next president" underneath. The republicans now have 247 members. They unseated a democrat from Alabama and put in a republican last Friday. A Few Financial Facts.by S. 8 King, is a very valuable book published by the Bi metallic Union, 133 Monroe street Chica SO. ' The Boston Globe sayfl: "that the world is threatened with a flood of the yellow metal." It is all on account of the tariff. Our nation has given land and bonds to build railroads, but it must not own them. That is all on account of the tar iff. Trices in all gold standard countries are tending downward no matter wheth er they are free trade or protective, but it is all on account of the tariff. The populist mayor of San Francisco is to be arrested for sending letters to con gress on the envelopes of which were printed the words: "CollisP. Huntington would not steal a red hot stove." After reading the speeches of Hoar, Hale and Hill against the Cubans, one could almost swear that each received identically the same telegram, from the Denver Road's bete noir. ' Cotton has fallen from 17. 3-10 cents in 1890 to 7 cents in 1895, and Bill McKinley will solemnly look a bale of cotton in the face, roll up his eyes and say: "It's all on account of the tariff." The democrats are claiming that Carl isle could actually carry his own county in Kentucky, and that Secretary Olney, ifhecduld not carry his own county, could certainly carry his own precinct. The row, the fighting, the militia, the governor's proclamation, the whole disgraceful affair in Kentucky only vindicates the wisdom of the popu list demand that United States senators should be elected by the people and not by the legislature. The difference between a three centand and a five cent street car fare is a four per cent tax on the income of the work ing man. Dave Hill, all the goldite plu tocrats andthesupremecourt, think that kind of an income tax constitutional, but that an income tax to be paid by the rich is unconstitutional. Four years ago McKinleyism was sub mitted to a vote of the people practical ly unobstructed by side issues, (both old parties discussed nothing but tariff) and McKinleyism was downed by an over whelming vote. Now they say the peo pie want it. They are badly mistaken. There is not an economist in the whole world who will endorse the theory of banks of issue. Lord 0 verstone expresses the belief of all of them in this sentence "I certainly think it quite essential that the issue of paper money should be kept entirely separate anddistinctfrom every thing connected with the banking bust KOTHh 1IIM'N TI.M.KASf. Tbe w nate bas spent agreat deal of time during the last wk in talking about the Cuban bwlligerancy resolution, and one by one, the goldites and plutocrat- be gin to line np on the side of Spain. It is probable that they got a dispatch from Rothschilds something like this: "Yon vill dot Cuban resolution peesi noss shtop! Mein Gottin Hiramel! I vas of dot Spanish debt von pig ehlice have. So come dees Cubans free, how shall I mein monish again get? Spain, uiitout Cuba, vill a pauper becomen, und she vili nefer, nefer to me mein interest pay. Oh, mein Gott! Dis ish awful. I lose mein monish! I lose jiein interest! Shtop that whole peesiuess." What else could Hale and Hoar do but fight poor Cuba, after they got that? WHKN WILL IT STOP. When will populist editors cease to give credence to fuke telegrams and in terviews printed in the gold Dug aauies; Will they ever? Will they forever con tinue to repeat them? Boodler Russell was down at Washington. He gave out an interview to the effect that the popu o..l Aamnorn.ia would fuse on Bry" on for governor.' A lot of populists as sume that it is a matter ol fact ana De- irin to howl. That is just what the in terview wag printed for in the first place. Russell did his part and these chaps take up the strain and the object of printing it is accomplished. For goodness sake, if you have tfie slightest interest in the success of the populist party, stop taking your popu list news from the gold bug dailies. Tbe Independent is at the very center and heart of populist state news. It has trusted friends in Washington who will not fail to send information of import ance at the seat of government if it is suppressed by the press association. If you take your news from the Independ ent you will be on safe ground. lou will not be carrying out the schemes of the agents of the money power. ALMOST OMNIPOTENT. The New York World sayB: "That If Nikola Tenia succeeds In harnessing the electrical earth currents and putting them to work for mai there will be an end to oppressive extortionate monopolies. "The successful adaptation of Tesla'a discovery will administer a death-blow to the roost galling