THE . NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
July, 11, 1901
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Anarchy la Wall street. McKinley
t decide tliit the Lankers do cot have
to bey the laws.
"I believe t!at municipal ownership
of water plant, lisMIcg plants' and
street car Uses is the best solution of
the problem." W. J. Bryan.
The treat banks ' In gold standard
"Germany go tumbling one after an
other. Is it a silver craze that Is
doing mischief over there? That Is
what played smash with the banks In
this country, so the sold bugs told us.
Filipinos and Porto III cam are hu
man beings and have indestructible,
unalienable and eternal rights which
to supreme court, president or con
gress can take away. That is the law
and the gospel as The Independent
looks at It.
Th Nebraska farmer laughs 'and
trrows . fat all because the populist
policy of more money and higher
prices has been adopted by -McKinley.
U!g crops and high prices! Just think
of it. In the old day g of "honest mon
ry big crops always meant low prices.
The comptroller's reports show that
there are 4,4 national banks doing
business In these ' United States and
that l.CS are' either insolvent orln
coarse of liquidation. Of. these lat
ter kind New York has 219 and Ohio
IIS. Hurrah for Wall street and Mc
Kinley! . . .
The New York world svms to have
turned Christian scientist "for It gives
the following directions to those who
would escape the effects of the beat:
"Cut the acquaintance of the thermom
eter. Discourage talk about the wea
ther, and IX you must think of it
think of Peary!"
The Buffalo Times says that very
few young men can now afford to
graduate either at Harvard or Yale, al
though those two Institutions are re
ceiving millions of dollars In dona
tions every year. The more that is
given them the greater the cost to the
student to obtain an education.
The fighting still goes on in the
Philippines. They now . say that an
Englishman is in command of the in
surgents in the Island " of Mlndoro,
that be hat COO well armed men and
that among them there are several
Americans, and that they occupy
4 strong entrenchments at Calapan and
Tagan.
Philadelphia was the place where
the Immortal Declaration of Indepen
dence from Gnat Britain was pro-'
claimed, but the citizens of that city
fcave become so degenerate that they
cannot now get up a declaration of In
dependence from Quay. That shows
jwhat an overwhelming republican ma
jority results in.
The anniversary of the nation's
Idrthdiy used to be called Indepen
dence Day. the principal feature in Its
celebration being the reading of the
Declaration of Independence. Now It
Is called the Fourth of July and the
thing which attracts most attention is
the exploding of Are crackers, all of
rhlch is la accordance with the deci
sion of the supreme court.
A civil government wsa established
In Manila oa the Fourth of July. The
reading of the Declaration of Indepen
dence was cot a part of the program.
If It had been read ia the language of
the people It Is likely that half a
dozen tew Insurrections would have
broken at before the next morning.
There Is enough ia that document to
have JastiSed every one of them.
The llctchlsoa Gazette remarks
that "A Bostoa lady describes the
United States as a land 'Cowing with
ink and money! Iris hoped that the
Bostoa lady has not inadvertently got
ten acquainted with a coterie of coun
terfeiters." Not at alL She had been
down to Washington watching the
presses running off national bank
" notes by the ream, or perhaps she had
noticed a bsck teller making out cer-
; fifed checks to parties who had no
' deposits.
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HALLUCINATIONS
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There lies on the desK a paper
bound book of some 150 pages issued
by a house engaged in the sale of
proprietary medicines. In it are the
certificates of the cure of -many cases
of desperate diseases, many of them af
ter two or three regular physicians had
treated the cases and failed. Seven
hundred and eighty-three persons who
give their full names and places of
residence are attached to these certifi
cates and quite a number of them are
sworn to and notarial seals attached.
It happens, that three of these persons
are known to the editor, of The Inde
pendent, and he would testify in any
court that their reputation for truth
and veracity was good and that all
who know them esteem them as hon
orable and upright. It is fair to con
clude that most of the other 780 are
of the like kind of citizens. Some of
the cures testified to are almost mir
aculous. Now it also happens that some twenty-five
years ago, when this firm first
started in business, that they made an
offer to the editor of The Independent
to take an interest in the business!
