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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT June 18, 1896. 1 1 Wit Fit u h -i Ml M i ! ' 1 if fj S5 Nebraska Jnbcpcnbcnt TUB WEALTH MAKERS mod UNCOIM INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IndBpsijdsijt Publishing Go. At 1180 M Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. $1.00 per Year in Advance, Addre all communications to, and mak all Craft, monty order, tc payable to THE INDEPENDENT PUB, CO, LtncoL, Mm, A VfORD TO ADVERTISERS. The Independent asks all business men who have anything to sell to glance at the endorsements olthis paperprinted elsewhere in thitt issue. Men who stand by a paper like that, will patronize those who advertize in it. In the list will be found many ol Nebraska's foremost citi zens merchants, lawyers, physician ministers, educators, farmers, railroad men, laborers and men from every class of society. Without doubt the Nebraska Independent is the very best advertis ing medium in the state. ThiB paper is not read, as a daily is read a hurried glance at the head lines, the news col umns quickly scanned and then thrown away, but many hundred files of it are preserved, and scores of copies of it are passed from hand to hand until they are worn out. Every advertiser will see the very great advantage this gives over advertisements in other papers, in reach ing customers in Nebraska and adjoin ing states. It takes a populist victory to knock the London Rothschilds' crew crazy. Even truthful Annin cknowledged that the opening session of the republi cans was an exceedingly dull affair. The Jewish gold bug menagerie at St. Louis did not draw well. The papers say that more than ona half of the seats for spectators were vacant at the first session. The next Morning after the Oregon election the Associated Press Liars an nounced an overwhelming republican victory in that state, and that is about as near as they ever come to telling the truth. The republican national convention did a very appropriate thing when they opened thblr proceedings with prayer by a Rabbi of the Rothschilds family the whole assemblage, as the papers say, "stand ing up in a devout manner as the Rabbi invoked the divine blessing." We have been somewhat troubled about the meaning in politics of this word "anarchy." We have found out at last what it means from so great an authority as John Sherman. Anarchy oonsists in taking the authority from Grover Cleveland to issue bonds at his pleasure and giving that authority to congress. That's anarchy. It's a good thing to know. Several of the New York great pluto cratic papers announced, on the passage of Senator Butler's bill prohibiting Grover from issuing bonds, that the sen ate had gone over to the populists. Well, we told you that we were going to capture this government. We've got the senate, and will soon have the house and the president. What do you pro pose to do about it? The English like the republican na tional convention immensely. A cable gram dated at London, June 16, says "The Standard and the Post, comment ing on the situation at St. Louis, will to morrow say in substance that it is a pleasant surprise to find that the sup porters of a gold standard, instead silverites, are likely to impose their will on the convention." There lies before us a code of criminal laws defining crime and its punishment It would be just as logical to say that book is crime and its punishment, as to ay a piece of gold is money. The only reason why the law of legal tender is printed on gold instead of paper, isbe cause the material on which it is printed is very scarce, there being but a small amount of it in the whole world. It is not the gold that is legal tender. It is not the book that is crime. . The citizens of Koenigsberg, Germany, pay no taxes, but instead receive a divi dend which is declared each year by the city authorities. The city owns its gas and water works, telegraphs and tele phones, and has drained a great swamp nearby, making the land very valuable, which it rents out, and from th sources it pays all the expenses of the city government and turns over the re mainder to its non-taxpaying residents. We do things differently in this country We give all this money to the persecuted capitalist and plutocrats. AHOI'T rilOrilEfcVINO. The editor of tie Independent last week received a private letter from one of the most distinguished men in tho state, in which the following passages occurred: "I want to congratulate you on the plucky fight you are making. I am more inclined to believe with you than I was years ago, when I first knew you. Your last issue was a piece of work of which any writer might be proud. have, once or twice when I have occas ionally met you in the last few years, re ferred to a prophecy you made eighteen or twenty years