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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. November 9. 1899. ContolUation tf TUB W SAL THMAKERS and, 'INCOLh INDEPENDENT BT TBW dependent Publi c, Telep' . . 5one 638. LINCOLN, ' L NEBRASKA 1P1.UU r&o utnu m inu mod JUIAUA IU AUT HUG. Ailriro make ain all communications to, andj Vayaotfi ararts, money oraera, ews tiij to Lincoln, Nebraska. Those delinquent on subscription are requested to make a remittance. When Bryan makes a campaign - through . the tstato, men do not stay in the field und busk corn on election lay. Bryon was not here last year. Of all the heroes of the pist Ihere ore none ho glorious at) the rebels. They are of every race, kindred tribe and tongue. At the head of them u.I stands our own Washington. Out in York county they say Sunday never comes until the next day after the Independent arrives. Then all the old reformers take a day off, rest and read "We yint all men to fear that flag." That is imperialism and the gospel of farce. "We want all men to love that . flag." That iei patriotism and the gospel taught by the Master. Two men with but a singlo thought, two hearts that beat as one Joe Chatn liorlain and Bill McKinley. Down with republics. Up with empire: Shriekl , Shriek! Shriek for the flag. Ab Stefnberer who has tried in vain to get up a middle of the road party for the benefit of Mark Hamm in Kansas has given up the job and gone to Missis sippi. What is Kansas' gain is Missis sippi's loss. The New York banks managed to save themselves this time by a scratch. Dewey day poured 120,000.000 into the city and dago backed that up with $30, 000,000 more of advanced interest That 400,000,000 tided them over a very dan gerous position, but what will they do aeit time? The tariff barons and plutocrats even Away down in New York City begin to fear populism. The American Econo- -mist, that old advocate of prohibitive tariff and trusts is running a series of articles headed, "My populist Friend." They begin to find out down there that " populists mean business. A large number of letters have been received at this office concerning mutual Insurance companies which it has been impossible to answer during the cam paign, but the Independent will take matter up and fully explain the laws in uch a way as to prevent its readers be ing imposed upon in tho future. The Independent extends its sym pathies to the poor old Queen of En gland who is heart and houI opposed to Joe Chamberlain's war on the Dutch republic. If tho queen had one half the power that McKinley exercises in this republic she would settle that matter pretty quick. The most pitiful sight that was ever ,een oa the face of this old earth was a president of the United States traveling around over the country peddling lies tinder tho dirccton of Mark Ilanna. How pitiful it was io see the president in a speech to the South Dakota iei inent making assertions that every man in the ranks knew to be false? Tha steel trust hus large ownership in several railroads, tho officers and di rectors being the i-amo men in both organizations. The roads buy of the teel trust-that is of themselves largo quantities of rails at enormous prices. Then they raise the rates and make the 'farmers pay the whole bill. It is a splen did way to make more millionaires. Works like a charm. I5vn some good men. true populists, have doubted whether Wharton Barker was a Mark Ilanna paid agent, or simply a wanderer among the intellectual fogs unable to distinguish the truth when it is plainly presented to him. Such men have been compelled to give up all hoj of believing in his genuineness. The thing that has convinced them is this. It Mem to be a fact borne out by all past experience that no man has been -able to acquire the republican brand of lying without at heart being a republi can. IDs remarks upon the Nebraska campaign and the great growth of the aniddleof the road party in this state athow beyond a doubt that it is the re publican brand of lying and so closely follows their methods that no one but a dyed-in-tho-wool republican could do it So that settles it THK II. O. V. CAMPAIGN, The republican campaign in this state was a campaign of lies from the begin ning to the end. They even began to lie before the nominations were made and they kept it up to the last hour of the Inst day. They reiterated these lies when even the mullet heads had found out there was no truth in them. They began last winter by reporting great victories in the Philippines and thous ands of dead Filipinos. Then they de clared that all the volunteers wanted to re enlist. Next that they had sent Mc Kinley word that they all wanted to stay until a new army could b organized With everything that a farmer had for sale stationary or falling in price and everything that he had to buy, rising from ten to a hundred per cent they de clared that thero was unprecedented prosperity among the farming