slavery that has ever yoked the activities of men to the treadmill ot monopoly. Tesla Is the wle ard who Is going to emancipate modern Indus tries from the shackles of corrupting, aiviaenu grabblng, monopolistic corporations." All that is nonsense. Tesla may har ness the earth currents, and produce heat, light and power almost without cost. He may use the currents for trans mitting thought by telephone or the Morse instrument, but if the money pow er controls legislation, the galling slav ery of mankind will still remain. If the World's own theory ol overproduction is true mankind would be a thousand fold worse off than now. After Tesla has abolished the costoi power, heat, light and telegraphy the debts, taxes and interest of the world remain to be paid, and the money power, if it still controls legislation, can make money so dear that it will take 1,000 bushels of wheat to pay a debt that one bushel will pay now. By reason of exist ing debts and taxes, if that power is al lowed "to regulate the value of money" no invention, no decrease in the cost of production, will emancipate producers. Tesla b success, with the money power in control.would add millions of paupers to the millions that now exist, by destroy ing the present occupation of millions of nmn nnil wnivmn. He Will briDG? no bless ings but only curses upon the world. There is a power greater than steam, arreater than electricity to bless or to curse, and mankind will make no progress until that power is harnessed and con trolled. It is the power to "coin money and reirulate the value tnereot. That power can make slaves of man kind regardless of science or invention. It can also make the world a second Paradise, till its fields, and fill the land with schools, colleges and songs of hap piness, if used for the benefit of mankind and not for a privileged few. It is the srrnatest power on earth. It is almost ompnipotent. A SAD STOKT. The Omaha Merchantile Reporter gives the monthly real estate transfers, build' ing permits and clearing house exchanges for the last three years. The decrease between 1893 and 1894 in transfer of real estate was $4,577,928,00 and be tween 1894 and 1895 it was, $1,433, 022.00. The decrease in building permits in the same years was respectively, $302,030.' 00 and $100,083.00. The decrease in the clearing house ex changes for those years was, $54,844,- 940.97 and $51,092,845.20. This is a very sad story but it is the story of the whole south and west. It is the story of the gold standard. THE ONLY SURE WEAPON. The result of the contest between Mr. Allen, a farmer living near Ashland, the mortgage on whose farm was fore closed, and the officers of the law who at tempted to eject him, is what all have foreseen. Mr. Allen armed himself and family and held the officers at bay for some days, but at last was captured The record of the facts in the daily papers was as follows: Allen waa arrested and brought to town. Tbe entire family came In about 10 o'clock last night' and presented a pitiful sight as they sat around tbe stove at tbe Commercial hotel. The fam lly consists of seven small children. They will be taken to Wahoo for trial. It Is feared that There are hundreds of just as pitiful casM in Nebraska, and there will be hundreds more during the next two or three years. There in only one way to fight this sort of thing. It cannot be done with Winchesters and shotguns. It can only be done with ballots. If the farmers of Nebraska and other states had only rightly used their ballots, such things would never have occurred. The ballot is the only weapon that can de fend the farmer. Yet men sometimes sell it for a glass of beer, then stand helpless before the most grasping and cruel tyrant the world has ever known, namely, the power of money. A MILLION IN IT. A very nice gentleman, a Lincoln mer chant, said to the editor of the Indepen dent. "I have never taken much inter est in politics. I have always voted, and sometimes attended the republican pri maries, but I confess that this fierce fight over the delegation to the national con vention is a puzzle to me. Either Man derson or McKinley would carry out the republican policy of sound money and protection. There would be no differ ence in the policy pursued which ever is nominated. Why such a .fierce fight, and why is so much money being expended?" " There's innocence for youl Perhaps nine-tenths of the voters are just as inno cent. Why? It is because there is more than a million dollars in it. That's why. Tbe salaries of presidential appointees in this state, including postmasters, reve nue collectors, marshals, judges, inspec tors and others, during a presidential term is much more than a million dollars. If a McKinley delegation