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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 20, 1902.
NO. 40.
THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
as a "persona non . grata," and let
England understand that we will
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GOD SAVE THE KING
Some More Dietrich. Antics
Washington, D. C, Feb. 15 Well,
what do you think of this:
"The attitude of congress and the
resolution of the house of representa
tives, passed yesterday by a large ma
jority, leave but little hope o peace,
and it is popularly believed that the
warlike measure3 advocated have the
approval of the great powers. The
memorandum of the Spanish minister,
Nothing official has been done in
the matter, but on Friday the house
heard an eloquent and impassioned
address by Representative Wheeler of
Kentucky, in which he bitterly de
nounced the administration for its
flunkeyism" toward England. He
demanded that Secretary Hay, the
man responsible for the American de
parture from its ideals, should be re-
urea and spoke in no unmeasured
terms of the fact that there was to be
a kow-towing embassy, with padded
calves and powdered wigs to be sent
delivered on Sunday, appears to me to England to see His Immoral Males
and my colleagues to remove all lezl- tv Pu a golden ring on his head. The
timate cause for war Tf that vIpw speaker then spoke of the visit of
should be shared by the great powers step toward royalty worship. He has
Visiting: Royalties Makes the Subject an
Appropriate One for Investigation
and Study
Prince Henry is coming, the Queen
Dowager of Italy is coming, the son
of the Mikado is coming and it be
hooves us Americans to study up the
question of kings and princes which
has so long been neglected in this
republic. We should go at it without
prejudice. That being the case, the
editor of The , Independent began to
rummage around in his library to find
out what is recorded in the books
about kings and royalties in general
i he first thing that he ran across was
Davidson s "Book of Kings." That
was written by a Britisher who had
lived under kings and queens all his
life. A very short studv of it showed
the time has arrived to remove the veen quoted by some republican pa- tnat be was Prejudiced against the
erroneous impression which prevails
that the armed intervention of the
United States in Cuba commands, in
the words of the message, 'the sup
port and approval of the civilized
world.' It is suggested by the foreign
representatives that this might be done
by a collective expression from the
great powers of the hope that the
United States government will give
favorable consideration to the memor
andum of the Spanish minister, of
April 10, as offering a reasonable basis
for an amicable solution, and as re
moving any grounds for hostile inter
vention which may have previously
existed."
That is the text of a message that
the British ambassador, Sir Julian
Pauncefote, asked that the foreign
diplomats send to their respective na
tions. "Truth will out," saith the
philosopher, and this statement given
to the United States direct from the
German government puts a different
light on the much vaunted English
friendship to the United States.
The republican orators . and news
papers who have been shouting for an
Anglo-American alliance for the past
many years had quite a setback when
the above statement was given to the
press by a German official. It has been
the cry of England, "I have been your
friend. I was your friend when all
the other nations wanted to interfere
in the Spanish war. I kept them from
doing it." But she made the boast
once too often and the fact comes to
us that England alone was the nation
that wanted to interfere in the war
in the interests of Spain. Lord Cran
borne, the English secretary of state,
has been boasting, the whole English
legislative and ministerial depart
ments have been shouting of their
friendship to America. But the above
note ought to put a quietus on them.
Germany has given the lie to Great
Britain and diplomatic affairs are very
much clouded. But the fact remains
that England was not our friend. That
Germany, Russia, France and Italy
were our friends in that war and that
each of their representatives advised
against the proposed mediatation sug
gested by England's ambassador.
The officials at Washington having
become so friendly to Great Britain
seemed disposed to ignore the charges
and were at first willing to take Eng
land's word as against that of Ger
many. But the veracity of the, German
government being at stake, she will
ingly Wrought forward the "official
documents" and has given the lie di
rectly to the denial of England.
As against the statement of Ger
many, we have the unbroken silence
of the British ambassador and the
State Department, together with an
evasive reply from a subordinate offi
cial of the English government. I
cannot believe that the reply of this
official is true, but if we are to accept
it we must also accept two monstrous
hypotheses:
First That Lord Pauncefote acted
without the knowledge or sanction of
the English government.
Second That the English govern
ment never had any cognizance of the
meeting.
But these are too fantastical to
merit consideration. Lord Pauncefote
is a capable officer and would never
have acted on such important work
without orders of his government, nor
would he have kept the knowledge
from it if he had so acted.
