THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
November 30,1809.
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Lincoln, Nebraska.
Pot away the rob of office,
Hand the ermine o'er to Bi,
ln our bead heave dust and ashes,
To the, pop please J,a the !''f'
j Hamilton Connty Itcgister.
The republican revived the old tissue
ballot scheme . and it worked to perfec
tion in some of the mountain counties
in Kentucky.
It I anid that the principal banner in
H the republican parade in tho Murk
Hanaa McKinley campaign.of 15MX) will
bear thin legend: We never b truyed
trust. Trust us and wo never will.
The emperor of thn Philippines
looking very gloomy these day and nil
bemuse the court favorite, Mark Ilanna,
i tielng Kovorely criticised f"r a certain
speech be made concerning trusts.
It U reported from New Ytuls that
Crokrr i kIkrIiik Imck again on liiyan
and free ailver. If he alfempU to run a
party ouWde of the national ortraniza
tionhowill mam' find Liniwclf landed
where he crh do no more harm.
Hioco Mark Hanna'a return from flu
rojie, Wharton Iiarkor'tt American ap
pear regularly. He is doin valiant wir
rice for the cbiim of plutocracy and no
doubt will receive hln reward or to Ijo
more exact - U receiving bin reward.
The people having refuned U longer
be roldied by Tom Cook, Kd. Hizer and
titat gang, McKinley has Hent them all
lown to CJuba to rob the Cuban. If
the Oubarwever get control of the inland
they will "git up and git" in abort order.
Where will they go to then? Portia pa
McKinley will hold the' Philippines for
thera.
In one of Otis' dispatches, without any
i-oniment or explanation, occurs thesr
words: "Latter part of September mem
bers of insurgent government in Colt.v
itao district, Bouthern Mindanao le
headed." lid anyone ever suppose that
wch work as that would be done under
tho tar and stripes? lUwjMitiHin ad
vancoH with all its methods step by stp
under this McKinley administration.
A Canadian puiicr in Mtt'itking tf the
feet Unit all the gold mined in Canada
Koos to the United Ktnt.es to bt minted,
nays that it Is because there is no mint
in Canada and 'gold before it is minted
is not money." Now, there is high trea
son to the gold standard in that state
meat. Hie Hpuiit(ts have iieen saying
for ten yearn that gold is not money and
the only reply that has been made was
"Oh! you are a lunatic." Who would
have thought that a Dritish subject
would ever bo cai)Kiit saying the came
!Tay tiling.
iy wan sireei nroker aueceoueil in
4 41 a am
gathering in over fl.lxm.lXX) by promisi
ing to pay MO per cent per year on money
entruatod to him to gamble o iu Wall
street. This shows the ignorance of tli
peopio wno live in mat city and sur
Komulmg country. We would like to
'oi Wall street gambler try to piny
that sort of a game in tho intelligent
state of Nebraska. Ho might catch
few mullet heads, 'but an average No
orasaa muiiei nenu wouui Know more
than that, esjioclally if he lived in a mi
neighlxirlKMHl.
HANK "ASII.
About the first of January there will
to another big stir in tinancial circles
There 4 said to be outstanding fH.OtX),
HI0,(HH) of trust stocks. Dividends will
tie duo tho first of January. Where
will th money come from to pay these
ilividradsT Of course the most of it
will Iw taken cure of by credit balances.
That U to say, if a payment of dividends
is to l made to parties here in Lincoln
a credit will lie given to My the First
National bank of Lincoln by some New
York bank and the stockholders here in
Lincoln will lie given credit on tho hooka
of the First National with no much cash
i and It will appear as a deposit in the
bank rrjstrL There will not lie a centof
"cash in tho wholo transaction, but it
will all appear aa "cash" on the Itonka
ad hi the bank report.
Hut there will be a whole lot of fol
Iowa who will want the real "cash, not
thin bank cash, the only "inlrinsio"
property alnuit It ladng a speck of ink
apeck of white paper. Now, where
ht thai cash, tho real rash, to come
front f Will some republican editor
plea- tell ml
A MKWftf APER fcCAtKXtEE.
The republican senators and rBprtncB-
tafcive chip In and pay the aalary and
expense nrc ry to keep a man in
Washington as a correspondent for their
papers in this state. For xome years
tbey kept Annin there. Now they hare
the unspeakable Harrison. The reform
worker know what kind of staff was
dished up to them from Annin, and it
wui that worse and more of it Is to
come from Harrison. He w simply a
newspaper scavenger, and nothing of any
value will w come from bim. It is iro
posible that there could. A man to get
Into the inner circle of newspaperdom
in Washington, must, first of all, be a
gentleman. More than that, he must be
known as a man of unimpeachable integ
rity. Men of national reputation men
who mould the policies of parties do
do not talk to or take into their confi
dence a newspaper scavenger.
