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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 8, 1901. : : V
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NO. 11.
HOHE AHEEICAH HOMES
lUe.itWs r Ue IrrlCUoa rcm Ie
That t XMrt hm yt ede
Abi4ir nM far Man
Tfc trrfgatloa discussion at the
tru-Misl!ppi commercial congress.
r-cc:ly nLle4 at Cripple Creek,
Colo, was ttec44 with co little inter
t asJ nthutisrx. Tfee practical out
toss wajt lht fall anl ttrocj; indors
tceti by tLe trc-Miissippi cocgress
cf Lt l&atiasal Irrigation policy which,
la ttfect. !.nsarr aa asgrt&sire cam-
jm before lis ft next conjrresa at
Wathltjrtoa. to awrure auUtantial ap
propriatiou for UKicnlcc the grat
work of tie reclamation of tte arid
The fcllo ir.jc preamble and resolu
tloi wrr njianiiaouflf adopted amid
t2ucb 'SthosiajBxru TLey contain the
detias-J far f:airrtini-r;t afitance
asd tt raoss urg-d for. the adop
tion of tL catlonal syetem.
Wiwai, Ti rural homes of the
co-aciry are tb aafegtiards of th na
tion, and tL cosgeitioa of population
la tie creat cilk of the east la a
jjrowliis ia-!iar to the stability of our
rrpul-Ue&n Institutions, and there Is
suo lejcr aa outlet upon the oublic
lar. ls la iLtir prrmnt eomiltica for our
-jrpii population: ausd
Whereas. Tie l.onj-t-ad act was
the outgrowth of the r-clus of the Am
erican pop for homLuildinj and
the rr a rrt Ion dc-Tiopiaect of popula
tica ard wealth la the Kreat prairie
tt-s of IL st and the wonderful
rrowih cf OX!ihor.a stand as striking
trtffjt of the :eij-Scnt results of this
act, and tte rh for fcoraa on 'the
liijwa. Ck3!satchc and Apache reser
Tatior. 2ia ba so great as to compel
tie ffDTerr.t(-&t to resort to a lottery
drawlss to ap-portioa the available
hs-: arson? the thousands who are
e-cirg horses th-re; end
Whcrtrte. Two-thirds of the whole
western half of the t'nited States, a
v?ft arr-a cf ov-r ".'.(-, .(.) acres. Is
sti.i juttie laad as.d belongs to the
hu jjeople of the country, and 100.
.). ix acre of It can be reclaimed by
irrirstk'ii. as.4 the watr which would
Irrigate it runs at-suilljr to waste; and
W'l.irrp. If the rational jrorcrn
mr.t weald buOd the ?rttt reservoirs
a.nd saaic. llte canals necc'ssary to
b-ltig the wur within rrach of tet
tlf rs on the pat!ie lands, so that the
ifrttlrrs could build their own distri
butive: ystem z& the early sttlers In
l'th. California, Montana. Arizona,
end o?hr sn ior. cf the w-st have
doe, the pzllls l?.zs which ar now
ariJ acd cu'.r.hat'.taMe wou!d be re
tlainitd ad vtilr-d up by actual set
tkrs and hotx.e-1 u:irs just as fast as
the treat res' n oire and main iine
ccal cou!d be built; and
Wlt.vii, The tcttfetaeat of these
r! i ljsd would rre"te ne- population
la the w-t, and home markets for
c?iir Ameriraa maaufacturers and mer
chants with uian-eiaus rapidity, and
would " stimulate properlty la every
.loa cf the country and among all
clashes of the Assricaa people; and
WLfrta. Ti e development of agri
culture oa the irrigsble lands of the
wet would xe?i!y stimulate mining
ani th construct ioa of new transpor
tation facilities ?n1 inrr-ase the home
tu?cd for the products of the west
ern fssrraers la the minins regions of
the -it; aid "
V.lrrras. the countless mtllions of
Ail a would absorb all of the surplus
of the ordinary farm pnlucts of the
irrlctc4 lands of the west, so that
any cars petition between the farmers
f the yhi and the farmers of the
raft would be absolutely impossible:
now, thertfore. he It
Resolved. l"hat we urge upon the
Amncaa pple and the ouKresa of
the l r.it-! States the overshadowing
irrptrta::e ar.d ncesSty of the adop
tion ct tse national irrisatioa policy
as advooi by the national Irriga
tion - s tsoelatioa for the reclamation
and -t? lament of the arid region of the
t'rltfd .-'tat'-s by the pre ervatlon of
the forests as sourra of water iuprly,
and the bet Id In it of reeerroirs by the
national government for storing the
'i waters of the west, as reccra-r--T.'-i
ia the Chitteadea report, and
lo the construction of great reser
voirs and mala line canals by the na
tional aovernnetit wherever necessary
to furnish wsler for the reclamatloa
and nt!'m t t of th arid public laads
o as tc brics the water winthia reach
of Mttlrs. and the holding cf sach
lr.'i fcr actual settlers only, ander
the tiote.tea4 &ct. who will go upoa
the ls.r.d and build their homes there,
thxs cpcalnj up opportunities for mil
lions bow hotsles, and giving to er
try c.-.e "a'ho wants It a chance to et
a Lozse oa the land, thereby creating a
deie popfulatios la the arid regioa.
