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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT, Qtfrr&sfca Independent TBS WEALTUMAKER5 and LINCOLN INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVERY T1IDBSOAT ... BT TBS . independent Publishing Co. npany AT 1802 P STREET. , . Telephone 538. LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA $1.00. FEB AM IN AD7 RCE.I Address all communications to, and' mam all drafts, uiuuey orders, etc,' payable to Tlill INDEPENDENT PUB. CO. Lincoln, Nebraska. The republican Idea seems to be that 'the honor of the notion must be upheld' by crime and dishonor. That it the only way that they have proposed so far. , Tho editor of tho Southern Mercury htarted out to write it sizzling article liesdod "No Chance for Bryan." lie gel ho tangled up that ho (stopped in tho middle of a word -not thn middle of the road -and let it go at that. THE STATE JOURNAL. The Independent desire to spend little time in a review of one issue of sheet publi-id in Lincoln called the Nebraska S;i!o Journal. It in a fair sample of it daily ifl.sue -at least it does not contain any more lies than are print ed frc m day to day by that concern The first item is as follow: wnsnington in one of his letters rec ommending the education of the boys ana tins or mis country at nome instead of nending them off to Europe spoke of the United StateH as an "empire." So it seem that George was the Hrnt bloody "imiMjriuiist. The editor of course knows that Wash ington never, in all his life, ever spke or wrote a word in defense of tho annex ation of distant islands and making the inhabitants "subjects" of the United States against their will. He knows that the word "empire" as used two or three times by tho founders of this republic was always used in regard to the extent "I said in my haste all men are liars," remarked King David. If he had read last Friday's State Journal he would have udded: "This is not 1 . hyperbolo, whoa upeaking of the editors of this pa per." - Mark Hanna seems to have had his iar to tho ground for he announces through his friends that he'will not con du.t tho campaign for the republicans next time. We ore very sorry that he will not. No other man would suit the populists so well for the position. Bosewater ran tho republican cam paign in Omaha and wrecked the ma cbiuo, ho ran the exposition and wrecked the stockholders, he ran his son he. tho son, wrecked the life of an innocent young girl. As a wrecker Ilosewater beats the Algerian pirates. New York news last week was- to the flVet that money was so plenty in that city that tho great publishing house of Harper Brothers went into tho hands of n receiver and the New York Sun is so hard pressed that it ratted its office and out down the scale paid Union printers, These are two of the par excellent gold bug institutions of that city. The banks never say anything about "specie payments" any more. Wonder why? Those of us who fought in the ranks long years ago remember that that was the battle cry of the money power for many campaigns. The reason is that the bankers are determined to have business done with paper money here after and they are to furnish the paper. There seems to be an almost universal demand in the populist papers of this utate that Clem Deaver should resign his place as national committeeman. But Clem will never do it. There isn't enough manhood iu him and never was to iierform such an act. Ho will have to be kicked out. The kicking will be done at the next meeting of tho national com niiltoe. By Helling bonds for 101 and buying them back at 112 the sound money men of Washington have presented to the landholders 13,000,000 and given them a high rate of interest beside. Any man who denies that that is patriotic finan ciering is a copperhead and wants to haul down the hag. Don't say a word. It isn't safe in these days of MeKinley despotism. Severfd papers in this state are do Bouncing the Stete Journal 4n the most unmeasured terms for its unspeakable vileness4 The Beatrice News says"! "This paper (The State Journal) that thus advocates these principles of im morality, nt our state capito! should be excluded from every college, every school and every home in the state. Its morals are pernicious and poisoning to ihe rising generation wherever it goe TI II. iup rcpuoncans want to base our financial system of confidence a thing that has neither length, breadth or thickness and always vanishes when roost needed. It exists only in the imagination and if it has anything "in tnnsic about it neither a magnifying Klai-a or a chemical analysis has ever lieen able to discover it. That is what they call sound finance" and if you ion t believe it is, you are either a luna tic or a copperhead. MeKinley has recently issued an or der which puts the postal system of Porto Rico back where it was twenty, aeven years ago under the old Spanish 'rule. The recent improvements made by the Spanish have all boon abolished. The Porto Ricans have sent up a great protest But what good will that