ago. We were in the editorial room of the old Herald when you were a writer on that paper. We were having a hot, but friendly discus sion, when all of a sudden you turned to me and said with the greatest vehem ence: 'lou will see tbe time wnen the sun flowers will grow between tbe railroad tracks in Nebraska, and the grass in the streets of Omaha and Lincoln.' "I remember that.as the prediction was made in one of the most prosperous years we ever had in the state, I honestly thought you were going insane over the greenback question. But I have seen the prediction fulfilled. I have seen grass growing up between the granite paving blocks in the streets of Omaha, and I have seen sunflowers growing between the rails of some of the branch lines in this state, and have come to the con clusion that instead of you being crazy, as I thought you were at that time, I lacked a good deal of information which I ought to have bad. 'I have always liked your writings, however much , I might disagree with your conclusions, because it always has a sort of snap to it, and you seem to so thoroughly believe every word you say that even when you attack men of my way of thinking in tbe past, and pile on the adjectives until you impoverish the dictionary calling us fiends, devils in carnate, robbers, boodlers, destroyers of mankind, oppressors of the poor all of which I find in the paper before me, we excuse you, because we know your hon est earnestness, and whatever you write is always entertaining. "I find that I haven't said what I started out to say. (I fancy you never have that failing.) I wanted to say that you made at least one prophecy that came true." We beg leave to decline the honor. There was no prophecy about it. Any man having three grains of common sense ought to have known twenty years ago, as well as now, that if we went on contracting the currency, prices would fall, railroads would go into receivers' hands, farmers become poverty-stricken, and merchants bankrupt. To talk about a man who said that being a prophet, is nonsense. An ordinary idiot ought to know that much. SOT A GOOD WAY. We publish what the Missouri World has to say in regard to the criticism made upon it by this paper so that our readers may know what sort of a defense it puts up. It says: Tbe Nebraska populists lost an able and mid dle-of-the-road paper when George Howard Gib son retired from the Wealth Makers, now the In dependent, When Its present editor went to Ne braska from Washington City and took charge of the Independent, they got an able, bat a fusion trimming paper. This accounts for that paper's assault on the Missouri World last week for merely copying from the Congressional Record some extracts from Senator Allen's speech, where he declared tor tbe specie basis and said he would vote to retire paper money It coin were substi tuted ia Its place. We may b mistaken, but when tho nsw editor of the Independent went on duty we considered, at the time, that he did so in the Interest of that portion of the Nebraska populists who ars trimmers and fusionlsts. We want to say rlgfct here that we know of many good, unselfish reformers who believe lu fusion and who go much on "practical politics," With such we can argne day in and day out and hold them In high esteem, even though they lose their good will for ns. The Missouri World say s that of us , when this paper from week to week has de clared that it would not support a dem ocratic candidate nominated at Chicago, when it gave notice weeks ago to Mr. Bryan that the thing could not be done, when not one line has ever appeared in this paper advocating what the World calls "trimming," when the editor has announced himself the most radical man in the state of Nebraska. That's the sort of a fellow the editor of the Missouri World is. But it seems that he is get ting a little sense hammered into him, for in another place he says: We do not believe one in a thonsand of those who believe In the Taubeneck-Weaver policy would go so far as to favor endorsing the demo cratic ticket, even though th democrats were to copy the Omaha platform. We feel quit sure that Taubeneck and Weaver themselves wonld never consent to such action. Now, if you believe that, what in the name of common sense have you been howling about, anyhow? The populists who will assemble in St. Louis will make a platform and nominate a ticket, and they will do both better than the Mis souri World can. This continual assault upon all the prominent populists in the whole country smells badly. It is not a good way to carry on a populist cam paign. FLEXIBLE LOGIC. The Southern Mercury blazed out last week in a tirade against Senator Allen and declares that it is in favor of "a flex ible" currency. We thought the Mercury would land among the gold bugs one of these days. Every gold bug in the