Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
August 23, 1900
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to&gM Is as follows:
Mc Kit ley trusts
la ail trusts,
Ard Haxna fries the fat-
It look raw as though It was going
to be a landslide. Let u make It the
Lies aicce tLe glaciers ground tbeir
way &on froa the north and covered
tt! costliest a thousand feet deep.
Uettecatt Colonel Eager of the
first Nebraska was elected by the anti
impexialUt convertica held at Indian
apolis Tlce prid ct for the state of
Nebraska and fcas accepted the po
irttioa. Is 1156 the silver republicans left
the g. o. p. The other day the anii
lr:periaiit rrputlicaju left. Now If
all the acti-trust republicans will walk
out, there will be zurthing left but
Rockefeller, Etete Elkiss and Mark
llama,
Orgaaiie a Bryao club in your pre-
elict rlsfct away. Any se. male or fe- j
male, over ftfte-ra years of age can be-j
com a member. With such a club in j
every town and precinct the manage- j
Beet of the eacpaiga will be a very J
easy affair.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean In com
meatier oa Bryan's neecb at Ind
ianapolis says: "He :s a voice and5
cothlsg more." John the Baptist was
"the tolce of ose crying in the wilder-Bess.-
Vat that voice has been rever
berating down the ages and is now
heard la all the languages of the world.
I flag, they honored It. for mat flag rep
For four years the g- o. p. papers, nte4 freedom ana. dependence,
declared every day. morning and night, j Whea the patliots charged the British
that tre silver was dead. Now tbejjUne, at Yorktowa Kurr0Unded Lord
say that It is not only a live issue, but j 11 and his force, rorced him to
the paramount issue ia this campaign.
The question Is: Did they lie then.sUrs anJ Etripes were hoisted over a
do they lie now or do they lie ail the
time.
la the republican ranks. Mark Hanna Gettysburg, In the wilderness at Peters
en cot eeia to be doing anything ex- burS and thousands more followed
cept trasySn cp newtpapers. Let him Grant and Sheridan on to Appomattox,
buy them. He played that game on &lwa'8 following the flag, then they
the people once and they understand
It now. If he bought nine-tenths of
all the papers, he could cot carry this
country for JdcKialey and ImperialUm.
The State Journal and the Omaha
Be suppressed xaost of the associated
press report of the second day of the
acU -Imperialist convention at Indian-
a polls. The first day's report was such
a daxspner oa their feelings that they
doubtless gave orders cot to let any
more of that staff get in. The telegraph
'eitprs Set a few paragraphs go and
thejwLil doubtless get the grand
bouse, oa the first pay day. Gre&t
tews" papers are tLoe concerns. If
you wart the cews. read The Inde
peadexX On wotild think to read the Monday
Journal aad the same date Omaha Bee
that there was aa avalanche of gold
democrats to McKinley. but the five
coSmos devoted to the matter only
covers ten nea, mott of whom voted
for JJcKJpW la 1S6- The Independent!
can furcUa enough republicans who
have changed to Bryan sine US to
offset that record several times. The
tact Is cobody care what George L.
Miller. Billy Paxtoa and J. Sterling
Mortoa ar goizz to co this yr-
they hav known for years.
The cablegrams acnomsc that the
Gmaa papers In the Fathtland are j always Coated as the emblem of all the
all Gp ia am. The cause of the tip-j people of the United States and of all
roar is that Emperor William is fol-jtbe world who love liberty and degrad
lowirg too clofteiy la the footsteps of j ing it to the position of a banner of a
Emperor McKlaiey and is making war political party. As long as it floats
without the content f the German there as a banner of a political party,
parliament. The kaiser evidently j the f usioa forces of this state will see
thought that If McKinley. a ruler of j
a so-calM rt public, could make war ;
withost the csat of congres. he.!
lis said Laiser. and acknowledged em- j
peror cf the German empire, could dc
the same ihisg. But it mi that this
was too muth Imperialism for subjects
of aa empire to endure and there is i
general protect. There Is no emperor
like oar emperor and there are co sac
J-org eadarics. complaisant subjects ;n
all tha wo3ld as are the mullet heals.
