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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Aug. 17, 1899
Consolidation 9 '
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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
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