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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT October 17, 1001 Xht Jlcbraska Jndependtnt i" 1 jrsssss Bisc cczszx arm asp h rn PrJXJtX3 J&TXSY Tjetuoai X.CO PER YEAR ITZ ADVANCE t to tarwwrA fey Um. Ttoy tfzmmmtXf targ Wit ASrt WNil IAa m left rttk CMk. 4 tb tocribr Aula to A? H cairUsa. d atk all A--J1. mamr ' W. U-. pay U t Cfc Rtbntk Jmdtptmdemt, Lincoln, Neb. Brt4 mwCTlyu 'ill m to The republicans are la the soup cow, fart arajiu Tt republican countersign during XllM easpIjrn will be: "Don't men- f mm Neither the Bee nor the patent la aid traa eeem to have heard cf that Gocld xTi.iT. The races between tie Shamrock and Coicnbia were the closest ever sailed, la salUcc ICr3 mls tie Columbia only lzl the Shamrock IjK) seconds. nTf'Te lt Goold. tut Joe Burnt la his tl veil at the state bouse." The republican bare a right to rejoice that tier tared sosethisr out cf the wreck. Ttm Bartley revelations seem to indicate- that Joe Johnston's often-re-peate4 statement that there was only tad apple la tt barrel" ceeds css codilcatioa. Jsat ia proportion a tie value of ra&ro&l property grows, the repuhL .cars reduce tie taxes upon It. Lock mt tie umtsect la Omaha and all Ttr tie rute for that matter. According to tie American Ecoa cirt ary man who attack! the steel trust tart Is a traitor. Now let us Jiear cose more about yellow Journal ism and tie need of it suppression. It Is repcxtel around Lincoln that -sicce tie Gooli exposure, tiat there are f&erteea tier distirruiihei re--: publicans la tils state who cave lost Hielr appetites and caat sleep rood at iy ahculd tie Karl Marx toclalifts cute such a Utter fiftt against the Db aoci!Uts? Tier are plenty of trad to so around. If ts iJHlmtes wact tie ana aad ianaaer. iy, let tiea take It; aad the Marx- 4 tea raa adept tie cow. , Eo far as kaowa cot a republlcaa -weekly la tie state tas corrected tie alandToas rtories ptitlisbed by then ccccrcl Ciaxxellor Andrews. Tiey 'are tp lea did sacples cf black jouraal flist, ard prepese to keep up tteir re "jtatisc as saca. Eartley expare cf Goold. the re 'jrjtilcaa candidate far resect. Is said to iae so destroyed tie "harmony la jtie party tiat the first three letters of th word are entirely blotted out. jTiere Is cotiicg left cow but the xsiey aad that lsa't spelled righL ' The first thiaf that happened after "The rapoenre cf Coold, the republlcaa 'avoaicee for regent. Rose water re narked that: The republlcaa party stands for lntecrlty and honesty la the ceaduct cf ptitile afrairs. That raised Roeewstera re putstioa as a humorist tec point. Tie republicans cf Kansas hare sent rery much the same sort of oea to the United State senate tiat the redeem er legislature did from this state. Burtoa wanted a libertine and notor ious toodler appointed district attor ney, tut tie stench cf tie man's char acter had reached erea to Washington and Burton tot turned down. Sir. Bryan sires some very valua ble ad ire to the republicans la this week's Ccramoaer. He sussests that hereafter before they nominate a man for cSice tiey send a committee to In terview Bartley ard find out whether ie ha any cf that stolen money, for tie takc ct wklea Bartley la con cd la the penitentiary. There was aa editorial ia The Icde peaaeat entitled: "Deal Get Ahead cf tie Processica." X brother editor Instead cf ereHtins; it to The Xcdeper dect Tfltnfiertook to put the came of the editor at tie bottom, but tie type-set-tar got it To3blea.- Either that cam or tie title to the article attracted the attstln ef editors and the iters has bea eopUd Into huedredj ef papers. : a Mr. Tetblee is beeexalss ;uiU fact ious. That satlemsa has our test r wishes and kindeet rts&rdj. JJBMOUCTXLX XUQHT No party could ever look back upon a record cf tea years' work with more satisfaction than can the populist party. The principles that It enunciated la its first national platform have by subsequent events been proved to be wise and statesmanlike. It has never made any mistakes and has nothing to Tegret. Its opponent has been obliged to adopt the populist position on the money question to save the country from destruction. The populists de clared that the dreadful financial de pression would continue until the amount of money In circulation was in creased, and until the quantity of money in circulation was Increased," it did continue. The populists demanded that the millions cf silver lying idle in the treasury as aelgnorage " should be coined. The demand was denounced as repudiation, but the republican party at last voted, by their representatives la congress, almost unanimously, to coin it and most cf it has bee coined. The position that the populist party has taken on the tariff is now being advocated by nearly evrry leader in the republican party. The opposition to trusts that has been made from the very beginning by the populist party is cow being taken up by the best men in the republican party, including the president himself, who even before President McKinley was assassinated declared that they must be restrained in his Minneapolis speech. Very many of the leaders in the re publican