THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. V Clippings. FIAT FIXED IT. t;4. a i ti.. mina nf trcAA. flat can fix a price on silver. If yon do not believe sold is flat money, demonetise it and see Sow quickly it will fall to the price that s demand, tor it In tha arts will, fix -Madison Star. f. PRICES GO DOWN. . As an evidence of how the "immense" orop ie tending toward stopping the "croaking" and bringing prosperity to the farmers we call attention to tne present prices for the new crop of wheat 40 cents. Two weeks ago the price was 55 cents. As long as the crop is in the v hands of the farmers the price is low. When the speculators get it up goes the price. Madison Star. v MCKINLEY'S "WAR We call the Philippine war, McKinley 's . war, because he began it, without ask ing the consent of congress, which, ac--cording to ancient ideas, is supposed to have the sole power of declaring war. We call it McKinley's war, furthermore, because McKinley could have prevented H and the cost of life and treasure, if he had acted toward the representatives of the Filipino people even with the com mon: courtesy which one gentleman al ways shows to another. Bayonet. 1,000,000 MORE. Mr. Bryan, nominated in 1900 will have the same 6,500.000 votes which he received in 1894 without a doubt. In ' addition it would not be surprising if he received at least a million more votes from those influenced to vote for him and the principles of the democratic party by the issues which have risen since 96 and in respect to which the republican party has shown a tendency to swing farther and farther away from the ideas of its founders and from the principles which have guided the nation along the lines of progress. Buffalo Timer. WE TOLD YOU SO . By a practically unanimous vote the Annnnntinna nf tllA nnnOCr&tiG VUIW .-.VM . WM.w - J r - forces nominated for supreme . fudge a man wno was not tne nrst cooice ui tuo Times. This paper and its editor used nil hnnnvahla manna to nrecent that nomination. But what is our duty now? Simply this: Bryan expects of every friend this year And every friend of Bryon answers true: - ' "The imperialists shall not carry Ne braska!" Papillion Times. ) . V; ' - A GREAT SCHEME The army in the Philippines is,- ac cording to the plans now preparing, to consist, soon, of over 50,000 men. It ' has been estimated somewhere, that each private costs the United States at " the rate of $100 per month.: Here we have a cost of 25,uoo,uuu per year ior an army to subjugate the Philippines so that our wage workers may have the opportunity of emigrating there and competing with the Filipino natives at the rate of 10 cents per day of eight hours work, or our farmers may take op plantations and submit to be rack rented by the Spanish friars who own all the land worth owning. Bayonet. TO RISE NO MORE H Although it happens, on the average, not oftener than once in a generation that there is a geneine uprising of the people in opposition to tne ncn and powerful classes, whenever such an up risine does take place it is irresistable. On such occasions the men who oppose the masses of the people are retired per manently from politics. No matter how great their power may have been before, if they oppose the people in one of these genuine uprisings that occurs after long intervals, when some great issue stirs the people, the politician who opposes them goes down to rise no more. Na tional Watchman. WHAT WE CLAIM. We do not claim that the populist party is all perfect and all wise. We do not claim that the populist party does not make mistakes. We do not claim that thete are not men of virtue and pa triotism in the republican ranks. What we do claim is that we realize that con ditions as they now exist deprive the laborer of the largest proportion of the fruits of bis labor and that these condi tions have been brought about by the legislation of the past forty years. We claim that the party which represents all the vested Interests, all the corporate wealth, all the monopolies which have concentrated in their hands, the pro ducts of the labor of the mass of the people should not be trusted with the government of the people. We do not expect to reform everything at once; progress is by slow stages and the road to right is a toilsome one, but we do claim that we are animated by the de eire to establish the reign of Justice here upon earth. Bayonet. WORDS OF WISDOM. Taare la a, Moral of all hamaa talaa, 'Tla bat tha aaoa rahaaraal of tat paat, rirtt traadom and thaa glory wba that falli Waaltb, Ttoa, corruption barbarism at laat. Aid hlatory, with all bar rolamaa rant, bath bat v oaa pag." As long as you have a boundless ex tent of fertile and unoccupied land, your laboring population will be far more at case than the laboring population of the old world, and, while that is the case the Jefferson politics may continue to exist without causing any fatal calamity. Lord Macaulay. But sines we live in an epoch of change and too probably of revolution, and , tbongbts which are not to be put aside are In the minds of all men capable of thought, I am obliged to afflrm the one principle wbtco can, and in the end will, close all epochs of revolution that each man will possem the 'ground he can use, and no more. John Buskin. ft. POPULISM OR SOCIALISM In your issue of August 17, 1899, you undertake to answer my argument by denouncing it as socialism. Your first sentence is: "The above Ms clean cut, straight socialism." Then on your edi torial page you give me a very kind touching np for advocating socialism and you there say: "The ' proposition advocated by him-is in direct conflict