' KII BA6 K A REPUBLICANS.
Until tea years a$o the republican
party ruled Nebraska to such an ex
tent that a republican nomination was
equal to an election. But its leaders
in the meantime had become the obed
ient toots of the corporation interests
nd bad committed such gross blun
ders that they drove thousands upon
thousands over to the populists and
alienated especially the German ele
ment. A decade ago they betrayed the
true republican cause by putting an
honest republican Judge of the su
preme court, when his term was out,
on the shelf for ten Ions years because
the corporations did not like his stub
born and Incorruptible independence.
And some years later they elected him
a great flourish of trumpets one of the
most obedient railroad tools to the
United States senate. These were a few
of their misdeeds and hundreds of sim
ilar vicious and stupid blunders had
the natural result that every candidate
was In bad repute when it was known
that he was a favorite of the republican
railroad attorneys and other corpora
tion leaders who controlled nomina
tions by packed caucuses and packed
conventions.
The above Is not a pop editorial, but
an extract from an article In the Oma
ha Bee. signed by Fred Hedde of
Grand Island. Ten years ago, when
the populists proclaimed those facts,
no one denounced the statements with
more bitterness than did Mr. Hedde. It
Is only another demonstration of the
fact that the old moss backs who run
the republican party are .always ten
years behind tee" procession of in
telligent " and progressive reformers
who have redeemed this state from
the power of the corporations.
It would seem that one who could
see the evil that the republicans of Ne
braska have done and could state it so
forcibly would rejoice over the triumph
of reform. But Mr. Hedde takes his
place in the front row of those who
mourn over the defeat of the republi
cans and corporations and at consider
able length explains bow they can
be put back in power. And he wants
that done after the republican party
has added the awful crime of imper-
laijEm to those whIcn he enumerates.
Mr- Hedde's logic Is simply this: "The
republican party in Nebraska has been
obedient tool of the corporations.
Because of that, it has been hurled
from power In this state. For all that
I mourn But there is a way that
this corrupt party pan be put back into
power. Let us go to work and put it
back."
HONOR THE FLAG.
When the patriots wltn bleeding feet
i marched through the snow to Valley
Forge following Washington and the
haul down the British ensiern and the
conquered foe, the flag was honored.
When tens of thousands of sons of
Tirf"thtn mnt Vi trj f nr r'.tf and Acr at
honored It. for that flag represented
liberty for all men everywhere and of
every color and condition. As that
nag floated above Lincoln when he de
livered that Immortal speech in which
he declared that "a government of the
people, for the peopte, ty the people
should not perish," the thousands as
sembled there and millions more in ev
ery land where a hope of liberty ex
isted honored that flag.
When McKInley sent a general of the
army to the sultan of tne Sulu islands
and that general, under orders from
Washington, purchased the privilege
of ra!elng the flag over him, his wives
! and his Islands, bribed ii:m with a pen
sion and agreed to protect slavery un
til the slaves were able to purchase
their own freedom - at the "market
price," the flag was dishonored. When
the half crazy partisans of imperialism
stretcifed that flag across the mala
street of Lincoln, cesecrated It with
the portraits of two candidates for
office. It was again dishonored.
That flag has been until now the
iroTertv of all the teoDle. of everv
)micaI beIieft every Bhade of TeUg.
JoQS oplnion of the Hch and of the
uett? fov a o..c9 wuu uiaac
it a flag of a political party. When the
rebeU tore It down from the walls of
R sampler, they did not disgrace it
more than these Lincoln republican
degenerates have. In 'tearing it down
I from the high position In which it has
to It that O street is deserted by all
thoe whj honor the flag as the emblem
of liberty for all the people. In some
way they will endeavor to show that
that flag: shall not be taken from the
portion where the love and affection
of the American people have always
exalted It and degraded to the low po
sition of the banner of a political par
ty. It shall still remain the banner of
the free and the emblem of hope of all
men who love liberty the world over,
The Independent does not advise the
commiting of any unlawful act. It has
always stood for law and order, and
for obedience to the decisions of the
courts even to the infamous Income
tax "decision. But there are ways in
which men who love liberty and re
vere the flag can show their detestation
of the degenerates who would desecrate
it, that' will be very effective.