A sample of what we may expect from
Harrison wan printed in the State Jour
nal of Friday. It was a follow:
The evident desires of the Nebraska
Donocrat to have another senator ap
pointed boforo a vacancy occur is caus
ing some comment liere, the Post, an in
dependent organ, being especially severe
in itn editorial criticiHin of the insatiable
appetite of the Nebraska reformer. It
! Hiid onsjod autboritr that an ar
rangmp.nt has been made whereby Edi
tor Hitchcock of tho World Herald in to
receive the appointment should the va
cancy occur. This I to satisfy a demand
made by the democratic hiker bullion-
aires of the wt.
Now of course Hflji.-ion met some re
porter of the l'ct and told him a lot of
lies. The reporter condemned it into
aentenco and Harrion uoteM it aa the
opinion of the people of Washington.
Wlmt tho I'oht itaid was this:
Out in Nebraika they don't wait for
the death of an official. Tbey ttn after
his Job as noon nn he iwcoincn Kcrioualy
ill.
There is no reference in that to the
prospective death of Henator liny ward.
That was nil that Harrison had to base
his Blander upon. But what is tho truth
about this matter I, Tho only paper in
Nebraska that have expressed nincere
sympathy with Senator Ilayward have
Wen tho fuslonist papers. The State
Journal seems to lie so mad at Ilayward
because of his aiekneas, that half tho
time it does not report his condition.
Those who want the r,en have to go to
the World -Herald or the Post. Hoth of
theso papers have time and again edit
orially expressed their sorrow in the
ruost appropriate language for Senator
Ilayward in his terrible atlliction. Noth
ing of the kind has been printed in any
republican paper in tho state.
Not only have the fusion dailies ex
pressed their sorrow and sympathy with
Senator Hayward, but muny of tho pop
ulist and democratic weeklies have dono
the same thing..-The following is from
the Pender Times:
The serious illness of Senator Hay-
ward is a sad chapter in Nebraska poli
tics. The senntor is making a jrallnnt
light for life and we hope that ho will
win, even if it is at the expense of our
party. As yet he lias not occupied his
eat in the national senate, mid when
one consider what a desperate tight lie
mnile tii vvin. it is sail to see (tenth bat
tling to bend off his ambition. Anyone
who saw the senntor at the opening of
the last session of the legislature and
then on the lat day of thn senatorial
conflict, ciuiiiot help lint to bolievo that
that contest was the cause of the sena
tor's present, jirecaiious condition.
A scavenger cannot be expected to
gather anything but tilth. The republi
cans of this Mate having sent one to
Washington, he will, of course, while he
Is there, wither filth. This m the (irst
installment of it. There is plenty more
to come nnd the people of this stale may
as well pri-paro themselves to receive it.
MVK MKN FIX VIIK F.N.
The testimony liefofe the Industrial
Commission in Chicago the other day
showed that live uien have been meeting
and still meet in Chicngo every morning
and decide what the farmer shall be raid
for his grain; Unit their purpose is to
ninintaiti the profits of transporters and
dealers in grain, no mutter how low
market prices may go; that, as these
men represent and control all tho moans
by which grain is,sent from tho farm to
the market, their decision has Iieen and
is tinal.
Among those who testified tothisstnte
of farmer servitude was Charles Coun
Holinan. tine of the live men who consti
tute the executive committee of the
"combine."
F.very day udds convincing testimony
that there is no rciie for the farmer
from unrequited tod except the govern
ment ownership of the railroads. While
the price of grain has been falling the
railroad-" have lsen raising freight
charges and there Is none to say them
nay. Today as much as any time In tho
past, they are "taking all the tratllc will
IsMir " All the make shifts in the way
of interstate commerce commissions and
state transHjrtation Ixuirds to regulate
freight charges have Iieen utterly futile.
The iKipulista have offered the only prac
ticable eolation. Thnt plank will re
main In the sipulist platform until it is
enacted into law. '
IM SIIIMl tt llKAT IIOWN,
Ihoie honnifl to be a concerted effort
uHn the part of the gold standard pa
pers to Uat down the price of wheat
Something must l forced down, or their
Inverted pyramid of a ilnaucial policy
will go toppling over one of these days.
