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April 22 1697 4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Nebraska 3nuccnucui Cmtjlilt3n if THE WEALTH MAKERS mud LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THB IndepeijdEijt Publishing Go. At 1130 X Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 538. $1.00 per Year in Advance. Addmu all communli-atlona to, and make all draft , mou.-jr order, ate., payable to THE INDEPENDENT TUB, CO., Lincoln, Nbb. Do not forget that it in always in order to pay your subscription. Some of our state officials bare "fallon among thieves," they are Bending pat ronage to the State Journal. If you have grain or wool to ship, write to Summers Morrison & Co. at Chicago (or prices. See tlioir advertise inent on another page. The international monetary commis ion will unload sufficient wind to fill several baloons and have a tew car loads of reports published that's about ali. In the United States senate, Senator Allen is a member of five standing com mittees and several special committees. There are very few senators that have positions on as many committees. Keep up your populist organizations. Read and study the political issues care fully. The populist party is in a very commanding position at present and should act with careful consideration. Read Hardy's advertisement on page 3 and send for their catalogue. If yo 1 need Jurniture you can save money by patronizing this firm. It is a thor ougbly reliable and responsible bouse, Senator Allen always stands up for Nebraska. He ban secured the location at Omaha of a depot for the distribu tion of Indian supplies. Senator Orear of Iowa and Senator Carter of Montana fought hard to have it located at Sioux City but Allen had his forces well organ ized and turned every attack. The finance committee in the senate will recommend that the reciprocity clause in the tariff bill be stricken out. This amounts almost to an invitation to foreign nations to pass legislation discriminating against American pro ducts. American farmers will bedeprived of a foreign market. The farmers of India. Russia, and Argentine Republic will prosper by the mistakes of our con gress, Congressman Sutherland, true to his campaign pledges and party principles, has introduced a bill in congress pro viding for "the coinage of silver dollars, to coin the Seigniorage, issue silver cer tificates, fix the legal tender functions, and for other purposes." The bill , was referred to the committee on coinage, weights and measures. Mr. Sutherland will push the bill to a vote as rapidly as possible. Senator Allen has brought up the in come tax in the senate. He proposes to put an araeudment to the Dingley bill providing for a tariff on incomes. A tariff on everything else is held to be constitutional and the senator claims that thesuprome court would hold that such a provision was within the powers of congress. When Senator Allen gets the floor of tbesenate to delend his prop osition there will be trembling and "wailing aud gnashing of teeth" among the gold gambler of New York. We have a republican sheriff in Lan caster county. Several populist attor neys made application to hnn legal notices In cases in which they ..ere inter ested, published in the Independent. They were promptly Informed that it could uot be done, but that they might designate any oue of the four or five republican par published in this city The sheriff said "I have uo choice as to which republican ptnr you select but you cmuiio'. send any of the business of thlaotflcMo a populist or democratic paper." Tat i party loyalty aud even his enemies mut rewpetl him for it. lu the department ol labor will be added a Iree employment bureau, Mr Kent, the nw)y appointed commissioner and Mr, J, A, tMgerton, his nia(ant, ill endeavor to inula (his tie pa r t men t one of grtl viln tolh Uboriug pe.ipU and ta lh employer as wvU, Mr, ku ta advocated stats employment bu rvaue for mauy year. IU U a metnU r ol sever! labor ornitniittuias and U thoroughly noiuwliited with their Mid, Th IrtficUtur pa! an act providing that tit labor et'iKiiiUsloitcr should remit it p)wtutit lor eu'ploymvut and reor4 Is nam and ftd-lm aud tuaiinaiiot la look kept lor that puipo, without rharg la $h appli. tnl Anr i deeirisif .!(. il au liud and to dwiriiia poaitioa aUould btk A pltatiuB, 1vIm the aM.ar; Ulur. tuaitAk as la sarwiioia, to Mr, H, J, Knl 4t Mr, J, A, IM-Mo at I.Uoulu, Ntf weka. A STATEMENT. Since the first of the year I have done most of the editorial work on the Inde pendent. 1 have done it without a salary, receiving only such chance orders as could be given through the ad vertising department. 