class, They lied about Holcomb' bouse rent. They knew that he hud kept a careful account, and turned into the auditor's office vouchers for every cent expended and done what no republican governor had ever done, covered back into the treasury about $700, that under the law and all precedents, ho was legally enti tied to keep. They circulated the perjuries of Sim ons, well knowing them to be perjuries, In fact they made a mud slinging, slan der campuign of it from beginning to end. Their man Jones at tho office of the Stnto Journal filled his paper from day to day with fako interviews, dis gusting conversations which ho repre sented to have taken place between the state officers at the capitol. Those fake conversations were so revolting that all decent republicans ' were disgusted ' with them. The foul ness of this man Jones was spread out before tho intelligent women and children of this city every morning for weeks. Not a girl or boy who had come to tho age of accountability who read them did not not know that every word of thorn wero lies. That constant train ing in lying was kept before tho youth of this city day after day for weeks. What n example to set before th'o youth of this state! The horrer of it that grew up in the minds of the people is beyond description. If continued long enough it would make a Sodom out of any city. Tho question now is how much longer the peoplo of this stato will endure such foolishness. Is it to be continued in tho future? Is there no way of escape from it whatever? Ana nias Annin was bad enough; but this man Jones! There was never anything equal to him on the face of the earth. J. H. EDMISTEN. After this, the man at whom the re publicans will train their mud machines and slime spouters, will be J. II. Edmis- ton. The populist press and populist voters should keep this in mind. The "boar black pig," "the spotted cow called Speck,, and "house rent" will be heard of no more, but the venom that has been poured out on Governor Holcomb will now all be aimed at Edmisten. Edmistoa has proved that he is an organizer of surpassing ability. There is not his equal anywhere in the western states. He has the very kind of talent that the reform forces stand most in need of. There are difficulties in rally ing the fusion vote not found in any other party. Thero are three well de fined organizations to handlo instead of ono. Their prejudices have all to be carefully handled to get them to work together. There are three sets of com mittees in every county to look after. There aro tho conditions about tho dis tribution of the offices among the three organizations to handle, thero are nu merous difficulties that were formerly unknown to a party manager. All these Mr. Edmisten has overcome in tho most tactful way. He has perfected an or ganization in this state such as we never hod bofore not even in Allianco times which, up to tho present, was the best organization that wo ever hal. Ho seems to be born with the instinct for orgaiii?aliun. At the very first, he gathered the scattered forces of reform in the old Sixth district, who were with out leadership and and without even the skeleton of an organization, and gent a populist to congress who had a majtwity behind him of such vast proportions ihat the republicans in thot district have never yet recovered from the terri ble beating that he gave them. Edmisten has never lost a battle where the whole management has been in his hands. His organization today reaches into every voting precinct in the state of Nebraska. There is not a precinct in which he hus not two or three men upon he knows that he can rely, and he knows them and they know him. To get these he has worked for years. He is at it all the time. Between elections, in office or out of office, it is all the same to him. He keejw pegging away. Ihe republican leaders look upon him as the most dangerous foe they have in the state, and upon him will they pour out tho vials of their wrath from this day onward. They well know that un less they ran discredit Edmisten and do stroy the effectiveness of the populist organization that he has perfected in this state, there is not the slightest show for them in the buttle of 1000. The republican managers and press in this state have never relied for success on argumsntor principles. They have always rolied 'upon slander and mud slinging machines such cs ore worked by Jones through the State Journal. Th?re has never come from Jonss' pen in all the years of his connection with that paper one articlo that would, for a moment, at tract the attention of a thinking man. He relies wholly upon the most vicious and unparalleled lying. He will continue it as long as he is connected with the pa per. Look out therefore for the slanders and lies that he will emit and let every populist expect them and be prepared. Edmisten is a populist of the old kind, He was at the Cincinnatti conference, at the St Louis conference