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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
August 22, 1901
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Horn talk Ii the only universal lan
oire. The Bedouin of the desert, the
rjli.t Indian on the plains and the
educated will man all say -whoa.
et-cp and cLlrp to their horses.
Oa examination of J. I'ierpoct Mor
on's grfat m tf m of profit sharing
for fcis workmen it turned oat to be a
pUn to pay a rood part of the wages
o. the workman In trust Flock, which
at rrct i worth about 40 cents on
the dollar,
WMl Governor Savage can hardly
remove all the oil urn from embezzle
rs!, he Las shown that It can be
Etade proftaMe. Attending to the con
servatory la the Nebraska peniten
tiary for four years i a astoaUblne
f.uid way to make JS00.CKW.
The duds and the aristocrats still
tire such phrases as "kingly mien"
and "royal bearing." The kins of
thee days is about five feet six and
has a constitutional disease or some
deformity of person. He Is a tough
daring his youth and early manhood
and ia his old age a helpless dotard.
The Omaha Indians say that the
agest promised forty of them that he
would appoint them policemen if they
would Tote the republican ticket. As
there were only four policemen to be
appointed the promises were not kept.
The Indians now think that they know
something about the ways of Mark
Hanna politicians.
It is said that the Jacksonians want
ed Bryan to join in an Invitation to
Dave Hill to make aa address at
Omaha, and that Bryan replied that
he had -M'd up all his invitation paper
Inviting Hill tc make speeches in
and that he never got a speech out of
tim. The paper being all used up. it
was impossible for him to write an
other. There sms to be a growing bitter
cess all ever the country in regard to
Admiral Sampson. The people should
tot be too hard oa him for he comes of
a good family. His father was an hon
est mas ard made his living digging
ditches. His sister was an honest
woman and made her living until well
along in middle life working at the
mininery trad, ghe recently married
a man who will be able to support her
la her old ag.
Eaanfe the address one the wrap
per of yo-ur paper and when your sub
scription expires send In your renewal
promptly. A little attention on your
part to such matters wili make the
heart of the e lit or glad. If your sub
scriptio? is alreadr delinquent do not
dlay the day of ri;hteous doing any
loeger.
NOW is a perfectly acceptable time.
Well thank you heartily and receipt
yo-3 by return mail.
The Gould-Vanderbilt-Harriman-
Morgan-Hill railroad pool is taking
measures to capture ail the suburban
electric roads. These electric lines
are cutting into the profits of the steam
roads to a considerable extend and the
pool deems it advisable to stop that
sort of competition. The whole coun
try for thirty or forty miles around
all the great cities are being gridironed
with electric roads and year after year
they are spreading further out.
Bancroft is one of the lievliest towns
ia northern Nebraska, the railroads
running ia such a way that the in
habitants of a large and fertile area
raast come there to trade. Going into
the town one day about 2 o'clock, the
bank was found closed and on the door
there was a card saying:: "The bank
will clos at tp jel and open again
after the baseball game. Going
across the street tha postoQce was
ftmnd to be locked op tight and de
tened. The stores were all closed and
the whole place seemed deserted. In
a Utile while a great crowd came
rashing dowa the street yelling and
bowling until the dia was deafening.
Above the cproar could be heard cries:
"Rottea egg him,- "Rope, him," "Run
him out of town. They wer after
the empire. Who dare say that base
ball is cot the national United States
CUBAN STATESMEN - -
The baseness, meanness and despic
able character of the editorial writ
ing In the great dallies has a fair ex
emplification ' In the way they have
treated the Cuban leaders. At first
they declared that the Junta in New
York city had disposed of millions of
bonds authorized by the provisional
Cuban government. When the truth
was at last published and it was shown
that but a little over $200,000 of them
bad been Issued and the remainder had
been turned back Into the Cuban treas
ury, not an apology was made for the
vile slander. Then It was said that
General Gomez was plying every
scheme to get himself elected the first
president of the Cuban republic. Now
it turns out that he refuses the honor,
although the Cuban constitutional con
vention made him eligible. Then they
said that Senor Palma, who was the
head of the Cuban junta in New York,
was scheming for the nomination and
when he announced that he -was not a
candidate, but thought that the honor
belonged to General Gomez; they had
not a word of commendation for the
honorable position that he had taken,
but instead they indulged In the vilest
scandals of the Cuban people, declaring
that these two men knew well what a
horde of barbarians they were and did,
net line to undertake the job of gov
erning them.
The truth is that the Cuban leaders
have so far acted as honorable men.