1 have been com pelled to do this work at night for the reason that my days have been taken up with other duties. I find my health unequal to the strain thus placed on me. Besides my other work is increasing and it is absolutely necessary that I be relieved of the drudg ery of preparing or having oversight over every thing that goes into the paper. I shall continue to write for the Inde pendent, however, but hereafter, what I write will be over my Initials. For such! articles as are thus signed I desire tojbe held responsible, but for all other matter I, of course, wish to be relieved of responsibility, as I shall not see it be fore its appearance in print. I shall strive, however, to shape the policy of the paper along the linos of populism and reform. A word as to my connection with the Independent. I favored Mr. Tibbies for editor when he was first chosen to that position. When I returned to Lincoln after the last campaign, I found amis understanding existing between the ed itor and business manager. This, the friends of both generally tried to heal over, but the breach seemed to grow, Finally the editor, Mr. Tibbies, submit ted several definite demands on the bus iness manager and these were endorsed by Beveral others, among them myself. The demands were refused by the busi ness manager. Mr. Tibbies then quit There seemed to be nobody else, who was satisfactory to do the work and then ngreed to fill up the gap and do what writing I could, out of a sense of duty to the paper and to the party. ha ve a lively interest In the welfare of the Independent and desire its success I have been identified with it at at vari ous times since it was founded, in 1890, It is the populist state paper and must be upheld by the friends of populism, if it succeed. The mission of the people's party has only begun. The party must be kept distinct and aggressive on its own lines, to do the work that is beforo it. In the future as in the past, the In dependent will strive to be the organ of the party in doiug this work. It will strive to unify and build up the popu list organization. It will strive to teach populist principles, as contradistiu guished from all others, and while keep ing in an attitude of friendship to ali re form organizations, it desires to di tiuctly state that it is a populist paper, believing that the fundamental truth of populism is advocated by no other great party in America; and that that is the truth which will make the people free, The Independent stands for every plank of the St. Louis platform. It stands in an attitude of loyalty to the populist national organization. It stands in an attitude of support to the spleudid men, nearly thirty-five in num ber, whom the party has placed in na tional congress. It stands in an attitude of support to the efficient populist state administra tion in Nebrnska. It stands true to the principles of free silver, through clouds or sunshine, through victory or defeat. because it is a populist principle, first brought into prominence by the poople's party, and because it is right. It stands for the public ownership of publio util ities. It stands opposed to the alien and speculative holding of land against the needs of those who wish to settle and till it. It stand for direct legisla tion. It stands for scientific money, a dollur made good by the sovereing power ol the law, the will of the people, It stands opposed to the issuance ol money being (armed out to private bauking corpora tions. It stand for honesty and mm omy In statwand national governments. Ali tin constitute populism and her th tiici'.iKiT stands. At leuat her I stand and so long a 1 remain connected with It, the paper will stand with in. I hav l!! R popullal aim- Ufor th pwopW party wu born. 1 Lav never any other tiehet, I hav given all the ftmt ol my )oung manhood to the sup port and pro((atioa of tbi mam. Here, ucarly tight year s-o I took my itkiid leii ol th voavHiou that tt lu ate; ut I bet I shall rent a la eland uf td th baltl is wvn. Th light 'l th futur will l Utwna the lore id lnku and lhforve ol brotherhood, between lb JU tple ol ,tJ ar4 4ho ol humanity, Haiti to a long and bitter contest. We will need all our courage, all our resources, all sur strength. Let us reunite our forces,let us heal up all breaches in the ranks, let us draw up into compact form our splendid young army and then let us march forward; ready to bear all and dare all for the cause we love; for though the night may be dark and long, the dawn is comiDg; and the victory will be all the more glorious when we win it. God still reigns and truth still lives, and the era of the brotherhood of man, with all that means, is as surely coming as the rising of tomorrow's sun. J. A. Edgebton. NEBRASKA LEADS. One state in the anion has enacted into law the populist principle of the Iniative and referendum. That state is Nebraska. The late session of the legis lature passed the municipal referendum bill, which applies to any political