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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
November: 18, X3Q1
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COLOBlDO 'CITED
Whatever comes of tt V excitement
in Colorado concern&g ; tt.3 ,new;pr,o
cess for the extraction ; cf gold, by
which "it is claimed the two or three
thousand dollars a ton can be obtained
from all the old dumps and i'rori thou
sands of acreVof talc which is spread
out' over the' country hundred of feet
thick and from the sands of th rivers
and 'yjilleys, there'1 is one thing SUre
to result, and that Is a better -tiudqr;
standing of the , nature1 of moneys pop
ulists have of ten , asljed . audieL5is
what would happen to the plutocra te
arguments made by the Ceveland-Hjjl-John
Sherman economists,'if a moub
tain of gold should be discovered, and
gold be turned out by the ton. This
supposition always seemed so far-fetched
that it did not make much im
pression on men who kne-. nothing of
the subject, but this new proems brings
the matter closer"home. Men for the
Pflrst time begin to Jhink in a new way.
They ask what will happen; if Colora-
tri.alction. Thousands of men know
thae !tariff . IsV
Sonfof the most disgusting "little
Americas" that exist have emmi
grated Jrom these states to Manila,
Philippit islands. They object to be
ing taxed Without representation.
The comwmsus j of opinion in the
great daiUetis, to,( the' effect that the
. , tariff Tmust rtiain forever unchanged
and that evenW discussion of the suo-
ject would'procace a financial disturb
ance
It is announced at one of the first
acts' of the New rvjjjtk reform admin
istration will be tojpen the saloons
on Sunday. The Re CRainsforth and
some other preacher&,re advocating
,that kind of reform rith Tom Piatt
and the republican mafhine to back
them. . : ,
All over the world the Vorshipper3
, of greed put all their faith, tiflr hopes,
"their fortunes into gold and pVomises
written in indelible ink to fwr gold
at some future time. Who wilijmmrn
if Wynn's new found process inakes
both the gold and the promises to
pay comparatively worthless. Time
' evens .up a good many things.
Why the republicans should re joke1
... v
; so over me prospect or jjave tiiu get ?
ting control of the democratic party
and kicking them all but of officers
one of those things that no pop can
find out." They say, one and all, that
:u i t ai i Tfi eii it ri i in x n j r n a nri i i
y uib -uAU-a rk u t uu f t a & 4
the' republicans from
srjj? or not, one thing is past all con-idQ begins:to ship gbld byjthe ton and
at he same time all the gold, fields -of
the world send it, forth in the. same
proportion. - " j
TChey, for the first time, begin to see
that.tVe value of ' money depends upon
its "qiigmtity and 1 not s upon - the m a
teriao which it is composed. : The
excitement has been very- great ';. a.
Denver and most of it has come from
speculation "concerning . .what '' effect
such"3an elkbrmous I increase of gold
wills have .upjoh the world;'' The most;
apparent, thing that" strikes the Den
verites is .that it will destroy ithe
smelter trusty and make useless, all its
costly machinery; Then they say that
it will be extremely easy to pay debts
Of all kinds, incudng government and
state bonds, that freight and passen
ger rates on the railroads will be a,
k-anized to
Crfcr sweep
powil
facts seem to indicate that Quay
had mucn Detter anc stronger politi
. aiachine in Philadelphia than
York!' 'ne DUDC Press could not
break a CS n uay s cl1116. while
j jji ew York it played havoc with
CroJer's. AH the dailies in both New
Yo 5k ahd Philadelphia save one in
Ah ' city5: fought " Quay and Croker.
.They
mere bagatelle to S man who has . a
few hundred pound o gold, that in
terest on Investments and notes , of
hand will no longer both'e the debtors.
