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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
October 4;1900
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The plained koijtbt of the trusts is
J, Sterling Mortem, and he who would
sally forth and rob washer omen. A
bra knight i be!
Tie reTj!J-r. are fierce in their j
demands for a single ttandard for
meet, iney want a oouoie nunaira
om for Porto Rico and the Philippines
and a zither for thee states.
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cow has a mayor down at Nebraska j
City wto petition the attorney gen
eral to allow Morton and his Starch
trust to rob washerwomen. If there
Is a mayor in the United States who
fan beat that, he should be trotted
out right away.
When a republican is driven to the
wall in an argument, his last resource
is to declare that the election of Bry
aa mill bring n a panic. The answer
to that is. that the dlren results of
the wort patJe that the world ever
saw would cot be too h!j;h a price to j
pay for the preservation of this re- j
public
The newspapers ray that hen the
Wokott-Itoevelt-Lodge special train
siartM to the mining regions they
took wtto them thirty typewriters and ,
twenty -tv-n colored porters the por- t
ter all dresed in white uniforms.
Wfceo the hard-working miners saw
that outf-t thy did not take to it at ., Ftltut2on does not folow the flag.
IL -No osr there was a row. S XheM Btates vIU become a monarchy
where the consent of the governed will
The war in the Philippines is a war jRn0red. or the proposal will be
again! the principles of the Declara- ; trampled beneath the feet of the indig
tk f Independence, the eonftitation nant freeman of tbis land,
and liberty Itseif. It Is more a war ! .
upon ear own country than upon the t
inhahitaits cf the orient. Krery man
who supports It is a traitor, whether
b so intends it or tot, ts the gov
ernment of tn United Fut.
The f osion campaign was rather
lethargic In Montana and Colorado
until Teddy appeared with a chip on
his shonlier. Instantly the fusion j
force alopted the "strrnuous life"
and went at the work it electing Bry
an wttJh a Tim tlat was terer seen be
fore. The p-op!e began to ak for
speakers and gathered for meetings.
When they couldn't get a speaker they
did tha txlkirg themjfcelves.
Sir Vernon llareotirt in a recent
speech said cf the South African war
and Jo Chain berlilna policy:
"Th rTilt cf the covemnsent's pol
icy is that v are tow the best-hated
eoantry la the world and burdened j
Wtthl th Unimsll!d U mil an In.
creased taxation. We xnay well re-
gmrd ocr national f nance w ith the '
graTert apprehension. The cost of '
!U.J fAl1 fLOrt f VJ-' I
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In Ixsrd Itobxy' recent speech
he declares that the South Afrirsn
war "ha exposed England to humilla- ' of something nat happened at Eph
tlona unparalleled in our history since 801116 centur5e3 ago A man
the American war - Sce of the Eng-
lUixnen who got mad at The Indeoen-
Ar tnr rHH'r, tfcit .-in
that many of the brightest and beet
of their own nation took exactly the
same view of it that The Independent
Senator Hoar and Stewart are an
eveniy matched pair. Hoar ays that
ifeKinley's imperialism win wreck
the republic, but he is going to vote
fcr tim. Stewart has said a thou
sand times that McKinley's goldbug-
itra will wrefk e country, but then
fc is going to vote for him As a pair
f senatorial freaks, they v.ould be a
fortune to a dime cuuo
The Independent ha received a cir
cular which begins by saylnc: I ac
cept the candidacy of the Pur Bi-isetalik-
Party." It signed "Eben-
eier Wakely " Mr. Wakely does not than ver now- 60 anrry is he that evr
say who offered it to tin. His diree- rT time he sItB down to write "bry
ticn to voters is: anarchy." his lands tremble, his knees
A Pure BlraetaliUt has no affirma- knock together and he foams so much
tiv political party in iSKw. Other is- ! at lle mouth that a lackey has to
turs intervene. 1 t uch bimetallist rstand near bin. and wipe his lips with
vote a he p!eae on other issues and 1 a napkin. Poor Morton! That little
vote his conviction alo. Let such h.m was a- awful faiiure
voter strike or refuse to vote for the ' CDeme was ac awim rauure.
