THE NEBRASKA: INDEPENDENT.
May 10,1900.
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The Independent 1 in receipt of ft well
writVts communication from John Peter
cfSheltos, Buffalo county relative to
the vie presidency, which was received
too Isle for last week's iue. Inasmuch
an th Bkwx Falls correction will have
decided the mstter by the time this
week's Independent reaches cr readers,
we ds cot pssb!ih Mr. Peters letter.
They were paing to give us a financial
ysieaa where 'every dollar should be as
good as every other dollar." What did
they do They give ca the gold dollar
and a Sot of bank nsooey. Is a banker's
promise to pay aa good aa a gold dollar?
Then what come of your contention
that the t&aterial of which money is
cuspcMed unit hare a commercial value
qcal to ita le-al tender value? How
nvuch vzica is there in the paper of a
banlcera collar.
The backer owea the depositors for
every cent they deposit in hi bank, lie
loan it ot and get interest on ih The
banker wee the public fc- every cent of
paper nwney he put out. He loan that
and get interest on it. The banker
get rich by collecting; interest on what
he owe. The republican . voter must
think that thi is -destiny," "provi
dence," or aociething of tEt kind, for
he votes to continue the syttea every
lis he gets a chance.
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Attention is called to the excellent ar
ticle by Hon. Flavias J. Van Vorhis of
l&di&za, in another column of the Inde
pendent, entitled !. of Wealth in For
ein Trade," Ir. Van Vorhis is epec
ially clear in his explanations of what
eonc! uions must be drawn respecting
the balance of trade being "in our favor"
as the phrase goes, insisting that the ex
cess cf expgsl thown by the trad re
ports Is the meaure of k" of national
wealth since lwGL
Mr. liryan has never nought to evade
rjnibi!ity for the part he took in se
enring raticatioo of the XaH& treaty.
While the treaty was cot wholly to his
ILklrg, he believed ratication to be
vastly better thin rejection and further
diploma tie dickering, because the treaty
left it possible for the United States to
act fairly with the Filipinos. What Mr.
Bryan does repudiate, however, is the
repuhCkrn idea of our -plain duty"
under ihai treaty.
Some of the most dangerous anarchists
In this country are on the bench. They
bring the courts into onirersal contempt.
They defy all la and order and set
themselves op as dictators. Some of
thena will live to ee the day when they
will wiah that they had never been a
judge. They evidently think that Mark
Haeaa can save them with his big boodle
fond. They certainly mmt know that
the people not only depi-e them, but
hate them as all tyrants and dictators
have bees hated by those who love lib
erty. The municipal elections all over In
diana are stenniag to the republicans.
More than twenty towns that hare long
been republican went against them and
mot of them went by big majorities.
That is simply a foretaste of what they
are going to get next f alL This country
is not gang to abanden the declaration
yeta.hC. Then again the merchants
is tfw cities are just finding out that
they are merchants r-o longer. They
are trmj-Iy agents of the trusts and dare
xso !! a pound of ugmr or a keg of
calls lor a-sy other price than the trusts
x. The day vf the independent mer
chant is over, if McKinley and Griggs
are to run thi government for four years
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Lrit teAm has been a republican strong-1
Ldd meet fusion la-t week by a thou
sand majority. Th Pkmeer Press, im
perialut, gtdbeg and everything eLe of
that sort that a plnlocratic trust paper
cskJ J be. nearly had a spasm, if one is
& jde by its rt iue after the elec
kz. It can't aeeount for the great big
change. The Independent will inform
tin! hat th matter is. The people of
Minnesota are tired of the imperialist,
true! ;ropegsting admintration and
they are going to pat the state in the
Bryan column by a big majority this
fall This is the first whack they have
Lad at McKinley sisoa the repudiation
d the declaration and the constitution
hf the passage cf the Porto Rican bill.
Tere is more of the same sort coming.
FAST COMPREHENSION
The New York Commercial remarks:
"We observe that the charge is made
that this company, Steal and Wire!
while it raked the price of its barbed
wire, for instance, from about $LS0 to
14.20 per hundred pounds in the Ameri
can market, has still found it profitable
to seU the same thing in Europe at 12.40
per hundred pounds."