For nearly four years Germany,
with the rest of the world, has pa
tiently submitted to England's claim
that there was a hostile coalition
against the United States in 1898 and
but for England's unselfish interven
tion the United States would have
been assailed by the combined powers
of the continent. Unless Lord
Pauncefote can be compelled to speak
honestly on two points there can be
no doubt that Germany has spoken the
truth without reservation or exag
geration. First Did England act for Austria
alone?
Second Is it not true, on the con
trary, that England's ambassador said
to the envoys present at the meeting
at the British embassy that in case
they joined in the collective note, and
In case they provided to guarantee
England against counter or hostile ac
tion In any other quarter, a British
fleet would be dispatched to the Gulf
of Mexico to carry out the purpose of
the above note?
Of course no other than England
herself can interrogate Lord Paunce
fote on these subjects. And until she
does so Interrogate him and prove be
yond a reasonable doubt that she is
Innocent of the charge 1 am willing
to accept the word of Germany with
out fear or hesitancy.
Let us have light! Let the State
Department, with its Anglo-maniac
secretary, search the matter to the
dregs, and if it can be proven that
the charges have the faintest scent
" ' 1 ' 1 - .... . i r
pers and by the Associated Press as
having denounced the Germans, but
tnis is a lie in the whole cloth. Rep
resentative Wheeler only spoke of the
toadyism" toward royalty, and said
that the Germans who were in America
today were here because they loved
liberty and fled from just such a gov
ernment as Prince Henry represents
His was not an attack on the Ger
mans, but a plea for a retrograde
movement from our present policy of
toadyism. It was really a masterly
effort, but the republicans choked him
off and refused to let the matter be
further discussed
The house was until Thursday dis
cussing the oleomargarine bill. This
bill simply provides for labeline
oieo and providing a rate of taxa
tion upon it ten cents per pound on
all butter-colored "oleo" and one cent
per pound on all uncolored "oleo."
Representative Shallenberger made a
fine speech on this bill.
For the fourth time the house passed
a measure this time unanimously
providing for the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people. The bill was reported to the
senate and the committee having the
matter In charge will make a favorable
report upon it. This has been done
before and no action has been taken
by the senate.
for a constitutional amendment to
change the date of the Inauguration
of the president to the latter part of
April. There was little opposition. If
the bill passes and is ratified by the
legislatures an excellent opportunity
win be given to show the "vast mill
tary arm of the government on' In
auguration days. We all remember
that the last inauguration parade was
almost entirely composed of military
troops very few civilians. The latter
part of April is generally fine weather
in Washington, and we may look for
gorgeous pageants of the military on
next inauguration day. Well, if we
are going into the imperial business
we should have all its adjuncts.
On Friday and today the senate con
cerned itself with a bill providing for
a permanent census bureau. The bill,
as amended, was passed this afternoon
and provides for a permanent bureau
with a chief whose salary shall be
17,500 per annum, and for the putting
of the present clerks on a permanent
civil service footing.
All the fore part Of the week has
been taken up discussing the Philip
pine tariff bill. The speech of Sena
tor Turner of Washington and the
magnificent address of Senator Teller
of Colorado the latter took up the
best part of three days will be count
ed upon as good logic on this pres
ent situation. It is understood that
the bill will come to a vote during
the next week.
The American Anti-Trust league is
again after Attorney General P. C.
Knox for his refusal to fight the
trusts. Senator Turner of Washing
ton has introduced in the senate a
resolution of inquiry into the depart
ment of justice and especially into
the office of the attorney general.
Senator Gallinger (rep., N. 'H.) ob
jected strenuously to having such an
investigation. The republicans seem
determined that no one shall know
what is going on.
Stories about Senator Dietrich con
tinue to creep out and each of them
seem to make the Brewer more and
more ridiculous. A gentleman called
at my office and said: "Bride, I saw
your article in The Independent about
Dietrich. I have a pretty amusing
story to tell you about him and his
actions at the banquet of our Ma
sonic lodge. This is not a secret mat
ter, because the waiters and others
were present, so that I don't think I
am violating confidence to- tell it to
you." (I might say in passing that
my informer is a gentleman high in
official life and is a very distinguished
man. I have known him for many
years and whatever he tells me I am
sure is the truth.) The story runneth
thus: Dietrich was invited to address
the Mystic Shriners at the National
Rifles armory in this city and, as is
usual with Dietrich, accepted on the
condition that .he should not be asked
to speak. The evening came and after
several had spoken ana several toasts
responded to, Dietrich was called upon
to make a speech. Dietrich knew he
couldn't run in his old speech about
"Step up, gentlemen, and have some
thing at my expense," so he replied:
"I am very glad to meet you, gentle
men. You have the d dest liar for
a potentate I ever saw. He promised
not to ask me to speak and here he's
gone and done it. I shan't make a
speech. Let's sing." And here he
started to sing "A Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight." '
Well, what do you think of that
for the dignity of the United Stated
senator from Nebraska? "Let's sing."
