THE NEBRASKA: INDEPENDENT
February 27, 1902
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Have you sent for a block of five
Liberty Building Postals? If not, why
not?
Now that we have the Danish West
. Indies the grafters will proceed to
whack on the tariffs. Will there be
some more supreme court decisions?
The democrat who thinks that
through fear or favor, he can get pop-
ulists to spike their guns and, desert
the field needs a course of instruction
In the institute for feeble-minded.
. The. United States, has furnished the
British government 77,101 horses to
help subdue the Boers. One consola
tion about it is that De Wett and his
men have found some hundreds ' of
them very good animals to chase the
Britten with.
" A populist is amused when he sees
the mullet head farmer shouting for a
tariff that protects the 1 other fellow
and robs the shouter. But when he
reflects that the mullet head's vote
robs the populist as well, then he is
not so much amused.
If all Is granted that the officers of
the British army assert, concerning
the purchase of horses for the army in
which the contractors fleeced the gov
ernment to the tune of hundreds of
thousands, then it can only be said
that a British officer is as incapable in
a horse trade as he is when trying to
catch De Wett.
When contemplating the conquest
of the two South African republics,
Joe Chamberlain remarked that it
would require an army of at least 10,
000 men. The official documents sub
mitted to parliament on the 1st of
January showed that at that date the
British government had in South Afri
ca 237,800 British soldiers. Joe is
one. great prophet.
The following is from a private let
ter from Washington: "The Europ
ean dispatches announce that pour
parlers have recently been exchanged
between some of the European power?
" regarding the Philippines, just for
what purpose has not transpired. I
am of the opinion that it is in con
nection with Prince Henry's visit to
the United, States as I wrote you be
fore." It Is said by the Washington corre
spondents that 175 applications for the
governorship of the Danish West In
dies were made before the treaty was
ratified by the senate and that they
have been coming in ever since. On
the basis of the salaries of the other
- carpet-baggers this governorship ought
to be worth $6,000 a year and a palace
, to live in. .The. republican pie counter
grows bigger very day.
There must have been consternation
In the office of the attorney general
the other day when an order was de
livered there from the president com
manding Knox to institute proceed
ings against the Northern Securities
company. Knox musfhave said: "Woe
is me. Has it come to this? Must I
institute proceedings against a trust?
Would to God that I had died before
this was thrust upon me."
About the time that the politician?
have come to the conclusion that we
must truckle to King Edward to get
the English vote and to the royal de
scendants of the Elector of Branden
burg to get the German vote and to
' some other scion of royalty to get soma
other vote, they will be left out in the
, ' cold. As for the Germans in this couu
. ... try, most of them have as , poor an
' opinion of royalty as any wild-eyed
, POP. . , . r ,
vv . All the decisions of : the supreme
court which in effect destroy the pro
tection of the constitution to some
millions of people' residing in all the
. territories of ; the United States, was
an effort to preserve the special priv
" ileges of the tariff grafters. Every one
, of the cases was a tariff case. That Is
keeping up the record of similarity to
- George III. The cause of the out
break of the revolutionary war was a
tariff on tea From that day to this
' "IV MEN ARE OUR RULERS
- Under ; the 4 present - conditions, the
form of government, under which we
live,-whether it shall be a republic, ?n
empire or a monarchy depends entirely
upon five men, not elected by the peo
ple, but appointed for life, who com
pose the majority of the supreme
court. A decision from that court to
the effect that the president should
hold office for life would be no greater
strain of interpretation than the one
that gave unlimited powers .-' to con
gress to set up any form . of govern
ment it pleases over 10,000,000 people,
tax them without representation and
govern them without their consent. If
one of the judges should die and an
other holding different opinions take
his place, our form of government
would again be changed. Instead of
having a stable government, admin
istered according to well settled prin
ciples, we have the most unstable, it
can be changed from a republic where
every citizen has equal rights, to an
empire where large numbers of the
inhabitants have no right except what
it pleases congress to grant them, or
back to a republic without the people
having one word, to say in the mat
ter. Five men, holding office for lit?
and over whom the . people have no
control, fix these matters to suit
themselves. Under the .republican
party, the American citizen has about
as much :tO' say concerning the form
of government under which he lives as
the Russian peasant This is imper
ialism pure and simple and against it
this editor will fight while he lives.
