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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
July 25, 1001
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The Hill crowd couldn't answer Bry-
an's arguments, bat they could hiss
and kick bis picture.
The tariff cn wool Is 10 cent a
pound, and wool sella for $ cents. Does
tie foreigner still pay the tax?
Hartley says be will stay In Lincoln.
Lincoln always was a much more
tea! thy place for embezzlers than Holt
county.
Tie latest cnri is to the effect that
the Bryan democrats of Ohio are going
right ahead to pat a third ticket In
the rlL
Tfce populist governor would neither
parole aor pardon Hartley, although
there was r-ady cash, but the
republican governor did.
The Wtjce Rejmblican doesn't think
that BoIIn. bull fights and Bartley
reals right. But that is what Is
written in the books and it cannot be
tmed.
A nasxtlne writer says that the
treat dailies "express lif in all the
phases a&d tendencies of the race. If
that Is trse. nay the Lord haTe mercy
ca the race.
The parole of the Younger brothers
!o3 not iseaa a mitigation of their
-titec.ce by any means. They are com
pelled to reside la Minnesota while
their liTes la.t
The go rem or of Nebraska has offi
cially Indorsed the Omaha bull fights
by honoring one of thoe affairs with
his presence, accompanied by bis staff.
Sioux Falls Press.
Last year it was said and often re
peated that If the republican ticket
was elected. Bartley would be turned
looe and time has proven the asser
tion true. Stanton Register.
The people of Nebraska can now
fyznpxthise with McKInley's governor
cf Gua and appreciate the difficulties
thai he met when he undertook to
make the natives wear clcthes.
Who paid for the railroad tickets
that Clem Deaver distributed all over
the state during the last campaign?
There are ios other fellows who
could tell things bide Bartley.
The way to a snug fortune accomu
Jiteil in a U-- yrs is embezzlement.
That tiU speculation oa the board of
trade t-a to ose. It is a sure thing
as lesz as the ""redeemers remain la
power.
A Lincoln gentleman wants to know
'why The Independent does not ask
the Blair Pilot how much It got for
pebllshirg that article demanding the
pardon cf Bartley. It wouldn't do any
rood M It did. The Blair Pilot would
tot telL
The populist state committee will
jcxirt at the Grand bctei in Lincoln.
Acgtist 7. at 1 p. ra. If the weather Is
so that men can trarel there will bs a
fall attendance. The future of the
populist party never looked so bright
zs It dots at the present time.
The present m look on the excessive
Leal and drouth with a great deaf of
complacency. They say that it is the
first time that they hare ever been able
to cet the republicans to pray. Now
the governor leads off and all the rest
Trill follow.
. The editor cf -The Independent, aa
everybody ksews. has been growing
younger and holier for the last fire
years, tut whea the ibenaometr per
sisted la registering from 100 to 105
degrees, fr orer a month all over the
country, he gare op the Idea of ever
oerosln? aancTiSed.
A great deal cf vituperation fs dl
reeJtfcd at C1" PvT, twit what a. bout
Whartoa Barker? One wma no worse
than the other. Had It not been for
that old fraud, the populists would
have had a strong organization la
Fransylrasia today, and sronnd It the
people could hare rallied la fighting
Quay. That Is Jat what Wharton
raxarr didn't vtxL
THE 8TKA.X. TBUtT
The plan that the Morgan "steal"
trust thieves have adopted to enable
them to pay dividends on stock wa
tered six hundred per cent, shows that
the American citizen pays the tax this
time without any show of concealment.
It costs nearly $12 a ton to carry
American steel billets to a British port
and thence by rail to an inland British
city. . "I "' " ; : 'r
The United States Steel corporation
Is now, according-; to. London advices,
delivering them , to British buyers In
the Black Country, back of Birming
ham, paying all freight charges, at $2&
per torC $3 per ton less than the low
est market price for British-made bil
lets. . j :..-.
The price charged' by the United
States Steel corporation for its billets
to American buyers at Pittsburg Is
from $24 to $23 per ton.