The president has returned to the
city, leaving his son Theodore, Jr., on
a safe road to recovery.
breed and hadn't a good word to say
about one of them. According to
Davidson they were a hard lot. Then
the next book to it was taken up
There the editor found as far as all
history goes that the first time the
phrase "God Save the King" was used.
according to Archbishop Usher's
chronology, was 1063 years before the
time of Christ and it is still in use.
A little further along in this old book
the editor found the following:
"And Samuel told all the words of
the Lord unto the people that asked
of him a king. And he said, this will
be the manner of the king that shall
reign over you: He will take your
sons and appoint them for himself.
for his chariots, and to be his horse
men; and some shall run before his
chariots. And he will appoint him
captains over thousands, and cap
tains over fifties, and will set them to
ear his ground, and to reap his harv
est, and to make his instruments of
war, and instruments of his chariots.
And he will take your daughters to be
confectionaries, and to be cooks, and
to be bakers. And he will take your
fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the best of them.
and give them to his servants. And
he will take the tenth of your seed.
and of your vineyards, and give to his
(.flicers, and to his servants. And he
will take your men-servants, and your
maid-servants, and your goodliest
young men, and your asses, and put
them to his work. He will take the
tenth of your sheep, and ye shall cry
out in that day because of your king
which ye shall hare chosen you, and
the Lord will not hear you in that
day." - - .
After reading that the editor con
cluded . that, if the modern idea was
correct as put forth in the great
dailies of the land, the writer of that
must have been prejudiced against
kings also. Afttr that he glanced at
Ridpath's History of the World and
several other works of the same sort,
and from what they told about the
acts and doings of kings, he came to
the conclusion that the whole lot of
them were prejudiced against kings,
queens, princes of the royal blood,
dukes, lords and the whole gang. Only
now and then did they have a good
word to say for any of them. If what
these historians said were true, he
wondered why any one of the blood
was allowed to set foot on American
soil. . So he concluded that these his
tories were all lies. If they were not,
he could not see how any sane man
could get out on the street and shout
"God Save the King."
NEW ZEALANDISM
It is "ot Socialism or Georgeiaru, but I ust
Plain Populism
The Long Island (Kan.) Leader
quotes from The Independent an item
published some time ago relative to
conditions in New Zealand, wherein
The Independent said: "That is called
'advanced democracy.' The Independ
ent don't care what it is called, it is
the right sort of government and just
what the populist party has been ad
vocating in this country." This en
couraged the Leader to say:
We are pleased to notice the above
acknowledgment from that best of
populist papers. We have believed.
many months, that when the editor of
The Independent had fully investigated
the basilar principles of socialism he
would approve of that system of gov
ernment. This "advanced democracy".
is pure socialism, as advocated by its
friends in the United States. When
the laboring people took control of
the government of New Zealand, the
land was all owned by a few land
lords, and the balance of the people
were tenants. The first thing the
working people done after getting pos
session of the government, was to
exercise the undisputed power of emi
nent domain, appraised and con
demned these large estates, divided
them up into small homes for the peo
ple and made it possible for every man
who wanted land to get it, and make
a home for himself. The people also
own and control the railroads, tele
graphs, telephones and all other pub
lic utilities.
When the laboring people of this
country have sense enough to organize
a party and all vote together, they can
control the country as the working
people of New Zealand do their coun
try today. Will they do it?"
Now, ordinarily The Independent is
not a stickler for names, but in this
instance It must take issue with its
esteemed contemporary. The system
in vogue in New Zealand is not so
cialism, not the socialism of Karl
Marx, in that it permits the privat-j
ownership of "small homes for th
people," the individual ownership of
these homes and all they contain.
