VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 18, 1900.
NO. 22.
I I II II llll II II
1
Bryan Conquers
He goc into tbe Enemies Country" and they not only
Surrender but Split the air with their
Shouts of
-WE WISH TO REMAIN A FREE PEOPLE."
The Pfopk- Crowded Around Madison Square Garden in
Numlrr that could not be counted for hours before
Bryan was Announced to Speak.
GREAT SWARMS OF PEOPLE JAM THE STREETS
N Ovation Ever Given in New York to an American Citi
zen Equal- the Enthusiastic Greeting Given to Bryan.
IMMENSE POLITICAL
Then ?hei- wa- only oie Prominent man, the Economist St.
John, u ho would Extend to him a Welcome.
It FT WILLIAM J. BRYAN HAS NOT CHANGED
ilr Stand- fur the Kiine Principles now that he .did thelitis-
Ea-t ha made an "Unconditional Surrender."
POPULIST PRINCIPLES
Sod hou-e Political Economy and Theories of Government
Subdue the Eat IJrvau will be President.
fctory at
ItAZizg It- nr. lir-n ma'i- a tour
tfcrosfh Ohio t-r- h was every
where riveted with larger crowds. ex
cept to a virry few plac-s. than ever
nthered to her i t.uolic peaker be
foie. Theiu in company with Golden
KiW Jon and rx-A:torney General
S onset t he started for New York.
in t etbu!ssai and mass of
te ntfcu treated fcsui in New Voru
tfctie i co precedent in the history of
politic. The crowds, were o immense
tin bre as no way to make an es
timT rf ite number. The anxiety
to fi-r Lira w o rreat that the peo-pl-
Ofe cabled iii irum-be throngs
vrrvA M&ditcn Square Garden four
hoJr ietore the time announced for
.) p-riH-. The doom ere opr
-d at r. p m an uaprec--d-d thing
,n ,ti -iiit.K nveticj;. and the rush
? o ?rat 'o obtain entrance that
!re.!3 tA poi'emn and over two
S.iodr-i ihr w-re ,tjt along
h,4 i k - drift wtKj on a roaring
"iKKi. ia .-u .niiiUiri tL largest au
jl ur- :oon Aiu-r:r i ai crowded
: t ti, s.-t inch of rtaniinr room.
if.-r th" f-trI ;atjntlv wite1 for
,itr !o hr'ir for I'.rvan V appear
ance. Vv'Lfa I.. au ai iat r?t-j'r-a upon
: a p!tjrm. b a i.o'it v. ent up is
wire r T: u-M 'r. Msdisoi. Square
r.r Tl rhfccnnjr continue! for
f-it S3tt.ttt- mu-i k pj-i after appeal
had to L- ajti to th audien'"e tjefore
; il- roiIi t r ' tord.
Ml tb : i-t of N w N ork alone
Jilri, liryuti raMd u-r1 m jammed
ith cj.i that it took th exertion
a ver larR tdy o! ptiice to forte
;i way throah for Kryari'h carriage.
. Unf-r rii-n hJra at the Hoff-
Ji ;.r Homw j-it a? tin1 table were sev-
! m. ii mo .! fromtneiit in
PROF. GOLDWIN SMITH
M ! t&rt t.iii; In I ft .d t buul
H -t -' rk tiH I raturd
! Tt n iff
N-f.fr
ro.-..- .r; -r-.'i :s o Miti four
r- 5-s r rowi't reak rf a
rrjnci : a'iica?ed by tL populist
without tlin in a tare of late a
hsje fa irs over the spirit of his
rfreaa.t He i sow Kreatly zpiTated
fir VU' M-cc of Plutocracy." If
he fca.4 vniUB that article in ' in-t-l
towjcg his influence in the
f&or c" tdutorracy. u miisbt have
::i .fee. He now ass:
7T rteTf of tl'. continent.
nu-rv-limJr detfiood. and financial
p-aUtitrs hate bred a lcdy f w-faltb
ha ire it i-eater in the a.-t. headed
I'T tatiuiou mtilti-mi33jonalrisra. m
trnebed by a multiplicity of creat cor
rjratioL. arid trit. daily aborbint
n.Gt--t'j an txv ndir-.s it? inSaence.