SETTER WATCH OUT.
The news from China Is to the effect
that the American minister has been
rescued with all his family and be
longings. Now that our minister Is
safe, our missionaries safe, our mer
chants safe, it is time to get our mili
tary forces out of China and home
again. We have no more business there
and will have none until the long di
plomatic negotiations are closed that
will settle the amount of damages. We
have no more business in China. Com
mon sense, statesmanship, the true in
terests of the American people all de
mand that we get out. No true Chris
tian will ask that we make a way for
the propagation of our religion with
Krags and cannon. We have no right
to provide for profits of American ex
porters by sacrificing the lives of Am
erican soldiers to obtain them. No
American will claim that we should
sacrifice the lives of sons of American
mothers to obtain profits for the mil
lionaire merchants who reside In our
sea coast cities. If they want trade,
let them get it in open competition.
The Chinese will continue to buy goods
from them if our merchants will offer
to them such goods as are salable in
China at the same or lower prices than
merchants of other countries offer
them.
But The Independent warns its read
ers that the McKinley administration
has adopted the Talleyrand politics,
who said that the use of language was
to disguise human thought. If the
republican party wants to accomplish
anything, it starts out by denouncing
it. We had therefore btter watch
these utterances from Washington. At
present McKinley declares he has no
intention of a permanent occupancy of
any more Asiatic territory, Dut the flag
has been raised in China and accord
ing to his former utterances it can nev
er be hauled down. We had all "bet
ter watch out."
MOSEY WABXEK FOR UK VAX.
Mr. Warner has published the Lyons
Mirror for a long time. It is the old
est republican paper in Burt county.
He has been struggling with his con
science in an endeavor to stay in the
party to which he has belonged and to
whose success he has devoted so many
years of his life, but he gives it up at
last. He writes to a friend in this city
that he has published the last edition
of a republican paper that he will ever
publish. He says he can't stand trusts,
imperialism, standing armies and turn
ing the financial system over to the
money power.
Mr. Warner is one of the best known
citizens of northern Nebraska, where
he has resided since the time that the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. He is a man of unimpeach
able honesty, whose life has been an
inspiration to all who have known him.
For a long time he has been writing
articles against the money power, the
trusts and imperialism, although he
has kept the republican ticket at the
head of his columns. He has now done
what a great many cf the men who
helped form the republican party have
done in the last few weeks, left it, and,
like Governor ' Boutwell, will do all
in his power to destroy it. The pop
ulists of Burt, Cuming and Thurston
counties should see to it that his sub
scription list is made double what it
ever has been.
IRREDEEMABLE PAPER.
The republican party having spent
years in denouncing irredeemable pa
per money has ended up in flooding the
country with it, for national bank
notes are practically irredeemable.
They make a pretense of redemption,
but it is only a pretense, for the only
place where they can be redeemed is
at Washington and tnere only in lots
of $1,000 and upwards. As far as the
people generally are concerned, there
might as well be no' redemption at all.
In this, as in everything else, when
the plutocratic managers of the repub
lican party start to accomplish a thing,
they begin by denouncing it. That is
the policy they pursued with silver and
that is the way they managed to intro
duce an irredeemable paper currency,
They are attempting the same thing
with imperialism. They, with one
voice, declare that they are all against
It. But look out for them. That is the
way they always do.
Republican primaries have been held
In Pennsylvania and the result has
been announced that in the next legis
lature there will be 52 Quay republi
cans, 62 anti-Quay republicans and 64
democrats. That settles the question
of whether Quay will be finally retired.
He has run his race of corruption and
the end has come. Whether that leg
islature will be able to elect a senator
remains to be seen. There are three
parties and no one of them has a ma
jority. If they fail to elect, it will
only be another demonstration of the
necessity of adopting the populist plan
and elect senators by the vote of the
j people.
HAVE A HARD TIME.
The position of editor of a republi
can paper is a very hard place to oc
cupy these times. . To fill the place, a
man must of necessity abandon all the
attributes of honorable manhood. He
must have no opinions of his own. If
he writes before he gets orders from
headquarters, he is very likely to say
something that will displease the em
peror and then he must take it all
back, flop over to the other side and
denounce his own writings in the most
vigorous terms at his command. Here
in Nebraska we have a conspicuous ex
ample in the editor of the Omaha Bee.