party are now convinced that the position taken by the populist par ty in regard to the Philippines was cor rect They are pointing out that the war is to continue over there for a long time to come and at a very great cost in men and money. Republi can papers are printing facts about the Philippines and commenting on them in the same way that the populist press has done. A year ago they were de nouncing such writing as treason. The whole world is beginning to ac knowledge that the position taken by the populist party in regard to the Boer war was what Justice and love of liberty demanded. Hundreds of republican papers are cow advocating the public ownership of city franchises which the populists have advocated from the very begin ning. The party was always right on that In regard to the populist demand for government saving banks where the money of the poor would be safe when deposited, that Is so sound a proposi tion that no fight is now openly made upon it. The administration has adopted the populist principle of the public owner ship cf the telegraph and telephones In Porto Rico and the Philippines and there is a very strong movement with in the republican party for a govern ment cable from the Pacific coast to Hawaii and the Philippines. The opposition to ship subsidies has lately been taken up by many leading republican newspapers as well as by those who have been considered as men of influence in that party. In regard to banks of Issue, which is a policy always fought by the pop ulist party, there does net seem to have been any progress made within the republican ranks, but when the first depression In business occurs, and these banks begin to fail all over the country, that question will become in stantly one of great prominence. There are many republican newspa pers today advocating the curbing and controlling of the great railroad cor porations and trusts in very much the same language that populists have em ployed for many years past, when these very newspapers were denounc ing them with the vilest epithets that the language afforded. The question of the public ownership of railroads has as yet received no aid from men within the republican party, that and the abolition of banks of is sue are the only things that populists have advocated that has cot received Indorsement from them. But the pop ulists are Just as right on these ques tions as any others which the repub licans have indorsed. AH these things are true and known of all men and yet we see republican speakers and republican newspapers denouncing populists and the populist party as Jf it and they were the ene mies of mankind. The question arises, why do these men. after having adopted or advo cated nearly every populist demand, continue to denounce populists and populism as If it were the most abom inable thing on the face of the earth? The question is easily answered. First, they want "the offices. They don't caro what principles are promulgated in tha platform or what they are called upon to denounce or support, just so they can get the offices. Second, the others hope by this means of placating the people and pretending to advocate re form to kill the populist party. If they can do that, then they will feel safe la going on ia the old way. Not one of these things will be enacted into law if they ean succeed in killing the j populist party. If this public criticism is hushed, if opposition is killed, the trusts and corporations will have the right of way and the people will be robbed of all they produce "above a bare living. HOBE TROUBLE IN MANILA The Manila American says that the Taft commission has imposed an in come tax on the people over there and that it is unconstitutional, wherein the American is away off. There is no constitution over there and therefore nothing can be unconstitutional. It further declares that the tax ia 2 per cent on the wages of labor while all the ofiBce-holders are exempt. That, the American should have learned, Is all right also. There is nothing to pre vent class legislation in the Philip pines. Anything goes under the de spotism that the republicans have In augurated over there. The American also wants these men who impose taxes without representation and enact class laws, to stop and think what the people of the United States will say when they hear of all that kind of do ings. That is also a vain thing. The people of the United States will never take any interest in what goes on in those islands They have their own affairs to attend to and the Philippines are 10,000 miles away. The Independent thinks it sights a new rebellion over there. A good many Americans have made their homes in and around Manila and they are cot of the kind that tamely submit to despotism. The first thing that the Taft commission will know these Am ericans will be kicking up a muss. They will be a different lot to handle from the Filipinos who have been ac customed to despotism for some cen turies. The Filipino may quietly sub mit to a 2 per cent tax on wages, class legislation and the several other things that the American complains of, but the new residents won't. The Am erican asks: "Why discriminate? Did