Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
August 15, 1001
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Who appointed Clem Deaver to a
lucrative See? William McKlnley.
It besiss to look as If Mark Hanna
wald trzrjfter bit fatherly kindness
and aTccrasjicff checks to the middle-of-the-road
democrats during the
text caraxlfa tn Nebraska.
Jerry Simpson fcii removed from
Kansas to the newly opened Indian
reservations la Oklahoma. He trill en
gage in the practice of law and farm
15. Or thins it certain. W. F. Wright
was more successful in shooting rain
Into I -ar ranter county than McKlnley
tai ben in shootfru: Christianity Into
the lipino.
There: li neither money nor oScea
for a rep mid-roader In this campaign,
tut :t is cox fo certain that there
woald t-'Jl be bcth for a democratic
deal in that line.
The republicans would teach the
yours of this state by their example
that e sa hear! etsent pay and that
treason should be rewarded. They Il
lustrate thce truth by the lives of
Deater and Hartley.
The lad:iiu.al. which, according to
Sampson, la "the most distinguished
living Auerlcan historian." draws a
salary of 12. IS per day from the navy
' department and Is doubt less overpaid
Jer the work that he do.
John D. It ockf feller, the first bll
The republicans wasted one dollar
as good as any other dollar and the
t-rtt thisg that they did was to issue
oce fcacfred millions of bank paper
dclla- tht were "redeemable"" In
aosa other dollars that were thought
13 he tetter.
The f rt thing that the reorganiz-
rs heard is Kansas after they re- 1
spired that they would not fuse with j
the pops mas that the very corn was j
j-ojpirg on th cob all over the state, j
An ear of it was sent to Governor Sav- j
ace. I
Ilenalre. owns one-eightieth of all
the property In a country where 74.- j
peopie dwelL A government j
vnjler nhicfc that tMs was developed 1
is the ideal of tfce republican party, j
thvt psrtf r ill fight with all its j
pomer against any ch&cge la it. Go
iij uu- 'or straight. 1
It as the Iteord-Herald and not !
the World-Herald that ran Hosewa-
tcr'f picture aud labliel it lian Ia-ratnt-
Thee hyphenated dailies are
getting ao numerous that it is no won
der the linotype mites them up once
ia a while. Of course the comments
were Intended for the Chicago hyphen
ated and not the Omaha one.
Te nc pendent remarketj last
k that while that Ca'ifornla thief j
Lad stolen less than half the amount
that Bartiey ot away with. nanily
J2S0.j. he had probably got enough
to secvr? a pardon. The press dis
patches now zy that he is not to be
Imprisoned at ell sad will gtt fIS.OOO
for ttl'irg where he hid the gold. The
Savage and McKlnley precedents seem
to be firmly established as a rule for
the powers that be.
Are cot some of the southern states
xrra carrying the doctrine of heredity
3 an extreme? The Alabama consti
tution maker seem to think that If a
Eian had a grandfather who was qaali-Se-3
to vote that the grandson hat In
herited Intelligence enough to make
Lisa a sovereign- The entailment of
land which Jeffersoa abolished rests
Epos exactly the same reasoning as
th heredity of Intelligence.
When the republicans think that
they have a sure majority, then pop-
Klista are "lanatics,
"anarchists."
"social its." "repadiators wlld
yt4." bos la a parlor," and every
thing else that la vile and low. Now
that they are not a acre about a mi
"jorjty they aay, -please vote for our
eandldsie for supreme Judge, for the
supreme cvurt oeght to be non-partisan,
yon know." They are equally
resuSy t play the tyrant or the baby
axt aa occaxlas cay indicate. .
TBJS ASIATIC DXHGEK .
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The other day the dispatches con
tained aa Item saying that, in the
strike at Saa Francisco two steamers
bad no trouble In getting crews of
Filipinos which they secured without
trouble and sailed away, leaving the
American sailors on shore with noth
ing to do. That is only a foretaste of
what is coming in an overwhelming
avalanche in the near future.