do? They have no rights under our constitu tion or under any other constitution. They are simply subjects under MeKin ley. There is no congress and no court to which they can appeal. MeKinley is their czar and they must obey him. If they don't, some more troops will be sent In "defend th Haw " of territory and not in relation to the form of government. New York has long been called "tho empire state,' wholly on account of its size when com pared to the other New England states. With just as much fairness could the word be taken from any modern speaker ft hori he made some remark about the Empire state, and claim that he was in favor of wars of conquest ' and rulin subject nations by force. . Tim next item is like unto it, and is as follows McClellen's celebrated' euphemism of "change of ha-e," when he got the worst ot it in Ins grapplmgs with Lee m the early part of the civil war, is pirated by the Boer dispatches from Pretoria. They vary it a little by saying that after this or tho other buttle, the Boer command ers "Look another position." The editor knew when he was writing that item that it was a lie made out of whole cloth for the fact is that the Boers have sent no dispatches either of that sort or any other, for the simple leason that all the telegraph and cable lines are in the possession of the British army. Ho knew that it was impossible for the Boers to send a dispatch at all, and he simply lied because it is his na ture to lie. A little further down this Ananias says: The Mochler river was bank full and tho Boers had blown up the bridge and hence General Methuen had no chance to settle tho fortunes of the day w ith a bayonet charge. This sentence is a curiosity. The. whole intention of it, as is plainly seen on the face of it, is to lie to tho renders of the paper in regard to tho contending pur ties in South Africa. The British aro so superior that all they 'needed was a chance to make a "bayonet charge to settle the fortunes of the day." Fancy a general ordering a bayonet charge where the enemy is armed with the mod ern repeating rides! What would likely liecome of that general's army? Bayonet charges are thiugs of the past. But this editor would have us to believe that the Boers are so inferior to the British that all the British want is a chance to make a bayonet charge! General Jo'u-bt-rt would be very happy to give them such a chance three times a day. The next article is an anti temperance one criticising the recent action of the Georgia legislature, It contains the fol lowing lie, which is also made out of whole cloth: It is related ns an experience of Ad miral Dewey t hat hisship having entered a harbor in Maine, his sailors asked per mission, as usual, to go ashore. The ad miral thought a moment and said, "Yes, mix is a prouiouiou siate, aa tne men cannot get liqnor," and he ent them all ashore for recreation. In about an hour a messenger put otf from the town to the ship with the report that the salors were on n big spree and the police could do nothing with them. The admiral had a hard time corralling the lioys with the lew sober men left him and he said it was tho last time he would give his men liberty in a prohibition state. The next nrticte is about Cuba, and starts out with the following lie it, too, being made up out ol whole cloth. It is pretty generally believed down i l Cuba that the popular outburst against the military government and tho pro tests against changing tho uiilitarv wov- ernment for a civil government organized tor the nonce hy Uncle Sam, arises from the difgust of the tieople of Havana and other cities liee.iuse of tho persistence of the Americans in cleaning up the sew ers, streets and dwellings of the microbe infesting towns. They object to being put to the trouble of keeping clean, ine omy coc'.'iusion mat any sanf man can come to after reading that is that lies bubble forth from the State Journal editor like beer from a bung hole. The audacity of it is the only re deeming feature, How does he know what is "pretty generally believed down in Cuba?" The next article is about the Chicago big drainage canal. While there seems to be no mothe to lie in such an article as that, yet the writer is so habituated to avoiding the truth that he cannot es cape the habit So he says; Y hat troubles New lork is not the sewerage, but tho fact that this is really a ship canal, connecting with the chain of great lakes. That caiatl a ship canal! But that is only an innocent whopper, and so let it go without further comment The next paragraph starts a good big troad gauged lio of tho nort that the readers of the paper expect to see every day. The edjtor says; Since the Dingley bill was passed the treasury department has been collecting and locking up millions of dollars every month beyond even the extraordinary expenses of the government Now of course that editor knows that December 7, 1800. the revenues produced by the Dingley bill fall far short of paying tlm expem-es of tne government Besides that, enor mous expenses and losses have