sub division of the state. It probably would have been applied to state legislation as well, but this would have required an amendment to the constitution. The law that was passed goes into effect the first of August. Nebraska is the first and only state in the union to adopt such a measure. ( i t Z This naturally calls to mind the pronT incut part Nebruska has played in the populist movement. It is the only state in the union which elected a populist governor in 1890. True, he was counted out but that be wasjelected is generally admitted by all parties now. It is the state in which the first popu list national convention was held. The Omaha platform bad its tirth on Ne braskasoil. It is the home of the populist giant and leader, Wo. V. Allen. Senator Allen was elected to the U. S, senate by the Nebraska legislature of 1893. From the first session in which he served until the present time be has been the acknow ledged leader of bis party in the national congress. It is the only state which elected a populist governor in 1894, the year of the republican landslido; and in 1896 it gave to the same man the largest plural ity given to any populist candidate for governor in the union. The second national convention of the party was not held in this state, but Nebraska fur nished the permanent chairman of the convention and its nominee for presi dent. During the campaign of '96 while southern populists could justly find fuult with Kansas, Colorado and other northwestern states in regard to the arrangement of the electoral, tickets, they could not justly find fault with Nebraska, for she remained true to the compact entered into at ' St. Louis, and gave Mr. Watson half of her electors. While speaking in this state, Mr. Wat son himself said that be never received better treatment than that accorded him in Nebraska. And now Nebraska is the first state to pass a law for the iniative and referen dum. Really, without boasting, but enough has been said, Nebraska is in line. The eighty thousand populists of this state, who have made so many hard fights in the past, are ready for as many more; and propose 10 keep in the van of the great battle for human rights. J. A. E. THE FRUITS OF VICTORY. It is a well known fact that all state and county officials have it in their power to place a certain amount of legitimate state and county business such as printing, draying, legal notices, and supplies of all kinds. The precedent long established and persistently ad hered to by the republican party, has been to keep all of this business among their owu political friends. They carried it to an extreme aud joined in a system of wholesale robbery of the people. This lost feature all honest citizens coudumn, but the first part, the principle of always remembering their friends, every Ameri can must admire. A state officiul is theguardiau of the peoples interests aud should prevent any over-charge or fraud iu conueetion with state business, but he is also the guardian and servuut of his political party and Is in honor bound to protect Its Interest lu all eases when not in conflict with his oath of office to perform hi honest duty a an official, Th public official who either wilfully, carelessly or maliciously fur nlshe business to hi political euemle, deserve th contempt of hi political Iriend and should b repudiated by them at th earliest opportunity, and ome Individual equally honet a a publie ollk al, bat mow lenlou la de- feudimt the right ol hi political In" d shoul-l IwrhoMvo III hi plm'o. Th Ime IMI'INT will not PonutvaMttcw th alighteat iwfriagiuent til th riM ol th pubi c by tittfrfiher ol th ptyuhat party, it will not bilt to epofc tU'ia u pirate upon th roiutuuttity, eurmWa ami traitor to th tutor! ol th party. Neither l thi MHf defend and up. hold any Hiltti'a) officer who lintxi la end th legilimwl bul.i ul hi ottle lu parti oitlU hi politi.nl party, in rhag for "cMiMeanV they may HI to temporarily ttnd tu hint. Pact an onVlal I to alfl la drt favorable rrctniHou at th haads ol aty politual patty. TI KK AGAINST GREEK. History repeats itself. The Grecian Turkish w ar is but a fresh outbreak of of a hatred that has existed for centur ies. It is a contest between barbarism and Turkish Mohammedanism against Christianity and Grecian civilization. On the side of the Turk is all that is base and vicious, a record of vile perse cution without a parallel in the history of the world. The American atrocities are but a modern exhibition of this same Turkish lust and brutality. On the other hand the Greek nation has always led in statemanship, civilization, patriot ism, and love of borne and country. It can point with pride to the greatest tbinkersof ancient times. Plato, Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Bozzaris and many others will always be remembered in