TOE. NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. October 12, 1899. JltbxasJw gn&tptu&tut Consolidation tf ' THE WEAL THMAKERS and LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ' ' BY THE ' Independent Publishing Company AT 1202 P STREET. Telephone 538. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA $1 00 ill lUM IB ADY JC.j Address all communications to, and, make all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to THE INDEPENDENT PUB. CO. Lincoln, Nebraska. STATE TICKET. For Judge of the Supreme Court SILAS A. IIOLCOMB, of Custer Co. For Regent of the State University J. L. TEETERS, of Lancaster Co., EDSON RICH, of Douglas. ' WtUUUW.W.M. WM For Congress Sixth District . . WILLIAM NEVILLE North Platte. LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET. . For Judges of the District Court GEO. E. HIBNER, .T.J.DOYLE, ROBERT WHEELER. . For Clerk of the District Court , '. A. E. LINDELL, Lincoln. For TreaBurer " - " wm. Mclaughlin, Lincoln. For Sheriff . P. H. COOPER, Lincoln. For County Clerk ; WM. HEIBERGER, For Count? Judge ' FJ$FD SHEPHERD, Lincoln. ;.; ppr County Commissioner .JOHN J. MEYER, Hnllam. ; For Superintendent of Schools "-F.RPARRISH, j ' For Coroner ; DR. BENTLEY, Lincoln. Justices y R. II. HAGELIN, F. O. BERGE, . Constable '. 'W. H. ESSEX, ' 'c, C. pace. :;-;.-. k ' Lincoln saved the declaration of inde pendence and the constitution once and the gentleman from Lincoln will do it again. 7 " , . ... Roosevelt says that the Filipinos are savages. Did Dewey put arms in the bands of savages to enable 'them to slaughter the people of Manila? , ttU MMMMMSgHt .... To the editor of the Omaha Bee. If the election of Mr. Reese in 1883 would "bo a crime as you , declared at that time, why ' would it not be a greater crime now? . Because the tunes are better than they were after three years of hot winds and drouth, the mullet heads think that that is conclusive evidence that McKin ley and the gold standard is the of it ' cause . Send stamps to pay the postage and get copies of the sermon of Rev. Mr. Brown for distribution. More letters of commendation of that sort of religion have been received at this office than we can keep account of. iu cipeuiueui, ihuuuu conucciea with the Nebraska university has just mi. - . . i issued a very valuable buletin on wind mills by. Prof, Barbour. Every farmer In the state ought to get a copy and then build his own windmill. The imperialist preachers made great howl about a polygamist from Utah going on the pay roll of Uncle Sam. But when McKinley put a whole lot of polygamists on Uncle Sam's pay roll out in the Sulu islands, they never winked an eye. . ' At the rata of wages that the slaves in the Sulu islands receive, how long will it take them to purchase their freedom at $20.00 per head? Will some renublican mathematician be kind enough to figure it out and send the answer to the Ne braska Independent? "Who will haul down the flag?" Gen. Ludlow issued an order the other day commanding every American citizen and an other persons to haul down the flair Every flag was hauled down except those Boating over public building and con auiates.- Will Gen. Ludlow be court martialed and shot? ' Tke Fremont Tribune thinks that when two populist officials cannot agree upon what interpretation should be given to a republican made law, that it w a "disgrace" to submit it to a republi can court for, settlement It may be right about that, but it is a queer thing for a republican editor to say. " If McKinley could make a treaty with the government of the 8ulu Islands, why can t he make one with the govern ment of the Wand of Luion? The gov ernment of Luzon reprsents aChritUan people and that of Sulu a Mohanedan PIU. To a Mohainedan with half a dozen wives ho can tak, but with a christian ruler he will not. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. The condition on the great money cen ters are just about the same as those that have preceded every panic that lias occurred in the last twenty five years with this exception. It is now to the in tetest of the money power to prevent a panic if possible. A panic now would be very detrimental to the party through which they expect so many favors In the way of establishing the gold standard and giving the big banks the control of all the paper money to be issued. , All of the great money dealers of the world will therefore do all that is possible to prevent a panic until after the election, What has huppened at New York is just what the Independent has been say ing would happen for the last six months, It is impassible to carry on the business of this country with ten dollars of credit to one of money. The inevitable result has come and money in New York has been lent for the last few weeks at 30 to 40 per cent interest The condition in New York as described by Henry Clews, and It must be remembered that it was written to stave