Others declare , that those who live on
interest will become , pau,per, that all
the' eleemosynary institutirtis and en
dowed universities will findth'mselves
bankrupt, for ihe gold that the teach
ers and professors i wquld getoiild
net buy them a frugal-breakfastv&nee
a week. The farmer reflects upon
what the effect would be if he" eot3,ld
get a pound of gold for a bushel" of
wheat and what he would do with thV
gold after he got. it. J Then he will Ye-
yjmember that the populists and . Bryan.
mocrats. haveyof ten called his atten-
bn to the fact tha;there is very lit
'r Vutility" in goirf-that the posses
ses cannot eat it, drink it, cloth hini
seiyith it, ieed his iorses on it,-or
malij5an axe, sawr or knife out of It;,
Othes.'will perceive that the value con
ferred jupon. it by the government "flat,"
downed Croker,
not phase Quay.
but they could
Governor Van Sant of Minnesota is
making a -big bluff in his widely ad
vertised onslaught, on the big $400,-
- 000,000 railroad trust and Governor
Savage undertook to get into the game.
Jt seems, however, that Van Sant had
4 heard of . Savage's famous attorney
general and instantly concluded that it
would make the farce altogether too
transparent. So he ignored the whole
"lot. It would-be a gay sight to see
Prout fighting the railroads.
A good deal of criticism has been
directed against Treasurer Stuefer no
more1 than he deserves but if Stuefer
is guilty, so are Governor Savage, At
torney General Prout, Secretary of
State Marsh and - tiand Commissioner
Folmer. These gentlemen compose
- the board of public lands and build
ings; and;no money can be Invested ex
cept by their direction. Joe Johnson
to the contrary notwithstanding, there
; seems to be more than "one bad apple
in the barrel." '
The Wayne Democrat says: "Such
a.man as David' B. Hill and a brand
new democratic platform may sweep
the Whole - country in 1904." That
Wayne man must expect to raise gold
democrats'pretty fast during the next
two or three years." Dave Hill .would
' not get one populist vote in the whole
state of Nebraska and that being-the
case,' haw could he carry the state un
less gold democrats sprung up out of
.the ground -like grasshoppers when
they hatch in the spring?
" The mail who killed President Gar
field made the proud boast continually
, that he was' a ' republican. '"There was
not a man in the opposition parties of
that time who was low , vile or mean
enough to charge the republican teach
ings, speeches and literature had In
spired the ' man to do the killing. We
had to wait" "until a creature of that
sort was 'developed from plutocratic
journalism. They made their appear
ance m considerable'-numbers in 1901.
Nothing so vile' had., ever been seen on
. the earth before.
that - it ( shall ' be a legal" tender for
debts, will vanish in thin air when the
"quantitjf is unlimited.; i f;!
The people of Colorado do not need
such an o$)ct lesson nearly so' muph
as the peop6f tbe eastern states, and
it is hoped tiat the excitement wiil
extend to thtjast of the Mississippi
river where ti'e r inhabitants still be
lieve that' tlierti, an .unvaryin 'in
trinsic" value ingbldthat caniiver
be changed 1.' It1:!) republican spell
binders have bei tefUng tiemu that
for the . last ten y?rti and they be
lieve that what; a republican spell
binder says- has thesanw authority
as holy writ.: Y; . .
The populist thebry l money is as
sound as the foundations of the earth.
They have declared that. ;hile there la
"utility" in many things there ts no
"Intrinsic" value in : anythg . Wliat
they want is a staple monethat will
continue year after year htyng the
same purchasing power. Tey way
that that object can never be o4ained
as long asthe mines are r,elIed.,uon to
furnish the material for money, f in
all history.-there, have been failtfts
of the mines and sometimesia le
mendous -output, and in each instance
there has -been a disturbance of valuta
the whole world over, resulting somei
schools. That book contains some of
the grandest literature of all the ages
and to say that a class;of citizens shall
bV prohibited from reading or', enjoy
ing it, is about as narrow sectarian
ism as can , be- conceived. From a
practical standpoint, it; is far better
that a boy should be taught that he is
hanging 'over a fireyhell prepared for
his punishment from the time of lay
ing the foundations of the earth, than!
that he should. gr,ow up to be a thief.
But there is ? no -Necessity 'for 'either.