history. No one can tell who will be the victor in the present contest. There is no crime known that the Turks would not commit. They out-number the Greeks a dozen times, and their armies are better equipped. But history has proven that numbers do not always prevail wheu pitted against Grecian valor. Thermo pbylae, Marathon aud Salamis are well known instances. Besides there are other tactors in the present contest. The course that will be pursued by the "great powers" is as yet unsettled. If we may judge the futu'e by the past their policy will be one of plunder. Part of the powers will urge one side and part the other. They will loan money at exorbitant rates of interest and furnish supplies at several times their cash value to each of the combatants, and plaster bonds and mortguges upon generations yet unborn. The condition and circumstances ol Egypt will be repeated in both Greece 9nd Tur key, These are features as much to be deplored as the war itself. The money kings of Europe care nothing for blood shed, butchery, rapine and plunder if it only turns gold in to their coffers. Their selfishness baffles description, and there can be no doubt they will avail them- themselves of present opportunities. Congressmen Stark has introduced a bill in congress "granting a service pen sion to soldiers, sailors, marines and their widows and orphans and for other purposes." It provides that every hon orably discharged union soldier shall receive a pension of $16 por month, not to effect those receiving more than that at this time, but to raise all of those who receive less than that to the amount of $16 per month. It provides for the issue of government legal tender notes (greenbacks), to pay the iucrease( the said notes to be known as pension money. Id this way the volume of cur rency could be speedily increased and put into circulation, in addition to being a just and honorable reward to the soldiers of the great war. In the Journal April of 19 Mr. Bixby says: "You can't always tell by a roan's pol itics whether be will steal or not, but if a pop you know be will bear watching." It is entirely unnecessary to watch re publican officers. They have demon strated, that they have both the ability and inclination to steal. The Journal must be nearly devoid of any sense of political shame or it would not have the audacity to insinuate that the officers of the populist purty are thieves, without producing one scintilla of evidence. With the record of thirty years of stealing and defalcation by state officials of its own political faith it would seem that a sense of honor and discretion would prompt it to let the subject of stealing pass unnoticed. The Journal should not forget that it has an unbroken record of defending all of the thieves, criminals and defaulters of the republican party. The man who cries "thief, thief," without producing any evidence in support of his accusatiou is generally a fit subject for investigation. If the Dingley bill in its present form becomes a law, and for the benefit of the sugar trust imposes a high duty upon all imported sugar, and in this way sur renders the control of the sugar market of this country to the trust, enabling it first to rob the consumers by increasing the price, and second to exclude the pro ducts of foreign countries that refuse to submit to pay tribute to its coffers, we may expect retaliatory legislation from foreign countries. Germany will exclude American wheat, poik and beef from her markets. She will buy ber pro duct from Utiesiu nud Argentine Repub lic aud deprive American farmer of nearly one-half of their foreign market. The export to Germany amount to nearly f 100,000,000 auntiaty. It I the prie paid for export product that fixe th pricw to lb producer. epnvd of the li-riiiai market th American hip per b crippled, 11 iuul look lor other Meld for export, Tb product of onr Iwrin will act uniMlat and continue tu to tail In prutK Farmer will be uuabl to meet their obligation, (luaine w ill btinVt. Th uiar Iruat alouswiil lw brn0Ued. It Wilt f th prtc ol upTr to h American ronuiur a it Krl may diclai. It will rharg t Importer a rommMaioa lor haadling hi prut!! reu'tUted. only by It own lnordnat oVair lor gain. I si i U kM of hg 111 Ion that U t ipwud it Wif rwtorn ol roprity, Catron) th Reform I'm Umoivm Aasocintion, V'rit Warwnk favnbr (or partkular. Last weak representatives of the re publican league conferred with President McKinley concerning the civil service ex tensions made by ' President Cleveland. Tbey claim to have secured a promise from the president that the last order of Mr. Cleveland's would be abrogated. This will mean that some 40,000 offices will change hands in a short time. There is a general demand among the people of this country for a system of postal savings banks similar to those in operation