recently occurred in connection with the war in the Philippines that have not been paid or even entered upon the government accounts yet, among them one fine war shjp which was a total loss, cargo, equip ment and all. 1 he next article contains this state ment: mi 1 m ,1 xnecroBKings or tne imtisn mug wump about the absolute hopelessness of the effort of General Methuen to re lieve the Kimberley garrison because of tne obstinate courage of the Boers are still loud, but the daily news of a ten nine advance, and the driving of the en emy from another stronghold on a hill seems to indicate that Methuen is get ung mere aoout as last as ins men can march afior all, in spite of the obstinacv . r. ... . ' or me uoer ngnung. YY hether it was the Journal s intense love of British imperialists or whether the editor is incapable of writing an ar tide without telling a lie, that was the occasion of tho productkm of that para graph it is hard to say. The news that all other people have about the advance of General Methucn's column is to the effect that his first encounter with tho Boers was at a river which he attempted tocrossand failed and foughtone the most desperate battles in the annals of old England, that he was himself wounded and suffered a heavy loss as wel as the Boers. Ten miles a day is more than an army can generally make when unop posed, upon a steady march. The last editorial begins this way: T-v r -sri.i . . i jvown in iew yorK tne oiner da v. a Cuban applied for his naturalization pa pers and be lore he could get them, he was compelled by the clerk of the federal court, who had the matter in charge, to renounce his allegiance to the king of Spain, "whose subject he is." The above articles constitute the whole of the editorial in that edition. The Independent defies anyone to find the equal of it for persistent, unqualified lying in one edition of any other paper published in the United States or in any other part of the world,or in any other world, hades included. Not an article that is not a bald faced lie or a lie by inference. That is the paper that could not live for three months if it were not supported by some professed christians and men who claim, at least, to- live pas sably moral lives. The State Journol people may claim that this edition of December 1st is not a lair sample-7-the writers having just returned from their Thanksgiving din- j tiers lied with more facility than usual. We will leave that subject to ar titration by any honest man 'who will iook over a montn s issues and compare thein with this. - Is it not time time that the citizens of Lincoln took some means to establish THE CRIME OF CRIMES. There has been much raid about the crime of 73 and the crime of T3, bat crime greater than these and greater than ever committed by any parment: ary body since legislative assemblies ex isted, is about to be committed at Wash ington. The bill that the republicans propose to pass changes the contract un aer which the rich men of this nation bought all the bonds outstanding and makes them payable in gold alone. That will practically double the value of those bonds. By one stroke it will add to the riches of the rich over one thousand millions of dollars. It will do this at the request of the rich and without any thing being returned to the people for it. It is a theft of a thousand millions from the producer.! of this country. It will increase the fortunes of the already enormously rich by that much and add that much tt the burden of the already overburdened poor. There m no crime in all history that will compare with this. . In another section of the bill, which will be found in. another column, there is 1 j i . j 1 . . uuuceuieu u pian 10 contract tne cur rency to the amount of $200,0004)00. A careless reading of the bill would not reveal it, but there is tucked away in one of the sections a plan to retire all the Sherman treasury notes. A contrac tion of the volume of money and at the same time making payable all the bonds and obligations of the United States both public and private, in gold, we re peat is a crime in tho presence of which all other -.rimes fade into insignificance. porch and denied it ia tot. It was deception and perfidy that the electfea of MeKinley was made possible. The party was pledged to promote interna wobbi Dimetallism. AH the time the sole purpose was to more firmly establish the gold standard. By placing the government in the hands of liars and scoundrels men who were frauds and hypocrites we have not only given tkem the power to make slaves of the people of this nation inrougn endless bond issues, but also the power to establish a great standing army, numerous enough to hold us subjection at the point of the bayonet ut aJK tne scoundrels who have cursed the world the most infernal hyp ocrites are the men who for nearly thir ty years have run the republican party. 