off a panic, is as follows The effect amounted to almost a par alysia on the stock exchange. For the first three days of the week, the transac tions aggregated only 1,101,300 shares, or little more than one-third the volume on an active market Outside speculators stood aloot and the principal buyers, other than covering M bears, were a few strong operators who purchased for fu ture use on tne more extreme depres sions. To add to these depressing con ditions, London was a free seller of our securities onMonday and Tuesday, while Berlin was understood to be carrying a large amount of Americans, which might be thrown on our market in the event of the money pressure in London becoming more severe. : During the first half of the week, money was extremely scarce and, though there was a large contracting of discounting, many of the over-extended stock houses had to pay as high as 40 per per cent each of the three days in the open market Money at forty per cent means bank ruptcy and every man of sense knows it The hope of import of gold from London is a vain one, for money is just as scarce in London as in New York. London also has a very effective wray of preventing shipments of gold. The bank of England simply raises the rate" of interest on loans until gold is worth more in London than any where else and then it stays there. A very large part of the business in London is done on loans from the bank of England, and when it wants gold, it raises the rate until its borrowers have to get the gold and pay their loans or go into bankruptcy. . If any one knew just what sacrifices the house of Rothchilds and other great monied concerns were willing to make to prevent a collapse, he could tell whether the panic would come now or jater on. If the pressure becomes very great, it is doubtful whether a collapse can be pre vented at all. There are some economic laws that even the Rothchilds cannot overcome. One of them is that the pres ent prices cannot be maintained with only gold for legal tender. Perhaps they may be able to gradually reduce prices without a universal breakup. THE EGOTIST BACKS DOWN. Nebraska's great egotist J. Sterling Morton, in the pompous way peculiar to egotists only, recently .tnade the charge that Mr. Bryan had said that he wanted office for the money there was in it The Mew York Hun and many other papers expressed their disgust at this charge and being called upon from every quar ter for proof now says: "The conservative published that when Wm. J. Bryan first began asking for office in Nebraska, in the year 1889, he assured a person that "it is the monev that is in the office and not the honor that attracts me." It was supposed that the GonservativA nniiM nmva Kv M. son whom Mr. Bryan's friends would not attempt to impeach, that such assurance was in van or William -T Rma P.. circumstances at nrtnutnt nmnt Intro ducing the evidence of the individual wno would establish the truth of what the Lonnarvauva hu hMfofnm ,. sorted." After that complete backdown ha de grades himself still further br adding: "Possibly in some future issue of The referred to (a person, by the way, of whom Mr. Bryan thinks a great deal) may be secured and published." The Independent ha" no remarks to make concerning a man who is so devoid of character as this showing which he himself has made, indicates that Sterling Morton is. Every reader of this paper can proceed to make whatever re nark he thinks justifiable. EMPLOYING BENEGADES. . The shrewd management of the repub lican leaders in years past seems to be lacking in this campaign. Tefft and Harrison do not seem to understand that they are appealing to the most intelligent citizens of any state in the Union. If they did, they certainly would not pick up the offal of the populist party and send them out as speakers under the auspices of their state central committee. The Independent is glad to see them pursue such a course, but it cannot help observing that any manager who had common sense would hardly do it If If any man could be secured from the populist ranks, known to be a man of influence sad ability to take the stump for the republicans, there might be some sense in it but to pick up the off scour ings and offal and put them out to dis cuss the great problems that are con fronting the people in this campaign, is nothing less than idiotic. Even the em ployment of a renegade of great ability always looked upon as a doubtful pol icy, but to pick up disappointed office- seekers and men who have never had any intiuence in tne populist party, is little short of political insanity. They may thereby gain the vote of the rene gade, but such a policy must disgusi every decent man left in their ranks. "UNITS AS'D MEASURES." " The man who writes the editorials for the Omaha Bee undertook to write on the money question the other day and this is what he said: "The dollar is the unit of value," and after that he goes