ihlch wiii esormouly increase the
tcze markets for the products cf ail
our atfra factories, and contribute
to the eterd prosperity of the entire
couutry.
TrM r-olatlons rang with the
tone building idea, ad their read
ing to the convection was greeted with.
applause,
1SDIAKA DEMOCRATS
has made its two last presidential
campaigns ha3 stirred up the Bryan
democrats In & way to make it exceed
ingly uncomfortable. Many of the
country weeklies hav taken a hand
In pounding this old plutocratic advo
cate until Its eyes are armost bunged
up. The following is what the Ply
mouth Democrat has to say to it:
ve are aware that the district
meetings at the state convention were
so manipulated by the 'reorganlzers
as to secure the appointment of a dele
gation ravorane to the republican
theory on that subject. The state
convention was practically controlled
by those ia favor of the sold sta
Shlvely was forced out of the race for
governor because of his well-known
views on the silver question, and the
state committee was organized and
its operations during the campaign, so
far as the chairman was concerned,
who was the willing tool of the reor-
ganizers about Indianapolis, were
conducted on the theory that it would
be better to allow tfle republican party
to be successful than that those fav
oring the free coinage of sliver should
succeed. The result showed that" this
plan was carried out to the letter. The
state went republican by about 27,000,
and as a reward of merit Governor
Mount, Immediately after the result of
the election was made known, ap
pointed the chairman of 'the demo
cratic committee to the position of
state tax commissioner at a salary of
12.000 per year.
As we have said heretofore there is
no doubt that the reorganlzers will
control the party organization next
year. The loyal democrats .who have
held the party together during the past
two national campaigns will" quietly
step aside and allow them to manage
the party machinery to suit them
selves. What the outcome will be,
time alone will tell. -
The Sentinel, having aligned Itself
with the gold-bug bolters and the re
pudiators of the last national and state
democratic platforms who are in full
harmony with Mark Hanna and the re
publican party on the financial quesf
lion, must bear Its part of the disas
trous results that are certain to fol
low. "But until the democrats of Indiana
hold another state convention in 1902,
and adopt a new declaration of prin
ciples in harmony with Editor Morss
"Dead and Buried Issue.' and until
the democrats of the whole United
Statf-s meet la national convention in
1904 and adopt a new declaration of
principles, we shall be compelled to
stand by the state and.imtional plat
forms of 1900, and'dictums of Mr.
Morss and the Ohio democratic con
vention to the contrary notwithstand
ing. Becaase Mr. M'crss repudiates
the action of the last democratic state
and national platforms, and because
the Palmer and Buckner bolters of
1SSS packed the Ohio state convention
and repudiated Bryan and the Kansas
City platform. Is no reason why we, or
any other loyal democrat, should re
pudiate them in the Interest of the re
publican partyfor that is what it
amounts to."
SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY
A tlm OI4 T1m 1 F.ry Tm In thm
tvm mm& tfe Editor rir Hot Shot
tm Ktvrjr liretloa
Private letters and copies of Ind
ii: papers that hare been sent to The
IednweBdett tsdk-ate that there le
t to-it as hot a time pol'tically in that
ft tit a ha evr ha known since
the ivil war. It came about by the
hearty ladowmest of the work of
the Ohio convention by the Indlanap
olit 5ctic-l. Tht Sntl&!. while It
baa tried to kep ttiwlf with the demo
cratic fold has really ben In.syra
pthy with the republicans for the last
tea ymr and this open repudiation of
th prl&ciplm upoa which tha party
Th Farmer II mw Dean Doing-What They
Camld For Many Yaara and Now the
GoTtrameat Takes a II a ad
There Is no doubt that there are
more trees In Nebraska today than
when the Indians roamed the plains
unmolested by the white man. That
Is true of no other state. In the east
they have been denuding the land of
trees and rendering much of It unin
habitable for a century. The pioneers
of Nebraska were all poor men, but
they did what they could to preserve
the original trees and planted as many
more as they were able to do with their
limited means. What has been done,
written and said in Nebraska has
stirred up public sentiment elsewhere.
The growth of public sentiment in
regard to the practical nature of for
estry and its relation to national in
dustries is Illustrated by the fact that
oa July 1 the fostry division of the
Interior department was made into a
bureau. As against torraer appropria
tions of $28,520 It now has an appro
priation of $183,440. The eleven em
ployes of the division have been In
creased to 123 in the bureau. There
are now thirty-nine forest reservations,
containing 46.830,129 acres, or approxi
mately 73,172 square miles. The gen
eral purpose of the new bureau is to
devise and carry out plans for the
proper protection and. extension , of
the forest areas of the country, to
stop the useless and wasteful cutting
of timber, to check forest fires and in
every manner possible to encourage
the- planting and growth of trees. It
will be Its aim to assist and work In
harmony with the states which have
forestry laws, and nearly all the trans
Missouri states have. But, important
as forestry is In the arid regions, and
Intimate as is Its relation to irriga
tion and the water supply, and, as a
consequence, to agriculture, horticul
ture and grazing, interest in the work
of this bureau is not confined to this
region. Many of the eastern states
are becoming intensely concerned in
the matter of forests, and are endeav
oring to repair the damage which has
been done by the ruthless work of a
previous generation. All industries,
the water supply, climatic considera
tions, combine to render forestry a
live topic in the popular mind. The
practical outcome is a forestry bureau,
and before it is a wide Held for work.
MAKING THE FUR FLY
The educational features of "Our Isl
ands and Their People" are invaluable
to the progressive American citizen. It
is a superb addition, to ? arty library.
If you desire full information respect
ing this unique high grade art work
write The Independent, Lincoln, Neb.
The Bryan Democrats of Indiana Pat on
Their War Paint, Dig up. Their ' ;
Hatchets and go for Morss And
. "the Sentinel .
From- several Indiana papers . that
have come to The Independent during
the week it is very plain that there is
a red hot time down in Indiana among
the democrats. The Indianapolis Sen
tinel came out boldly for the McLean
faction in Ohio, and then the fun be
gan. The following article is clipped
from the Greenfield. (Ind.) Tribune:
Hon. S. E." Morss, editor in chief of
the Indianapolis Sentinel, seems to
have become somewhat nettled at the
universal criticism of his course in re
cent days, which comes from all sides
and, in his evident fit of temporary
anger, he has said some things that
will not tend to heal the old sores, and
to bring him a following of any great
strength.
In the issue of the Sentinel of July
19 he volunteers some very emphatic
criticism: of Mr. Bryan for declaring
that the money question is not out of
politics. Moreover, Morss reckons
withouthis host when he declares "that
he speaks for the democracy of Ind
iana, "the rank and file, the. boys in
the trenches," etc.
This, the Sentinel has not done since
the campaign of 1892, at that time, the
democrats of the state followed Grover
Cleveland, because they thought he
was a friend to the common . people,
but they" soon found him to be .a
sanguinary-handed traitor to every
principle of democracy, and -they re
pudiated him at once and with em
phasis. .'; .. -
. Morss, however, floated on flowery
beds of ease into a $50,000 office, al
though on last Monday he declared he
had never been . an office-seeker, and
in 1894 the Sentinel upeld the course
of Cleveland, as its files will readily
suow, dui tne voters over tne state
tusked corn on election day- and the
republicans carried the state by a Dig
round majority, which shows conclu
sively that Mr. Morss did not speak for
"the rank and file and' the boys in the
trenches," etc.
The Sentinel continued to advocate
a republican policy, as practicea oy
Grover Cleveland, from that time for
ward to the end of the Chicago con
vention in 1896. The columns of the
files of the Sentinel of that time will
show some stronger editorials in favor
of the gold standard than can be found
in that most wickedly brilliant pluto
cratic organ, the .Indianapolis News,
and everybody with a thimble full of
brain3 knows that Mr. Morss has nev
er lost an opportunity to belittle Mr.