This proves conclusively that the
Steel trust is making a' profit of at
least $10 a ton on every ton of, steel
billets eold In this country ' over and
above the profit which satisfies it oa
its sales In Great Britain for of coarse
the trust is not constantly seeking for
eign trade at a loss. And still , the
Steel trust magnates are' not ready to
give up that. $7.84 per ton duty on foreign-made
steel billets.
There . Is no possible way for any
American citizen or subject to. escape
the payment of , tribute to the steel
trust, for every man, woman and child
uses steel in some form. Every human
beinj. on the face of the earth that
has advanced beyond- the "stone age"
uses steeL But it is the American
citizen who has to pay ten dollars a
ton extra on steel above a fair profit
to the manufacturer. The rest of the
world Is exempt. They can all get
their, steel at a reasonable price. But
the American citizen, because of the
Dingley tariff, must contribute this
tremendous amount to the trust. There
never was a more outrageous robbery
perpetrated on any people. The terpi
tude and silence of the whole press of
the United States under such a condi
tion of things is the most astonishing
thing of all. The Independent will
keep on publishing the facts as long
as the postmaster-general sees fit to
let it circulate through the mails.
When he Issues his order excluding it,
the editor will retire to his farm and
wait until some of the "mullet heads
get an idea driven into' their craninms
and are willing to loin with the dods
In a demand for equal rights to all and
special privileges especially ' tariff
privileges to none.
FASTE IT IN YOUR HAT
The following article appeared- In
the State Journal, July 18. - PopulistsH
have known that the railroad corpora
tions have controlled, supported and
managed the republican party in thi
state for many years. The farmers who
have called themselves republicans
have had no more to do with making
its policies or distributing Its patron
age than the man in the moon. ' It
has simply been a party of the cor
porations, for the corporations, run
by the corporations. Now that fact
is frankly stated. If the Burlington
goes out of politics it will create a
political revolution. To know what
the policies of the republican party are
going to be. It is only necessary to
know what the railroad policies are
going to be. The article is as fol
lows: "It makes the antis perk up a good
deal when they think of the railroad
consolidations and the developments
that may come as a result of them.
The Union Pacific and Elkhorn Inter
ests are strongly anti-Thompson, while
the Burlington furnished that states
man the strength that made him so
formidable last winter. Some of the
wise ones figure It out ths.t the sale of
the Burlington will cause that road to
go out of politics, creating a political
revolution in Iowa and Nebraska. It
is safe to say that there is nothing
more tangible than wishes and gossip
behind these predictions, for nobody
knows what the railroad policies are
goinc to be when the new railroad
maps are finally ready for distriou
tlon." REPUBLICANS REJOICE
Rose water" and' all the republican
editors are in a state of ecstacy over
the reorganization of the democratic
party foreshadowed by tW Ohio con
vention. They each and all declare
that the democrats have now started
out oa the right path to kick the re
publicans out'bf "power. .'That tickles
them nearly to death. v ,That is "what
they all say, Every republJiSS paper
from the New York Sqn to the - pioneer-Press
Is delighted beyond meas
ure at the prospect of Dave. Hill and
Cleveland getting control of the demo
cratic party 1 and triumphantly elect
ing the whole v democratic1 ticket
making a clean 'sweep as It were o
that there shall not be a republican left
in office from Maine to California.
They all solemnly declare that that is
what Is coming and they are so re
joiced at the prospect that they give
columns of their space exulting over
It. Rosewater ' quotes the following
with his most emphatic approval: ,
The time is coming and Jt. may be
near, whea conviction and courage win
go hand ' in hand and the democratic
party will not be content simply to ig
nore, but will denounce with solemn
emphasis the errors of the past few
years. It will cut loose from associa
tions with repudiation and win back
the confidence of the country. It will
be a long and tedious journey, but it
Is the only way home."
REPUBLICAN BANK DIRECTORS .
Simply because Mr. Heath is secre
tary of the republican national com
mittee is no reason why he should be
held responsible for something lor
which he could not have been to
blame. Fremont Tribune.