land has been howling for a "flexible" currency for the last five years. That word "flex ible" in the Omaha platform must be in terpreted in connection with the whole svstem of nouulisiri included in that platform, Prices can only be "flexed" by increasing and diminishing the volume of money. Populists don't want any. thins of tbe kind. It is true that the Omaha platform does not demand an irredeemable paper money, as Senator Allen said, but it ought to. It ought to demand a full legal tender money irre deemable in any other kind of money, but redeemable, as Senator Jones says, in all things for sale and all services for hire, and in nothing else. Senator Allen did a great service to the populist party when he announced that fact. The Mercury, hunting, as it al ways is, for a chance to assault some populist leader, says: All over the nation reformer were turning to Allen with hope that a man of tbe people bail been fonnd, and a gallant, brave and fearless leader developed In tbe Nebraska nenat or. All these hopes have been dashed to tbe ground by a speech made In th United States senate by Mr. Allen on tbe 2Sd, In which this hoped for leader, to nse a slang expression, "cooked his political goose" so far as his future Is concerned in the populist party. In that infernal fight, lasting for hours, in which every gold bug corpora tion lawyer in the senate jumped onto Allen all at once,' he was not as circum spect in his language or as concise in his definitions as one would be in a prepared speech, but in the thing he was contend ins; for. he was right: that is, that the Omaha platform does not demand an irredeemable paper money, and he has called attention to it just in time to have that defect remedied at the national con vention. The Mercury has made an ass of itself, that is all. A paper that can't prevent a fusion with the republicans in its own county ought to be a little mod est. Less arrogance and more modesty would be good for it. It is using very "flexible" logic. A FOOL EDITOR. The editor of the Nonconformist, tak ing advantage of the fact that there is no law preventing a man from making an ass of himself, did a complete thing in that line last week. This is the way he did it. General A. J. Warner is a profound scholar and economist, with a high rep utation among scholars on both sides of tbe Atlantic. Like all eminent men of modern times, he is a specialist. He un derstands one thing, and understands it perfectly. When we are bothered over anything in economics, we go to his writings for a solution, just as we go to the writings of Prof. Frank Parsons if we want information on the public own ership of telegraphs and telephones. Nine-tenths of the facts, figures and ar guments used by populist editors and orators on the money question .came first from the pen of Gen. Warner. Gen. Warner is one of the ablest advo cates we have of three of the principal tenets of the populist party, viz.: Free coinage of silver; tne issuance 01 an paper money by the government without the intervention of banks, said money to be a full legal tender, and the prohibi tion of the ipsuance of interest-bearing bonds. So earnest is Gen. Warner in this that he is using every scheme he can invent to draw votes out of the two old parties and get them to unite with the populists to enact these ideas into law. Gen. Warner called a council of men in Ohio who believed in these doctrines. This editor, taking the Associated Press Liars' report of the meeting as a basis, undertook to ridicule Gen. Warner and his friends and drive them away from the populist party, while professing to desire the success of the party at the polls. Hear him: General Warner, proprietor of the bimetallic league and boss of the whole Bilver conference business which culminated in calling a convention at St. Louis to "unite" with the populists, or rather to "unite" the populists with them, has been heard from again. If there ever was a "Mrs. Harris" in politics it is this mystical, imaginary, all-ofBce-and-no-men-trnm-ped'tip party of Adohtram Judson Warner. We Were always inclined to regard It as a fraud, but now we are sure "there ain't no such pnsson," If any editor ever made as big an ass of himself in all the world before, history has not recorded the fact. No wonder this jackass denounces "practical poli tics." He is the prophet of impractical politics. Being in a party that mustget 4,000,000 more votes than it now has before it can come into power, he wants to insult and drive away every man who gives the least intimation that he wants to "unite" with us. If anybody can reconcile this sort of work on any theory of honesty, in the writer of that screed, we should like to see it done. The most charitable thing that can be said is that either that edit or was drunk or is a natural born fool THE LIAR'S