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June 13, 1901 ! .
THE NEBRASKA DEPENDENT
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aoc7x eMiaiaaicstio&s will sot ba ao
Urad. Etad ataaascrtpu will bo ba ra
real.
MrLaurla ku proved himself to be a
quitter. Two year from now tie will
quit permanently.
Jobs Ball Is slowly coming to the
conclusion that the last end (of the
Voct war) i worse than the first.
Jlxry Elizabeth Lease has proved the
genuineness of her conversion to re
publicanism i fro'ng into bankruptcy.
B. 4r M. stock. 2C0. B. & M. assess
ment cut down. Why? Because a B.
& M. board of equalization made the
assessment.
Wonder if Governor Savage will
keep up that record of abstracts of
he reports from state institutions?
Hardly likely.
According to the great lights of the
republican party, green barks are an
abomination unto the Lord, but bank
xnocey pays a man's way Into heaven.
Past it la your hat that the same
railroad property was assessed at $14,
000 lets in 1&01 than it was in 1&00. If
It was too low then, how about now?
"Wouldn't it be a proper act for
Treasurer Stuefer to take the public
into hi confidence and tell where he
keeps that $300,000 of idle school
monej?
Every man has his own Idea of what
heaven will be. but The Independent's
fcicnest ideal concerning that place is
a country where there is no house
cleaning. It was a glorious old flay and it
"Coated for over a hundred years in
triumph In all parts of the world, but
now it cannot pass a custom house
collector.
Tolstoi says that during the next
tea years the money tyranny of the
world over the state and individual
will be upset and many changes In the
social fabric' will occur.
Republican editors are not hugging
themselves for joy over the recent
school apportionment, which was $50.
000 smaller than the one made in May,
1500, under a fusion administration.
Joe Johnson and Clem Deaver went
Into "cahoots" In printing the True
Pcpulin. Joe has lost his office and
Clem has got one of the same kind, all
cf which goes to show that Joe got left
la the deal.
The supreme court has declared that
all men are cot entitled to liberty.
That Is Just what Judge Taney said.
The republican party was crganlced to
fight Judge Taney's decision. Now it
declares for It.
McKIn'ey said that the flag did not
mean cne thing In the United States
and another thing In Porto Rico, but
the supreme court says it does. If you
doat believe them both, you are a lit
tla American.
McKinley sems to think that his ef
fort to copy the policies of the English
government In colonial possessions
will cot be complete unless he also has
aa Ireland. So he Is determined to
make one out cf Cuba.
The nine judicial mind of the su
preme court In discussing the points
submitted to them, took nine separate
views of the matter and the imperial
ists are furious because the people do
net agree with all of them.
The Friend Telegraph Is the only
republican paper we have seen with
enough moral stamina to attack the
1501 railroad assessment. All the oth
er republican papers are maintaining
a silence, like silence of the tomb.
Mr. Alfred Wet tin. king of England
and empror of India, cave a reception
to J. PWpont Morgan and a lot of
ether millionaires and talked about
the weather to them. Then the mil
lionaires west away and felt bigger
than ever.
Those benevolent Institutions, the
railroads." which have gone Into the
"community of Interests business,
have raised the rates so as to tike all
the fcraf-c will bear to the Buffalo ex
position. The Buffalo papers are rais
ing a Lie LowL
A SHACKLED GIANT
There can be no reasonable doubt
that a majority of the votera In this
country still believe in "the constitu
tion as.it is and the union as it was"
before ' the late supreme court deci
sions. The same men are opposed to
government subsidies, to high tariffs,
especially oa trust made good3 that
are constantly sold to foreigners at a
lower price than the same goods are
sold to Americans. An overwhelming
majority is. satisfied with the constant
Increase In the volume, of money that
set in four years ago and still goes on.
