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THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT. November 18,1899. JCfce Cowolidation if TUB WEAL TH MAKERS and LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE : Independent Publishing Co.npany AT 1202 P STREET. Telephone 538. LINCOLN, - - NEBRASKA $1.00 FEB ANNUM IK AD7 NCE.j Address all communications to, andj make l drarts. money orders, etc., payable to THE INDEPENDENT PUB. CO. ' Lincoln, Nebraska. ' A club of three new subscribers yen, that's what we want. That hill that Si had to climb proved to be a dead level plain after all. Does a good crop diminish the popu list vote? Will the republican editors all please answer? The fusionists carried every precinct in Thurston county. Let ns all give three cheers for Willie Peebles. - The first copperhead developed in the late contest was ono Wm. McKinley. It was he who said that forcible annexation was criminal aggression. Rosewatcr now call John L. Webster "a snobocrnt." If that has a tendency to molify the quarrels in the republican party in Omaha, no one has so far re ported it McKinley recognized an absolute mon arch in the Sulu islands without the w ink of an eye, but when it came to rec ognizing a republic in the Philippines ho wouldn't do it at all. A recently published statistical map shows that the centers iu the United State of wealth, debt, crime and pauper ism are all in the state of Ohio. Those four things always are found together. If the republican postmaster of Lin coin would send out the university weekly news letter, he would be doing a much more popular and meritorious act than when he was rooting for the g. o. p upon another page we announce a most liberal offer to reader of the Inde pendent to get up a clnb of new sub scribers. Read it, and then get up a club do it this week it will please us and pay you. Speak to your neighbors and ask them to subscribe for the Independent. Read our offer for clubs on another page. Write for samplo copies and sulwerip- tion blanks. We will lie pleased to send them by return mail. Now that we are to have the supreme court it may not bo improper to inquire if the farmers of Nebraska will still be compelled to pay 51 percent higher local freight rules than the farmers of Iowa have to pay? Mark Hanna made speeches all over Cleveland and Golden Rule Jones car ried it by an overwhelming majority Can't our national committee hire Hanna to canvass for them in Iowa? That seems to be the only hope for that mullet head state. The Doers silenced their big guns and stopped all righting when Sunday came. Those men believe in their Bibles. A subscriber sends a note to the editor naying that during our civil war, the party that lxgun a light on Sundity got whipped every time. O X' X' , ... . cHjme nvw iorK novelist oi renown ought to write on article entitled: "Cen sorship and Glory." It would not bo a bad idea to colaborate in the matter with some Englishman, for the plan is -worked in the same fashion by Lord Salisbury and McKinley. The republieau editors take great de light in quoting from the Chicago Chron- lo and the putting (deui.) after the name. It is just about as much demo crat as Melting Pot Morton's weeklv nheet Deception is tho only weapon that republican editors seem to know how to use. Before the election all the adminis tration organs declared that the future of W.J. Bryan depended on the result of the election in Nebraska. Now they as unanimously declare that the result of the election will have no effect upon it all. And alt the mullet heads say: 'That's so." Secretary Gage finds himself between the devil and the deep sea. The Wall Street men want him to take up some $30,000,000 of bonds which he can, under the law, redeem at any time, but the bondholders don't want that all. It is pro bable that Gage will aide with the bond holders. The love that Gage has for bondholders passeth all understanding. THAT SECRET TRKATV. That McKinley has made some sort of an alliance with Great Britain is becom ing more apparent every day. The British being hard pressed in their ef forts at conquest, are trying to cheer up the despondent by letting a little of the truth leak out What other interpre tation can be put upon the following ex tracts from leading London papers? The London Post of November 8, pub lishes this significant dispatch' from Washington: ' "Negotiations in London have resulted in an agreement between Great Britain, China and the United States to main tain the open door in China, which power will undertake to develop both liirtish and American trade. An Associated Press dispatch from London, dated November 9, touching on this report says: The Daily Chronicle, commenting upnu the president's bold development of imperialistic policy in China, says 'This is the nort of courage which com mands success. In these circumstances it seems almost inconceivable