When the Piatt resolution was passed
they sent a delegation to Washington
to interview McKinley and his secre
tary of war so as to learn what con
struction to put upon it. Then they
went back and the words of M'cKinley
and Root were incorporated in the con
stitution. Thereupon the whole pluto
cratic press of the United States
jumped ontohcm and McKinley and
Root repudiated their own assertions.
The Cubans submitted with what grace
they could. Now it is announced that
among the naval stations that McKin
ley will insist upon holding in Cuba
will be Havana and the harbor thereof.
All of the independence that Cuba will
have left alter McKinley gets through
could be put in a gnat's eye, notwith
standing the solemn announcement by
congress which McKinley signed de-
per day, in Argentine currency, Is ob
liged to pay four or five prices for the
necessities of life."
-'Now that beats the band, but it is
the very best that can be done on the
"sound money" side of the question.
Here are two classes of citizens, one
farmers and one wage-workers, liv
ing in the same country and employ
ing the same kind of currency. The
farmer has to pay nine times as much
for what he buys and the wage-earner
only four or five times as much when
measured by the gold standard. Ac
cording to gold-bug logic, Argentine
must be a very queer sort of a coun-
try. How is it possible to make the
farmers pay more than twice as much
as the wage-workers have to pay?
This article is written on a farm
up in Cuming county, away from li
braries, and it Is impossible to get the
financial reports here so as to give the
exact figures in regard to the Argen
tine currency. In a future article this
question wfll be fully discussed and
the exact figures given. Rosewater
just guessed at his figures, he perhaps
has learned from long experience that
guesses go just as well as facts with
his readers if they are mixed up with a
little abuse of the "popocrats," but
the fundamental questions involved
will be stated here in a few para
graphs. Everybody knows that money has
been depreciating ever since McKinley
came into office, that is, money con
stantly exchanges for a less and less
amount of goods, in some cases more
than fifty per cent less. Just as money
has depreciated times have become
better. The other form of the expres
sion is, just as prices have risen times
have improved.
The other argument is John L. Web
ster's "cheap wheat" argument, to
which, is added the statement that if
farmers get high prices for their prod
ucts they must pay high prices for
what they buy and, therefore, high
prices are no benefit to the farmer.
If a man has $1,500 worth of goods
to sell and has only to buy $1,000
worth, does he not make a gain by
high prices? If a farmer bought as
much as he sold, he would accumulate
nothing. His wealth would remain
stationary from year to year. It is es-
HE WANTED TO KNOW -
Politics on the republican side of the
fight in Thurston county began early
this year. There are two Indian res
ervations in the county and conse
quently there is lots of government pie
to distribute some of it the very best
kind of pie. Meeting an Indian and he
knowing that an election was not very
far in the distance and supposing that
politics was the thing interesting
above all things, he asked: "Which
are you, a democrat who wants to dis
franchise the negroes, or a republican
who wants to steal the land from the
Filipinos and ? make them slaves?"
Now that Indian hit the nail on the
head, and we were glad to make reply:
'Neither. I am a populist who be
lieves in equal rights for all tribes,
kindreds and tongues and special priv
ileges to none." Right there is where
the populist party stands out In the
leadership of the world and especially
in that of the United States. It is the
only party that is not trying to nulli
fy the principles enunciated by Jeffer
son and defended by Lincoln. It makes
no evasions. It does not advocate one
policy in the north and another in the
south. It does not have a bill of rights
for men living in the states and none
at all for those living in the terri
tories and conquered provinces. It
does not believe In citizens in part "of
the country and subjects In another. It
does not proclaim a constitution for a
part of the inhabitants and declare
that the rest are subject to the whim
of congress. It proclaims everywhere
and always the same doctrine: "Equal
rights for all and special privileges to
none."
The men In Its ranks know that
these principles for which they fight
are eternal. They remember that
while time and again imperialism has
swept over the world, engulfing a 11
peoples in its onward flow, yet as
many times the ebb tide of liberty has
returned and empires have gone down
to rise no more. There is nothing that
endures except justice and liberty. The
populist hitches his wagon to these
stars of hope and is never dismayed.
Even when ' an Indian asks him:
'Which are you, a democrat who wants
to disfranchise the negroes or a re
publican who wants to steal the land
braska and they are not reproved by
the party authorities. The Bancroft
Blade had the following item last
week:
Uncle Sam doesn't intend. to stand
any nonsense. Recently In the Philip
pines a lot of teamsters who struck
when ordered to break stone for a
road, were sent to jail for several
months to give them time to think
over the matter."