and at the Omaha convention. Ho has been a hard and faithful worker in every campaign since 1890. He has always been at all times and everywhere true blue, and still is. ' ;" u AHOPEBOSK GLIMMERING, The importance of this election is not confined to the states that elected officers last Tuesday. It has a national im portant of far greater significance. The i republicans insisted everywhere hat tho battle thou Id be fought on na tional issues. It was so fought and it will now be impossible to give it any other significance than that of a great national victory against imperialism, standieg armies and wars, of conquest and for the declaration of independence, the constitution and free government by the consent of the 'governed. The Chi cago Record before the election made the following statement: National questions wore deliberately brought into the campaigns. Had Mc Kinley and Bryan each held aloof from the contest in his state this year, on the ground that it whs local in its nature, neither could have been injured or helped in his presidential aspirations by the outcome, no matter what it might be. Having ninde that choice, which both did voluntarily, they must accept the consequences, whether they bo fa vorable or otherwise That was practically the stand taken by every administration organ. What has been the result of the appeal to tho people? Everywhere Bryan has gained and McKinley has lost. The republican vote in Ohio has been greatly reduced and the vote for Bryan in Nebraska has been greatly increased. The hope of tho gold bugs that Bryan would be elim inated from the contest of 1900 has gone glimmering. The election shows that he is stronger with the people, than ever before. That is the greatest part of this victory. No doubt if the British government should file a claim against the United States for damages because the Ameri can mules ran away with a battery and delivered it to the . Boers, John Hay, Ruf us Choato and Bill McKinley would all sign a treaty to pay all that was claimed without further protest It would give a chance to issue some more bonds and that seems to be the end and aim of their lives. i As the senate now stands. McKinlev will lack two of having a majority for conquest and militarism. Thatis. if tKa senators all vote as they have been talk ing, liutt.-.e peonle well know that. there is a power at Washington which tew men have been able to withstand and we will have to wait to see. A re fusal to support McKinley means to a republican that he must leave the partv. Senator Mason says that he will do it Aro the others of the same sort of tim ber? Gold has never been discovered in any great quantity anywhere on eorth outside of the United States that Eng land did not jump on it and annex it That is what she is trying to do in the Transvaal. She got the gold fields of i i . ., Venezuela, noiwunsianaing arbitration. Her whole fabric of commerce and civili zation stands upon gold. Since the tre mendous expansion of business, it stands on too narrow a foundation and is likely to topple over. That is why she tights for gold mines. There area whole lotof republican edi tors who spend much time in erievin over the excessive taxation of the Eng lish miners in the Transvaal who have to pay 2 per cent taxes on tho outnut of gold. They insist that that is a just cause for war. These same editors think it is all right for Canada to tax Ameri can miners from ten to twenty per cent on theiroutput in the Klondike.reserve to the government half of ohe gold bearing grwmd and tax the miner's outfit tweu-ty-Jive per cent besides. That is all right und no cause for war at all. Anglo-pho bia is the most disgusting disease that ever struck an American writer. It is enough to make a man vomit to look at one of them. The action of men sometimes seems inexplicable. For instance when a plu tocrat says that "men should stay in the place that Ood has phased tocail them," instead of being angry at the plutocrat and denying that God ever called them to suffer and toil for the benefit of others, they seem to get angry with God. thev denounce the bible, religion and everv other Institution that has a tendency to alleviate their present hard conditions. They do not stop to think that it is im possible that God should cause any man to needlessly suffer, that he has declared that he is no respecter of per sons, that leforo him all men are equal and that every saint and prophet of all the past ages has bourn testimony to that fact. This is the trouble all along the line. Men do not atop "and think." "The fusion managers were right" State Journal, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1S99. THK WAV OIT. The vitalizing centers of thought have never been in tho universities. What What ideals moved the last generation of men? What made heroes on the field of battle, on the forum and in the common walks of life. The anti-slavery thought Freedom and liberty for all