He wrote against imperialism until
McKinley changed his notion about
"plain duty," and then he had to flop.
The editor of the Des Moines Register
is another example. He was red hot
against imperialism and wrote as fol
lows: "We believe it to be safest to aban
don our old-world possessions. But
this will not interfere with our holding
them until we shall have fully satisfied
ourselves as to a war indemnity. We
can hold the Philippines until we have
effected an advantageous settlement
of our difficulties with Spain. Nor will
it interfere with us in our desire to re
tain a coaling station on the islands.
We are entitled to that much. But. as
to holding the islands for ourselves
permanently, that is out of the ques
tion. Unless we abandon our own
policies and endanger our republic."
Shortly after he heard from Mark
Hanna and he flopped. To do so he
had to abdicate his position as a free
and independent thinker and writer,
but he did it. It was the demand of
the emperor's favorite and it had to
be done. It would not do to . antagon
ize the favorite. That Is the position
of every republican editor in the land.
It is a most shamefu and wholly dis
honorable position, but ir one edits a
republican paper that is what he must
do.
"Ain't you glad" that you are a
pop. You are no man's intellectual
slave. You think what you please,
write what you please and never have
to wait to hear from a Mark Hanna
before you publish what you have writ
ten. If anyone should come around this
office dictating what policy the paper
should pursue he would get kicked
into the street. If he. said that if you
don't do so and so, -you shall never
have an office, he would be told to
stick the offices in his pocket and "git."
"MARGARITAS TOP-SIDE."
The two "margaritas topside" of
journalism in the west seem to be the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Lin
coln State Journal. The other day
the Globe-Democrat had a leading edi
torial in which it declared that Bryan
was an anarchist of the same kind as
Bresci, the bloody-handed murderer
who assassinated King Humbert. Of
course that writer did not expect that
sensible men would believe that Bryan
was an anarchist that he went around
murdering people. It was simply an
appeal to the mob, such as the repub
licans daily engage in. There does not
seem to be any other course for them
to pursue, if they are to defend McKin
ley and his policies.
How can they defend the government
of Manila as it is administered under
the imperial orders of McKinley. Ma
nila has simply been turned over to
the rich Chinese to establish their
margaritas topside," their opium
dens, their whisky shops and to rake
in their boodle from every side. Mc
Kinley is the emperor in the Philip
pines. Everything is done by his or
ders. There is no lawmaking body
anywhere to make laws for Manila.
The orders of McKinley are the only
laws that are in force there. To de
fena such a thing as that, of course it
requires "margaritas topside" journal
ism. The Globe-Democrat and State
Journal come up to the scratch and
furnish it.
The cost of the war In the Philip
pines so far in men and money is re
ported from Washington to be as fol
lows: Soldiers killed in action.... 533
Deaths from wounds 193
Deaths from diseases and
other causes 1,668
Total number of deaths..... 2,394
Total number wounded 2,073
Cost of war in cash $186,678,000
There is no meaner, contemptible,
dirty trust in the United States than
the English thread trust. When the
McKinley tariff on thread was pro
claimed, the Great English manufac
turers just packed up and brought their
machinery and workmen over to this
side and raised the price of sewing
thread up to the rates imposed by the
McKinley tariff. Not satisfied with
that, behind that tariit they proceeded
to organize a thread trust and raised
the price again. They have finally got
prices so high that there is a falling
off in the consumption of thread. Ev
ery house-wife is very careful with
her thread now. The other day the
thread trust posted notices in all their
factories that the time of workmen
would be cut down to four days in a
week, which decreases their earning
power just one-third. While workmen
suffer and economize, the trust hopes
to so curtail 'the supply that women
will be forced to pay their prices
While the mills were m the hands of
the Co nants, Americans, who were in
keen competition with, other thread
plants, they were kept running on full
time, and their operatives received full
pay. Now the English trust, which
has absorbed them, curtails production
for an indefinite time. -
This trust lives and has its being
solely by virtue of the tariff. Repeal
the tariff and it would die. The old
state of affairs, when the wage work
ers had work all the time at good
wages would be restored. There are
a great many other trusts that exist
solely by virtue of the tariff. They sell
their goods at just double the price to
Americans that they charge foreigners.