So they are making a drive at wheat.
Vake telegrams were printed in the New
York papers last week fronj several
... - ' ' . i . '
countries claiming that there waa a great
erproductknn of wheat Here is one
of them:
Sydney. N. 8. W Nov. 'ZL-Th gov
ernment atatistician announces that re
port received regarding the recent sea
son's wheat yield indicates that this will
be double that of last year. ,y
Another came from Vienna saying the
government utatistician had just issued
a statement that there waa the biggest
crop ever known in Austria Hungary.
Another was to the effect that the crop
in Argentina wa double what it was last
year, au tnw occurred in lesa man two
waeka after the announcement of the
official figures indicating a shortage of
over ,T00,OfX),(X)O bushels. Thin scheme
serves two purposes. It form papers
have been pointing out that there was a
shortage in the world's wheit crop and
that the sontinued fall in price could be
attributed to nothing but the scarcity of
money. The gold standard editors want
to atop that cry and tbey 1 know that
prices must come down or the banks will
collapse. So by claiming that there is
an over production of wheat they think
that they can win ou t
yy.r.it a sot school uovhk.
New York city would do well to send
about a million of her citizens out to
Nebraska and let them take one term of
instruction in some of our sod school
houses. Then they would not le taken
in by a swindler promising that he would
pay them ten per cent a week for their
money. In one term in some sod school
house, under the instruction of some of
our pretty young lady teachers, they
would find out that if they had fUO
and put it at work at ten xer cent a
week, reinvesting tho interest, it would
foot up about this way:
In one year $ ' 1,280
In two years '. l&l.StO
In three yours ', 20,971,520
In four years 2,081 WAffO
In live years 2-11,597,383,080
Having learned that 10 drawing that
rate of interest would in five years
amount to enough to buy tho whole
earth and a largo slice of the rest of
the universe, perha ps they cou'd re
turn to their native city and be safe.
A itir.r mo failcuk.
The editors of a few great dailies in
this country have long imagined that
they could ruin any man whom they
combined to assault. They have found
out during tho past three years that
they cannot. There have been four con
spicuous failures in that line to record
during that time. First they tried it on
ttryan. They only succeeded in making
him more the idol of tlfe American peo
ple than ever before. Then they tried
it on Miles. Miles was without doubt
the most cfllcient general in the Ameri
can army. Plutocracy was afrid it could
notmnkeaMool out of Miles, and the
great dailies, assisted by the administra
tion, undertook to down him. Tho re
sult was that the chief conspirator was
drived by the American people out of
the cabinet nnd another after being con
victed hiid dishonorably dismissed from
the army was pardoned and given a six
years furlough on full pay by McKinley.
Nevertheless, Miles survives.
The great dailies and tho ndtninistra
IrntioH force next fell onto Admiral
Schley. Schley didn't belong to the
gang and they started in to do him up.
In that they made a most conspicuous
failure. All thnt the gold bug dailies
could do nnd all tho iniluenco that Mark
Hanna nnd the whole court of his Impe
rial Majesty, thn Emperor of the Philip
pines, could tiring to bear, could not
down Schley.
At last they tried to down Dewey.
They all hate Dewey with an undying
hatred. So when Dewey deeded the
house that had been given to him to a
friend and that friend deeded it to Mrs.
Dewey and she to the son of tho admiral
(no doubt all done under the advice of
competent counsel so that it would bo
sure to stay in the fiiiuily), they let fire
at him from every goldbug editorial and
news col u me in the land. The reason
that they hate Dewey is that ho said
thnt the Filipinos were more capable of
self government than the Cubans and
that he knew them both. He not only
said that but he stuck to it and repeated
it after he returned home. It was con
cluded that a man who would say that.
when McKinley and all his cabinet were
constantly declaring that tho Filipinos
were a lot of savages, must be down
ed at whatever cost: so they all went for
Dewey.
But they failed again.. The American
people love Dewey more than ever. In
stead of disgracing Dewey, they have
only succeeded in disgracing themselves.
This last attempt was a great big fail
ure. The republican paper have failed to
call the attention of their readers to the
faet that every U. S. marshal in Nebras
ka, save one, has Iieen disnilsse from
office for padding his expense accounts
that Is in plain Knglish for stealing.
All of these marshals were republicans.
How many of them were dismissed the
dispatch did not say; but the finding of
one honest man in any lot of republican
office holders Is far above the average.