It is passing strange how long it takes
these great Xew York papers to find out
anything that is of interest to the com
mon people. For fifteen year3 the pro
tected manufacturers in this country
have been selling their goods in Europe
and Canada at about half what they
charged American citizens for them.
The Commercial seems to have just
found out that the Steel and Wire trust
has been doing that. When this writer
was in England in 1S77 he found Ameri
can geods for sale in every town and vil
lage in the United Kingdom and the
prices were always from one-fourth to
one-half less than the same goods were
sold for in this country where they were
made. There were only a few articles of
American manufacture that were sold
there for the same price as in this coun
try and none for a higher price. The
articles that were the same price there
as here were boots and shoes, cotton
goods, flour and meat. He saw meat
bearing the mark of the Omaha packing
houses exposed for sale everywhere and
-both salt and frozen meats were sold in
London at retail at a littte less than the
retail price in South Omaha where the
animals were slaughtered. An Ameri
can plow which he paid : (2U0 for at
Bancroft in this state, he saw sold in
Glasgow for 114.75. He has been writ
ing and talking about it ever since. All
the old pop farmers in Nebraska have
known these things for years. It seems
that some of the editors of the great
Xew York papers are just finding it out.
One plan to stop this sort of swindling
is proposed by the Commercial. It pro
poses that American made goods shall
have the privilege of free entry at our
ports after they have been exported. 'If
such a law as that were passed, the goods
could be shipped to Liverpool and back
and then delivered to the American con
sumer twenty-five to fifty per cent
cheaper than they have to pay for them
cow. The stolid patience of the Ameri
can people is past comprehension. Think
of the American farmer paying 100 per
cent more for nails than is-asked- for the
same goods when furnished to foreigners
and never saying a word! The only way
to account for it is the epidemic of par
tisan insanity.
THE BANKER'S TICKET.
To one who has attended republican
conventions for the last two decades in
Nebraska, it was very eany to see that
the old hands still had bold of the
steering gear. Not only were the same
old gang on deck, but the same methods
of oiling and running the machine was
employed. The, national bankers had
charge and things were not only done
according to their dictation in regard to
national politics, but they put three of
themselves on th ticket. Dietrick, Er
hardt and Steufftr are all bankers.
How many more of them are interested
in banking, this deponent sayeth not,
probably half cf them. They well know
that the republican farmer likes to have
the bankers rule them. They like to go
to the bank and pay the banker a good
high rate of interest on the banker's
notes of hand. They seem to think that
it is in accordance with "destiny" that
the banker should get interest on what
he owes, that when the said banker
signs a little due bill which he promises
to "pay on demand," that the said
banker should of course get interest on
his bond that he puts up for the privi
lege of getting interest on what he owes.
This is the way they look at it
Taking this penchant of the republi
can farmer into consideration, the oilers
of the machine concluded that these
same" republican voters would be de
lighted to further favor the bankers and
so put three of them on the ticket.
They were right. All these chaps who
go to the banks and beg for a little "ac
commodation," will be out oa the roads
and hang around the country post ofli
i ces shouting that "it is the best ticket
i et er put up in the state." They will get
I their little "accommodation," provided
j they put up the right kind of security
I cd W tbe bankers ten per rat in ad-
vance, and after that they will vote to
make the bankers governors or any
thing else that they want. Hurrah for
the banker's ticket!
A DIFFERENCE
There are perhaps a .dozen disap
pointed office seekers who busy them
selves comparing the dissatisfaction re
sulting from appointments made by Gov
ernor Holcomb and from those made by
Governor Poynter. With great tears of
sympathy ihey point to a long list of de
serving populists, including themselves,
who have not yet been favored with as
much pie from the official counter as
their appetite calls for. The flood of
tears increases as they point to some
faithful member who had been appointed
by Governor Holcomb and after enjoy
Ing the luxuries of public position for
three or four years has suddenly been
relieved by Governor Poynter to make
room for some other deserving member
of the party who had not been so favored.