Man has a.religious, moraland ethical
nature and the one who would ignore
them in the education of youth is an
enemy to the welfare of "society. Let
the-plan laid down by Chancellor An
drews be evefy where adopted.
RECIPROCITY FAKING
"he 'way the republicans talk recip
rocity is another illustration of the
spellbinder's speech when" he declared
thatLe was in favor of the enactment
of a prohibition law, but against its.
enforcement. The other day a man
whowas ii shoe manufacturer, was on
his wayHo te 'ke reciprocity con
vention thtt was held in Washington.
He sat - doVn -beside a United States
senator and remarked:
2 "We 'J muiit 'i hiave reciprocity
; reciprocity, sir!" he exclaimed
! over and over again.
: : "What is Reciprocity?" finally
asked the eenator.
"Why, sir,", replied the shoe
manufacturer x delegate, "reciproc
ity . is-well, reciprocity. Aren't
.. you in favor of It?" 1
1 "Oh, yes," said the senator; "I
v am in favor of it. . I want a rec
iprocity treaty with France,' for
instance." - , ,
"Good, good!" exclaimed the
v shoe' man, rubbing his ' hands In
satisfaction. I
"Yes, a treaty with France,"
, continued the senator ;'one , that
'.4 will enable our manufacturers of ,
farming implements to sell their
goods ,, in France without ; paying
any duty, and in return f or that
the; French are to be permitted vto
send their shoes, slippers, patent
leathers and such , goods to , this ,
country duty free."
.. "Thunder! That win never dt! "
. shouted the delegate; "what, the
deuce do we care about the- imple ment
manufacturers? .What; we :
want is free hides!" A. V '
When ; the convention got together
the-eame sort of difficulty arose on
every hand. Every r man wanted a
lowering of Che tariff on everything
that went Into the articles that he
manufactured. butone at all on the
tcojtnpleted articles that he had for sale.
f ne simple truth about the whole mat
ter is that tariffs are a system of legal
ized robbery of the people and the rob
bers must join in a community of in-terest-,and
protect every kind of thiev
ing to friable each of them to do his
own ..thieving. . .,; r-
THE EDITOR
V-
GETS MAD
An, editor out at Holdrege who ha3
Tbeen'. bringing railing . accusations'
against the populists of this state be
cause they fusedwith the Bryan demo
crats, based all : his attacks on 1 the
ground that it had been a failure, that
the fusion party cbuid, not elect any
body to office. To elects men to office
was' the object of the whole movement
and! as ; there ; were none" sleeted, "the
thing was a failure; Now. Be has "gone
over to the socialists who ave polled
less than one per cent of te vote of
the state. He must have a. brilliant
imagination if he sees the prospect o?
success there. It is of the same qual
ity as that of others who argue that
if the combined votes of the democrats
and populists are not sufficient,to
elect, then the votes , of . the- populist
alone would be sure to elect, or to re-
duce it to a geometrical, axiom: "The
half is greater than the whole." The
editor of The Independent is very
sweet-tempered,' but when he sees that
kind of mathematics in the opposition
newspapers, or some one comes, to him
to argue along that line, his angry pas
sions rise. When he sees such writing
in the republican papers it only amuses
him for it is to' be expected," but when
times in. defrauding the creditor lind man who pretends to be opposed to
sometimes in cheating the debtor.,
TEACHING MORALS
The teaching only of pure science in
thepublic, schools and entirely ignor
ing morals and ethics is sure to re
sult in the increase of crime instead
of its decrease. An educated thief 13
much more dangerous to a "community
than an Illiterate one. The child has
moral as well as Intellectual capa
cities and the teacher who neglecis
either should be put out of the schools
and kept out. ; Not long ago somewhat
extensive thieving was discovered in
the university and recently it has
broken out in the high school at Oma
ha,, some, of ther thefta going under
the character of and larceny. Chan
cellor .-Andrews' called attention;to the
importance- of teaching- morals in the
schools, in a very able address in thi3
city about a year ago and pointed out
along what lines that teaching should
be given.- The Oversensitive fear ; that
sectarian teaching would creep Into
the . schools '..hast . been , carried to a
point where ta -halt must be called if
the children are to be saved. -The edi
tor of ' .The Independent is as liberal
In his .religious "views ;as . any one can
ask, but Ahe has.; te Utmost contempt
for'the liberal. who (Objects to the read
ing of passages fromvthe Bible in ch
e dominauoi or trusts, oanKs ana
ljlroads, talks after that fashion, he
1&&S all
patience, and gets fighting
Th' British are putting up , some
hard fa for the American imperial
ists. toNcrack, - The Canadian premier,
after shaking of the sort of govern
ment . w' have established in Porto
Rico and ; the Philippines, , remarks:
"The Declaration of Independence af
firms that 11 rmen a,re. born free and
equal and eitled to,, certain inalien
able rights. ,;he modern. Monroe doc
trine is a pracvLcal repudiation of what
the republic, assorts in this declaration.