It is also a correction of Joe Johnson's
oft repeated statement that there was
only one bad apple in the . barrel. He
will In the future make the statement so
as to accord with the facts and instead
of saying there was only one bad apple
Id the barrel, he will say there is only
one good spple in the barrel.
I ' i
r-OKElGX ALLIANCES.
That McKinley is determined, if pos
sible, to bind this country up in treaties
and alliances with the empires of the
old world can no longer be doubted.
The papers during the past week have
been full of rumors and assertions that
he has proposed to make what he calls
an "agreement" with . the European
powers in regard to the partition of Chi
na among the different nations. Using
the word "agreement" instead of offens
ive and defensive treaty, does not alter
the policy in the least It is probable
that the word is used fo fool the mullet
heads (they are so easily fooled) but it
deceives no one else.
Such an alliance will wholly change
the charter of this government It
would necessitate an immense navy, a
large standing army and such taxation
as we have never known before. Along
with that would come all the striving for
place and power which has cursed Europe
for the last three hundred years. Wash
ington would be transformed into a Ba
bel of chattering applicants for places,
by the most unworthy men
in we were
about to say the
rcpublie but our na-
tion would oe a republic no longer. Un
der such a change, ten men would be
appointed to office where one would be
elected by a vote of the people, and the
appointive officers would wield the pow
er of the nation. Their emoluments
would be larger and their numbers
greater.
This danger has been made not only &
possibility, but a probability, by the j
control and censorship of the daily
press, the ownership of the quarterly
and monthly magazines and the great"
institutions of learning in the land. The
rights of the people will be destroyed
for wantof knowledge.
An appeal to the old principles that
have fired the hearts of the people for a
hundred years brings out but a feeble
response. When the declaration of in
pendence is trampled under foot they do
not protest. When the words of Washing
ton are rend it does not move them. The
patriotic orations of Henry and Webster
no longer find an echo in their hearts.
Tho daily press and current literature
has caused a degeneracy that has made
men fit to become tools of the lust of
empire, place and power.
What has been published in the last
week about an alliance with the mon
archies of the old world would have re
sulted in a shout of defiance from the
people of every city, town and cons road
in the land, if It had been proposed ten
years ago. It is not go now. Only a re
former here and there has raised his
voice in protest. Will the people ever
learn what this money power proposes to
do? The populists have been sounding
these warnings for ten years. We have
always said that these men meant em
pire and the destruction of the govern
ment, in fact, if not in name. What
boots it if this government is called a
republic, if the conditions of European
monarchies exist in it? What is there in
a name?
MI ST KKMOUKL IT.
The old gag thnt corn makes whisky
and whisky makes democrats, will have
to be remodeled if things go on in the
South as they have been going for some
time. The Georgia houso of represents
tives recently passed a prohibition law
by a largo majority and it is expected to
pass the senate. Nearly the whole state
is prohibition now under a local option
law. The other day the American Bap
tist had tho following editorial:
At the recent banquet given to W. J.
Bryan, in Dallas, Tex., twelve hundred
men were seated at thn heavily loaded
tables, but not a drop of any intoxiennt
was in the room, and no man of all that
number was intoxicated. That is a no
ble example of temperance sentiment,
and we trust it will grow rapidly in fa
vor with all banquet.
in MM KI.VV AItllKll.
The Hon. W. D. Bynum has at lastob
tained his reward for services as an as
sistant republican in the Inst national
campaign. McKinley has just appoint
ed him a member of the Board of Gen
eral Appraisers at New York City.
Press Dispatch.
The editor of the Independent sat in
the gallery of the court house in Indian
apolis when Bynum was nominated by the
democrats of that, district for another
term in congress after having betrayed
the cause of bimetallism and gone back
on a record of ten years in congress, at
at every session of which he had Iieen
one of its most prominent advocates. It
was one of the most shameful things
that ever occurred in American politics,
Now Mcruniey lakes tnis dastard up
and gives him a lucrative oflloe. Can
politics ever get to a lower ebb tide than
this?
Another thing should not be forgotten
in connection with this matter. There
are still men on the state democratic
committee in Indiana who aided in this
betrayal of the people of that state
who in fact were the chief managers of
it although they, with more perfidy
than even Bynum exhibited, still claim
to be democrats and want to manage the
democratic campaign.
There are tens of thousands of honest
democrats in Indiana and they should
make their Influence felt in the manage
ment of the party in some other way
than refusing to go to the polls and vote
as they did at the last election. That
only resulted in putting republicans in
office. The genuine Bryan democrats in
Indiana could drive these fellows out of
the committee if they would only think
that they could, and go to work to oust
them. They will have to do that or for
ever remain in a minority in' that state.