The treaty excluding the Chinese
from the United States does not ter
minate until December 8, 1904; but the
law providing for the enforcement of
the treaty stipulations expires May
5. 1902.
Hence, unless congres3 shall before
the latter date re-enact ' the present
law, with such additions and exten
sions as experience has demonstrated
to be necessary, the gates will be
thrown wide open for the full, free,
untrammelled, and possibly over
whelming immigration of the hordes
of Chinese Into America.
The McKlnley administration has
given no indication that any such leg
islation will be" introduced or passed
aa will tend to continue the laws now
on the statute books restricting Asiatic
immigration and those who have
watched the trend of events have no
Idea that such legislation will be en
acted when the present law expires.
This is a question that affects every
home In America. If the millions of
Asia can be dumped upon our west
ern shores and spread themselves out
all over the land, it means the over
throw of our present civilization.
Chinamen can work and live on one
fourth what an American w age-worker
can subsist upon. The Chinese do not
spend money' in the education of their
children and the support of churches
and other institutions that exist in ev
ery civilized community. The Ameri
can workman does. When the China
man takes the American's place, there
will come such a change as the world
never saw before. That Is what plu
tocracy wants. They desire fawning
servants who will work for a pittance.
The McKlnley administration will see
to it that they have them. After that,
what? Will the American worker who
has made this continent, which was
once a wilderness, a land of cities,
farms, schools and churches by the
labor of his hands turn it over to a lot
of Chinese servants and a few mil
lionaires? The men who have fought
the battles of the past and made this
nation what it Is are not of races
which would lead one to think that
they wilL Old Waite's prophesy of
"blood to the bridle bits" will become
a reality before, that thing is accom
plished. A CREDITOR COUNTRY (?) v
The Chicago American, in answer to
a correspondent. Insists that "now we
have paid off most of our indebtedness
to foreign countries, and the greater
part of our huge excess of exports,
amounting to over $670,000,000; Is help
ing to transform us from a debtor into
a creditor nation."
This is a statement that has con
stantly been made by those who have
supported the policy cf "gold and
glory." but of late most of them have
abandoned It. They were forced to
do so when-the proof of the state
ment was demanded. If we were be
coming a creditor nation on account
of our continual excess cf exports, the
proof of that fact would be very eas
ily obtainable. To whom have we
been lending money in large amounts?
What nations have borrowed money
from citizens of the United States?
A very few such investments have
been made, but they are all known. It
Is an easy matter to make a bald as
sertion without proof, but before
thinking men - believe the assertion
they "want to be shown," as the man
from Missouri said.
Not long ago one of the statisticians
who was a government employe de
clared that nobody knew what had be
come of this great balance against
Europe caused by the enormous ex
cess of our exports over Imports. He
made that statement after searching
for the evidence tiat wo had become
a "creditor nation" and finding none
he said that foreigners had disposed
of but little of the American bonds
and stocks that they owned, but on
the other hand had made recently very
large Investments in this country and
yet the evidence was Indisputable
that we had exported an excess of
SC65.000.000 of goods and instead' of
gold coming back we had actually ex
ported 120.000,000 of gold. Those be
lag the undisputed facts, this pseudo
government economist gave it up, and
because he did not know .what had be
come of that $665,000,000. declared that
nobody did. .
The truth about the matter, is that
our debt abroad is probably larger
than it ever was. ; Economists ' have
for a long time estimated -that three
or four hundred million of dollars had
to be sent to Europe every year to set
tle our Interest account and not one
of them has changed that estimate
in the last five or six years. Years ago
they said that the "globe trotters'
spent in fore!gn countries from one
to two hundred million:! a year and
everybody knows that during the last
two or three yiara they-have spent
more than ever before. There is an
other thing that goes a long ways to
explain why no gold is sent to this
country. What the amount is no one
knows because no one has taken the
trouble to find out, and that is the
millions that are sent every year to
persons in the old countries by rela
tives in this. The writer knows of
two such cases. One a young woman
working as a servant girl who sent
to her old mother in her native land
$100 and the other a young man who
had sent $275 back to Sweden. There
are hundreds of thousands of such
persons in the United States and as
most of them send the money by
means of international postal orders.