to the principles of the populist party as expressed in its national platform." Let us see who is correct. After describing certain evils I said: "but the best remedy obtainable is na tionalism, co-operation through the gov ernment; government ownership of mo nopolistic industries." - Our national platform of 1896 declared for government ownership and operation of railroads and telegraphs and , the es tablishment of government postal sav ings banks. In our state platform we have repeatedly declared in favor , of municipal ownership and operation of all city ' utilities. Will you be kind enough to point out to me the difference in principle between these platform de mands of the populist party and the remedy that I proposed? Is the national post-office socialistic? Are our public schools socialistic? Would it be socialism for government to own and operate the railroads and tele graph and telephone lines and to estab lish and operate postal savings banks; and for cities to own and operate street cars, lighting plants and water-works? If so, then populism is socialism. But I deny emphatically that it is socialism to advocate these reforms; it is populism. It may be conceded that there is an element of socialism in snob a policy. But, taking you on your own definition of socialism, it is far removed from the "collective ownership of all means of production and distribution," Involving, as this does, the collective ownership of all property. As you have yoursell.said a number of times this year, this idea of the collective owner ship qf all property is the foundation of socialism. Populism is nationalism, co operation through the government, limited to those important lines of in dustry that are naturally monopolistic. To break the great railroad trust, let the government take over to itself a number of the trunk lines of railroad. To break the telegraph and telephone trusts, let the government take over the telegraph and telephone lines.. To break the banking trust, let the government establish and operate, postal savings banks. To break the trusts or monopo lies existing in all the cities, let the cities run tbeir own street cars, lighting plants and water-works. These reforms are speciflcall demanded in our national and state platforms. This is what I advo cated in the article which you criticise; only this and hotbing more. There is no question of overproduction discussed in that article; you have mis understood it entirely. The real question I discussed ie: Un fair and unjust distribution. The rem edy I proposed is: Government ownership of certain lines of Industry, The figures I gave were given for the purpose of showing that the owner of the improved machine and of the steam that runs it possessed such an advan tage over the laborer who is tied to it by his necessities, that such owner inevi tably takes more than his fair share of the profits accruing from the joint labor of the machine and the man. . For instance, the railroads: Why can a poor man ride six miles for one cent in Garmany, while it costs him three cents to ride one mile in the United Slates? The answer is: Government ownership; and many similar questions are ans wered in the same way. Who pockets the difference in the cost? The owner of the improved machine, or means of transportation, or whatever improve ment it may be that is used. "Here is unjust distribution. The large profit that flows from the use of the improve ment goes to the already wealthy few. It ought to go to all the people; and it does under government ownership and management. You assert that my argument has been answered a thousand times. This shows again your misapprehension of my argument; for these questions are very modern, not yet a quarter of a century old; for it is within the last twenty-five years that this condition has come upon the world, the spectacle of the capitalistic class becoming the task-masters of the toilers by means of the hitherto onknown improved machin ery and industrial facilities. Such im provements never before existed; hence capital never before bad the use of them; hence the question never existed until recently; hence the neceesity of govern ment ownership of transportation and other improved industrial facilities, was never so imperative as now. You ask: How will public ownership help us to pay our debts? I answer: By a more equal and just distribution of the product of toil. Now the man who toils with the machine cannot retain his just share of the joint earnings. By reason of the conditions I have referred to and set forth more fully in my other article, capital takes a large share that belongs to the laborer. For instance the recent advances in prices, forced by the trusts, which live by the ownership and use of improved machinery and in dustrial facilities. The tin plate trust recently advanced wages $500,000 a year and at the same time, or within a short time it has advanced the price of tin plate so as to gather an additional profit of $20,000,000 a year. Take away Improved machinery and improved Industrial facilities and every trust would die., Tbeee improvement) take the place of men who are dearer, but the benefits go chiefly, not all but chiefly, Into the pockets of the few who are already wealthy. This makes paupers of the multitude: this is why debts can not be paid. Give us govern moot nam. ership of the lines I have mentioned and a long step will be taken to compel a just distribution to ail laborers of the joint product of labor and capital. n nemer rrou ueruta is entirely cor rect in his figures or not, yet every Intelligent man knows that itum h electricity ar now doing