It was then Just started. They wanted
a man to introduce the medicines Into
new territory' and to attend to the lit
erary end of the concern. A thorough
investigation of - the ' business was
made, the laboratory visited and the
ingredients of the medicines and the
cost of preparing . them was made.
They were of two kinds. . -One was a
lotion or liniment and the other was
put up in the form of pills. The lini
ment contained - a - stimulant and an
ingredient that would produce a prick
ly sensation. As far as the'pills were
concerned, they contained " nothing
that had any medicinal quality what
ever. They might as well have been
made of bread crumbs. Having Just
finished a course of medicine these
facts were within our own knowledge.
When these, facta, were, obtained the
two young men, one of them also a
physician, who were pushing the busi
ness, were called to account. The
young doctor replied in substance as
follows: .
"There is no fraud about this, busi
ness. It Is pure philanthropy You
know very well that millions of people
constantly dose themselves with dele
terious drugs and permanently injure
their health thereby. If we can induce
part of them to stop that practice and
take, a harmless 'dose of brea'd pills
Instead, we will prove benefactors be
sides making a good living for our
selves. - The remedies have already
effected many wonderful cures. That
box contains over 5.000 testimonials to
that fact and every one of them are
genuine,' many of them being accom
panied by affidavits of the parties who
have been cured or got well after tak
ing them. - If they had not taken these
harmless remedies, some of - them
would surely have dosed themselves
with drastic purgatives or other, dan
gerous concotions which are for sale in
all the drug stores. The simple fact
Is: These preparations have saved the
lives of hundreds of people who .would
now be In their graves had we not
had them on the market. The busi
ness is the most highly honorable in
the world. It saves life. If the people
do not buy these, they will buy prepar
ations of mercury,- opium or other
deadly things. " You need have no com
punctions of conscience. The busi
ness is all right from the moral standpoint."
The offer was not accepted. Another
party was taken Into the partnership
and the three men are now-all mil
lionaires, the sales of medicines, if
they can be. called medicines, . were
greater last year than, ever 'before.
These are facts. - Many others of the
came kind are known to thousands of
physicians. The. people who take these
bread pills get well. That they , con
tain medicine that will have some
kind of an effect upon the organs of
the body is a pure hallucination. But
the sick get well. It probably may
also be asserted that if'theydld not
tske the bread pills they would not get
well.
In all the medical books written
about a hundred years .ago there were
many cases recorded concerning the
wonderful effect that the mind had on
the body, the case of the London
butcher was always given. . " He had
never been sick a day In his" life. He
was the very embodiment of health
and every organ in his body, as was
proved by a"post mortem, 'was per
fectly sound.' Six doctors undertook
to try an experiment on him. Each
of the doctors met the butcher at dif
ferent times in the day and declared
to him that he looked ill and that
there must be something terribly
wrong with him. Toward night the
butcher became 111 and grew worse bo
rapidly that a doctor was sent for. The
whole six doctors finally gathered at
his bedside and told him of the plot
and that there was nothing the matter
with him. But the butcher died. Scores
of similar cases were recorded in all
the books. The powerful effect of the
mind upon the body was taught In ev
ery medical school. The most; aston
ishing thidg connected with this mat
ter Is tht physicians never thought
of using this power of mind as a heal-
1
ing agent until after Christian science
attracted general attention. It is now
fully , recognized by every ' Intelligent
physician." It has been given a name
and is now called "suggestive heal
ing." , .;- -
. But this is an altogether different
thing from the theory upon which
Christian science is based. Here is a'
person with the whole side of the face
swelled up. The patient is suffering
intense pain. He calls it neuralgia.
The Christian scientist would say that
there was no pain there. It was all
an error of the mortal mind. There
is no such thing as' disease. The doc
tor would' say: "Go to a dentist and
have that hole in your tooth plugged."
All that man .knows .is. gained
through the senses. The few things
that are known which are beyond the
reach of the testimony of the senses
have been ascertained by the exten
sion of the senses through delicate ma
chines. Such are the colors that' the
human eye cannot see, the high and
low sounds that the human ear can
not hear. Yet we know that there are
such sounds, and such , colors. It is
another thing-altogether to ask sane
men to believe things that are in direct
contradiction to the testimony of the
senses. When such a thing as' that is
granted,' the whole world "Is thrown
into chaos. To assert that an exposed
nerve does not produce pain is a hal
lucination so wild that it is altogether
out of the field of reason and if reason
is no longer to be the guide of man
kind, then the sooner the race becomes
extinct the better for all concerned.'