you ever hear of such a thing in the United States?" But that don't ap ply. The Philippines are not in the United States according to the su preme court. It is new and altogether a different thing to live in a territory or a ''possession" from being a citizen of the United States and the American is way off when it makes such com parisons. You are a "subject," Mr. Manila American, and you have no constitutional rights. You ought to have learned that fact a long time a?o. If you don't shut up you will be de ported like that other editor. DKSPOTISM The daily newspapers last week published the following item: "The Challenge, a paper devoted to socialism and said to have the largest circulation of any of its kind in the United States, has been refused admis sion to the mails as second-class mat ter. This means that the editor will hereafter have to pay 1 cent a copy in postage instead of 1 cent a pound, and that whereas this item formerly cost but $30 a week it would now cost $300 weekly." That is the thing that The Indepen dent has for a long time been warning the people was in store for them. That is just as despotic an act as was ever perpetrated by the czar of Russia. If it is allowed to go unchallenged it will not be long until there will be no free dom of the press in these United States. What right has the postmaster general to exclude any newspaper from the mails? The American people are a freedom-loving people and when the narrow-minded gentlemen at Wash ington think that they can suppress the discussion of any question by that Bismarckian way, they show how silly they are. Bismarck tried that way of suppressing socialism iU Germany r.nd now it is almost strong enough to take charge of the empire. The Independent looks upon this despotic act of the postmaster general as one of the most omnious things that has happened in the United States since the civil war. How'long will it be before an order wili be issued ex cluding all populist papers from the mails? " It should be born In mind that this story may be one of the lies of black journalism, and that there are good and sufficient reasons for excluding the paper from the mails under the law, or, It may be a He made up out of whole cloth just to test the temper of the people and see if they will submit to such acts of despotism. The American Economist has dis covered another ground for treason. It declares: "Now all free traders are urging President Roosevelt to follow President Arthur's example and by advocating an approach to free trade arrest the march of prosperity. Any such course would be worse than party disloyalty: it would be treason to the country." The privileged rich - have always adopted that way of defending their robberies. Any man who ex presses an opinion contrary to their wishes is denounced as a traitor, an anarchist or a repudlator. After that they start a tirade against the oppo sitlon press and declare that it ought to be suppressed because it calls name? r WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ? At first Rosewater "demanded" that Stuefer should comply with the order of the state convention and tell where he kept the school money. Then he expressed a "hope." It seems now that the ire of the Bee editor is at last aroused and he makes the most ser ious threats. He says: "Unless Treasurer Stuefer promptly complies with the demand of the con vention without evasion it will become the duty of the state committee to call on Governor Savage to enforce it through the authority vested in him by section 22 of article V. of the state constitution. That section empowers the governor to require at any time in formation in writing and under oath : from the officers of the executive de- j partment relating to the condition, management and expenses of their re spective offices.; Public officers may decline to recognize the demands of their party conventions and even re fuse to honor the governor's requisi tion, but then they , relieve the party by shouldering the responsibility upon themselves." . J s That last sentence only expresses a rain hope. No doubt Mr. Rosewater would be glad if the republican party could , be relieved of the responsibility of the acts of such men as Bartley, Goold and Stuefer, but that is an im possibility. The populist party has never acted the baby and tried to shirk responsibility for the acts of the men it has elected to office, and the repub lican party, however much it desires to do so, cannot. The republican paity is responsible for Bartley, for Goold, for Stuefer and the whole gang of boodlers who have robbed the state of nearly a million of dollars and pro vided for the creation of & million more of debt If the republican party is not responsible, who is? Is it the men who have fought them for the last ten years and who gave the state for four years the best government it ever had? WHERE ILLITERATES SWARM Last week The Independent called attention to the assertion of one of the black journalists of Lincoln, who said: "It will also be noticed that the lo calities in this country where the names of a large part of the citizens end with "gosz," "ski," and "cek." can be safely relied