rtt elector en th ticket, otherwise of 1
hi choice." The plutocntts are always talking
In close tote like there was in about "the rights of property." as
California and Kentucky at the last Uhough property could have any right
eWtioa. that trick might get Mark or wrongs. Can iron or steel or land
Haena an elector or two. Look out i have rights? Perhaps what they
for mere jut sucfc tricks I mean Is the rights of those who own
A DAXOZROUS TH3EAT
Very often the fusion speakers have
cilled attention to the fact that the
establishment of colonies to be gov
erned outside of the constitution is a
threat and a- very dangerous threat
against the liberty of American citl-
' zens. A citizen of any of the states
would lose his "Inalienable rights" to
trlaI h to the wrIt of habeas
corpus, could not demand that he be
confronted by witnesses against him,
could be sentenced to cruel and un
usual punishment, could be twice put
In Jeopardy for the yame crime, his
person would be subject to unreason-
able searches, could be deprived of life
and property without process of law,
freedom of speech could be denied
him and he could be deprived of the
4 services of counsel the moment he
s landed in the "new possessions." Un-
der this doctrine that the constitution
does not follow the flag, the moment
i a man entered any of our territories.
! every right guarantee I to him by the
const'tution vanishes,
i That doctrine Is the most .nbomina-
ble ever preached since the theory of
the divine right of kings was drien
out of the western hemisphere by the
. . " MJi I 1
i neroic sunermz ana Tiaicnipss nriv-
i9Ty of ff)Ught tne rev).
lutionary war and gave as a heritage
to mankind the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the constitution of the
United States.
n Is not proposed to only deny the
nat,s of these islands of the sea the
I protection of the constitution, the
j right of trial by jury, but of necessity,
i to every man who goes to live in them.
lie would, as soon as he landed on
i their shores lose every right guar a n
' teed to him by the constitution, and
become a "subject" of a government
; in which he had no voice and where
every right that he deemed sacred
would be taken away from him. If
many Americans ever emmigrated to
those islands. It would not be long be
fore there would be a bigger row than
Aguinaldo has ever been able to create,
the resuit of which would be, if they
were defeated, a spread of the cloc-
trine of despotism over the states
themselves. If thy succeeded, the col
onies of the United States would re
appear as independent governments
just the coIonles cf Spain bave
onf,
j There is but ore of two outcomes to
this policy of declaring that the con-
AX AWrCL 1'AILURK.
A citizen of Nebraska City writes to
this editor that their mayor "is the
biggest fool on earth," and makes
some other remarks that will hardly do
to print in a great religious weekly
like The Independent. Every one
knows that Bryan has but one per-
on& enemy In that town or county
one J. Sterling Morton. If the said
Morton had contemplated an assault
on Bryan as he had telegraphed to the
eastern dallies, he gave it up. It is
wefl that he dli, for he would have
come out of a personal assault on
Bryan Just as much the worse for wear
as he would hfive in an intellectual
bout- Morton probably came to that
conclusion himself, so he got his little
mayor to Issue a proclamation warn
ing him not to try It and telegraphed it
all over the country, to the disgrace of
j me til J 1UU uir "uuir oinc.
It seems to The Independent
that
those citizens who petitioned Attorney
General Smyth not to enforce the law
against their pet trutt made as big
fools of themselves as the gold bug.
democratic mayor.
This action of the mayor of Nebras
ka City and his followers reminds one
! cam there Pretcning a aoc.nue ii
! endangered a trusi
making idol3.
and the citizens got up a great
a great row.