BELT. The belt goes this week to the New York Sun for the following outrageous, whopping big lie: Worklngmen buy things tor less money than formerly, but they also have more money where with to bny. The truth Is that a man need give lee of hi labor to secure a dollar, gold though it be, than ever before In the history of the coun try. Attorney General Churchill was a close competitor in his article in the State Journal on the school fund, but while he had a whole cart-load of lies, th?y were all insignificant, and the assigned the belt to the for the above whopper. judges finally New York Sun HERE TOO. Before I dl I'd like to strike Somebody who ha seen A modern preacher aomethltig like Th lowly Naiarln. Blxby. HIIATK A KICKER? "Kickers," In th nomenclature prevailing ont In Nebraska, ar populists who Insist on adher ing to populist principle and th populist na tional platform, and who fttfnn to endorse old party candidate before tbey become populist. Nonconformist. That is not the Nebraska idea of a "kicker" at all. Our idea of those chaps is men who ransack heaven and earth to find some basis to attack any and every prominent populist or active worker in the cause from Allen down to the humb lest farmer who tries to coax his demo cratic or republican neighbor to vote the populist ticket, and who is not satisfied with that, but threatens to organize a bolt from the party, as the Missouri World did, or organize what they call a "middle of the road" faction to draw votes from the regular populist nomi nees, as they did in Oregon, where they pulled off 1,500 votes to aid the g. o. p. candidates and endangered tbe whole ticket. That's a "kicker," and may the devil and John Sherman take the whole crew. BETTER SHUT CP. The howlers who have been attacking everyone who does anything to further the cause of populism have gotten them selves into a hole. They were for the Omaha platform. Any body who inti mated that it might be improved was a traitor and a villain. But when Senator Allen took the platform as it reads and attempted to defend it in tbe senate, they all, with one accord, denounced him as a traitor. They suddenly came to the con clusion that they didn't want the Omaha platform at all. It was something else they wanted all the time.'1 Now they had better shut up until they find out what they do want. Do you still want the Omaha platform, just as it reads, without any demand for purely scientific money, but the free coinage of gold and silver with redeemable paper money is sued by the government just as it is now, for that platform makes no other de mand, or do you not? Ifyouareforthe Omaha platform, what are you jumping on Allen for? Are yon mad because he read the platform on the senate floor? Now, honestly, don't you see you have been making a set of fools of yourselves? THE WARNER INTERVIEW A FAKE. In a purported interview with General A. J. Warner published recently in the Chicago Record the General was quoted as having declared that the St Louis silver convention would endorse the ac tion of the democratic national conven tion if the latter should be controlled in the interest of free silver. I. N. Stevens, the free silver leader of Denver, says: This consolidation cannot be effected under an old party banner. The con gressional record for the past four years bristles with too many broken pledges platform, party and otherwise to so suddenly convince the people that the future will be widely different from the past. The success of the cause natural ly depends more upon the character, force and wisdom of the conventions to be held in St. Louis on tbe 22d day of July than upon anything else in the world. The Associated Press does not correctly quote General Warner, as two days ago I received a long letter from him in which he urged us to get our most representative men to go to Chica go, tie called especial attention to tne delicate and important work we had to do in getting voters with us if the silver democrats Bhould win; and that our whole national campaign depended upon the action at St. Louis." If the populist national convention does not declare that money is a crea tion of law, and its value regulated by the quantity, here is one pop editor who will be mad enough to bust things gen erally. That is the truth. That is the testimony of every ecouomist from Aris totle to John P. Jones. That is the only ground upon which a logical argument can be made. Then we don't want any money that must be redeemed in some other kind of money before it can legally pay a debt. We want but one kind of money, and that a full legal tender for everything, and we want the national convention to say so. A populist school boy by the name of Will Twiford, living at Eustis, wrote a composition on politics in which he said: "Something is wrong with the manage ment of public