81 IJSC Kl HE NOW, "XT . . .... -iext year will be the year of the greatest presidential camnaicrij ever fought in. this country. The basis of that fight will be laid i morning daily paper in this city, is fit to go into a decent family? that the suri lusj by the sale1 in the treasury was put there f r.W,000,000 of bonds, and! A VKRV HEAVY UAM. There was never a more infamous fals hood printed than the constant assertion that the Dingley bill has produced a sur plus in spite of our enormous war ex penses. In tho first place thero were bonds issued to tho amount of S2iK),000, 000. Next there was a war tax imposed. That tax brought to the treasury, ac cording to U. S. Treasurer Robert's re port, last year 4fl.5.ri.'!.419 in increase of customs and 8102,53i;,520 in crease from internal revenue. Hero is an ncrease of taxation, outside of the Dingley . bill, which has put into the . , in 11 r n-1 ' n ... ireiisury n,f,wr;v.i.v. l'jven tnis enor mous increase, added to the high tariffs of tho Dingley bill, will not pay the ex penses of this government under Mc Kinley and imperialism. The present rate of expenditure is almost as great as in 1803 and 1804, and is greater than any other year of our history as a nation. In those two years we had over a million soldiers in the field fighting the most bloody battles of all history. The effect of this heavy taxation man ifests itself, as all economic forces do, very slowly. But it is beginning to be felt everywhere. Nearly every man is finding it harder and harder each month to meet his bills. Taxation, as well as trusts, necessarily raises the price of ev erything that the peoplo consume. Ev ery one is beginning to say that it ctsts more to maintain a family this year than H did last. It comes hardest on farmers and next on those men working for sala ries or wages.' But every one begins to feel the heavy hand that is laid upon him. He must work harder and live cheaper. If we will indulge in wars of conquest, a large army and navy, we must pay the cost, and the cost all comes out of the producers. This result is just what the Independent ha9 said all the time would come upon us. From week to week we have constantly reiterated it What an effect the reading of this paper would have on the voters if 50,000 copies of it could have been placed in their hands every week? ItKII!l:s AND PATRONAGE. Mrs. Kellio, who prints the only mid die ot tne road paper in this state a small five column folio says that "the populist press of Nebraska was crushed out to make room for a mongrel fusion press bribed with patronage." Both of these statements is news to this office No populist paper was ever crushed, TL-.. -11 1 , - xiicyureu.il nil ve and KicKing wor-e than ever. And that patro.v.ace! We ould like to see some of it. We have beeh chasing after it for a longtime, but tate officers seem to prefer the jobbipg ouses to job department of a pop pa- peri Jf the peoplo of this state were in favor of the ideas that Mrs. Keltic advo cates, she ought to be in clover all the time as she has the only organ of that sort to which they can subscribe. Her circulation ought to bo immense, and in stead of publishing a five column folio she ought to be able to issue an eight column octavo. Did it never occur to Mrs. Kellie that the trouble is not with the editors of populist papers, but that tho men who organized the populist par ty in this slate almost unanimously came to the conclusion that the only way to ever redeem this stete, or the nation, was for all voters who oppose the republican party to get together and vote one ticket? It is s.range that it has never occurred to her, but if she will stop and think about the matter she will see that it was not patronage, it was not bribes, or any thing of that sort, but the conclusion that that was the best thing to be done, honestly arrived at after long study. congress during the coming, winter and spring. No one will be prepared to take active part m it unless he keeps posted WI)at is done in Washinerton during the next few months. The reformers who have foucrht tho ) know how much reliance can be placed upon tne reports of the gold busr dailies and associated press. As an example we are just getting at this late day the true returns from the late election J.ney come to us through the reform weeklies in the various states. There is no other way to get at the truth. The Independent proposes to get the facts and publish them each week. An ar rangement has been made for a letter from Washington. This letter will not contain anything that is sent out by the associated press or the special gold bug correspondents at Washington, but the news that is suppressed. Through this letter you will learn what the populist senators and representatives arc doing. They aro never spoken of in the dis- , .mo nfcms un me noor ot con gress, and they will be hot ones, will be reported by an eye witness and the part borne in them by the men who aro hghting for liberty and the common people will be given to our reader Thnrufr.ro f. K .1 -.x,..,.v I.H jjuuu r me caui-e we ask the populist workers in this state to extend the circulation of the Independ ent, ana get the subscriptions now. The pop