in other countries. There is no law that would prove more beneficial to the great body of farmers and work ingmen. It would stimulate and quicken their desire to save, for the danger of loss from bank failures and dishonest bank officials would not exist. It would keep the currency of the country in cir culation. Panics would be unknown and safety deposit vaults would be use less. Great Britain adopted the postal savings system jn 1861. The first year the deposits exceeded $8,000,000. At the present time they exceed $500,000, 000 a year. Canada put the system in operation in 1867. Iu 1895 there were 120,628 depositories and over $27,000, 000 on deposit. It is strange that this country must be last to put into opera, tion a system that has given entire sat isfaction in every state and nation where it has been tried. The legislature of Kansas passed a law taxing judgments. The law will brinjr about the same results as a bankruptcy law. A party who has a good judgment will pay taxes upon it as upon other personal property, and it is right that he should. If he has a valueless judg ment be will release it, or let it be sold for taxes. In either event it will become omperative against judgment debtors and will enable them to again engage in business. The only reason anyone keeps a worthless judgment alive is one of personal spite and the, law should not uphold any man in securing revenge in that manner. The Kansas law is giving very general satisfaction. The bill that it is claimed repeals the newspaper law, we are informed by its author Mr. Sheldon was not intended to repeal the newspaper law, but simply to provide . for the manner of letting con tracts for state printing. Mr. Sheldon was not aware at any time before the aet was pased that it repealed the news paper law. It was never a purt of Mr. Sheldon's tactics in the house to cover up or attempt to "sneak through" any legislation, no matter how important he might consider it. He was always ready to explain fully the object of any bill that he introduced. We do not think that . anyone, either, member of the legislature or outside, knew of the effect of house roll 571 uatil It was pointed out by Governor Holcomb. REFORM PRESS BUSINESS ASSO CIATION. The reform press association met in Lincoln last Tuesday evening and per fected the reorganization of a corpora tion to be known as Reform Press Bus iness association. The object and gen eral nature of the business of this cor poration as set forth in the articles of incorporation shall be "to contract for. publish, furnish, or print readv nrint newspapers; to solicit and contract for advertising; to buy, sell and furnish all kinds of paper, stationery and printers' supplies. The members present sub scribed and paid for 106 shares of stock. This was more than sufficient to meet the requirements of the articles of incor poration for purposes of organization, and as soon as it was subscribed and paid for, the officers were elected. Mr. trie jonnson president; Warwick Saun ders secretary aud business manager; R D.Kelly treasurer, and a board of six directors one from each congressional district. Mr. William F. Schvvind first elected presideut. lie stated that he did not desire to serve and asked that someone with more experience in the newspaper busiuess be chosen. The as- socintion insisted that he uceept the place but ho positively doclinod. The principal mover in effectieir the organization has been Warwick Sauu ders, of Columbus, who was elected sec- retary and busiuess mauinrer. Th principal place of business will be In I .In. coin. Mr. Saunders wilt t.ki,a i.,.l ties careful attention, and under his management thesumm of the under taking i assured. All populist and re. form tin tvr should writ him for onr. ticular at once. Jty doing o, thy wm get a better quality of readv-pnut servlc at a greatly rvdueed rate. Buy your ready print from vour frien.i, the Inform Pre .Variation, I or particulars' addrm Warwlt k Saim. tUr at Lincoln, .Nhraka. Now i a id t to my up your back ubavnptioo. HAKUY'9 COLUMN, HUv Omaha ltfMller- I Mi 'r. at ftl44 TalHa (hkbefca I llerelttra, W nr oitihwt surprised In hear ol John Power dipleitMnl lor h w on o the foieruuiHu td populism ssd among th Dr to lv th uUI aiuUu hip nd pull lot th or. It may b htUlokvea bUer pUc. tor r 1 sakes W3 hope it won't be heaven quite jet. sI a The republicans of Omaha are running as candidate for mayor a fifty thousand dollar defaulter, with all bravado usually attached to that party. Have they got nothing left but thieves and robbers to run, or do such characters run best in their party? Bartley is the coming mao for governor and Moore- bis lieiitenant. a a a- v The present season has had more than its share of floods and destructive winds. So far the destruction of life, aud property in the