that he (McKinley) should fail, to secure re election.' The British are intensely anxious that McKinley should be re-electe.d Why should they be so anxious if thoy have not some good reason to believe that ho will go into some sort of an alliance with them in their further schemes of conquest? The British have no use for Brynn. lie is altogether too much of a patriotic American for them to have nny use for. The London News says that the nego tiations "have resulted in an agreement.' What sort of an agreement is that? What right has McKinley to make secret agreements with the long standing and most persistent foe we have ever had? If this is not high treason it comes very near to it. It is absolutely prohibited by United States statutory law. WOMAN'S RIGHT. ' Olive Schreiner had an article in the November Cosmopolitan entitled "The Woman Question," which for its grasp of modern economic conditions has not been equaled by any writer. The hired editors of the -great dailies have already begun to steal from it without let or hindrance and without nny compunc tions of conscience whatever. We have noticed not less than half a dozen arti cles in the great dailies, every idea in them having been stolen from Olive Schreiner and the Cosmopolitan. Miss Schreiner treats tho question entirely from the standpoint of economics. After going over the whole field of the produc tion of wealth she sums up the demnnd of woman as follows: "We demand, that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon he man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming now shape and relations we demand that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the children of woman. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our woman's right." IT MAKES A MAN THIRD, The State Journal says: "It is fortu nate that the financial independence of Nebraska has been in a measure achieved in the last few years;, otherwise our pres ent unpleasant political reputution would act as a real bar to growth and and prosperity." One feels after reading that, like tell ing the story of the man who was known to be the most accomplished and per miscuous swearer in the country. One day he was noticed driving up a hill with a luad of ashes. The end gate of his wagon was out and the ashes were pouring out of the hind end as he slowly drove up tho hill. The neighlHrs reasoned that when he got at the top of the hill and saw his load scattered all along the highway, there would be some peculiarly scientific swearing done, so they followed along to hear it. When the man saw what had happened, he got off his wagon, rolled up his sleeves, spit on his hands and said: "By the- " then he stopped, took another look down tho hill and surveying the crowd said: "Gentlemen its no use to try. I can't do justice to this occasion," "The fusion victory would act as a bar to growth und prosperity." Now that is decidedly rich. When the fusion' officers took control of the financial af fairs of tho state after thirty years of re publican rule, they found its credit ruined, more than $1,000,000 of its funds missing and its paper lieing hawked on the streets at five to seven per cent dis count, although it bore seven per cent interest In less than a year the credit of the state had so recovered that its paper was at a premium and the confi dence of all the world restored in the honesty and ability of the people of the state. Such talk as that would make a green parrot sing psalms. JOT A CINCH ON IT. The Western Union seems to have a tighter cinch on the government than ever before. Notwithstanding that many business men in New York and other cities of the east are constantly sending protests to Washington, McKinley re fuses to allow any cable to land in Cuba except that owned by the Western Un ion. One of them writes as follows What riffht has ttin frnvnrnmnnt nf V,. United States to forbid the landing of a cable in Cuba? Are the cable disoberinff an law? Will th .taL of such a cable be injurious to this coun- try? For what reason does the trvern ment forbid it? I ask for information merely because my cable bills to Cab amount to many hundreds of dollars a ear, The trovernment does not nmnntin tn make any eseu.se. It is despotic. It ha was a tower of strength in the- last cam the power and proposes to exercise it P'gn, but it has not been more so than without making excuses. McKinley and Mark Hanna are under very great obligations to the Western Union, and they have that kind of gratitude that a politician knows expectation of more favors to come and they propose to let the telegraph monopoly tax the people as much as it pleases. This refusal to allow another company to land a line in Cuba is simply an act of despotism. It was first done by the orders of Alger.and Secretary Root, after a consultation with the representatives of the trust in the cabinet, Mr. Griggs of