It is a shame, an unpardonable sin, in
their judgment that a populist once in
oSk should under any manner of cir
cuxastanees be removed to make way for
another. It would appear that to sat-
isfy them, appointments should be made
perpetual. The Independent disagrees
with the pie eaters who desire to have
the privilege made perpetual. It was
Governor Poynter"s privilege, 'and in
most instances his duty to relieve those
whom Governor Holcomb had favored
and appoint other competent and de
serving persons, who had not been
favored, to their places. If office hold
ing is a good thing it should be passed
around. If it is a bad thing it is unfair
to burden any one clique with the ardu
ous duty for too long a period. It is
not surprising that there is more com
plaint over the changes made by Gov
ernor Poynter than over those made by
Governor Holcomb. In Governor Hol
comb's case he was turning out republi
cans and putting in populists. It made
no difference if the republicans com
plained. They had no sympathizers in
the populist party. They were not per
mitted to attend its caucuses and con
ventions, and were in.no position to stir
up dissatisfaction. It is quite a differ
ent thing for a governor to remove one
populist to put another in his place. It
is not so easy to turn out friends as to
remove enemies. Yet who is there that
will deny the right and duty of the gov
ernor to make changes to distribute
the pie among a different set from those
who had been at the table for two or
four years before? If the Independent
had any criticism to make it would be
because hold-overs had been permitted
where changes should have been made
to benefit those who have not yet been
favored with any position.
HANK A WILL. DECIDE
That Porto Rican bill was such an
awful piece of robbery that the members
of the house were frightened about their
chances of re-election. They "got such
a hustle on themselves" as has not been
seen in the last ten years and passed an
amendatory act to prevent the syndi
cates from impoverishing the whole
island. Under the original bill the fran
chise grabbers had the free hand, so
these chaps thought for the good of their
own political prospects they had better
put a check upon the syndicates until
after the election. They got up a bill
and rushed it through the house after
the Czar Reed fashion and it went over
to the senate. There Mark Hanna cast
his eye on it and when it came back it
was an entirely different thing, but it
went through all right. The senate put
the following innocent looking words
into the bill:
"Corporations not organized in Porto
Rico, and doing business therein, shall
be bound by the provisions of this act
SO FAR AS THEY ARE APPLICA
BLE." That does the business. Who will de
cide when they are applicable? Mark
Hanna. That is, the whole thing is in
the hands of McKinley. The putting
on of those words: "So far as they are
applicable" put the whole thing back to
where it was before the house took this
virtuous spasm.
W. E. Curtis says that it was the "in
tention" of congress that the telegraph
and express companies should pay the
tax and not the general public How
does he know what the "intention" was?
The fact is congress never had any such
intention. If it had when it was found
that the law was defective it would have
been amended. No attempt has been
made to amend it although congress has
been in session for months. It was in
tended that the corporations should not
be taxed although they were the parties
that profited most by the war. Catch a
republican congress taxing the corpora
tions! The propositiorr is ridiculous.
Dietrich has started on his electioneer
ing tour. As he has not the ability to
make a public address or set speech of
any kind, he has adopted a method all
his own. He goes among the Germans
and to one set he tells them that he lives
on sauer kraut, pretzles and beer and to
anotner set ne straigntens nimseii up
and says: "I am president of the Ger
man national bank." In that way he
thinks he will get a cinch on two kinds
of voters sure. But the average German
who emigrated to this country from the
fatherland to escape militarism and con
scription is more interested in preserv
ing this republic from those evils than
he is in what Mr. Dietrich eats or drinks
or whether his bank is called the Ger
man National or the First National.
An injunction was recently issued in
New York that beats all the injunctions
that was ever yet promulgated. It pro
hibited a labor union from distributing
its relief fund. The action of this puny
judge was so extraordinary that the rul
ing he made was cabled to England and
John Burns denounced it in the most
unmeasured terms. He said if such an
attempt was made in England there
would be a revolution in twenty-four
hours. The next thing tht some of
these two by four judges will do will be
to issue an injunction prohibiting mem
bers of the labor unions from eating
their breakfast later than 5 o'clock in
the morning. We are glad to say tha
in in is particular case lne parties en
joined paid no attention whatever to the
injunction and openly defied the judge.
They held a big meeting and raised
lot of money and the union increased its
donations to those out of work.