They declared: "This man endangers
our craft." for three hours they did
nothing but yell, "Great is Diana of
the Ephesians." It is probable that
the little gold bug mayor down there
had heard of that story and wanted to
set the inhabitants of Nebraska City to
yelling: "Greit is Morton's starch
trust." But the inhabitants of the Ne
braska town bad more sense than
i those ancient Epheeiins and instead
of following the advice, went to work
and got up the greatest meeting ever
i held in the place to welcome Mr. Bry-
an and the attorney general who fights
trusts. Instead of shouting: ' Great
is Morton's starch trust," they shouted
themselves hearse cheering Bryan
and Smyth.
They say that Morton is madder
property. We always thought that un
til lately, but since they have made
the demand -that property shall vote,
we doubt it. In Porto Rico they have
given property a right to vote, and
they propose to do the same thing ini
the Philippines. They do It in Eng
land and we must follow after the
English, you know. Over there a
man who owned a donkey, and having
the property qualification was allowed
to vote. The donkey died and when
he went to vote the next time they,
wouldn't let him. He wanted to know
whether it was the donkey that had
been voting all the time or him. Of
course it was the donkey that voted,
for when the donkey died the voting
stopped. That is what the plutocrats
would like to introduce into "our
new possessions."
LOOK OUT.
Information has come to the
office of The Independent that
the republican managers have
convinced Mark Hanna that
there is a chance for them to
carry the state for McKinley and
elect two gold bug. imperialist
senators. The result is that this
state is to be flooded with money
and speakers during the last
two weeks of the campaign.
It is also learned that a large
number of mileage books on the
railroads have been distributed
in different parts of the state.
The Independent asks its readers
to keep a watch for them and
report immediately to headquar
ters. IMPKRIALIST MAJORITIES
The majorities for imperialism, if
there are any such majorities after the
votes are counted, will come for the
most part from that part of the coun
try where imperialism was given the
first great check that it ever got in the
history of the world. In the shadow
of Bunker Hill, around the battle
fields of Concord and Lexington, near
the old elm in Cambridge, where
Washington died for liberty and the
Declaration of Independence, the de
generate sons of patriot fathers will
rally to the polls, and by their votes
declare that the doctrines of the con
sent of the governed and no taxation
without representation were only
political emenations, put forth to serve
the purposes of the time and are not,
what the fathers claimed them to be,
namely, eternal principles which must
underly all just governments.
Another strange scene that can be
seen almost any. Sunday is the people
gathering by thousands into their
churches, where they sing the fol
lowing hymn which is a popular one
in all New England.
0 Lord, our God! Thy mercy led our
fathers.
Pilgrims of faitn across the wintry
sea.
Here in the wilderness to raise thine
altars.
In simple truth to serve and worship
Thee.
When, in past days, uprose our sires
heroic,
Whose spirit brave no tyrant could
appal,
'Twas in thy name they fought to
found the nation
Of freedom, justice, equal rights to
all.
Lo, once again the spirit roused the
nation, .
To rise in might th' imperilled land
to save,
Marshalled in arms the patriot hosts
of freedom
And struck the shackles from the
cow'ring slave.
Still, still, around
us giant ills are
threatening,
And slaves to passion,
ignorance
and fear
Ask our redemption, while the battle
waging
We fight for virtue, home and coun
try dear.
After singing that hymn with fervor
and unction, these men will walk to
the polls and vote for slavery and
polygamy under the stars and stripes
in the Sulu islands and to shoot down
by the thousand the brown men of the
Orient who are fighting for the very
same things that they praise God that
their fathers fought for. From such
men will come the imperialistic ma
jorities. In the virile west we may not do so
much praying as they do in New Eng
land, but when we do pray, we fight
the same way we pray.