It assumes that o people beside them
selves are entitled to freedom." ,
A preacher down Indiana got af
ter the Standard rustj and it Is
claimed th.at thrbughbis influence the
price of gasoline was fpduced from 13
cents a gallon to 9 fets. 'Then the
Standard Oil trust got at, ir th?e preach
er and it was not lonj until that
preacher was out of a job. ,The moral
to this little tale, the trutV of which
is asserted by some highi. publican
authorities, is that there is nothing
like a great religious trust w
great religious man at the hearjl
like Rockefeller to keep abstreperous
preachers' ' in " order.
HANDLING THE NEWS .
" The way the Associated press han
dles the news in the interests of trusts,
tariffs and -banks, has had a new de
monstration during : the last two or
three weeks. 'Scores of columns of interviews.-
have been sent 'from Wash
ington, but every one of them was
from some republican senator ' or rep
resentative. So exclusively has all the
news been "confined to the advocacy of
tariffs and other plundering schemes
'that remarks 'have been frequently
heard to the effect that the democrats
have shut up and have nothing to say.
If ebme democratic senator . or repre
sentative of prominence should under
take to get his views on the coiAlng
legislation of the next session of con
gress sent out by the Associated press,
and by.'that ; means into everyt daily
paper .published in the United? States,
he would be sat 'tiown upon pretty
hard by the censor , located in New
York. Even if the reporters sent it,
it would neverget further than that
gentleman whose blue '- pencil would
consign it to' the waste basket. :
Among the interviews sent out from
the republicans, -.great prominence ha3
been given to what Senator Allison
said. He has a iiew; scheme bf recip
rocity. It is ingenious and thorough
ly Allisonian. -j He proposes to . put a
big tariff . on everything now on the
free list and then offer reciprocity to
other natiohs by taking' off the tariff
that has leen; placed on' articles that
were heretofore admitted free. iThat
idea would make a mule smile. Alli
son is also in favor, of admitting raw
sugar free. He has been the" stand
by of the sugar trust In the senate for
many years and he evidently means to
maintain his old position of its most
confidential friend on the floor of the
senate. ' ' -
The Indeperident has made arrange
ments for a, very full report of . con
gressional doings for the next session
and those who read its pages jfor the
next few months will have all things
of interest to thinking men spread be
fore them. You won't get it from the
Associated press. It the stuff gets too
hot, Madden may conclude to sup
press the paper and then we will be
out. If he -tiles it, he will have the
biggest fight on his hands that ever
a ukase manufacturer ran up against.
J
dailies ; h tolf his republican' neigh
bor of it andt! showed them actual
bills vof sale wich : he had brought
back with him. hle proved it time and
again by ' living! witnesses . who had
also bten to Enlland whom the au
dien,cesVknew. . Qauld the republican
voters made m believe, it? . Not at
alK As Wg as Aiy spell-binder duly
authorize) ;by a' republican county
committeedenied )t, not one of them
could be made to, Relieve a word of it.