Mr. Heath was a director In the Sev
enth National bank of ttew York. The
directors - of a bank-have heretofore
been supposed to be responsible for
the management of the bank, and
when It violated the law have always
been held responsible. But it seems
that banks having members of the re
publican national committee for di
rectors are not responsible.. They can
induce confiding men to deposit with
them millions of money for safe-keeping,"
then steal It or squander it in
wild speculations on Wall stieet and
"are not to blame." That Is the re
publican idea, and the people general
ly would better make note of It. Look
and see if any of the directors of a
bank are republicans before you de
posit money in it.
A MINORITY PARTY
Powerful minorities, even if small in
numbers, have effected about all the
reforms that ever were effected in this
country. Minorities gave us all of the
civil service that we have. It was a
minority that secured the Granger leg
islation, that overthrew the reign of
credit mobilier corruption, and, great
est of all. has secured an enormous In
crease In the volume of money. A
minority will yet overthrow the in
iquitous trust tariff system. Minori
ties are often the most potent factors
in government. Intelligence is always
in the minority, but in the end intelli
gence wins every time. The populist
party has always been in the minority
in the United States, but it has had
greater effect upon legislation and pub
lic opinion than all other parties. It
has given to municipal ownership of
public utilities the standing that it
has today. Because you belong to a
minority party is no reason why you
should be discouraged. What differ
ence does it make to the farmer what
party wins if he gets the kind of legis
lation. that he wants. He gets it more
frequently by casting his vote for the
minority, than he .would by voting for
the majority. What have the people of
Pennsylvania obtained by voting in
countless thousands for the majority
party ?
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
. There has never been but two argu
ments made against government own
ership of the railroads.
"To take them by paying for them
would be bankruptcy. To have gov
ernment manage them would put in
the hands of any party in office a power
that could overcome and defy public
opinion."
Both of these objections are with
out any foundation at all. The owner
ship of the railroads does not bank
rupt the men who now own them.
Why should they bankrupt a new
owner? Every railroad now in the
United States could be purchased by
the government and instead of bank
rupting the government or adding to
taxation, it would reduce taxation.
Government bonds could be issued for
the whole amount and the interest on
them, instead of being paid by taxa
tion, would be paid by the freight and
passenger tariffs. Those tariffs could
probably be reduced one-half and they
would pay the interest on the bonds
and provide a sinking fund that would
finally extinguish every bond In less
than fifty years.
On the other hand, If the rates were
left as they are now, instead of bank
rupting the government it would pro
vide a revenue sufficient to pay all
necessary government expenses with
out any taxation at all. This argument
that It would bankrupt the government
falls to the ground under the very
slightest examination.
The other objection that it would put
in the hands of the party in office a
power that could defy public opinion is
equally as fallacious. The railroads
are in politics much more under pri-
vatft ownership u llT .J."""
sible for them to be under public own
ership. They control state and na
tional legislation and to a very large
ex&jjtthe courts. They contribute
millions!! keep their party in power.
They use intiiA4ation, bribery , and all
the agencies that cj control legisla
tion to the fullest exteot now. , Every
railroad office is a political headquar
ters. .They are able to dfcfy public
opinion now. Put them into th hands
of the government and these. vils
would disappear. ,
There can be no argument invented
that will stand the test of reason
against, the government ownership of
the railroads at least no such argu
ment has so far ever been offered...
IS HE SHELVED?
The Hill crowd are not so happy as
they - were some days ago, especially
that part of them who edit republican
newspapers. AInew light has dawned
upon their benighted minds. Here is
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the most
wildly insane of the Hill boomers in
the-republican ranks, which, after a
day or two of reflection, commented as
follows;
"At any large democratic convention
In this country the entrance of Bryan
would stampede the whole assemblage.
Through two campaigns he was cele
brated as 'the peerless leader' '' by
many who now propose to turn their
backs on him. . His name always
brought a shout and his presence a
crowd. Has he really been shelved?'