New Jersey has confirmed the order. That is all there is to it. There is no way out of this but the governmentownershipof telegraphs, cables and telephones, 0-s far as is known, except the stam pede of the German common people and some other nationalities which could not be stopped the anti-impearialist league fellows all supported the republi can ticket. Look at . Massachusetts! That is the headquarters of Edward At kinson and the rest of them. If thev are only going to talk anti-impearialism and then go to the polls and vote for imperialism, what good are they? In concluding his speech on the occa sion of presenting Lioutenant Brumby with a sword at Atlanta last week. Gov ernor Cundler, referring to this momento said: "Let it ever be drawn in defense of our country and our country's flag and our country's honor, 'but never against those who struggle for the lib erty which we enjoy.' " What the In dependent wants to know isr Is that treason? Will soma republican editor be kind enough to inform us? Bixby talks about the lack of intelli gence among the fusion voters of Ne braska. When he finds a fusion voter such an idiot as to talk abo,ut wanting dear money and hirh prices, then ho may justly claim that there is ono idiotic voter outside of the republican partv. As long as the republican party has to look for its majorities in the slums of the cities and towns, it is in no shape to talk about the want of intelligence among its opponents. Lord Salisbury said the other day in a speech that all of England's trouble in the Transvaal came from allowing the Boers to purchase arms. No doubt England would haAe had an easy time in wiping out the Dutch republic if the praying, psalm singing old farmers could have been prevented from getting guns. If the English succeed in this war they will see to it that the constitutional right that all American citizens have to bear arms, is made amulity in all Africa. "Opinion" failed to arrive this week. but the populist paper in Cass county, called the "Kicker," which is a live eight page, six column, genuine news paper is still excluded from the mails by the republican post master who runs a rival sheet. Opinion was sent th rontrh the mails during the campaign at sec ond class rates and given all the privi leges of a newspaper when it was not a newspaper at all, but a press letter sent out from republican headquarters. If the publishers of this state do not take, some action in this matter it will be a very strange thing. The populists polled 200 votes in Matt Quny's old rotten burough of Philadel phia. They were not the Wharton Barker crowd, for his ticket was not on the ballots at all. He never controlled a populist convention in the state. All he has ever been able to do was to get a few to withdraw with him from the reg ular populist convention. In several counties in Pennsylvania the populists had their ticket recognized and in ono or two. there was a fusion with free silver democrats. Where the weeklies get around we may find that some popu lists have been elected even in Pennsyl vania. JiA-ery man in Ohio who voted either for McLean or Jones voted against im penahsm, McKinley and Mark Hanna, and there are 50,000 more of them than there were of those who voted for Mc runieys candidate. With the char- acteristic mendacity that has been adopted by the republican writers, they now claim mat the election in Ohio is an endorsement of imperialism. But that will deceive nobody. The fact is apparent to every one that in the state of Ohio, there is 50,000 majority against imperialism. The Dunn agency reports In numor ous iron products the highest prices for twenty rive years. It also cheerfully announces a falling off in the price of wheat, and with regret, a slight advance In corn. It did not, however, note th general advance in freight rates. New freight rates this week add about a dol lar a ton to the price of most grades of coal in Nebraska. Aa ' the Xehmak farmer has to buy .both coal andiron, the advances in both products do not add to his enjoyment as he watches the downward trend of wheat and the atruir. gle of corn to hold tts own. COl'NTT TIlE.lSCKKRS. The ability and economy wfth which the sta te government has been conducted by the fusion forces since- their repre sentatives have been at the state house. the record that populist county officials have made in the counties controlled by them. That it had secured the confi dence of many partisan republicans is shown by their votes, in which they showed their desire to turn over the con duct of county finances to the f usion ists. Republican treasurers have con tinued their old policy in resrard to county funds and the people seem in clined to say that they will have no more of it. That was the declaration in this county where the republicans have al ways had immense majorities. The republican policy has been to keep large amounts