It Is altogether probable that a large
majority would sanction the public
ownership of the telegraph and tele
phones, the street railways,, city water
works and lighting plants. Almost ev
ery taxpayer would sanction the equal
taxation of franchises and corpora
tions. A majority would be willing to
admit Cuba and Pcrto" Rico to the
union If the inhabitants of those Isl
ands would ask for admission and in
the case of Porto Rico under the pres
ent status, they would make Jt a terri
tory upon the same footing that terri
tories have always enjoyed. A ma
jority would be willing to give the
Filipinos an Independent government
under the protection of the United
States
Upon all these questions the pop
ulists and a large part of the demo
cratic party, with many thousands still
within the republican ranks, would
agree. If these persons could all be
Induced to vote one ' national ticket,
the country could be -carried and
brought back to the principles upon
wh.'ch it was founded. , Why cannot it
be done? Simply because there are
some men of influence 'in the demo
cratic party who are sustained by
nearly all the great democratic dallies
who are opposed to almost every one
cf these principles, and .'there has so
far been no way invented whereby
these men and papers can be made to
drop the name democrat and line
themselves up under the republican
banner where they belong.
A man who like McLaurin votes with
Mark Hanna every time on every is
sue that divides the republican party
from the democratic party, is allowed
to still call himself a democrat. Pa
pers like the New York Journal, the
Chicago American and San Francisco
Examiner still 'pose as democratic pa
pers while fully indorsing the recent
supreme court decisions and every
week denouncing the last two national
platforms of the democratic party.
While the democratic party is in that
condition, It is utterly helpless and
can have no hope of ever coming Into
power. The populist party gaye the
republican assistants who' were found
within Its ranks a short shrift. It
must do it at whatever sacrifice. In
its present condition it is a shackled
giant and completely helpless. The
question must be finally and forever
settled whether the doctrines pro
claimed by Bryan are democracy or
whether the doctrines of Cleveland.
Hill and McLaurin are. If one is, the
other is not.
It is childish to longer play the game
that has been played by the democracy
for the last six years. If In the next
national democratic convention the
Bryan forces have a majority, they
must do something effective to pre
vent the men and papers who vote or
support the republican ticket from par
ading under the name of democrat. If
the Cleveland forces get control they
fchould adopt the same kind of tactics.
'0 POP CAN riNO OUT
Wealth, in popular language, con
sists of an abundance of all things that
are the object of human desire. Most
men believe that such things come Into
existence by the application of labor
to land. The economists who edit the
republican papers in this state have
discovered that all such notions as
that are populist luhacyj socialism or
anarchy. They each and all solemnly
declare that the wealth of this coun
try, including Its railroads, farms, fac
tories, ships and mines, .are the result
of the gold standard. The said gold
standard consists, according to the
last treasury report, of standard sil
ver dollars. , 72.299,960; silver certifi
cates. $427,206,320; subsidiary silver,
ISO.S53.107; treasury " notes oflJ.90,
$53,728,232; United States notes, $336,
SS9.4S1; national bank , notes, $341,
155.427; of gold coin and bullion and
gold certificates, $875,111,053, and
about $21,873,435,800 credit money,
which the said economists call "con
fidence." Those being the facts, where
the gold standard comes in is one of
those things that no pop can find out.
Such a thing as the gold standard not
being in existence, the pop cannot im
agine how it creates all the wealth in
the country.
The reasoning of these editorial re
publican economists la even worse
than the Rosewater logic, when he de
clared that prosperity p'-6duces money.
THE HIGH PRICK OF CORN
The Independent has frequently
called attention during the last two or
three years to the comparative price
of wheat and corn. The cost of rais
ing corn and wheat has generally been
considered as about four to one. That
is it cost as much to ral3e, harvest and
deliver one bushel of wheat as four
bushels of corn.. The price range of
the two grains for many -years was
about at that ratio, but for the last two
or three years corn has often come up
to more than half the price of wheat.
This has been a puzzle to the econ
omists, and searching investigation
has been made. The cause has been
discovered and It is the general opin
ion that In the future the price of
corn will always be much nearer the
price of wheat than it has ever been
before.
Corn is the basis of many large man
ufacturing interests. It is the base
of the pork and beef interests. The
people of Europe are beginning to use
large quantities for ' food and other
purposes. The increase in the annual
demand for corn within the last five
years, so far as it can be tabulated,
may be presented as follows: .
Bushels.