A government that depends on the
whim and caprice of five men, who are
guided by no settled principles, is sure
to develop into the vilest despotism.
No lawyer ever asserted .until since
the recent supreme court decision, that
congress had any power not "granted"
to it by the people. The constitution
says:
The powers not delegated to the
United States by the constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the states,
are reserved to the states respec
tively or to the people.
It is not possible that any one can
find in , the constitution any power
delegated to congress to govern tea
million. people outside of the United
States, either by, implication or other
wise. It follows that the decision of
the supreme court i3 simply imper
ialism and by that act five men
changed the form of this government, j
DEPEW'S CONFESSION , . j
Day by day as the world wags along
the predictions of populism are ful
filled. What the populists said in the
campaigns of 1896 and 1900 are now ;
declared to be true by so shining a
light of plutocracy and railroad dom
ination as Chauncey Depew. In a re-!
cent eulogy upon President McKinley
this distinguished Vanderbilt poten
tate said: ,
Though always a poor man,
McKinley made possible the gi
gantic fortunes which have been
; amassed by master minds in the
., control, ' use and distribution of
' iron, coal, oil, cotton and wool
and. their products. Though never
ah organizer or beneficiary of com
binations or trusts, yet the con-
stant aggregation of most indus
tries in vast corporations of fab
ulous capital received tremendous
acceleration from his policies.
The substance of those remarks
could be duplicated from a thousand
populist speeches. At the time the
populists were making those speeches
their declarations were denounced as
anarchy by the whole class to which
Mr. Depew belongs. Having accom
plished the purpose of piling up the
wealth of this country in a few hands
where' its political power will be used
to still further increase it, we are now
told in t a eulogy that It was the pur
pose of the McKinley administration
to do that very thing. That is what
Th? Independent said during all those
campaigns. It is somewhat strange
that Depew . should make the state
ment at the present time.
SCIENTIFIC Dtrl'I.ICITY
There never was a "mere dishonest
and disreputable sort of scoundrels
than the men who fought the last republican-campaigns,
and senators
representatives and economists are ail
included. They denied every well set
tled .principle in political economy
and relied entirely upon ignorance to
succeed. The economists were the
most dishonorable and disreputable o?
the whole lot, for they prostituted the
science which' they pretended to teach
to the lowest and foulest political ends.
They would , write long articles
couched in the ; terms of the science,
denying the quantity theory of money.
When the banks wanted to go into
wild cat banking, they would write
other articles pretending to believe
that, there was. ,no difference between
checks and drafts and - money issued
by banking corporations. After de
claring that gold had an "intrinsic
value" that never changed, after talk
ing about "measuring" value with a
gold dollar and a thousand other
things of that sort that every one. of
them knew .were absolutely false, now
one of them comes out; and abandons
every claim 'about gold that they ever
made. It is enough to make St. Thorn-
notTthe spoils of office, but "reform sure
of these men and read an argument
from his pen declaring that gold pro
duction in the world will so far in
crease under the application of new
appliances in mining, as possibly ," to
force a change in the monetary sys
tems of the gold standard countries.
If gold has an "intrinsic value" thai,
never changes what difference does it
make whether the mines produce 12,
804,344 ounces, as they did last year,
or twelve billion ounces?
The Independent has referred to
P-of. Shaler's - article once or-twice
before, but the continual reference to
it, in the eastern dailies show, that
these scoundrels are preparing to de
ceive the people again. The most de
spicable political scoundrels in the
whole United States have been the
professors of political economy in-tria
great' universities. They knew the
truth and know it well, yet they went
before the people with lies couched in
scientific terms for the purpose of de
ceiving them. They should be stored
away for an eternity on the hottest
shelves to be found in all hades.
