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August ir, 1898
THE NERBASKA INDEPENDENT
THE POPULAR LOAN.
DO BOND SUBSCRIPTIONS MEAN THAT
THE PEOPLE ARE PROSPEROUS!
Old th Administration Fool the Pluto.
crmU and Fill the Poor Man' PockeUT
What Would It Slgnlfj If Men of Small
Maau Did Buy UoodiT
The Cleveland Citizen says that whou
It wan announced that the total sub
icriptions to the $200,000,000 war louu,
including syndicate offers, had roachod
11,825,000,000 the subsidized capital
iHtio organs shouted for joy at this
"splendid evidence of patriotiiun among
the comraon people." Tho workingmcu
and fanners received endless encomiums
of praiso, and good naturud paragraphs
reminded uh tliat the sharp eyed, bond
grabbing plutocrat "have been fooled. "
Lucky workingiucn, lucky furmers, to
find themselves with bonds sticking
from their pockets I How happy they
must feel at their good fortune) Jt in
such a pretty picture to see tho toiler
wearing grins of joy as they display big
wadu of bonds in tho comic papers
and the plutocrats stand by wearing
scowls and cursing their ill luck. Mo
Kinky is such a saintly man, bless him I
lie "fooled" tho plutos, fellow country
men I Of courso here and there wo find
a toiler who was not in on this "popu
lar loan" who couldn't help McK al
loy fool 'cm-but he is usually cock
suro that "some other workingmcu" as
sisted in the fooling business.
Certain people are unpatriotic enough
to disclure that tho "popular loan" was
a delusion and a snure that McKiuley
and congress have been humbugging
again. But such people should Hot bo
heeded. Tlicy are irresponsible agita
tors, without money and with no stand
ing among the host people. The dis
gruntled und noisy copperheads make
the ridiculoi.s claim that tho bankers
and brokers I'ooled the pcoplu after all ;
that tho rich money kings merely sent
their trusted ugents to certain poor de
positors and borrowers and had them
apply for bonds in their names, and
they (tho bunkers and brokers) to ad
vance tho money und take them off their
hands when issued; that families of as
high as ten members, head over heels
in debt, subscribed for 1200 bonds for
every person, including the baby in tho
cradle; that not one in a thousand
workingmcu securod a bond, for the
good reason that they had no money to
purchase tho sumo, and that where a
few of these evidences of indebtedness,
and consequently prosperity, fell into
tho possession of the middle class capi
talists it will bo only a little while un
til tho strong suction of tho big whales
will have gulped them down and some
of tho little minnows with them.
Such talk is scandalous. We have no
patienoe with it. People who declaro
that tho workingmcn and farmers are
not becoming bloated bondholders are
enemies to this country and its flag, and
they ought to be made to go back to
where they or their fathers came from.
Down with everybody who dare bint
that our McKinley did not fool the
plutes moro effectually thun Lincoln
ever did t
Writing on this subject, Willis J.
Abbott in the New York Journal says:
Here is tho other side of tho popular
subscription for United Htates bonds,
which many newspapers are pointing to
as evidence of the great prosperity and
thrift of tho people of tho United Htates
today:
The heavy subscription for bonds in
sums of f 500 or less shows that indus
trial and commercial conditions in tho
United States are singularly hard. It
shows that trade, busiuetis, farming, in
dustry of any sort, olfcrs so little
chance to tho many with small means
that he despairingly puts his little mon
ey into a bond which pays bim pica
yuno interest as un ulteruative to a sav
ings bank, which may fail, or au old
stocking, which may be stolen.
Not so many years ago a man with
$2,000 or $3,000 was fit to make a start
in business for himself to booomo his
own master. Now in 901) caws out of
1,000 he is almost as badly off as if pen
niless. Croat aggregations of capital
control every branch of industry, ltocke
fuller began with uothing, but woe to
the man who puts a few thousands into
an oil refinery today. Commodore Van
derbilt'a ferry did not cost much, but
he who would try to carry passengers to
Htaten Island today has a monopoly to
tight. The original Astor, with his real
tattt pim-basra; the Armours, with
their muguitiud butcher ahos; Marshall
Field, who now couducts the grmtt
dry goods business In the world; the
Arbuckles, with their grunt coffi busl-
tintt; the lUvrincycrs, dtuutusnl spirits
of the Hugnr trust, began with but sun
d. r capital earum! by their own er
Hons. Their suocoa and the form iu
which thr) hat fiubodlml it make
lptttiott (f their at hlevwiui'Ut mpil
bin Kuoruious capita) i-arti'l ufiUv
wow ! do What lh did without rapt
tab Nottwu lh HUg tuUVr ran
live if In Armours y liay, not lh
growf trade prnllubly in sugar or roffi
ii-wpl If prutllw of the trust.
