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r s ' THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Aug. 17, 1899 Consolidation 9 ' TEM WXALTBXAKXBSm LINCOLN INOSPKNDSNT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BT TOT Independent Publishing Co. At 1132 M Stbbet, LINCOLN, - - NEBRASKA. TCLIPHONK MS. $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE address all communications to, and make all drafts, money orders, etc, pay able to : THE INDEPENDENT PUD. CO. ' Lincoln, Neb. The self confessed ballot manipulator now goes about saying tbat no one can deny tbat he ii now "a Simon pure re publican." Prout endoraee the claim. It baa just come to tbe knowledge of the average republican that no presi dent baa b' en re-elected since 1872, and they can't figure out bow McKlnley will reverse that order of things. ' Tbe Chicago Public has been investi gating the amount that baa been col lected in war taxes and flnda it to be 1303,240,329.21. Bat like Paul Jonea with hia fighting, we bavn't begun to pay yet.' ,," The State Journal continually asaerta that the censorship at Manila baa been abolished. It seems rather atrange that the Journal la the only , paper in the United States that baa been given a copy of that order. It is still stranger 1 that it did not publish it so the rest of ns could see it. The people of this city have been anxiously waiting lor that fetter from General Thayer on house rent for gov ernors. Tbey cannot understand why it has not been forth coming. Upon all like oocaaiona whenever there has been an attack made on a populist office bolder, Thayer came boldly to the scratch with a column or two, but now be is silent. Why is thia, thus? The big American puffs himself up, and pointa to the words of his mort gaged president and asks: "Who will haul down the American flag?" The pop answers: "Otis has hauled it down more times than yon can count. Every day the dispatches announce that he has evacuated some town, hauled down the flag and the 'niggers' have come back and taken possession." The real expansion' that the imperial ists are interested in, is tbe expansion of tbe national debt. They want a safe Investment for their millions most of them stolen where tbe interest is col lected by taxation. That is what inter ests them. It is not tbe torn-foolery about "destiny," "duty," "providence" or anything of that sort They are . making a glorious success of that kind of expansion. The reason why the imperialists think that Otis is making such sublime success in the Philippines is that he is expanding the national debt at a wonderful rate. Tbat kind of success delights the heart . of the imperialist beyond measure. They atand by Otis, every man of them. Tbat means a safe income collected by taxation and handed over to them every quarter at the United States fiscal agency in New York, They like it im mensely. J. Sterling Morton has so improved that he can lie equal to the State Jour nal. Alter reading th following speci men most people will be inclined to be lieve that be can even outlie tbat an cient prevaricator. Look at this speci men: "Holcomb confesses to petti larceny! . He admits himself a micro scopic Joe Bartley." It certainly can be truthfully said that the State Journal has not excelled that bit of lying in tbe last few days at When the Nebraska volunteers were suffering from fever in tbe camp at Cbickamauga, in tbe malarial districts of South Carolina and doing duty . around Manila, the World-Herald aided by the country papers all ovr tbe state, collected and sent to them thousands of dollars and carloads of material for tbeir comfort. During all that time the State Journal never attempted to raise raise a cent Now tbat tbe bojs are coming home and all their sufferings are over, it heads a list with $100 to pay tbeir car lare, providea tne governor will send a message to the next legist tnre recommending that an appropria tion be made and tbe money returned to them. Yet tbat sheet claims all the pa triotism In this town and declares In its column that "the governor is a private party." It is consistent. It always was for the old flag and an appropriation. It still wants an assurance of the appro prUtion. REFUBUCAH CLOW1W. Republicans seem to be very much alike in one particular all over the Uni ted States. They utterly disregard all all the amenities usually observed among persons of refinement and educa tion and grab at everything In sight like a horde of hungry paupers at a free distribution. We have had some ex perience with them here in Lincoln and we were prone to think that they were a peculiar breed of republican grabbers resident in this city, but it seems they are only fair specimens of the type wher ever they are found.' The people of Chi cago got op a festival in which all pen sons of all creeds and sects took part and contributed tbeir money. A part of tbe performance was the