Shelved? ; The question' is provoca
tlve of smiles. In the ten. years that
Bryan has. been before the publie he
has always been firm, steadfast, wise
and brilliant in the defense of a certain
set of principles. - He has more per
sonal friends who would 'fight for him
to the bitter end than .- any .man who
ever lived in these United States.u ;He
is young, full of life and vfjfor; He Is
animated by the v very highest . ideals.
He is the same upright,; honest: man
that he always , was, a lover of his
country and mankind.". " He bears no
malice, but is as full of fight as a
bunch, of wild cats. Shelved? It is
not to be wondered at that the Globe
Democrat seems to have some doubts
on that subject.
APOLOGIES BEGIN
As soon as the news from the Ohio
convention was deceived The Indepen
dent remarked that those chaps would
shortly begin to apologize. McLean's
paper now says:
- "The fact that Mr. Bryan's picture
was not thrown down and no marching
club walked on It. Some time toward
the close of the proceedings Jim New
man of Miami county, who likes to
have some fun, and is not averse to
having his name in the papers, found
a lithograph of Bryan and insecurely
tacked it to a pole used for opening
windows. He brought it to the press
tables and tried to get recognition
from the chair. That officer was busy
and failed tos6e Major Newman, who
thereupon announced to the reporters
that he wanted to introduce a gentle
man to the convention. Then he care
fully deposited 'the pole against the
railing between the press seats and the
delegates chairs. There it remained
until it was lifted out of the way. No
more attention ' was paid to the inci
dent" '
The Independent repeats that apol
ogies will not 6 be accepted. Honest
Bryan democrirts and populists don't
want and will have nothing to do with
that crowd. s They won't vote the tick
et. They will" either stay at home
election day brrget up a ticket to suit
themselves. The McLean crowd will
be beaten by the biggest majority ever
rolled up in Ohio. We are sorry for
Kilbourne. He is a very decent sort of
man, but he got in with the wrong
crowd.
The libidinous millionaires of New
York who run this country and fur
nish Mark Hanna with the boodle to
carry elections are just as bad as the
old Roman imperialists whose exam
ple they follow in every particular.
They swap wives and keep mistresses
and do all things that history tells us
the rich Roman nabobs were in the
habit of doing. The recent death of
Lorillard, the tobacco trust magnate;
has brought to light that he kept a
mistress to whom he willed a large
slice of his millions. " The heirs say
that they will riot contest the will for
they would have to pay the lawyers as
much as was given to the women.
Lorillard was of the class who rule
this country through Mark Hanna.
They are all tarred with the same
stick. They are all great church-goers,
and are as puctilious in the observance
of religious forms as were the Romans
in making offerings to their gods.
Those old Romans- thought that they
had a cinch on the whole world and
were just as certain, of it as the Yan-
derbilts and Lorillards. are now,
The great Ohio wool tariff apostle
used to say: "Give us a tariff on wool
and we : will make the hills of Andul
asia a deserts The American tariff
league , now declares that if. we. will
only keep the Dingley, ..tariff -in force
long enough we will reduce all .Europe
to poverty. They never stop to, con
sider what will become of our .foreign
commerce when Europe becomes
ier people .cannot flbuy .pur
goods. . This kind of, talk Is made up
of the same kind of logic as that we
heard during the last campaign when
the mullet head went abroad declar
ing thatv he wanted no cheap money,
but dear money, and higher prices.;.'.
. Life in the penitentiary, is not nearly
so hard as the life of the average coal
miner and the fare is better. If a man
can make nearly a million dollars by
serving four years In the Nebraska
penitentiary, that is about the easiest
way to make a fortune" that is. open
to any man outside of the trusts. There
fill likely be a, good many men, take
advantage of It during the next few
tyeara, .
.
From the way the eastern , papers
comment on Governor Savage's patron
age of the Omaha bull fights. The Inde
pendent is led to think that they never
heard -that Nebraska had been re
deemed.