mora work iubu wae uoaa oy ail tbe men In the world 100 yean ago: and that ouch of tbe pauperism of today due to the Inn possibility to obtain work. I willingly leave the question la the hands of your readers, whether I stand for populism or socialism. Kearney, Neb. W. L. Hand. They didn't have any of this Improved machinery In the eld Roman empire, yet John Stuart Mill and every other stand ard economist has pointed out how the wealth of the whole empire concentrated in the bands of the few by means of the increasing purchasing power of money. This argument that the concentration of wealth is caused by the invention of improved machinery is not sound. It is the fall the constant and long contin ued fall for twenty-five years in prices that has caused this concentration of wealth. If tbe quantity of money was increased in the same proportion as tbe increase in production, there would be none of this trust business or1 concentra tion of wealth. V ' ' Populists believe that inventions and improvements of all kinds should be welcomed and fostered. The more labor saving machinery that there is In ' use, the mere wealth will there be produced. That .wealth can be equitably distributed by the control of the volume of money in the interest of the people. T What was objected to was an assault upon this principle. The two points made in the former article to which ob jection was made, in regard to the free coinage of silver and the increase in the volume of money were iu direct conflict with the populist platform. Tbe argu ment was the old goldbug argument as well as the socialist argumont. The gold bugs said, and still say, ' that the farmer ought to get a less price for his wheat because of the labor saving har veeter, binder and improved thresher. That all the benefit should go to the interest taker and bond holder. The populists say . that the price of wheat should have remained stable. Then the producer would have bad the benefit to( improved machinery, But under the management of the money power, all the. benefit goes . to capital" as the phrase goes, but in fact to the office holder, the money lender and the bond holder. It 1b not tbe harvester cot improved machinery that has ddne this. It is the fall in price of wheat from $1.50 to 50 cents a trashel. - If the position taken were true, tbe correct remedy would be to destroy the labor Baving machines. Burn up tbe harvester, the mower and the threshing machine and go back to the sickle and the flail.2.' It is not the oyer production of wealth by means of improved machin ery that makes the masses poor and the rich grow richer. It is because prices are not stable. Every time a machine is invented that pro luces more, prices fall in exact proportion. If prices remained the same, tbe producer would get the benefit of the machine. That is not only the populist doctrine, but the science, of political economy as taught by every authority on the subject. OUR PLAIN DUTY Our duty is plain. It is to quicken the Intellect and the conscience of our people by education. The duty of tbe hour is to see that every American home is vis ited weekly by such newspapers as represent the people's cause and are not in the service of Mammon. Spurn tbe free gifts of reading matter, whether in the form of weekly editions of a subsid ized commercial press furnished at a price often less than one-fourth of the cost, or pamphlets furnished free. Re member that tbe enemies of liberty who have overtaken tbe overthrow of tbe Republic and the establishment of a military despotism are now in the midst of their deadly work and that their suc cess depends upon confusing the intel lects of honest people. Therefore, arouse yourselues now while time is on your side. Remember that your work must be done this year. Next year sides will be taken by the people, after which their ignorance or their prejudices cannot be easily overcome. After the money kings start the free distribution of newspapers and pamphlets and tbe air is filled with the eloquence of party spell binders and tbe noise and glare of fireworks it will be too late to reclaim honest voters who can easily be reclaimed if the right read ing matter is;put into tbeir bands this year. Doty calls us to act now. Next year may be too late. Let ns accept the call of duty and enter at once npon tbe work of arousing the intellect and con science of tbe nation. If we do our duty in this regard we cannot fail. National Watchman. . - " FATE OF RUSKIN The Ruskin colony In Tennessee hes been under the hammer. Tbe land was bougnt, by the members who brought suit for receivership and winding np of affairs, while tbe paper, The Co mirg Nation, was purchased by the majority stockholders, who have reorganized un der the name of "Ruskin Common wealth," and will settle en a new location in Ware county, Ga., near the Florida boundary line. Later advices state that tbe receiver will sell tbe land over again, as tbe purchasers are without means and cannot pay for the same. The total price realized for land and chattels was upwards of $30,000, but a the land will be sold again, and figured at about $18,000 In tbe above total, it Is likely that a much smaller, sum will finally be realisad and divided among tbe stockholders. .The courts and law yers will, no doubt, gobble up tbe major part of what is left. m tea dimct Tt m pamdl raadr to-fall work, . naTl i ' m. 