editors have poked so much fun at the republicans for their attempt to convince the fusionists that if they wanted to win the next presidential cam paign they must get some other candi didate than Bryan, that all at once they have abandoned that sort of writing and now claim that they want Bryan to be the candidate so badly that they allowed the fusionists to carry Nebraska so as to make sure of it Moral When the coon is up the tree and you can't got him WHAT GOOD IS IT. In another article in this issue there is a review 'f one day's issuo of the State Journal in which it is shown that every editorial is baed uoon a barefaenrl Hp It differs from other gold bug papers in that every article was a lie while the others usually print some that are not the New York Times does it in that way. Here is one from a recent issue All the labor and sweat and wind of our free silver friends has Iwn fnr naugnt. Ail the speeches thev have made, all the editorials they have writ ten and all the loud street talking they have done has floated away in noxious gas ana win oo henrd no more. Onlv uie uu-uvory oaor or it nil remains. The oemocraiio national committee has hold its meeting, big with destiny, and has aecidod tbat the question of the free and unlimited coinage of silver shall not en ter into the next campaign. ine Journal not satisfied with the amount of lying that it did that issue on its own account, also reprinted this, knowing that it was a lie. If one was to judge of the moral standing of the American people by the gold standaid press he would come to the conclusion that Sodom was a respectable communi ty in comparison with them. What good do they suppose will result from this sort of journalism? TAKING OFF THE MASK. For twenty-six years the republican party has worn a mask. All this time it has had the determination to give the gold standard the validity of law and all the time it has proclaimed in its plat forms and in the speeches of ite leading senators and representatives that it has been for bimetallism. At last it has thrown off the mask and declares for the gold standard without any equivocations. The bill that is printed in another part of this paper lays down what they pro pose to do and the manner of doing of it Never in all history can there be found an example of such hypocrisy. Presi dent MeKinley during the last cam paign, when hard pressed with the down no matter how hungry you are for fresh meat-soh mnly declare that charge that the repuUicans intended to you did't want any moat no way. do this very thing, came out on his front The people of Nebraska arc entitled to know why Superintendent Jack.son re tains in his employ regularly a clerk not authorized by law mid pays him 875 per month of the pile's monev. The i.od- ulist party is entitled to know what reason Mr. Jackson has for keeping in his employ a republican, Mr. Alex Bentley, not specially qualified when there aro hundreds of more competent and just as deserving young men and women who are populists. Whv is it that Mr. Jackson has recently raised the salary of this illegally employed renubli can clerk from $60 to $75 per month? In tho beginning of his term Superinten dent Jacitson attempted to save to hiin- elf all the profits of his ofiice bv em ploying his wife as an assistant. The Independent made the fact known and public sentiment was so opposed to nis selfish policy that he was compelk- 10 laue ner nome and give her place to another. It is equally disgraceful an insulting to his populist friends for him io Keep a repuoiiuan m his employ. It is ungrateful to the party that elected him. Perhaps there is a "profit" in it to him as there was in the employment ot his wife. It is certainly as bad and insulting to the organization that elect ed him to ofiice. mi . ine superintendent's ofiice will have several things to explain at the next convention. WHO SHALL BE SENA FDR As strange as it may appear to thous ands of the readers of this paper, the question of who shall be appointed1 ttr fi2 the vacancy caused by the death f ' SetMtor Hay ward has become a verjr vital one. Governor Poyntor has sigai fled his desire to hear from the people. The Independent asks every reader of it as soon as he gets this edition to sit down and write a short letter to thin office naming the man who he thinks should be appointed and his reasonn therefor. Let it be short and to the point. The greatest battle of the cen tury is to be fought in the United States Senate in the next few months. Who should be sent to represent the people of the state in that contest? WHAT SHALL IT HE We have reached the point in the meeting of congress when the question must be answered whether this nation in to go on in the way wo have followed for the last 125 years, declaring that all gov ernments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, or whether we will abandon that principle and at tempt the government of subject na tioas. The secretary of war in his aa nual report discuesses at great length the problem of colonial government He