They have done it for the last fifteen
years. They will continue to make a
double charge to American consumers
as long as the outrageous tariff is on
the statute books.
The prominent republicans in Ind
iana who have renounced McKinley
and all his ways are exceedingly num
erous. Prominent among them are
General Lew Wallace, ex-President
Harrison and ex-Congressman Henry
U. Johnson. Mr. Johnson will take the
stump for Bryan. However, these de
sertions are no more numerous in Ind
iana than in several other states The
old time republicans don't , like im
perialism and a great many have the
courage to say so, while others will
vote against it and say nothing.
All the republican magnates declare
that labor unions are trusts. They also
believe that there are good trusts and
bad trusts. As they never have any
tuing to say against the Standard Oil
trust, the sugar trust, the steel trust
or any of those sort of combinations,
the labor unions must, in their minds,
be the only bad trusts that exist. They
introduced a constitutional amendment
into congress last winter, if it had
been adopted, would have enabled them
to suppress the labor unions as trusts.
When an amendment was offered to
exempt the labor unions, the amend
ment went over iue transom.
McKinley has driven out, shot or im
prisoned the Christian leaders of the
Filipinos in Manila anJ turned the
town over to the heathen Chinee, who
has established his opium joints on
every street and opened up a market
for slave girls. American courts give
certificates of jconcubinage, which is a
worse form of polygamy than ever ex
isted in the Sulu islands. He made a
treaty with Mohammedan, protected
him in his property in slaves and gave
him a pension. The Christian men of
Manila he would not treat with, but
drove them into the wilderness, slaugh
tered them by the thousands, impris
oned them by the hunarecrs, taxed them
beyond endurance and calls all that
spreading the gospel of Christ!
Bryan dominated the national demo
cratic convention, not because he was
the head of a machine, but because the
members of that convention feared that
he would not accept a nomination at
their hands unless they promulgated a
platform in accordance with his
wishes. Such a thing never occurred
in this country before and probably
never will again. Think or It! A private
citizen, without an office, without a
machine, his party out of power, all
the powers of wealth actively opposing
him and yet directing the policies, and
leading more than 6,000,000 of free and
Independent men in paths they have
not before trodden without a dissent
ing voice to be heard among them! It
will never occur again.
Poor old Ignatius Donnelly. We
knew that if he undertook to associate
with the fuzzie wuzzies and republican
assistants, that degeneracy would soon
mark him for her own. In writing of
Towne's declination he says of Stev
enson, "He is the pure, unadulterated
quintessence of Cleveland democracy."
Now Donnelly knows that Stevenson
never had any sympathy with Cleve
land democracy. That he stood as firm
as the rock of ages against Cleveland
during all that long fight. Donnelly
knows that, and yet he makes the
above assertion without a Dlush. That
shows the effect upon a man's char
acter of constantly associating with
bad company.
THE PEOPLE SHOUTED.
Guy S. Mitchell says that when the
British government In India reopened
the Delhi canal, great concourses of
people accompanied tne waters as they
passed slowly along through the new
channel flowers were thrown into the
stream, and the multitudes loudly ex
pressed joy, and welcomed with glad
cheers the sight of the long desired
waters. Similarly the inhabitants of
Milan collected in vast numbers along
the banks of the Canal Martesana upon
its reopening and cheer after cheer
arose as the waters poured past,
Such would be the case in this coun
try if the government would store up
the waters that now go to waste and
then pour them out on the rich soil of
the arid west, but Mark Hanna and
McKinley prefer to spend millions that
would bring gladness, plenty of peace
to millions in our own country, fight
ing Filipinos under the tropics. What
is left after that, Mark wants con
gress to give him in the shape of a
ship subsidy. The mullet heads think
that is all right.
A FOREIGN COMMANDER.
If American troops .are to serve
under any foreign commander in China
they would perhaps prefer a German to
any other, and the appointment of
Count Waldersee as commander In
chief of the allied forces will cause no
remonstrance in the United States.