4Z.iiZ r.",e 4:1 1 more general
un:v of t.- 1ntertr. and threatening,
if It 4Mrsdercy b nc moderated, to
C-' t.r.at the i.tc."
That 1 xattly what the populists
iu Jk. when Goliwin Smith and
thuaias: of other ;rofeBor were
d'-soincn k anari i,!.-t." re
pindiator" asd ' r o": of the ignorant."
He toa izys- cl th ncsey power:
It caaj y i-rir'iic.ce. judiciaries.
KicsicIya.liTj'"'?. frhis evn churches.
It nsay c:rrc::d the p-aM:c journals
al ca-tro! p' hlic opinion. It
taay TtiU ,oTr.r::rxlilly anyone who op-pose-s
IL Even t:rlrers!tles. fed by Its
botisty, may fall tinder its political in,
Sunce. x Halt can hardly ta set to
the tenfofi of !t power !n an age in
whiea the nctreraal object of desire
Is mowy. with the enjoyment which
tsony prorMr,'
No iid-Trt pop ever talked with
more igr atoat the money power
than that. It teem that Prof. Cold
fin Ptsith has also bn goinpt to
Welcome.
CHANGE SINCE 1899
BOUND TO CONQUER.
Last in Sight.
the republican party, among whom
were E. M. Shepherd, Webster Davis
and ex-Attorney General Monnett. The
prc&s reports say that wine glasses
were placed at Mr. Bryan's plate the
game as at the otnerr.. but that he
drank no wine.
There were two othti meetings ad
drsed by Mr. Bryan d'jri&g the even
ing beside the one at'Madion."Snare.
The Cooper Institute meeting was the
most enthusiastic ever held in that
historic building.
We populists wno saw Bryan walk
into the railroad ticket oface at Lin
coln and buy a ticket to New York in
Wj6. when he said laughingly as he
stepped on the train. "'I am going
down into the enemy's country," can
not fail to reflect upon the advance
that populist principles have made
since that time. When Bryan got to
New York, there wan but one promi
nent man to extend to him the hand
of welcome. He took him to his home
and entertained him the best that he
could. He is not now tllve to see the
fcurrender. but his name will ever be
precious to those of ns wbb have so
many years fought the tight against
plutocracy St. John, the banker, who
dared to dtfy the whole rconej- power
and stand for the people. He was one
of our martyrs, who was driven by
malice and hate from the position he
occupied and finally to an early grave.
Hi name is a household word in the
farmers" homes of Nebraska.
This tremendous outpouring of the
people unmistakably portends the elec
tion of Bryan. He will spend four
more days in New York and wipe 'ip
the earth with the plutocrats In the
same manner that he did his republi
can antagonist the first time he ran for
congress.
school in the sod school houses of Ne
braska. Several other distinguished
professors have given evidence of late
that they have learned something from
the pop farmers of this state. But that i
is not all that Prof. Gold win Smith,
LL. D. A. M.. etc., hH learned from
the pop farmers. The following could j
be duplicated from a thousand speech- j
es made by pop farmers In the last
ten years. Still talking about this
plutocracy he says:
"At heart is sighs for a court and
aristocracy. It is even introducing
the powder-headed footman, while he
! going out of fashion In England.
Its rocial center is shifting more and
more from the United States to mon
archical and aristocratic England,
wherp it can take hold on the mantle
of high society, get more homage and
subserviency for its wealth, hope per
haps in the end to win its way to the
circle of royalty, and, if It becomes
naturalized, to obtain a knighthood or
even a peerage. It barters the hands
of its daughters and its millions for
aristocratic connection. One of its
leading members has just abandoned
his native country for the country of
his class, while he continues to draw
a royal income from the industry of
New York."
THE TARIEF TRUSTS
netyer Boldly Declared That "The
Tariff U Tha Mother of All Trusts.
While Havemeyer puBlitly declared
that the tariff was the mother of all
trusts, that Is not strictly true. But
many oT the trusts are distinctly tariff
trusts and among them the most
prominent of the whole lot is the su
gar trust. Remove the tariff on raw
rugar and the Havemeyer sugar trust
would not last a month. The farmers
and laboring men of America would
then buy their sugar for half what the
trust forces them to pay for It now.