laying tbe cor ner stone of the great federal building. A day was set apart for these ceremonies and tbe program was left to be arranged by a prominent republican official. When the list of speakers was published it was found that every ono of them was an imperialistic, McKlnley republican. No other sort waa allowed the slightest recognition. Of those who appear on that occasion Chairman Gordon was the president of a McKinleclub and was made post master; Wm. Penn Nixon ran a republi can newspaper and was rewarded with an office; Merrlam was aMoKinley work er in the state; F. E. Coyne was made collector of internal revenue for work for McKlnley, and William P. Williams waa made assistant United States' treasurer at Chicago for the same reason. ' That Is a sample of the way the Mc Klnley piuggers undertook to ran the reception for the First Nebraska. It is in lins with their claim that two Mc Klnley shouters appointed by a local meeting held in Lincoln were the "state committee" and the only ones author ised to act for tbe state at San Francis co, notwithstanding the governor and adjutant general were there la person. It is in line with the action of that boor Hay ward, who was Invited to address a patriotic meeting composed of all par ties to commemorate the surrender of Appomattox and tried to torn it into a republican meeting for partisan pur poses. , ; In contrast with such actions, look at the speech delivered to the First Nebras ka by Gov. Poynter. There is not a word in It that could offend the most violent republican partisan. The popu lists of Nebraska are determined, 'what ever the provocation may be to do otherwise, in their dealings with the pub lic generally, to always be gentlemen and not boors. 1 The temptation to pay back In kind has often been great, bat so tar the populists who have represented the party before tbe people, have always shown themselves to be gentlemen, even when they have come in contact with re publican downs. . THE SHALL BANKER. The little bankers all over the country are getting the financial life squeezed out of them. Tbe formation of trusts s taking away a large part of their bus iness, for the business that was dons by the companies before they were consoli dated into trusts through the small banks, Is now done by one large bank in the city where the trust bas headquar ters. That set tbem to thinking, but a severer blow has just descended upon tbeir bald pates. The 'clearing houses have organized what they call guaran tee companies. These companies send agents through the grain growing states and guarantee for a email fee the grade of the grain shipped. That takes the handling of the grain crop out of the hands of the local bankers for all of the business is done direct through the great clearing bouse banks and the little bank' er out In the country town can sit in his office and suck his thumb. vne 01 mess small banters bailed an an old pop the other day and said to him: "You fellows were not halt as crazy as I thought you were three or four years ago." , Tbe fact la we always told the small bankers that they had no in terest In common with tbe Wall street money power, but tbey would not be. lieveus. Poor fellows! A good many of them will have to go counting ties be- fois this matter Is settled. DENOUNCE HIM. Some time ago John J. Icgails wrote as follows: "Meanwhile tbe beneficent trusts that were to cheapen commodities and bene fit consumers have, during the past thirty days, raised the price of brooms, raisins, buttwins, wall paper, rubber goods, glassware, meat, crackers, turn! tore, wagons, ploughs, fence wire and atber necessaries from 15 to 100 per cent and Captain Oberlin M. Carter,who waa convicted more than a year ago of stealing seventeen hundred thousand dollars from tbe government and sen tenoed to fine, imprisonment and dis missal, is still wearing tbe uniform and drawing the pay of his rank. By July 1 his guilty partners will be protected by tbe statute of limitations.". TbenVntof July has come andsone and Captain Oberling M. Carter still wears his uniform and draws his pay as an officer of the United 8tates at my His guilty partners are now all safe and will contribute as usual to the republi. can campaign fond. U it not about time that the people should openly de nounce the foulness of Wm. McKlnley.' Tbe office of president of the United States should not longer shield this shielder of criminals from the Just scorn of an outraged public Wm. McKlnley is just as foul and loathsome to any honest man as is Mark Hanna and the public should make him feel that they so consider him. There has never been a transaction at the French capitol so foal as this action of McKlnley in shield ing a convicted felon in the person of Captain Carter. It brings the , presi dency to tbe lowest point it has ever reached. . . . , . ORIGIN AC MULLET HEAD' The State Journal kindly gave to its readers