The question is: What will our troops
be expected to do when the great grab
game in China begins?
Complimentary telegrams have been
exchanged between the German em
peror and Emperor McKinley over the
appointment of a German commander.
They were of the most flattering kind.
Of course it was necessary to choose
a commander in chief for the allied
forces at the time that choice was
made, but ' McKinley seems to have
made no reservations at all in making
the arrangement, except that our
troops shall camp together, march to
gether and fight together.
Will the American troops,, be used
to slice up China for the benefit of the
European monarchies? At present
England's eye Is on Shanghai. Ger
many will compete for the Yangtse
valley. Russia is fighting for New
Chwang. France is lined up with Rus
sia and the United States rs mixed up
in the whole business with no stip
ulated right to withdraw.
What are Chaffee and the American
soldiers to do over there? Since Pekin
has been relieved and all Americans
are in safe places, why should Chaffee
in obedience to the orders of any com
mander in chief go on killing Chinese?
That is what the pops would like to
know. ,
BRAVE WORDS
"I helped to create the republican
party, a party at that time of justice
and principle and honesty. I believe
now it Is a party of injustice and de
spotism and I will help to destroy it."
George S. Boutwell.
These are the words or a man eighty
two years of age who was the friend
and companion of Lincoln, Seward,
Chase, Sumner and the galaxy of
statesmen, patriots and warriors who
saved the union and abolished human
slavery. They embody the sentiment
of nearly every one of the early fighters
for freedom who are now living.
Before Boutwell helped to organize
the republican party he .was a demo
crat, He left the democratic party
when it deserted the principles of Jef
ferson, just as he has now left the re
publican party when it deserted the
principles of Lincoln. It is certain
that Governor Boutwell is not afflicted
with the disease known as partisan
insanity, and which has taken such a
firm footing in the system of Senator
Hoar. That poor old man. says that
the continuance in office of President
McKinley and the carrying out of his
policies means the overthrow of this
republic, but nevertheless, he is going
to vote for McKinley. No pop was
ever troubled with that disease and
never will be. If he gets it, he is no
longer a pop, but becomes a fuzzie
wuzzie.
MUST SUPPRESS IT.
When Senator Wolcott made his
speech before the republican national
convention it was announced In all the
republican papers that it would be the
principal campaign document of the
party and that millions of copies of it
would be printed and circulated. It
seems now that it will have to be
greatly revised or suppressed alto
gether. William the Wobbler wobbles
so much that it is impossible to make
a campaign document ,-that will last
six months and represent him. Wol
cott said in that speech:
"Through the policy of the repub
lican party and the wisdom of a re
publican administration we have not
only made stable and permanent our
financial credit at home and abroad,
are utilizing more . silver as money
than ever before in our history, but
we have left the populistlc democracy
a dead issue, they can never again gal
vanize into life, and compelled them
to seek to create new Issues growing
out of a war which they were most
eager to precipitate."
The republicans have suddenly found
out that silver is not "a dead issue,"
but in fact, that it is the paramount
issue of this campaign. That is what
they are all saying and it will hardly
do to circulate this Wolcott speech by
millions, side by side with present
declarations.
The press has continued to p.ttack
the illogical, position of Senator Hoar
with such rigor that he has deemed It
necessary to defend himself. He now
says that one reason that makes it im
possible for him to support Bryan, al
though the McKinley policy is sure
to end in the overthrow of the repub
lic, is that several judges of the su
preme court are very old, and if Bryan
is elected president he may have the
opportunity of appointing a majority
of the judges of that court, "for the
overthrowing of the banking system
and the establishment of the income
tax."
The logic of the senator is peculiar.