Increased pork production.. 200,000,000
Increased beef production... 50,000,000
Increased glucose and starch
use 50,000,000
Increased exports. 100,000,000
Total 400,000,000
If these conditions continue, the
price of corn must be much higher In
the future than in the past.. Only two
things can prevent it a decrease in
consumption or a large increase In
the production. But the corn belt of
the world is limited and the production
of corn cannot be greatly increased un
less the production of wheat and other
crops is curtailed. Corn is the foun
dation of Nebraska's wealth and the
outlook may be said to be good.
AGE OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
Some writers are very fond of call
ing, this the "age of competition.". It
has not been an age of competition,
but an age of special privileges. The
ills that have been complained of have
not come from competition, but from
special privileges. Two classes have
attacked competition the very .rich
and the socialists. The great concen
tration of wealth has in every instance
been effected by special privileges.
The railroads granted Rockefeller spe
cial privileges in rebates and that laid
the foundation of his wealth. Congress
granted Carnegie special privileges in
tariffs and for the making of armor
plate, and that made his wealth. The
general government and the states
granted special , privileges to the rail
roads in the way of eminent domain
and in a thousand other instances and
that laid the foundation of the wealth
of the great railroad magnates. If
no special privileges had ever been
granted, none bf " these great concen
trations of wealth would now threaten
the stability of government and so
ciety. They began by the destruction
of competition and the inauguration
of special privileges. Now it is pro
posed to destroy competition alto
gether. It might be well for the people. to
stop and consider who it is that raises
this cry against competition? They
will, find that it is the Rockefellers,
the Goulds, the Morgans and the Van
derbilts. Are they the patriots and
statesmen that should be allowed to
run the government and formulate the
policies of the 70,000,000 people who
are citizens of the United States and
subjects in the territories? That is
what the republican leaders.tell us
that we ought to do. Whatever the
rest may do, The Independent won't do
it.
THREW UP HIS HANDS
The state of Nebraska can act in
nothing except by and through its
officers. These officers in the perform
ance of their respective duties repre
sent the state. Their acts are acts of
the state, if authorized by and in con
formity to the state law. Article XI. of
the federal constitution declares that
"the judicial power of the United Stat
es shall not be construed to extend to
any suit in law or equity, commenced
or prosecuted against one of the United
States by citizens of another state, or
by citizens or subjects of any foreign
state."
Now, Judge Munger seems to be
Meve that non-resident stockholders
of a railroad corporation may com
mence and prosecute an action in fed
eral court asking for an injunction
against the attorney general, restrain
ing him from doing his official duty.
And the present attorney general
throws up his hands and says, Amen.
Most any state official who has a par
ticle of pride in his make-up would at
least Insist that if such a strained con
struction of the eleventh amendment
Is to be the law of the land, it shall
be announced by the supreme court of
the United States. But Prout could be
enjoined by any country justice of the
peace,( if it would help a railroad cor
poration, and he would not appeal. 4
In the eyes of the republican ninnies
who write trash for the great dailies,
it is an unholy thing for a democrat or
populist to gointo business and make
a million dollars. When one of them
gets a little time off and goes down to
New York and rakes in a few shekels,
the said saints, who worship at the feet
of millionaires, are horrified. The
forms of hypccrlsy that a republican
editor can adoptjare uncountable.
F2BMANKNT SCHOOL JtJND
1 reasurer Stuefer seems to be flinch
Ing under the fire from the populist
press, - criticising his failure to keep
the premanent educational funds in
vested in interest-bearing securities
The Omaha Bee's "staff correspondent"
at Lincoln comes bravely to the.treas
urer's rescue, and the Hon.; Edward,
sitting in the dome of the "pride of
two continents," has thoughtfully re
frained from asking the treasurer to
divulge the whereabouts of the idle
school moneys. "" "
It appears from, the Bee's account
of Treasurer Stuefer's semi-annual re
port to the governor that the sum of
$375,885.51 was received Into the four
permanent educational funds from the
redemption of bonds and warrants held
by those funds as investment; but the
Bee studiously avoids telling ".. how
much was received from deferred pay
ments in the sale of educational lands
something over $200,000. It also ap
pears that the treasurer has purchased
bonds and warrants in the sum of
$379,528.56, or' $3,643.05 more than his
receipts from paid off investments. In
other words, the . treasurer, .in five
months has performed the miracul
ous feat of increasing the total securi
ties just $3,643.05, or about $728 per
month! Or, stated another way, . he
has succeeded in. keeping invested all
the money coming in from paid off in
vestments, and in addition thereto has
invested the sum of $3,643.05 of the
$200,000 received, from the sale of edu
cational lands.