The stock of the sugar trust as ofQcial-
ly reported is $75,506,000, more than
half of which is water. On that wa
tered stock they paid in dividends for
the years 1894 to 1899, 12 per cent. The
tariff protection is 75 per cent.
March 4. 1897, William McKinley
Inaugurated.
April 1, 1897, sugar at wholesale,
$3.47 per 100 pounds,
Special session, 1897, Dingley tariff
enacted.
March 4, 1898, sugar. .$4.99 per lOOlbs.
Jan. 1, 1900, sugar 5.05 per 100 lbs.
May 22, 1900. sugar... 5.20 per 100 lbs.
May 23, 1900, sugar... 5.30 per 100 lbs.
May 26, 1900, sugar... 5.40 per 100 lbs.
May 31, 1900, sugar... 5.50 per 100 lbs.
June 1. 1900, sugar... 5.60 per 100 lbs.
June 14, 1900, sugar. . . 5.70 per 100 lbs.
June 26, 1900, sugar. . . 5.80 per 100 lbs.
July 5, 1900, sugar 5.90 per 100 lbs.
July 9, 1900 sugar 6.90 per 100 lbs.
Sept. 1, 1900, sugar. . . 6.15 per 100 lbs.
Sugar consumption U. S.,
lbs 5,000,000,000
Rise of lc per lb. equals $50,000,000
Campaign fund rise, May
July, 1900, 0.8c 40,000,000
April 1, 1897, to Sept. 1. 1900.
2.5c .....$125,000,000
In Kansas, for instance, the sugar
trust (140,000,000 lbs. consumption at
2c rise over 1897 price) aggregates $2,-
800,000.
In Nebraska, the consumption of su
gar is not quite as large, but the trust
has compelled the citizens of this state
to stand and deliver something over
$2,000,000. Most of that amount has
been taken fro mthe farmers and wage
workers. Every time you go to town
the sugar trust lays its thieving hands
on you and holds you up for some
amount. It is as much a robbery as if
Havemeyer had a man at every en
trance to the city who with pistol or
gun ordered you to hold up your hands
while he searched your pockets.
Deitrich at Superior said: "Our
flag now floats over the slave pens
and harem of the Sultan of the Sulus.
Shall we haul it down? No."
Poynter at Hebron said: "In the
discussion of our treaty with the Sulus
I cannot condemn our policy more
strongly than by quoting the words of
Lincoln when he said: 'When a man
governs himself, that is self-government;
but when he governs another
against his will, that is despotism.' "
A Gage county German farmer said:
"If you people had lived in Germany
or any other European country with
a great standing army you would say
the United States with its volunteers
was good enough for you. Our army
tax is too much already." ..
GRANT ON IMPERIALISM
His Dying Testimony Against Forcing
UoTtrument Upon any People
AVithout Their Consent.
General Grant on his death-bed in
July. 1883, was visited by a company
of Mexican journalists, and being un
able at the time to speak, communi
cated to them in writing the following:
"My great interest in Mexico is
dated back to the war between the
United States and that country. My
interest was increased when four Eu
ropean monarchies attempted to set
up institutions on this continent, se
lecting Mexico, a territory adjoining
us. It was an outrage on human rights
for a foreign nation to attempt to
transfer her institutions and her rul
ers to the territory of a civilized peo
ple without their consent. They were
properly punished for their crime. I
hope Mexico may soon be in an up
ward and prosperous departure. She
has the people, she has the soil, she
has the climate, and she has the min
erals. The conquest of Mexico will
not be an easy task in the future."
The quotation is made from an ar
ticle written by Mr. Hamlin Garland
and published in McClure's Magazine,
May number. 1898, page 94. and can be
used as a fair comparison with the
Filipino question of. today.
THE GLASS TRUST
Rooievelt Makes a Speeeh in Whieli He
Gives it His Hearty Endorsement
At Alexandria, Inri.. Mr. Roosevelt
said:
'I am informed that, in a speech here
Mr. Bryan admitted that he stood on
the plank of the Kansas City platform
whicn demands that all products made'
by large corporations shall be put
upon the free-list. To that doctrine
the republican party is unalterably op-,
posed. Glass is made by large corpor
ations such as Mr. Bryan describes.