The realm of disease has always
been a - great field for hallucinations,
but they also enter into politics. There
are hundreds of thousands of men in
the United States who had the hal
lucination that if the coinage of silver
was not stopped that universal desti
tution would come upon the land.
They still are under the effect of that
hallucination, although McKinley has
been . coining more silver than was
ever coined before.. Others entertain
the hallucination that it is necessary to
keep the republican party' in power if
we want good crops. There is a Unit
ed States senator, hoary with age, who
has a hallucination that although
Washington laid the foundations of
now the greatest government on earth.
and fought as commander-in-chief in
the field for seven years a force ten
times as great as his own, finally driv
ing it from the country, that McKinley,
who has never done any of these"
things, is as great a man as Washing
ton, and that, while Washington never
told a lie, McKinley has told so many
that jevery one has . ceased to keep an
account of them. ' ' ' ' ;
These are the meditations of The In-
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dependent on the subejet of hallucinations.
EVERYTHING THERE
By the time that the vacation of the
supreme judges is over, Mr. Justice
Brown will probably have evolved
some new constructions of the consti
tution which were never heard of be
fore which will enable McKinley to
escape the impeachment of mankind
for having taken over the power to
enact laws , which every one who has
read the American constitution has al
ways thought was the prerogative of
congress. A new government nas oeen
set up in the Philippines, which, ac
cording to the supreme court, is now
a part of the Umted States. Hundreds
of laws have been enacted over there
and the enacting clause reads: "By
the Authority of the President of the
United States, be it enacted by the
United States Philippine Commission."
Justice 'Brown will not. fail to declare
that the constitution has conferred
power on the president to enact lawsl.
There is anything that Justice Brown
wants to see in that constitution. If
McKinley should set up a king over in
the Philippines and a hereditary nobil
ity, Justice Brown would not fail to
find authority for it in the constitu-'
tion. There is everything there that
Justice Brown wants to see and noth-
ing that he don't want to see.
THREE CITIES
The three cities that are attracting
the attention of the world on account
of the moral rottenness of their gov
ernments are Philadelphia, Omaha
and Denver. In each the republicans'
are supreme. The newspapers at Den
ver announce that the police must obey
the injunction not to Interfere with
the dives and the sale of liquor. The
News says that it will be two years
before the matter can be taken to the
supreme court and in the meantime
the police - cannot interfere with the
sale of liquors in hotels or restaurants,
whether their proprietors have licenses
or not, nor can it prevent the sale of
liquors in them on Sunday or at any
hour in the day or night. As to res-;
taurants and hotels, no license is nec
essary to permit guests to be served
with intoxicating drinks, and with
them midnight and Sunday closing is
a dead letter.
The Chicago papers say that Omaha
is so vile, corrupt and degenerate that
it will be wiped off the. face of the
earth, while the ten million dollar
steal in Philadelphia remains as the
colossal swindle of all the ages. That
is a summary of what the grand old
party of God and morality is doing for
the world at the present time.
BURT COUNTY REPUBLICANS
....y No dog was eyer more faithful to Its
master than the Burt county republi
cans have been to the corporations and
their party. If they are kicked, they
simply crawl back and lick the foot
that kicked them. If they are starved,
they will gnaw the barest bone with
unbounded gratitude. Years ago the
corporations appeared in the county
and wanted the republicans to make
them a gift of $105,000 to help build a
railroad. Some" of the men of sense
who lived in the county said if these
men who want . to build a railroad
haven't the money, and want us to fur
nish, the money as we want the road,
let us take that much . stock in the
road and own that much of it. Then
if the road pays we will get interest, on
our money and it "will finally be re
turned to us. But the g. o. p. leaders
told them that it was anarchy to think
of such a thing, that it would never, do
for a coun tyy a state; or the general
government to pwn; a railroad. ,
Every one of .these dumb and faith?