Bryan whenever he thought it safe to
do so. His support of the ticket in
1896 was a half-hearted one, in which
were none of his real sentiments, and
it was a well understood .fact among
those who were near him that he was
secretly glad of the result.
It takes only a glance at the back
numbers of the Sentinel to show that
between 1896 and 1900 it was very
much afraid that Mr. Bryan would be
renominated, and pleaded with the
party to make no mistake, but the par
ty nominated Mr. Bryan over Mr
Morss' strongest protest and most
earnest objections, and yet, he has the
unlimited gall now to say ,that he
speaks for the people of Indiana, when
he assails Mr. Bryan again.
Of one fact Mr. Bryan can rest as
sured, and that is, that the democrats
of Indiana will never accept the lead
ership of Mr. Samuel E. Morss. He
never was a man 'of the people. He is
cold, haughty", austere and bigoted and
it is as imposible for "the rank and
file, and the boys in the trenches" to
get near him, as it would be for him to
swim the Atlantic ocean. In 1896, when
men were making races in hopeless
counties and districts in order to sus
tain a great principle, he was bleed
ing them for money while pretending
to serve their interests, and in 1900,
when "the boys in the trenches" were
fighting, the same hopeless battles for
the same noble purpose, Samuel E.
Morss was lolling back in his easy
chair at the Paris exposition or junk
eting to the gold fields in the Klondike.
He was in Paris until the national
convention was almost ready to be
called to order and only arrived in
this country "by the skin of his teeth,"
in time to attend It. . He may have ,
reached home in time to vote for Bryan
at the election. We hope so, but if he
did anything for Bryan's election from
a standpoint of disinterest, .It would
take a microscope to discover it.
MY. Morss openly declares that Boss
Piatt bought Boss Croker In 1900. Who
bought would-be Boss Morss both in
1896 and 1900? Who paid for the
demonstration made by W. D. Bynum
and seconded by S. E. Morss in the
democratic state convention in 1896?
Who was it at that convention that
taught Mr. Morss that "the rank and
file" were not with him? And yet he
has the supreme temerity to asset t
that he speaks for them now.
The democratic party must seek
other leaders than he, if it hopes to
win. in Indiana next year.
FAKE INTERVIEWS
They Have Grown so Numerous That Mr.
Bryan Is Forced to Denounce .
Them
The , Independent has frequently
called attention to the unreliable news
furnished by the Associated press.
Matters seem to be growing worse, for
a flood of fake interviews and false
reports of speeches made by democrats
and populists have been-sent out dur
ing the last few weeks. Mr. Bryan
denounces this In an editorial in The
Commoner as follows:
"Just now the republican papers and
those so-called democratic papers
which spend their time in defending
republican policies, are publishing fake
interviews with- democrats, populists
and silver republicans, calculated ' to
stir up' dissensions 1 among those who
are opposing the administration. "
"The meanest and most malicious o
the false reports recently put into cir
culation was the statement attributed
to ex-Senator Towne just after" tne
Ohio convention. In : this purported
interview, Mr. Towne was made to pre
dict the success of the reorganlzers, the
nomination of Mn Hill and the break
ing up of the democratic partv. Al
of the i gold standard, trust ' and im
perialistic, papers seized upon this as a
sweet morsel, and presented it a3 con
clusive proof of th death of the Kan
sas jity piatrorm. " v ; - , ; , .
"As soon as this falsehood had time
to get over the whole country another
enterprising prevaricator came ; for
ward with a statement attributed ' to
Mr. J. -G., Johnson, the Kansas mean
ber of the .democratic national, com
mittee, An which he was reported as
saying unkind r things of Mr. Towne
and Mr-Webster Davis. The editor of
The Commoner, has become so accus
tomed to misrepresentation that ! he
puts no , faith in these alleged inter
views, but he refers to them;for the
benefit of reafders. who having had
less experience In the political methods
of republican arid gold papers have
been disturbed by them. The Com
moner is authorized to state that both
of w these pretended interviews -were
absolutely, false. Mr. Towne says that
he has not been . interviewed on poll
tics within three months and; that the
report sent out from New York was a
pure fake.'.; ' . !c: v-
"Mr. Johnson Is equally explicit inj
his denial of the interview attributed
to him. v- ; ;4
"The democrats; populists and silver
republicans are unfortunate in that
they have so few democratic dailies of
large circulation ' There seems to be
a concerted effort on the part, of the
republican and gold standard papers
to mislead the people as to public sen
timent, and those who believe in den
ocratic principles' and desire genuine
reform must rely almost wholly, upon
the weekly papers or upon the smaller
dailies. For this reason it is the more
important that the faithful and loyal
papers should receive the earnest and
cordial support of trues, democrats."