mankind. Did the great universities lead io it? Not at all. The men who fired the hearts of that generation were not located in the universities. For the most part they were men who had never seen the inside of one. There were few exceptions but only a few. What thought fired the hearts of the preced ing generation the generation that produced the declaration of indepen dence; the constitution and laid the foundation upon which the structure of of this government was built? The thought of self government Those ideals produced the heros' that we have worshipped for more than a hun dred years. But those ideals did not come forth from the halls of the uni versities, but from the hearts of the great common people. ' Why has this been the history of every great advance that the people have made? Is it not that the univer sities from the time they were estab lished have been under the control of the rich and tho conservative who al ways look upon change of any kind as a disaster to be avoided if possible? En dowments must of necessity come from the rich. Wealth has founded all the great universities and for the wealth they have stood. For wealth they will continue to stand and it is hopeless to expect anything else. But there is a way out. The people have now universities of their own, not endowed by the Rockefellers, or any of their kin. In them alone there is hope for the future. There alone will be found perfect freedom of thought, There professors will be allowed to teach what they conceive to be the truth upon every subject without the threat of the money power hanging over their heads. These are the great state universities, supported not by endow ments of the rich, but by the people themselves. Professor Herron has been driven out of his place in the Iowa college because the rich refuse to support it while he remains. An honest way to have met the situation, if these men who stop their gifts had desired to be honest, would have been to endow another chair, put another man in and have let him and professor Herron fought the intel lectual battle to the end. The money power never does a thing like that They are afraid of the intellectual con test They will no more dare, to meet us in the university than they will upon the political platform. For ten years we have been daring them to do it. They have never taken up the gage of battle and never will. Their plan is the old, old plan to keep their followers in igno rance that they may be more easily forced to remain in the "condition to which God has pleased to call them." After a while the great state univer sities will down these institutions en dowed by the rich. They begin to fear the competition even now. Men will come forth from them, bred in an at mosphere of freedom of thought and they will be intellectual giants, such as no endowed university has ever yet pro duced except in the field of the exact sciences. There truth is sought after for no other reason than truth's sake In no other department has it been so. When truth is sought after in regard to the social relation of men in the same way that it is sought after in the sci ences when the seeker no longer cares for rich or poor, for wealth or poverty, but only for tho truth, then we wid have a new world. "EPITHETS." Melting Pot Morton seems to think that he can scare one with epithets. He has recently been using a new one to his own great satisfaction. He evidently thinks it is a regulor terror, and he hurls it forth several times a week. It is the word "depulpitized." Now at the first glance that does look awful and no mis take. Morton thought when he first coined it that the moment it fell within the guze of the peoplo who read his lu cubrations that the sun would le dark ened and the moon would turn to blood. We advise him to put it in his melting pot and build a big fire under it and after twenty-four hours look at it and according to his own famous formula find out how much "value" there is in it. It is a fact, of which tho editor is in no way ashamed, that when he was a very young man, just entering on the battles of life, full of enthusiasm and believing all men were animated by good desires, that he bought him a big tent and started out on the almost unin habited plains of Nebraska to hold re ligious services among the scattered set tlers, who at that time had no places of worship and no religious meetings what ever. It was not long, however, before he ran up against a reverend national banker, who was acting as the presiding eider of tho district and who was hand ling missionary money in a rather queer way. Of a necessity there was a clash between him and that national-banker presiding elder. It finally resulted in the withdrawal of this editor, and the field was left clear to the national bank er and his way of propagating the teach ings of the Man of Gallilee. The result of the experiment was that this editor has ever since had more respect for