Populists and free silver republicans of
course can't take a hand in that work-
it mast be done, if it is ever done, by the
democrats themselves. When the dem
ocrats have downed these traitors, there
will be no trouble in getting the free sdl
qer republicans and populists to join
with them in an effort to drive the re
publicans out of power in that state.
ALL THEKE IS TO IT.
Patrick Henry remarked, and for 125
years it was considered a wise say ing,
"My feet are guided by the light of ex
perience." In these latter days such
talk as that is denounced aa lunacy. We
have learned nothing by experience.
The growth of this nation to the greatest
power on earth and our experience un
dec the constitution and declaration of
independence has taught us' nothing.
Those old things are worn out docu
ments. We must cut loose from all expe
rience of the past We must embark on
unknown seas in a rudderless ship, with
out chart or compass. What we once
thought was the "wisdom" of the fath
ers is now declared to be but the va
porings of childhood. If you are not
williog to abandon experience and em
bark for an unknown port, in a rudder
loss ship manned by a crew drunk with
imperialism, why, then, you are a "cop
perhead," and there is no use to try to
discuss the matter, That's all there is
to it.
HOME TRESS CEN SORS.
In both England and Americn there
is beginning to be a resentment at the
at the press censorship. The people of
England are showing their dislike of the
military censorship in South Africa raucb.
more effectively than the Americans arc
their disgust of the censorship in Manila.
Lut there is another censorship much
more effective and which is much more
powerful for evil than either of these. It
is the domestic censorship which has
been in vogue for the last ten years over
tKe new columns of the American press.
Not only do these censors, for there are
two of them, ote in New York and one
in Chicago, suppress news,butthey send
out constantly the most outrageous fals
hoods. There was an example of this in
the dispatches printed last Tuesday
morning. It pretended to be a state
ment from the treasury department and
made to appear as official. ' It was in
substance that whenever the democratic
party had been in control of the govern
ment, there was always a deficit and
when the repuclican party was in control
there was a surplus. It pointed as proof
to the deficit under the first two years
of the Cleveland administration.
It is true that there was a deficit at
that time, but what caused it? Repub
lican legislation. The McKinley bill put
prohibitive tariffs on many things and
so high a tariff on others that there was
little importing and not enough revenue
was produced to pay the expenses of the
government. This was done against the
protest of every democrat and populist
in congress done with a purpose and
intention of producing a deficit so as to
insure, the issue of more bonds and save
the national banking system which is
based on bonds.
This dispatch was sent out when every
man who had any thing to do with it
knew that the wholo bonded debt of tho
United States was created by the repub
lican party, for the bonds issued under
Cleveland were issued because of the
support of every leader in the party and
was as much republican as the Public
Credit Strengthing act.
There is not a line of news that goes
into tho papers of the Uhited States that
has not first passed under the eye of a
censor appointed by the Wall street
money power. It is these censors who
are to be feared the most
AX AISt'SK.
Little abuses in the administration of
public affairs grow to greater ones. The
Independent, more than two years ago,
called attention to the fact ihat the
state superintendent, Hon. W.R.Jack
son, was employing in his office a clerk
not warranted by law and for whoso sal-
aryno appropriation was made. This
opinion of the Independent was fully
confirmed by the legislature of 1897,
which refused to make an appropriation
to pay tne salary of tne cierK in ques
tion. By a "smart trick" of Mr. Jack
son's the k-gislature of 1800 was induced
to make an appropriation to pay for
books, stationery, and "extra office help'
so that now this clerk, Alex Bent ley,
whom the state superintendent em
ployed illegally during his first term of
office and paid illegally from the print
ing and stationery fund is continued
upon tho state pay roll as "extra office
help." For every other employe in the
state supcrintenden'tx office then; is an
express appropriation for his or her sal
ary. The state superintendent repre
sented that occasionrlly he needed "ex
tra help," and on that pretense secured
the clause in the law under which he
continues to employ steadily a useless
clork, to whom he pays $75 per month
of the state's money. Formerly Mr.
Jackson paid this clerk only ICJ per
month, but the "little abuse" has now
grown until he feels safe and secure,
and he has added (15 n month to the
already exorbitant salary.
Keep your feei warm and your health
will be good. Sanderson's. 1213 O St,
Lincoln, have a large assortment of
warm lined shoes and felts which they
are selling very cheap.