The republican party will never per
mit Mr. Bryan to have his way and
throw down the barrier of protection
that interposes between the American
worker and his underpaid Russian
rival."
The Plate Glass trust and the Win
dow Glass trust have doubled the price
of glass within the past two years.
Does anybody happen to have heard of
their doubling wages? They sell glass
cheaper at Boston than at Pittsburg,
because Boston is just inside the 100
per cent tariff wall and at Pittsburg
the unhappy consumers can be com
pelled to pay railroad as well as cus
toms taxes.
The effect of the trust system on the
protected glass industry has been thus
described by the National Glass
Budget, of Pittsburg:
The price of domestic glass must be
kept at such a figure that the worst
equipped and poorest managed misfit
factory can keep its neck above water,
and unfair prices must be squeezed out
of the home-builders who consume an
nually between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000
boxes of domestic glass, in-order to be
able to fritter a portion of it away in
a differential .in the shape of a bonus
to jobbers in a vain attempt to keep
out 600,000 to 800.000 boxes, the im
portation of - which - would reduce
prices.
WHAT YOU RAISE; WHEAT FOR
The Farmers of Twelve; State plow and
Sow And Reap Aad all The Wheat
They Raise TTon't Pay the Cost
of Militarism.
The crop of wheat tn twelve of the
largest wheat-raising states as given
in the report of the secretary of agri
culture for 1899 was as follows:
. Bushels. Value.
California .... 33,743,000 $20,921,000
Indiana 25,361,000 16,231,000
Iowa 18,195,000 - 10,007,000
Kansas .......36,468,000 18,963,000
Minnesota ....-68,223,000 37,522,000
Nebraska ...... 20,791 $00 10,187.000
North Dakota. 51,758,000 26,396,000
South Dakota. 37.72S.000 18,364,000
Ohio 39,998,000 25,598,000
Oregon ..21,949,000 . 11,633,000
Pennsylvania .20,472,000 13.512,000
Washington ..21,710,000 11,072,000
- r .
Total value .1 $220,906,000
Now let us look at the price we pay
for McKinley militarism. -Annual
cost of the army. . .$150,000,000
Annual cost of the navy... 75,000.000
1 .
Total cost for one year in
time of peace... I $225,000,000
What wisdom is the-e in keeping the
farmers of twelve sfates toiling the
year round when the vhole product of
their labor is to be paid out to sup
port an army and navy? But if we
are to have imperialism long before
its full fruition is completed, we will
have an army and navy twice as large
as what we have now. If you want
that, you know-how to vote to get it.
HOW THE TRUSTS DO IT.
An Interview With a Merchant Who Had
To Deal With Them And Knows
v
' Just How They Control
' pricesl
i
In interviews iad with retail mer
chants on the -subject , of the trusts
and the war tax much inside informa
tion has been gained as to methods of
trust restraint, upon competitive com
merce, and the effect of its war tax
upon consum6rs:v'v "
With reference to trusts, the Stand
ard Oil trust is the largest, most pow
erful and most unscrupulous. Its
methods of restraining competition in
trade are various and far-reaching. It
has practical control of shipping rates
through secret agreements asTto re
bates with the railroads, whereby a re
bate is given on everyhlpnient, which
makes it Impossible for1 the small pro
ducer and refiner to market his goods.
It resorts to every means to drive
small refiners out of business. It has
been known to seek injunctions
against the use of . certain transporta
tion facilities, and failing in the at
tempt, it has, soli cited signatures to a
petition declaring the refinery a public
nuisance. ' ItTSSs' raised the prices of
oil $1.50 per-Tarrel within the last
year. The defense is, like that put for
ward by the sngar trust, that oil is so
cheap that no one need be deprived of
its use.
Second in strength is the Sugar
trust. In .answer to the question of
whether sugar was selling today at a
higher price than it did ten years ago,
a large retail merchant said that it
was sold -now for less, although the
price, has been raised recently, and is
now 2 cents per pound higher: than
it was two years ago. The retailer
proceeded :
'The sugar trust has many methods
of coercion. For instance, a merchant
whose Imsiness will average say $200.