a description of the original mallet head from which all of those now extant in this state seem to have de scended. It calls tbem "lineal descend ants." It appears that that ancestor of mesozoio time had even less brains to the size of its body than the fresh water mullet head. So the State Journal cor rects the Independent and claims the dinosaur for its original grandfather. This is what it says: "Tbe scientific syndicate that dug op that dinosaur over in Wyoming the other day, describes it as an animal 180 feet long, thirty-five feet high, with a probable weight when living of sixty tonsv The skeleton will, it is estimated, pan out about 40,000 pounds when it is weighed for shipment. But this im mense animal bad a head only about the size of a ten gallon beer keg and its brain weighed not more than four or five pounds. The disproportion is as great as that between the bread and tbe sack of fat of old Sir John's tavern bill. However, there are lineal descend- ents of thedinosauror some ancestor like unto blm, active today in the politics of Nebraska." PINGREE'S FAILURE. .1 Tbe newspapers are all saying that Pingree has been downed in his own party and that they have him complete ly whipped out. So badly has he been downed tbat be is afraid to run for Mayor again, feeling that he will be de feated if he does. That is just what we have been telling him tor the last three years His attempt at getting reform through through the republican party has been a dismal flailure. The street cars of his city are charging higher fares than ever before. His railroad taxation scheme has been a failure, and in fact Michigan is more under tbe control of corporations than ever before. It is Pingree's attempt at reform within the party that has made such things possi ble. Thousands of men have voted the republican ticket in that state that never would have done so but for Pin gree's promises of reform. It is Pingree and Pingree alone alone that has held Michigan in the grip of the gold bugs and corporations. Government in this country is by party. A man who sup. ports those things. The party of cor porations and money monoply suports must be beaten and it is about time that men who want reform learned tbat thing. , , A very reliable correspondent writes a long account of the condition of affairs in Cuba to a Chicago paper. ' He extols the administration, but he winds up with the declaration that the Cubans are practically to a man for indepen dence. He says that forcible annexa tion would result in certain war. Tbe dream ofindependence which has been indulged in for generations by Cubans must have a realization. Good govern ment, prosperity, the chance to make fortunes, the enrichment of the popula lation all together has no influence. The one thing with them is "Cuba libre." That being tbe case if McKlnley insists upon his imperialistic program, another war looms up in the near future. There is no safety and there can be no peace for this country as long as Mark Hanna and McKlnley ruu things at Washing ton. The people may as well make up their minds to that. When the populists printed out the enormous amount of mortgages in this state tbe republican press first denied that that waa any great amount of tbem. After they could no longer deny so palpable a tact, they declared that mortgages were a sign of prosperity, and the more we bad of them the more prosperous we would be. Now that the days ol "liquidation" are well nigh passed, the mortgages 'are foreclosed and less of them are found on the rec ords, they declare tbat the decrease in mortgages is sure proof of prosperity. No matter which of these things ap peared in the partisan republican papers every one ot their readers immediately declared in a loud voice: "That's so- Every man who denies it has wheels In his head." What ia the right term to designate that kind of fellows? Let some one please inform ns. Mrs, 8. H. Steele, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has ssnt to Cuba for fifty girls made orphanelby tbe wars,, and pro poses to educate tbem ana find tbem homes. There are thousands of these helpless orphans with no one to cars for them. If some ot the ministers who, svery Sonday, advocate war and blood shed In the name ot Jesus, would set their congregations to work saying these helpless ones, they would come much nearer practicing the teachings ot the Master, than when they spend the hour tbat should be devoted to preach ing, in advocating "criminal aggression and forcible annexation." The railroad companies of this coun try and especially the trunk lines lead ing to the Pacific have bad a bonanza ever since the war was declared. The war has put millions into their coffers. Tbey are the ones above all others that have made money out of it Now that the boys that have been fighting under the folds of the old flag, after leaving many of their comrads dead upon the battle