Tha ium with f MX) looting
hint I" a t hauca la lwt II in a bui
autorpttiw nu4wii with It, In
rrra.u - it ty all oa skill lada-
try. Ruds amy ara yVmA If tut
tioixdr of tM If afgfvgalMta nf ipl
t loo great f r him lit aiu k. rki b
tiaa la a is ilrtk.Ma, tavl ItU mi
lags lay will Wla aim Ida
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la aalM ti kioiult la iMgrwai !.
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WHO PAYS THE TAXES?
Bom Vp to Dte Point oa an Old and
Well Worn Sulject.
It seems like thrashing over old
straw to discuss this point, but tho plu
tocratic press is so persistent in lying
about it and so brazen iu their assump
tions concerning it that reiteration of
contradictory evidence becomes a neces
sity.
A uotablo cane is the Chicago Trib
une's objections to tho purchase of
school supplies with public funds on
the ground that property holders uow
pay more than their share of tho tuxes
for the education of poor children.
The man who pays rent on a houno
pays the tuxes. If he didn't pay them
and a profit to tho landlord also, the
property would bo let go as unprofita
ble. Vacant towns prove this.
Owners of property will quit paying
taxes unless they are getting rent or urn
holding it with tho expectation of profit
through rent or sale. What a pity that
landlords who claim that they pay the
taxes cannot have vacant houses as pay
for their impudent assumption. Thut
would tench them to quit lying. The
owner of u house pays tax 011 it when
bo occupies it tho tenant pays tuxes
When he pays rent.
Tho Times-llerald gave publicity to
an equally despicable falsehood. It said
that the people did not pay the soldiers'
pensions that I hey were puid by the
import tax. Opposed to this is the sim
ple fact that the consumer pays tho im
port tax and pays all rents und other
expenses and profits added.
My grocer pays tho added price for
ugar because of the Import duty, and
when I buy it I pay him the import tax.
added to his usual profit, because lie had
to pay it to the importer. Otherwise lie
or tho importer would lose money by
handling sugar. Marshall Field didn't
make his money by paying Import
duties and never getting them back.
Ask bim. Now that 1 have bought the
sugar and paid tho import tux my only
chance to save paying that tax is to sell
the sugar, if I eat it, 1 must consume
tho import tax along witii the other
cost of the sngar, Kach man pays tax
on what iie consumes and uses, and no
more. Property which pays u profit
must puy tho tux first.
Capital used for profit is a tux gath
erer. 'I lie consumer Is the taxpayer. It
may not be out rf place to observe that
tho tax on sugar is a direct penalty on
parents for raising children.
Tho laboring people should not bo de
ceived or cajoled or bullied out of their
right to rule.
What must be thought of wise news-
paper men wiio will presume upon tho
ignorance or modtwty of the people and
try to work injustice by wholesale
lying?
Just now (hero is a great deal of talk
about how the Hpauish plutocrats Ho to
the M)Opiu and deceive them about mut
ters of public interest. Do Tho Tribune
and Times-llerald and other plutocratic
papers of their ilk hope to deceive the
people of America? Allen Henry Hinith
in Chicago Express.
fruit of Monil.
Twenty-seven years ago tho citizens
of tit. Clair county, Mo., voted $250,
000 in bonds for a railroad, and the
bonds were given to tho Tebo and No-
osha Railway company, a company
which existed only on paper. Thoy sold
the bonds to eastern capitalists, and the
road was never built. Tho $250,000 in
bonds has grown to $1,004,800 by the
accumulating interest. This amount
the courts have tried to collect, and tho
people refuse to pay it. Four years ago
tho United .States judge had the county
judges placed iu jail for contempt be
cause they rcfuHcd to pay the bill. The
judges siK'iit 15 months in jail, uutil
their term of ofllce expired. Last mouth
tho same procedure took place, and three
judges Thomus (Jill, Thomas Nevitt
and ItoU rt Lyons are iu tho Kuukos
City jail for contempt.