000 per year cannot buy direct from
the trust, but must purchase frcm the
jobbers in bis section. The trust first
commenced to selling to merchants of
the above class nothing less than ten
barrel lots. This was raised to twenty-five
barrels, then to fifty barrels and
now to 100 barrels. Then came the
notice that purchases would have to
be made from the jobber. If a mer
chant asks for a quotation from a
jobber in another city on a 100-barrel
lot, he is informed he must pa? what
ever price is asked by his own jobber,
and must-pay the freight, on the ship
ment. Thus he is forced to deal with
one of certain jobbers and buy at a;
price flsed by the trust. If it is found
that two merchants are dividing a lot.
both are notified that their orders will
not be filled in the future. Much bard
ship is thus forced on retailers who
must have jeugar. but. many of whom
have not facilities for storing it in
such quantities. i
-The trust absolutely and arbitrar
ily controls" the price of its product,
and the lohber is compelled to sell for
that price -or be refused dealing with
the trust."
"When; asked, "how about beet su
gar?" the -retailer said, "I do not han
dle it at .all, but the beet sugar Indus- !
try is commonly supposed to be con
trolled entirely bi the sugar trust."
It has been pretty well shown by tes- s
timony before- congressional commit- 1
tees and xommissioners that the sup-
position is well based. Incidently, the j
merchant stated that Arbnckle was i
supposed cither to be in the trust at
present or soon would be.
The cracker trust is very strong and
is known ny the name of the National
BisCuit company. Its method of freez
ing out competition is very similar to
those" t)f the other trusts. In one . case
a manufacturer of crackers and cakes
in considerable quantities declared his
purpose of holding out against the
trust. The employes of his factory
numbered, perhaps, 100, ana for some
time he successfully withstood the ef
forts of the trust to ruin his business.
Finally, however, he was forced, by re
peated cuts in the price of crackers
and small cakes, to sell out to the
trust. By this nearly 100 men were
thrown out of employment. The prod
uct of the trust factories has risen In
price from time to time, and although
the quality of the goods put out by it
has proven in many cases . to . be .very
much inferior to those made by pri
vate factories, they sell in the market
at higher prices.
The Baking Powder, trust is, after
the sugar trust, perhaps the most re
morseful in its methods. Denials are
constant that there is a baking powder
trust, but the facts show differently.
It is supposed that Price of Chicago,
and the Royal company control the
industry. The Royal company em
ploys, instead of ordinary salesmen,
men who might be called travelling in
spectors. They visit the stores of
merchants and either . by questioning
or by general observation see what
brands are handled by him. If it is
found that other brands than that of
the Royal company are sold, every ef
fort is made to prevent them from
handling them in the future. There
are other -and better brands than the
Royal, but a demand that" is general
and wide-spread is created by the
enormous expenditure for advertising
purposes. The other brands sell for
from 10c to 15c per pound cheaper than
the Royal. Some of these brands are
much better than the Ros'al, but the
call for them is very much less. The
Royal company when they find a re
tailer selling the Royal brand for less
than 45c per pound refuses to sell him
another pound.
Merchants are furnished a written
agreement which they are compelled
to sign, stating that they will not sell
Royal baking powder for less than 45c
per pound. The powder costs the trust
from 15c to 18c per pound to make.
The Twine Trust
The twine trust exists by the grace
of the Dingley bill. The cost of twine
is a considerable item in every farm
er's outgoes. See what McKinley has
done for you on this subject. The
price of twine as taken from the Unit
ed States treasury bulletin has been as
follows:
M'KINLEY'S INAUGURATION.
Date. Manilla. Sisal.
March 4, 1897 4c 3c
March 4, 1898 4c ic
March 4, 1899 7c 7c
March 4, 1900 14c 9c
Increase in 3 years... 250 p. c. 188 p. c.