There is one other thing that -Mr.
Bryan does not mention. The demo
cratic dailies what few there are of
them are wholly at the mercy of tht
Associated press. " They must rely up
on it for all their general news. Sup
pose that during the , night an inter-
View comes among rest of the dis
patches, how is the telegraph editor
to know that it is a fake? He don't
knew and can't know and the conse
quence is that these lies are published
in the democratic dailies the same as
in the plutocratic sheets. -The only
way to get the news and get it correct,
is to take a weekly like The Indepen
dent where every Item is scanned be
fore it goes Into tho paper by the re
sponsible editor, who has time to lay
it over for a day or two, think it over
and investigate.
' Somewhat Queer
The World-Herald unlimbered its
heaviest guns and fired a few hot shot
at Auditor Cornell who had not stolen
anything, and a year or two later de
votes a column of sentiment to Bolln
and Bartley who have stolen over a
half million' of public funds; much of
It being state school money. The hot
weather must be getting in its work on
the gray matter of the staff. Crete
Democrat.
; Rockefeller Gobbled It
, By a neat trick, ' made possible by
its enormous. wealth, the Standard Oil
company has headed off a threatening
rival in the Texs oil fields and made
itself absolute master of the situation.
It has bought up the wharves, rail
road terminals and shipping facilities
at Port Arthur, the natural shipping
port of the Beaumont field, together
with 90,000 acres of land" in the vicln-
ty, which is doubtless located in such
a. manner as to preclude any attempt
of the Texas oil men to establish a
new outlet. It would not be profitable
or them to ship their oil to tidewater
at a more distant point, and hence
they are at the mercy of the Standard,
and must sell their product to it at its
own ; price. This is how the ideal
trust - overcomes competition. Phila
delphia Ledger.
Big Job Ahead
Captain H. N. Royden, the new re
cruiting officer at Omaha, entered on
his duties there last week. While in
the Philippines Captain Royden was
under General Bates, who had com
mand of the Islands inhabited by the
Moros, and for a time was provost
marshal of the isiandof Jolo, one of
the most important of the Sulu group
and one which the Spanish were un
able to conquer in all of the time they
held nominal possession of the Phil-
pplne islands.
In speaking of affairs in the-Philip-
p'nes, Captain Royden said:
The people of this country have no
dea of the size of the islands of the
Philippine group and the amount of
work that will be necessary to bring
them absolutely under the sway of the
United States. For tljis reason some
of the newspaper reports sent out are
amusing. The report that General
Chaffee is planning to concentrate the
troops now. in the islands - is one of
these. Do you know that upon the
island of Paragua, the third largest of
the Philippine group, no United States
soldier has set foot, and only recently
another important island was entered
by the troops of this country? When
this is known and the number of isl
ands taken Into consideration the ex
tent of the work ahead of the govern
ment can be in u slight degree, com
prehended." .
TO ENSLAVE LA'OR
ATery a rust Is Backing Morgan i and
- Schwab and Will Inaugurate Similar
' Policies if the Steel Trust - :
rf' v-, - - v. , . ... . .
Sueoeeds ' --i it -
; Washington. D. C. Aiwa Aor
iweeKs or conference and skilfully man
agea. delay on the part 4of the stee
trust, it has at last thrown down the
gauntlet to its men and declares that
it will only treat with them as indi
viduals instead of dealing with their
junions - according to long established
custom when the , trade was in the
hands of Individual capitalists.
The trust has intended to do .this
from - the beginning, but it shrewd
ly delayed the ' crisis until . it .should
have, made every possible provision
for" crushing the employes into the
kind of submission where they will be
glad, to accept ) work at any wages
under any ' conditions which the trust
chooses to offer. , - ;
We are now on the eve of one of the
greatest labor struggles which this
country has ever witnessed. There is
no presidential campaign pending and
Mark Hanna and Pierpont Morgan .will
not. exert themselves for peace as they
did during the great, miners' strike last
year. ' s- . v;'.".