THE BABT CRT OF -CASTT,
The stock. argument of republican
when defending the trust, and they are
the only trust defenders, L-4 that tfce
trust is the reult of a commercial evo
lution and that being the case, it is use
less to attempt to control it by legisla
tion. If that argument be true, the
God pity this country, for such reason
ing followed to its ultimate conclusion
leads to unbridled monopoly and a tr-
anny never equaled under any despot in
any land at any time. Man's avarice
and gred knows no bounds but those
fixed by law. The puerile argument re
sorted to last year that the trust is a be
nificent institution because it cheapens
production, in the light of the present
avaricious demands of these combina
tions, has been abandoned for this new
shibboleth. The trust as it now exists
is not the result of an evolutionary pro
cess in obedience to natural laws of
trade, but Ls the outgrowth, of original
commercial power made possioie oy vic
ious legislation and corrupt courts. Com
binations of capital for the purpose of
enlarging a business are defensible, but
combinations made for the purpose of
effecting a monopoly are indefeasible,
injurious to trade, and only made postiK
ble by special privileges and corrupt
methods. Thetrusias it now exists,
instead of being the result tf an eco
nomic process in commerce and trade,
is a monstrosity conceived and built in
violation of all economic law. If these
combinations did cheapen products to
the consumer, there wonld be some eco
nomic reason for their existence. That
claim has been abandoned as said before
It had to b5, for the trust is organized
for profit alone, and to accomplish its
purpose to the fullest extent it must
limit production so that the largest prof
it possible car. be had upon the amount
produced. Its guiding principle Ls, that
it is more profitable to place on the
market one ton of coal at a profit of $1
per ton than to place on the market two
tons of coal at a profit of ?2 per toa.
Again, the first object of a trust is to ob
tain a monopoly that the production and
distribution of an art'ele may be con
trolled. Monopoly is trust perfection.
Monopoly once accomplished and it nat
urally follows that the most profitable
thing to do is to limit the supply below
the demand and a rising price is easily
obtained. Is there an economist, an
cient or modern, that ever did or could
recognize such methods as in accord
with natural economic law? No not one
save the hired defenders of the trust of
which Laughlin and his ilk are a type
and who write but to deceive.
The trust lives and flourishes ia defi
ance ui cvuuuuiiu Biaiiuturjr auu moral
law. Ir. defies economic law by creating
a monopoly. It defies statutory law by
corrupting and owning the courts. It
defies moral law because it has neither
soul nor conscience. And yet we are
told that this hideous commercial moa-
l
strosity cannot lie controlled by law.
That statement can only be based on
one presumption and that is, that the
courts will remain the tools and protec
tors of thetrust.
We are not ready to admit that this
republic has traversed its cycle so far
that justice no longer can sit in is tem
ples. Neither does the trust, for it hears
the low menacing but ever increasing
murmur of protest coming from the peo
ple and preparing for a day when . craft
and corruption will no longer shield it
from the wrath of the masses and
through its corrupt and venal defenders
now in power in the nation it is provid
ing a standing army to protect it by
force when present methods have been
exhausted. For that day and that pur
pose are the war in the. Philippines, the
open door in China and the Anglo al
liance forced on the people. All are but
a subterfuge to give plausible excuse for
increasing the standing army. With
well planned deliberation coincident
with these preparations arc the people
being taught the rights of property. By
example as at Homestead, Hazelton jmd
Wardner are the people gradually
brought to a realization that the strong
arm of the government always reaches
out to protect property. Never life
when it is property or life.
But we believe, as the corrupt
slave power which sought by the same
methods to perpetuate itself, went down
in Hofpnt. an will thft enrnint nrkmrnorrMiil
power go down to defeat While it took '
blood and treasure to drive the slaver to
his doom, it will require only inteligent
patriotism to drive this later enemy to
oblivion. Take from it the courts and
special privileges and punish it as' a
criminal when it is criminal, and its
power is broken.
Establish once moro as the fundamen
tal law of this nation equal rights to all
and special privileges to none and nn
trust can live. This can be done the
same way the commandment "Thou
shalt not steal" was restated as moral
law in Nebraska.
When the courts of this country sit
once more as dispensers of justice in
stead of as protectors of commercial
brigandage the rights of the individual
will receive equal consideration with the
interest 01 oomomaiioDS, or in other
words life and property will both be
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pruieciea. tnis civilisation has
reached that stage where it confesses
that governments cannot protect the
weak againA the abuses of the strong
then is thel-ommune near at hand. But
this , civiliJkion has not reached that
stage. Thgtrust now has itrf inning bit
the people, ire thinking and when tne
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