of money In the hands of the treasurers, when there were out standing debts to be paid and the inter est stopped. Such a policy enables the county treasurer and the bankers whom he favors to gather in thousands of dol lars and nut it down in their own pock ets that ought to go to lightening of the burdens of taxation. Even an average mullet head is able to discern that it is not to his interest to" continue such a policy and many of them Voted to stop it. 1'opulist financial principles are true and sound, whether applied to national, state or county affairs. Even the re publicans begin at last to indorse them. WHEAT STILL FALLS. Everything that the Independent has said about the course of prices for farm products is more than verified by the re cent trend of the markets. There is a constant decline in the price of wheat although there is a world's shortage of Bbout 300,000,000 bushels. There can be no doubt of this shortage, for rill au thorities nuree unon it. Th following are the estimates as given out by all of them: Slf T I n IT ocirla mint ilTarannaa . on1 taking the countries which are included .-.Hi" . 1 J'. . . If in ait iour or me estimates, we gei ror these countries the following totals: Millions of Estimate of the department of agriculture. 189S i 2.798 2,393 Estimate in Beerbohm's Corn Trade List. 1899 Estimate Bulletin des Halles, 1899 2,489 Estimate Hungarian Ministry, ism 2,477 )" vvtiinti tug liiiv vnLiuiu no -'' tt iiu those of the same authorities for 1898, the reductions in the world's wheat e.ron an. pears to be as below: Minions ot Ttiiuhpla onnrAncr to Tlo.rVinh m According to Bulletin des Halles 291 aceoraing to me Hungarian Ministry 312 The minimum rednetion. that of th Bulletin des Halles, is 291,000,000, and I1IUA1 111 14 111 , L1IU V V L lVUlllf lilOl j 000,000 bushels, the mean of all four be ing ;e;,uuu,i)uu bushels, un the whole a reduction of more than 300.000.000 bush els is pretty safely inferable, and it would seem that during the current crop year the farmer should obtain satisfac tory prices for his wheat. If the republican farmers of Nebraska who have been voting for the cold stand ard would lay aside their prejudices for only a few moments and "think," they could not fail to see that the higher price of wheat in this country for the last year or two was caused, not by the McKinley administration, but by the famine in India, the shortage of crops in Argentine and tl..e absolute failure in other countries, while we had good crops. They would be further able to see. that even with a partial failure, when wheat ought to be bringing good prices, that under the shortage of money, it contin ues to fall, although McKinley is still president and we have the Dingley tariff. ANTI-IMPERIAL PRETENSE. For years and years we constantly told the free silver republicans that there was no way to prevent the establishment of the gold standard in this country ex cept to down tho republican party. They would not believe us. They went on voting the republican ticket until the party declared for the gold standard. Then only a few of them ouit. Thev i w thought the grand old party would get international bimetallism and still voted the ticket. Now they are doing the same thing again in regard to imperial ism. Hundreds of thousands of repub licans are as much opposed to standing armies and wars of conquests as are wo. But they go on voting the Imperialist ticket beeauso some few republican leaders declare they are anti-imperialists. That the.- pretended anti-imperialists are the main support of imperial ism, never seems to occur to the party followers. By their action that is by denouncing imperialists and supporting the republican ticket they held hund reds of thousands of voters to the sup port of McKinley and his wars of con quest, who would otherwise have voted against him. It is the same game they have been playing for the last twenty five years. ONLV A PTETENSE. The Chicago Record, after havinir nro- claimed that the election in Nebraska would have a very great effect upon the presidential campaign In 1900. tried to sneak away from its own position and announced the great victory, which it had said would be a Bryan victory if the fusionista carried the state, in the fol lowing fashion: In Nebaska Holcomb, the fusion can- i- didat for supreme court judge, and Reese, his republican opponent, have run a raiher close raee, but the election of Holcomb seems to be foreshadowed. This is a fair specimen of gold bug journalism. If the election had really been close, or the republicans had car ried it, there would have been a great display of head lines and a glorious whooping it up for McKinley. The Rec ord pretends to be fair and independent, but it only pretends. Thursday morning it announced that, "so far as national issues are concerned the elections of ' Tuesday, taken as a whole have decided nothing." This