It may be that there will be less dis
play of military force than during the
great Chicago strike of '93 or the me
morable Homestead affair.' "
The fact that many .of the plants
are located in, Ohio and in that state
an election is pending is -one reason
why ; the trust prefers to pursue its
war without a display of "armed forced
But it wilf be bitter1 and unrelenting
war Just: the same. -V ,
The trust, by refusing to treat with
the -representatives of its employes.
lays down the rule that organization
is a.good. thing for itself, but is to be
denied to the wage worker. ...
" The trust has many advantages in
its attempt to crush its employes into
submission. It can curtail production
and shut down various plants indefin
itely. Starvation is a most potent
weapon and it will be used upon the
men. "' Then, too, it has systematically
Offered bribes to a small proportion of
skilled employes in order to keep them
as teachers for what new help can be
procured. In mills where the men did
not all belong to the-- union , of their
trade, they have, within the past three
weeks, been presented with "ironclad"
agreements by which they . pledge
themselves not to join a labor union
as a condition of, employment.
The trust will next stipulate to what
political - party and what church they
shall belong as a condition of employ
ment.
The trust does not want to go abroad
for skilled American workmen have
no peers anywhere, 'either for quan
tity or quality of work. It simply de
sires to keep these men" in a state of
industrial serfdom where they', will
continue to produce millions for their
masters and like slaves be permit
ted only to retain enough to support
life and reproduce their kind. ;
".AH classes of citizens are profound
ly concerned in this attempt of , the
steel trust to take from its employes
their rights as citizens. It is only
th9 beginning of the trust - crusade
against individual liberty, i Wten
there is need It will attempt to Jiave
only men friendly to trust interests
in state and national halls of legisla
tion. It will squeeze the consumer
by charging any price it chooses for
its products and making them of any
quality which offers most profit
There is not a wage worker in the
country who has independence and
manliness enougn to vaiue uis ngnis
as a citizen, who does not view with
alarm this action of the steel trust.
Not only may the present strike spread
and involve many beside those direct
y interested, but what the iron , and
steel trust does will be followed by
the others.
The trusts look to the administra
tion and the. republican party to pro
tect and promote them in their nefar-
ous designs upon the liberties of tne
people. The wage workers and the
great middle class of consumers, see
no hope -except in the honesty, cour
age and energy of the democratic par
ty. There is no doubt but the trust
issue is overshadowing every other
domestic problem. : The democratic
Darty stands for the liberties of the
common people, "but it cannot neglect
any step Jn the way of thorough and
harmonious organization and it can
not begin too soon to rally about it
every force which is hostile to trust
domination.
The civilized world stands aghast
at the unblushing confession of the
tory government of Great Britain that
t is arming the savag6 negroes oi
South Africa against the -Boers who
can be neither conquered nor bribed
nto submission. This is an absolute
violation .of the conventions of war,
and may prove the last straw to bring-
ng about the long-threatened- fc.uro-
peon intervention.
This' effect it will certainly have,
that the Dutch of Cape Colony and
Natal who have hitherto held sullenly
aloof will take up arms not alone for j
their suffering kinsmen of the Orange :
Free State and Transvaal, but in de- !
fense of their own existence.- The
blacks outnumber the whites in South
Africa five to one, and white man s
government in South . Africa rests
upon the subordination of the black:
There -are 150,000 fighting Dutch! in
Cape Colony and Natal who have not
yet taken up-arms. Great Britain is
compelled to withdraw 40,000 troops
to guard against trouble, on the Af
ghanistan frontier of India. The out
look for British supremacy in South
Africa is black indeed..