.They wouldSbelievWthe spell-binder al
though r f hej knewthat "he had never
been outside ol'th't ynited. States Ir.
all his life. t is oe that kind of peo
ple that the, tepubljban pvpwer in the
United StatesVrestsV AThey will vote
the ticket regawless f what the trusts
and . the tariff iaronSj charge them for
goods. , The onV wajr to change them
is for the republcan party to send out
a new set of spef-binders who will tell
them a different Woryfrom what they
have been retailing for the last twenty
years. . What prospect is there that the
republican party jwill instruct .thr:
speakers to tell tna people .ttieuth?
They.will do it whin they see chance
to make money in thaway and , not
before. ; If those tirjugs who have
been making smjheeche before the
New York chamber bf commerce want
the thingstopped, let' them tell the
peopled vote with
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Bpyan. democrats.
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STAT- AT-H ONE
ftince the election
POPULISTS
the Omaha
Bee
.WHITE FEATHERilEMOCRATS
. 1 .
A faint heart never won a fair lady
and no politician Whoever ranup the
White flag at the begiming of a cam
paign ever won a vifory. That, is
justs what the Hill-Cleland reorgan-
izers propose to do.
pose to fight for the pri
ey 1iont pro
:lples of dem
ocracy, but to raise tne hite" flag, stop.
thy shootingrsurrender trmi'and am
munition and adopt the lig of the en
emy. ; Further than that chey propose
to uom the ranks of the, enmy and
fight for their cause. ThejfovoVld have
theislmple-mihded to belitrVethat In
that way they are going to gain a great
victory over the ? repnbliclfn 'I forces.
Thearms and ammunition or tle dem
ocratic party have been Its pnnlipfes
equal rights for all and speliil priv
ileges tb none equal itaxatipi equal
rights 1 before the law, oppclftibn to
commercial monopolies, to grelt stand
ii. ar ies,8 a hearty adherent to this
Declaration of ; Independence vith aft
that i?meahs and' "many' "otheirthings
of thefme1 sortri That' Is iat the
Bryan Memocracy-has stood fat All
these things the Hill-ClevelandferOwd
Hill fouirt'the
he
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dear 'fnah'iy and' a constantly, fining
prices and had the T hearty adHetence
of Clevend, VWhitney andtifthe ,-vfeole
gang whdt propose to run up the wWte
flag and urVender arms and ammuni
tion to Mai k' Hanna. i They w'antihe
people to tb'-aileve that to surrendeAis
the first ste a; toward victory. B ah me
republicanmosts are of the same be
Every repujb; lean dally tells the peop
that the reorganizes' plan - of ca
naien Is a Sure road to Victory. The
can't makelpipulists believetthat so
of a story. I Having been allies of the
has been devoting considerable space
to State Treasurer Stuefer. It has
been calling frantically upon the hap
less treasurer-' toc resign ; his office and
thus saye the Republican party from
defeat next year. Can it be possible
that Mr.losewater has also a candi
date for attjte treasurer next year, and
that these attacks are made to prevent
Stuefer's Venomination? It is well
known that the Bee; has selected Judge
Ben S. Baker to. step into Governor
Savage's shoes.
A glance at 'the returns this year
shows that although Judge Sedgwick
has a plurality of nearly 13,000 over
Judge Hollenbeck, y et the result might,
.have been different! and without any
loss of republican -.voles. There wei e
about 18,000. tqf 20,009 "populist ; and
democratic voters whV stayed at home
election day and failed to vote. These
were supporters of Judge; Holcomb two
years ago. Of course, thero were more
than 20,000 stay-at-homes , this " year,
but the above statement is based upon
this fact: f 203,000 , men votetJ. for suT
preme judge in 1899; Judge Holcomb
had gL09,090 and Judge Reese - 94,000.