There is a shortage of editorial matter
on this page this week on account o
the convention. '
. - V. "A A PANIC COMTNO '
The financial papers of New York are
again beginning to say what the Inde
pendent said three months ago. The
United States Investor says in its
issue of April 28th that: "The fact may
as well be recognized that the 'booixx' ih
steel and iron is over, and that the down
ward tendency of these commodities
will be followed by that'- of commodities
generally." : - -
After this the Investor goes on to give
warning of a coming collapse.- That is
just what the Independent has said for
three months. The fact is the New York
financial organs are always about three
months behind the Independent, some
times longer than that. They never
state the facts until they can no longer
be concealed. '"
The trusts can raise prices whenever
they see fit, but they cannot hold them
up beyond the ability of the consumer
to buy for any great . length of time.
They can run for a while and make a
great showing of profits, boom their
stocks and when the time comes that
they must close down, those on the in
side can sell short and make a few mil-
ions like Gates did in steel and wire,
but that is the extent of their power.
This state of affairs is just dawning on
New York financial papers. If they had
read the Independent they would have
known all that a long time ago.
The Investor begins to see a coming
panic lne bill passed by congress was
a pftnic breeder.- It is through panics
that men like J.Pierpont Morgan scoop
in their millions. Stability in prices
would make panics impossible. 'Panics
is what these land pirates grow rich
upon. . They have things so fixed now
that they can produce them on twenty-
four hours notice. That is just , what
they want. ' The investor's vision is cor
rect. A panic is coming. Mark Hanna
is preparing to make use of it as a politi
cal force. When things begin to tumble
he. will say that it is "the threat of
Bryan's campaign." If Bryan is elected,
he will say that that was the cause of
the panic The bankers produced a
panic in 1873 and said it was "the threat
of free silver,"
The Investor says, "the real money of
the country is bank deposits." It is
correct only the Independent prefers to
call it "credit money." The bankers can
annihilate five billions of it in twenty-
bur hours. Out of the wreck, the sharp
ones among them will gather in what is
eft of the wealth of the country. That
is the benefit we will get from "sound
currency." . ,
TTTO BX FOUR JUDGES
The contempt for judges which has
grown up in the popular mind during
the last few years is not all based on the
idea that the judges are all permanently
prejudiced in favor of the great combi
nations of capital. They are looked upon
as small men men not qualified to fill
the positions that they occupy. These
judges are qualified to try a case for the
theft of a pig or a chicken. They know
all the procedure and the rights of the
parties are generally well guarded. But
when it comes to a case of the theft of
a million of dollars from the people of a
whole state by some rich corporation
these judges are of too small a calibre to
deal with it. They get befuddled, mys
tified and the whole thing is beyond the
range of their narrow intellects.
Doubtless they want to do right that
is many of them at least but the whole
thing is beyond their comprehension.
They can try a, burglar, but when it
comes to trying a great corporation, that
has not only broken into one house and
stolen a watch, but has invaded every
house in a whole state and robbed the
peaceful and law abiding occupants of
from one to five dollars each, that is too
big a thing for these judges. Not one
of these judges but who knows that the
raise made by the -Standard Oil trust
of two or three cents a gallon on the
price of oil is robbery. But when a great
criminal like this is brought before them
they grow weak in the knees, their brains
become clouded and they don't know
what to do. They are not big enough
for the responsibilities that have been
thrown upon them. They can try a man
for stealing ten dollars but to try a gang
for stealing a hundred million is another
thing altogether. It is something thrt
they have not read about in the law
books and they don't know what to do.
We want men on the bench who are
big enough to tackle a millionaire thief
with the same discrimination that they
do the man who steals a pocket book.
V e want judges who will pay no more
attention to the plea of a lawyer who
gets a hundred thousand dollar fee than
to one who gets a fee of ten dollars, and
who are, as willing to convict a thief who
has stolen a hundred million as one who
stole a pig.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Progress A Planter's Reputation A
Spreader's Reputation Great Dif
erence University Students Too
Much Yell Maple yrup Starving
f Prisoners The Nebraska Republi
can Platform. '
The republican party claims to be a
party of progress. They are the most
progressive party that ever existed in
the line of making millions out of poor
men s earnings.
Mr. McKinley will go down in history
as the great saloon plaviter. He plKted
a thousand saloons in four years, on free
territory; will be the record. What a
glorious work, more than all the other
presidents counted together.
Polk has the reputation of spreading
slavery over more territory than all the
other presidents, and Lincoln of clearing
more territory of slavery. Polk, Lincoln
and McKinley all great men, but the
greatest of the three is Lincoln.