When some teamsters struck for
higher wages within the jurisdiction
of the United States they were sent to
jail for several months and this repub
lican editor applauds that act of tyran
ny. That is white slavery, and re
publicans indorse it. Very soon the
same thing will be tried in the states
and such men as the editor of the Ban
croft Blade will indorse and applaud
it. There are thousands of such flun
kies in the republican party and capi
tal owns the republican press. If Mc
Kinley should issue an order for the
confinement for five years In the peni
tentiary of every officer of every labor
union, such editors as the man who
runs thet Bancroft Blade would give it
their approval and indorsement. They
would claim that it was to prevent
anarchy and maintain good govern
ment and sound money. There are
thousands cf them who would do It.
AHEAD OF THE PROCESSION
It don't pay to get ahead of the pro
cession. The man that does it never
has any praise or credit until after he
is dead. It is perhaps necessary that
there should te such men to lead on
the lagging columns, but the man who
does it is the martyr. He is ridiculed
and persecuted while he lives, but
when he is dead the people build
monuments to his memory. The great
leaders of reform ever since the world
began have been treated In that man
ner. There are other men who in their
heart of hearts are as far advanced as
the most radical, but they mingle in
the ranks of the laggards and are nev
er seen far in advance. They urge
the columns on by their energy and
faith, but they stay with them. Gar
rison, Phlllpps and the old abolition
ists were always far ahead of the pro
cession. They were despised ana per-
clariog that Cuba "is and by right timated by economists that producers from the Filipinos and make them secuted and no one honored them until
ought to be free and independent
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ROSE WATER TRIES IT AGAIN
Mr. Rosewater prints the paragraph
from The Independent in which atten
tion was called to the fact that the Ar
gentine farmer got $1.80 for his wheat
and the statement that when the farm
ers got good prices for their wheat and
corn the merchants could "sell goodsl'
That populists may see the very best
that can be done in defense of "sound
money." the article is printed in full.
It was as follows:
"The official organ of populism must
take the Nebraska farmers for a lot of
fools. Its gabble about trusts and mil
lionaires Is not likely to befog the in
telligent Nebraska farmer not even
those who may be thoroughly satur
ated with flat money fallacies.
"Argentine is a free silver country
and the money the Argentine farmers
get for their wheat is currency worth
about 40 cents, measured by the silver
dollar. Gold, in that country, is at a
premium of SO0. Measured by the dol
lar that the Nebraska farmer gets for
his wheat, the Argentine farmer re
ceives but 20 cents a bushel, while the
Nebraska farmer is selling his wheat
at from 45 cents to 60 cents a bushel
in gold, or $4.05 to $5.40 in Argentine
currency. In other words, the Argen
tine farmer gets no more for three
bushels of wheat than the Nebraska
farmer gets for one, measured in hon
est money. While it is true that the
Argentine farmer gets $1.80 in the cur
rency of that country for his wheat, he
pays about nine times as much as the
Nebraska farmer does for his clothing,
furniture and farm machinery.
"On the other hand, the Argentine
workman who earns from $2 to $2.50
per day, in Argentine currency is ob-
iged to pay four or five prices for the
necessaries of life.
"The worst of it is that the wildcat
money of Argentine robs the workman
and the farmer, while the wildcat
banks eat up the savings of those
whose frugality enables them to accu
mulate a few dollars.
'Let us suppose that the Nebraska
farmer could get $1.80 for his wheat
and that everything he needs would be
three or four times higher in price
than it is at the present time, in what
manner would he receive any benefit?
Nebraska farmers are no longer in
debt. Most of them have money in
bank or loaned out and they feel per
fectly safe, because they know that
their money will not shrink over night.
They realize that if they could sell
their farm products at higher prices in
cheap currency they would run the risk
of having the money deposited in the
bank, or loaned out to their neighbor,
paid back to them in depreciated cur
rency.
"The merchants generally appreciate
the fact that high prices for farming
products benefit them as much as they
do the farmer, providing always that
the money they receive is good money
and not wildcat currency constantly
fluctuating In value, because It does
not know that Its redeemer liveth.
"Assuming that the Argentine money
was as good as American money,
would not the American grain dealers
take advantage of the fact that wheat
was selling at $1.80 In Argentine and
ship their wheat to that market and
reap a handsome profit?"
Now mind you this is the best that
can be done cm that side of the ques
tion. No one else can do any better.