on talking about "measuj ing values." The Independent will give the editor of the Bee a five dollar gold piece If he will tell how a "value" can be divided into units and it will give him a ten dollar bill he will come before an audience and "measure" a value with a gold dollar or with anything else. Values cannot be measured. They are estimated. The 'value of anything is arrived at, not by trying to apply any material instrument as a "measure," but by an operation carried on in the human mind. A value cannot be divided into units, and there fore shere can be no such thing as "unit of value." The only place where suce an idea can be supposed to be found is in the muddled brains of a gold bug. v ' - ' The argument that the learned editor uses to establish his theories about "units ef value" and "measuring values,' u "demagogues and financial fakirs, "stupid gabble," etc. To the mind of the average goldbug, phrases like that settle any question, and if a man is not satisfied with the force of the argument that is sure proof that he ' is either "traitor" or a "copperhead." -V The Sterling Sun says: "The islands which have recently come under con trol of the United States were annually importing over 100,000,000 worth of goods. Of this amount we were fur nishing less than 18 per cent The com mercial advantage to the United States is quite apparent, as we will now secure the greater part of this trade." ' It is one of the things that no pop can find out why a non sequitur like the above seems convincing logic to a re publican. Why will the control of the islands by the United States secure the greater part of the trade? All -expert ence shows that men will buy goods from those who sell the cheapest Sub ject nations will not buy goods of their masters and pay a higher price for them than of competing nations. The nation that sells the cheapest will get the trade, unless these imperialists establish despotism and force the inhabitants to trade witn our trust manufacturers. The business men and business inter ests, has been the sole care of the repub lican party. By "bjbsines men" they mean only those handling somewhat large amounts of capitol. The farmer is always excluded from their colcula tions when they talk about "business men." This makes the class that they have legislated for a very small one. The working men, the clerks, the thous ands of women and girls who toil from one end of the year to the other, are all excluded from their schemes of legisla tion. It is for the excluded classes that the populists would legislate. The interests of the girl setting type, washing dishes, standing behind the counter fourteen hours a day, is just as dear to them as are the interests of the millionaires and gamblers on wall street The farmer and his wife, the boys who plow the corn, should have the attention of the legislature just as well as the banker and manufacturer. lo forever put at rest' the question whether prosperity is here or not, the official state organ of the republican party submitted sixty-eight colums of proof, printed in fine type, so as to get a good deal in one issue, last Monday morning. It contained descriptions of land in Lancaster county that will be put up for sale on the first of November for delinquent taxes. These taxes have all been due for over eighteen months, some of them for a much longer time. There are hundreds of men in this county of Lancaster, state of Nebraska, who can not, in this year of McKinley prosperity, raise enough money to pay their taxes, so their land is going to be sold at public auction. If this does not settle the dis. puted question of whether prosperity is here or not, what can? ( TheSUrling Sun says: Democratic orators are not discussing the Dingley tariff law this fall. They claimed that it would result disastrously to our for eign commerce." Democratic orators never made ary such claim and the Sun is respectfully requested to give a single instance where any one opposed to high tariffs ever made any such statements. We claimed that it would result disas trously to the consumers of this country. When the farmer oes to buy a keg of nails which he could buy some time ago for 11.25 and for which he now has to pay, on account of the tariff, $3.50 he knows whether it has worked disas trously for him or not v The republican managers fully under stand that when the people read both sides of the discussion of public policies that it don't take long to count the re publican votes on the night of the elec tion. Therefore they advise that every effort should be made to keep the popu- ist 1 terature from circulating among the Tter ' ' .; THE TENTH CONSPIRACY. ,'.' Populirits are very'' well acquainted with the hi.story of the eight conspira cies the result of which was the en-, thronement of capital in the' govern ment of this country. They also know most of the intrigues which , resulted in the banker's panic and the repeal of the Sherman law. All these things were made possible by the control ok the avenues of information spreading out over this nation. 