ful followers of the republican, party
believed every rd;of that-and went
to work and voted to tax themselves
$105,000 to give to the railroad corporT
a tion. The bonds ran for ten years
and by, that time $hey. had paid another
$105,000 in interest, . Then the bonds
were ? refunded . f orv twenty years at 6
per cent interest.- At the end of that
time theyhad paid' $126,000 more as In
terest. Still they.; were as faithful as
ever.'? The more that they were kicked
the better they liked their republican
mastersl "Now they "nave refunded the
bonds for another twenty years and by
that time they will have paid to the
corporation $396,000 and will still ;De
voting the :republ3caEt ticket, for it is
a habit in the republican party for the
son to always vote the same ticket that
his daddy did. " -
That the republicans of. Burt coun
ty lick, the foot. that, kicked them is
proven by, several things that' have
occurred in-recent -years. This same
corporation for which, they have raised
wheat and corn on their farms and
sold It to give these hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to, at one time raised
the freight rates so high that the farm
ers drove their, cattle on foot to the
South Omaha markets, and the mer
chants had "to Shire' wagons to haul
their goods upfrom Omaha. .That d?
not at all' change, jheir love for their
masters. They? walked up to the polls
and voted fors them -at the next-elec
tion with moitr smiles on their faces
than ever before, w
Then Cartec appeared among them
Carter of Mofitana.-- He worked the
worst bunco e'bn' thenV'tWt was
ever played in ' this state., Several score
of the besty republican farmers in the
county lost their farms and the money
was turned over to Carter. But when
Carter was put in charge of the repub
lican national campaign, . the most
faithful followers and . energetic work
ers that he had In-the whole United
States were In Burt county . They put
up their money and they carried torch
es and howled for Carter In c way that
almost made the waters or the Missouri
stand still. Carter had "swiped" their
houses and lands, but they put patches
oh theirv pants', marched in the parades
and voted, the republican ticket early
and often. . : ? . .. .
Notwithstanding that the republi
cans of Burt county have given so
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to the railroads which they have
dug by the hardest toil outJ of their
farms, there is a very large part of
the county that has no railroad facili
ties at all. . For thirty years the farm
ers and merchants have been trying to
get a railroad to run ; from Tekaraa
through the rich,, bottom lands 'up to
Sioux City. They have made effort af
ter effort, but every time they get
started this republican " railroad" cor-:
poration to I which . they have 'contri
buted so many hundred thousand dol-'
lars knocks them out.- After every such!
defeat they, walk-up to the polls and
vote the republican ticket.
; The dog has forages been used a3 a
simile for unthinking gratitude. He
may be starved and kicked and abused,
but he will stick to his master until
death. A Burt county, republican is a
more fit example of that sort of thing
than any dog that ever lived.
THERE IS STILL HOPE
The Independent had given up any
hope that it was possible for an idea to
be driven Into the bead of the P Street
Idiot or that it was possible for him to
absorb one no matter how long it was
pressed up against his head. It seems
that it was a mistake. After eleven
years of hard bumping against his
noggin an idea has at last got in. What
a commotion there must have been in
that cranium when that strange visitor
at last made an entrance! Last Wed
nesday the following appeared. Hold
your breath while you read it and re
member that for at; least eleven years
the Idiot has been insisting that if the
citizens of Nebraska ceased to borrow
money and thereby go in debt to east
ern capitalists that poverty and dis
struction would cover the state as the
waters cover the great deep. Cam
paign after campaign was made upon
the assertion that if the pops carried
the state the capitalists would not loan
us money, would not allow us to get
, In debt to them, would , make us pay
all that wevowed and then eternal pov
erty would be our lot- He insisted that
the , only salvation was for us to get
into debt,. to eastern , money loaners.