It would be an easy matter, if the gov
ernment would permit it, to get the
facts in regard to It.
The truth about the matter Is that
the United States is still a debtor na
tion and that it takes many millions
to pay the interest to foreigners. It
will continue to be a debtor nation for
years to come and the farmers will
toil and sweat to raise the corn and
wheats cattle and hogs, that are sent
to Europe, sold there and the amount
of the sales retained to pay that inter
est, instead of the gold being sent
back to this country.
MORE CONVICTS ESCAPE
The old State Hypocrite did not
make a sensational paragraph out
of a very ' interesting item of
Lnews that occurred last Friday night.
The following is the way it read in
the dispatches to the Omaha and Chi
cago papers:
"Charles Bennett, alias Smith, and
Ed Tuttle, the latter serving a third
term, escaped from the penitentiary
last night by climbing over the eighteen-foot
wall. Both were on night
duty in the bakery.
"Bennett was convicted of larceny in
Douglas county and sentenced to one
year. Tuttle was convicted of bur
glary in Cass county and sentenced to
three years. Timbers for the construc
tion of a new building for the Lee
Brobm and Duster company were used
by the convicts in making their ascent
over the high stone wall. Up to noon
today no clue as to the whereabouts
of the man had been found."
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Ever since the republicans got con
trol of the penitentiary the institution
has been a disgrace to civilization.
If these things had occurred there un
der a populist administration, there
would have been an uproar from one
end of the state to the other. Not only
that, but the great dailies from New
York to San Francisco would have
been full of it. A large part of the
penitentiary was burned down. An
other fire was started right under the
nose of the guards in broad daylight.
Convict after convict has escaped,
some of them walking away while the
sun shone brightly upon guard and
convict.
It is probable that not one repub
lican out of fifty in the state knows
anything about the conditions in the
penitentiary, and the republican pa
pers will see to it that they don't.
The conditions in the other institu
tions of the state are not much better.
Under this condition of things, the
only way to get the truth to the people
Is to get The Independent and other
populist papers into the hands of the
people. It is by the subsidizing of the
press that the evils that we now suf
fer from and the dangers that con
front us exist. The perpetuity of pop
ulist principles depends upon its press.
That fact should be made the para
mount Issue at every county conven
tion. Where were the republican guards
when these convicts climbed over the
wall? Were they paid not to see?
Does money "get other men besides
Bartley out of the penitentiary?
IN' A BAD FIX
One would think that the readers of
the republican papers in this state
would get disgusted after a while with
the falsehood and trash that is served
up to them day after day and week
after week. Everywhere they had been
led to believe that there would be
what they called "a hot old time"
when the populist state committee
met. There was to be a fight against
fusibn in which hair was to fly and
blood was to be shed. But the re
porters and sneaks who hung around
the doors were dismally disappointed.
The doors were not closed and all the
proceedings were open to the public.
When the meeting closed and the
subject had not even been mentioned
at all, they were the most disgusted
lot of politicians that ever were seen
on the streets of Lincoln. The pop
ulist committee proceeded to elect a
secretary and then without any dis
cussion appointed a committee to call
on the democrats and silver republi
cans and indicate a day for holding
the conventions and that was all there
was to It. There was not a dissenting
voice in the whole crowd.
There is ons journal in the United
States that ia always the fawning
sychophant at , the feet of the mil
lionaires and the open, blatant de
fender of the trusts and trust mag
nates from John D. Rockefeller to
Morton and starch. It is published In
Lincoln and .edited . byjthe P.. Street
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dt THE INDEPENDENT DESIRES TO SECURE A GOOD AGENT &
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V IN'EYERY CITY .AND COUNTY IN NEBRASKA FOR THE
f. SALE OF THE INDEPENDENT IN COMBINATION WITH &
, ; "OUR ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE." 3,000. SETS OF THIS
REMARKABLE WORKS ARE SOLD EVERY WEEK IN THE 1
0 UNITED STATES. EVERYBODY WANTS IT. . THE BEST &
& SELLING WORK EVER OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. AGENTS
MAKE BIG' SALARIES. WRITE THE INDEPENDENT, LIN-.