It is this: "It is better that, this re
public should be destroyed than that
an income tax be imposed on the rich
or the bankers should not have the
sovereign prerogative of issuing
money." Reformers sometimes sayvery
hard things against the republicans be
cause they , will not meet their oppo
nents in debate and seldom if ever un
dertake to make an argument. If they
would only take into consideration how
impossible it is for a republican to ,
make a logical argument to sustain -the
policies of the republican party,
they would show pity, rather than in
dulge in anger. Senator Hoar Is one
of the ablest and most scholarly men in
their ranks, and the above is. the very
best that he can do. What kind of a
muss would a degenerate like the one
who writes most of the editorial mat
ter for the State Journal get Into if he
should undertake to make an argu
ment in favor of republicanism when
the brilliant and scholarly Hoar makes
such a complete failure? The only
wisdom that the Journal editor has
ever shown Is in never trying to make
an argument He knows that Is im
possible, so he fills up his columns
with appeals to the rabble. That is a
kind of work in which he feels per
fectly at home.
A large number of newspapers are
greatly interested in the amount of
taxes that Bryan pays. They seem to
have a great antipathy to a man who
will pay taxes of his own rree will.
That, is against all their principles.
They point out how the amount of
Bryan's taxes increase year by year.
That disgusts them beyond measure,
as his real estate has not increased.
They are all very sure that a man who
will pay taxes on invisible property is
not fit to be president. McKinley
doesn't do it. Rockefeller doesn't do It,
none of the great millionaires do it,
and when they see Bryan pay taxes
on all his property, vislOTe and invis
ible, they gnash their teeth in rage.
Why do no( some of these republican
editors publish something about Mc
Kinley 's taxes? He was a bankrupt
a little while ago. How much property
has he now? How much taxes does
he pay?
Information has reached The Inde
pendent from the most reliable and
trustworthy sources In New York that
Mark Hanna proposes only to put out
enough speakers to make a show of
campaigning. He expects to buy this
election with cold cash. Curtis reports
In the Chicago Record that fifty-four
papers in Minnesota have transferred
their allegiance from Bryan to Mc
Kinley. The same sortJf thing is go
ing on in every douhtful state. Be
sides the purchase of papers, Hanna
expects to invest millions in the pur
chase, outright, of individual voters.
Men are to be sent into every township
and every precinct '.to buy voters. In
fact, Hanna has v adopted the old
"blocks of five" ? plan with unlimited
supplies of money to back'lt up. Many
men have been wondering why the re
publicans did hob start their campaign.
This information-frotai New York ex
plains things.
Roosevelt has reiterated his insult
to all men who do not agree with him
concerning the policies of this govern
ment in. such offensive terms that it
puts him outside of the pale of gentle
men. No man is longer under any
obligations to treat him as such, and
if anyone . of the loyal men in this
country whom he denounces as "cow
ards" and declares that "they stand
for lawlessness and disorder" should
walk up to him and slap his face, he
would be administering the only rebuke
that such bragadocio Is capable of un
derstanding. If imperialism is to become
the policy of this government, every
citizen will be liable to be abused in
this manner by any one who wears
shoulder straps or has ever worn them.
Roosevelt is giving an exhibition of
what imperialism is. To such Insults
all men will have to submit when a
large standing army is once installed.
If any man who has an opinion that
does not . coincide with the views of
Roosevelt is to be denounced as a cow
ard and a sneak and the insult meekly
accepted in silence by the seven million
men at whom it is hurled, then we
had better emmigrate to Russia where
there is some liberty of opinion al
lowed to subjects.
In commenting upon tie queen's
speech to the British parliament, an
eastern republican daily says:
The war in South Africa, the Ashan
tee uprising and the Chinese difficulty
make up the topics to which 'extended
attention is given. Home legislation
has played a comparatively small part
in the work of the session that has
closed. Numerous bills upon min.r
matters have been passed, but no great
principle of domestic reform has oc
cupies, the time of the commons and
the lords and nation they represent.
This is a direct and . natural conse
quence of the entanglements in which
Great Britain has become involved
through the acquirement of vast terri
torial possessions in all quarters of the
globe.
That is just the con ition in which
the congress of the United States will
find itself if imperialism is made the
policy of this government" Much of
the time of the last congress was spent
in consideration of matters in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. In the
future much more will have to be
iven to them if they are maintained
as subject colonies. The result of that
T7..1 be, that legislation for the benefit
of the people of the United otates will
find no time for consideration. It is
hard to get any reform through con
gress now. It will be a hundred times
harder then. Imperialism means the
stopping of all advancement in these
states.
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