Neither does the New Zealand system
conform to the ideas of the followers
of Henry George. The single taxers ln-
1 cBt "nnn a'x on land values onlv.
a tax on land and a tax on land values
The present good conditions In New
Zealand had their foundation in a tax
on land the very antithesis of the
Georgettes' plan. By making a gradu
ated land tax;it was possible to break
up the large estates.' It was really a
tax on acreage not i on values. The
New Zealanders have public owner
ship of public utilities that's popu
iism, not socialism, inasmuch as
every employe of the government Is
paid wages and speeds them to suit.
his own tastes. ' Or, If you prefer, you
may say that ; the populists of the
United States advocate New Zealand-
ism, but don't be misled into think
ing that it is socialism,, for there's a
vast difference. f ' r
WHEELER'S SPEECH
The Plutocratic Press of the Whole Land
Unites in Denouncing: it as Dan-
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Congressman Wheeler made a speech
I nthe house of representatives which
seems to have thoroughly frightened
the republican leaders! The editors of
the subsidized -press have called into
action the best writers, and they
searched the English language for
epithets with which to denounce it.
The "funny men" in their special col
umns have bean put td work upon It.
Every department of the daily papers
has been ordered to attack it, from
poet to cartoonist. If; they had not
been badly frightened no such effort
would have been.-put forth, . There
is not a word in the. speech that will
not be endorsed by nine-tenths of the
American citizens and the one phrase
which may be said t& be not in good
taste cannot be tortured into any
thing but a compliment to Prince
Henry. No greater compliment can
be paid to a man in these days than
to call him a "Dutchman." De Wet
and Botha have made the name for
ever honorable. It was; honorable be
fortbut they have added imperisha
ble glory to it. In the heat of debate
Wheeler called Prince Henry a Dutch
man and that is the. sum of his offend
ing. The speech is printed in full
that the readers of The Indeptndent
may have a taste of the old fashioned
patriotism of which the nation was
once so proud. It was, as follows:
"It has been the boast of America,
diplomacy to the contrary notwith
standing, that when our state depart
ment said 'no' .we meant 'no,' and
when we said 'yes' we ' meant yes.'
It remained for the present and the
just closed republican administration
to inaugurate a system ofvEuropean
diplomacy, with a kid-gloved velvet-
tongued gentleman, who had to travel
out of his way to find a response to
a plain categorical question.
"We are destroying the integrity
and the pride, and the intelligence,
and the honesty of that great depart
ment of the government. I have. a
respect for the present occupant of
the White house, I frankly avow; I
think he is too honest to be palatable
to the average republican partisan. A
little quixotic, it is true; hasty tem
pered, full blooded and not exactly de
sirable to many of our citizens, and I
indulge the hope that that lingering
element of Americanism will induce
him at the first opportunity to boot
out that man in the state department
who in my judgment has brought us
to this humiliating condition.
"England a friend of the United
States? I would to God she were, but
what a spectacle have we presented In
order to be able to boast that we
have the friendship of Great Britain
and have become a world power.
Never before in the' history of the re
public has there been a struggle for
freedom on the part of any people that
representatives in this chamber did
not hasten to declare that we regarded
with solicitude the endeavors and ef
forts of a people to obtain their own
liberty
"For more than four years we have
witnessed Great Britain maintaining
military stations inside the borders
of the republics. We have seen her
agents, going up and down this coun
try enlisting men and buying materials
of war. And I believe I will not travel
outside the record when I assert that
any member upon this floor who has
served here as much as four years has
received letters from his constituents
protesting against the enforced enlist
ment of American boys by the English
government to do battle in. South
Africa.
"Less than thirty days ago I trans
mitted a pitiable appeal to the Amer
ican consul in South Africa asking him
to do something to secure the release
of an American boy who had been
forced to enlist in . the English army
to fight the Boers in South Africa.
T. hether it be true or false, I know
not, but the letter came from the pa
rents of this boy asking me to trans
mit it, telling me that they had in
vain appealed to the state department
to intervene in their behalf.