upon to give demo cratic majorities." In refutation of such slanders The Independent called attention to the heavy foreign vote for Quay and his republican machine in Pennsylvania. Since that time, Mr. David H. Lane, one of the Pennsylvania republican bosses, made a, speech to his followers in which he said: . "The Poles," Hungarians, Italians and other foreigners who come here vote with us because we control the offices. They want favors and know they can not get them' unless they are with us." The slandering and lying of black journalism has no end. When it gets weary of lying about one thing it takes up another. The populist and the! Bryan wing of the democratic party Is made up for the most part of the brightest and most intelligent of na tive born Americans, to which is added, many thousands of the reading, think ing and liberty-loving foreigners who have made this land their home. That is proved by the fact that the fusion forces have their greatest strength in the states of least illiteracy. Where the Illiterates swarm the thickest, there the republicans roll up majori ties by the hundred thousand. NOT EXACTLY CORRECT One of the congressmen who has just returned from the Philippines is very positive that the Filipinos are all savages and utterly unfit for self-government But there are items in the cable dispatches , almost constantly, which go to show that the statement Is not entirely correct. Of late there has been a great deal of fighting going on. One dispatch tells of an engagement in which our troops were defeated. It says: "The enemy was strongly in trenched. After two hours' fighting the Americans retreated to await rein forcements. The insurgents numbered over 300 and were armed with Reming ton and Mauser rifles, and apparently had plenty of ammunition. "Martiny a teacher at Mauban, was captured by insurgents while visiting a neighboring town under an escort of native police. The next day his cap tors, relenting, tied him in a hammock and carried him to a point within a mile of town and released him, saying he was a non-combatant" According to the popular under standing, "savages" do not build "strong entrenchments," nor do they respect non-combatants. Even some civilized nations capture non-combatants and confine them in military camps the English, for instance. BTRANOE NEWS FROM ENGLAND v Some strange cable dispatches have come from England during, the last week. One of them declares that King Edward is suffering from cancer and cannot live but a few months. An other says that the reason that Botha escaped for about the fiftieth time, and after he was surrounded by 70,000 British troops, is that thousands of British soldiers have deserted and joined the Boers, that in fact there are constantly more desertions than new troops sent out. Everybody In Eng land is denouncing the Salisbury &ad. Chamberlain, ministry and some go so far as to demand that the king ask them to resign. One prominent writer says that the official reports show that Kitchener has captured", killed and deported more Boers than there were in existence when the war be gan and still there are as many of them in the field as ever, and then he wants to know where all these fight ing men come from that are now in the Boer ranks. The whole of Cape Col ony has .been put under martial law, and two farmers have been hung for treason. On top of this three comes news to the effect that the Ameer of Afghanistan having died, there is a revolt there, Russia supporting one claimant to the throne and the Eng lish another while Russia is moving large forces towards Herat Altogether Johnnie Bull is having a very hard time of it He will never have easier times until he resolves to do justice and stop his wars of conquest. Then he will forge to the front again. The Independent hopes that he will see the error of his ways most speedily and start in the lead of civilization, in stead of hiking back to the theories of George III. STRANGE REJOICING The fool protectionists are rejoicing over what they call the commercial decline of England. If England falls into a commercial decline, and, is un able to purchase our goods what will become of our foreign trade? She is by far the greatest and best customer that we have. She bought $30,000,000 more goods of us last year than we sold to her. The prosperity of Eng land is of -as much importance to us as it is to the people of the British isles. The American hog, typified in the high protectionist and trust ba rons, perhaps will learn some day that mankind is a brotherhood and the in jury of one is the concern of all. The impoverishment of the masses to en able a few men to become billion aires, will In the end be the destruction of the billionaires. The populists have been trying to Impress these truths upon the people for the last ten years. SPANK THAT INFANT The consumption of sugar last year in the United States averaged about 57 pounds for each inhabitant, which at 5 cents a pound would cost $3.42 apiece, or $16.10 for a family of five persons. If the duty were removed and the sugar trust allowed the people to get the benefit thereof, the saving would be $1.14 for each