Look at the two assertions: "He (the
Argentine farmer) pays about nine
times as much as the Nebraska farmer
does for his clothing, furniture and
farm machinery'
1'On the other hand, the Argentine
workman who earns from $2 to $2.50
produce nearly four times as much as
they consume. If they did not, the
non-producers would have a rather
hard time of it. If at a given range of
prices a farmer has corn that will
bring $1,000 and he buys $750 worth of
goods he will have $250 left. If prices
raise 100 per cent, he would sell his
corn for $2,000 and pay for the same
amount, of goods $1,500 and have $500
left Instead of $250.
There Is no more "fallacious fal
lacy" than the statement that a farmer
would gain ncf.hing if prices were dou
bled both for what he has to sell and
what he has to buy, that the two
things balance each other. If a farmer
does not sell more than he buys he
becomes a pauper. There would be no
taxes paid, no ministers supported, no
schools maintained. That fact is as
plain as anything, as plain as twice
two are four,
MtKIXLEFS CIVIL SERVICE
Never since the civil service law.
was passed has it been so trodden un
derfoot as by McKinley. Hypocrisy
has marked every step of this admin
istration. He has sent an army across
the seas to kill the Filipinos for their
good. While he is the president of a
republic and talked about liberty, he
has given active aid and substantial as
sistance to King Edward, who, being
no hypocrite, says in his speech to
parliament that he has been waging a
war of conquest on two republics in
South Africa.
The Indian service is supposed to be
within the civil service, but of the
twenty-five or more persons holding
official position on the Winnebago and
Omaha reservations nearly every one is
a republican. The wnole thing is a
republican pie counter. Such things
as the following occur: A day is set
for the payment to the Indians of the
money they receive for the lands that
are rented to white men. All this
money must go through the hands of
slaves," he can look him square in the
eye and say: "I believe in equal
rights for all and special privileges to
none.
ARE TEST ALL AGREED?
There is a great deal said in the re
publican papers about the immorality
of fusion. The ground for the charges
is that the., populist, and democratic
But do all who vote the republican
ticket believe in exactly the same
things? Is there no difference of opin
ion among them? Do they all think
the same thoughts and come to ex
actly the same conclusions? Do they
all believe in wars of conquest? Have
they all abandoned the doctrine that
all men are created equal? Do they
all believe that Clem Deaver should
have been appointed to an office for
playing traitor to the populist party?
Do they all believe that Mark Hanna
should be given a big ship subsidy?
Do they all think that the tariff should
be retained on trust-made goods? Do
they all sanction government by in
junction and the trial and imprison
ment of men who have displeased the
judges before the man who brings the
charges and without a jury? Do they
all believe in putting the industries in
the hands of trusts? The fact is that
the republican party is composed of a
vast horde of men among whom there
are hundreds of factions and countless
varieties of opinions and beliefs. There
is only one thing that they seem all
to be agreed upon, and that is to vote
er straight and get the oirices. The
republicans fuse every sort of a thing
into their party that they can by any
manner of means Induce "to vote 'er
straight," and then put on a long and
sanctimonious face, go out before the
people and talk about the immorality
of fusion. It is enough to make a
rhinosceros smile to listen to them.
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tho agent. A day was set tor the pay- war 0( con(Juest poUcand the rcpu
menu -au me iriue assemDie ana many
white men who do business with the
Indians. The agent comes, but he finds
the trader drunk, and not able to at
tend to the collection of the money
that the Indians owe him for goods
that they have bought. The agent an
nounces that the trader is sick and
postpones the payment. He goes off
and stays two weeks before he comes
back again. Then tne Indians are
just mean enough to say that the
agent gets a rake-off from the trader,
and that he must stand by him or he
wouldn't get the boodle. It seems that
these Indians are awful mean and are
in the habit of talking just that way.
They even go so far as to say that the
reason that the trader has to charge
so high for his goods is because he has
to pay such a big rake-off. All that is
a specimen of civil service under this
administration. It beats all the civil
service systems that the world ever
saw.
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long after they were dead. Lincoln
was of the ether class. He stayed with
the procession. There is no doubt now
that in his heart of hearts he was just
as radical as Philipps or Garrison. He
would move onward just as fast as he
could get the great mass to move and
no faster. He was the great executor
of the people's will. But the reforms
that he accomplished were made pos
sible' because of the men who got
ahead of the procession. It was the
radicalism of Garrison just as much
as the conservatism of Lincoln that
made the reform possible.
In the fight that is now on, Bryan
resembles Lincoln in his careful con
servatism, while a whole lot of us
fellows are away ahead of the proces
sion and must accept the results that
have always attended such action since
the desire for progress first entered
human hearts.