Now he says think of it that "No
trouble can come to the United States
If the people take advantage - of the
present era of good times to get out of
debt instead of plunging Into new obli
gations." After reading that The In
dependent : was " almost - persuaded to
have hope for a Burt county republi
can. - ':' -
THE COMPTROLLER RESIGNS
The , comptroller of the currency,
Charles G. Dawes, has sent in his res
ignation. The : Independent has been
expecting it for the last six months
The reason assigned by Mr. Dawes is a
very, good one, "but there are others
He says that he is a candidate for the
United States senate against vBilly Ma
son of Illinois and that he wants to
give all his time to that contest. But
as Mason is an office-holder, too, why
It should be necessary for Dawes to
resign .while Mason sticks to his office
is not apparent. . -
. Look at the facts in the case. Among
the Wall street bankers Dawes is per
sona Ingrata. He , opposed ' their plan
of issuing paper money against, bank
assets. He issued a report in which
he declared that the banks should
carry "some visible reserves. He 'de
nounced the issuing of certified checks
to parties who had no deposits. He de
clared that the banking law should be
enforced.' This . last act was what
brought matters to a crisis and in a
very few days his resignation was
handed in. A great many persons very
near McKinley and . Mark Hanna had
been violating the banking laws and
if they were enforced, those two im
maculate republicans would have
found many of the heavy contributors
to campaign funds of the republican
party behind the bars of some peniten
tiary. The danger was. imminent and
pressing. With Dawes in the office of
the comptroller of the currency, every
New York banker "was standing face
to face with the fact that any-day he
might be arrested and put behind the
prison bars. Every one of them had
been " issuing certified checks to per
sons who had no deposits and the pen
alty, if enforced, was a term in the
penitentiary. Perry Heath, who man
aged the western end of the McKinley
campaign and made a deal with the
Mormon bishops, would lead the march
to Sing Sing. These prison birds out
of jail ' demanded that Dawes should
go: ' And he went. ' That Is theVway
The Independent" looks at it. 4
v THOSE ARGUMENTS
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It is the constant assertion of Mc
Kinley x and . his. followers that , they
are going to give to the people of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines as good
a government as they are capable of
enjoying, but those arguments that
are made, that the inferior races ' are
to be treated with as much allowance
as they are capable of . enjoying, that
as much is to be done for them as their
condition .will allowwhat .are these
arguments? They are the. arguments
that kings have made for enslaving the
people in all ages of the world. You
will find that all the arguments in
favor of kingcraft were of this class;
they always bestrode the necks of the
people, not that they wanted to do it,
but because the people were better off
for being ridden. This is their argu
ment." Turn jn whatever way you will
whether it 'come from the mouth of
a king as an excuse for enslaving the
people of his '. country, or . from the
mouth of men of one race as -a reason
for enslaving the men of another race,
it is all the same serpent. .
Now this is - not a pop editorial.
Those are the words of Abraham Lin
coln. ; The men who are making the
arguments that Lincoln denounced call
themselves the followers of Lincoln.
They organize Lincoln clubs, they say
that they belong to Lincoln's party.
Just in the same way the devil belongs
to the saints in heaven. -
There are 183 national banks in Ne
braska. Fifty-one' of them are in
course .' of . liquidation " and twenty are
insolvent. , That's . the best ; banking
system the worbieversaw, you; know.
-The tariff on r wool is 10 cents . a
pound, but ' the farmers are selling
their wool for eight and a half cents.
Out where McKinley carried the state
on the 'priced of wool they now say
that when the Mark Hanna subsidy
bill is passed the price of wool will
come' up again,
the " subsidy. .