This t ydar about 185,000 voted , for ;the
two leading candidates; Judge Hollen
beck, had-about 86,000 and Judge Sedgi
wick about 99,000 vThis shows a follr
Ing ott in . fusion strength o aboit
23K00Q; and a republican gain of about
5,000.- vHence, the ; 18,000 wha did not
vote this year must have syoted Xof
Holcomb two years ago. This, of
course, Js 1 subject to qualification to
cover deaths, removals from the state,
etc., of voters since the election ' of
1899. Accoringiy,; the Bee has occa
sion for feai; f the result next "year.
Nothing can prevent republican defeat
then," unless the' populists and demo
crats fail to do tjjeir duty as they did
this year.'' ;
THE REPUBLICANSPELI, BINDER
Some of the prominent men in- the
republican party have" 'been' making
speeches before the New York cham
ber of commerce to the effect that It Is
dangerous for the republican party to
expect that the people of thtes country
will permanently tolerate a, condition
of things that results ,in American
goods being sold to foreigners vat:a less
price than Americans can purchase
them. But there is nothing in that
supposition. The American people
have tolerated that ever since the -first
ifcKinley bill waspassed. This writer
found that all sorts of American 'mam?
f actured goods were sold cheaper in
England than they were In the United
States as far back as 1889. He trav-
eiea irom me suuiuermuai. yari. vL juug-
and to the north of Scotland; al-ick
four times, ' over diff ereites, cov
ering the whole c0f and every im
portant citj town in it. - In all V
themjj"nd American goods being
m much lower than they could b
bought in this country especially so
in , all kinds of hardware. 1 He came
home, wrote cplumns about it in great
propose! & surrender,
income ta, an inheritance
stood for the John Sherman
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The depression fcontihties in Ger
many and. seems ty grow worse rather
than Jietter. In ermkn the' concti
tionsare Xhe revise jpl 'those in ' the
United States. Tfere, tie landed in-1
terests have 'ben 'legislating very
much' after the sane fasiilon that the
manufacturing - literesta have here.
Thej have been ajleto pk a very high"
tariff nrt Vat-nrr T-rrlnrtR iiiid raise he
price so, 4? to befame as
the trust ttrms ne
tariff tl
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the mischief. I
In Stettin, atording t
are
countries it is t
d raise
ppressive a3
In both
t is causing
1
the latest
;hl in 18S3
cost 14 cents 'fjt
$ents. Mutto.!
beef,
)ound has iVisen to ' 3
30 cehts
butter 2S
7 cent;
Si
ordinary
idJ Eggs
'.chickens
iuart. If
pork 20 cents, 6am 35 cent;
Cents. : coffee "3 cents, sag
flour 5 cents, aid tea a ve
quality at tha $1.65 a po
are 45 cents dozen, larg
75 cents eachfjmnk 5 cents a
must be erej admitted. hOwier, that1
In 'most of ese : commodities, vhich
among Amefcan worKmen (uum u-s
considered' alsolute ne.cessitiefe of life,
the Germ'aiifworkman miver itidulges;
He must hafe coffee and plenty of it,
and a'iitdVeat.' Butter is pk'ctical
lrnkmow'S tonv lard eingtusa ti '
its steadl' ? le rarely uses milU eggs,
or white flc lr, and he never thaks Of
buying anypf the better cuts ofimeat.
Canned gocts, familiar to everyimer
ican worktt.-are absolutely; unWown
to him. Ms staple fobds ye ireaa,
which he S iyi in enormous. loat('s3;f
The timria not far away whit the
r.nooHrm ,f t tariffa will Decomet a
world-widJ one. In the sclent; of
political ibnotay . they find no sub port
at ail Tfo rftsnit. in uermany or xue
aerarian itriffi- is making the
democratic' feirtyv:whiW'-rVifir"'armi9singmaii li on black bread, wWlJ
were ' under l tie cOmmahd gol Bryan,"
they' would leave the' field the moment
Hill, Cleveland or any e-ln'e of that
crowd assumed command ahd'let them,
with their defided crew'of corporation
stragglers, figfet it out alone.- Populists
never yet "rated the white flag and
they never will. a" ' r
4'.
REPUBLIC iLW,TRflASURERS .
Republican tnte treasurers come
high, but the people of this state in
sist on having lone: once ina while.