grounds and bringing many more who will be criplee for life with them are landed upon , our shores, the tbe railroads will not let up a penny up on the exorbitant charges for transpor tation. They want the enormous sum of $35,000 for bringing the First Ne braska, depleted as it is in numbers, from San Francisco to their homes. If there is any person or corporation in the state that should donate liberally to bring tbe boys borne it is the railroad corporations. But not a cent will they donate nor will they lower their rates a penny. They must have it all, and have it in advance, before they will let one ot the battle scared veterens on one of tbeir cars. ; Tbey are still, as they have always been, monsters of greed. The Independent is informed tbat as soon as congress meets a searching in vestigation will be instituted to find out just how far the mails have been vio lated by the orders of Mark Hanna and McKlnley. This is a matter that it will not do to let pass. If the sacredness of the mails can be violated at the order of the president then we no longer have a free government We have a dictator in the White House. There is nothing so absolutely essential to a free govern ment as the sacredness of the mails. Their violation means an episonage of the private affairs of the people which has never been attempted in modern times except by the autocrat of Russia. It is the destruction of all in govern ment that men bave held sacred and lets loose upon tbe people a lot ot spies and secret informers, such as flourished in the dark ages. The Toronto Citizen reproduces a photograph taken in Manitoba showing fourteen women pulling a breaking plow while a man holds the' bandies. The debasement of women to the level of beasts of burden is becoming more and more common in these gold standard times. It is a result long foretold by all the great economists and proclaimed from a thousand rostrums by populist speakers for the last eight years. Pull ing a breaking plow is much more healthful work than what thousands of American women are forced to do in the shops and factories of the eastern states. These Manitoba women are strong and healthy, tbe eastern female slaves are pale and suffering creatures. It there is a republican county treas urer in this state who has turned into tbe county whose business he attends to a single doller for interest on deposits of the county money, will he please hold up his hand? Many, it not all the populist county treasurers, have an item in their reports for the interest received for county deposits. We have never seen such an item in the report of a republi can treasurer. If any reader of this pa per knows of one, please report The Butlercounty treasurer reports $778.37, Madison county, $614.78; Merrick coun ty. $378.45: Kearney, $1,116.78. It seems that where evf r a republican is in office, he practices the old game of sub straction, division and silence. - Even Henry Clews is predicting "a currency famine." It is about time that Lambertson called the students of tbe class in economics together once more and assure them that all our woes come from "a redundant currency." Some of tbem may read Clews' letter and conclude that Lambertson was a sure enough mullet head. In speaking of tbe condition of the banks as dscribed in this paper a subscriber of the Hutchison (Kan.) Gazette who was recently in New York said it was bard to get small change at the country towns there and it was diffl cult to do business. . ' The way some of thete plutocratic judges act would lead one to believe that they at least did not ' believe that there was any hereafter. Judge Wheeler of the New Haven superior court recently handed down a decision in which he ruled that when a corporation instantly kills a person and there is no suffering only $100 can be collected. In the Shel ton accident, 23 persons were killed, and this Judge says that the limit ot dam ages for each person cannot exceed $100. That judge may find that there is a hereafter even this side ot tbe grave. It is reported that the grasshoppers are being killed in large numbers by a little red parasite tbat eats into them and then turns to grnb that feasts on their vitals. Parasites seem to afflict everything in this country. A yellow one is eating the very vitals out of this nation. It has been unchecked and steadily at work ever since 1878. The truth is that with all of Bryan's vehement energy, honesty and never ending toil, he could not ;ho!d the demo cratic party solid to tbs Chicago plat form, if it were not for the 8,000,000 populists who stand as one man against any backward step on the money ques tion. Dr. Lyman Abbott thinks that a com plete answer to all the anti-imperialists have to say is: "Tbe nations of the earth will hold tbe United States re sponsible for tbe Philippines for years to come." Well, let 'em hold. When tbey get tired of holding they can let go. No