Bryan's friends are perfectly will
ing that the New York city ice trust
should be made an issue in this cam
paign. Every director of that trust
is a republican. The trust was ex
posed and broken up by the New York
Journal, assisted by other democratic
papers, and proceedings were brought
before Governor Roosevelt by the
Journal for the impeachment of Mayor
Van Wycke. Roosevelt has held them
up and gone off an a campaign tour
instead of removing the ice trust may
or as he ought to have done. There
are both democrats and republicans in
that trust, but the democratic papers
have denounced and prosecuted the
trust while the republican papers have
only had apologies tor it at home,
while they denounced the democrats
who were connected with it away from
home. Not one of them has ever
published a line against the republi
cans who are in it.
AN EDITORIAL COWARD
On "the 6th of September The Inde
pendent published a letter written by
a citizen of this city fo the Boston
Daily Journal. It was an experiment
to see if a New England Journal dare
print a fair statement of a bimetallism
The letter was courteous in tone and
as a contribution to a purely economic
discussion, was of great value. The
Independent announced that it would
never appear in any daily supporting
the gold standard and the prediction
has proved correct. The editor, of the
Boston Journal, instead of printing the
communication, which was very short,
took some garbled extracts from it as
a basis for sarcastic editorial com
ments. The - Independent announced'
at the time that every device that
could be invented by the wit of man
had been employed to get sound econ
omic articles into the great dailies in
the east, and no attempt had ever yet
succeeded. This last attempt suffered
the fate of all others.
The Independent has no hesitation
in denouncing the management .of the
Boston . Journal as editorial cowards.
They dare not meet their opponents,
even in their own columns, where an
editor always has an indisputable ad
vantage. In answer to the sound propositions
contained in the letter, the editor of
the Boston Journal made use of econ
omic terms in a way that would be
disgraceful to a school boy. Take
this sentence: "Wage earners or de
positors are paid in fifty-cent dollars,
instead . of one-hundred-cent dollars."
There might be some excuse for the
use of such terms as that by a politi
cal spell-binder addressing an ignorant
crowd, but the appearance of them in
one of cultured Boston's great dailies,
is disreputable beyond expression. It
is, as we said, a disgrace to a school
boy, for every school boy knows that
it takes a hundred cents to make a
dollar, if it does not then his text
books are full of lies. WThen such a
term as "fifty-cent dollar" and "hundred-cent
dollar" is used by a man of
education-it shows that he is either
dishonest or.a. coward. He dare not
discuss the question presented hon
estly. The1 same, may be said of the use of
the term: "A dollar worth a hundred
cents." That term is used by these
dishonest editorial cowards to confuse
the mind, not to express a thought.
Look at the absurditiy of the ex
pression a gold dollar is worth a
hundred cents. Does he mean a hun
dred gold cents? Then it only amounts
to saying: "A gold dollar is worth a
gold dollar." ' Was ever before such
nonsense indulged in by educated men
in all the wSrld? But if he does not
mean that a gold dollar is worth a
hundred cents in gold, what is it
worth a hundred cents in? Is it worth
a hundred cents in wheat or corn or
beef? There', is no use to pursue this
nonsense further. Any man who Is
capable of writing good English who
uses such terms is dishonest and cow
ardly. The Independent has the most pro
found contempt for the editor of the
Boston Journal, as well as the whole
gang of scoundrels who try to con
fuse the common people by the use of
language, that they may induce, them
to vote to make more millionaires and
concentrate capital more and more in
the hands of the few, and by so doing,
endanger the form of government un
der which we live.
It should be remembered that the
national banks got a gift of $65,944,
635 by the passage of the financial bill
last March for which they contributed
nothing in taxes or in anything else.
That bill allowed them to increase
their circulation 10 per cent on the
bonds that they already had deposited.
No wonder that they think that this is
a great year for prosperity. This does
not include the gift of circulation
which has been made to them on new
bonds. They did not have to do a
thing to get $65,000,000. It did not cost
them even a postage stamp. The comp
troller just had those millions sent to
them. Isn't it a nice thing to be na
tional banker under this McKinley
Gage regime? WTould even an honest
preacher blame a pop for swearing
when he thinks about these things?