Inasmuch as the receipts from de
ferred payments on lands sold wiil ap
proximate $350,000 this year, if Treas
urer Stuefer." keeps up his lick" a
whole year, he will have invested
about $9,000 or $10,000 of such receipts
and the remainder will lie idle because
of his inability to invest them.
Then, in the face of this situation,
the Bee commits an act of pettifoggery
by such a statement as this:
"The argument of this is that when
the uninvested portion of'xhe fund in
creases the supply of securities should
also increase,.or in other words, that
it should be much easier to find secur
ities of the - kind prescribed by law
when the balance of the fund is high
than when it is low. This is something
new in the way of argument, but it Is
being used with -great energy by the
fusionists." -.
That is about- as logical as Rosewa-
ter's contention that prosperity pro
duces plenty of -money; but the fact
is that no populist would dream of as
senting to either' statement. It does
not follow . that securities should be
plentiful because the uninvested bal
ances are large? in fact; the . inference
would be otherwise.: But when it can
be shown that; Treasurer Stuefer wil
fully deprived himself of the opportun
ity of securing a greater amount of
state warrants than he is now buying,
there is proper ; ground for criticism.
He killed the Murray bill, providing
for a reductionin the interest rate on
state warrants: That act of his de
prived him of a large amount of war
rants, which are eagerly sought by
private investors, who naturally prem
ier a 4 per cent security to one bear
ing only 3 per cent. The Independent
pointed out at the time that Treasurer
Stuefer had committed an act of folly
in asking the ; senate to indefinitely
postpone the bill. At 3 per cent the
treasurer could have bought without
paying a premium practically all the
general fund warrants as fast as is
sued. At 4 per cent, the brokers give
him strong competition. His excuse
then was that warrants might go be
low par. His cry now is, "I can't get
securities." How could warrants go be
low par if the state stands always rea
dy to buy them' at par?
He is entitled to credit for all the
good work he has done; but he merits
adverse criticism for wilfully crippling
himself and making it more difficult
to do his duty.
A clairvoyant announces that a
ghost told her that the reason that
the weather is so exceptionally cool
that they have had a snow storm in
June up in Dakota is that Lieutenant
Perry has captured the north pole and
Is bringing it south with him.
The Independent would Hke to hear
from the 1,095 men who voted the
mid-road pop ticket and swore by the
"True Populist"; what they think "of
the republicans giving Deaver a $3,000
office? They can have free use of the
columns of The Independent for that
purpose. ysy
This republic is part constitutional
and part unconstitutional according to
Justice Brown, but according to John
Marshall "the constitution was writ
ten in order to define and limit' and
keep within the restricted boundaries
all persons and departments of the
government, and was meant to leave
no room for the play and action of
purely personal and arbitrary power."
What Senator Tillman attempted to
do was to apply the principles of the
referendum. The method was an awk
ward one and expensive, but it was the
only one at hand, and would have been
effective if it had been carried through.
At least South Carolinians would have
had an opportunity to say whether
they preferred the Tillman or the Mc
Laurin type of democracy. -
JOSEPH MERRILL. SHERIFF
The sheriff is the most ancient and
honorable officer known to the com
mon law. ; He is the chief executive of
the county and as such represents the
state administration in all matters
both criminal and civil, in the enforce
ment of the law. It is through him
that all the decrees of the courts are
executed. The office is of great an
tlquity and the sheriff was the first
officer ever elected by the people, there
being some doubt, whether the elec
tion required the confirmation of the
crown. In many cases of late, the oc
cupants of this office have brought
disgrace upon it under circumstances
that gave them an opportunity to make
it 'honorable and respected by all the
people. Joseph Merrill, sheriff of Car
rolton, . Georgia, has. done an act that
has not only gone far to redeem the
office from the disgrace that has fallen
upon Jt, but has conferred honor upon
himself, his state and his county. He
has defied and shot down white lynch
ers who were determined on the mur
der of a black criminal. He did this
under the most trying circumstances
which goes to show that there are men
of honor and undaunted courage in the
state of .Georgia.