The McKinley colonial policy of sub
jugation of the Philippines is in part
responsible by paralyzing the produc
tion of Manilla fiber, and two New Jer
sey trusts organized and protected un
der the McKinley dynasty do the rest.
if you want that item of expense to
continually grow larger, you know
how to get it. Vote for the party un
der whose lease of power the twine
trust will see to it that you never pay
any less for twine than you do now. .
INFANT INDUSTRIES
They Are Capitalized for More Thau Nine
' Hundred Million Dollars But
Still Must be Fed From a
Tariff Bottle.
The average protective tariff on iron
and steel is 45 per cent. They are put
by Mark Hanna and McKinley among
the infant industries that must have
protection or perish. Their capitali
zation is as follows:
Federal Steel Co.. N. J..
. $200,000,000
. 30.000.000
Am'n Bicycle Co., N. J..
t Am'n Car & Foundry. N. J.
60,000,000
20,000,000
o5.000.000
33,000,000
90.000,000
50.000,000
Am'n Ircn & Steel Mfg.,Pa.
Am'n Smlt. & Ref.. N. J
Am'n Steel Hoop, N. J .
Am'n St. & Wire. N. J
Am'n Tin Plate, N. J
Nati Enameling (tinware)
N. J
National Steel. N. J
30.000.000
59,000.000
National Tube. N. J S0.000.000
Pressed Steel Car, N. J 25.000.000
Republic Iron & Steel. N. J. 55,000,000
14 other iron and steel mfg.
trusts 180.000,000 ;
Total iron and steel "in- 1
Average dividends for 1899, 6 per
cent.
Total profit cf hardware trusts. 1899.
$5S,600,000 on a capitalization two-
thirds fictitious. I
Besides the above is Carnegie's big I
two hundred million trust that turns
over to him in profits $23,000,000 a
year. All of them sre tariff trusts
which could not exist without the pro
hibitive duties which now exist. They
have k complete monopoly of the mar
ket. No foreign manufacturer can pay
the 45 per cent tariff and compete with
them, but they compete with all for
eign manufacturers by selling goods
In foreign markets at one-half what
they charge American citizens for the
same things. When 3-ou buy wire
fencing, just remember that the trust
sells it in Argentina and South Africa
for half what you pay for it and then
go and vote accordingly.
THE WIRE TRUST
It is an Infant Industry Because it is Not
Yet Two Year Old and Must be
Protected.
The wire trust was organized in
New Jersey in January, 1899. At its
organization it started out in this
way:
Capital stock .$90,000,000
Plants consolidated cost.... 20,000,000
Water 70.000,000 j
Profits first year., .......... 15,000,000
A good share of that $15,000,000. of
profit was taken out of the pockets-of
hard-working Nebraska farmers. They
will soon be called upon to decide
whether they want that sort of thing
to' continue. We will know when the
votes are counted just how many mul
let heads there are.
The price of barbed wire, January
1, 1898, was $1.85. The price January
1, 1900, was $4.25. The trust exported,
according to the government reports
of exports and imports, 899,240,000,000
pounds, which they sold to foreigners
for forty per cent under the price that
they charged American consumers..-
THE INCOME TAX
Iu the Better Day of the Party it iin
posed Such Taxes aad the Supreme
Judg-es Appointed by Lincoln
Decided Them Consti
. tutional.
There is not a principle formerly
advocated by the republican - party
that it has not repudiated in the last
few years. Perhaps the most complete
flop of all the flops it has made has
been on this question.-
On August 6. 1861, the republican
party, then in full control of the gov
ernment, passed an act imposing a tax
of 3 per cent on all the excess of in
come over $800. Thus the very first
republican dealings . with the income
tax included the exemption of all in
comes under a certain figure the very
thing that Is now denounced by re
publicans as an illegal discrimination.
On July 1, 1862, the republican party
went even beyond that, and introduced
what it now condemns as the populist
scheme of a graduated rate. It ex
empted incomes under $600, taxed
those between $600 and $10,000 at 3 per
cent, and levied a tax of 5 per cent on
the excess over $600 when the total in
come exceeded $10,000.
On June 30. 1864. the republican par
ty ordained that taxes should be levied
at the rate of 5 per cent on the excess
of income over $600 up to $5,000. 7?
per cent on the excess over $5,000 up
to $10,000, and 10 per cent on the ex
cess over $10,000. On March 3, 1865,
the 10 per cent rate was extended, to
all incomes in excess of $5,000.