As for the mullet heads they don't
know anything about them and
wouldn't believe if they were told to
them. They go on the principle
"Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly
to be wise."
In last week's paper the very inter
esting letter from Lucien Stebbins got
away down into the southwest corner
of the seventh page. That does not
make so much difference in The In
dependent as would in some other pa
pers for every word of The Indepen
dent is scanned by most of its readers
and then the paper is filed away for
future reference. We are glad to see
that Mr. Stebbins has at last been
convinced that the Clem Deaver out
fit, all and singular, are a set of bood
lers. If he had trusted The Indepen
dent he would not have had the dis
grace of associating. with a disreput
able set of miscreants. Mr. Stebbins
says that he knows of his own knowl
edge that the purpose of that disrep
utable gang is: "To bunch the true
populist voters, like a herd of cattle,
and without their knowledge or con
sent,' put them upon the market, sell
them for all-they can get and pocket
the. proceeds." 1 Mr. Stebbins ought to
know what he is talking about. He
has been in the movement from the
very beginning.
A TRUST-RUI NE D TOWN.
One of the saddest pictures that man
ever gazed upon is a trust-ruined town.
It is even more pitiable than the
wreck left by a cyclone. When the
cyclone passes, the neighbors assem
ble and give their aid, contributions
pour in from distant places and in a
year or two the town is rebuilt, business-resumes
and. a happy population
again takes its place in the commun
ity. Not so with a trust-ruined town
when its manufactures are closed.
The town does not revive. A dark
and lasting despair settles upon the
community. First the churches dis
appear, for those who contributed . to
their support have become pauperized
and can no longer sustain public wor
ship. The grocery stores close up, the
dry goods houses follow, grass grows
in the streets and desolation reigns
supreme. One by one the inhabitants
move away and at last silence reigns
where the busy hum of business and
the happy laughter of childhood was
heard. Even the land where the town r
stood is ruined. No man can make a
farm where the streets once were and
the ruins of tumbled down buildings
cover the earth. Where the town once
was is a lonely waste, and over it
broods forever gloom and despair.
There are scores of such scenes of
desolation scattered over these United
States and before the trusts come to
full fruition, there will be hundreds
more. Over in the state of Illinois the
steel trust has lain its desolating hand
on several once flourishing towns. The
stories that come from them are as
heart-breaking as the description of
the Galveston floods.
COME HOME TO ROOST.
A story is published in the New
York dailies to the effect that a lot of
republican spell-binders among them
a congressman hired a trolley car and
started out among the factories of
New Jersey carrying a banner on
which was the "full dinner pail."
When they got into the region of the
factories, an enormous crowd of mill
workers listened for a while and then
got angry and pelted the congressman
and his crowd with eggs, carrots and
cabbages. A very ripe egg hit Con
gressman Stewart in the eye. The fu-
si lade became general and the clothes j
ot the party were ruined. j
" It is recorded also that out in Colo
rado at Creede, Roosevelt was very
roughly treated and his guard of rough
riders liad to close in around him to
prevent the miners from using him
very roughly.
The Independent has no sympathy
with any such proceedings. They are
as Mr. Bryan says, always -an injury
to the party that indulges in them.
After that is said, it will be well to re
member that the republican party is
responsible for this sort of thing.
Roosevelt started out with denouncing
all who disagreed with him as dis
honest and cowards. Should he ex
pect any other sort of treatment than
what he got? For years every man
who differed in opinion from the re
publican party has been denounced as
an anarchist, traitor or copperhead.
The English language has been
searched for vile terms to apply to all
those who would not fall down and
worship their god of gold. This policy
which has been persisted in for years
has produced retaliation. Their
chickens are coming home to roost.
The Independent deplores it all. il
says to its readers: Give no encour
agement to such disorder. Frown upon
it on all occasions. Let the republican
liars repeat their lies wherever and
whenever they want to. We have
more forcible arguments than missiles
.1 ill. 41 . J Oi..J
Lin u w u wiiu me uauus. ouiiiu lur
law and order always and everywhere,
no matter under what provocations.