is chosen and McKinley is elected, then these chaps will get the offices. If a Manderson delega tion is chosen and Manderson is nomi nated and elected then the other chaps will get the offices. There is more than a million dollars in it. That is what they are fighting about.and this innocent mer. chant couldn't understand it at all. What do these chaps, who yell every time the name of their candidate is men tioned, care for Manderson or McKinley? Not one in ten of them ever saw either of those gentlemen. When they talk about "the great Ohio statesman," or "shout stand up for Nebraska and our o n favorite son," it is all a sham. If Manderson or McKin ley, out of office and out of power and influence, should come to any one of them and ask a loan of five crollars they would say, "you git." Their enthusiasm is engendered by a sense of favors to come, and a man who does not know that much is very innocent indeed. None of that sort of thing has ever found a place in the populist party. Let us pray that it never will. WHO FURNISHES THE MONEY ? Senator Cullom charges that the Mc Kinley managers have bought up Illi nois with clean cash. He says: The McKinley forces are organized all over my state. They have their agents tramping round, organizing McKinley clubs and doing anything in their power to make the state solid for McKinley. There has been a large amount ot money spent in Illinois by McKinley workers and It is not easy to break up the schemes which have been set np for him. Who is furnishing this vast amount of money and how do they expect to get it back? McKinley is a bankrupt and a pauper living on the contribution of his friends. The editor of The Independent would like to know what is the proper thing to say, when a pop editor has hunted three hours for a quotation, found it, and then in a fit of absent mindedness pastes it on wrong side up and gives it to the prin ter? It turns out that the express compan ies are at Washington with a lobby working up that plutocratic scheme to exclude populist quarterly publications from the mail. At every turn these days one meets a monopoly crying "more! more! Gen. Weaver denies having suggested Gov. Boies as the nominee for president by the populists. In a card to the Amer ican, at Creston, Iowa, Gen. Weaver says he merely commended Gov. Boia' open, bold, frank and unequivocal declaration and beyond this the dispatch was a pure fake. Populist papers have just as large sub scription lists, and often larger, than any old party paper published in the same counties. Their readers have just as much money to buy goods as do the farmers and laborers of the two old par ties, and they are more intelligent and more likely to see a good point in an ad vertisement. The Silver Knight has bought a light ning perfecting press, and comes to us this week in eight large pages. Our copy, full of facts is only one of the hundred thousand sent out weekly. You can get it and the Independent both for one year for $1.15. Send in your subscrip tions. A good many people seem to be get ting in earnest these days. Whenever they do get in earnest, they drop tbe dilettanteism of convention and forms and then they talk a good deal in the style of the Independent or Tillman. It seems that Bishop Potter is getting In earnest. He says of tbe church in its present attitude, that it is revealed as a monstrous, insolent im pertinence." BALLOT BOX BTUPFINU There baa been a good many gnessee made as to the manner in which tbe re publican house would dispose of the pop ulist contestants to seata. It was well known that the frauds perpetrated in the south were so flagrant, bold and well known in counting out populists who were elected by overwhelming majori ties, that they could not be denied or covered up. The question was: Will the republicans, who for twenty years have been denouncing these frauds, now that they are in power, seat themen who were actually elected? There were few who believed that they would. Last Monday the first of these cases was re ported from the committee ou contested elections. The following is the report of what they did: WASHINGTON, March T. The House Com mltteeon Elections, No. 2, has decided to re port that the last Congressional election In the Fifth Louisiana District was null and void, on acconnt of fraud and Intimidation. The sitting member is Charles J. Boatner, a democrat. The decision If sustained by the House will nneeat Boatner, without seating tbe contestant, Alex Benoit, a populist, and will create a vacancy from that district. Tbe vote iu committee was strictly on party lines. It is evident thatnot a populist will be seated, however big a majority he may have. THE WORLD REDEEMED. A correspondent sends the "following