Ihis is a rare exumple of judges
standing by the jstopie. Nevitt and
Lyons are candidates for re-election, and
the county should givo them a reunion
vote. A compromise is pnqiosod Jiy the
county of the pur value of l.OOO, but
tho corporutiou demands $210,000. The
Uuited States judge can place the whole
oounly in contempt and tuko coutrol of
tho affair and sty the Ukus railroad
thieve the full amount. If this were
done, it might serve as a good illuNtra-
tion of tiie rottenness of the courts and
Umd system. It is high time the Popu
list party take tho initiative in purify
ing the courts, and here iu Ncbrsnka is
one of the 11 examples of a muchiuu
court. One year it will make a point of
law coiiHittutioiml if It will give the
olllees to the Republicans, and the next
year It will mske II iineinMHiUI.iml If
it will give the otliiv to the Repub
lican In shcri, II I a Republican
court, Omaha NotictmfortuUt.
fMMiiMt la Ti
T. I'. Our I a blind orator, I ho sil
ver Ioiikum p(rtl.t r ( Tut Hi um
leal vole hit ttlir t hariu umu
h rirttiH a hi llshllr y are
larutxl inward lb upland fv if a
lUlvniug throng lie I ty buia tld
lb iuti ttut'iuing pkr Iu Tex,
and Tx phu. uu adimml to
bUkia,hi turn and riulilat ly
rhargiug bim w lite lu iiiu Mr. 0t
bat al 11 aM urvxl a hearing au4 I III
untUMilr 4ttHt. lb Jury i I
Waving tboif ! i n.. r Iu wrdw I
ll I bt ltd ti lb 1 nk bal mtt H4M
I hr h tut a a bH f t ult4
t Iruia' . Tii 4iikua tf
Tmm wtajr kill Mr IM hv4t
walla a tivv wilt h lit a turl la
al 4f M'r. ith Nt4M4tbuui
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SENATOR EAENH ART, OF OHIO
Praises the American Catarrh Rem-
Pe-ru-na.
"I would not Impose upon tlin sick and
unfortunate by recommending to tlisma
course of treatment unless 1 was satis
fied it would be beneficial to them; but I
know your l'e-ru-na is on excellent rem
edy for catarrh, und as sited 1 recom
mend it to the general public, Verv
truly M. 1!. Earn hart, Columbus, Ohio."
All run ks of people have chronic ca
tarrh. Rich men, poor men, beggar
men, thieves, lawyers, doctors, mer
chants, priest. Not only catarrh ol the
head, but catarrh of the throat, catarrh
of I he lungs, catarrh of the stomach,
catarrh of the liver, catarrh of the kid
neys, catarrh of the bowels; and a mul
titude ol women are afflicted wjth civ
turru of the pelvic organs, ('atarrh is a
word which includes a multitude of dis
eases. Nearly one-half ol the diseases
to which the human flesh is liable, are in
reality nothing more or less than ca
tarrh wherever located.
Hend to the l'e-ru-na Drag Manufac
turing Company, Columbus, Ohio, for
Dr. iiartmau' latest free book on
chronic catarrh, la grippe, etc.
AN ECHO OF
OTHER DAYS.
Til At. old rrnniinpa fit Hlnrnr 4t
days, 'I'iicIo Tom' Cabin,"
played an important part in
our political history, and
like an echo ol other days J
comes a new political story
called "The Hucraws of n
Failure." It author is J
Judge Lincoln, ol Ktockvillo,
Nxb., and he has wovmi a
strong and interesting story J
into a treatise on exlstina;
political conditions. It's i
worth the price V.'i cents, or J
ws send it free to every new
subscriber who sends $1.00
for one year's subscription to J
TlIK NkUKASKA I.IDKl'KNII- X.
1CNT.
Npvad Ail la la lllaek II III,
do first to Hot Hnrintt. There vou
can bath, ride, bicycl,chmb mountain,
dance and play tunl to your hart's
content. If your limbs art stiff, your
kliluej out ol order or II you ar
troublml with axoema or anv othr lorm
ol skin diae, a mouth at Hot spring
will make a hw man ul you.