affairs. That everyone admits. The republicans blame the dem ocrats. The democrats blame the repub licans, and the ministers blame the devil But the populists say that the republi cans, democrats, and the devil combined and all three of them are to blame That boy had about the right idea. Can't Be Bossed. There is one grand thing about popu lists, they know what they want and are not afraid to say so in plain words. They are no cowards. They do not deal in ambiguities. What they say is in plain English and to the point They vote as they believe, and cannot be gov erned bv bosses. They won't allow it, Trv to vote him for a man or a principle he does not believe in, aud you have a picnic, instanter. He is for party if the Dartv is rittht. If it is wrong, he is dead against it. Take him all around and he is well read, thoroughly posted on the is sues of the day, and is ever and always a free American citizen. Clay county Patriot. Stomp Ashby. Stump Ashby, chairman of the peo- Ele s party state committee ui ibaub, as been engaged to speak in Indiana, during J'diy. THE INDEPENDENT 0. K. No Paper Ever had Such Universal Endorsement From Press and Patrons Before. FQBWABD, ON WITH THE FIGHT. Bally to the Cause of the Common People and Bedeem This State From the Boodlers and Shylocks. Let Every Pop In the State Send In a Clab, The course of the Independent having been endorsed by nearly a hundred- pop ulist editors in this state whose notices have been printed from time to time and unfavorably criticised by but two, this week we publish what the subscribers the true and tried old pops of the state say on the subject. The selections are taken haphazard from among hun dreds, in the letter files of this office. The editor wishes to return thanks alike to the Old Guard and new recruits, for their kindly words. Now that you have a state paper that you all endorse, cannot you help make it a power in the and. If it could be put into 40,000, homes during this campaign what a cleaning out of the rascals there would be? To enable this to be done, the publish ers offer to send the paper during the compaign for twenty-five cents. If every one who has written to endorse the pa per will get a club of five, we shall have more than 40,000. As to the future course of the paper, the subscribers can rely on this. We have only been firing scattering shots at the corporations, Shylocks and boodlers from the skirmish line. When we order up the reserves and unlimber the heavy guns, the Wall street gang of traitors, and their treacherous western followers will think that the day of judgement is near at hand, and they will not be much mistaken either. Read what the the subscribers of this paper many of them men who have been fighting gloriously and gallantly in the rank from the beginning have to say about it, then take a half day off and get up a club. Twenty-five cents from now to the close of the campaign. I like your paper. James Bromfleld, Invali, Neb. I like the paper well. Axel E. Ander son, Central City, Neb. The Independent is the best paper I take. I wouldn't be without it for twice its cost. Wm Atkinson, Kirkwood, Neb. It meets ray views exactly. L. G. Al- drich, Arborville, Neb. I must have it and can not get along without it. John F. Anderson, Liver pool, Texas. Your paper gives satisfaction to all who take it at this place. Edward Ar nold, Odell, Neb, I am well pleased with it.- E. T. A. Al- ford, Dannebrog, Neb. v Am highly pleased with it. Humphry, Neb. I like your paper well and bid you God speed. J. M. Barnet. The Independent fills a long felt want. J. P. Batten, Endicott, Neb. Just what we need; it is an eye opener and ought to be in every house in the state. G. N. Bishop, Wheeler, Neb. The Nebraska Independent is of the right material, R.A. Bengtson.Shickley, Neb. You just keep right on sending it. Henry Brander, Fariboult, Minn. I like to read a paper that talks stout and exposes the rascals. G. R. Budy Kenesaw, Neb. It hits the nail on the head every time. G. N. Bishop, Wheeler, Neb. Just what we need and the best paper the state has ever had. E. E. Binfleld. Underwood, Neb. Pleased me better than any of the others. James Bushara, Wauneta, Neb., Good enough to hand to any man. W. H. Bishop, Hansen, Neb. Am highly pleased. Moses Campbell, Battle Creek, NeU I am well pleased to read your paper. D. W. Carlson, Shickley, Neb. Your paper is all right; go ahead in middle of the road for reform. G. E, Conley, Grand Island, Neb. I am highly pleased if you continue to do so exceedingly well the Independent will be a power in the land. Jas. Craw ford, Deweese, Neb. I must have the paper I could write all night on this subject. J. W. McCal lum, Emerick, Neb. I like your paper. Mrs. Riley Cole, Grafton, Neb. I cannot do without your paper. J, H. Darner. Cozad, Neb. I like the tone