Julia Ward Howe's battle hymn of
the republic has been knocked into
"smithereens" by the decision of the
supreme court. When changed to read:
"Let us die to make men subjects.'
there is no longer any rhyme or
rhythm in it.
Rosewater promised Clem Deaver a
place and he kept his promise. The
other republicans were eager to accept
of Deaver's treachery, but. do not want
to keep their promises. Rosewater is
the better of the two, if there Is any
better in such disgusting business
The republicans used to say that
there were only two bad apples in the
barrel Moore and Bartley Now that
they have got their second wind they
declare that there were no bad apples
at all; that Bartley never should have
been arrested. Look out for another
crop of embezzlers
Which do you think has the most
to do In producing prosperity now,
McKinley or good crops? Four years
of good crops with an enormous output
of gold produced prosperity, but the
republicans all declared that it was
McKinley who did it. Do they believe
in that doctrine yet?
-The populists Tho took the advice of
The Independent to pay off old debts
and make no new ones do not view
the hot winds and drouth with the de
spair that some other fellows do who
imagined that we were sure to have
good crops and prosperity as long as
McKinley was president.
When the plutocrats at Washington
started out to destroy the weekly press
they said they must do it because of
the deficit In the postal revenues. They
now say It was to reduce letter post
age to one cent. Who ever asked for
one-cent letters? Was any congress
man ever requested to push such a
bill?
Forgings used in American war ves
sels cost the government $2.26 a pound
The English government gets the same
things for 48 cents a pound. Is it any
wonder that Carnegie still has $276,
000,000 to give away? The Carnegie
and Bethlehem steel outfits have pull
enough to move the earth from its
foundation
when Governor Savage disgraced
himself .and the state by patronizing
the South Omaha bull fight, he should
have expected just the reputation that
he has got in the Chicago and eastern
papers. Some of them devote pages to
the humiliating exhibit with Governor
Savage's picture set large in the il
lustrations. The nEgllsh government refuses to
release the . Americans who were cap
tured while fighting in the Boer army.
What does she propose to do with
them? Has she sentenced them all to
life imprisonment? The British won't
exchange them and won't release them.
Perhaps she is figuring them at so
much a head for ransom.
The English have an added grief to
that caused by the under-selling of
British manufactures by American
concerns. The American athletes and
race horses are giving them a great
deal of trouble. They say that they
have one comfort because the Ameri
can sprinters ran away from the Eng
lish in the running races.
The scriptures say that a merciful
man is merciful to his beast, but the
church-going plutocrats claim that
nothing of the kind is said about wage
wcrking men. Therefore they don't
have to .be merciful to them and th-jy
can be ..kept in the stoke holes and
firey furnaces when the thermometer
is at 105 in the shads just as long as It
helps to pile up dividends.
Our redeemers are singing very low
these . days. , Joe Bartley, ' lessened
school , appropriations, reductions , in
railroad assessments, penitentiary
fires, continual pardons, Clem Deaver
and 'several other things have taken
the vim out of them. The fusionlsts
will carry the state this fall by twenty
When- Secretary Root was In ; Oma
ha he. remarked that preparations must
be made for: the support of a large
army. That is what The Independent
has been telling the people for the last
two years. But when corn Is above
50 cents on the Chicago market a very
large number of men conclude that the
millennium is at hand and there is
no . use of wasting time on r politics.
They will find out oneHift tEeseays."
The new outbreak in' the Philippines
will be all the excusU that plutocrats
will want. More Moulder straps.
More idle men loafing! ground barracks,
the expense of whose keep must be dug
out pf the soli, is the prospect ahead
of us..-. r , , - r . r . .
An Iowa lawyer delivered a fierce ad
dress against the prevalence of per
jury In the courts the other day, but if
he wants samples of the utmost degen
eracy in that line he should investi
gate the oaths made by the New York
millionaires, including the saintly Car
negie j before" the equalization board
concerning the amount of their wealth.