list of questions: First, can a tariff on Imports directly or In directly protect the home market prices of agri cultural staples as long as the surplus is sold for export, and the export and home price for these are the same? Second, if it cannot, must this unprotected Industry pay for the cost of protection of the protected Industries? Third, Is not such a system ot protection lnjgr- fously unjust and Inequitable to the producers of agricultural staples? The American Economist says that the low price of wheat and corn is because of the repeal of Bill McKinley, or the Mc Kinley bill, we forget which. Any way, "you can bet your Hie" it is all on account of the tariff. Put ou 3 per cent more and the world's redeemed. The government can't run a railroad. That would be impossible says the plu tocratic press. It don t seem that the plutocrats can run railroads either, ex cept to run them into the ground, and then call on the government to dig them out. The government is today running eighty-seven railroads, some of them great trunk lines, and running them at the request of the aforesaid plutocrats. The great magnates who, to hear them talk, know all about railroads will take a great trunk line with the taxing power of a Czar, and in a few years will have to throw up the job and ask the govern ment to please appoint a receiver and put it in shape so that the said magnates may take it and try a hand at it again. The most idiotic performance ever re corded was that of a republican congres sional convention in Kansas last week. They resolved that they were in favor of the free coinage of silver and McKinley for president, when they knew that Mc Kinley had publicly stated that if the national fonvention of the republican party declared for free silver he would leave the party. If any one knows o a more idiotic thing please report, that the world may know where the best breed of human donkeys reside. Up to date Kansas has them. Senator Alleu has introduced a resolu tion calling on the secretary of the treas ury for a statementof the gross earnings, operating expenses and net earnings of the Union Pacific road from its organiza tion to July 1895. That is a specimen of the practical work Allen is doing in the seuate. A correct answer to, that question will go farther in the settle ment of the Pacific railroad question than four hundred speeches. Several students, members of theecon oraic ciub of the state University, called at the Independent office and stated that all the speakers who, had addressed the club were chosen by the executive committee and that the head of the de partment of economics had nothing to do with it, and if they had all been on one side, during this college year, that was purely accidental. "When are we most troubled with a glut in the market?" asks Professor Ely "Undoubtedly when least is produced. When is there the most ready sale for commodities? Undoubtedly when every body is at work, and when most is being produced." But it is all on account of the tariff. "With the support of the mints with drawn from gold" says Banker St. John, 'the market price of gold would fall rap idly until the price attained would per mit the lower arts, in utensils and the like, to absorb the surplus gold." But Bill McKinley says that could not hap pen all on account of the tariff. The papers report that Mr. Cleveland has stated that he regrets he did not make the bond issue two million instead of one million, so as to provide for all contingencies to the end of his term. That is an indication that there is to be another issue soon, but it is all on ac count of the tariff. Mr. Poor, the one populist in the Ken tucky legislature has stood the test. He could not be bought. Tbe populists in the next Kentucky legislature will not be represented by one man, but by a ma jority. OUIl POPULIST WOltKERS Tbe following persons sent in clubs during the week. In behalf of tbe popu list party, the distressed merchants, the suffering farmers, the thousands of laborers out of work, the landless ten ants and all those to whom the Inde pendent would bring prosperity, we re turn them sincere thanks: R. A. Law ney, Pierce, Nebraska, 2; D. H. Thomp son, Mead, Nebraska, 5; P. B. Garrett, Lebanon, ' Nebraska, 5; W. C. Brown, Brainard, Nebraska, 6; G. Hickle, Ash land, 2; J. T. Vorhes, Hampton, Nebras ka, 9; D. Turner, Osmond, Nebraska, 7; S. J. Goodin, Cody, Nebraska, 3. ABOLISHING THE POSTOFFICE For five or six years the plutocrats have been trying to curtial the circula tion of populist literature, and they strike at the post office laws to do it. The house bill in the present congress No. 4500, is the same old bill that has been introduced in the last three or four congresses to accomplish