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A great many people really think that
there is no difference between Bryan
democracy and Cleveland democracy.
But most of the Cleveland democrats
are for McKinley, because both of them
stand up for the eastern money sharks.
Buchanan stood up for the slave driver,
Cleveland stood, up for the millionaire;
McKinley stands up .for both. Then
look at the personal character, the home
character of the two men. Cleveland's
moral character, like that of Potiphar's
wife, is below suspicion. Not a hint was
ever uttered against Bryan.
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University students know a good thine
when they see it. The Nebraska students
do at least. They were wild with joy
when they learned that Doctor Andrews
had been chosen "chancellor of the Ne
braska State University. Ourchancel-
ors before have made their reputation
here, but Doctor Andrews brings a na
tional reputation with him. He will
bring no bright colored goods to trade
with the Indians, as . other university
teachers have.
We think there is a little too much
college yell" now adays. It is becoming
. little monotinous. Like salt in por-
idge, too much spoils the soup.'' There
are a dozen other modern student fakes
that are getting threadbare. Retter
drop some of , them. The only foolish
action we can remember in our college
day st was that of burying Euclid. We
had no games or secret- societies. The
Greek letters were allowed to sleep in
peace.
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It. is really laughable to think how
much maple syrup and sugar there is
made now adays. And they makt it now
in cities with not a maple tree m sight.
We used to go into the woods, tapped
the trees, gathered in the sap and boiled
it down to syrup or sugar. A little of it
is made that way now and is sold to the
city factories, and from every pound of
sugar four or five gallons of Vermont
maple syrup is made. Of course they
mix in a niue glucose, sorgum ana oeei
juice.
The way the English treat the Boer
prisoners is a disgrace to tne civilized
world. Ihey refuse to exchange, but
send the Boers to the desert island of
St. Helena, half way between Africa
and South America. Paul Kruger needs
a little of the Abe Lincoln retaliation
spirit. The English captives should be
confined in some tropical swamp and
fed on frogs and lizards of their own
catching, and for every Boer officer hung
or starved an iL.ngiisn omcer snouid
share the same fate. - '
Loo"k
over the republican " platform
laid down. by the Nebraska State con
vention last week. It starts out with
the following: "We rejoice that we are
citizens of a mighty nation, whose rev
enues are larger tnan at any previous
period in its history; whose treasury is
overflowing' with gold; whose agricul-
The party take3 credit for an increased
revenue. Any tool ougnt to Know tnat
increasing the taxes would increase the
revenue. Why, we ask. tax the people to
make the treasury overflow with gold?
There can be no other excuse, only that
the rich people and the thieving office
holders get the overflow. Seventy cents
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a ousnei in iew iors, xor wneai is not
a " very big "flourish" for agriculture,
when we take into the account that the
farmer has to pay two prices for every
thing he buys and freight both" ways.
' W e point with pride to the remodeling
of our tariff laws, which has increased
our revenues and not impeded trade;
which has opened the doors of mills and
factories to the millions of American
skilled mechanics, and is returning to
them the higher wages that are the just
recompense for their toil.
Tariff is only another name. for tax.
The "remodeling" was only an increase
of tax upon the necessities of the com
mon people. . v hy do they not tax tea,
coffee and other luxuries, such as com
mon people can get along without? Why
do they not tax imported wine seven
hundred per cent, as they do home-made
whisky? The poor men drink the whisky
and the rich men drink the wine, is the
reason. " And why tax American goods,
bought in e foreign land, when brought
home? The only " reason that can be
given is that American people should be
made to pay more for Amencan goods
than foreigners do.
" V e endorse the legislation that has
strengthened our financial system, and
hrmly established the gold standard."
Of course the corporation, trust and
banker's party "endorses" any scheme to
take money out of the pockets of com-
njon people and put it into their own.
The gold standard is the rich man's
measure. The millionaire bankers of
the east all favor it, in fact it is their
law, they first proposed it and secretly
carried it through congress. Had it
been referred to the people in 1373 it
would have been beaten 10 lo 1. We
favor the referendum.
lhe United states treasury puts in
evidence the $120,000,000 in gold that has
come to it within a year, and the $413,
000.000 in gold now held within its
vaults."
Why do we need so much gold lying
idle? Why not reduce the taxes a little?