ding worklngmen: from even using
peaceable persuasion to Induce other
workingmen . not to accept emplov
ment In an, "unfair', factory! Several
such injunctions , have- recently been
issued, one of them against the work
men formerly employed by Rumsey &
Co. in Seneca Falls. v Such injunctions
are in violation of the fundamental
rights of free speech ' guaranteed : by
the constitution of the United States,
but .they seem to stand nevertheless
Monopolists were right when they de
clared that the plank condemning gov
ernment s by injunction was ; the most
dangerous (to them) - or any in the
Chicago platform. " :
:; "American worklngmen can never
obtain their rights until government
by . injunction is abolished.'; In any
conflict with their employers, they are
now liable to be arrested and thrown
into jail simply, for asking another
workingman not to take their job -Ithaca
(N. Y.) Democrat. )
THE STRIKE SITUATION
Every Union Man Employed by- the Steel
Trust Ordered Out Numerous Strikes
" all Over the Country
The labor situation all over the
United States ; Is the most serious it
has ever been. There seems, to be a
determination in the ranks of organ
ized labor to make a final stand against
the trusts and win, or go down to the
depths of wage slavery. Every' think
ing man has long known that such a
crisis would ' follow, the; universal In
auguration of the trust system. If the
trusts were to combine business and
manufacturing, it was a necessity that
labor should also combine. What the
result will be, no' man knows.. If or
ganized labor is really in earnest in
their fight against the determined men
who head the steel trust, there will be
such a contest as the world never saw
before. Men like Morgan and Schwab
with millions upon , millions back of
them are powerful enough to cow ev
ery politician in the land, j Not a
politician from the members of M'o
Kinley's cabinet down to the ward
workers in the republican party dare
utter a word against the. steel trust.
Not a daily paper in the land has yet
had the courage to put up . a fight
against them or do, or print anything
that would be a serious detriment to
the trust. It has behind it the courts,
the army, the McKinley administra
tion. On the other side, there are only
a. few thousand -working-? men, ."The
situation is 'much" like' i it was in South
Africa when the' great English eni
pire resolved to crush out those two
little republics.
In California the situation begins
to look very ugly. The strike there
has grown to such proportions that
business is largely suspended. It in
cludes the contractors who are build
ing warships as well as all business
engaged in the transfer of goods. In
South Carolina, the strikers have been
captured and sent to sea kidnapped
and transported to nobody knows
where. They, were mostly Cubans.
The strike order issued by the steel
workers Is as follows:
"Brethren: The officials of the
United States steel trust have refused
to recognize as union men those who
are now striving for the right to or
ganize. The executive board has au
thorized me to issue a call upon all
amalgamated and other union men in
name and heart to join' in the move
ment to fight for. labor's rights. - J
"We must fight or ? give up forever
our personal liberties.
"You will be told that you have
signed contracts, but you never agreed
to surrender those contracts to the
United States steel corporation. Its
officers think you were sold to them,
just as the mills were, contracts and
aii. - v.- .v .. -' ; ' '
"Remember, before you agreed to
any contract you took an obligation to
the. amalgamated association. It now
calls you to help in this hour of need.
Unless the trouble Is settled on or be
fore Saturday, August 10, 1901, the
mills will close when the last turn is
made on that day.
"Brethren, this is the call to preserve
our organization. We trust "you and
need you. Come and help us and may
right come to a just cause. , Fraternal-
y yours. T J. SHAFFEK."
; v Hammering Bryan
Mr. Bryan may object all he chooses
tJ having his personality brought into
onmnalern. but it will be DUt there
just the same. Those In the democratic
party who were opposed to him in 1896
and 1900. cannot content themselves
with adopting a meaningless platform
end going after the republican party,
hut thev keeD continually hammering
away at Bryan. This forces his friends
to retaliate and thus the personality
nf th latP candidate is kent before the
people, no matter what his wishes may
be in the 'matter. Greenneid iina.r
Tribune. v w ; ' ,
Monopolists Right
Trust magnates seem to have no
rouble' to obtain injunctions forbid-
:Mules Packing Libraries
All this array of professors, all this
paraphernalia learning, cannot edu
cate a man. They can but help him to
educate himself. Here you may obtain
the tools; but' they will be useful only
to him who can use them A monkey
with a microscope, a mule packing a
library, are fit emblems of the men
and unfortunately, they are plenty
who pass through the whole educa
tional machinery, and come ; out but
learned fools crammed ; with knowl
edge which they cannot use all the
more pitiable, all the more contempti
ble, all the more in the way of real
progress, because they pass with them
selves and others, as educated mem
Henry George.
ONWARD WE MARCH
The Largest and Most Enthusiastic Vopu
list State Committee Meeting Ever
Held for the Purpose or CaUIS
f - .