J. Pierpont Morgan swears that he is
only worth $400,000. Russell Sage swore
that he was ' only worth the same
amount. Depew swore that he had
only $25,000; John D. Rockefeller only
a million; James Stlllman, president of
the City National bank, only $50,000
and Andrew Carnegie, one million
If Max Nordauk wants; any more evi
dence of the degeneracy of . the modern
man, he can find it In the returns o
the New York millionaires, made un
der oath to the tax assessor. That is
the kind of men who rule this coun
try. When the church stands, silent
In the presence of such immorality and
crime as this, what must be the future?
If honesty Is any evidence of the
ability of a people to govern- them
selves the provisional government of
the Cubans under Gomez, and those
acting with him in the island and in
New York, bears ample testimony to
that fact. The revolutionary govern
ment issued a total of printed bonds
amounting to $3,145,600, and the total
of the bonds disposed of was $122,400,
leaving bonds in the amount of $3,023,
200 still in the treasury. The republi
can press has been harping about tnese
bonds and claiming that Cuban "pa
triots" who hung around the head
quarters of the junta in New York had
disposed of them for their own profit.
Ali the expenses of the junta in send
ing relief to the island and maintain
ing their quarters In this country is
summed up in that $122,400. There
was nothing to hinder them from dis
posing of the whole amount, but they
preferred to be honest.
a socialist writer tries to answer
what The Independent said in regard
to the distinction between socialism
and populism by saying: "Do not
'all' the people own the postoffice and
yet the employes get salaries, . which
the writer above says they would not
under socialism." There may riot be
any difference between "all" the' peo
pie owning the postoffices, and the
people owning "all" the means of pro
duction and distribution, or in the
common ownership of "all" property.
but most men will think that there is.
The common ownership of one thing
and the common ownership of "all"
property, may be one and the same
thing,, but The Independent don't be
lieve it is. If all: property is owned
in common, who'll pay the salaries?
R. B. Dickson, chairman of the re
publican county committee of Holt
county, says that he had an agreement
with Chairman Lindsay and the Oma
ha heavenly twin and "that we felt
that we were dealing with men of
honor and whose word Was good."
How he ever came to believe that these
chaps were men of honor is past com
prehension. If Mr. Dickson had been
a reader of The Independent or some
other good pop paper he would never
have come to so ridiculous a conclu
sion. If he had been' possessed of the
knowledge common to all populists he
would not have been compelled to say:
While we rested secure in this be
lief, some one conspired and connived
to saddle on the party this political
Judas," Clem Deaver. . ;
The Bee says, "Away with pop
ulism." Well, populism is away down
in Boston where it saved the people
from .the traction corporation; it Is
away down at Topeka where the peo
pleare flying to it to save them from
an ice trust, and it is away up at the
White house, where it reversed the
financial policy of the republican party
and resulted in coining, more silver
than was ever coined before. It is
away down in New Orleans where ac
cording to an official report just issued
from Washington, the city has re
gained the control of a great public
utility In the wharfs of that city. Pop
ulism is getting away to all parts of
the country. It is not confined to Ne
In every state where populists re
fused to fuse with the Bryan democ
racy they have been knocked clear out
nf bpr 7"t r" rf trirmi f-
furnishing these creaturen. The vir
tuous, sane men and women who ha
made this nation great, have not be
longed to the "first families." They
have come from the farms., where thu
decalogue is still in force.
Tom Johnson gave Hanna one on tli
point of the jaw that knocked him
clear over the ropes the other day
Tom went before the tax assessment
board and proved by expert witnesses
that Hanna's consolidated street rail
road was worth $10,000,000. He proved
beyond a doubt that at the market
quotations of the "I stock that was its
value. Then the assessment was raised
from $595,000 to $6,000,000. As soon
as Hanna was able to get himself on
his .feet he jvent straight to .Canton to
see McKinley.' ' .'