The British flag was raised last
week over that part of American soil
that John Hay and McKinley trans
ferred to the Queen of England the
American flag was hauled down.
Roosevelt, the great defender of the
"honor of the flag" had not a word to
say. The question now is not "Who
will haul down the Hag?" but "Who
did haul down the flag?"
A press dispatch from Peoria, 111.,
says that at the Method'st conference
there Bishop Hartzell "emphatically
indorsed the action of America and
England in their policy of co-operation
in South Africa." It seems then that
the charge that McKinley has been co
operating with an empire for the de
st.iuction of two tepublics was not
only true, but so well known to Bishop
Hartzell that he assumes it to be an
undisputed fact. But the Bishop should
remember that few of the citizens of
the United States have been so inti
mate with McKinley as he has been.
We doubt very much whether a major
ity of the members of the Methodist
church emphatically indorses the de
struction of those republics and the
setting up of an empire in their place.
HANNA:" COME I COME !
TBKl' SAT BRIAN HID IT.
The principal charge that has been
made against Mr. Brytra, and the one
on which Senator Hoar lays the great
est stress, is that Mr. Bryan planned
to create the issue of imperialism so
that he might thereby be elected presi
dent, There is no foundation to this
charge at all. Mr. Bryan did his ut
most to prevent such an issue in this
campaign and if his advice had been
followed there would have been no
such issue. He went to Washington
and urged the adoption of a resolution
declaring that the Philippines should
be treated just as we had promised to
treat Cuba. If that advice of Mr. Bry
an had been acted upon and accepted,
there "would have been no issue in this
campaign of imperialism. Mr. Bryan
did everything that was within his
power to do to prevent such an issue.
The facts are so notorious that they
are known to every man who reads a
newspaper. The men who created the
issue of imperialism were McKinley
and his followers in the United States
senate. Now they say that Bryan did
it. --The men who created that issue
were the senators and the vice presi
dent who voted against the Bacon res
olution. They created the issue of im
perialism. Now they are very tired
of it. So they say that Bryan did it.
HIGH CLASS CHUMPS
If the stories printed in the State
Journal about the citizens of Nebras
ka. City are true, then they must be
chumps of: the first water. They know
they had a distillery down there once
that bought a great deal of corn, em
ployed a. large number of men, fed
cattle and was a great thing for the
city. The distillery went into the
trust and shut down. Down in Bea
trice they had several manufacturing
establishments. They went into the
trust. Where are they now? Every
one of them closed up. While they
were owned and operated by citizens
of Beatrice they employed labor and
the laborers spent their earnings with
the Beatrice merchants. If the citi
zens of Nebraska City had even half
common sense, they would know that
their starch factory in the hands of a
private owner would be safe to them,
but in the hands of a trust it is liable
to be closed any day. The Indepen
dent does not believe that any consid
erable number of the citizens of that
place are such chumps as the State
Journal says they are. If they are,
then good bye to Nebraska City. If
the people of that place become the
advocates of trusts, they will have the
undying hatred of all the rest of thj
state. Trusts are not popular in this
state and the people who defend them
will be given the "marble heart" by
the remainder of the citizenship. If
Nebraska City wants to see the grass
growing in her streets a foot high, let
her follow Morton and defend his
abominable, odious, detestible starch
trust.
The great trust magnates are all
eastern men. One of the objects they
have in view is to destroy the compe
tition of the west against the east in
all manufacturing industries. Their
intention is to close down all west
ern Tnufaeturing and take the
plants to the east, leaving the west to
be producers of raw material only.
In that purpose they have the sym
pathy of the railroad magnates who
want to haul the raw material east
and the manufactured product back
west again and catch us coming and
going as it were. In this scheme to
exploit the west for ihe benefit of the
east, they have the full sympathy of
the State Journal and every other mul
let head in the whole state.