1 The men who control these avenues of information the newsgencies and the great dailies are now engaged in an other conspiracy by the dissemination of falsehoods by the million. These false hoods can be detected only by a long course f reasoning, but when an an alysis of the statements are made and tne conclusion reached, there is no es cape from the tale that is told of an uni versal conspiracy to deceive the whole people of the United States, and by that deception establish the gold standard and a banking system that will place every industry in this country wholly in control of the great capitalists. Let us consider a few fundamental statements that any man who will re fleet but for a moment must acknowl edge are true. First, the wealth of nation does not expand and contract, appear and disappear, with suddenness. It is a slow accretion and all statistics show that its increase in the most en terprising nations is not more than 3 per cent a year. Now, is that true or is the converse true? Does this nation have one month say, seventy billions of wealth and the next 100 billions: or 40 billions? There can be but one answer to that question. ' The wealth of a na Uon is almost stationary and increases only by a small per cent each year. Bearing that statement in mind how much truth can there be in the state ments sent out that wealth has increased in these United States by the billion in the last few months? . Can it be true that the enormous transportation facili ties of this country, and in every part of it, are taxed beyond their' ability to transport this new created wealth to 4e the consumers? The crops of the United States are not unprecedented. It is well known fact that hundreds of manu faetories.have been closed by the trusts. The mines are not producing mineral in quantities that would overburden the trains. Where do these billions of tons of wealth come from? The tales that are sent out by the commercial agencies and promulgated through he great dailies are manifestly false. It is part of this Tenth Conspiracy. That they are false can be demon strated in another - way. The reports that the great trunk lines running east from Chicago have not the equipment to transport the thousands of million of tons of wealth seeking a way to consumers to the east, is manifestly not true. What sort of wealth goes east from Chicago? It is mainly raw material coming from the farms and ranches of the west The bulk of it is corn, wheat, wool, cattle, hogs, horses, and meat products. It is utterly impossible that millions of tons of these things could have been sud denly produced in the territory con- tributary to the Chicago market It re quires one year to produce any of them and two or three years to produce many of them. Some manufactured articles go east from Chicago, but most of the wealth thus shipped is farm products, This story of this enormous amount of wealth moving east from Chicago is manifestly false. It is another part of this conspiracy. In still another way the falsity of this claim of the enormous amount of wealth going east from Chicago can be demon strated. But little of it is created in the city, before it is shipped out it must come in. Value is added to many things shipped into Chicago by the labor be stowed upon them, but this value rather decreases than increases the weight in tons. The shipments into Chicago as reported by these same conspirators do not bear out their statements that the great trunk lines are overburdened with tons of wealth going east The objects of this conspiracy is first to deceive the people into the belief that the production of wealth in this coun try is unprecedented, having in a few months almost doubled, and second, to make an excuse to levy additional tribute upon them. They have already laid that additional tribute and it was announced in the Chicago papers in the following words: Beginning November 1 another ad vance in grain and grain products will become effective. Yesterday representa tives of the transcontinental lines de cided to raise the rate from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard on export corn from 14 to 20 cents per 100 pounds, and from 18 to 22 cents on domestic corn. All other eij-ort grains will be placed at 22 cents." The ' republicans are about ready to give up the contest against Holcomb. The News, which is the evening edition of the State Journal, had this to say on that subject last Tuesday. "When the returns come in this fall and Douglas goes for liolconib, as ' sonie very squat headed republicans confidenti ally declare, there wi.l be a demand for an explanation that will cause some gentlemen mmie derided uneasiness." The brewers are so anxious to take up the white man's burden and help civilize the new