The railroads of "the country have in
their employ over a million men. They
have 259,788 'miles of track, or enough
to belt the earth at the equator; with
a ten-track - road. rvAll bf these men
and all of this migh"tV;machinery was
used to beat Bryan and elect McKin
ley. . Pierpont Morgan now sits at the
head - of a railroad combination that
has the equivalent of a ten-track road
around the whole earth. How small
a man is the czar with his little Si
berian railway when compared to
Morgan? "
Morton was looking' through his dic
tionary the other day to learn how
to 'spell' a. 'word and accidentally ran
across the word "pseudology." . He
was-so delighted with the discovery
that he worked it In three times In
one paragraph. The little-minded ego
tist, thinking that he had done some
thing exceedingly clever, patted him
self on the head and said: "What a
reat man am I." pf course he ap
plied the word to Bryan and will like
ly keep running it for the next two
years.
There never was a banking system
that provided any protection to de
positors "except the honesty of the
banker. This is getting to be under
stood by a good many people. The Ne-
ligh Yeoman remarked last wet-k
that "the people will learn after a
while that a bank, national or state.
is no safer than a business firm. In
either case if you trust your money
with them, your dependence is on the
honesty and business ability of the
management, only that and nothing
more."
The postmaster-general, after fail
ing to get a law passed to exclude cer
tain classes of publications from trans
portation through the. mails as second
class' matter has' issued an Imperial
order on his own authority Ony a
synopsis was sent out by . the Asso
ciated press. Whether The Indepen
dent is among the excluded papers or
not it is impossible to tell until a ful
copy of the order is obtained. If you
don't get your paper one of these days
you will know what the reason Is.
The Dubuque Telegraph, one of the
sound old democratic dailies, says:
"What the welfare of democracy now
imperatively demands is the success
of the regular republican ticket in
Ohio by a larger majority than has
ever before been given to any ticket in j
that state.; It thinks that that will j
drive the democratic reactionaries Into
the republican camp where they be- I
long. The Telegraph must have seen
a copy of The Independent.
fusion ruined the populist party.- Ne
braska is still tha banner, populist
state and it has kept its position and
organization by fusion. How much
of populism is left as an effective or
ganization in any state where fusion
has been rejected? Populists in Ne
braska have in no case abandoned 'or
comproinlsed their principles. They
started out with the Omaha platform
and stand by it yet. ;J -
Tftednetante admirers of million
aires are now making excuses for the
moral rottenness of Lorillard for keep-
ng a mistress and then willing her a
million dollars by saying that the
woman involved "belonged: to one of
the best families of New York." That-
s tbe 'iiort of families who have been
Two years ago The Independent re
futed the excess of exports fallacy. Af
ter all that time some of the maga
zines and slow-going democratic dall
es have been able to comprehend the
matter and the editors begin to write1
about it. That is not so very bad.!
generally they are about five years be-j
hind The Independent, for it takes.
about that length of time to beat art
idea into the heads of editors who ge
$5,000 a year.
Hardy's Column,
T 1 " :
Here we are, thirty miles up the
north side of the Big Horn mountains.
n one of the four states that carry oat
the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence, that of giving all the peo
ple, of full age and sound mind a voice
n state government, so nigh. up are
we that the clouds often just pass over
our heads and again they wrap us
about as a mantle. The lightning and
thunder sport hp low yr rraxeum
1WTJ In cied.se the summer supply of
We read of the extreme
snow In sight.
heat , in Nebraska, while here we have
to build a; camp fire every night to
warm us up for. bed; From 9 a. m. till
3 p. m. it is quite warm, " perhaps 'as
high as 70. We have eaten "little ,v lld
fruit yet. The strawberries are Just
beginning to ripen. We have eaten
no wild meat excepting trout and we
have had of them all we could make
way with. Our average catch has been
about one dozen an hour, We kept
count until we got up into the hun
dreds. We would send a mess to The
Independent office, on ice, but the Mate
law forbids sending any uneaten trout
out of the state. The law also forbids
the killing of sage hens or deer before
the first of September. x It is a very
Inconvenient hunting ground anyway.
Fire ran over the mountains years
ago, killing the timber, and since then
the dead trees have rotted t,the root
and - fallen criss-cross , in. every direc
tion. -The young trees have started u$
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