is the kind of journalism that the men who have planned to exploit the producers of this country for ages to come have employed from the beginning. There is none more disreputable than this same Chicago Record. It is a siieak in jour nalism and a scab paper in the field, of organized labor. It sneaks into thous ands of homos where it could not find entrance except for its false claim of independence in polictic, while at the same time it is the most partisan of all the gold standard papers. It never fights in the open, but always from am bush. In the same issue with the above it published several statements to the effect that Holcomb's increased majority all came from his personal ponularitv in the state and had nothing do with party policies or principle. ' It certainly did not get that rlevs by 'banning what the republican papers said about Hol comb during the campaign. It would not have obtained such an idea even from the Papiliion Times. In fact it never had any such information. It made tho story up iu the office. Hol comb is no stronger than the forces that oppose standing armies, wars of con quest and the establishment of the gold standard. Every one who burns coal will now have to make an additional contribution to the railroads. They havo a power to increase taxation that is not possessed by any potentate on earth. For several months past the rate from Chicago to the Missouri river, on both hard and 6oft coal, has been $2 per ten. After Novom- ber la it will be $2.50 on hard coal, and $2.25 on soft coal. This will be a tax al most exclusively upon the poor and the charity organizations. The rich, having plenty of money ahead, laid in their supply of coal for winter some time aso "That's just the kind of a thing we like," says tho mullet head voter. "It would never do to let the government own and operate the railroads. That's a wild- eyed pop notion." NO IMPROVEMENT.. The chastisement that the Journal re ceived in the late election made no im provement in its morals at all.. It con tinues to lie in its old variegated fashion. Listen to this: The popocratic press exults beyond measure in the faet that tha m.tor Mark Hanna was "knocked out" in his own town and county, notwithstanding he carried his own state by an increased majority. Now, the Journal knows that Mark Hanna lacks about 50,000 of having a majority in Ohio at all, but that makes no difference to it. If it says that Mark Hanna has a majority in Ohio, everv mullet head in the state will answer back: "That's so." The next legislature should pass some kind of a law that will force every voter to exercise his right of franchise. Not withstanding the great fusion victory in this state, several of the populist papers make note of the fact that a good many men staid away from the polls of whom they have personal knowledge. A poll tax of three dollars a head should be levied and when a man votes he should be given a receipt Those who do not vote should be made to pay and the money put into the school fund so the next gen eration could be educated up to the point where they would understand that the American voter is responsible for the policies of the government. The next opportunity under the con stitution to make a new apportionment came to the pop legislature of 1897. State Journal. Now, that ii a good one. Tho constitu tion provides that the apportionment shall be made when the U. S. census is taken and every five years thereafter and at no other time. 1895 was the time to make the apportionment and if one had been made by the pop legislature of 189i,the republicans would have said something worse than damn the consti tution. "The next opportunity to make an apportionment came to the pop legis lature cf 1897." Now, that is decidedly rich. When the lately elected fusion county treasurer gets to the bottom of the vaults at the Lancaster county court house, will he find such a vacuum as faced the fusion treasurer at the state house when he hunted for the money that ought to have been there? We hope not but all we can do is to wait and see. ' Tho Bee says; "The patriotic league had better change its name to popocrat ic league." Now, In the name of com mon sense how could a league be pa triotic without being popocratic? If you want to have your subscription extended for another year read our club bing offer on another page. IXVBBBISES. Otoe thing-that reform forces' need and ' need badly, is some man in New York who will send to free silver papers a true, accurate and nonpartisan report of the coadition of the markets. Here is a field that would, if ably filled, be of great benefit to all the producers in these states. The market reports that are sent out ane so manipulated in the finan cial columns ef the great dailies that they are made a bulwark of gamblers and the goM standard. Now the next day after the result of the elections in United States