FORAKER STATESMANSHIP
The other day the narrow-minded
partisan senator from Ohio made the
statement in the senate that Tom Cot
win was retired from private life be
cause he was opposed to the Mexican
war and had declared: "If r I were a
Mexican I would welcome you with
bloody hands to hospital graves."
Senator Hoar gave Foraker a drub
bing that will be remembered for many
a day. As the editor of The Indepen
dent was named after Tom Corwin and
is a distant relative, he read Senator
Hoar's remarks with a good deal of
satisfaction. Lincoln and Tom Cor
win took exactly the same view of the
Mexican war and in denouncing Cor
win, Foraker denounced Lincoln as
well. Foraker is one of those petty
politicians who believes in such
phi-ases as "My country, right o:
wrong," and everything else that
plutocracy propagates. The facts of
the case are that Corwin was not re
tired. Corwin was a senator until 1850
when Fillmore appointed him secre
tary of the treasury. After that he
was twice elected to the house of rep
resentatives and Lincoln, remember
ing that he and Corwin stood together
in the fight against wars of conquest,
appointed him minister to Mexico and
that nomination was confirmed by
such men as Sumner, Wilson, Hale,
Trumble, Fessenden and Ben Wade,
and Foraker is not worthy to unlatch
the shoes of one of them.
Lincoln fought that war with all his
powers and he was a member of con
gress at the time. On December 22,
1847? he introduced a resolution call
ing on the president to Inform con
gress whether the "spot" on which
the first blood was shed was American
soil o: not. On the 3d of January,
1848, the house, by a vote of 85 to 81,
declared that "the war was unneces
sarily and unconstitutionally begun
by the president," Mr. Lincoln voting
in the affirmative.
According to Foraker, Lincoln was
a "traitor" and a "little American."
But Foraker is only representing the
new views of the republican party and
is no worse than Lodge and half ,i
cozen other senators. They are all
tarred with the same stick. Their
statesmanship is of the order of Kin:;
George HI.
THE GROWTH OF POPUtJSM
Every day brings new evidences that
populist principles are being accepted
as the true doctrine, and that the pres
ent membership of the populist party
is no index as to the daily increasing
number of thinking people who accept
the principles as being correct without
perhaps any thought of affiliating with
the party, for the present at least.
The recent report of the industrial
commission shows that populism has
left its mark. The recommendation
regarding taxation is especially inter
esting, being populism pure and sim
ple, adapted to present conditions an
capable of being incorporated into the
laws of most states without any radi
cal changes in the ownership of public
utilities.. The commission recommends:
WHO MADE THE WORLD PO WER ?
The natural conditions and situa
tion of this country is such that . it
cannot.be attacked with, any hope of
success by any. Continental power or
by all of them combined. What makes
the United States "a world power,"
and it has been the chief of them for
the last thirty years, is that it is tne:
reservoir of the food supply of the
world.. If all the fleets of the world
should unite to blockade our coast5?,
they would have to raise the blockade
within three ."months if we did not
have a warship or a torpedo ; boat on
the seas. By that time they would all
have urgent business at home to sup
press reyolutlon among the , starving
population that they had left behind.
England's food supply, as has fre
quently been pointed out, at no tim-j
could possibly last more than, three
months. Cut 'Off the food supplies that
come from America and that nation a
well as all the continental, nations
would be suffering from famine in a
very short time. If .England could
not have obtained war supplies in this
country she would have had. to give
up the war against the little , South
African republics long ago. She could
not carry on a war against any civil
ized power without the aid of the
United States. . Where would her
horses, mules and commissary stores
come from if she did not get them
here? Ail these statements are facts
which any man of common sense will
readily agree to after, ten minutes of
consideration
Two or three things folow from this
condition of things. We have no use
for great armies and navies if we
mind our own business and do not
start out "to conquer distant lands
and hold them in subjection by force.