If I were still a member ot the repub
lican party 1 would not boast of such
kind of economy and financering.
"While we are unalterably opposed to
imperialism and militarism as practised
by European nations, we are opposed to
a large standing army m time of peace.
tsryatk discusses these questions, or
republican platform makers would pass
them by. It is plain to be seen that the
republican party see the necessity of
acrreeins with him as far as possible m
order to take, the thunder out of his
doctrine. Imperialism means emperor
ism and empire differs from a kingdom
in this: a king can rule only one people,
and when by military force he subdues
and rules other peoples he becomes an
emperor. Victoria is queen of England
but empress of India. .McKinley is
president of the United States but em
neror of the Philippines." Now, how can
republicans favor McKinley and yet op
pose imperialism r
"But the republican party, now, as
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AN ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF
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always, . is unalterably opposed to - all
trusts and combinations having for their
purpose the stifling of competition, and
arbitrarily , controlling productions or
fixing prices." . - -
If the republicans are honest in the
above announcement, do you think the
trusts would-contribute anything to
carry their election? They know that
the object of all trusts is to control pro
duction and. fix prices. . Why did the
twelve iron mills shut down last month,
all in-one day? No, it is all buncombe.
The trusts will give Hanna twenty mil
lions again to count Bryan out in the
lake - states. Everybody knows that a
high protective tariff is a sister of trusts.
Trusts . fix prices and kills all competi
tion here, and the high McKinley tariff
kills all foreign competition. One holds
the farmer up and the other takes what
is in his pockets. '-.
PEOPLE AND POLITICS
The ' outstanding' registered floating
indebtedness of Nebraska (general fund
warrants) . amounted Vto $1,716,000. - on
Mayl. -
The : county-1 authorities of Jefferson
county are making arrangements to pay
$3,000. of their court house bonds and
refund the balance of $50,000, "
The apportionment of the temporary
school fund to be made on the 21st of
May, will probably be over $370,000.
The net balance on May 1 was over
$320,000, and the : April collections by
county treasurers will probably be over
$50,000. . .
Rose water had' protested that if
Thurston were named as one of the del
egates he would refuse .to serve with
him. - Both were named and Mr.' Rose
water went upon, the platform - and was
placed on exhibition with the other three
prize winners in: the primer class, and
offered not a - word . of protest. Therein
he was consistent. - -. . . '
The republican , ticket nominated the
other day is composed of a number of
gentlemen who expect to be slaughtered
in the most approved . manner in order
to help out the Rosewater-Thompson
legislature which the republicans ' hope
to elect-' No level-headed republican if
pinned right down-to his honest opinion,
believes any of the state ticket can "get
to first base. '-. - -
The total investments . made by treas
urer Meserve for the permanent school
fund from Jan. 7, 1897, to May 1, 1900,
amount to $l,591,6ol.08. This is made
up of -
County Bonds . . . . . . . . ..... $ 425,644.47
Sta te Warrants 1,166,006.61
$1,591,051.08
This is greater than the .investments
made for this fund m the six years pre
ceding January 7, 1897.
A goodly number of delegates to the
republican state convention had . evi
dently never heard of the Gaffin law re
garding the distribution of passes to
convention delegates. "You will be right
in the swim now," said a f usionist. to one
of the delegates, "now that , Blank has
been nominated you won't need to pay
much railroad fare." "You bet I won't.
was the reply. "I came down on a paste
board I got of him thi3 morning." An
other delegate said, "I hadn't intended
coming down; was very busy; but I
didn't feel very well, and it didn't cost
anything, so I concluded to knock off a
day."
Commenting on the usual pre-election
forecasts -indulged in by politicians of
every party, intended for political effect,
. i a -r i a T- i
the tJrooKiyn xagie anu-uryan aem.)
recently closed a long editorial in these
words:
"The election in our judgment will be
hard and close. No man , knows what
percentage, of , the - democrats will go
back to the party or how many republi
cans have been alienated by bossism,
army legislation, swollen trustism and
the continuous tragedy of life and peace
in the Philippines. No one can tell the sin
ous or sinister effect of the - pro-Boer
feeling in foreign-born voters here; none
can tell the strength of a sheer desire,
without cause, "to try a change." The
formalities of the canvass on either side
will be marked by stateliness and confi
dence. The country is apparently to be
treated to a repetition of 1S96 in 1900 but
under different conditions. In that is
small appeal either to interest or to im
agination; but those who argue the re-
suit from -the, surf ace only will do well
BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATIOM.
in Luzon specially for the Independent
not to miss the deeper" causes that may
be stirring beneath it.