the teachings of the Master and less for na tional bankers. It was a good exper ience, of great value, and one of which he has always been proud. THE SEW YORK RANKS. ' Notwithstanding the very great efforts 'of the treasury department to bolster up the New York banks, they are on the edge of the precipice again. By the manipulation of Secretary Gaffe and from other sources $50,000,000 have been poured into their vaults in the last few weeks outside of the regular course of business and today they are in just hard lines as they were at the beginning. Ihe last financial statement says: TtlA Knrilr afftfAmant nrvoln ,.V 1 ---- o.uwu.uv UUIII PUUHCU what all cool thinkers have known to be true for weeks that the urgency of the demand for money in legitimate business preciuues we possionity or a rate low enough to warrant hiill The surplus reserve of the New York clearing house banks decreased $3,396, 875. By the statement of October 28 that excess reserve was $3,038,525. It appears, therefore, that the banks are aooo orA 1 i j i . . . oooowu ociow me reserve limit fixed by law. f Ihere are only two ways out of this difficulty. Either the general level of prices must be greatly lowered or the banks in the near future must 'suspend payment. That they are expecting trouble is shown by the dispatches that they have been sending out to pave the way" for it. The Independent has said before just what they would do after election and they have begun already. Last Sunday there were dispatches in all the great dailies to the effect that Bryan s campaign was making another "threat" against the stability of business. ihat is the cry they intend to make We will see if any one but the most stolid mullet heads will again be deceiv ed by it DRK DAYS. A French paper commenting upon the war that England is making upon the Dutch republic remarks: "In planting her banner in the four corners pf the globe, England has sown hatred which she is sure to reap sooner or later, Moreover, she has rendered herself vulnerable in a great many places. Dark doys are coming for her when she will have to settle accounts with all those she has opposed, exploited, onenaea ana Duteherea. - There is notloubt of the wisdom of that comment'' Ireland waits for re venge as do India and many other of trie conquered nations over which England rules. The invention of modern fire arms and the number of officers who uave been educated in the latest system of military tactics who are only waiting for a chance to enlist in the service of any people that can pay them, changes the conditions that have enabled Eng land to hold sway over so many differ ent peoples. A Chinaman or an East Indian, under competent officers is a much more dangerous foe than he has been in former ages. But what of this republic? Shall we start upon the path that is too danger ous for even Old England to tread with safety any longer? Shall we make Ire lands and East Indies for ourselves in the China seas? Is there any wisdom in it when we can live in peace and hap piness at home? I1LAINE AM) McKINLEY. There aro thousands of republicans who revere the name of James G. Blaine, When they come t compare him with the president they have elected in these later years they must be overcome with confusion. Let them compare the course of Blaine in trying to cement the free republics of the world with the war that McKinley has instituted to overthrow the republic of the Filipinos. ' Secretary of State Blaine was instru mental in bringing together the BPan American conference, and ten years ago the 2d of last month, he delivered the address of welcome, saying among other things; "The delegates can show to tho world an honorable, peaceful conference of eighteen independent American powers: a i-onfereneo which will tolerate no hpirit of conquest, but will aim to cultivate an American sym pathy as broad as both continonls. It will be a great gain when we shall acquire that common confi dence on which all international friend ship must rest." Later, Mr. Blaine was president of the conference, and on the floor brought in a compromise resolution which declared: "Resolvedt That the principle of con quest shall not, during tho treaty of ar bitration, be recognized as admissible under American public law." This was unanimously adopted. Pre vious to this the United States presented the statement that; "In the opinion of this conference, wars waged in the spirit of aggression or for tho purpose of con quest should receive tho condemnation of the civilized world." But today, how hath the leadership in the republican party fallen! Since William McKinley uttered his famous words that conquest in Cuba would bo "criminal aggression." What likeness is there between the republican policy today' and the glo rious record that Blaine made upon the subject of wars of conquest That rec ord stands an honor to this country and an honor to its author. If you believed in Blaine how