'r'w IB4, AM, HI- Oalr Now factor la tin laM iiMMiilj airaamlani lwHnmJM.7 X fil) - -V- IOothartlola. ,y Car for Eaeaaalve Faraplratlon. A frequent and most annoying sum mer ailment Is that of excessive per lptration of the feet Sufferers from this should te careful that their boots and Bhoes are roomy and that , they have clean stockings every day. The feet should be washed night and morn ing and In trd cases still more often, In salted waer, or In water to which a little carbonate of soda has ,' been added. After washing dust the feet with this powder: Washed sulphur, 30 grains; salicylic acid, 7 grains; pow-der-d arrowroot, 4 ounces.; Excessive pertrlratlon of the body is generally an indication of weakness, and a tonic or ' ange of .tr often actB beneficially. Bathing the skin with sage tea is often recommended, and this remedy has cer tainly the marlt of simplicity. Boston Post '::"; v . : Tha Or:at V7rU of China. The great w-ll of China, built by the first emperor of the Tsln dynasty.about 220 B. C, is 1,250 miles long. Includ ing a parapet of five feet, Its total height is 20 f-ot; thickness at the base, 25 feet; at the top, 15 feet. Towers occur at intervals of about V yards, the dlmenslr-is of which are: Base,. 40 feet square; Bummlt, 30 feet; height, from 37 to 60 feet. . Earth Inclosed in brickwork fqrms tbe mass of tbe wall, but for more than halt Its length It Is now little else than a crumbling heap of rubbish. It was built as a guard against Tartar and other Invaders, but never served its purpose. It Is the man behind the gun or, in this case, the man behind the wall that offers the only sure defense. . .. .... .. ' . The Blae of tha Ocean. ; ' The Pacific covers 68,000,000 square miles; the tlantic 30,000.000 and the Indian ocean, Arctic and antarctic 42, 000,000. To stow away the contents of the Pacific It would be necessary tq fill a tank one tulle long, one mile wide and one mile deep every day for 440 years. ' Put in figures, the Pacific holds In weight 984,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The Atlantic averages a depth of not quite three miles. Its waters weigh 325,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and a tank to contain it would have each of Its sides 430 miles long. ' The fig ures of the other oceans are in the same startling proportions. Clover Waapa. . " ' . Among the insects whose proceed ings sometimes suggest the thought that they are guided by something closely akin. to reason are the solitary wasps. These wasps kill caterpillars, spiders and other Insects by stinging them, and then bury the victims in burrows containing their own eggs, thus furnishing food for their larvae as they hatch out. ' The operation of making and closing up the burrows Is a curious and interesting one to watch particularly when the wasps use as they occasionally do a small stone to pound down the earth. ' : , , Afraid tha Thamea Will Ban Dry. Mr. McDougall of the London County Council, is afraid that the Thames will run dry, owing to the dams that are being built in the upper reaches of the river. Whereas last year 843,000,000 gallons of water a day passed over Teddington Weir in May and 429,000, 000 gallons in June, the figures for this year are 550,000,000 gallons in May and 230,000,000 gallons In June. In one day of July only 142,000,000 gallons flowed over. It Is feared that the result may be an epidemic of disease, arising from the undiluted sewage of tbe city: : Village of Colored People. - Oberton Is a village in tbe Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, of about 500 Inhabitants, all of whom are colored. The "postmaster is a colored man, the notary public is colored, and there Is a colored marshal. Tbe town has not yet been incorporated, but likely will be soon, at which time the entire set of officers will be colored. There is considerable business enterprise among some of the people of the neighbor hood, which comprises a circle of fif teen miles. ) Bag Lift Three Pounde. Justice of tbe Peace John J. Hare, of this city, has a strange bug that can lift three pounds with his pincers. He captured the bug on the sidewalk and took it Into bis store, and while hold ing It In a pair of pincers th bug took hold of a box of watch screws weighing three pounds, and when Mr. Hare pulled the bug away It held on to the box for three minutes and bad a good bold at the end of that time. Philadelphia Times. Klephanta In Crylon. ' The elephant shooting of Ceylon 1 the best in tbe world, and tbe easiest attainable. Tbe Ceylon elephants have been carefully preserved by tbe gov srnment, which regulates the shooting according to the number of animals. The "Idea Is to keep a constant herd of 2,000, and when there is not an excess of this number the shooting Is forbid den absolutely. . . :' V Rapllnf Llfte Ton. 4 The power of living seed over tbe Inert weight of tons of rock is very forcibly illustrated by a little sapling which is growing In Erstberg, Ger many. The tree is flight enough to be bent with the bands, but Is raising In Its irresistible growth a mass of rock weighing four tons. , Flrat Motor MUkeart. To Eccles, an English town of 22,000 Inhabitants, belongs the honor of pos sesslng the first motor milk cart. Its "round" embraces an eighty-mile ra dium, and this It can. cover In a day ol seven hours. The work of three horeei andrarts la saved. "INDEPENDENT THE A Perfect Machine at a WITH ALL ATTACHMENTS. yj 19.50 J Why pay three times as much In order to secure a popular name? Whenyon buy some machines yon pay 75 per cent for the name and 25 per cent for tbe ma chine. We sll you a Sewing Machine that will sew, and charge you nothing for the name. It you do not like the name "Independent," paint red over it and call tbe machine what you will. We are doing the advertising, and it does not cost us much. 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