fonud people who are "half devil and half child." that they have started an agitation for the reduction of the tax on beer. They want the tax re duced to $1. a barrel. -They declare that if Bryan will only have that demand put in the democratic platform they can civ ilize.a lot more Filipinos than under the present tax. ' . . ' ' Custer county is the banner populist county of the -state. She is now out of debt, her warrants are at par and her claims nearly so. She has a surplus in the traasury and it will be a source of comfort to those who have been visited by the tax collector recently to know that taxes hereafter will be lower. J. he republican editors of this state can never reconcile themselves to the fact that Gov. Holcomb left an unex penaed balance of 1700 of the amount appropriated for rent, when every re publican governor always drew every dollar of it They still insist that he ought to be sent to the penitentiary for doing such a thing. , , j. um imperialist editors Keep saying thatgthe Philippine islands are ours "by right of conquest We have conquered a little strip about fifty miles long and ten miles wide, Who does the rest 1 1 i. a t i of ucui iMMuug voi it prooaoiy never en tered into the minds of these mullet heads that the islands have1 never been conquered and therefore the right conquest does not exist of .'Stebbins has, started out to reorganize the populist party. He has studied long and hard over it and has now come to the following conclusion: "My own convictions are to vote the republican ticket to make a sure thing of it" Steb- bins should make a sure thing of it and get his pay in advance. Campaign debts are awfully hard to collect after the election is over. it now turns out that , the famous Cbaplafn Mailey is not and never has been an American citizen, but is a Brit ish subject His advocacy of an Anglo- American alliance is now accounted for, The fact also appears that the republi can state committee is hiring British subjects to make its campaign "in Ne braska. How the British have been oppressed in the Transvaal shown by the statement in many different dispatcher which an nounce that many sf the English rest dents there have enlisted in the Boer army and are eager to fight for the in dependence of the republic." This is clear case of "benevolent assimilation' on the part of Great Britain,, and for which there is no sort of excuse. James Kusseli Lowell perfectly de scribed the republican farmers who con tinuaiiy vote for a party that makes them pay twice as much for manufac tured goods as the foreigner has to pay for them after they have been trans ported 6,000 miles in the following lines They may kick'em, and cuss em, and lick em and whale'em, And they notice it less than the ass did to Baalam. Chaplain Mailey got a furlough and went off and left the regiment for sev eral weeks. Col. Eawr'a di.harn papers show that his service was "con tinuous" except when he was in the hos pital suffering from a "wound. The State Journal publishes the vilest slanders about Col. Eager and hugs, as it were, Chaplain Mailey . to its bosom. That shows what kind of service gets lauda tion from a republican journal ine populist county papers are using the republican lies about the smallness of the crowds that attended the meet ings held by Mr. Bryan as campaign ma terial. The statement made in the State Journal and other papers that the mul let heads read, are reprinted in the pop ulist weeklies so that the people who attended may know what sort of lies the republican managers rely upon to carry the election. ' Both of the candidates for regent of the nnivejsity nominated by the popu lists are graduates. Mr. Teeters of the Nebraska University, and Mr. Rich of the Iowa University. Mr. Teeters is a wholesale jeweler and Mr. Rich a lawyer. Neither of the republican candidates is a graduate. One of them is a lawyer and the other a doctor. Both of them are for imperialism, the gold standard and bibles bullets and beer. Take your choice. The other day when the great New York banks were on the verge of col lapse, the secretary of the treasury rushed to their aid with eleven millions of dollars and saved them. The banks had no more right to'nn advance pay ment of interest than any one else, but the secretary of the treasury has never forgotten them when in trouble in all the years since Linooln was assassinated. He does it for two reasons. First he knows that it is by grace of the banks that he occupies his position, and sec ond, if the banks should shut their door the secretary would lie short some two hundred and fifty million dollars which he reports every day as in the treasury, but which in fact is not there at all, but in the banks, loaned to them with out interest These are the facts in the case. . . . - The State Journal finds something horrible in the fact that two or three deputies at the state house are giving some of their time to campaign work. This same astute critic sees nothing but. what is laudable in the fact that the president and his whole cabinet have turned over the government at washing ton to the deputies and all of them start ed on an electioneering swing around the circle after the manner of Andrew John son.