?8 " COLN, NEB FOR FULL PARTICULARS.
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Idiot. In its Sunday issue it declared
that Shaffer, the "head of the strikers
against the steel trust, was "an arrant
and . dangerous demagogue," "an en
emy of s society,"; "and probably an
anarchist." That is the state organ
of the "redeemers" and they all swear
by it From it can be . gathered - -feeling
toward the wage-workers the
men who produce .the wealth of this
nation by their , sweat and toil. . . -
A man in Greeley county writes to
The Independent and wants to know
if something can't be done to make
the republicans obey republican-made
laws. He says that the republicans
up there are defying the game law
that was passed last winter and , ha
thinks that the game commissioner
had better put in an appearance pretty
soon for it will be no use in a little
while as the republican , vandals will
have it all killed.
The steel trust will soon distribute
$71,000,000 in dividends on stock and
interest on bonds. They are . able to
do that because they have a tariff of
$7.87 cents a ton on steel and can
squeeze, high prices out of American
cqnsumers. ' To further increase their
unlawful profit they ' now propose to
destroy all the labor unions. The re
publican party, has aided it with a
tariff and it will now stand by it with
the courts, the militia and the regular
army. Without the backing of the re
publican party the steel trust could not
exist.
The election returns show that the
vote in Nebraska was increased by
over 20,000 at the last election. Mark
Hanna and the railroads did that.
When the republicans reflect that it is
not probable 'that they can get their
uncle Hanna to do that again, this fall,
there is no wonder that they feel blue.
There will '"benb mid-road treason at
this election. jClem' Deaver has killed
that for all time. - The republicans
feel , sorrowful again when they think
of that. If they could only scare up
another Clem peaver, they would fill
his pockets wjth cash and his ears
with fulsome!, flattery while -, they
cursed the old Clem with the "fury of
a demon. ('
The republicans have all at once be
come great advocates of a non-partisan
supreme court. Isn't it a little strange
that they never saw the beauties of a
non-partisan court in all the twenty
five years that they had a majority in
this state. s In all that time every
judge's first qualification was that he
must be a republican and could prove
that he had voted 'er straight ever
since he was old enough to cast a
ballot. Now a change has come over
the spirit of their dreams. They, one
and all, declare that the supreme court
should be composed of one democrat,
one populist and one republican. If
they would apply that doctrine to the
institutions in the state that are un
der .their control, then they might
possibly convince somebody that they
really believed in it.
In answer to several . inquiries j , con
cerning Father. Murphy, The Indepen
dent replies that Father Murphy is
still in charge of his parish at Seward
and performs his pastoral duties as
usual. Catholics i declare that Bishop
Bonacum had no more authority to ex
communicate Father Murphy without
charges and a trial Hhan he had to ex
communicate the pqpe. It is further
said that Father Murphy's church is
an incorporated , religious society un
der the laws of the state of Nebraska
and that the claim of Jjishop Bonacum
that he owns the church property at
Seward in fee simple invhis own name
is contrary, to the canon laws of the
Catholic church and the flaws v of the
state of Nebraska. Father Murphy is
all right and the people, of his parish
will see to it that? he suffers for noth
ing. . .
The dallies are ' printing ' more in
terviews. This time 'tney assert that
Coin Harvey declares that the5 -money
with which international, balances are
settled must be of "intrinsic value."
Since the republican "authorities,"
like the director, of the mint, Yiave
been talking, about "the variation, of
the value of gold" and its "deprecia
tion" on account of the tremendous in
crease in quantity, it is hardly likely
that Coin Harvey has adopted the 'old
delusion that gold had an "intrinsic
value.',' If its value, were "Intrinsic,'!
the increase or deer-ease of the quan-1
tity would have no effect upon its
talue. If it is "Intrinsic," the value
is in the thing itself and, cannot be
added to or diminished. Rosewater
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would confer a very great favor upon
his readers if he would tell them what
he thinks value is.