No reasonable man, after thoroughly
looking over the whole situation, can
come to any other conclusion than ev
ery acquisition of far distant terri
tory weakens this nation in a military
sense and will be commercially a loss
That is the reason why the European
diplomats . give such encouragement
to all such movements. Possessions
scattered all .over the world make
necessary large navies and armies for
their defense and government, and
consumes just that much of the wealth
and energies of the people with no
returns whatever. To squander the
wealth and direct the energies of the
people into channels that make no re
turns, just to that extent weakens
the power and prestige of the re
public, j
What "makes this nation "a world
power" is the agricultural interests
The farmer furnishes the products that
go to make up haost of what is called
"the favorable balance of trade." It
is he who makes the European nations
dependent upon us. The man who
has brought all the nations of the
earth to our feet and set the govern
ments of the world to quarelllng
among themselves about which one is
our best friend, is the farmer and not
the general or the admiral. The
whole world Is a suppliant at the feet
of the American farmer. It, is he who
has made this nation "a world pow
er." Neither the big guns of the navy
nor the rifle of the army did it. It
was not the admiral in his gold lace
nor the general In his epaulets, but
the farmer,' the despised farmer,
clothed in his overalls and armed with
his pitchfork and plow. When it has
been necessary to fight It was the
farmer boy, sound in mind and body,
who did the marching, built the earth
works, made the trenches and with
clear eye and steady head pulled the
trigger that did the execution.
The farmer has not only created the
wealth. Daid the taxes and done the
fighting, but, he has supported in lux
ury the idle rich. , Let the farmer fail
for two years let there be no crops
raised for two years and whers
would the rich be? What wbuld be
come of Morgan, the Vanderbilts, the
Goulds, the generals and the admirals?
The farmer does not behave himself
unseemly, never seeks his own, is not
easily provoked, and, worst of all.
thinketh no evil and so the scoundrels
and the scamps run the government,
build great navies, provide for Im
mense armies, but nevertheless it is
the farmer who makes ,this nation "a
world powef
That the states abandon the gen
eral property tax and raise their
revenues by taxes upon corpora
tions, inheritances and incomes,
supplemented when necessary by
indirect taxation.
That corporations, public service
and other, be taxed by state boards
at rates fixed by legislation upon
the value of their franchises, as
sessed acor ding to the actual value
of their stocks and bonded debts,
less the value of their real estate
assessed locally, and that the real
estate owned by them be taxed
locally as other real ; estate is
taxed. That the system of levy
ing graduated taxes on inherit
ances be adopted by those states
which do not now employ it and
that it be abandoned by the fed
eral government.
That taxes upon corporations.
Inheritances, etc., be supplemented
by a graduated tax upon incomeu
to be levied and collected by the
state. ":- .
That notes, mortgages and other
like property be taxed by the state
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CONGRESSIONAL FRAUDS
Some months ago when Congress
man Babcock.came out, with his state
ment that he. was ; going to Introduce
a bill to reduce the tariff on steel and
iron and other trusts-made goods that
were largely, exported to Europe and
sold there for. a much- smaller pric?
than the trusts, would sell them for in
this country, The Independent told its
readers that all that was a fraud, that
Congressman Babcock nor any other
republican would do any such thins.
The other day the democrats and pop
ulists in congress rallied to" a man
to give Babcock such a chance and he
voted t&t: he didn't want it.'::' When
the bill to repeal the war taxes came
up, the republicans passed a rule that
no amendments should be offered for.
the express purpose of preventing ouo
that would reduce the tariff on any
thing. Mr. Richardson plead with thV
on trust goods to cast their votes for
the privilege of offering amendments,
telling, them that this was the only
occasion when ; they would get a
chance to amend the tariff. Every
one of them voted that they didn't
want any such chance. They will all
come west after congress adjourns
and relate to the mullet heads of their
districts how earnestly they worked
to get something through relieving
the farmers from paying double price
for all their machinery, plows, reap
ers, mowers and so forth, but they
could not succeed! Then they will de
clare that if they are re-elected they
will do it this time sure. Every mul
let head will believe them and these
congressional frauds know that they
will, or they would act very differently
from the way they do.