- Nearly every paper that i..pn the In depencent exchange list comes to the aid of the State Journal is furnishing proof that prosperity is here, with page after page of lists of the wonderfully prosperous farmers and business men of " Nebraska who can't pay their taxes. The eastern conspirators declare that, "the trains coming west are loaded with pianos and other luxuries going to the homes of the rich farmers of the mid dle west" The papers of the middle west gives lists of thousands who can't. pay their taxes. Who lies? ( It is not very often that a republican organization can be credited with pub lishing a statement containing the whole, truth. . Having discovered such an in stance, the Independent makes haste to acknowledge the fact The Republican Newspaper Federation circular says: "The circulation of fusion literature, among the people is obviously a disad vantage to the republican party." No man acquainted with the facts will deny that statement It is the truth and the. whole truth and nothing but the truth, relating to that subject : 1. L- -J. ' : They are working the Tenth Conspir acy through every-avenue of informa tion that reaches the. people. The American Economist says: "No wonder the freight lines are overloaded with pianos, parlor organs and other items of luxury consigned to the farming com munities of the Middle West. Here it i stated as a fact that no one disputes that the freight lines are "overloaded" with pianos and other luxuries going to the. farmers. Has any reader of the Inde pendent ever seen one of those over loaded trains conveying luxuries to the farmers? Please write and tell lis. . There is some excuse for the man who says that politics is too foul a pool for them to wade into. There are some, things in politics, especially in republi can politics, that any man who is not accustomed to them needs to carry a bottle of smelling salts to be applied every third second while he contem- nlntpa thorn On. of fhoua tMnna in .kn sight of a "chaplain" who boasts that he is going to vote the way he "shot" He drew his salary not to shoot, but to pray and preach. The foul stencTi risea clear up to the skies when he announces that he is "for the administration right or wrong." Of all the nastiness that was ever found in a political pool, this is the worst The tariff barons still publish their paper the American Economist, and send it out weekly to fool the mullet heads and keep them in line. It still persists that the manufacturers must have a high tariff so as to protect Ameri can working men against the pauper labor of Europe. All the time they are shipping millions of dollars worth of goods and selling them to those same paupers cheaper than the paupers can make them for themselves. Meantime they brag about our great prosperity shown in the immense balance of trad in our favor. We have shipped four hundred million dollars worth of goods more to those same paupers than we have bought from them during the last year. And still we must have "protec tion. The great economist that the republi cans are trying to run for congress in the Sixth district against Judge Neville. declared in one and the same speech that money was cheap and the price of the d dlar remained the, same. He de clared with the r st of the republicans a year or, two ago that cheap money -would be the ruin of the country and that any man who advocated it was a repudiator and anarchist Now he says that McKinley has brought us the bles- . sings of cheap money. He dtn't know enough to know what the price of a dol lar is or when money is cheap or when it is dear. There is one consolation, there 1 1 not the slightest chance that he will ever get into congress. In McCutcheon's letter which was published last week he says that Otis refused to let anything go about the row between Otis and the commissioners, but he says nothing about the nature of that row. Later dispatches by way of London say that Schurman was for making peace with an assurance to the Filipinos of an independent government n the near future. President Schurman was willing to make all possible conces sions In order to secure peace. He pro cwmIihI on these lines. When. Gen. Otis itmrd of this cablegram through a news- nper correspondent he exploded with : anger. Hut neither he nor Mr. Schur man could be persuaded to say any thing further about it Here we have a war that is brought about and continued by the violation of the constitutional guarantee of a free press. If that news had been sent there would have been an upheaval in the United States that would have setted this "matter prettw .....Jl M