TO TICKLE MULLET "HEADS.
Every once in a while when a re
publican orator gets out of talk and
can think of nothing else to say, he
fills In the time with denunciation of
the Wilson bill and declares that it
produced the panic of 1893. After that
he will howl about free trade from fif
teen minutes to half an hour. That
kind of talk may enthuse a mullet
head, but a man of ordinary intelli
gence it only disgusts, for he knows
that the Wilson bill did not become a
COUGH UP, OLD MAN ! I" J(
law until the 28th of August, 1R94,
more than fourteen months after too
bankers'- panic had begun devastating
the country. What seems to tickle
a mullet head the most is when one of
his orators denounces the Wilson bill
as a "free trade" measure. He just
goes wild over that. But every man
of sense knows that it was. after it
had beenamended 900 times in the
senate, one of the most highly protec
tive tariff bills ever passed by the con
gress of the United States. The tariff
it imposed was a great deal higher
than any bill ever passed by congress
up to the time of the passage of the
McKinley bill, and from that it dif
fered less than 7 per cent. That 7
per cent of reduction did not reduce
protection one whit, for it lowered
rates where they had been placed in
some instances 700 or 800 per cent
above what would have been a prohib
itory tariff, as for instance on pearl
buttons. However, as long as the re
publican spell-binders find that the
mullet heads will cheer, they will con
tinue to denounce the Wilson bill as a
free trade measure.
The republican editors have been
called upon of late to weep over the
woes of the black men in the south,
and they have all obeyed orders. It is
very doleful to read their Cogitations.
There is, however, a thought that re
fuses to down in connection with that
matter. The republicans have had
absolute control of this government
almost.;- continuously for forty years.
Why have they not in that time donl
something to guarantee the rights of
the black men of the south and put
them in so secure possession of them
that they could not be disturbed? If
they have refused to do it in all these
forty years is it likely that they will
do it if kept in office , for four years
more? A great many leading colored
men have concluded that there is no
use trusting them any longer and are
out making speeches for Bryan. Ne
gro Bryan clubs are being organized
all over the north and in many states
of the south. The way to stop this is
for republican editors to weep more
profusely and wail longer and louder.
Go it, brethren. Flood the soil with
your tears and make the earth trem
ble with your groans and possibly you
may stop them.
In Beatrice they once had several
flourishing manufactories that fur
nished labor to many of the people
and a market for much raw material
produced in that vicinity. The trusts
came along, bought them out and
closed every one of them. The mullet
heads down there are so pleased with
the work that they are all going to
vote the trust ticket. Beatrice once
had a starch factory, an oatmeal mill
and ' a paper manufactory, Morton's
starch trust gobbled the first and the
second and the paper trust squelched
the third. That made the mullet
heads happy that their enthusiasm ex
tended to Nebraska City, where, un
der the leadership of Morton, the re
publican judge and the gold bug mayor
petitioned the attorney general to' stop
his trust prosecutions and let the big
combinations of capital close up ev
ery manufactory in the state and take
them down to New York where the
great trust magnates live. When that
is done the mullet heads will be so
happy that they will get on a big
drunk and have a high old time gen
erally. a Mckinley organ
The Independent having printed
several extracts from Manila Free
dom, a subscriber writes to ask if that
paper is "a really and truly McKinley
paper." To satisfy him one that point
we prikt another extract.
"The Philippine islands belong to
the United States. The man that
prates of Filipino Independence is a
traitor to his country. When the Am
erican flag was hoisted over these isl
ands it was nailed to the mast. It is
up there to stay forever. j
"Talk about the 'traffic in human
blood!' Ob, ye cheap politicians of
America! You who have encouraged
Aguinaldo and commended th' cause
of the insurgents!"
- Don't that prove it to be a true bluei
McKinley, organ?