were known in London, silver jumped up five cents an ounce. This fact was not mentioned in the fi nancial Columns of any of the great dailies. The telegram concerning it was cut out , of the financial corumn of the Chicago Record and printed on the last page of that paper, which always has less than a column of reading matter on it, and is almost wholly given up to ad vertisements. The London cablegram stated the matter this way: Bar silver shows a big jump here and in London since Tuesday. Jt sold at 59 and 00 cents today, a substantial advance over vest erdnv. Tt w cniH iViij Jj rt. - - V - - -' ' i,u, l ... . . i l.J iu- suit of a heavy demand on the part of inaia, nongKong and Shanghai, but some bankers recnrrl it nutha fnnniM,!,. - --rt"-- - .... ... of a pronounced European movement in suver. Now there is not an intelligent banker living, that is, a banker who has ever made a study of the principles under lying all market prices,who does not know that that sudden rise in silver was the effect of the continuous fight made in this country for free coinae-o of kOvpp Not one of them has any more doubt that silver would rise to a parity with gold at the ratio of 1G to 1, the moment that the passage of a free eoinasro law- becomes inevitable, than that he lives. - SAME OLD GAME. Senator Hoar wrote an article for a New York paper the other day in which he said: ' r The time has come to make up your minds. If you are to declare that you do not mean to subjugate them (the Fil pinos) or to enslave them, that you will act towards them on the principles of ybur own declaration of independence, the war can be ended in an hour. The refusal to make this declaration in the becrinninc hrnncrht. on thi mar anA ...... ' ' o r - -- - ' " i uuu ;uui refusal to now declare yourself is what is alone responsible for its continuance. Now we have got to settle the question which the president has repeatedly de clared is for congress or the people, whether we will complete the subjection of the Filipinos; whether we will un dertake to govern them as subjects or serfs, or whether we will help them to become a self governing nation, either as a republic, as they seem to desire, or as a limited monarchy, like Japan, or as an absolute monarchy after the fash ion in which we are now maintaining in power the sultan of Sulu, with his slaves and his harem. That kind of talk is all ver,y nice. It held at least 60,000 republicans in line in Massachusetts for imperialism. Ten dollars to two doughnuts that Sena tor Hoar voted the imperialist ticket from top to bottom himself. It is the same old tactics that proved so success ful in the demonetization of silver. Not a republican platform and not a presi dential candidate from 1873 to and in cluding McKinley, but declared for sil ver. All the time they were plannine and working for its entire overthrow. This same old gang got together and formed an anti-trust leasue just as thev used to bimetallic leagues. From the president of their league down, everv one of them voted for Mckinley and im perialism. Melting Pot Morton is a fair specimen of them. He was a bur man in the league. He pretended to right im perialism in his paper, but before the campaign was over he was out makiu speeches advising every man to vote the imperialist ticket. He was speakins for candidates nominated on an imperial istic platform. That is the same old game. We have been made very well acquainted with it in the years since 1873. "ACCIDENTAL ADVANTAGE." The State Journal says that. "The re publicans owed their legislative niaioritv on joint ballot and the election of their United States senator to an accidental advantage given them by the apportion ment. ."Accidental advantage." Now that is decidedly good. When the republi cans repudiated the constitution and refused to make a new apportionment in on"- 1 .t, ,. losio as me constitution requires, they secured a great advantage, not by acci dent, but by a criminal intention to hold the legislature when they were in a well known minority in the state. By that piece of trickery and crime they disfran chised to a large extent the western part of this state. They knew that they could rely upon the slums of the cities in tha eastern part to hold their majori ties as long as the campaign funds were available. In some of the western parts of this state it takes nearly a dozen counties to send one senator to the leg islature, while in the eastern part from one to half a dozen are sent from one county. A great accident that was! By getting up a club oi three new subscribers you will help ua and save yourself money. Road our offer on an other page. Thursday moiniuff Rosewatnr fnnnrf out that the state had indeed gone popo cratic. He lays it all to Brvan. R " and bye he will be denying that Bryan naa anything to do with it, that he has no influence at all and Is nothing hut free silver lunatic.