SECRETARY LONG
Secretary Long has not been half a3
good a prophet as Baalam's ass.- Ko
has tried his powers on several occa
sions with the most disastrous results.
In a letter carefully prepared in the
sanctity and solemn stillness of his
own study which was printed in the
harvard Republican just before the
last presidential election, he declared
that the cry about trusts and imper
ialism would be as dead as Julius
Caesar in three weeks. As we look
at that prophecy as it appears In cold
type, we have greater respect for
Baalam's ass than ever before. A few
years ago Secretary Long did not talk
so much like an ass as he does now.
In 1881 in speaking of Burke and
Chatham in England and Adams and
Otis in this country, he said: "The
words they spoke, the sentiments they
uttered, were eternal truth and had nc
local habitation or name." Now he
thinks those words are so far from
being eternal truth that they are out
of date, old-fashioned and the docu
ments containing them ought to be
thrown into the waste basket. Good
bye. You are soon to retire from the
cabinet and when the records are
finally made up, your name will be
founJ in the long list of tories which
adorn history from the days of the
revolution to the present time.
SENATORIAL L.ESE MAJESTY
The attempt that is being made by
certain senators and the plutocratic
press generally to make it a crime
to tell the truth in the United States
senate, putting the members of that
body in the same position that the
monafchs of Europe enjoy, making It
in fact lese , majesty . to call attention
to the fact that some of the senators
that corporations and trusts have put
there are criminals, scoundrels, and
nothing short of the vilest specimens
of humanity as far as their morals are
concerned that can be found in this
nation, will not be successful as lou?
as one brave man remains in the Unit
ed States who dares to tell the truth.
No fouler wretches live than some
of these corporation senators and the
people know it.
That the republican party has
adopted a policy of purchasing oppo
nents with office every man knows.
Every organization opposed to the re
publican party has suffered from It.
Clem Deaver, Powderly and others
were the fruits of this infamous policy
in its attacks on the populist party,
just as McLaurin was in its. same
method with the democratic party.
To point out these facts, which every
intelligent man knows to be only
plain statements of the truth, is lese
majesty. It is only another attempt i)
censor, not only the press, but men's
tongues.
'' This sanctity that Is attempted to
throw around the name of a dead
president will not influence men of
sense. While that president was liv
ing Senator Wellington went into ev
ery state of the union and publicly de
clared that he got his vote by false
hood. He reiterated that statement
in the senate last week. He declared
that his vote was secured by meann
as disreputable as was the vote of
McLaurin. When a republican at
tacked him Senator Wellington re
plied that if McComas would repeat
outside the senate chamber what he
had told the senate in the speech hs
had just made he (Wellington) would
tell McComas that it was a cowardly
and malicious falsehood,
- The cowardly McComas never said
a word in reply, and Wellington, fcr
using the same language that was
used the other day by McLaurin was
only requested to take his seat. Evi
dently, McComas is not the same cour
ageous fighter that Tillman is.
The Independent does not sanction
this rowdyism in the senate, but it
claims the right of, every senator to
tell the truth in decent language and
that is what Tillman did.
The benevolent assimilation idea has
struck Canada. A member of the
Dominion" parliament declared on the
floor of the house the other day, that
if we did not give up the Klondike
region that Canada would be ready for
a fight in 24 : hours and that in six
months the Cannucks would capture
Washington and annex these United
States to the Dominion. All for the!