"We have swung farther away from
democratic traditions, from repub
lican ideas, and from republican prin
ciples in the last five years than In
the previous hundred years. Things
are now accepted as a matter of course
that would have shocked the intelli
gence of our forefathers beyond en
durance, all growing out of this striv
ing to lock arms with the great Eu
ropean powers, and become a world
power, to foster this new idea of diplo
macy, sitting quietly by and allowing
a representative of one great power
to assemble in his residence in the
capital of the republic the representa
tives of every other great nation and
make the cold blooded and deliberate
demand or request that they join with
him In a determination, arbitrarily
and with force, to prevent the Amer
ican . people from accomplishing what
they had determined to accomplish. '
"It may be well enough to treat the
courtesy and consideration. 1 do de
clare that if the publication in the
pres3 is true, this man Pauncefote
ought to be ordered to take the first
ship to cross the waters. We want
no sue hman in. the republic. If he
comes here to represent his govern
ment, well and good, but if he comes
here to hatch conspiracies, to attempt
to force his wishes and his ideas upon
the American people, the sooner we
are rid of him the better it will be.
"And another thing, Mr. Chairman.
I am only restrained from discussion
of what I regard as the most unfor
tunate incident by the ordinary
amenities which should obtain be
tween one eentleman and another. T
IV.AA - T m m .
allude to the fact of the opportunity Kcceivea rrom tiverywnere endorsing tne undertaking as worthy
LIBERTY BUILDING POSTALS
Proposition Announced Only Three Weeks and Sales
Already Made in Every Part of the
United States
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED SOLD TO STATE COMMITTEE
seized by the chief citizen of the re
public to send a member of his family
across the water for the purpose of
participating in the coronation of a
king.
"I shall not discuss that because it
of necessity. involves matters I do not
care to go Into here. I will, in pass
ing, say that it is a most unfortunate
circumstance. It is unprecedented in
our history, and is today deeply la
mented on the part of every country
loving man in the republic. I am sorry
that he did it. It is establishing a
precedent that he ought not to recog
nize, and it is but one more link in
the chain showing toward what end
we are drifting.
"One other matter I wish to advert
to. In the next few days we are to
have a brother of a ruler come over
to this country and take charge of a
little tug ship. Vessel, or yacht, what
ever you please to term it, built by
some people up in New York. We are
appropriating thousands of dollars and
the Anglo-maniacs and the European
maniacs are falling over each other to
get to see a little Dutchman come over
and take charge of a little ship. What
difference does it make whether he Is
a Prince ienry or not mere are
thousands of citizens of this republic
following the plow as noble, as honest,
as Intelligent as Prince Henry or
Prince anybody else
the Support of all Interested In Good Government
The sale of Liberty Building Postals
continues in a most encouraging man
ner. The state committee of the peo
ple's party ha3 purchased 2,500 cards
and will distribute them among the
county and precinct committeemen in
this state, asking their co-operation
and aid in selling them. This wil
result in adding at least two thousand
new subscribers to our list. The com
mittee proposes to sell the cards they
have purchased at $1.00 each, thus
netting 40 cents profit on each card, to
be turned over to. the treasurer of the
committee, to be used in, defraying
campaign expenses. Each committee
man will find it easy to sell five cards
for $5.00, and when he has done so
$2.00 of the amount goes to the cam
paign fund.
Both the readers of The Independent
and party officials understand the
political advantage to be derived from
increasing the circulation of this pa
per. Our readers acting as our agents
and precinct committeemen acting In
the same capacity should SELL the
cards at some price to, those who be
come subscribers. In other words,
the subscriber must pay something
for the card in order to become a bona
fide subscriber. We do not care to
heed to this foolish and disgraceful
flunkeyism enacted by the present ad
ministration? What difference does
it make to us whether he is a brother
of the emperor? It is evidence of our
good will, they say. What do we care
about the good will of the German
people? Let us treat : them politely.
as one honest man treats another, but
why should we bow down to these peo
ple any more than to any other citi
zen?"
have any trouble with this imperlalis-
Why do the American people giv tic administration and while we deny
uie justice ur rigui. uj. uuy muu tiaw
assistant to make a ruling that a man
shall not be permitted to buy a news
paper and send it to his friend in the
same way that he is permitted to buy
a sack of flour for him yet, in view
of the fact that the said third class
assistant is in office and has the power
of the government and the armj' be
hind him to enforce his imperialistic
decrees, we do not care to clash with
him at this , time. . Our. remedy is in
overthrowing this administration at
the expiration of Its term and sun
planting it with honest men from the
ranks of the Dlain people. We .are
opposed to imperialism in every form,
but believe in opposing it by lawful
methods. We are not ready to give
up the ship and suffer banishment to
Canada. The rule denying Mr. Wtl-
shire's magazine admission to the
mails was outrageously unjust. The
Independent does not indorse his doc
trines and teachings, but it will defend
him In the right of free speech and
a free press as guaranteed to every
citizen by the constitution of the
United States in this language: "Con
gress shall make no law respecting an
NO DISINTEGRATION
Prominent Oman a Populist Tells Why the
Party Organization Should be
Maintained
The political condition in Douglas
county is thus tersely summed up by
a nrominent noDulist of Omaha: "You
have little idea of the indifference to
political appeals in this community.