Bartley, besides! ;hls salary,- cost - tho
to aXmillion' dollars,
change and we had
r, for lour years and
jyond his salary.
TheJi the people hose a -republican.
ThetJirst thing tha developed. was the
fact that no busings man of property
and no bank woula go on, the, bond of
a republican treasver.;VSo. the .people
Jaond. for him at
people very closi
Then there was;
a fusion treasure
he cost "nothing
hart tr Kuv-a.sure
a cost of ?3,000 a y
r, which; was $500
dVhim as. salary.
paid fpr his own
y , $1,000. The re-
more than, they
The fusion treasur
bond and itlcost.o
publican wak so, jnftch-'worse a risk
that the conspail'y fenianei three
times as ? much K Ce; him, against
stealing. 'But at ; i.s only. the, be
ginning; of theeost f'.a republican
treasurer, s He .foVil t all of a sud
den that the fusion Isurer had been
doing business in bhconstitution-il
wayj by paying pr'Bjs on bonds
bearing a high rate 9 interest, and
the republican. tre&stiriH-l of his own
motion andjwithout cotsMUtlng the su
preme court or the attoTey.general,
came ; to the ,concuato -it the only
.way .to'gelhigrbolH for- an fn"
yestment'lf116.. scnooi, iuna was to
tlis friend
Nelighlto have the
c.lidren or
people
rk-th
the
as
itariffs in e United States, forces
merican Consumer to pay doublfl
mch for feiany articles manuXactljtel J
the trusts- asUhe same articles
kid to foreigners. It is only tne w
1 nrri.irHupnPSS Of a Virgin ik"
UUl yiMvviv
I .1 . S . . . 1 .
t v.oaiiiDrt th American, wornunu
abWe the level of his fellow labo
t i -
tariff-ridden . Europe, what ri
rfma!n narliament tO ma
'the Jiff ect ofr which is to enri
theRand.Pf nets andeciuce me wot
Ingien to the -verge ot starvation ;
nernkual "differing? .That Is justwh
s. lorTh aW ftiBrrafiari tariffs ' do a:
lUV MV T C3
whati'theytere intended to dc:: Agai
all sifcti? wYbnesrwhether in this coun
ha
la
insl
ly, 'In despair, the county sold the
bonds to a Toledo firm for tyO less than
par. Then,' three months'later, Treas
urer Stuefer, at the direction" of th
board, buys $44,000 of J: these same
bonds, through some agency unknown,"
from the Toledo firm, and gets them on
a basis 3f only 2 per cent per au-'
num, or exactly 1 per cent- less than
they v?6ull. have Veallied 'if bought of
Otoe county directf ': 4
' Engaged1-in this transaction' were
five of the republican' state officers.
Savage, Prout, Marsh? Folmer ani
Stuefer. It begins to look as'lf all the
apples in the republlcah barrel wern
not only bad, but rotten'
v PLVtOCltATIC DEOEMERAtES
If it were not for the laws that hive
been placed on the statue bobs be
fore the nation was demoralized by
plutocratic greed, the nabobs of today
would be indulging in the enjoyment
of the same sort of cruelties that de
lighted the eyes of the old Romany.
The introduction of bull ' fighting has
only been ' defeated by the enf orce-
nient of laws passed long ago in the
better days of the republic. If it had
not been for these laws, we should ere
this have had gladiatoral combats. Tne
New York nabobs are constantly In
venting new-schemes' ttfavoid the lawaf
against" cruelty The latest was discov
ered at the fashionable .horse show
Horses were noticed foaming at-thj
mouth and- constantly pawing -thl
ground, which the fine- bedlamondeJ
ladles-In the boxes thought was a,vey
finejsight. Some, of1 the officers
coWred that aH instrument of tort
v,'a3 fastened to the bit inside I tb?
mouth of the horses which c
them to act Jik: that way. and t
ladies who owned the horse
prceec'uted .In the police court
degeneration has, gone so far
whatHheV call the tipper class, b
are , In fact the foulest speclme
humanity on the face, of the earth, that
some of the ladies will nurse a. lap ops
all day and turn their noses up at a
starving baby.