person, or $5 70 for a family of five, for a whole year. That is the tribute that each fam ily pays to the sugar trust The tri bute was imposed on the plea of pro tecting an infant industry from the pauper labor of Europe. But now comes this mighty infant, grown to an enor mous size upon the pap furnished by tariff laws and deliberately attempts to destroy another industry that em ploys more labor than was ever em ployed tn the sugar refineries by low ering the price of sugar in all the mar kets where beet sugar can come into competition with it, while it keeps up the old price in other parts of the United States. The sugar trust is the sort of an infant that ought to be pad dled until it was well blistered and then turned out to make its way in the world without any special privileges whatever. The American Economist is com pelled to haul in Its horns a little on the reciprocity question, which It at tacked with such bitterness a short time ago. It now says:- "Americans have not 'rejected reciprocity in all Its forms.' Americans Introduced reciproc ity to other nations and under repub--lican administrations made a num ber of treaties of reciprocity" and then it adds this infernal lie, "all of which were destroyed by a" democratic con gress." Those treaties were held up and defeated by a republican senate and every man knows that the senate is the only place where they could be defeated as the house has nothing to do with treaties. Reciprocity as far as it goes is free trade and nothing else. There have been traitors among the democratic congressmen and senators on the tariff question just as they were on the financial question, but no democratic congress ever defeated a reciprocity treaty. The Economist be gins its lying early in the campaign. Mayor Tom Johnson declares that the railroads have bought the repub lican party of his state, body and soul. That is a little different from the sit uation in Nebraska. In the first place the republican party of this state never had any soul and the railroads didn't have to buy It, for they owned it from the .very beginning. .. - Why don't some of the black jour nalists jump onto Senator Hoar for his anarchism and setting class against class? In one of his latest speeches he says: "The whipping post, the brand ing on the forehead, . the-cropping of n MWWEM 9. Do You Need a Steel Range? ; The Standard, the finest steel range on the market, made of the very best bevel cold rolled steek , The oven is 19x22 inches made out of NolO wrought steel, the bottom of which is bolted on to three cast steel bolts so as to prevent the oven from. buckling or warping,, the top is made out of gray iron, dont warp as would '.the mailable iron and can't crack as will the common cast iron top, warranted hot to crack r warp, has a very large top 30x38 inches, very handsomely nickel plated, is lined throughout with asbestos, the inside top of o ven is double with asbestos between, has a , very large swinging .warming closet set on a cast steel frame. " This range has a very largq solid copper reservoir which holds 16 gallons of water. This range will weigh about 550 pounds. Where'can you buy a steel range like' this for less -than $45.00? Hayden Bros, sell them for - - $29 Send orders to Hayden Bros. "Wholesale Supply House, Omaha. If not satisfactory return at our expense. "Write for free Stove and Housefnrnishing Catalogue. HA YD EN THE BIG Opposite Postoff ice. BROS STORE OMAHA, NEB. the ears, the scourging at the cart's tall are light punishment for the rich man who would debauch a state." That is a fiercer denunciation of the rich than ever appeared in the editorial columns of The Independent. If . all the logic of the black editorials that have appeared in the last few weeks is not false, then Senator Hoar is an anarchist a died-in-the-wool anarch ist and he ought to be deported. After waiting nearly ten years the Grange has at last got nearly up to the Omaha platform. The recent de mands . for legislation put forth at their national assembly, with one or two omissions, is a reproduction of the Omaha platform. Ten years from now the remainder of the Omaha plat form will be adopted by them. The society that passed a resolution prohibiting its members from ever pronouncing the name of the assassin of the president felt very sure that the order would" be obeyed, for not one of them could accomplish that feat if he tried, unless he took up his residence in the land from which the criminal came for a few years and practiced sev eral hours a day. Some one should write Mr. Rosewa ter a letter and inform him of the character of Mr. Goold, the republican candidate for regent. He does not seem to have heard that Mr. Goold was one of the beneficiaries of Bart ley's peculations and that he still has the stolen money. Doubtless as soon as Mr. Rosewater hears of this affair he will inform his readers. Tolstoi is done for now. William E. Curtis says that Tolstoi is a "hum bug," and that his writings are "im moral," "pernicious," and "blasph emous." After thus disposing of Tol stoi, Curtis announces the speedy forthcoming of a really great literary work, in which there will be