The beauties or a. billion-dollar
trust is demonstrated at McKeesport,
Pa. Because the citizens there sym
pathized with the . strikers, the trust
has gone to. work to tear down all the
mills there and absolutely ruin . the
town. Talk about imperialism and
despotic governments! Has any ruler
in all Europe the power of this man
Morgan? What one among them would
dare to undertake to make desolate a
whole city because he had a personal
grievance against the citizens thereof?
But M'organ has that power. There
was a time before the general degen
eracy caused by republican policies
had such an influence upon the people,
that no man would have dared to Is
sue. such an order as that against a
great American city. Now they mere
ly bow their heads to the great impe-
rator and beg for mercy.
For the last ten years plutocracy in
politics has followed one policy. Ad
vocate one thing during a campaign
.and as soon as in power do the very
opposite. Cleveland was elected on a
tariff reform issue and then congress
went to work and passed the highest
protective tariff bill that ever got
through that body. They made a re
duction where rates had been placed
five or six hundred per cent above the
prohibitive point," but the bill was the
highest protective bill that was ever
passed." Mark Hanna made a cam
paign on the ground that the coinage
of silver must be stopped and as soon
as in power went to coining more sil
yer, than was ever coined before. . He
declared that they wanted "one dollar
as good as every other dollar" and
then flooded the country with bank
paper urder promise to redeem It in
a better dollar. That is the way it has
been all the time.
The Epworth league disgraced itself
and all men who respect truth and
honesty by employing Eli Perkins to
deliver a lecture before them. Among
the many and brilliant liars who
stand in the first rank of that profes
sion, Eli Perkins is among the fore
most. He was a newspaper man, but
he has been blacklisted by every re
spectable journal in the United States
because he was such an ; outrageous
and persistent liar that he got every
paper that employed him into trouble.
Not many years ago he sent what per
ported to be a signed interview with a
distinguished man in Washington
when he had never seen the man at
all. To escape from imprisonment
he wrote an apology in which he said
that every word of the interview was
a lie and that he knew that it Was a
He when he wrote it. Is that the sort
of a man to put up before the young
people of a church?
From the way the New York city
republican papers talk one would be
lead to believe that the sweat shops in
New York, the crowded tenements, the
Wall street gambling, the trusts, the
millionaires and all the social and
economic evils from which the in
habitants of the great city suffers, is
all owing " to the rule of Tammany.
If Tammany was once downed and out
of power there would be no more
homeless tramps, no more children
without a school house into which !they
could .be crowded, no more tenderloin
district, : no more policy shops 5 and
buncoe men. "Just let the republicans
once get control of , the city govern
ment and New York city would je a
real heaven on earth. It Is a little
queer. that they never point to the re
publican governed city, of Philadel
phia as an example of what the re
publicans can do in the way of city
government.
Labor is by far the greatest factor
in the creation of wealth, yet." the
writers who fill the pages of the econ
omic magazines seem hardly to real
ize that such a thing exists. Month
after month they will discuss problems
connected with foreign and domestic
trade, the markets, money and other
things, but as far as any one reading
their articles could tell, these econo
mists Jdon't seem to , know that there
Is such a thing as labor. These super
ficial, penmen will one day wake p
to tha fact in a very unpleasant .way
that there is not only, such a thing as
labor, but it is involved in the whole
interests of mankind. Two problems
await solution and are in every, man's .
mind: trusts and wages.., On. neither
of them dare the great magazine to
express an- opinion. They , are not
cowards. They are simply reduced to
what is coming to the whole nation.