can yon for a moment countenance tho policy of McKinley? V ill the love of the name "republican" cause you to advocate anything if it is simply branded '-republican?" I BONDS BONDS, BONDS. Every county in this state where th republicans have uninteruptedly man aged the finances of the county and in every city also, the people have been bonded to such an extent that it is next to impossible to collect taxes enough to pay the interest. Gage county and the city of Beatrice is an example. That town is bonded for 96D0,0C0 and the re publicans have ran it ever since it was a town. On the other hand many of the counties that came under populist con trol in the beginning of the reform move ment are now out of debt or are making rapid strides towards the time when the last bond will be paid off. Bonds, bonds, bonds, has been the policy of the repub lican party in municipal, county, state and national politics all the time and " every where and will continue to be a long as the millionairs, bankers and trusts run it Will the mullethead ever, learn that paying Interest on bonds is not the way to make thepeople rich? WHAT MASOSf SAID. Nothing has thrown the republican papers into a greater rage during the whole j campaign than a statement made by Senatdr Mason which he gave to the press a few days before the elec tion. As far as noticed, no republican paper has quoted his words when as saulting him. They seem to be the words of an honest man speaking his heartfelt convictions, and are here re produced. ' I am a republican and in favor of le gitimate expansion. I am opposed to criminal aggression and to acquisition of territory by conquest On this question my feelings arj deeper than on any oth er question in the wofld,- except affec tion for my family. I cannot surrender my convictions. "My party has never had a chance to declare itself on this question. But if my party should, in national convention, range itself on the side of criminal ag gression and conquest, then I will give it a chance to put another man in my place for the remaining two years of my term." The republican party will, of course, dominated as it is by Mark Hanna and the trusts, stick to its policy of imper-' ialism and conquest In the next cam paign we will have another republican of national reputation leaving the party that has forsaken every principle upon which it was founded. BIXBY'S LAMENT. I am done. Tbe boar black pig And spotted cow, called Speck Made a poor, rediculoan rig And landed me a wretched wreck. And Si I It makes me sigh And weak and want to die, To think bow be did run. , For me, 'tis death, but only fun For wild-eyed pops. Oh death! ' Thou art welcome now. My breath Comes slow and hard. That pig t How I rode him 1 And now the jig Is up. And Si 1 Slippery Si! Oh Lord ! I want to die. UNDER THAT BANNER. "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal: that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these' rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Under that banner we fought Under that banner we won. Now we will make of the Nebraska State University the grandest institu tion for original research, freedom of thought and energizing power to lift up mankind on the face of the earth. Sim ons will be discharged and perjurers will not find on asylum on the campus. The republican mud machine lies a total wreck out on the cold, bleak prai iie. The cogs are worn and the crank is broken, it is covered with slime and half til'ed with a bad smelling charge. The State Journal writers stand around in a desolate group and wonder if it can ever be gotten into working order again. Simons will be kept in a glass case by tho Journal so that one year from now he can be brought forth and make some new affidavits. It operated on the old theory that 'the third time is the charm,' but it didn't work. The fourth time they still Lave hope in. There is not a strong republican county left whole, in all the state. Breaches have leen made in every ono of their strong holds. Douglas is cleaned up, Lancas ter and Gage are partly captured and the state government in every department is in fusion hands. It has been a ten years war, but it ended gloriously. Congress has no more right to buy silver and then coin it into money than it has to buy leather and make money out of it. Either silver should be coined under the same conditions that gold is coined or it should not be coined at all. If silver is acommodity then congress has no more right to coin it into money than it has to coin any other commodity and make it a legal tender. Any man who. believes in metalic money must acknowl edge that to be true. As for this writer, he has no use for metalic money at all except to fullflll the contracts that the government has made to deliver it. Those contracts must be kept and there fore it is necessary to coin silver and gold enough to do it Those in arrears for Huljscrip'tion are requested to pay up.