A ' a a a a
a .oiacK criminal naa murdered a
little white boy. The negro was ar
rested, tried and convicted in the cir
cult court, but his lawyers appealed
to the supreme court and the case was
reversed and sent back for a new trial.
Upon this a mob arose and attempted
to take the criminal from the jail and
murder him. The sheriff and a small
posse that he was able to summon to
his aid resisted the mob and after they
had broken down the jail door the
sheriff fired upon them, killed one and
wounded several others. The mob was
dispersed and the criminal protected.
The governor of the state made quick
response to the call for troops and the
black criminal was taken by. two com
panies of. militia to Atlanta for safe
keeping.
Here is a lesson that the republican
hypocrites of the north who are con
stantly talking about the oppression
of the colored men of the south, while
the colored men are burned at the
stake in many northern states without
an 'effort of the authorities to protect
them.
For the thirty-five years that the re
publican party has held possession of
the government at Washington and
whined about the oppression of the
black men of the south, not one effect
ual thing has been done by them to se
cure that protection to which the black
men are entitled even in the northern
states? The republican national gov
ern ment has allowed them to be
Durned at the stake in both northern
and southern states without a word of
protest. A southern white sheriff is
the first officer to stake his life in de
fense of the legal rights of a black
man.
Having freed the black man under
the-leadership of Lincoln, as soon as
Lincoln was dead the republican party
began to use the negro for their own
interests without any regard for his
future welfare. Designing scoundrels
went Into the south and rounded up
black men by the hundred thousands,
not to establish good government for
them, but to enable these carpet-baggers
to obtain fortunes from a people,
both black and white, who were in the
very depths bf poverty. From that day
to this the black man has been used
by the republicans for the sole purpose
of obtaining political power. They be-
An Kir efoolino" tris nOTlTllAA Cf tlA
negroes through the Freedman's bur
eau and have kept up the practice ever
since. They have gone on in this way,
with the common consent of the north,
until the blackmen have become edu
cated enough to see what these hypo
crites really are and now , under the
leadership of a black .man, Brooker T.
Washington, they are at last breaking
away.
A dispatch from Deadwood enumer
ates a score or more of cyanide plants
that are being put up in the Black
Hills to work over the tailings from
the mines. Besides, that, a number of
abandoned mines running low grade
ore are being opened. ; All that will
warm the cockles of every old pop's
heart He knows that that means
more money cheaper money and good
times. But he shouldn't shout too much
over it The trusts are fixing( things
so as to get the benefit in the rise of
prices. Just as profits increase they
will capitalize them and draw their
interest.. After a while there will be a
big panic and they will say ;the cause
of it was too much money and gold
must be demonetized. The mullet heads
will all believe them just as they did
their catch phrases about silver and
"sound money' and vote to demone
tize gold.
The sublime assurance of the im
perialist reporters is just balanced by
the immeasurable idiocy of the av
erage republican reader. As an ex
ample, the recent reports from Cuba
furnish a good Illustration. A promi
nent republican said to The Indepen
dent, "What is the use of all this talk
about the Piatt amendment? The peo
ple of Cuba, when the resolution was
passed by the constitutional conven
tion, thought that It was an acceptance
of . the Piatt resolution and were all
perfectly satisfied." He was - asked
how he knew wnat they thought, and
how he knew that they were all per
fectly satisfied. He replied : "Why,
here it is so stated right in this pa
per." When asked: how that reporter
could know what all of the people of
Cuba thought and how he knew that
they were all perfectly satisfied, he re
plied: "Why, it must be so or such a
statement would not have been sent
out to all the papers." That is a fair
specimen of the ability to think of the
average republican. He saw this most
absurd statement and he concluded
that it must be true .just because it
was printed in . a paper. ,
McKinley has rejected the constitu-
tion prepared by the convention elected
by the citizens of Cuba. Now when
the supreme court convenes, will ? it
please tell us under what clause of the
constitution he was acting when he did
4 t .fii-t-i. ui 4v x i
it. It will not trouble the court in the
least to ao it ana win stop the cry
raised 'about McKinley acting the em-
peror,
A court that could declare that
the words of John Marshall, when he
said that the territory west of the Mis
sissippi was as - much a part of the
United States as - Delaware or Penn
sylvania, was. in full accord with the
idea that the term "United States" did
not include the territories, could find
no trouble in pointing out the clause
of the constitution under Which Mc
Kiniey acted when be dictated to a
. -. . . ... ... . i
foreign nation what sort of a constitu
tion it should adopt.