They are simply hirelings working for
the wages that their masters please to
give them. " , c
Now the republican papers are at
it again. This time they say that this
is the end of fusion. When this elec
tion is over, that will be the end of
the populist party. The "democrats
will have swallowed the pops." Those
who believed the stories about the
big row that was going to be, believe
this Just as readily. The reason' Why
these republican editors engage in
this sort of talk is that they are not
capable of discussing any question of
government or political economy , and
they are doing their very best when
they fill their columns with this sort
of silly gossip. It. is. a hard job to edit
a republican paper these days. Vital
questions vftilch are of Interest to the
people must be tabooed. What would
become of a republican editor if he
should write an article against the
trusts? He dare not write one openly
defending them, so there he is between
the devil and the deep, sea and he has
either to say nothing or engage in
idle gossip.
A good many of the great foreign
missionary societies report a heavy
falling oft In the collections for for
eign missions. That is what sober,
sensible men have expected. Millions
can be collected in the United States
to send missionaries to teach peace
and brotherhood, but this effort to
shoot Christianity into the heathen
will, in the end, be the wreck of the
church and all its institutions if per
sisted in." There are millions of men
and women in the states who will
gladly take from their hard earnings
small sums all that they have to give
to teach less favored people the ways
of peace and righteousness, but if this
doctrine of war, gold and glory is gen
erally, upheld by the leaders of the
church, they will find that they will
have but few missionary contribu
tions except from the plutocratic rich
who give their money in return for
the aid that the church gives them in
their policies of imperialism and war.
The Boston Herald says that "noth
Ing can bo plainer to Jthe intelligent
man than that the great 'prosperity of
this country of recent-- years resulted
chiefly from its western harvests. It
it entirely clear that without them
this prosperity would not have been.
Now that is a different song from what
the Boston Herald sung in the cam
paign of 1896 and 1900. Then it in
slsted every day and sometimes three
or four times a day in extra .editions
that McKlnley was "the advance agent
of prosperity," that if she 'were I not
elected, desolation .would . sweep.', over
the land. This gold bug democrat has
heard that there is a crop shortage in
the west and he now fears that having
persuaded the mullet heads that Mc
Klnley was the advance agent of pros
perity and 1 afterwards brought it
about, that they will now turn on the
republican party and go for McKlnley
because he did not keep it up. Mullet
heads and mullet head editors of the
great dailies are a funny lot. Accord
ing to them McKlnley produces pros
perity, but adversity why "provi
dence" is responsible for that. Aren t
you glad that you are not a mullet
head.
PLEASE ANSWER
The republican editors have, now
come to the conclusion, that a -pop
traitor is the meanest of all traitors,
especially after he has got an office
that they wanted. But .while this
traitor was traitoring all over? the state
and all of them were aware of the fact,
they did not have a word to say. They
drummed up. meetings for him, they
paid for halls, they y declared that, he
was the 6nly "true populist." They
did that when they knew that he was
a traitor just as well as they know it
now. Who is most to . be despised
In this outfit? Was it the traitor or
the men who stood by him, kept him
before the public and furnished him
with money and profltted by his trea
son? Clem Deaver's treason defeated
the fusion state ticket. Governor Sav
age and all the state officers hold their
position by means of Clem Deaver's
treason. The voters who were de
ceived and Induced to cast their votes
for the mid-road ticket and who would
otherwise have cast them for the pop
ulist ticket, elected the " republican
state officers. Every one of these men
hold their offices as the result of the
vilest treasonever known in politics.
They profit by It. Is Clem Deaver any
worse than these men? Some of the
republican editors . denounce the giv
ing of an office to Clem Deaver. All
the rest of them got their offices by
the same treason. Is Clem Deaver
fouler than Governor Savage who
profits by the same transaction? Here
is a question that - The Independent
would like some of the republican edi
tors who denounce Clem! Deaver's apv
polntment to answer. ; - V -
c - x-ox,i.oirBi m'kihijiy
The republican editors who are
criticising Governor Savage, l'or parol
ing Bartley should remember that he
is only following the exampl; of their
great and holy McKlnley. McKlnley
has pardoned one after another of the
national bank embezzlers in such a
continuous string that there is no
keeping an account of them. (The
last one was Charles Mussey of -Rutland,
Vt., who used his position as
cashier of the' Merchants' National
bank' to steal $147,000.' His robbery
brokethe bank, inflicting heavy loss
upon his neighbors and caused k much
suffering. He was "sent up" forrseven
years. . r.u -
In prison Mussey apparently fell ill.