one will make any objection. So the State Journal lied about the censorship being abolished in the Philip pines. Insteadof that, it has been offi cially established by an order issued by the direction of McKlnley. The sub stance of tbe order is given in another column. It will be in order now for tbe State Journal to publish another edi torial against lying. ' The bondsmen of Hilton walked ud to the captain's office and paid over some thing like $7,000 to tbe state the other day. We've got tbat much back from the republican thieves anyway. When that other judgment of over $600,000 will be paid no one can tell. Probably sometime after Gabriel blows his trumpet . ; Wharton Barker, , the Philadelphia banker, high protectionist, and middle of the road pop candidate for the presi dency tells the readers of his paper in his last issue just what to do to "down Bryariism," and make him, the said Barker, president of tbe United States. Who paid for the printing ot it? As 'the paper is distributed free, someone must put up a good sized sum every week. Attorney General Smyth is going after tbe Standard Oil trust. He has been so busy convicting the numerous republi can embezzlers that a turning over the books to the fusion state government re vealed.that he has not bad time to fight the Standard Oil combination. He has filed his papers in the district court and now we will see what the republican judges will do toward overthrowing the trusts which they denounce in their po litical platforms. Some of the pop editors are getting a good deal of fun out of the fact that the Independent used the name of the Stan ton Register for that of the Stanton Picket Now this editor sometimes writes off hand, not stopping to look at the printed records. He got the two papers published at Stanton Mixed up in his mind. The Register is one of the most efficient populist papers in Nebras ka and there is not a smell of Mark Hanna about the office. It was the other fellow. A dispatch from Washington indicates tbat some ot the clerks who have been drawing big salaries for years and doing little or nothing, will now have to go to work. For years, one could go through the big pension building and see hun dreds of these well-dressed dudes loung ing, reading, or flirting, and only now and then find one at work, while thou sands of old soldiers were wearily wait ing to have their pension claims exam ined. Tbe department is usually about two years behind. In all the other de partments the same state of affairs has existed to a very large extent It is now stated that Mr. Yanderlip, the assistant secretary, has given them all notice tbat they must work or get out The regulations only require them to work six ioors a day, but tbey are too lazy to do even that much. The railroad magnate makes a great cry and says it is an act of robbery to make him sellout to the government and the government own tbe railroads. Now he needn't howl at all for there is nothing to howl about more than what he bas been doing himself all the time, when he located his line through a farm er's land and ruined the place by the ex ercise of the right of eminent domain. It will be only doing to him what be has done to others, lo, these many years. He takes tbe city streets and the farm ers' land and runs death dealing engines right through the farmers best land all for the good of the public. The roads by the same parity of reason, can be taken by the government for the public good and the railroad magnate has no just cause of complaint If the govern ment and the railroad magnate can't agree on a price, let the dispute be set tled in the same way that a dispute is now settled about the price for the right of way. An imperialist writer got off tbe fol lowing bit of standing army argument the other day: . . "Whatever may be said of the indus trial evils of Immense armies in. Europe, the faet is plain that an army just large enough to provide employment lor a reasonable number of men, exerts a ben eficial effect particularly in making sol diers of persons who bave no trade or skill, and who, in bard times, are an ex pense to the state." . , According to that fellow's idea a tandlng army is no expense to the state. Jast take these chaps who bave no trade or skill and are an expense to the state and put them in the army. As soon as they have signed the master-in roll the expense to the state stops! Now the ordinary pop has gathered from bis reading of government reports that it costs tbe stats about $1,000 a year tor every one of these men. An imperialist can put more absurdities and absolute nonsense into a sentence than any other kind ol a writer ths worlj has ever aeon. MO RIGHT TO ASK. Persons offering articles for publica tion in any newspaper ' or magazine should take into consideration the stated policy of tbe publication and not insist for they havt no right to insist upon the publication of articles in direct con tradiction to tbe purpose for which the publication is printed. Now here is tbs Independent "" It is established and sup ported by men who believe in principles of the populist party as enunciated in the national platform. The object of the men who pay their money to sup port the paper is to defend those princi plesto make them DODular and to gain voters to the ranks of the party. 