So they are all for
.The would-be statesmen of the east
ern" states have so managed things that
thousands of their citizens are out of
employment , while in ... the populistlc
west there are not enough , men to do
the work Things might be evened up
if the eastern capitalists had not so
impoverished . their working people
that they have not the means to get
west. Better be a populist and live
In the west than a gold' bug and live
in the provinces down on the Atlantic
shore. The pop has plenty, while the
other can't even, get the chance -to
work. , : V. '". .:' "
REPUBLICAN ANARCHT 4
Republican government, both in the
east and the. west, is Verging close up
on, anarchy. ), Flushed : with power,
grown arrogant and feeling secure,
open violation ;of law, Is permitted all
the way, down from the president and
Judges to , the -mayors of cities. It; is
well, known , that McKinley has given
word - to tie Wall street bankers that
they will not be prosecuted for tnelr
penitentiary offenses, but that they can
go on and violate the law at their own
will:-: Out In - Denver a republican
judge has issued an Injunction prohib
iting, the. police from Interfering with
the sale of liquor on Sunday-or the hH
terf erence ' with the dives that- em
ployed ' disreputable women as solici
tors and who brought in . their victims
and drank - with them at the ban " At
Omaha they have a republican mayor,
who has the hearty support. of the dUJ
tor;. of the Bee. . The . Chicago, Record
Herald : gives r the following ' warning
concerning' the fate of Omaha under
that kind of republican rule:
"The city of Omaha appears to be
drifting" rapidly toward . the point
where it will be. wiped off the map of
civilization. It was .hit? hard by the
twelfth census;- but this -did Inot deter
the solid citizens oU theUown, -. wbo1
have something at stake In its growth
and progress, from getting together on
a plan of recovering lost prestige airid
of making a better showing in the next
census.'."' '
"About this time Omaha met with
another misfortune in the election of a
"wide-open" mayor, whose policy soon
advertised the place as a safe and wet
come haven for lawless elements o
society. In order to justify his wide
open policy he gave the citizens what
he called : Va , taste . of blue laws" by
closing drug stores and. soda fountains
and "arresting bootblacks and drivers
of milk wagons on Sunday. The re
action in ptiblic sentiment over being
deprived Of the comforts and conven
iences of 1 life was so great that the
work of ringing in a wide-open policy
met with, but feeble opposition. t
"It would seem that Omaha had suf
fered enough from her mayor."
It would seem so, but in reality she
will have to suffer on for a good while
yet. So many' of the citizens there are
afflicted -with the most4 virulent kind
of partisan Jnsanity that there is not
much hope relief? "If another man
Just : like . M cores were nominated by
the republicans, thousands of church
going people, both ministers and lay
men, vvould walk; up, to the polls and
vote for him, even- though a man of
the., most unimpeachable integrity
were! nominated by? some other: party i
They must have the.thing?labelled re
publican, no-matter? what lawlessness
and crime attends it.
Joe Chamberlain declared that the
war. on f Kruger was 'absolutely neces
sary on account of the way the for
eigners were. oppressed and taxed. Now
comes Lord Roberts and says f that he
was obliged to : send those foreigners
out - of the ; country - because they sym
p.thized with and aided Kruger . to
such ah extent that, it was a military
necessity to deport them. There seems
to be " some sort of discrepancy be
tween the statements of Joe Chamber
lain ; and Lord Roberts.- .ost' people
think that it was - Bobs who. told the
truth. ..vv
,. WHOSE money r r: ';
While ,tne old and well settled.prin
ciples of political economy still stand
and are unassailable, the - new condi
tions . under . which they, must be, ap
plied make many of the standard books
useless..' The quantity theory of 1 mon?
ey is receiving new demonstrations on
both sides of the ocean. Many others
ofthe old doctrines,, so plainly laid
down by the standard writers are be
coming more manifest, but can be ap
plied to new conditions only ' by . con
stant" thinking - and conservative judg
ment. ' . . ,
A'-' complete revolution '' has taken
place in . banking. The bankers - have
heretofore held the fate of, business in
the' hollow of their hands., At : any
time, by a concerted movement, they
could paralyze 'business "by"' calling
their loans. Then everything was at a
standstill. They did that In 1893. " The
banks then were 'owned by one set of
men and another set owned the manu
facturing plants. Today ' the, owners
of the manufacturing plants' are the
owners of the banks. Morgan,, Rocke
feller and their conferees own man v
banks in New York city and other cit
es of the country.They are constant
y getting' hold of morel - The men
who control the . trusts largely own
the banks. . The deposits, now. being to
a very great- extent in the west, an ef
fort : Is ; being ' made to ; get hold of
western banks. , ' ; ; " .
When the great financial magnates
gave up ; the attempt to control and
contract the currency because of . the
unprecedented output of gold and made
the attempt to get hold of and control
the industries, the whole face of mat
ters ; was changed. , To control the in
dustries required a large amount of
money and to get the money largely
without' interjesV they must get the
deposits. ; ; This thing has"; resulted.