seen none of the hum buggery of Tolstoi. The author is Senator Beveridge. Some of the black journalists are making a great noise over the treach ery of the Filipinos. No one is dis posed to deny it, but it is only another reason why we should have left them to exercise their treachery., on : each other and not mixed up, in an affair that is bound to cost forty or fifty mil lions a year above all we will ever get out of it, besides the lives that are lost by the said treachery. Appointments have already been ar ranged for Mr. Bryan to speak at the. following places: Fullerton, afternoon, Oct 24. York, evening, 25th. (It is expected that another meeting will be arranged for the same afternoon.) Broken . Bow, afternoon, 23d, some other place in Custer county that even ing. Other appointments will be an nounced in due time. , After a republican legislature had elected Millard senator and the party had chosen Judge Norval to preside over the state . convention and had nominated : Goold -for regent of the state university, Rosewater vainly Imagines that the party "can purge itself even of the suspicion' of hypoc risy." Mr. Rosewater has been train ing his imagination to execute feats that were never performed before. The greatest disgrace ever Inflicted upon this state,, the one that will In the long run be the most injurious to it, is not the loss of the money that Bartley stole. It is the election of two such men as Dietrich and Millard as United States senators. Neither one of them has a single qualification for the office. One is almost an illiterate and the other' was "a participant in , every criminal , act" of Bartley by which he tole-200000r : The republicans are playing smash with the schools down in Kansas just as they have here in Nebraska. . When they "redeemed" that state one of the first things that they did was to. turn out all the professors and teachers in the agricultural school.. No w;the school has become so rotten and disreputable that it is said that the governor will summarily remove the whole board of regents and try again to get it on. its feet. . When Bartley was paroled," relying on the promise of a' republican gov ernor, he felt very brave and declared that he would never run up the white flag. When that promise was broken and fourteen years more of imprison ment stared him in the face, he seems to have reconsidered the matter and concluded that he could show the pow ers that be, what he could do if he took the notion." So he named Goold. -But there are others. ': Better send our Insane, Our bad boys and girls, our deaf and blind, to some first-class hotel and hire their cloth ing tailor-made, than to have republi cans keep them at state institutions. It's .safer and ; cheaper If -: the -hotel burns,, the state will not bel loser. Fifty additional inmates in nine. In stitutions cost the taxpayers more than $48,000 for six months' keep under re publican rule. Board at $3 a day would cost $549 for 183 days, and $400 ought to getsome pretty; good tailor-made clothing for each inmate. - It is said In the dailies that 600 meft have deserted from the army at Fort Sheridan near Chicago In the last few months and very few of them have been captured. One of the editors de clares that it Is because there is now no canteen at the fort, from which it would seem that the men enlisted be cause they could get beer at 5 cents a quart A great standing army is a new thing in the United States and it will take a good deal of "whipping In" before the average young man will be satisfied to rot In the barracks of a fort. 'J: Sterling Morton in speaking, ot Wall street declares that "there is.no' street in the world where altruism is so strong." Most people think "altru ism" means regard for the interests of others; the carrying out of the prin ciples of the Golden Rule. Is It possi ble that Morton don't know the mean ing of the word? Or has he at -last gone completely daft? Has his fawn ing sychophancy, practiced for years, at last brought him to a stage of id iocy? Poor Morton! The Independent extends Jts most sincere sympathies to his friends and relatives, a The people of Nebraska . have tie themselves up in a most ridiculous way. by electing a "redeemer" state treas urer. In the first place they had to tax themselves $6,000 for his term to pay the guarantee company to Insure them against his playing Barjtley upon them, which is one thousand, dollars more than they pay him as salary. In the next place he has over $260,000 hid den away of the state funds and won't tell where it is or how much interest he gets on it. So it 'seems for the sake of having a "redeemer' treasurer, the people must pay several thousands of dollars a year extra. A mullet bead may like that sort of deal, but no body else does. ' '! According to black journalism -th only way a man can keep from-belng an anarchist, if he opens his mouth to speak at all, is - to support every steal, indorse every graft, uphold-every monopoly and trust that the re publican party has brought into being. If he criticises or denounces - any 'one of them, then he Is an anarchist, a dangerous agitator and a. breeder of discontent: . . v