Mississippi valley, is re ported more than ever before. Under the present system of management the floods are likely to increase in years to come. There are many miles w here the surface of the river in low water is ten or twenty feet higher than the sur face of the country for miles away. Millions are spent every year in piling dirt upon the banks to keep the water inside the channel. At the same time the river itself is filling up its own chan nel with millions of tons of mud brought down from the Missouri and Ohio. There is talk of making a new channel, through the lowest ground for the river in many places. a a a "We must maintain the present stand ard of value" is the wail of every scared republican. But the present standard of value cannot be maintained with gold alone. The standard of value is now changing every day. It is higher than it was one year ago, and will continue' to rise. It is because gold does not in crease as fast as the business and popu lation of the world do. Raising the money standard means lowering tha prices of property. If the present gold standard is persisted in property of alii kinds will steadily decline. That is what the money sharks want. They will rejoice when a gold dollar will buy a good horse or a hundred bushels of wheat. When the population of the world is doubled the money of the world ought to be doubled. a a a What will be the effect upon theprice of property should the government issue bonds, take up ail the greenbacks, treas ury notes and silver certificates and burn them? Every honest, intelligent man will admit that property of all kinds and wages must go still lower. Then if they melt up all the silver and sell that as bullion everything must go another notch lower. In eighteen months more another congress is to be elected and if the goldbugs areas suc cessful as in '96 we can depend upon all these things being done for the money loaners and bankers. This is not just. Money Bhould bear the same relation to property that it did twenty or fifty years ago and it would if the volume increased as fast. Gold and silver both together would increase just about as fust. a a a The senate at W&hM cussing the question of how to make wuBusru niruiers pay eastern tactorymen higher wages and not get any more therasel the New England laborers to get higher wages huu not oe compelled to work in competition with. European pauper luuuieiB, out iney want the western farmers to pay the bill. Not one of them think of trying to rais9 the wages of the western farmer. No he must be made to pay and not receive. A double price for cloth does not mean a double price for wheat. What the McKinleyitea want is a higher price for manufactured goods and a lower price for farm goods then the right men can get rich. Then the eastern fellows who are protected are the ones who furnish millions to elect republican presidents. a a a War in Europe has not yet been for merly declared and yet several quite sharp battles have been fought between Greeks and Turks. European nations seem to dread war worse than they did once. A small war will not affect this ountry very much but if England aud Russia become involved, bread stuff and provisions will advance in price. Dur ing the Crimean war between England and Russia, wheat brought in New York $'1.50 per bnshell and everything else nearly as high. There is nothing that they can shut out of the country during: the rebellion that will trouble us as much as shutting out cotton. a a a The chicken season is at hand. Every farmer boy aud girl can; go into the chicken business. In the first placedon't think you need a hen house. They are the worst things to breed disease and vermine. Not more than ten or fifteen should roost together under one shelter During the summer old hens should be found to roost on trees or fences Dry goods boxes are better than houses. 1 hey can be had for a tenth part of the money that a lieu house would cost. Put sticks through the box, a hole in one end, then turn the box open side down so yon can clean out bv just mov iug the box. You want acorrull. bunch of lath will make two. Make them four feet square and twenty inch high with a dooc on each side big enough to admit a hen. Get four nest boxes for each eorrall. Place them .0 a hen can eas,y pHa from nest box to eorrall. The first hen that want to set put her In on one o th boxes 011 some r.imid whit stones, so the nexl, till you have lour, nil settled setting.' At U S l,ur'J,,,l'"'-ll. When hatched give all th chick to oue he and let the oth er go to laying, Hulea ol eiprion no louud in books are iqmu numerou. When u object or ... ideu n,,,,!,,,,,,, ,,1(ljr fc ' , order should h ot.-M-rved, m .hould ay pring nnd summer and not .nmmer and spring; Whtio., tlt tl.,..,.-r ua bghtn.ng. 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