that purpose. If the bill should become a law, all "books or reprints of books" which means paper covered books, issued pe riodiocally, which have done more than any other one thing to cheapen our lit erature and place good reading within the reach ef even the humblest student, will be driven out of the market, besides stopping the circulation of populist lit erature, for the postoffice is the only means of communication with the peo ple we have the telegraph is controlled by the gold power. It will cause a de crease in the amount of paper consumed by about 100,000 tons, annually. It will lessen the amount of type-setting, printing, stereotyping, etc., and will throw thousands of people ou; of em ployment. But that just suits the gold ites. The more tramps there are the easier it is for them to control the gov ernment. ASSOCIATED PRESS LIES Gen. Weaver at a popullsr meeting in Pes Moines recently nominated ex-Gov. Boise as a candidate for presjdent.' Mr. Boise has not left the democrat party but has declined to belts presidential candidate. It Is to be hoped the populists will not be compelled to nominate all the chronic office seekers who are unwilling to be Ignominiousiy defeated by being democratic candidates. F. A, 4 I. U. It is exceedingly strange, past com prehension in fact, that populist papers will reprint Associated Press lies, for the above report is one of that kind. The paper also says: "It is to be hoped the populists will not be compelled to nominate all the chronic office seekers," thus ranking vopulists as a lot of imbe ciles who were to be "compelled" by some body. Populists are not that sort in this state. If any bne thinks he could do some "compelling" just let him try it. The Independent is exceedingly weary of this kind of talk. It thinks that in stead of populist delegates selected from among our most intelligent citizens, be ing a lot of Imbeciles, whom somebody will "compel" to make unfit nomina tions, tbe imbecils are the men who write that kind of trash. Certainly they cannot be of a high grade of intellect when they will give credence to every Associate Press lie that is printed for the express purpose of injuring the pop ulist rarrv. ANARCHY. One of the epithets constantly hurled at the populist party is "Anarchist." It seems about time for the American peo ple to seriously consider this question of anarchy and find out who the anarchists are, and then deal with them as they ought to be dealt with. When Cleve land ordered the United States troops to Chicago against the protest of the governor of the state and the constitut ed authorities of the city, in direct viola tion of the constitution of the United States and state of Illinois that was democratic anarchy. . Now Governor Bradley of Kentucky has in violation of the constitution of the state of Kentucky, surrounded the legislature oi that state with an armed force. This strikes at the very founda tion of government. This is anarchy un defined. Even in the monarchies of Eu rope parliamentary bodies and the mem bers of them are free from military in fluence and free from arrest. It will be remembered that two years ago a German socialist who was serving a term in prison was elected a member of the Reichstag. The day that body met, the prison doors opened and this legisla tor went free and was free as long as that body was in session. Even the des potic German Emperor dared not lay his hand on him. There is no principle so well founded in all free governments as that legislative bodies and legislators shall be free from military influence, Governor Bradley defies that principle and inaugurates republican anarchy in Kentucky. The people have now had a sample of both republican and democratic anarchy and can decide which is the worst. Meantime the populist party stands as it has stood, the only party in exist ence in these later years that defends constitutional government and law and order. It believes that the military should be subservient to the civil power. McKinley says that that row down in Kentucky, the fight in the legislature! the militia, the camp of soldiers, the public meetings and the tramp of uni formed men is all on account of the tar iff. If the tariff was only three per cent, higher, men would not fight over the silver question. A LAW MADE PRICK. Wm. P. St John, president of the Mer cantile National bank ot New York, in his testimony before the Springer com mittee page 329 said: , "By law, gold carries tbesight of transi tion into English money at the price of 3, 17s., lO&i. per Troy ounce, eleven twelfths and one pennyweight fine. By law, France, Germany and other important continental states similarly endow gold and, by virtue of our law, gold carries the right