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" V A ROUT' ROYALTY',
The speech of Congressman Wheeler
was not the speech of a scholar weigh--,
ing the force and meaning of every
word that was used, but an outburst of
the feeling of the common man against
royalty and sycophancy to "royalty. To
that feeling we are more indebted to
Teutonic scholars than tojany other
race. It was the Germans, as has of
ten been stated in The Independent,
who ; first announced the -principles
that were incorporated in the Declara
tion of Independence and the consti
tution of the United States and not the
Anglo-Saxons. ' The wording of
Wheeler's speech is not after the man
ner of the diplomats nor is it clothed
in the language of the scholar or scien
tist. But in Its spirit it is the utter
ance ; of the patriotic American . who
does not believe that the royal . blcod
is better or more divine than the blood
that runs in. the veins of other men.
It is the sentiment of a very large part
of the German nation. It takes the full'
resources of the German royal power,
all of its special privileges and the
regular army to keep that spirit in
subjection today. Germany is the
birthplace and propagator of modern
science. Its scholars and scientists
are not royalists. They no more be
lieve in the divinity of the royal blood
than does Wheeler) The social demo
cratic party ' in Germany increases in
number year by year notwithstanding
that many of its leaders are lying in
jail for offenses that very much re
semble the speech of Wheeler. Wheel
er was able to say in the house what
any German in his native land would
have been convicted for under the
laws that monarchy has imposed upon
them. It is lese majesty, that is, high
treason, for any German to criticise
the words or doings of royalty in his
fatherland. It is hardly probable that
when he comes to this land he will
find it to his interest to vote with the
republican party because a member of
congress voiced his contempt for all
royalty and all sycophancy to roy
alty, whether they are princes or any
other sort. The . republican party has
repudiated the principles that the men
of the German fatherland gave first
to the world and for which the men
of that race are fighting today the
bravest fight ever made by man on
the velts of South Africa, The repub
lican party has furnished the means
for the English to carry on the war
against , them. A few Germans still
inoculated with the virus of royalty
may, because of the position of Wheel
er, conclude that they will never vote
a. populi3t-or democratic- ticket .-and
give all the aid they can to establish
royalty in this country, but they will
be very few. After they have done
that and find themselves in jail for
some unguarded word of criticism of
royalty they may change their minda.
Meantime the patriotic Germans in the
old fatherland will go on fighting roy
alty and' in the end they will win.
They have already wrested from .mon
archy many things that the republi
can party denies to us. They have a
parcels post, . government savings
banks, the telegraph and many othe
things belonging to the whole people
which the republican party here grants
as special privileges to the favored
rich. From the daya of Caesar until
now the Germans, have loved liberty
and fought for it on a thousand battle
fields. They will finally down royalty
at home. They have made more prog
ress in the last twenty, years than in
the two hundred that preceded. The
Independent says: Hurrah for the
German lovers of liberty and haters of
royalty. A . patriotic German citizen
languishing In jail under a sentence of
lese majesty would likely talk more
roughly about royalty than Wheeler
did. . . .
and" ask for
A CONGRESSIONAL. NUISANCE
Newspaper publishers have had to
fight Loud of California for the last
six years. He was made chairman of
the committee on postoffices by the
express interests and occupied much
of the time In congress for three years
in trying to ruin the present system
of transporting printed matter at
pound rates. It cost many, thousands
of dollars to beat the bills that he in
troduced as chairman of the committee
in three successive congresses.. Now
he. comes out with the statement that
he favors the turning over the post
office entirely into private hands. That
It what he has been working for all
the time. He comes from the city of
San Francisco, Cal., and it is time that
the people out there suppressed him
as a public nuisance. The working
men itrried the city at the ast elec
tion and that gives us hope that hi
extinguishment is at hand. Certain
ly, wage-workers have no use for such
a specimen on the floor of congress as
Eugene Francis Loud. His duties
have been transferred to Madden and
there is no further U3e for him. The
last thing that Loud has done was to
get his committee to report his bill
to let, rural postal routes to private
contractors. That is to bring to .life
the bid star Toute plan of swindling.