Everywhere socialists tell the work-
ingmen that they are not interested in
present politics and advise them to
hold aloof. They tell them that the
questions of the "currency, tariff, in
ternal revenue, public ownership, the
encroachments of the corporations on
personal rights, the usurpations of the
judiciary and -even the establishment
of Imperialism, are matters of no con-
cern to them, but are only quarrels
between the capitalists. The populists
declare that they are most intensely
interested in all these things. The
populist believes that we must take
one step at. a. time and that the moun
tains that face him cannot be scaled
at a single leap.. The race, must toil
slowly upward in the future, as it has
always done in the past
The Bee says: "In a recent address
William J. Bryan told the. Missouri
democracy that the party could not af
ford to sink principle for expediency.
The speaker evidently did' not intend
his remarks to be heard in the fusion
camp in his own state." Why such "re
marks should not be heard in the fu-
.1.. K.. If.
A , .
Rosewater can tell. In all the fusion 1
efforts In this state no - deraocratOr
populist has ever been asked to sink
principle f or i expediency.The prin
ciples of both parties have'always been
fearlessly and honestly stated in their
platforms and tey will continue to be
n the future! 1
One day a reporter of the State Joup-
na! about tw6. years ago saw a fusion
state officer prow a bundle of blue
grass that had I just been shaved off
the capitol lawn into his buggy and
take it home to teed to his horse. The
old Journal toc"t the matter up and
tried to makers, j state .issue of it, de-
daring that th5j fusion state officers
were stealing .hay off the state
grounds. Now : that same reporter
stands and looBSijat Joe Burns digging
a well which will cost the state $5,000
and then $500 a year ever afterwards
and never takea a note and the Cheer-
fur Idiot shows; no tendency to make
any remarks on the subject.
t&z&fiZ&A
At the same.: dme when the great
ppmihUran naner In th east are de-
nouncine Bryai J!6r favorine fusion in
the west and calling him all the hard
names they can think of, they are en
gaged in tryingj
1 xt I
UliCUCVl iUQtUIl AH . C v I
York to fight thferammany democracy,
The republicans
there are making des-
rierate efforts to effect a fusion with
two other politicM parties. They use
exactly the sam s.rguments in favor of
fusion that refolxiers use In the west
and which republicans both east and
west - denounce
an ; Immoral and the
worst of political crimes. There Is a
moral to this li
tie tale so plain that
t need not be
fcrlnted.
The snokesmah; of the millionaires
who went to Engaud took pains to tell
the assembled aristocrats, . lords and
nobles who gavefthem a dinner at the
Mansion House, thatv the New York
chamber of compi.jrce was operating
- a a X . L . i a a . -m
under a charter granted by King
George III. in l7oj He might have
added that the chaiaber was now more
determined, on enforcing the principles
of King George III. than ever" before.
The socialists declare that "govern
ment ownership public utilities Is
not socialism, but j tate capitalism."
Therein the socialist is right Public
ownership of rai
rqads, street cars,
telephones and teli
traphs is not social-
sm. Itis theverj
apIthesis of social-
ism. . ...
ROSEWATJCR'S EXHIIIITION
The' Independent has always treat'!
Rosewater and the Bee fairly. Now
the Bee turns 'around and in return
for . such treatment-does one of t&
dirtiest tricks that ever, dl 3graced :t e
republican press of Nebraska. Road
Ithe following article and Judge for
yourself.; . N
"Can it be that the course of Prof.
Herron iin the -abandonment of wife
and children appeals specially to pop
ulists for sympathy and support?
Here we have The Independent, the
recognized organ of the pQpulista in
this state, publicly indo:rs!ng Prof.