The only element seeming to manifest
any interest are the corporations, the
tax-shirkers, the saloons, the gam
blers, etid om, gen.
"The local democracy nas gone
squarely back on its pledges made be- establishment of religion or prohibit
fort the election, though it owes two ing the free exercise thereof: or
of its offices and the school board
ticket to the support of the populists.
This local democratic Jabberwock Is
as disgusting a malformation as ever
" 'Came whiffling through the tulgy
wood
And burbled as he came.'
"It has not sufficient manhood to
resist a propensity, sufficient intel
ligence to pursue a policy, nor suf
ficient morality to support a principle.
It contains that brainless element
called 'The Push' which betrayed Pop-
pleton as a candidate for mayor of this
city on a platform of municipal own
ership, which defeated Bryan two
years ago by a secret deal, after his
election had been otherwise won, and
which traded off several hundred votes
on the state ticket in this county for
republican votes on the county ticket
last fall. It is the presence of this
element in the democratic party that
makes ridiculous the claim of that
party to be a 'reform party.' When
confronted by 'The Push' the real re
former does not know whether to
throw up his job, his hands or his
breakfast. And yet. there are some
shallow-pated populists who are ad
vocating the turning over of the party
en masse to the democracy. Not on
your life!"
From New York City
Editor Independent: I enclose
money order for $3 for which please
send me five Liberty Postals. I have
five subscribers for you here and I
am Oil the alert to secure for you any
reader that I can. I consider your
paper the best thing of the kind that 1
have ever encountered. It is not only
right on the public questions that it
discusses (except the single tax), but
it is written in such a terse, idiom
atic, epigrammatic and fetching style
that it is a pleasure to read it
abridging the freedom of speech, or
OF THE PRESS; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the, government for a redress
of grievances." (Of course the con
stitution says: "Congress" shall not
be permitted to do so perhaps the
constitution is weak in that it did not
specifically state that a third-class as
sistant in the postoffice department
should not be permitted to do so.)
But seriously, if a mere clerk can
by his decree compel great publica
tions to move their plants to Canada
to secure freedom of the press how
long will it be before clerks in other
departments may be issuing orders
that will deprive the American people
of the right of free speech, or the
right of petition, or the right to wor
ship God according to the dictates of
their conscience? They are rights
that our ancestors forced from King
John at the point of the sword at
Runneymede; that our forefathers
pledged their "lives and sacred honor'
to preserve and that American pa
triots defended with their lives against
the encroachments of King George
III. It is the richest heritage that
Americans hold and it should be their
eternal vigilance to transmit it un
impaired to their posterity. Get sub
scribers for The Indeptndent, but get
them honestly, requiring every man
to contribute something from his owr.
means in payment therefor.
From everywhere come words of
encouragement. We cannot give room
to the publication of more than wre
do, but all are appreciated none the
less and every assistant has our
thanks. '
Maryland in ths Line
You can send me five of the "Liberty
Building Postals" and I will do what I
can to sell them, although I am not
I look exactly a populist, I am the next thing
for it every Monday morning with I to it a Bryan democrat.
eagerness created by the absolute cer- i believe the principles of the peo
tainty that it will instruct and enter- Die's party are needed to save the na-
tain. Such a paper should be better tion from the results of republican
known in the east, where there are misrule, as they are in line with true
thousands or aryan democrats who democracy. Your paper has been a
would delight to read it and wheie source of great instruction to me, and
there are thousands of misguided citi- t like your plain way of talking right
zens whose erroneous ideas are drawn out. I have been sending my copy.
from the lying editorials of the great when through with it, to my friends
trust subsidized papers, and who in other states, and from what I have
would be eniigntenea ny reading the heard, that they have read It with
Nebraska Independent. The Com- profit and pleasure. In the east, as you
moner points out tne wrong, xne in- are no doubt aware, the densest ignor-
dependent eats it up. i feel In- ane nrevails on the most economic
tensely on the question of imperialism subjects, and populism and the devil
and I admire so much your valiant are closelv associated in the miblie
fight for the maintenance of liberty mind, due in ereat nart to the misi-en-
i cannot lomear giving my entnus- resentations of the capitalistic press.
lasm run swing. ii is to papers or the There are more true Americans in' the
summer, when I visited Texas, Cali
fornia, Colorado, and your state of
Nebraska. THOMAS O. CLARK.