of transition into the money of the United States at the fixed price of 23-22 grains pure, or 25.8 grains nine-tenths fine for a dollar. Thus, by law the market price and the mint price of gold are one and the same." But Bill Mckinley says, its all on account of the tariff. Why Money is Hoarded. The following paragraph is from a speech delivered by Gen. A. J. Warner in the House of Representatives Jan. 15, 1885: I repeat, then, that prices will always fall when the money volume is undergo ing contraction, and as prices begin to fall money is withdrawn from investment and hoarded inidleness. Why? Because' investment is not safe. It is neither profitable nor safe to put money into property that is falling in value nor to employ it in business. Production is therefore checked or stopped. For if what is produced one month is worth less the next, who wants to invest money in production? That road need only be followed long er ough to carry any one into bankruptcy. Ithas already carried thousands there, and has just carried the great firm of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pittsburgh, into that pitfall. Senator Tillman's Position. In answer to a letter writen him by a South Carolina Democrat, Senator Till man replies: Washington, D. C, Feb. 29, 1890. Sir: I have your letter of February 5, and appreciate very much your kind words of commendation. In order to preserve the unity of the white democ racy of South Carolina we cannot act on your suggestion not to send delegates to Chicago. We have already captured ther state Democracy. We are the state de mocracy and we must go to Chicago pre pared to bolt if need be and ally our selves with the free silver men of the west. It would be a fatal blunder not to send delegates to the national democratic convention and would only be putting it in the hands of our goldbug enemies. If the national convention does not adopt a platform to suit us and put a man on it above suspicion as to his loyalty, we can then leave the party, but not before.. The efforts of every true friend of silver and financial reform should be directed to having our state democratic commit tee composed solidly of men of our way of thinking, so as to have it act as a unit. Benjamin R. Tillman; The populists carried the city of Winter set, Iowa. The editor of the Review, ( Imvincr worker! nicht, and rln.v. starrtwl. wrote, taiKea ana printed to accompnsn that end, finding that he had actually won wrote it up in this way: "Winterset populists win and send greetings to their brethren. We make a clean sweep and elect tbe whole ticket in each ward. The Millenium is only four miles away and the Review commences printing green backs tomorrow. Free coinage com mences as soon as the new council organ izes." The Trouble With Allen. Senator Piatt (republican). The trouble with the senator for Nebraska is that his only definition of bimetallism is the unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 by the United States alone. I say that is no honest definition of bimet allism. Congressional Record. Let Her Come. , Let the new woman come if she want to, she can't be any worse than the old women now in the U. S. senate. Saline County Democrat. Senator Blackburn, in a speech at Frankfort on Saturday night made the remark that "there has not been one single original, copied, borrowed or stolen idea in the democratic press of Louisville for the past twelve months which was not a lie." It is probable- that the statement that he had said that he would support the democratic nomi nee for president even if he was a golcf- ite is also a lie. . A report of a meeting held at Crounse,. at which Mr. Jerome Schamp made a speech which received the endorsement and applaudits of a very large number of the most intelligent citizens of that place was lost in this office after it was prepared for publication and sent to the composing room. A farmer can make one hundred per cent more money raising the right kind of votes than he can raising corn at twelve cents a bushel. If he will put in some time and money in getting in a good crop of votes, in the end he will have a good deal more spare time and money than be has now. Among the "silver lunatics" are the learned professors of political economy in the colleges of London, Oxford, Cam bridge and Edinburgh, and the late De Leveleye with others of the profession on the continent. The populists stand side by side with thelearned of all the nations of the world. Some of tbe big dailies have got to clipping matter from the Independent without credit wnicn proves that this the best "news" paper in the state. A list of the populist papers of Nebras ka will be found on ' page seven of this, issue. Allen will lose hi mind.