recalls that the treaty of Paris places ia congress alone the de-termi.t ation of the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded to the United States. He arrrues that this limitation completely deprives- these people of the right to have the islands treated as states or as territory previously acquired has been treated, or even to assert a legal right under the provisions of the constitution, which wa established for the people of the United States themselves. "The secretary says it is essential that 'orto Rico should receive substantially the same treatment at our hands as she received from Spain when a colony." Will congress decide this quostioa as tho MeKinley administration demands? Will they declare that the Filipino fter they have been bought, paid for and annexed, "have no legal right under he constitution?" Will they say that 'orto Eico shall receive Af. ri,r h.., the same treatment that she received from Spain?" What will tho supreme court, of the United States say abowt these-thintrs when the nupt.i.-.n ,.f o it'.' What wilt the people sav whei they review this question next fall on cction day? Must a Mvornmont hir people, for tho peoplo perish from Thes are mo- ' he tho face of the earth? mentous times. .me eouonai coiums of the great dailies are a disgrace to this age and nation. 1 here is not one of them tha employes an editorial writer of ability The place where once appeared profound and scholarly articles is now filled almost exclusively with tho merest goscip. does not pay a thoughtful man to waste the time in reading them. The pluto cratic magazines are not much better, Tl 1 -II ! . lucj.uuemiuiu, nave abandoned any attempt at accuracy of statement. Their articles all bear the marks of the specia pleader instead of that of the honest seeker after the truth. To ru n it. nil up: Editorial writing in the great dailies is "no good. The republican papers continue todis grace the state by discussing Sonator Hay ward s mccessor. Not a word of that kind has been printed in any popo- cratic organ. All that has been said by them are words of sympathy with the senator and his family. But the brutes who edit these gold bug, trust papers have kept it up. Stinging rebukes are now appearing in many of the populist papers. It is no use however to hope that these scavengers can be made de cent They were not brought up to be decent The ten per cent gain in the republi- can vote of Kansas which was so widely circulated by the associated press turns out to hatte been a ten per cent loss. No reader of a republican paper will ever see tho troth about it, or anything eke for that matter, in any of hi partisan papers. The mullet haads will Jl con tinue to firmly believe that "the renubli. cans made great gains in Kansas," A SEW SCHEME. Lucien Stebbius and his crowd of as sistant republicans having made a total ulure m attempting to organize a mid- dle-of the-road populist party in this state, have concocted a new scheme. It will prove just as dismal a failure as did their last. All the money that Mark Hanna, or any one else, put in this new venture will be a loss. They have sent out a call for a convention to be held ia Hastings for the Durnose of orn-nnivimr new party to be called the Union Ee form party. The platform is to have but one plank the initiative and refer endum. As the populist party has ad vocated this principle for years, and as Mr. Bryan, speaking for the democratic party, has iven it his hearty endorse ment, the necessity of a new party to advocrte it does not seem to be very ap parent The call has thirty-one names attached to it two of them wou. n. A look at it shows a lot of disgruntled office-seekers, one or two out an out gold bugs and the remainder "are unknown to fortune and to fame." About four fu.sionists, evenly divided between tho pops and democrats, here in the city of Lincoln, ail of whom had held ofiices of profit or honor .n the twe parties, because they could not get more office and more profit and honor out of their connection with the fusion forces, resolved to turn traitor and tight for the republicans. In their egotist io houIs they really thought that they could ruin the reform cause. What was the result? The fusion forces cut down the repub lican majority on the head of the ticket more than a hundred votes, elected one county officer, and came within a hair's breadth of electing two more. It is U be hoped that the populists at least, are now rid of that kind of cattle. From Paul Vandervoort to D. Clem Deaver, they have never been able to do us any material injury. The great republican trains in Nr- York turn out to be the same nrt were in Kansas. After the official count was made the republican maioritv k- state is shown to be a little over 0,000 Mckinley's majority in ISM o-j.rv So the great republican irnin a-nu". 'i ' of 247,000! The republicans think it. very nice thing to have the associated press and hundreds of ffret ,t;i; circulate their lies for them. But finally retribution overtakes them. i A I' Hi ' f j I,, jy