11 tbe paper should change its policy it would be a swindle and a cheat The men who have subscribed and paid their money would not get what the manage ment agreed to give them. . The claim tbat the paper should give the use of its columns to those who oppose the princi ples of tbe populist party on the ground of a free discussion, has no eouitv or justice in it We claim to , have something to sell. Hen buy it because thev want it It m substitute something else for what wa sold them, then we are cheats and frauds. The Independent calls the at tention of Mr. Hand, whose article we publish this week, to this state of facts. The proposition advocated by him is in direct conflict to the principles of the th populist party as expressed in its na tional platform. Out of courtesy to him, for he is an estimable gentleman, we print it But in all fairness, be shonM have sent it to Mr. Brown of the Independent-Herald or some other socialist paper. Populists are not socialists. They are all familiar with the anrnmnnt of overproduction and have answered it on a thousand rostrums. They do, not believe that tbe concentration of wealth comes froui new inventions and im proved machinery, but that at the root of all ot it lies the vicious financial av- ' tem adopted by the civilized nations. We trust that Mr. Hand will take these comments in the kindlv snirit t.hi they are intended. He has a perfect. ngnt to noid views in contradiction to the principles of the DODulist nnrt: Bnt. Mr. Hand should not ask this paper to aiiacz: in any 01 its columns, tbe princi ples of the party it was founded to At tend. IXFLUT OF CAPITAL. When ever an imperialist undertakes to say anything that he thinks will bave a tendency to induce the Filininna n Cubans to accept of annexation, he tells tnem tbat it will result in an "manx nf capital." It seems, however, that thev can't fool a Filipino with that kind of talk any better than they can a pop. Onep of Aguinaldo's representatives in Paris called attention to the argument the other day. He said that the influx of foreign capital was tbe thing tbe Fili pinos were jnost afraid of. Instead of being a benefit to them it would result in a commercial slavery to foreign na tions. It would not be long, if such a policy were adopted, before the interest charges that would be paid to foreigners would be more than the increase of the wealth of the islands. Then would eome of necessity a foreign bonded debt and perpetual enslavement to foreign na tions. He preferred that the Philippines should bean independent nation and make what mqnoy they needed to tran sact their business instead of borrowing it from capitalists of foreign nations. That Filipino had been studying politi cal economy to some purpose. If a few writers in this country had known that much thirty years ago, and had had tbe courage to put tbeir knowledge in print we would not now be swamped with billions of foreign debt and would not be sending hundreds of millions to Eu rope every year as interest on foreign capital. SUSTAINED. In regard to the assaults that have been made upon this editor for bis bank review, it may be stated that many of tbe financial pperators on Wall street have been during the last week, giving out interviews which contain the same words of warning. Ths following is from Keeneandwas printed in the Chicago Record: , "The following announcement of views previously reiterated without effect in the stock market was yesterday made by Keene: ' "I bold tbe same opinion today which I have held for two months pat; that market prices of stocks have fully dis counted present conditions and pros pects. I am not buying storks at this level, nor do I intend to. Money here and in Europe is in great demand. There Is not enough to warrant fnrther bull speculation, even it facts jnstifi-d it, which in ray judgement tbey do not. I tbink extensive liquidation must inevit ably come, for it is the onlv means in siRht to reduce tbe distended loan ac counts of banks and trust companies now out of all proportion - to cash re sources." ' We all know what "extensive liquida tion" means when used bv a Wall street speculator or banker. We had some of that in '93. "Extended loan accounts out of all proportion to cash resources" is just what tbe Independent said. Tbe last part of an article signed by J. W. Edwards was received, tbe first pages being missing. It seems to concern a matter of some Importance and if the first part is forwarded it will receive at tention. v ( f 2V.