Senator Elkins laid the foundation of
Lis great fortune by the frauds con
nected with that business and only
kept out of the penitentiary on ac-
FOR TWENTY-ONE YE
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Catarrh Remedies and Doct
Failed -Pe-ru-na Cured,
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MR. A. E. KIDD.
ELGIN, ILL. In a very recent .
munication from this place orr.
news that Mr. Arthur Ernest Kit!
well-known architect of that oiu.
made complete rccoverj- from cats.--,
the head froin which ho had suffer
nearly a quarter of a century. He v.- -from
18 Hamilton ave. :
"I am 42 3-cars of cge, and hav
catarrh of tho head for over half of
life, as a result of scarlet fever, foil -by
typhoid fever. I got so bad th.
was almost constantly coughing .
clearing my throat. The catarrh pr
impaired iny eyesight, and tho hrr
in one ear, and reduced my weic!.
110 pounds. ,
"I tried nearly every catarrh rrr.
advertised, besides a great inanyci .:'
ent physicians' treatment?, all of wl
failed.
"I had heard and read of Peruna.
finally decided to try it two mnth .
I have now taken seven bottler. ,
weigh 172 pounds. Never felt h:
or merrier. Feel tip top." A. 1. KI i
If you do not derive prompt and r.
factory results from tho uso of Prr
write at once to Dr. Ilartman, givi:
full statement of your ea?o and h" v
be pleased to give you his valuable
Vice gratis.
Address Dr. Ilartman, Presidn
The Hartman Sanitarium, Colambu-.
will help push it through. Lou! .
plutocratic fraud, an unbearable i : .
nd if the people of San Fran -send
hjm to congress again tho .
thould be made to pay first class.s r.
on every uound of printed matter t
goes out or comes into it for the i
ten years.
WHEN ALrAtERENTEItS
The Independent has receive.!
great many letters from single tax.
There is one thing about thrm that -editor
admires. They show that t!
are written by honest men who
earnestly striving in an unseiash
to find the path that will lead out
our present environment of inju:-f
and wrong. It would not do. b
ever, to hold the followers of ll i.
George responsible for all they -Several
of them declare that lan :
now taxed to its full rental value .u.
the only difference would be that :
der the George system the rent w..
go to the public instead of private
dividuals. If that is the case, wi
difference would it make to the -
mary workers on the land? Wo
they be relieved of the exactions -the
railroads, trusts and tariff gi
bers If they paid their rent to the go
ernment instead of the land own
What kind of a country would we ha
and what would be the appearance
the farming regions if all the farn;
were renters? There is a large pen;
of country in northern Nebraska
occupied by renters. One can 1
though he be a stranger, the monie:
he crosses the line into that sectio
The farm buildings are shacks, t'
stables are straw-covered sheds, th
are no orchards or groves and
traveller has a feeling that he wan'
to get out of there. If all land we
taxed to its full rental value and v.:
the farmers became renters Instead
owners of land, would not the who
agricultural districts have that sac
appearance?
If some German scientist shou! 1
come over here, who had done th
world a service by his original invi -tigations
In chemistry, biology, socio'
ogy, or political economy. The Ind
pendent would unite with every pa
triotic citizen in doing him evr
honor, but when It is atked to go wil '
because a man comes in who?e ve!r -flows
the royal blood, who has nev
done any service to the world, it r
fuses to go wild. It would have hi
treated with every courtesy as a rep
resentative of a foreign government
but In exactly the same way that ar.
other German would be treated com in
on a like mission. The editor of T!
Independent may be prejudiced. 0
his forefathers fought in the war of tt
revolution and the war of 1S12. Et
male member of his family was In t
late civil war. If he has an aversie-
to the whole brood of kings an !
princes of the royal blood and can
no good in them at all, the readers of
The Independent will hr.ve to excus
him. He will never get rid of it. It
wras born In him and has grown with
his years and he gets more radical on
'that subject every year. If you want