of the Independent and the way it scores boodlers and the sup port that it gives to all reform measures, F. M. Denman, Bruning, Neb. I don't want to mist a copy. The In dependent is by far the best paper in Nebraska. Albin Dahlgren, Benedict, Neb. Your paper is true blue. Mrs. II. V. Gamble, Franklin, Kans. I think the paper the best state paper I have seen yet. C.N. Greathouse, Whit man, Neb. To say that I apreciate the Nebraska Independent beyond any other populist state paper is putting it very mild. It is fearless and outspoken. J. W. Heapy, Litchfield, Neb. Have taken it ever since it was printed aud iike it very much. Geo. Ham mitt,. Ceresco, Neb. You are giving us a (rood paper every issue. Keep at it. I. E. Hall, Sisco, Neb. You are doing a grand and noble work. Your paper is the right thing in the right place. C. B. Howard, Dakota City, Neb. I like it first rate. H.R. Henry, O'Neill, Neb. I feel very much pleased with it; it is full of goodness. I don't see how I can get along without the Independent. Herman Haselbarth, Hartwell, Neb. I want to say that I apreciate theira provement in the paper. S. Hosterman, . Auburn, Neb. I did not get the Nebraska Indepen dent last week; can't do without it. John Harris, Arapahoe, Neb. I like your paper very much. J. P. Jewett, Stratton, Neb. You have the grit to stand up for the common people. R. H. Jones, Oak, Neb. Am more than pleased with it success to its able editor. Thos. Knox, Bennett, Neb. I am much pleased with the improved condition of the state paper. Ham Kautzman, O'Neil, Neb. I am greatly pleased with the improve ment that has been made on the Inde pendent. W. E. Mercer, Tamora, Neb. I bad intended not to renew but since- the paper has changed hands I have changed too, therefore must have the In dependent. G.W Moore,FuIlerton,Neb. I think it is the best paper in the state, wonld not do without it. Hiram Meester, Hastings, Neb. It is O. K. C. Marshall, Riverton, Neb. It suits me well. J. S. Meyer, Hallam, Neb. Have been a subscriber to this paper ever since 1889 and I never liked the paper so well. Valentine Nickel, Kearney, Neb. Nothing suits mc better than to get & populist paper so strong and outspoken in populism that any man will know by reading to what party it belongs. Geo. Osborn, Oakland, Neb. Am well pleased with the appearance- of our state paper. C. W. Norwood, Nel son, Neb. We feel sure your paper is going to do a good work. H. F. Palmer (and fam-.., ily,) Auburn, Neb. I like your paper, you hit a head wher ever you see it. M. Patterson, Boone, JNeb. Am pleased with the Independent; after reading the editorial page I can heartily say "them's my sentiments" and when I can't get a dollar to pay for the paper 1 will go without tea, coffee,, and sugar and good clothes. C. A. Pat rick, Lone Pine, Cal. Your valuable paper improves. I could not get along withouth it. H. Rolls,. Arborville, Neb. We have just read one of your papers which gives us new courage; it seems like- a ray of sunshine through a dark cloudy sky. Yes, give us less platform, a greater union and more votes. M. B. Reyman,. Talmage, Neb. J cannot let so valuable a paper pass- without reading it. It contains such val uable news; it is just such news as we ought to know, and such as we scarcely ever get or see in the papers. Joseph Hulls, Collins, Neb. . I am very much pleased with the Inde pendent keep the ball rolling. J. W. Smith, Ong, Neb. I got hold of a copy of your paper and it has the right ring. I like to run across a man occasionally that isn't afraid to call the devil by his right name. J. F. Smith, Elgin, Neb. Of all the papers that reach my table the Independent caps the climax. This. is just the kind of a paper we have been wanting. Give it to them aud show the the people what that G. O. P. is doing, for them. L. H. Suter, Neligh, Neb. I want the Independent sure D. Shull, Syracuse, Neb. I am very much pleased with your pa per; just keep on and give us a good state paper. That is something we need very bad. J. P. Skow Have been a democrat all my life, but myself and my four sons are for the pop ulist ticket in 1896. Have been reading my neighbor's paper, and think it too valuable a paper to be without. Spencer Taylor, Inland, Neb. Long life to the Independent. James Webber, Sterling, Neb. Every producer in the state should have your paper, and read it carefully as well as prayerfully. I consider it the best paper in the state today. W. A- Wag ner, Odell, Neb. I can't get along without the paper;, keep sending the paper. G. V. Wait,. Fullerton, Neb. I think the Nebraska Independent is the best paper in the state. Klaas Wes Bels, Hickman, Neb. , I like the energy and intellectuality of the Independent displayed under the new management Ellis E. Wolfe, Ta ble Rock, Neb. I consider your paper the best populist V ...