As a further proof of the complete
abandonment of the principles that
the "republicans formerly advocated,
we call attention to the constant as
saults made upon Bryan in which he
is called an anarchist because he
points out to the people the two ways
in which the income tax decision can
be overcome. The two ways were sug
gested by' a member of the supreme
court appointed by Lincoln. Justice
Harlan, in his dissenting opinion,
says:
"But the serious aspect of the pres
ent decision is that by a new interpre
tation of the constitution it so ties
the hands of the legislative branch of
the government that without an
amendment of that instrument, or un
less this court, at some future time,
should return to the old theory of the
constitution, Congress cannot subject
to taxation however great the needs
or pressing the necessities of the gov
ernment eithfrthe invested personal
property of the country, bonds, stocks
and investments of alU kinds," or the
income arising from the renting of real
estate, or from the yield of-personal,
property, except by the grossly un
equal and unjust rule of apportion
ment among the states. Thus undue
and disproportionate burdens are
placed upon the many, while the few,
safely entrenched behind the rule of
apportionment among the states on
the basis of numbers, are permitted to
evade their share of responsibility for
the support of the government or
dained for ihe protection of the rights
of all."
Desperate Bosses
The republican bosses are making
a campaign of sheer desperation. The
Cincinnati Enquirer thus sizes it up:
"Messrs. Hanna, Roosevelt and Bev
eridge are 4 all on the stump, to say
nothing of'the bedridden performance
of the vaulting Stewart of Nevada.
Hardly an incident of the campaign
can be simply stated without becoming
a virile arugument for Bryan and
Stevenson."
PACIFIC COAST FOR BRYAN
Republican Newspapers and Leading Citi
zens Bear Testimony to That
Fact.
There is no doubt in the minds of
the fusion managers that their candi
date will carry states this fall that he
never carried before. Mr. Bryan is
stronger everywhere than he was in
1896 and when the votes are counted
there will be some painful - surprises
for the republicans. Nowhere in the
country is th situation more encour
aging than on the Pacific coast, a sec
tion which has been confidently
claimed by the republicans and as con
fidently conceded by the general pub
lic to McKinley. But the people are
taking the campaign in hand them
selves and quietly making up -their
minds to vote for the people's candi
date next month. The vote on the
coast will h a shock to the-- admin
istration, and the Chinese Issues,
which is just beginning to be under
stood in that section, will clinch the
situation.
The following editorial from the
Oakland (Cal.) Transcript, bearing
date Saturday. September . 22, 1900, a
leading republican organ on the coast,
shows the trend of public opinion
tlUre, as even the republicans see it:
"There is no disguising the fact that
the republicans have a campaign on
their hands which .will require more
than ordinary effort to make the party
victorious. The arguments advanced
by the democracy for a change of ad
ministration, the whoop-up ajrainst the
trusts and the yell of imperialism, and
the tirade against English: influence,
are all having an effect in bringing
votes to the Bryan column Here in
Oakland, the banner republican coun
ty of the state, there , has been a big
change of opinion from that of two
and four 3rears ago. Tnis change has
been quietly effected and it is not un
common thing to hear republicans of
life-long standing announce their in
tention to vote for - Bryan. Partic
ularly is this the case with voters of
foreign birth. We do not intend to
say that the country will . go demo
cratic, but its majority will be greatly
lessened unless the republicans arouse
themselves to some form of activity.
The writer had reason the other day
to visit West Oakland and it was sur
prising to note the change of heart
on the part of many who, in the past,
had been staunch adherents of McKin
ley. Imperialism was the reason giv
en bysome, trusts and the friendliness
of the administration toward England
by others. These arguments are be
ing used with 'good effect by demo
cratic missionaries and If the republi
cans do not combat them and show
their falsity, they will be treated to a
surprise of an unexpected kind."
The Life of Bryan
(Written by f Harvey E. -Newbranch.)