,a Convention
If any one had any; doubt that the
populists cf this state intendel to
fight this battle for reform to a glor
ious finish, that doubt would have
been instantly banished the moment he
looked in upon the' large, earnest and
enthusiastic body of intelligent men
who had gathered at the Grand hotel
in Lincoln yesterday for. the purpose
of calling a state convention and re
newing the battle which has raged for
the last ten years-in the state of Ne
braska. It Was a large body of sound,
safe, Intelligent and sane men who
would command respect anywhere. Ifc
was the largest state committee meet
ing ever held fcy the populists of thhi
state where the only business was to
fix a date and callka state convention, i
Kvery man there was - enthusiastic
and not one of them had a doubt but
the fusion forces would carry the state
this fall by the largest majority with
which they ever won a victory. .
The meeting was opened by listen
ing to: an address from a gentleman
from Missouri, who advocated the or
ganization of a new party, which, when
organized, should fuse with( no other
party. He was. 'listened: to "with great
respect, but the populists who were
present many of them gray-haired
men who had fought forj-efortn for two
decades and knew something of. what
it: was to form a new party had no
idea of doing any such thing. They
said that the situation In NMissourl
was very different from what it was
In Nebraska, and while , they, extended
to . the gentleman their fullest sym
pathy they, one and all, refused to tear
down tha house over their heads end
go out on the barren plains and try to
build another. The populist mansion
was still good enough for them to
dwell In.; No formal action Was taken"
in the matter, the subject was "simply
dropped and business was taken upby
considering a motion made by Mr.
Felber to fix the date of the.conven-'
tion -August 10 and 'the place at Lin
coln. .;,'v:
A committee, consisting of Messrs.
M. M. Chase, O. S. Gossard and George
Horst, was appointed to convey this In
formation to the democratic state com
mittee which was in session at tho
Llf.dell hotel , - :
Mr, Kelley, cf ihe Fremont Leader,
was made secretary, mo toiiowing
letter was submitted by Cclonel Eager.
and read: , V
To tho . State Committee, People's
Independent tParty, Lincoln, Neb.
Gentlemen: I regret that I cannon be
present at your meeting, because I had
hoped to make a complete report of
the doings of, the ways and means
committee at this meeting. I fiall.
however, have everything in sope
at the - next meeting (at. convention
time. I suppose) Wishing you a suc
cessful meeting and anticipating fusion
and success this fall, I am, truly yours.
CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE.
This letter caused a general talk
about the finances, which was contin
ued at different times until near tho
close of the meeting. It was announced
that there was still uncollected about
$1,300 of the debt and that while many
counties had paid their proportion and
some of them much more than their
proportion that a good many had ut
terly failed to do their share and some
of them the richest and most able to
do so. A statement had been sent to
the state committeeman dn each coun
ty showing just what his county had
pait and how much, if any, was still
due. The determination was expressed
on every hand that the debt must bo
paid in full. Suggestions were made
that when the county conventions were
held that the first business attended to
and before any nominations woro
made that the subject should be pre
sented to the convention by the com
mitteman or some .one 'for him and an
effort made to pay up the whole thing.
As to future expenses the member
from Saunders county moved that each
county send to the convention two
dollars for each delegate to which the
county was entitled, to begin the next
campaign with, so it could be on
hand to start the work. He pointed
out that this would be necessary as th
convention was to be held very late
and work should begin the next day
after the nominations were made.
This was unanimously agreed to and
it was urged that that matter .be at
tended' to at the county conventions
also. - .. t
The committee returned from its
visit to the allied camp of the demo
crats and silver republicans, reporting
that they preferred to have tho con
vention on September 18., A short dis- .
cussion followed In which it was
pointed out that the 18th was on Wed
nesday and as our wnoie press was
composed of weekly papers that would
delay getting the news to our voters
for a whole week and considering how
short the campaign would be, it would
be a decided disadvantage. Word to
that effect was sent to the allied camps
with the suggestion that the populists
thought that Tuesday, the 17th, would
be much better, which suggestion was
immediately agreed to. So it was fin
ally settled that the convention would
be held in Lincoln, September if. at
the Auditorium, and the democrats
would hold theirs at the same time at
the Oliver theatre, the use of both of
which were given free by the citi
zens of Lincoln.
A Question was then raised by John
O. Yeiser of Omaha, which was dis
cussed, for. some time. As the readers
of this paper know, Mr. Yeiser has
made the claim that there Is a vacancy
n the office of governor that should be
filled at the first general election. The
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