Baltimore, Md.
Past Ninety Years and Patriotic
Being a subscriber to your very val
uable paper, I fully indorse its teach
ings of the plain people's cause.
Though I am an old man, past ninety,
I cannot refrain from subscribing $3
for one of your blocks of five "Lib
erty Building" postal cards. If I can
not easily sell them, I purpose to give
them away for the enlightenment of
some misguided people.
Enclosed find money order for $3
for five postals.
Salem, Ore. SANDS BROWNELU
A Home for The Independent
I am pleased to see The Independent
trying to get a home of its own, and
I will, for one, accept your offer. IC
you will send me the five postal cards
I will sell them and send you the
money, as soon as I have disposed of
them. D. E. BURKEY.
Giltner, Neb.
A Friend of Mr. Bryan
Judging from my knowledge of pa
pers, I think The Independent and
Commoner are the best published. I
have not changed my mind as regards
W. J. Bryan. He is still my candidate
as he is also of the one hundred and
fifty-six other democrats of this town.
I would be very glad to do anything
I can to increase the circulation of
The-Independent, particularly in this
locality, as it is a republican strong
hold. If you wish to send a block of cards,
I will do the best I can with them.
Oregon, Mo. A. L. CASKEY.
; Publishers Should be Independent
Send me a block of "Liberty Build
ing" postals and I will do the best I
can to sell them as I believe it is to
the interest of all the people that our
publishers should, be independent of
corporations of any and all descrip
tion. THOS. W. GRANBERRY.
Long Pine, Neb.
Wants a Block-Of Course
. Yes, of course, send me a block of
"Liberty Building" cards. I haven't
the money to pay for them now, and If
I can't sell them I will pay for them
myself if it takes the hair off. Tho
people (the great common people!
must strain every nerve to keep the
torch of liberty burning in these days
of imperialism, militarism, fraud and
corruption. B. N. CLEAVELAND.
Fremont, Neb.
Truth and Honesty Needed
Please send to my address five "Lib
erty Building" postal cards. I will try
my best to help you. Your paper is my
kind. Truth and honesty is what we
must have or the government is gone
forever. MRS. ELLEN RICE.
South Dayton, N. Y.
Getting a Club in Florida
I have read your paper for several
weeks with great pleasure, in fact I
look upon it as one of the best papers
published.
I am trying to get up a little club
here for you, but how I am going to
come out I cannot tell. We are suffer
ing here with an acute attack of "11c-
Kinley prosperity," besides seeing our
orange trees frozen to the ground
five times in the last six years, the last
time only three weeks ago.
De Land, Fla. A. W. STEAGALL.
What we need most is a home. At
present we are located in a building
which we rent. In the midst of a cam
paign or other inconvenient time we
might be compelled to move. To that
extent we are at the mercy of land-
ordism. What we desire to do is to
buy a little spot of mother earth from
which we can fearlessly champion the
cause of good government and defena
the plain people from the aggressions
of organized greed, and from which
we cannot be driven by the- order of
some plutocrat. We want to construct
a "Liberty Building," dedicated to the
defense of the liberties of the plain
people. In time of peace we wish to
prepare for war.
We need a building 30x142 feet, two
stories high, of the most economical
construction.
We will use it without plastering.
heat it with ordinary heating stoves
and be thoroughly happy and at home
to and for all our friends and patrons.
We will get along without the luxury
of steam heat or hot air furnace.
The plan adopted to accomplish
the undertaking is to sell "Liberty
Building Postals" In blocks of five for
$3.00. Each postal is good for a year's
subscription to The Independent to oe
sent to any address in the United
States or Canada. What we ask of our
friends and patrons is their co-operation
in disposing of 2,000 blocks of 5.
10,000 cards. We have made the
price low to make It easy for them to
dispose of the cards. When you ask
your neighbor to buy one of these,
cards you are not asking him to con
tribute or donate anything. You are
in reality offering to sell him a year's
subscription to The Independent at 40
centt. less than he could buy the sub
scription, direct We can afford to make
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