Herron when nearly, every sober-minded
observer has nothing but condemn
ation for him. It tells us that Prof.
Herron lias arrived at the logical re
sult of the theories-of socialism be
cause accepting the premises of to
cialfsm as- true,, "no other conclusion
could be arrived at 'Prof. Herron hav-
ted te premises of socIalUm
them.' it says with unconcealed ad-
miration, 'wherein1 he rises above the
average socialist and in so far he Is to
be commended. Prof. Herron Is tte
most brilliant, scholarly and . logical
soclalIst that.has ever appeared in the
united States We do not believe the
I American people subscribe to such
leadership whether they follow tha
populist political vagaries or not.
Rosewater knew as well as he knewr
that he lived that that article was a
misrepresentation nand false from the
beginning to the end. He knows that
The Independent has always held that
the loical result of socialism was the
aesirucuon or tne iamuy, ana quotea
Herron's action as proof of that fact.
in its opposition to socialism.. What
but evil can come from a newspaper
that will Indulge in such open misrep
resentation and falsehood? Perhaps
Rosewater wrote that article in re
venge for the answer that The Inde
pendent made to his assertion that
Prosperity produced more money and
not more money prosperity.
COST OF REPUBLICANISM
Just a .few results of republican ad-
ministration. Loss of reciprocal taxes
on insurance companies, caused ; by, a
ruling of the republican audltdr, at J
$20,000 per year. Loss of tempora ry
school fund in just one school ajvori
tionment, X5u,uuu. loss in unpereii
sary interest on general fund war
rants, caused by a republican snat4
complying with the request of, a rvA
publican state treasurer, anX. refusing
to lower the interest ratesay $0,0C0
per year. i $ - '- -i
Loss (total) in putting iown a $4.50ol
Jo Burns well on the capitol ground!!.!
to furnish $450 worthof water a year!
ana requiring me, eer vices ui a
11 -J . ftAA
year engineer, say1i5,000 the first year
and ,$500 to $700 each year thereafter.
Loss incalculable in the election of
two national bankers as. United States
senatorf to represent an agricultural
state men who have no sentiments in
common with the producers of wealth
SIXTEEN TO OJ?E DID IT '
Postmaster's salaries continue to go.
up almost invariably on re-ratinga
based on the business transacted at-
the various offices throughout Nebras-,
ka and Iowa, and the whole country,
for that matter. The re-ratlng wag -usually
in the other direction before
the republican administration took:
charge. Omaha Bee. " .
, The re-rating was usually in the oth
er direction when Rosewater . and tlo
whole republican party was aidi:?
Cleveland in stopping the coinage? cf
silver ' and contracting the volume of
money. As soon as McKinley adopted
the populist financial theories, things
took a turn for the better all around,
Sixteen to one did the business just as
the populists said it would"
The British have kept an armed
force of 250,000 men in South Africa
for two years, that is to say ten thoju-
sand more armed men than there are
inhabitants in the two little republics.
They have had there more than oka
soldier ror every man, woman aui
child, and yet the war goes on.. ThJS
not phenomenal." The same race
Dutch have performed the same v
t
nrnna riperia hffnrv when fl eh finer
n
liberty. So have other races, notaly
the Prussians under Frederick la
Great Joe Chamberlain should h
thought of these things beforeJhe s
Jamieson on that raid.
Here is Morton's latest contrlbut pi
to popular government: "The use
the ballot in America ought to be
stricted. Only the intelligent taxpaj
should be permitted to vote any wh s
In this republic." It would be a go 1
plan for the Cleveland democrats o
run Morton for governor on that pi: -form.
Not all taxpayers even oug t
to vote. Only the "intelligent" oris
Bhouid be granted the franchise aid
Morton Bhould be the judge whetlir
they were Intelligent or not. . Mortin
says that was what Jefferson meajt
Morton gets nearer to an entrance to
the insane asylum every day that ke
1Ives
. "Confidence" seems to have vanished;
down in: Wall . street and the whle
town is In mourning. There is ho
prospect of "brisk trading', for the
lambs have fled and even Jim Keene
haR , failed . to toll them back. , Wall
street will have to wal until the wool
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