A cumber of amusing things occurred
at the recent republican state conven
tion in Lincoln. Chairman Jenkins
flashed a carefullv written sneech on the
convention to show his appreciation of
the honor conferred upon - him; but he
took occasion to "crib'' portions of Mark
Hanna's Columbus speech without giv
ing credit to the Ohio senator and trust
magnate. Four separate and J distinct
times the editor of the True Populist
and another paper had, previous to the
convention, printed in an obscure sheet
he publishes at Omaha, as an annex to
True Populist, a cartoon of Hon. John
Mellen Thurston (often referred, to ir
reverently as "Coal Oil Johnny") repre
senting the senior senator from Nebraska
in the dual role of United estates senator
and attorney for the Standard Oil Com
pany; and many and loud were the pro
testations this editor made against al
lowing "sugar arid oil" to be sent as del
egates to the republican national con
vention. - In this fight the little editor
was ably seconded . by D. E. Thompson.
But when the roll of counties was finally
ended, it was found thatr 609 republican
delegates ' out . of 1033 ' desired their
"trusted" senator to be a delegate, while
the editor of the True Populist had
made a score of 992.' The four dele
gates at large are Rosewater, Erhardt,
McClay andThurstoi.
, It was rumored that Rosewater had
had said that if Thurston were elected
delegate, he (Rosewater) .would refuse
to act if elected; but after the ' election,
'you couldn't have dragged - him off the
delegation with a team . of mules," as
Dinah would remark.
It must have been a bit humiliating
to Senator.Thurston to receive such a
light vote while the most thoroughly
hated man in the republican party re
ceived over fifty per cent more votes.
The World-Herald staff correspondent,
in his inimitable manner, sized up the
situation after this fashion:
. There is no disguising the real situa
tion. The republican state convention
embraced its opportunity, and did the
thing that a lot of the wise ones' declared
to be bad politics. It ignored the fact
that Senator Thurston had ap
reared in
Standard
eourt as the champion of the
uu company wmie drawing a
salary of
$5,000 a year as United States
senator.
Thereby it strangled its convictions. It
also tried to make Edward Rosewater
believe that it loved . him still. , Therein
it stifled its conscience. ', '.'
. Freight Rates. .
Hon. M. L. Lockwood, in his , testi
mony before the Industral commission.
stated Jhat the average rate of moving
one ton of freight,, one mile is eighty-
five hundredths of one cent ($.0085), but
that individual shippers pay from 4.32
cents to 13.57 cents per ton mile. He
then asks,: "How much less than eighty
five hundreths cent per ton mile do the
trusts, monopolies and favored shippers
pay in order to bring the general average
down so low?" .
, Suppose the trusts ship ten times as
much as merchants and others who ship
in car lots; and a hundred times as
much as all the ' small shippers of the
United States who ship in quantities
less than . car lots. ". Let us figure a
little:
10 tons one mile, .1357, $1,357
-TOO tons one mile, .0432, 4.32
1000 tons one mile. & .0028, 2.823
1110 tons one mile, .0085, ' 8.50
It would appear that by such discrimi
nation the favored shippers do not pay
to exceed one-twentieth as much as the
merchants and less than one-sixtieth the
rate paid by smaller shippers. Discrim
ination in freight rates malces monopolies
possible in many lines; but it often
proves disastrous to the railroads, not
withstanding their rates to ordinary
shippers may be exorbitant.
"Four or five years ago the Atchison.
Topeka and Sante Fe railroad went into
the hands of a Receiver, and about the
first thing that that receiver found out
was that the officials of that road in a
short time prior, two or three years, had
paid out to .monopolies, trusts, favored
shippers, over seven millions of dollars
in rebate, and while this was a state's
prison offense, there seemed no disposi
tion on the part of the attorney-general
to bring these great criminals to judg
ment. These great railway and monopo
listic combines seem to oxershadow the
government and dictate and control the
action of its officials." - f
Sharpies Cream . Separators Profit-
able dairying.
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