His family physician abandoned his
case for unstated reasons which may
now be conjectured. An out-of-town
doctor was obtained by Mussey's
friends. In a year he was said to be
at death's door, and upon this ground
McKlnley pardoned , hlm. ;
That was a month aio. The Rut
land dispatches relate that MHissey
has just, geme into the Adirondacks
on a hunting trip, as well as any one.
The bank embezzler is necessarily
and always inexcusable; always and
necessarily he has, sufficient intelli
gence to know what he is doing and
what havoc he may cause. Perhaps
the picture of Mr., Mussey gayly de
parting upon a pleasure trip while, his
victims toil, to- repair the ruin he
wrought may cause the supporters of
McKinley to do a little thinking, that
is, if they can think which ia some
what doubtful. The practic under
this plutocratic government . is, if a
man steals a loaf of bread for hi3
starving wife and children, send him
to prison as long as the, law will al
low. If he robs a public treasury or
steals the savings of the poor .which
they have deposited in a bank, pardon
him. How long a government can en
dure that administers justice after that
fashion is a thing not very hard to
figure out.
WELL DEFINED
Why any wage-worker should ever
vote the republican ticket is one of
those, things which the friends of or
ganized labor can not understand. The
position of the republican party to
wards labor, has always been so well
defined whenever a contest, came up
between it and capitalistic employers
that it '.ought -to be known, by. every
man of sense in.the whole country. Of
late the republican papers, have been
making unequivocal statements upon
the subject. The following from the
Dakota County Record has been copied
with approval in the leading republi
can dailies of the state and . shows
how the republican leaders regard 'la
bor organizations. It says:
"The 'labor, leaders of this country
are a menace to the peace and future
of both labor and'capltal. It 13 equal
In importance to the trust question and
the man who controls the unions is as
dangerous as the president of a trust."
That is, as every man of sense
knows, the position of the republican
party toward organized labor. That
statement should be printed on , a
poster and the bill-boards of the cities
plastered with it so that wage-workers
may no longer be deceived by the; hy
pocrisy exhibited by republican candi
dates during every campaign. Just
before an election they are all great
organized labor fellows.
THAT IMPERIAL ORDER ;
It turns out that the new' order is
sued by the postmaster general in re
gard to second class matter was made
wholly in the interest of the railroad
corporations and will not save a "cent
to the government. Contracts for four
years have just been' made with 'all
the railroads for the carrying of mail
matter. The order of the postmaster
general will greatly reduce the amount
and the railroads will get ,'all the
profits. Thousands of publishers will
now send their matter by express com
panies. The result will be that there
wttl be largely increased revenues both
for the railroads and express compa
nies. , When it is remembered that this
McKlnley government Is by the cor
porations and for the corporations.
this new deal whereby the railroad
and express corporations are to be en
riched at the expense of the people,
will surprise nobody. - -
The order by which this piece of
business was accomplished was an im
perial order in the fullest senso of the
term. : Year after year the nostofflro
authorities had brought all sorts of
pressure to bear to get congress to
pass such a law, and congressmen hav-
ng the fear of their constituents bv-
fore i their eyes refused to pass any
ucn a iaw. men tne postmaster
general issued an Imperial order on
his own authority and the thing was
done. Now some fifteen or siTtn
millions will go into the coffex-s of the
railroads and express companies that
ought to have remained in the pockets
of the people. We will just have to
grin and bear it. It is no use to kirk.
f you tell the mullet hearts nhm.f t
they will not believe what you say
and they will go and vote 'er straight
the next ' time just as they have for
the last-forty years. You might get v
hold pf some of the younger men and V
explaln the situation In a kindly way
to them. - But the old cod
vote 'er straight while nhey live and
6 auaiBui wane muiiet head heaven
when, they die, ; f. , .