Up here in Cuming county there was
a man who got ahead of the proces
sion in cattle breeding. Fifteen or
more years ago he brought in a small
herd of white-faced cattle, all thor
oughbreds of the best quality. He
cared for them and attended them, but
no one took any interest in white
faces. After keeping them for four or
five years and finding that he could
get no more for them than ordinary
short-horn grades he sold them. Now
-white-faced, thoroughbred cattle bring
big prices up here and three-fourths of
the cattle on the ranges are white-faces.
That man was simply ahead of the
procession. He was cauea a crann ana
his cattle no better than ordinary
grades. Today he is spoken of with
respect. His radicalism added vastly
to the wealth of this section, but none
of it went into his pockets. He was
too far ahead of the procession.
The professors of pedagogy will al
ways sayi that it will not do at all to
give an education that will teach the
pupil a trade or a business that he ex
pects to follow for a livelihood. They
have been saying that with great em
phasis for. at least the last forty years.
Meanwhile the colleges have been turn
ing out thousands "of lawyers, doctors,
professors and men of other profes
sions until there is a plethora of them
in1 every state in the union. Long
years ago Emerson took exactly the
opposite grounds. This writer has ad
vocated manual training for twenty
years and now the very conditions of
life are forcing its adoption. Manual
training in a crude form is adopted In
almost every college and university of
note. But the pedagogues still say
that a trade must not be taught and
only enough instruction given to make
the pupil familiar with his hands.
They have discovered, however, that
the pupils who give half of their time
to work with their hands learn faster
and re every way' more ; intelligent
than those who give all their time to
the study of books. If a boy is ever to
amount to anything, he must become
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diation of the long cherished principles
of the Declaration of Independence will
be cursed by . the generations to come
for the change in the ideals and the
general demoralization of American
citizens. In all the ages of the past
there have been thousands in every
nation who were flunkies and would
applaud every-act of tyrany and op
pression. Heretofore such men have
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any who despised liberty even for the
poorest, they kept their opinions to
themselves. Now they speak out open
ly, when if five years ago they had ex
pressed such opinions they would have
met with universal detestation by, the
communities in which they lived.
Suppose that when the railroad men
struck In Chicago that Cleveland had
arrested the whole lot and sentenced
them to imprisonment and to breaking
rock, would there not have been an up
roar, not only among reformers and
lovers of liberty, but even within the
folds of the republican party? Now
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skunk located near them and as the
skunk had come prepared to stay all
winter and as there was no judge near
to issue an injunction, the campers
concluded to seek a new location.
Moral: Judges and injunctions are a
necessity to modern society and any
one who says otherwise is a pop, an
anarchist or something of that sort.
It is all in the point of view from
which you look at a thing. An Indian
said: "The white people make fun of
us because we live in tents in the sum
mer time. But when summer comes
they go and buy a tent themselves and
come up here on the reservation where
they have no business just for the fun
of living in it." The Indians bury
their dead on the top of the highest
hills and then build a little house over
the grave. An Indian was putting a
roof on one of these crave houses
when a white man said: "Why do you
build a house over the grave? That
can do the dead no good." The Indian
replied: "My wife is hurried here. If
were rich I would build a marble
house like the white people who are
rich do, but I am poor and can only
build a wooden one."
The recent census in the United
States and France has brought out the
fact that there are a great many per
sons in the world who are more than a
hundred years old. This has set the
newspapers to looking up the history
of such persons, for that is a ver
harmless thing for a dailjr that dare
not discuss a living issue for fear of
offending the trusts. In nearly all the
cases of the centenarians it turns out
that they are persons of amiable dis
position and have spent much of their
time out of doors. If you want to live
long, think no evil, don't worry and
sleep nine hours a day. A lady writes
to The Independent saying that The
Independent once published a constitu
tion for a Don't Worry club and asks
for a copy. It did, and that copy can
be found in Matt: 25-34.
A tax oath or a marriage oath is all
the same to a multi-millionaire. They
swear off their taxes and their wives
with an equal complacency. Here is
Henry M. Flagler, the great standard
oil. magnate. A few years ago he
stood up and before many witnesses
took a lovely woman by the hand and
made the solemn vow to take her, "for
better, for worse, for richer, for poor
er and to love and to cherish until'
death do us part." This wife proved
childless and she fretted so much over
it that at last she went insane. Then
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Sept. 2 to 7, at LINCOLN,
"Will attract thousands of people to our city. You are all wel
come to make your headquarters while visiting vhere at our
large store on O street. Bring us your bundles and packages
and we will check them for you FREE of any expense.
We will also have on display by that time our superb Fall
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