Hylvan t.ak and Srflh ar wlthla
a romparatively short dltaneol llol
Hpritig and ewryou wlm visit th
lllaek Hill should aw tbem, Hylvan
l.ak lathe prltit and XHilt um.
mer rorl la In wt, 8iartlh I
rraiht afu-r a railroad rid thai raak
among In iM-rWncHi ul a lifetime,
1 brr m uothing Ilk II aaywhrlauH
th alolt,
During Aoguat, b Durhagtoa Houl
will rua Iwo Um rai iuriia la llol
HprinH; nati lit Win, lha ulnar wa
ibyniaol ibal not. Tsku will
l il4 at ua lr br Ik nun4 lf
kll rl aad will Imhm la rlura
any Uw wilkia an day.
Orgaai a parly. Arraag about
roar kuWI atvumwiMlaiuia al llol
"eriH-. 'a Ik aitl Ul nkilal aioaih
la In yr In Ik al ul)kul uu
RMrtaa4 Ik iaiaal au4 arrasa
l" mar ! I i'ir aHiatHiMl
Ihoi at H, A M. VMI tf tily urn
trar lUlt aa4 iri,
llsik. W. ! M,
i I. T, A.
Tk Kirhal I'lala r-4 will H Mi
Um lMtkU If I bMMga tm i.4a
4 rtu' k lai 4 ailiU 1 V,
fa4l laiiv, at lata t4 1Im
k.f a rt a4 U,v ! wdl U U4
rlr 4 !! Nlilw I'l ImkIum,
(aMtui4kit ira4 al Ikm ar
IhKular Hat, Iktwa 4irtg W.a tt
aiajsiMlliaMa kol4 'l'y sany l
J. T. laiakaa, tHiral III
A4a Ht, lKa,
A BTRONO BOOK,
"Money Chart" Endorsed by tha Inde
pendent 8tat Central CommlttM.
Kdilor Independent!
I have reeieved the followlnir UtiU'T
from the chairman and secretary of tii
jsiople's Jiarly state central commltto:
Lincoln, Nunr. April w, nn.
Mr. Marvin Warren, rulrhury, Nehr.
Dear Hlr:W have examined your
book, Money Chart, with 1'art Kightu
addition thereto, and with olmwtnre can
endorse the same. And will add that
your book fully and clearly define th
true system ol money as we believe, ami
Is in harmony with the platforms put
forth by the People' Party, and we
recommend It to all persons Iu search of
the true basio principles ol money.
Respectfully yours.
J. II. ICdmUten, Chairman,
M. Howe, Hecretury.
In Money Chart and oil the outside ol
the back cover thereof is priuted tu
following lormula:
"The Rulwerk ol Freedom," "Ilie
Money Haelc Truth'"
If all our money, irold, silver and paper
r ....
is made a legal bndr to iiay all debts,
it will thereby all be held firmly and con
stantly in parity without redemption in
coin or anything but government dues,
"The Trio ol Cardinal Measures."
No. 1. All money must be legal tend
er to pay all debts.
No. 2. Money must be redeemable In
government dues only, ,
No. 8. A just and constant amount
ol money circulation."
If Money Chart Is true, and II the pro
visions ol the loregoing formula ol the
bulwark ol freedom m mi acted Into law
and faithfully txeculed the control ol
the quantity ol tne money circulation
will immediately pans from the llritlMh
Amncau oliirarchy to the eople ol this
country, and the ople will pu from
bondage into an ov-rincreasliiK freedom
und proxjierity. Aud the Invieible em
pire ol "lliil pat n a Arena" win peneu 10
tliH extent o( the Uniti'd Htates.
Hut on the contrary, if the provisions
ol the i'Kulwark of Frwdom" aforeeaid,
he not in every particular enacted into
law, the control of the qnanlity ol our
money circulation will remain wiiera 11
is, wit the lint inn American oligarchy
the people of this country will remain
in their bondage" and theie will be no
bolt unto th interminable dealh ol
bondage down Into which they will be
forced deer aud deeper nud deejter,
without remedy-
I think th "Independent" a better
puKir than ever before.
M. Waunkh,
Fairbury, ,Ni br.
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