In the list of premiums offered by
The Independent for new subscriptions
will be found "The Life of Bryan," by
Harvey E. Newbranch. It is an au
thentic history, a valuable book, ele
gantly illustrated and handsomely
bound in cloth. Here is what Mr. Ed
misten. chairman of, the state commit
tee and vice chairman of the national
committee, says concerning the book:
"Lincoln, Neb., ept., 1900. Hon. H.
E. Newbranch, Lincoln, Neb. My
Dear Sir: I have read your book en
titled 'Life of Bryan and am very
much pleased with it. It is well and
ably written, and depicts the salient
features of Mr. Bryan's life and char
acter, in a clear and discriminating
manner. There are very few biog
raphies in which the interest of the
reader is sustained and ' unflagging
from , beginning to end. This ia one
of them, and I amglad to indorse it.
Very truly yours,
"J. H. EDMISTEN, Chairman."
If you want a copy read the special
premium offer on another page.
"THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN"
The Specimens that Reside ITnder the
Shadow of Wall Street are About
as Big Fools as Exist.
Let some of the pop farmers out in
this state cast their eyes over th fol
lowing production which appeared In
a paper called the "Country Gentle
man," published at Albany, N. Y.
The National Irrigation association
is circulating a very interesting map
of the United States, to which we take
much pleasure In directing attention.
This precious body was organized, it
seems, to cajole congress into irrigat
ing, and then throwing upon our al
ready bve'r?supplied market for agri
cultural land, about a hundred mil
lions of acres now arid, to the enor
mous Injury vof every man who now
owns a farmand therefore, since agri
culture is the basis of all our Ameri
can industries, to the enormous in
jury 01 the people of the country, save
and except those who are directly in
terested in the "development" of the
arid region: Well, . their map makes
the meridian of 98 degrees the dividing
line between "Humid America" and .
"Arid America," and gives the popula
tion east of that line as 52.21H.000;
west of it, 4,404,000. .That, is to say,
according to their own showing, con
siderably more than five-sixths of the
owners of the arid land with individ
ual exceptions, of course, about ia the
proportion, probably, of the proverbial
drop in the bucket are directly Inter
ested in keeping it arid. All the name,
the one-sixth who - live around and
about it, and want to "develop" their
new regions, are ceaselessly plotting
to get it into market, while the rost of
us pay the expense. ' It would be a
good idea this fall to ask every candi
date for congress, not only whether he
will actively support the Grout bill
Just as it stands, but also, whether he
will vigorously oppose every, project
for bringing into market in any fash
ion, or for giving away to the states in
which it may happen to lie, any arid
land now the property of the people.
Unless he answers both questions with
an unqualified yes, farmers at least
will be very foolish to vote for him.
Political considerations are all very
well in their way, but no farmer can
afford to let politics Interfere for a mo
ment with his business.
That Is all the sense that the "coun
try gentlemen" brought up under the
shadow of plutocratic Influences seem
to have. These "gentlemen" are all
iu favor of McKinley expansion, they (
want to annex far away islands of the
sea to provide for the increasing pop
ulation of the United States. But ex
pansion of business, farming and fac
tories ; at home, they are opposed to.
They say it will produce "overproduc
tion." If 50.000,000 of people could be
furnished constant employment in
what is now called the arid "region,
and by the impounding of the waters
that produce the destructive floods on
the lower Mississippi, . save millions
of appropriations to protect the farm
ers there, furnish a market for the V
products of thousands of workers in
the eastern mills if that could be.
done at a. very small cost to the gen
eral government It would be a'calam-v
ity to the farmers of the United
States! , That is what this "country
gentleman", thinks. What do you
think of his brains?
' THE LUMBER TRUST
The farmers of Nebraska produce no
lumber," but they, consume immense
quantities of it. Why a farmer or any
other citizen of Nebraska should vot
for a tax on lumber is one of those
things that no pop can find out. The
biography of the lumber trust is as
follows: - '
Dingley tariff on lumber, $1 per M.
Price raised since 1896, 6 times.
Amount of raise, per M. feet, $3.50.
On Chicago shipments, 1899, alone,
$6,300,000.
Lumber trust raised wages 10 per
cent, but raised prices 33 per cent
. Trust tax beats wages by 23. per cent.
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