The trusts have been organized by the
money of the common people deposited'
in the banks on?a very 'small, part
which is any interest paid, af ail at
on none of it more' than 2 per cent
According to the last official repor
of the comptroller. the deposits -in tt
New York city banks alone were $S 14
552,241.53. It was this money whlc:
did not belong to Morgan, Rockefelle;
or any of the trust magnates that w a
used when" the great' 'trusts wer
formed. They took the money tha
belonged to - the people; "and ' forme
the great combinations - that were h
be used to squeeze then' worst thai
they were ever squeezed by bond i?
sues and national, debts.; ..
. One ' cannot 'but : admire; the geniu
that evolved suclr a '.planJ Like al
really great schemes It was slmpllcit.
itself when once thought of. Take tl
money belonging to the people- without
the payment of Interest and with tba:
money organize a system 'of .industrial
trusts, that should put-all the profit:
of the genius and energy of the Amert
can people into the coffers of 'the few
who did the organizing. : That Js ex
actly what they did. ' v
Now they, want more money to or
ganize more trusts and are reaching
out for more banks so, they can get
of the New York , banks and .tjie re
serves that once, were all sent; to that
city now being held in the west; these
magnates want to get' hold of the
western banks so they can have the
control of their deposits. , If they
could get them all, accbrdlng to the
comptroller's report just issued, the
have in the national banks alone $2,
556,904,688.94, besides the state barks
the deposits of the people. " The west
ern people having become'; suspicious
that they could handle. ' s
r That is a pretty tidy sum for the
people to put into the hands of the
financial pirates and "'which will be
used to exploit the very, people who
furnish the money. .For the first time
in all history the. men who control the
industries control, the banks. It is a
novel situation and of course you can
find nothing In the books about, It. It
is making slaves forge their own fet
ters. ... . .
THF FOURTH IN EUBOPK.
( The Fourth of July was celebrated
with great pomp and ceremony In ev
ery large city and capitol pt Europe.
They had all heard of the recent su
preme, court decision and as that nul
lified all the doctrines to which kings
and potentates had objected there was
no reason why1 'they' should' riot join
heartily in the celebration of the day.
In Lincoln every- British ' subject took
great pains to put out a flag and ex
plode 'the regulation' ainbunf "of gun
powder.' "A good many of them never
did such a thing before It would be
interesting to know just what they
thought when they heard some ora
tor read, that all , men were created
equal and that allf governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed. These statements have
been made a laughing stock - in Eu
rope. Tney may still nave some ad
miration for the sublime hypocrisy ex
hibited r' by the American ? wha still
reads those lines with much gush " on
the Fourth, after the government un
der which he lives and the highest Ju
dicial authority of - the land have re
pudiated them, but he congratulates
himself that Old George IIL was con
quered at last, and that the boasting
that Americans have done for a hun
dred years will have to be repeated in
subdued tones hereafter. .- -
READING THE DECLARATION
The republicans had a celebration
out at Raymond on the. Fourth. When
the time came for the performance not
copy of the Declaration of Indepen
dence could be found on the ground.
They were afraid if that Item In the
program was left out - it might occa
sion some remarks by the wicked pops.
After a, prolonged 'search among the
republicans failed, a pop appeared with
copy of The , Independent ; and pro
posed that the republicans could have
it if they ; would read the portions
printed Inred. in a distinct manner to
all the people could hear. .The republi
cans, accepted the conditions read the
Declaration from The Independent.
While, they put no particular stress
on the words printed In red, they read
them distinctly- and the pop - had . no
complaint to make. It is reported
that at many of the celebrations held
by N the republicans the' reading of the
Declaration Was "omitted. ",it wis far
more, manly to omit' the reading: than
to announce a Bet of principles whicr
they had repudiated.
The republicans all.over the country
actually believed. that the war In the
Philippines was over,' but the editors
made a slip and .' allowed the ' speech
made to the Filipinos by their-new
clyir governor" to get in the papers.
The really and truly good republicans
must have been greatly shocked .when
they read that speech for Judge Taft
announced that military government
would have to be continued in five out
of the
were , still in a. state of insurrection.
Mustn't some of those good' republi
cans who thought the war was' over
have taken a long breath when, ther
read that. ; ,
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