m
(lis
pure
f
r
a usea
hJenna "-
4 wero
1 This
Samone
lit who
.4 i-f
; The American, billionaires are all
in the dumps. They had bought cor
onets and adorned them itb d iamonds
of such immense value, that they were
prepared tO' outshine al the lords aad
dukes of the United Kingdom, KIn
Edward hearing of this, issued an or
der that 'no one but' British subjects
should ' b'e 'admitted to the ceremonies '
i oU liis ; coronation.' , Mrs. 1 Bradly-Mar-
. v
try o infany partof -the ;orld,thMStiuX.';; . f 500,000., diamond coronet an!
populists; hd Bryanj 'democrats fitter,
teir parnWt. protest! : . fu
WORSE THAN I3COMPETElJC: .
During ; ttos' campaign; The Indepen
dent icohstaatly called' attention tof the
manifest Incompetency" of the repub
lican . slate, government.' The other
day, StukeV;? in an Interview, plead;
guilty :'to,be - charge. ' He repeated
many., times his assertion "I cannot
understand, Y'V: do not i know' ,and
made use 9f pother, expressions of the
same kind;en discussing the law. in
regard to thellnyestment of the school
fundsJ'VSt there' Is "something worse
than "incompetency" up at the state
house as is evident from these trans
actions i in colaty bona and the facts
In regard, tolthe OtOe county bonds
s)xow4 it 'beyliid N' contradiction. , The
history as gia'- in 'the Bee Is not de
nied. Here weV $50,000 of 4 per cent
funding bonds, issued early this year.
Before isuirigthem tlise eounty clerk;
and, two . of the, county commissioneira
of Otoe county ; went to Lincoln ' and
begged . of . the iaembei"s of the state
board" to makeHhem an offerioe?-
bonds as an invesSBettT oc tne perma-
und- At tne time-nun-
ne
gjfremium Instead of ..the;
the. state. That
already, about $6,000 and!!? he keeps
it' iitK until the end of isUVjaifTdreds of thousae of dollars of ; this
cost, many, thousand more.
Yes; republican . treasurers come
high, tbut . a gopd maryy people think
that wemust have theiij, because if we
don't weill be anarchfsts and encour
age the assassination of, presidents.
fund - we; IB-lying idle feind uninvested,
yet, despue this, tae Otoe county' bffi-
cials coujd get mitner an oner nor
any enevmragemftt Yrom the board.
They weivc nome ana1 wrote several let
ters. butfcould get iro answer. - Final-
Several others of the. snobbish 400B will
have to be dismantled. No wonder
chat they are in' the dumps.' -
Who can doubt now that the United'
Spates - senate Is 'going to strengthen
Re. Interstate commerce., act so as. to
ve . the . Interstate, , commerce coro
ission some power to ! control the
arges oh the" railroads? Steve Elk-
i Will be chairman of the senate
mmittee on interstate commerce, in
iversation with a , newspaper man"
other day he remarked; "It Is a
. . V - ' : - . . " . 4 - ' ' . : . . -
t tnat x am consmeraDie or a ran-
d man," which remark was alto-
e"r irrelevant and ' superfluous as
c
9
t:
f;
r
gel
fail as giving any new. information to
thtt public. JJ V
,v Tbe J German laborer's enjoyment
conast jpf a "trinity", and when any
oneH'f he trinity Is absent he is ml?
ealI It'' consists of sociability, mu
pit&pfy beer. With these three he
makt! amends for the fact, that a very
larger! part of his earnings must go to
goanent that hems him about with
an infinite number of rules and reg
ulations that curtail almost every "nat
ural right and even directs the man
ner1; in which he may spend the pit
tance that he earns. He -lives a life of
servitude very close to the borders of
actual misery and yet he extractSihap
piness from a condition ' that to an
American would seem to contain noth
ing; but wretchedness.
